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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Arch Neurol. 2010 Aug 9;67(12):1473–1484. doi: 10.1001/archneurol.2010.201

Table 1.

Sample Description

Cohort Number of Cases Number of autopsies Mean onset age (SD) Number of Controls Number of autopsies Mean age at last exam (SD) Total Percent of Ethnic group
Caucasian Subjects
 ADC 1,595 1,421 73 (7.7) 553 134 77 (8.7) 2,148 17%
 ADNI 286 0 74 (8.1) 195 0 78 (5.4) 481 4%
 CAMP 127 0 79 (7.9) 105 0 76 (7.8) 232 2%
 FHS 197 0 83 (6.4) 2,392 0 73 (7.5) 2,589 20%
 UM/VU/MSSM 1,170 370 74 (7.7) 1,169 75 74 (7.6) 2,339 18%
 MIRAGE 560 0 71 (6.5) 790 0 72 (7.1) 1,350 10%
 NIA LOAD 993 367 72 (6.9) 884 45 76 (8.4) 1,877 14%
 OHSU 187 215 87 (7.3) 429 461 86 (7.2) 616 5%
 TGEN 820 613 80 (8.3) 517 377 83 (8.9) 1,337 10%
 Totals 5,935 2,986 7,034 1,092 12,969 100%

African American Subjects
 ADC 61 61 75 (7.0) 63 63 76 (6.2) 124 14%
 JHU 221 0 77 (6.6) 186 0 78 (6.6) 407 45%
 MIRAGE 180 0 70 (8.9) 200 0 71 (10.0) 380 42%
 Totals 462 61 449 63 911 100%

Arab Subjects
 Wadi Ara 124 0 78 (7.9) 142 0 72 (6.0) 266 100%

Caribbean Hispanic Subjects
 Columbia 549 8 80 (8.0) 544 0 79 (6.4) 1,093 100%

All Ethnic Groups
 Totals 7,070 3,055 8,169 1,155 15,239

SD: standard deviation; ADC: Alzheimer Disease Centers cohort; ADNI: Alzheimer Disease Neuroimaging Initiative cohort; FHS.: Framingham Heart Study cohort; UM/VU/MSSM: University of Miami/Vanderbilt University/Mt. Sinai School of Medicine cohort; MIRAGE: Multi Institutional Research on Alzheimer’s Genetic Epidemiology cohort; NIA LOAD: National Institute on Aging Late-onset Alzheimer Disease cohort; OHSU: Oregon Health Sciences University cohort; TGEN: Translational Genomics Research Institute cohort; JHU: Johns Hopkins University cohort. Additional information on all cohorts is provided in the supplementary materials supplied online.