The Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a major form of dementia and the most prevalent neurodegenerative disease in the elderly. In view of its high heritability, the genetic and genomic study plays essential roles in the basic researches and the clinical practice of the AD. This paper reviews the research advances regarding the genetic analyses of the AD, from the linkage analyses and the genome-wide association studies, to the next-generation sequencing studies, including also the functional variations, the causal genes, the multi-omic alterations, and the biological mechanisms underlying the AD genetics from the perspective of the functional genomics. It is expected that the genomic and functional genomic studies will contribute to the understanding and the management of the disease.

Alzheimer's disease  /  genetic analysis  /  genomics  /  transcriptomics  /  proteomic