27,380 Alzheimer's and dementia studies in plain English, each scored out of 100.
Apolipoprotein E (APOE) is the major cholesterol carrier in the brain, affecting various normal cellular processes including neuronal growth, repair and remodeling of membranes, synaptogenesis, clearance and degradation of amyloid β (Aβ) and neuroinflammation. 2 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most prevalent form of neurodegenerative disease, currently affecting over 5 million Americans with projections expected to rise as the population ages. 1 key finding →
Evidence: low
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Ample evidence suggests that ApoE4 induces microglial dysregulation and impedes Aβ clearance in AD, but the direct neuronal effects of ApoE variants are poorly studied. 4 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Genetic and epidemiological studies have found that variations in the amyloid precursor protein (APP) and the apoliopoprotein E (APOE) genes represent major modifiers of the progressive neurodegeneration in Alzheimer's disease (AD). 2 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Various brain injuries lead to the activation of adult neural stem/progenitor cells in the mammalian hippocampus. 2 key findings →
Evidence: low
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In a cell free assay, ADAM10 activity was found to be significantly lower in apoE4 samples compared to apoE2. 7WCHO cells over expressing wild type AβPP exposed to apoE4 demonstrated reduced formation of sAβPPα compared to other apoE isoforms. 3 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Apolipoprotein E (ApoE) is an important lipid carrier in both the periphery and the brain. 4 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Alzheimer's disease (AD) is one of the most devastating neurodegenerative diseases. 4 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Episodic memory impairment is the hallmark symptom of Alzheimer's Disease (AD). 1 key finding →
Evidence: low
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Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that causes chronic cognitive dysfunction. 1 key finding →
Evidence: low
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Accumulation and aggregation of amyloid-β (Aβ) in the brain is an initiating step in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease (AD). 2 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common type of dementia and, after age, the greatest risk factor for developing AD is the allelic variation of apolipoprotein E (ApoE), with homozygote carriers of the ApoE4 allele having an up to 12-fold greater risk of developing AD than noncarriers. 1 key finding →
Evidence: low
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In this paper we explore the phenomenon of pleiotropy in neurodegenerative diseases, focusing on Alzheimer's disease (AD). 1 key finding →
Evidence: low
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It is well established that sporadic Alzheimer's disease (AD) is polygenic with common and rare genetic variation alongside environmental factors contributing to disease. 1 key finding →
Evidence: low
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In the clinical diagnosis of dementia with Lewy bodies, distinction from Alzheimer's disease is suboptimal and complicated by shared genetic risk factors and frequent co-pathology. 4 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Neurodegenerative diseases, neuropsychiatric disorders, and related traits have highly complex etiologies but are also highly heritable and identifying the causal genes and biological pathways underlying these traits may advance the development of treatments and preventive strategies. 1 key finding →
Evidence: low
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Alzheimer's disease (AD) polygenic risk score (PGS) is associated with lower cognitive functioning even among older individuals without dementia. 3 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia. 5 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common heart rhythm disorder worldwide and may have serious cardiovascular health consequences. 1 key finding →
Evidence: low
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In this paper, we used the MGAS (Multivariate Gene-based Association test by extended Simes procedure) tool to perform multivariate GWAS on eight AD-relevant subcortical imaging measures. 5 key findings →
Evidence: low
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The accumulation of aggregated amyloid β (Aβ) peptides in the brain is deeply involved in Alzheimer disease (AD) pathogenesis. 2 key findings →
Evidence: low
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In this regard, this study presents GenEpi, a computational package to uncover epistasis associated with phenotypes by the proposed machine learning approach. 5 key findings →
Evidence: low
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It becomes increasingly important in using genome-wide association studies (GWAS) to select important genetic information associated with qualitative or quantitative traits. 2 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Human longevity is a complex phenotype resulting from the combinations of context-dependent gene-environment interactions that require analysis as a dynamic process in a cohesive ecological and evolutionary framework. 5 key findings →
Evidence: low
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We aimed to summarize the recent advances in genetic findings of Alzheimer's disease (AD), focusing on traditional single-marker and gene approaches and non-traditional ones, i.e., polygenic and epistatic components. 5 key findings →
Evidence: low
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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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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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