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Research

27,380 Alzheimer's and dementia studies in plain English, each scored out of 100.

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Showing 2,801–2,825 of 3,529 studies · tagged Genetics (page 113 of 142) · 27,380 in the whole library · How the 0–100 score works

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Institutions

From OpenAlex; 12,859 studies have no institution on record and are not counted here.

A note on reading research. One study is rarely the final word.

We try to note the size of a study, whether it was in humans or animals, and how early-stage the finding is. If a summary here doesn't make that clear, treat it with extra caution and check the original source.

Expression of the amyloid precursor protein gene in mouse oocytes and embryos

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 1991-03-01

The amyloid precursor protein (APP) is thought to be processed aberrantly to yield the major constituent of the amyloid plaques observed in the brains of patients with Alzheimer disease and Down syndrome. 1 key finding →

Evidence: low

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Alzheimer-type pathology in a patient with mitochondrial myopathy, encephalopathy, lactic acidosis and stroke-like episodes (MELAS)

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica 1996-09-01

A 53-year-old Japanese woman with a point mutation in mitochondrial DNA (tRNALeu(UUR), nt3243) consistent with mitochondrial myopathy, encephalopathy, lactic acidosis and stroke-like episodes (MELAS) and Alzheimer-type brain pathology is reported. 1 key finding →

Evidence: low

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Large-scale organoid study suggests effects of trisomy 21 on early fetal neurodevelopment are more subtle than variability between isogenic lines and experiments

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Frontiers in neuroscience 2023-02-03

This study examines cortical organoids generated from a panel of isogenic trisomic and disomic iPSC lines (subclones) as a model of early fetal brain development in Down syndrome (DS). 3 key findings →

Evidence: low

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Presenilin 1 and alpha-1-antichymotrypsin polymorphisms in Down syndrome: no effect on the presence of dementia

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. American journal of medical genetics 1999-12-01

As people with Down syndrome (DS) age, they are at greater risk for Alzheimer disease (AD) than the general population. 3 key findings →

Participants: 231 Evidence: low

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The TREM2-DAP12 signaling pathway in Nasu-Hakola disease: a molecular genetics perspective

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Research and reports in biochemistry 2015-03-17

Nasu-Hakola disease or polycystic lipomembranous osteodysplasia with sclerosing leukoencephalopathy (PLOSL) is a rare recessively inherited disease that is associated with early dementia and bone cysts with fractures. 4 key findings →

Evidence: low

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Up-Regulation of Trem2 Inhibits Hippocampal Neuronal Apoptosis and Alleviates Oxidative Stress in Epilepsy via the PI3K/Akt Pathway in Mice

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Neuroscience bulletin 2019-01-25

Epilepsy is a chronic and severe neurological disorder that has negative effects on the autonomous activities of patients. 4 key findings →

Evidence: low

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DNA methylation changes at TREM2 intron 1 and TREM2 mRNA expression in patients with Alzheimer's disease

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Journal of psychiatric research 2017-04-11

Recent genome-wide association studies revealed that Triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells 2 (TREM2) was associated with Alzheimer's disease (AD) and other neurodegenerative diseases. 4 key findings →

Evidence: low

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TREM2 Ameliorates Neuronal Tau Pathology Through Suppression of Microglial Inflammatory Response

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Inflammation 2018-06-01

As a recently identified susceptibility gene for Alzheimer's disease (AD), triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells 2 (TREM2) encodes an immune receptor that is uniquely expressed on microglia, functioning as a modulator of microglial functions including phagocytosis and inflammatory response. 4 key findings →

Evidence: low

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HHV-6A infection induces amyloid-beta expression and activation of microglial cells

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2019-12-12

The control of viral infections in the brain involves the activation of microglial cells, the macrophages of the brain that are constantly surveying the central nervous system, and the production of amyloid-beta (Aβ) as an anti-microbial molecule. 4 key findings →

Evidence: low

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High TREM2 expression correlates with poor prognosis in gastric cancer

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Human pathology 2017-11-02

Triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells 2 (TREM2) is a member of the immunoglobulin superfamily and associates with TYRO protein tyrosine kinase-binding protein at the cell membrane to form a receptor signaling complex. 4 key findings →

Evidence: low

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Nasu-Hakola disease with a splicing mutation of TREM2 in a Japanese family

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. European journal of neurology 2010-12-22

Nasu-Hakola disease (NHD) is a rare autosomal recessive disorder, characterized by a combination of progressive presenile dementia and formation of multifocal bone cysts, caused by genetic mutations of DAP12 and TREM2, which constitute a receptor/adapter signaling complex expressed on osteoclasts, dendritic cells, macrophages, and microglia. 4 key findings →

Evidence: low

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Both Targeted Mass Spectrometry and Flow Sorting Analysis Methods Detected the Decreased Serum Apolipoprotein E Level in Alzheimer's Disease Patients

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Molecular & Cellular Proteomics 2013-12-08

Apolipoprotein E (ApoE) polymorphism has been appreciated as a valuable predictor of Alzheimer disease (AD), and the associated ε4 allele has been recognized as an indicator of susceptibility to this disease. 4 key findings →

Evidence: moderate

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O4–04–05: Geographical variation in dementia prevalence in Swedish twins: Using Bayesian inference to separate genetic and environmental effects

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2013-07-01

There is evidence of geographical variation in dementia[1], not all of which can be ascribed to genetic factors[2]. 1 key finding →

Participants: 568 Evidence: low

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Does Neighborhood Disadvantage Moderate the Relationship between Apolipoprotein E Status and Cognitive Functioning?

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-12-01

Environmental factors like neighborhood disadvantage are also associated with cognitive decline, however, few studies have integrated this with APOE research. 5 key findings →

Participants: 190 Evidence: low

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From across this tag

10 of the 3,521 studies in this tag, picked by a fixed rule (a hash of each study's address), not by score or date; each page of this list shows a different 10. The same 10 appear here every time.

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Where “Free full text” comes from

Free full text links and the Full text may need a subscription label come from Unpaywall, Europe PMC and OpenAlex records of free copies, checked 10 Oct 2026. A study with neither is unknown, not paywalled. Show only studies that are free to read

How the 0–100 score works — and why some entries are capped

This is alzhub's own score. It is not an official metric, not an impact factor, and no journal, publisher or ranking body endorses it. We built it so that a reader who is not a scientist can tell a landmark trial from a conference abstract without having to already know the difference. Every point comes from one of 20 components, all of them printed on the study itself, so you can disagree with our arithmetic rather than having to trust the total.

  • Journal tier up to 10 pts
  • Journal's citation record up to 4 pts
  • Study design up to 12 pts
  • Strength of evidence up to 5 pts
  • Peer-review validation up to 10 pts
  • How recent up to 5 pts
  • Sample size up to 4 pts
  • Effect reported up to 3 pts
  • Studied in people up to 3 pts
  • Randomised / blinded up to 2 pts
  • Times cited up to 7 pts
  • Citations per year up to 5 pts
  • Impact for its field and year up to 6 pts
  • Cited by studies here up to 6 pts
  • Still being cited up to 4 pts
  • Senior author's track record up to 4 pts
  • Institution's track record up to 3 pts
  • Multi-centre collaboration up to 3 pts
  • Indexed in PubMed up to 2 pts
  • Free to read up to 2 pts

Journals are placed in ordered tiers, never given a numeric impact factor — we could not verify current impact factors from a source we control, and an invented one would be worse than none. Tier 1 is the top-tier general journals (NEJM, The Lancet, JAMA, Nature, Science, Nature Medicine); tier 2 is the leading specialty journals; tier 3 is every other peer-reviewed journal. A separate part scores how much the journal's own papers are cited, which tells the tier-3 journals apart.

Two rules we don't bend. First, we never fill in a missing value: if a record does not state a sample size or a design, that component scores zero, and if we simply have no data for a part, such as a citation count, that part is left out and the study is scored on the parts we could check. The study card says which. Second, anything that is not a peer-reviewed article is capped at 16/100 and carries a warning chip — so a conference abstract or a company press release can never outrank a peer-reviewed paper, no matter how good it looks.

We rank a rigorous null result — a good trial showing that something does not work — above an early positive finding. Someone deciding whether to buy a supplement is served by that, and the rigour is already counted by the design and journal components.

The score is computed from the published data alone and is reproducible: the same file always yields the same numbers.

See the whole rubric drawn out → — four charts covering all 27,380 studies: how the scores are spread and where the cap bites, which of the 20 components the library is strong and weak on, which subjects rest on stronger evidence, and what kinds of study each subject is actually built from.

What this library is — and isn't

This is a large sample of the Alzheimer's literature, not an exhaustive index of it. It holds 27,380 records, built mostly from automated pulls of Europe PMC (60.6% of the library) and OpenAlex (18.6%), plus smaller pulls from PubMed, Crossref and medRxiv. If a study, a drug, or a finding isn't here, that is not evidence it doesn't exist in the literature — it may simply not have been pulled in yet.

1,032 records (3.8% of the library) are not peer-reviewed — 962 of those are preprints posted before any journal review, and the rest are conference abstracts, regulatory notices and reports. Every study card on this page states its status plainly, and the score above is capped for anything that isn't a peer-reviewed article.

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