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- John Kauwe
  Brigham Young University
- Posted: 30 Jun 2014
- News: Family History Accounts for Some of the Spread in Age at Onset of Familial Alzheimer's
As the authors clearly articulate, these findings have clear implications for prediction of age at onset for clinical research. In addition, these results reiterate previous reports that autosomal dominant mutations have a broad range of onset, even well into the over-65-year range often associated with sporadic AD. Finally, this report strongly suggests that gene-gene and possibly gene-environment interactions that are shared within families have a significant influence on age at onset of autosomal dominant Alzheimer’s disease.

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