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Alzheimer Disease
Gene testing does not cause a patient's family angst
July 12th, 2005
Adult children of people with Alzheimer's disease were satisfied and unharmed by the experience of genetic risk assessment, even when results suggested they might be at risk, according to new findings presented by Robert C. Green at the recent International Conference on the Prevention of Dementia, sponsored by the Alzheimer's Association. Green, a medical doctor and professor of neurology at Boston University School of Medicine, led the team that conducted the study. The study focused on the psychological and behavioral impact of testing for the well-known risk marker for Alzheimer's disease, ApoE4, one form of the apolipoprotein E (APOE) gene. When the team compared...
Source: Science Letter (2005-07-12)
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