Table Info

Category	*-/-*	*ε4/-*	*ε4/ε4*	Total
-/-	140	0	0	140
ε4/-	0	28	0	28
ε4/ε4	0	0	10	10
Total	140	28	10	178

Declarations

Acknowledgments

We thank the participants of the studies who made this study possible. We are thankful to all the employees of Fujirebio HD group for their generous help, especially we thank Kazuyuki Umeda, Mario Denoyette, Jarne Delanote, and Maarten De Jonge for their efforts to develop the ApoE kits.

Author contributions

TY: Resources, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing—review & editing. RD: Resources, Data curation, Methodology, Writing—review & editing. DM: Resources, Methodology, Writing—review & editing. HS: Resources, Data curation, Investigation, Writing—review & editing. JK and TN: Resources, Investigation, Methodology. IV and KA: Supervision, Writing—review & editing. HN: Data curation, Formal analysis, Supervision, Investigation, Visualization, Writing—original draft, Project administration, Writing—review & editing.

Conflicts of interest

TY, HS, JK, TN, and HN are employees of Fujirebio Inc. TY, RD, DM, and IV are employees of Fujirebio Europe N.V. KA is a board member of Fujirebio Inc.

Ethical approval

Study procedures were compliant with the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki. The ethics committee approved the study at H.U. Group Holdings, Inc. in the 2022 fiscal year (22-012-01).

Consent to participate

Informed consent to participate in the study was obtained from participants.

Consent to publication

Not applicable.

Availability of data and materials

Not applicable.

Funding

Not applicable.

Copyright

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