Race and Alzheimer Disease Biomarkers: A Neglected Race

Alberto Lleó1, Marc Suárez-Calvet1

  • 1Memory Unit (A.L.), Department of Neurology, Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Biomedical Research Institute Sant Pau-Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona; Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red Enfermedades Neurodegenerativas (CIBERNED) (A.L.), Madrid; Barcelonaβeta Brain Research Center (BBRC) (M.S.-C.), Pasqual Maragall Foundation, Barcelona; Servei de Neurologia (M.S.-C.), Hospital del Mar, Barcelona; IMIM (Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute) (M.S.-C.), Barcelona; and Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Fragilidad y Envejecimiento Saludable (CIBERFES) (M.S.-C.), Madrid, Spain.

Neurology. Genetics
|March 10, 2021
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