The role of genetics in advancing precision medicine for Alzheimer's disease—a narrative review

Y Freudenberg-Hua, W Li, P Davies - Frontiers in medicine, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common type of dementia, which has a substantial
genetic component. AD affects predominantly older people. Accordingly, the prevalence of …

Antibody therapy targeting RAN proteins rescues C9 ALS/FTD phenotypes in C9orf72 mouse model

L Nguyen, F Montrasio, A Pattamatta, SK Tusi, O Bardhi… - Neuron, 2020 - cell.com
The intronic C9orf72 G4C2 expansion, the most common genetic cause of ALS and FTD,
produces sense-and antisense-expansion RNAs and six dipeptide repeat-associated, non …

Genetic analyses of early-onset Alzheimer's disease using next generation sequencing

VV Giau, E Bagyinszky, YS Yang, YC Youn, SSA An… - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common type of neurodegenerative dementia, but the
cause of AD remained poorly understood. Many mutations in the amyloid precursor protein …

Unraveling the Genetic Landscape of Neurological Disorders: Insights into Pathogenesis, Techniques for Variant Identification, and Therapeutic Approaches

Z Firdaus, X Li - International journal of molecular sciences, 2024 - mdpi.com
Genetic abnormalities play a crucial role in the development of neurodegenerative disorders
(NDDs). Genetic exploration has indeed contributed to unraveling the molecular …

Genetic and multi-omic resources for Alzheimer disease and related dementia from the Knight Alzheimer Disease Research Center

MV Fernandez, M Liu, A Beric, M Johnson, A Cetin… - Scientific data, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract The Knight-Alzheimer Disease Research Center (Knight-ADRC) at Washington
University in St. Louis has pioneered and led worldwide seminal studies that have …

Genome sequence analyses identify novel risk loci for multiple system atrophy

R Chia, A Ray, Z Shah, J Ding, P Ruffo, M Fujita… - Neuron, 2024 - cell.com
Multiple system atrophy (MSA) is an adult-onset, sporadic synucleinopathy characterized by
parkinsonism, cerebellar ataxia, and dysautonomia. The genetic architecture of MSA is …

TREM2 brain transcript-specific studies in AD and TREM2 mutation carriers

JL Del-Aguila, BA Benitez, Z Li, U Dube… - Molecular …, 2019 - Springer
Background Low frequency coding variants in TREM2 are associated with Alzheimer
disease (AD) risk and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) TREM2 protein levels are different between …

Epigenetic patterns, accelerated biological aging, and enhanced epigenetic drift detected 6 months following COVID-19 infection: insights from a genome-wide DNA …

C Luciano, DD Fernando, Z Lucia, I Elvira… - Clinical …, 2024 - Springer
Background The epigenetic status of patients 6-month post-COVID-19 infection remains
largely unexplored. The existence of long-COVID, or post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 …

Analysis of 50 neurodegenerative genes in clinically diagnosed early-onset Alzheimer's disease

VV Giau, V Senanarong, E Bagyinszky, SSA An… - International journal of …, 2019 - mdpi.com
Alzheimer's disease (AD), Parkinson's disease (PD), frontotemporal dementia (FTD),
amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), Huntington's disease (HD), and prion diseases have a …

Circular RNA detection identifies circPSEN1 alterations in brain specific to autosomal dominant Alzheimer's disease

HH Chen, A Eteleeb, C Wang, MV Fernandez… - Acta neuropathologica …, 2022 - Springer
Abstract Background Autosomal-dominant Alzheimer's disease (ADAD) is caused by
pathogenic mutations in APP, PSEN1, and PSEN2, which usually lead to an early age at …