APOE and Alzheimer disease: Ethanol caused persistent reductions in protective AD genes: APOE (25% reduction, *p < 0.05), TREM2 (28%, *p < 0.05), LPL (40%, **p < 0.01), and CTSD (24%, *p < 0.05) and promoted a proinflammatory gene signature in female, but not male cortex.