[A Review of Clinical Studies Investigating Patients with Alzheimer's Disease having Genetic Risk Factors]

Brain Nerve. 2017 Jul;69(7):723-731. doi: 10.11477/mf.1416200813.
[Article in Japanese]

Abstract

Aside from the current conventional pharmaceutical therapies that have limited effects on patients with Alzheimer's disease, disease-modifying therapies have been developed to inhibit the pathological processes of Alzheimer's disease. These include immunotherapies, β/γ secretase inhibitors, and aggregation inhibitors targeting amyloid β. The involvement of genetic risk factors in the effectiveness of such processes has been confirmed. For example, apolipoprotein E ε4 carriers have been reported to have a risk of ARIA (Amyloid Related Imaging Abnormality) as an adverse effect by those therapies. In this paper, we review clinical studies examining patients with Alzheimer's disease, having genetic risk factors.

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Alzheimer Disease / drug therapy
  • Alzheimer Disease / genetics*
  • Amyloid / immunology
  • Amyloid / metabolism
  • Antibodies / immunology
  • Apolipoproteins E / genetics
  • Apolipoproteins E / immunology
  • Apolipoproteins E / metabolism
  • Clinical Trials as Topic / ethics
  • Humans
  • Risk Factors

Substances

  • Amyloid
  • Antibodies
  • Apolipoproteins E