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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Acta Neuropathol. 2015 May 6;130(1):21–34. doi: 10.1007/s00401-015-1435-y

Table 1.

Frequency of Aβ deposition in CTE

n Mean age at death (years) APOE ε4 % (+/−)a DP freq (%) NP freq (%)
CTE (all) 114 60 33 % (27/55) 52 36
  Stage I 13 35 33 % (3/6) 15 0
  Stage II 30 52 32 % (7/15) 33 20
  Stage III 34 62 23 % (6/20) 44 27
  Stage IV 37 75 44 % (11/14) 87 70
AD 319 80 59 % (13/9) 84 100

CTE Chronic traumatic encephalopathy, DP diffuse plaques, NP neuritic plaques, AD Alzheimer’s disease

a

% of both ε4 hetereozytes and homozygotes out of those cases with genotypes (n = 82)