Recent advances in the genetics of Alzheimer's disease.

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Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disorder that is the most common cause of dementia in the elderly. It is a clinical-pathologic entity characterized by progressive dementia associated with the neuropathologic hallmarks of Abeta amyloid plaques, neurofibrillary tangles (NFTs), neuronal loss, and amyloid angiopathy. Three "causative" AD genes (i.e., genes in which a mutation is sufficient to result...

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