Patient-derived induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) have been used to model and study penetrative, familial AD (FAD) mutations in APP, PSEN1, and PSEN2 (Valdes et al. in Research Square 1–30, 2022; Caldwell et al. in Sci Adv 6:1–16, 2020) but have been seldom used for sporadic forms of AD that display more heterogeneous disease mechanisms. The gene discussed is APP; the disease is familial Alzheimer disease.