Step by step: towards a better understanding of the genetic architecture of Alzheimer's disease

JC Lambert, A Ramirez, B Grenier-Boley… - Molecular …, 2023 - nature.com
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is considered to have a large genetic component. Our knowledge
of this component has progressed over the last 10 years, thanks notably to the advent of …

Frontotemporal dementia, where do we stand? A narrative review

A Antonioni, EM Raho, P Lopriore, AP Pace… - International journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is a neurodegenerative disease of growing interest, since it
accounts for up to 10% of middle-age-onset dementias and entails a social, economic, and …

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 …

Single-nucleus chromatin accessibility and transcriptomic characterization of Alzheimer's disease

S Morabito, E Miyoshi, N Michael, S Shahin… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The gene-regulatory landscape of the brain is highly dynamic in health and disease,
coordinating a menagerie of biological processes across distinct cell types. Here, we …

Shared mechanisms across the major psychiatric and neurodegenerative diseases

TS Wingo, Y Liu, ES Gerasimov, SM Vattathil… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Several common psychiatric and neurodegenerative diseases share epidemiologic risk;
however, whether they share pathophysiology is unclear and is the focus of our …

Genomic atlas of the proteome from brain, CSF and plasma prioritizes proteins implicated in neurological disorders

C Yang, FHG Farias, L Ibanez, A Suhy, B Sadler… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Understanding the tissue-specific genetic controls of protein levels is essential to uncover
mechanisms of post-transcriptional gene regulation. In this study, we generated a genomic …

COVID-19 and risk of neurodegenerative disorders: A Mendelian randomization study

C Li, J Liu, J Lin, H Shang - Translational psychiatry, 2022 - nature.com
Emerging evidence has suggested a close correlation between COVID-19 and
neurodegenerative disorders. However, whether there exists a causal association and the …

A practical guide to linking brain-wide gene expression and neuroimaging data

A Arnatkevic̆iūtė, BD Fulcher, A Fornito - Neuroimage, 2019 - Elsevier
The recent availability of comprehensive, brain-wide gene expression atlases such as the
Allen Human Brain Atlas (AHBA) has opened new opportunities for understanding how …

Brain expression quantitative trait locus and network analyses reveal downstream effects and putative drivers for brain-related diseases

N de Klein, EA Tsai, M Vochteloo, D Baird, Y Huang… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Identification of therapeutic targets from genome-wide association studies (GWAS) requires
insights into downstream functional consequences. We harmonized 8,613 RNA-sequencing …

The genetic architecture of the human cerebral cortex

KL Grasby, N Jahanshad, JN Painter, L Colodro-Conde… - Science, 2020 - science.org
INTRODUCTION The cerebral cortex underlies our complex cognitive capabilities.
Variations in human cortical surface area and thickness are associated with neurological …