Table 5.
Proportion of parents of participants homozygous to APOE alleles in the UKBB stratified by age groups
| APOE genotype in the UKBB participants | Fathers (proportion) |
Mothers (proportion) |
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| <80 | ≥80 | <80 | ≥80 | |
| ε4ε4 | 0.040 | 0.036 | 0.041 | 0.036 |
| ε3ε3 | 0.950 | 0.953 | 0.949 | 0.953 |
| ε3ε3 | 0.010 | 0.011 | 0.010 | 0.011 |
If parent was alive, the last recorded age was used. Otherwise, the age of death of the parent was used.
Key: APOE, apolipoprotein E; UKBB, UK Biobank.