Genome-wide association study of vascular dementia.

  • Elisabeth M C Schrijvers
  • Britta Schürmann
  • Peter J Koudstaal
  • Hendrik Bussche van den
  • Van Duijn
  • M Cornelia
  • Frank Hentschel
  • Reinhard Heun
  • Albert Hofman
  • Frank Jessen
  • Heike Kölsch
  • Johannes Kornhuber
  • Oliver Peters
  • Fernando Rivadeneira
  • Eckart Rüther
  • André G Uitterlinden
  • Steffi Riedel-Heller
  • Martin Dichgans
  • Jens Wiltfang
  • Wolfgang Maier
  • Monique M B Breteler
  • M Arfan Ikram

Abstract

Most studies investigating the genetics of dementia have focused on Alzheimer disease, but little is known about the genetics of vascular dementia. The aim of our study was to identify new loci associated with vascular dementia.

Bibliographical data

Original languageEnglish
Article number2
ISSN0039-2499
Publication statusPublished - 2012
pubmed 22116812