The multiplex model of the genetics of Alzheimer's disease

R Sims, M Hill, J Williams - Nature neuroscience, 2020 - nature.com
Genes play a strong role in Alzheimer's disease (AD), with late-onset AD showing heritability
of 58–79% and early-onset AD showing over 90%. Genetic association provides a robust …

Aging in a dish: iPSC-derived and directly induced neurons for studying brain aging and age-related neurodegenerative diseases

J Mertens, D Reid, S Lau, Y Kim… - Annual review of …, 2018 - annualreviews.org
Age-associated neurological diseases represent a profound challenge in biomedical
research as we are still struggling to understand the interface between the aging process …

Integrative single-cell analysis of transcriptional and epigenetic states in the human adult brain

BB Lake, S Chen, BC Sos, J Fan, GE Kaeser… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Detailed characterization of the cell types in the human brain requires scalable experimental
approaches to examine multiple aspects of the molecular state of individual cells, as well as …

Neuronal subtypes and diversity revealed by single-nucleus RNA sequencing of the human brain

BB Lake, R Ai, GE Kaeser, NS Salathia, YC Yung… - Science, 2016 - science.org
The human brain has enormously complex cellular diversity and connectivities fundamental
to our neural functions, yet difficulties in interrogating individual neurons has impeded …

Worse than the disease? Reviewing some possible unintended consequences of the mRNA vaccines against COVID-19

S Seneff, G Nigh - International Journal of Vaccine Theory, Practice, and …, 2021 - ijvtpr.com
Operation Warp Speed brought to market in the United States two mRNA vaccines,
produced by Pfizer and Moderna. Interim data suggested high efficacy for both of these …

A comparative strategy for single-nucleus and single-cell transcriptomes confirms accuracy in predicted cell-type expression from nuclear RNA

BB Lake, S Codeluppi, YC Yung, D Gao, J Chun… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
Significant heterogeneities in gene expression among individual cells are typically
interrogated using single whole cell approaches. However, tissues that have highly …

Somatic APP gene recombination in Alzheimer's disease and normal neurons

MH Lee, B Siddoway, GE Kaeser, I Segota, R Rivera… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
The diversity and complexity of the human brain are widely assumed to be encoded within a
constant genome. Somatic gene recombination, which changes germline DNA sequences to …

Guidelines for bioinformatics of single-cell sequencing data analysis in Alzheimer's disease: review, recommendation, implementation and application

M Wang, W Song, C Ming, Q Wang, X Zhou… - Molecular …, 2022 - Springer
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia, characterized by
progressive cognitive impairment and neurodegeneration. Extensive clinical and genomic …

Somatic mosaicism: implications for disease and transmission genetics

IM Campbell, CA Shaw, P Stankiewicz, JR Lupski - Trends in Genetics, 2015 - cell.com
Nearly all of the genetic material among cells within an organism is identical. However,
single-nucleotide variants (SNVs), small insertions/deletions (indels), copy-number variants …

Infectious origin of Alzheimer's disease: Amyloid beta as a component of brain antimicrobial immunity

I Vojtechova, T Machacek, Z Kristofikova… - PLoS …, 2022 - journals.plos.org
The amyloid cascade hypothesis, focusing on pathological proteins aggregation, has so far
failed to uncover the root cause of Alzheimer's disease (AD), or to provide an effective …