27,380 Alzheimer's and dementia studies in plain English, each scored out of 100.
Mass spectrometry-based proteomics empowers deep profiling of proteome and protein posttranslational modifications (PTMs) in Alzheimer's disease (AD). 5 key findings →
Design: meta-analysis Participants: 12,017 Evidence: high
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Identifying ancestry-specific molecular profiles of late-onset Alzheimer's Disease (LOAD) in brain tissue is crucial to understand novel mechanisms and develop effective interventions in non-European, high-risk populations. 3 key findings →
Design: meta-analysis Participants: 731 Evidence: high
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To date, DNA methylation is the best characterized epigenetic modification in Alzheimer's disease. 1 key finding →
Design: meta-analysis Evidence: high
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We initiated the systematic profiling of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex obtained from a subset of autopsied individuals enrolled in the Religious Orders Study (ROS) or the Rush Memory and Aging Project (MAP), which are jointly designed prospective studies of aging and dementia with detailed, longitudinal cognitive phenotyping during life and a quantitative, structured neuropathologic examination after death. 5 key findings →
Design: longitudinal study Participants: 2,090 Evidence: moderate
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Overall, our analysis revealed a robustly defined age-related co-methylation module that is present in multiple human tissues, including blood and brain. 5 key findings →
Design: meta-analysis Evidence: high
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Oligodendrocyte dysfunction has been implicated in the pathogenesis of neurodegenerative diseases, so understanding oligodendrocyte activation states would shed light on disease processes. 1 key finding →
Design: meta-analysis Evidence: high
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One hundred and fifty probe-sets form an accurate classifier of young versus older muscle tissue and this healthy ageing RNA classifier performed consistently in independent cohorts of human muscle, skin and brain tissue (n = 594, AUC = 0.83-0.96) and thus represents a biomarker for biological age. 5 key findings →
Design: case-control study Participants: 594 Evidence: moderate
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Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia, characterized by progressive cognitive impairment and neurodegeneration. 2 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Nine female-specific associations were identified and replicated, involving ADGRV1, OR3A3, IFI27L1, LYRM1, STAP2, TSTD2, PDYN, and TMEM50B. We observed the preponderance of protective female-specific associations in neurons. 5 key findings →
Design: longitudinal study Evidence: moderate
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Chronological age offers an imperfect estimate of the molecular changes that occur with aging. 4 key findings →
Participants: 4,000 Evidence: low
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DNA methylation is a vital component of the epigenetic machinery that orchestrates changes in multiple genes and helps regulate gene expression in all known vertebrates. 3 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Sporadic Alzheimer's disease (AD) exclusively affects elderly people. 4 key findings →
Design: longitudinal study Evidence: moderate
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Gaining insight into the downstream consequences of non-coding variants is an essential step towards the identification of therapeutic targets from genome-wide association study (GWAS) findings. 4 key findings →
Participants: 31,684 Evidence: low
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Alzheimer's disease (AD) affects half the US population over the age of 85 and is universally fatal following an average course of 10 years of progressive cognitive disability. 5 key findings →
Design: cohort study Evidence: moderate
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Subjective cognitive decline (SCD) is widely regarded as a potential preclinical stage of Alzheimer's disease (AD), yet its genetic basis remains poorly understood. 5 key findings →
Participants: 9,284 Evidence: moderate
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Microglia, the tissue-resident macrophages of the central nervous system (CNS), play critical roles in immune defense, development and homeostasis. 1 key finding →
Participants: 141 Evidence: low
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Translating human genetic findings (genome-wide association studies [GWAS]) to pathobiology and therapeutic discovery remains a major challenge for Alzheimer's disease (AD). 2 key findings →
Design: case-control study Evidence: moderate
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Cortical neuron loss is a pathological hallmark of late-onset Alzheimer's disease (AD). 4 key findings →
Design: case-control study Evidence: moderate
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Fusion of all five data modalities (n = 111) yielded two subtypes (n S1 = 53, n S2 = 58), which were nominally associated with diffuse amyloid plaques; however, this effect was not significant after correction for multiple testing. 5 key findings →
Participants: 111 Evidence: low
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There is currently little information available about how individual cell types contribute to Alzheimer's disease. 4 key findings →
Participants: 13,214 Evidence: low
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Previous genome-wide association studies (GWAS), conducted by our group and others, have identified loci that harbor risk variants for neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's disease (AD). 5 key findings →
Participants: 2,099 Evidence: moderate
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The relationship between genetic variation and gene expression in brain cell types and subtypes remains understudied. 2 key findings →
Participants: 424 Evidence: low
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Epigenetic control of enhancers alters neuronal functions and may be involved in Alzheimer's disease (AD). 2 key findings →
Participants: 101 Evidence: low
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We used a collection of 708 prospectively collected autopsied brains to assess the methylation state of the brain's DNA in relation to Alzheimer's disease (AD). 2 key findings →
Participants: 117 Evidence: low
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The role of DNA cytosine methylation, an epigenetic regulator of chromatin structure and function, during normal and pathological brain development and aging remains unclear. 1 key finding →
Participants: 125 Evidence: moderate
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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.
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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.
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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