TY - JOUR
T1 - Evidence for major gene inheritance of Alzheimer disease in families of patients with and without apolipoprotein E ε4
AU - Rao, Valluri S.
AU - Cupples, L. Adrienne
AU - Van Duijn, Cornelia M.
AU - Kurz, Alexander
AU - Green, Robert C.
AU - Chui, Helena
AU - Duara, Ranjan
AU - Auerbach, Sanford A.
AU - Volicer, Ladislav
AU - Wells, John
AU - Van Broeckhoven, Christine
AU - Growdon, John H.
AU - Haines, Jonathan L.
AU - Farrer, Lindsay A.
N1 - Copyright:
Copyright 2012 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 1996
Y1 - 1996
N2 - Apolipoprotein E (APOE) genotype is the single most important determinant to the common form of Alzheimer disease (AD) yet identified. Several studies show that family history of AD is not entirely accounted for by APOE genotype. Also, there is evidence for an interaction between APOE genotype and gender. We carried out a complex segregation analysis in 636 nuclear families of consecutively ascertained and rigorously diagnosed probands in the Multi-Institutional Research in Alzheimer Genetic Epidemiology study in order to derive models of disease transmission which account for the influences of APOE genotype of the proband and gender. In the total group of families, models postulating sporadic occurrence, no major gene effect, random environmental transmission, and Mendelian inheritance were rejected. Transmission of AD in families of probands with at least one ε4 allele best fit a dominant model. Moreover, single gene inheritance best explained clustering of the disorder in families of probands lacking ε4, but a more complex genetic modal or multiple genetic models may ultimately account for risk in this group of families. Our results also suggest that susceptibility to AD differs between men and women regardless of the proband's APOE status. Assuming a dominant model, AD appears to bc completely penetrant in women, whereas only 62%65% of men with predisposing genotypes develop AD. However, parameter estimates from the arbitrary major gene model suggests that AD is expressed dominantly in women and additively in men. These observations, taken together with epidemiologic data, are consistent with the hypothesis of an interaction between genes and other biological factors affecting disease susceptibility.
AB - Apolipoprotein E (APOE) genotype is the single most important determinant to the common form of Alzheimer disease (AD) yet identified. Several studies show that family history of AD is not entirely accounted for by APOE genotype. Also, there is evidence for an interaction between APOE genotype and gender. We carried out a complex segregation analysis in 636 nuclear families of consecutively ascertained and rigorously diagnosed probands in the Multi-Institutional Research in Alzheimer Genetic Epidemiology study in order to derive models of disease transmission which account for the influences of APOE genotype of the proband and gender. In the total group of families, models postulating sporadic occurrence, no major gene effect, random environmental transmission, and Mendelian inheritance were rejected. Transmission of AD in families of probands with at least one ε4 allele best fit a dominant model. Moreover, single gene inheritance best explained clustering of the disorder in families of probands lacking ε4, but a more complex genetic modal or multiple genetic models may ultimately account for risk in this group of families. Our results also suggest that susceptibility to AD differs between men and women regardless of the proband's APOE status. Assuming a dominant model, AD appears to bc completely penetrant in women, whereas only 62%65% of men with predisposing genotypes develop AD. However, parameter estimates from the arbitrary major gene model suggests that AD is expressed dominantly in women and additively in men. These observations, taken together with epidemiologic data, are consistent with the hypothesis of an interaction between genes and other biological factors affecting disease susceptibility.
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M3 - Article
C2 - 8751868
AN - SCOPUS:19244362467
VL - 59
SP - 664
EP - 675
JO - American Journal of Human Genetics
JF - American Journal of Human Genetics
SN - 0002-9297
IS - 3
ER -