Normal allele: AA
A high-density, full-genome association study showed that APOE is a major susceptibility gene for sporadic late-onset Alzheimer's disease.
Polymorphism rs4420638 is related to topics like this:
Research and publications:
17998437 Candidate single-nucleotide polymorphisms from a genomewide association study of Alzheimer disease.
18161859 Does APOE explain the link between Alzheimer's disease and chromosome 19q13?
18262040 LDL-cholesterol concentrations: a genome-wide association study.
18852197 Metabolic and cardiovascular traits: an abundance of recently identified common genetic variants
18941475 About Jim Watson's APOE status: Genetic information is hard to hide.
19060906 Common variants at 30 loci contribute to polygenic dyslipidemia.
19060910 Genome-wide association analysis of metabolic traits in a birth cohort from a founder population
19161620 An open access database of genome-wide association results
19197348 Genome-wide association studies in an isolated founder population from the Pacific Island of Kosrae
19204163 GAB2 as an Alzheimer disease susceptibility gene: follow-up of genomewide association results.
19265542 Performance of random forest when SNPs are in linkage disequilibrium.
19336575 Genetic analysis of coronary artery disease single-nucleotide polymorphisms in diabetic nephropathy.
19567438 Genetic Loci associated with C-reactive protein levels and risk of coronary heart disease.
19569043 Genome-wide association studies and the genetic dissection of complex traits
19750184 Genome-wide association studies for atherosclerotic vascular disease and its risk factors.
19756043 A simple and efficient algorithm for genome-wide homozygosity analysis in disease
20236449 Genetics of Alzheimer disease in the pre- and post-GWAS era.
20309761 Genotype-based risk and pharmacogenetic sampling in clinical trials.
20339536 Genome-wide association of lipid-lowering response to statins in combined study populations.
20442857 Genome-wide association study of Lp-PLA(2) activity and mass in the Framingham Heart Study.
20460622 Genome-wide analysis of genetic loci associated with Alzheimer disease
20529013 APOE is not associated with Alzheimer disease: a cautionary tale of genotype imputation.
20594621 Genetic architecture of Alzheimer's disease: beyond APP, PSEN and APOE.
20679960 Pharmacogenetic analysis of lipid responses to rosuvastatin in Chinese patients.
20864672 Genetic variants influencing circulating lipid levels and risk of coronary artery disease.
21041806 Genetic determinants of plasma triglycerides.
21124753 Alzheimer's disease: diagnosis, prognosis and path to prevention.
21127830 Genetic associations in diabetic nephropathy: a meta-analysis.
21146954 Genes and abdominal aortic aneurysm
21149302 Effects of genetic variants on lipid parameters and dyslipidemia in a Chinese population.
21217833 A knowledge-based weighting framework to boost the power of genome-wide association studies.
21672907 Application of a naive Bayes model to predict Alzheimer's disease from genome-wide data.
21853025 A bayesian method for evaluating and discovering disease loci associations.
21860704 Implications of discoveries from genome-wide association studies in current cardiovascular practice.
21875899 Thirty-five common variants for coronary artery disease: the fruits of much collaborative labour.
22005931 Genome-wide association analysis of age of onset of Alzheimer's disease.
22054870 A genome-wide scan for common variants affecting the rate of age-related cognitive decline.
22073310 Association of genetic loci with blood lipids in the Chinese population.
22159054 A comprehensive genetic association study of Alzheimer disease in African Americans.
22195117 Evaluating de novo locus-disease discoveries in GWAS using the signal-to-noise ratio.
22273362 Mining high-density genomic variant data to predict Alzheimer's disease risk.
22425169 Vitamin D dependent effects of APOA5 polymorphisms on HDL cholesterol.
22567092 MultiPhen: joint model of multiple phenotypes can increase discovery in GWAS.
22958594 Golgi phosphoprotein 2 in physiology and in diseases.
22972380 Investigation of genetic risk factors for chronic adult diseases for association with preterm birth
22994408 Transferability and fine mapping of genome-wide associated loci for lipids in African Americans.
23098650 Impact of variants within seven candidate genes on statin treatment efficacy.
23150898 Evaluation of seven common lipid associated loci in a large Indian sib pair study.
23286790 Genome-wide linkage analysis for human longevity: Genetics of Healthy Aging Study.
23455636 Seven new loci associated with age-related macular degeneration.
23925498 Genetics of healthy aging and longevity.
24274136 Biobanking across the phenome - at the center of chronic disease research.