[Genetics of dementia].

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Most psychiatric diseases in adulthood have a multifactorial origin. This also applies for most cases of dementia; however, rare familial forms of Alzheimer's disease and frontotemporal lobar degeneration follow an autosomal dominant (Mendelian) inheritance pattern. Alzheimer's disease that is caused by mutations in the genes for presenilin 1, presenilin 2 and amyloid precursor protein has an onset under the age...

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