University College London | fAD_2-what_is_fAD-SD

Familial Alzheimer's disease usually refers to those cases where it runs in the family but with a very high
probability of developing the disease. So with what's called autosomal dominant familial Alzheimer's disease, you

get one gene from each parent, and you only need one faulty gene to develop the disease. If you have a parent
with familial Alzheimer's disease, you have a 50/50 chance of inheriting that gene, and if you inherit that faulty

gene then it is very likely that you will develop the disease.