Abstract:
:Despite recent advances in the molecular genetics of Alzheimer's disease (AD), several fundamental questions concerning risk of illness are unresolved, namely, if Mendelian factors account for the incidence of the disease, and if AD is an inevitable consequence of the aging process. This study was designed to address these issues and other aspects of familial aggregation of the disorder. A consecutive sample of 1,694 patients who met criteria for a diagnosis of probable or definite AD were ascertained in 13 centers participating in the Multi-Institutional Research in Alzheimer Genetic Epidemiology (MIRAGE) project. Lifetime risk and age at onset of AD among various strata of 12,971 first-degree relatives was estimated using survival analysis procedures. The lifetime risk of AD in first-degree relatives was 39.0% +/- 2.1% by age 96 years. Age-specific risk of AD declined after age 90 and the data set included 61 apparently unaffected persons who survived to age 96 without becoming demented. Female relatives had a higher risk of AD than male relatives at all ages. By age 80, children of conjugal AD couples had a cumulative risk of 54%, 1.5 times greater than the sum of the risks to children having affected mothers or fathers, and nearly 5 times greater than the risk to children having normal parents. Children of affected fathers had a cumulative risk that was 1.4 times the corresponding risk to children of affected mothers. Risk assessment in early-onset and late-onset families, using various strategies for determining the age cut-off, yielded contradictory results. These data suggest the following: (1) the lifetime risk among relatives does not support a simple autosomal dominant inheritance pattern of disease; (2) women are innately more susceptible to AD than men; (3) the proportion of hereditary cases may be higher in men than women; (4) distinction between early- onset and late-onset forms of AD has little meaning in the absence of a biological marker; (5) the risk of AD decreases after age 90; and (6) AD therefore may not be an inevitable concomitant of the aging process, a conclusion that has profound implications for basic and applied AD research. The age- and sex-specific lifetime risks derived from this study are sufficiently robust to be a reliable source of information for counseling relatives of AD patients.
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Neurologyjournal_title
Neurologyauthors
Lautenschlager NT,Cupples LA,Rao VS,Auerbach SA,Becker R,Burke J,Chui H,Duara R,Foley EJ,Glatt SL,Green RC,Jones R,Karlinsky H,Kukull WA,Kurz A,Larson EB,Martelli K,Sadovnick AD,Volicer L,Waring SC,Growdon JH,Fadoi
10.1212/wnl.46.3.641subject
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1996-03-01 00:00:00pages
641-50issue
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0028-3878issn
1526-632Xjournal_volume
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