%0 Journal Article
%T Verbal memory improvement in first-episode psychosis APOE-¦Å4 carriers: a pleiotropic effect?
%A Alasdair M Barr
%A Allen E Thorton
%A Daniel J M¨¹ller
%A Donna J Lang
%A Fidel Vila-Rodriguez
%A G William MacEwan
%A Geoff N Smith
%A Heather Baitz
%A Ivan J Torres
%A James L Kennedy
%A Kristina Gicas
%A Lili C Kopala
%A Thomas S Ehmann
%A William G Honer
%J Archive of "Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment".
%D 2017
%R 10.2147/NDT.S150488
%X Verbal memory impairment is a core feature in schizophrenia even at early stages of the disease, but its etiopathogenesis is not fully understood. The APOE-¦Å4 is the main genetic risk factor for late-onset Alzheimer¡¯s disease. Our primary goal was to ascertain whether APOE-¦Å4 status had a pleiotropic effect in early stages of the illness
%K APOE
%K verbal memory
%K antagonistic pleiotropy
%K first-episode psychosis
%K schizophrenia
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5727104/