New perspectives on familial clustering of Alzheimer's disease: the role of rare genetic risk variants. University of Antwerp
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is an important threat to both personal and publich health. Familial clustering of AD has long been known, and in the past few decades, important progress has been made in unraveling the genetics of AD. For patients and their relatives today, the most tangible benefit of this progress is the ability to genetically diagnose or predict the disease. Nevertheless, this only applies to a minority of families, in which a ...