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Table 2 Description of the study population

From: Mutation analysis of disease causing genes in patients with early onset or familial forms of Alzheimer’s disease and frontotemporal dementia

Disease

Number of patients, n

Known heredity, n (%)

Females, n (%)

Age at onset, mean (range)

Alzheimer’s disease

77

70 (90.9)

36 (46.8)

60.8 (34–76)

Behavioral variant of frontotemporal dementia

7

7 (100)

2 (28.6)

59.1 (47–69)

Other types of frontotemporal dementia

4

3 (75)

1 (25)

60.8 (54–71)

Semantic variant primary progressive aphasia

5

4 (80)

2 (40)

58,2 (49–64)

Other dementia related diagnosesa

2

1 (50.0)

0 (0)

65.0 (55–75)

Mild cognitive impairmentb

7

7 (100)

4 (57.1)

59.4 (55–65)

  1. aIn this group one patient had vascular dementia and one unspecified dementia
  2. bMost patients with MCI had a known heredity for AD