Reduced size of right hippocampus in 39- to 80-year-old normal subjects carrying the apolipoprotein E ϵ4 allele
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Acknowledgements
We thank Professor Akira Ogawa and Dr. Naohiko Kubo of the Department of Neurosurgery for their cooperation with the Clinic for the Detection of Asymptomatic Brain Disease and to Ms. Shiho Hinata for her secretarial assistance. This study was supported in part by the Ministry of Health and Welfare and the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture, Japan.
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