Indeed, using human fasting plasma samples, we found that concentrations of Aβ1-42 (P < 0.0001) and Aβ1-40 (P < 0.0001) increased with each quartile increase of amylin (Qiu et al., 2014) after adjusting for age, gender, ethnicity, ApoE4, BMI, diabetes, stroke, kidney function and lipid profile. The gene discussed is IAPP; the disease is stroke disorder.