APP and Alzheimer disease: In this study, we have compared the severity of amyloid plaque formation and cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA), and the subtype pattern of CAA pathology itself, between APP genetic causes of AD (APPdup, APP mutations), older individuals with Down syndrome (DS) showing the pathology of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and individuals with sporadic (early and late onset) AD (sEOAD and sLOAD, respectively).