Late onset Alzheimer's disease genetics implicates microglial pathways in disease risk

AG Efthymiou, AM Goate - Molecular neurodegeneration, 2017 - Springer
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a highly heritable complex disease with no current effective
prevention or treatment. The majority of drugs developed for AD focus on the amyloid …

[HTML][HTML] Genetics of Alzheimer's disease: where we are, and where we are going

C Bellenguez, B Grenier-Boley, JC Lambert - Current opinion in …, 2020 - Elsevier
Highlights•More than 40 loci of interest have been associated with the risk of develo**
AD.•Recent genetic data clearly implicate microglia as involved in the pathophysiological …

New insights into the genetic etiology of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias

C Bellenguez, F Küçükali, IE Jansen, L Kleineidam… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract Characterization of the genetic landscape of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and related
dementias (ADD) provides a unique opportunity for a better understanding of the associated …

A genome-wide association study with 1,126,563 individuals identifies new risk loci for Alzheimer's disease

DP Wightman, IE Jansen, JE Savage, AA Shadrin… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Late-onset Alzheimer's disease is a prevalent age-related polygenic disease that accounts
for 50–70% of dementia cases. Currently, only a fraction of the genetic variants underlying …

Genome-wide meta-analysis identifies 127 open-angle glaucoma loci with consistent effect across ancestries

P Gharahkhani, E Jorgenson, P Hysi… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG), is a heritable common cause of blindness world-
wide. To identify risk loci, we conduct a large multi-ethnic meta-analysis of genome-wide …

Study of 300,486 individuals identifies 148 independent genetic loci influencing general cognitive function

G Davies, M Lam, SE Harris, JW Trampush… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
General cognitive function is a prominent and relatively stable human trait that is associated
with many important life outcomes. We combine cognitive and genetic data from the …

GWAS on family history of Alzheimer's disease

RE Marioni, SE Harris, Q Zhang, AF McRae… - Translational …, 2018 - nature.com
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a public health priority for the 21st century. Risk reduction
currently revolves around lifestyle changes with much research trying to elucidate the …

Common variants in Alzheimer's disease and risk stratification by polygenic risk scores

I De Rojas, S Moreno-Grau, N Tesi… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Genetic discoveries of Alzheimer's disease are the drivers of our understanding, and
together with polygenetic risk stratification can contribute towards planning of feasible and …

Genome-wide association analysis of 19,629 individuals identifies variants influencing regional brain volumes and refines their genetic co-architecture with cognitive …

B Zhao, T Luo, T Li, Y Li, J Zhang, Y Shan, X Wang… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Volumetric variations of the human brain are heritable and are associated with many brain-
related complex traits. Here we performed genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of 101 …

Serum proteomics reveal APOE-ε4-dependent and APOE-ε4-independent protein signatures in Alzheimer's disease

EA Frick, V Emilsson, T Jonmundsson… - Nature Aging, 2024 - nature.com
A deeper understanding of the molecular processes underlying late-onset Alzheimer's
disease (LOAD) could aid in biomarker and drug target discovery. Using high-throughput …