Article
Commonalities in the genetics of Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease.
Expert review of neurotherapeutics - 1 Dec 2008
Grünblatt Edna
Abstract excerpt
Alzheimer's disease (AD) and Parkinson's disease (PD) are neurodegenerative diseases that have a tremendous impact on the lives of affected individuals. There is a great probability of developing concurrent parkinsonism in AD and vice versa than would be predicted by independent prevalence of each disease. Both diseases have genetic familial forms with a prevalence of less than 5-10%, but the majority of the...
Topics
- Alzheimer Disease
- Genetic Predisposition to Disease
- Humans
- Parkinson Disease
- Risk Factors
