Title: Genetic and Hereditary Risk Factors for Alzheimer's Disease
Headings: Genetic and Hereditary Risk Factors for Alzheimer's Disease
Genetic and Hereditary Risk Factors for Alzheimer's Disease
Genetic and Hereditary Risk Factors
Alzheimer’s Characteristics
Genetics 101
How Genes Influence Alzheimer’s
Precision Medicine
Genetic Mutations and Disease
Genetics and Late-Onset
Late-Onset Alzheimer’s Disease
What Is an Allele?
Other Genes Linked with Late-Onset Alzheimer’s
Genetics and Early-Onset
Genetic Testing
A Word From Verywell

Content: Genetics 101
To thoroughly understand the genetic and hereditary risk factors of Alzheimer’s disease, it’s important to be familiar with some common genetic terms, these include: Hereditary disease: can be passed on from one generation to another
Genetic disease: may or may not be hereditary, but a genetic disease is always the result of a change in the genome
Genome: a person’s complete DNA set which is contained in every cell of the body. A genome is like a blueprint that contains instructions for making and maintaining the function of every cell (organ and tissue) in the body. Gene: a segment of inheritable information made up of DNA that is passed down from parents to their children. Genes have a fixed position, organized as packaged in units called chromosomes. They instruct the cell on jobs such as how to function, how to make proteins, and how to repair itself.