Although, we should introduce some caution in being too conscientious here: that is, if the goal is to exclude those who were already on a dementia trajectory at study entry, then, say, 20 years of subsequent observation might be too long a window—one might be excluding cognitively healthy individuals who, much later, aged into dementia and who were not in a prodromal state when the APOE e4-cognition association was examined. The gene discussed is APOE; the disease is dementia.