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Abstract
Approximately half of the Alzheimer's disease (AD) cases that are associated with early onset appear to be transmitted as a pure genetic, autosomal dominant trait. Genetic analyses of these pedigrees have found three causal genes: betaAPP, presenilin 1 (PS1), and presenilin 2 (PS2). This review provides an update on the pathological consequences of mutations in early-onset AD genes, the phenotypic heterogeneity of those cases, and future directions for research and clinical practice.Entities:
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Year: 2002 PMID: 12230301 DOI: 10.1385/NMM:2:1:01
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Neuromolecular Med ISSN: 1535-1084 Impact factor: 3.843