Is dementia of the Alzheimer type a purely genetic illness? A modelling approach.

doi:10.1159/000110286

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Is dementia of the Alzheimer type a purely genetic illness? A modelling approach.

Neuroepidemiology - 1 Jan 1991

Tzourio C, Alpérovitch A, Maccario J, Dartigues J F

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In some multiple-case families, dementia of the Alzheimer type (DAT) is very likely to be of a genetic origin. Nevertheless, most DAT cases are sporadic and a disease with a majority of sporadic cases is usually of environmental origin. Are there two different etiologies of DAT? And if so, what i...

Topics

Alzheimer Disease
Bayes Theorem
Epidemiologic Methods
Family
France
Genotype
Humans
Models, Theoretical
Phenotype
Probability
Risk Factors

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