Familial AD accounts for less than 5% of all cases and has been genetically linked to mutations in APP and two presenilins (PSEN), PSEN1 and PSEN2, the catalytic components of γ-secretase and the units responsible for cleavage of APP (Price and Sisodia, 1998; Bertram et al., 2010). The gene discussed is APP; the disease is Alzheimer disease.