Genetic Link To Alzheimer's Disease Explored: Affected Siblings Sought

Indiana University School of Medicine researchers are looking for the tie that binds families with Alzheimer's disease together. The long-term research is seeking the gene or genes that make Alzheimer's a family disease.


Medical geneticist at IU and five other institutions are seeking genetic information from 1,000 families who have two or more living siblings with Alzheimer's disease.


"Indiana University has been involved in trying to determine the genetic links of Alzheimer's disease for a number of years," said Tatiana Foroud, Ph.D., the P. Michael Conneally Professor of Medical and Molecular Genetics at IU and the local principal investigator for the study. "Finding two living siblings afflicted with the disease will be a challenge, but one we hope will shed light on important information."


Participants will be asked to donate a blood sample which will be stored at the National Cell Repository for Alzheimer's Disease at IU, the only such repository in the nation.


For additional information or to enroll in the study, contact the IU Department of Medical and Molecular Genetics at 800-526-2839.


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