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Acknowledgements
This analysis was funded by Health Canada through the National Health Research and Development Program, Grant #6603-03-1999/2640043. Chris MacKnight is supported by a New Investigator Award and Kenneth Rockwood by an Investigator Award from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. Kenneth Rockwood is also supported by the Dalhousie Medical Research Foundation as the Kathryn Allen Weldon Professor of Alzheimer Research. The views expressed herein do not necessarily represent the official
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