Towards clinical utility of polygenic risk scores

SA Lambert, G Abraham, M Inouye - Human molecular genetics, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Prediction of disease risk is an essential part of preventative medicine, often guiding clinical
management. Risk prediction typically includes risk factors such as age, sex, family history of …

Religious orders study and rush memory and aging project

DA Bennett, AS Buchman, PA Boyle… - Journal of …, 2018 - content.iospress.com
Background: The Religious Orders Study and Rush Memory and Aging Project are both
ongoing longitudinal clinical-pathologic cohort studies of aging and Alzheimer's disease …

Integrative metabolomics‐genomics approach reveals key metabolic pathways and regulators of Alzheimer's disease

E Horgusluoglu, R Neff, WM Song… - Alzheimer's & …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Metabolites, the biochemical products of the cellular process, can be used to measure
alterations in biochemical pathways related to the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease …

What are polygenic scores and why are they important?

LP Sugrue, RS Desikan - Jama, 2019 - jamanetwork.com
Mendelian disorders and monogenic traits result from combinations of variants in 1 or a few
genes that have a large effect on the propensity for develo** a certain disease or …

Frailty, lifestyle, genetics and dementia risk

DD Ward, JM Ranson, LMK Wallace… - Journal of Neurology …, 2022 - jnnp.bmj.com
Objective To optimise dementia prevention strategies, we must understand the complex
relationships between lifestyle behaviours, frailty and genetics. Methods We explored …

Dementia in Latin America: paving the way toward a regional action plan

MA Parra, S Baez, L Sedeño… - Alzheimer's & …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Across Latin American and Caribbean countries (LACs), the fight against dementia
faces pressing challenges, such as heterogeneity, diversity, political instability, and …

The multi-partner consortium to expand dementia research in Latin America (ReDLat): driving multicentric research and implementation science

A Ibanez, JS Yokoyama, KL Possin, D Matallana… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Dementia is becoming increasingly prevalent in Latin America, contrasting with stable or
declining rates in North America and Europe. This scenario places unprecedented clinical …

Clinical research on Alzheimer's disease: progress and perspectives

BL Sun, WW Li, C Zhu, WS **, F Zeng, YH Liu… - Neuroscience …, 2018 - Springer
Abstract Alzheimer's disease (AD), the most common type of dementia, is becoming a major
challenge for global health and social care. However, the current understanding of AD …

Transferability of Alzheimer disease polygenic risk score across populations and its association with Alzheimer disease-related phenotypes

SH Jung, HR Kim, MY Chun, H Jang, M Cho… - JAMA network …, 2022 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Polygenic risk scores (PRSs), which aggregate the genetic effects of single-
nucleotide variants identified in genome-wide association studies (GWASs), can help …

Neurobiological highlights of cognitive impairment in psychiatric disorders

A Morozova, Y Zorkina, O Abramova… - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
This review is focused on several psychiatric disorders in which cognitive impairment is a
major component of the disease, influencing life quality. There are plenty of data proving that …