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The British Journal of Psychiatry 159: 524-530 (1991)
© 1991 The Royal College of Psychiatrists

A family with multiple instances of definite, probable and possible early-onset Alzheimer's disease

H Karlinsky, E Madrick, J Ridgley, JM Berg, R Becker, C Bergeron, S Hodgkinson, ME Percy and D McLachlan
Geriatric Psychiatry Services, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Toronto.

A family with a multigenerational history of proven or suspected early- onset Alzheimer's disease (AD) consistent with autosomal-dominant inheritance is described. To date, the pedigree comprises five generations in which there are 13 known affected individuals. The mean age of onset of cognitive deficits in those for whom data are available (n = 11) is 47.6 (s.d. 3.0) years and the mean age of death (n = 10) is 58.8 (s.d. 4.0) years. The variability in the extent and quality of available data illustrates the diagnostic difficulties encountered in ascertaining such an extended pedigree, and the need for caution in interpreting the evidence.


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