RecruitingNCT00869817

Dominantly Inherited Alzheimer Network (DIAN)


Sponsor

Washington University School of Medicine

Enrollment

700 participants

Start Date

Jan 1, 2009

Study Type

OBSERVATIONAL

Conditions

Summary

The purpose of this study is to identify potential biomarkers that may predict the development of Alzheimer's disease in people who carry an Alzheimer's mutation.


Eligibility

Min Age: 18 Years

Plain Language Summary

Simplified for easier understanding

This international study (called DIAN) is following the adult children of people with a rare inherited form of Alzheimer's disease, to understand how the disease develops before symptoms appear and to test potential treatments. **You may be eligible if...** - You are 18 or older and have a parent with a confirmed inherited (dominantly inherited) form of early-onset Alzheimer's disease - Your memory and thinking are normal, or you have only mild to moderate cognitive changes (CDR score 0–1.0) - You are more than 15 years away from the age when your parent first showed symptoms (primary focus) - You have two people (not full siblings) who can provide information about you to the study - You speak a language approved by the study center at about a 6th grade level or above **You may NOT be eligible if...** - You are under 18 - You have a medical or psychiatric illness that would prevent completing study visits - You require nursing home level care - You have no one available to serve as a study informant Talk to your doctor to see if this trial is right for you.

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Locations(26)

Mayo Clinic Jacksonville

Jacksonville, Florida, United States

Indiana University-Indiana Alzheimer Disease Center

Indianapolis, Indiana, United States

Brigham and Women's Hospital

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine

St Louis, Missouri, United States

Columbia University

New York, New York, United States

University of Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Butler Hospital

Providence, Rhode Island, United States

University of Washington

Seattle, Washington, United States

Fundación para la Lucha contra las Enfermedades Neurológicas de la Infancia" (FLENI) Instituto de Investigaciones Neurológicas Raúl Correa

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Fundación para la Lucha contra las Enfermedades Neurológicas de la Infancia (FLENI)

Salta, Argentina

Neuroscience Research Australia

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Mental Health Research Institute, University of Melbourne

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Sir James McCusker Alzheimer's Disease Research Unit, Edith Cowan University

Perth, Western Australia, Australia

Hospital das Clinicas da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo

São Paulo, Brazil

McGill University Research Centre for Studies in Aging

Verdun, Quebec, Canada

Grupo Neurociencias de Antioquia

Medellín, Colombia

German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE) Munich, and University Hospital Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat (LMU) Munich

Munich, Germany

German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE) Tübingen and Hertie-Institute for Clinical Brain Research, University of Tübingen

Tübingen, Germany

Niigata University

Niigata, Japan

Osaka City University

Osaka, Japan

Tokyo University

Tokyo, Japan

Instituto Nacional de Neurología y Neurocirugía "Manuel Velasco Suarez"

Mexico City, Mexico

Amsterdam UMC

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Asan Medical Center

Seoul, Songpa-Gu, South Korea

Hospital Clinic Barcelona

Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Institute of Neurology, Queen Square

London, United Kingdom

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