СПОСОБЫ ОБНАРУЖЕНИЯ БОЛЕЗНИ АЛЬЦГЕЙМЕРА

摘要

The invention relates to methods for the diagnosis or prognosis of Alzheimer's disease in an individual. An inventive method has at least one step for detecting the presence or the absence of the minority allele of polymorphism rs908832 of gene ABCA2. The presence of the minority allele of polymorphism rs908832 of gene ABCA2 indicates that the individual can be afflicted with Alzheimer's disease or is presently at increased risk of developing Alzheimer's disease.