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. 2007 Jul 2:8:43.
doi: 10.1186/1471-2156-8-43.

A genetic association analysis of cognitive ability and cognitive ageing using 325 markers for 109 genes associated with oxidative stress or cognition

Sarah E Harris  1 , Helen Fox, Alan F Wright, Caroline Hayward, John M Starr, Lawrence J Whalley, Ian J Deary
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A genetic association analysis of cognitive ability and cognitive ageing using 325 markers for 109 genes associated with oxidative stress or cognition

Sarah E Harris et al. BMC Genet. .

Abstract

Background: Non-pathological cognitive ageing is a distressing condition affecting an increasing number of people in our 'ageing society'. Oxidative stress is hypothesised to have a major role in cellular ageing, including brain ageing.

Results: Associations between cognitive ageing and 325 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), located in 109 genes implicated in oxidative stress and/or cognition, were examined in a unique cohort of relatively healthy older people, on whom we have cognitive ability scores at ages 11 and 79 years (LBC1921). SNPs showing a significant positive association were then genotyped in a second cohort for whom we have cognitive ability scores at the ages of 11 and 64 years (ABC1936). An intronic SNP in the APP gene (rs2830102) was significantly associated with cognitive ageing in both LBC1921 and a combined LBC1921/ABC1936 analysis (p < 0.01), but not in ABC1936 alone.

Conclusion: This study suggests a possible role for APP in normal cognitive ageing, in addition to its role in Alzheimer's disease.

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Score on Raven's Matrices by APP rs2830102 genotype, sex and cohort (LBC1921 or ABC1936): A) raw data; B) estimated marginal means from general linear model, adjusted for age 11 MHT score.
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