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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Alzheimers Dement. 2015 Jun 12;11(12):1439–1451. doi: 10.1016/j.jalz.2015.05.015

Table 3. Linear regression coefficients for associations between BMI polygenic scores and measured BMI in ADGC (ACT, ROS-MAP) and HRS.

N β 95% Confidence
Interval
P-value
ACT + ROS-MAP
 All 3,008 0.86 (0.53, 1.20) < 0.001
 Controls 2,393 0.95 (0.57, 1.33) < 0.001
 AD Cases 615 0.48 (−0.18, 1.14) 0.16
ACT
 All 1,991 0.51 (0.12, 0.91) 0.01
 Controls 1,647 0.64 (0.19, 1.09) 0.01
 AD Cases 344 −0.01 (−0.82, 0.82) 0.99
ROS-MAP:
 All 1,017 1.59 (0.98, 2.19) < 0.001
 Controls 746 1.7 (0.05, 2.24) < 0.001
 AD Cases 271 1.15 (0.99, 2.42) 0.04
HRS 8403 1.03 (0.83 1.23) < 0.001

Abbreviations: ACT - Adult Changes in Thought Study, ROS-MAP - Rush University Religious Orders Study/Memory and Aging Project, BMI - body mass index, AD – Alzheimer’s Disease; “Controls” refers to individuals who never developed dementia during follow-up, while “AD Cases” refers to people who developed incident AD during the study period; β = difference in BMI associated with a unit change in the BMI polygenic score.