familial Alzheimer disease

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Also known as Alzheimer disease, familialFADGARD:0000632

Summary

familial Alzheimer disease (MONDO:0100087) is a disease and 4 clinical trials. Top therapeutic interventions include bromocriptine mesylate. A subtype of Alzheimer disease — broader associated-gene and molecular evidence is on the parent page (see Disease family below).

At a glance

  • Clinical trials: 4

Clinical features

No curated clinical features (Orphanet) for this disease.

Identifiers

Disease identifiers

FieldValue
Canonical namefamilial Alzheimer disease
Mondo IDMONDO:0100087
UMLSC0276496
MedGen82914
Is cancer (heuristic)no

Also known as: Alzheimer disease, familial · FAD · GARD:0000632

Disease family

This is a subtype of Alzheimer disease. Genetic, therapeutic, and trial evidence is largely curated at the broader-term level — see the parent page for the associated-gene cohort and molecular evidence.

Classification path: disease › human disease › disease by developmental or physiological process › psychiatric disordercognitive disorderdementiaAlzheimer diseasefamilial Alzheimer disease

Related subtypes (4): Alzheimer disease 16, Alzheimer disease 17, Alzheimer disease 18, Alzheimer disease 19

Subtypes (2): Alzheimer disease 2, early-onset autosomal dominant Alzheimer disease

Genetics & variants

GWAS landscape

No GWAS associations recorded — common-variant (GWAS) studies don’t cover this disease (typical for Mendelian / rare diseases). See the curated gene cohort and Mendelian overlap below.

Variant details and genetic-evidence tiers

No tiered GWAS variants or ClinVar records for this disease.

Genes & proteins

No associated-gene cohort resolved for this disease. Atlas builds the molecular and therapeutic sections — associated genes, protein families, druggability, pathways, interactions, and drug associations — by aggregating over a disease’s associated genes (resolved via GWAS / GenCC / ClinVar / CIViC), and none resolved here. This is expected for antibody-mediated, autoimmune, or otherwise non-gene-defined conditions; the curated evidence for this disease is its clinical features, GWAS susceptibility, and clinical trials (above).

Function

No pathway enrichment — requires an associated-gene cohort.

Therapeutics

No druggable-target or therapeutic data for this disease’s cohort.

Clinical trials & evidence

Clinical trials

Clinical trials: 4.

Phase distribution (across all retrieved trials)

PhaseTrials
Not specified3
PHASE1/PHASE21

Top trials by phase / activity

NCTPhaseStatusTitle
NCT04413344PHASE1/PHASE2COMPLETEDRepurposing Bromocriptine for Abeta Metabolism in Alzheimer’s Disease
NCT03653156Not specifiedRECRUITINGChina Cognition and Aging Study
NCT03657732Not specifiedRECRUITINGThe Chinese Familial Alzheimer’s Network
NCT03884647Not specifiedCOMPLETEDDELPHI in Subjects at Risk for Stroke and Dementia

Drugs tested across these trials (top 30)

MoleculeMax phaseTrials referencing
BROMOCRIPTINE MESYLATE41