Article
Clinical comparison of Alzheimer's disease in pedigrees with the codon 717 Val-->Ile mutation in the amyloid precursor protein gene.
Neurobiology of aging - 1 Jan 2000
Mullan M, Tsuji S, Miki T, Katsuya T, Naruse S, Kaneko K, Shimizu T, Kojima T, Nakano I, Ogihara T
Abstract excerpt
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common cause of dementia (32). Although the majority of cases of AD are sporadic, the most consistent risk factor detected in several epidemiological studies has been a positive family history of the disease (14,21). In addition, many large pedigrees have been described in which AD appears to be inherited as an autosomal dominant disorder. In one such pedigree (F23) a point...
Topics
- Adult
- Age of Onset
- Aged
- Alzheimer Disease
- Amyloid beta-Protein Precursor
- Brain
- Brain Chemistry
- Canada
- Codon
- Down Syndrome
- Female
