Alzheimer's disease: A hypothesis on pathogenesis.
2000
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the major cause of dementia. It is a systemic disorder whose major manifestations are in the brain. AD cases can be categorized into two groups on the basis of the age of onset-before or after about age 60. The majority of cases, 90–95 percent, are in the late onset category. Early onset cases are largely, if not all, familial (FAD). These are caused by mutations in the genes for the amyloid precursor protein (APP), presenilin 1 (PS1), and presenilin 2 (PS2). In contrast late onset cases are mainly sporadic.
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