[Although certain inherited forms of CAA with cerebral haemorrhage are associated with autosomal dominant mutations in APP and other genes (cystatin-C, transthyretin, gelsolin, ABrit, ADan), in most cases of AD CAA does not associate clearly with any genetic risk factor other than APO E beta4 allele, which appears to increase the severity of CAA in a dose dependent manner, especially within the occipital cortex.]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Gene-disease associations inferred from text-mining the literature.
DisGeNET evidence - LITERATURE