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The Alzheimer\u2019s patients had a score between 20 and 30 and healthy controls participants had a score above 28 without any loss of points on recalled items. The results show that our olfactory identification test is able to significantly differentiate Alzheimer\u2019s patients from healthy controls (p &lt; 0.001), and to distinguish the French population tested from the Quebec population (p &lt; 0.001). This study highlights an olfactory identification disorder as a target for early diagnosis of AD. 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