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  1. Evidence for Reduced Somatic T-Cell Receptor Sequence Diversity Profiles Among Midwestern Amish in an Aging Cohort Study 2026-10-18
  2. Gantenerumab reduces brain amyloid-β proteoforms: Biochemical evaluation in dominantly inherited Alzheimer disease 2026-09-29
  3. Genetic Insights Into Protective Effects of GLP-1 Receptor Agonists on Stroke and Alzheimer Disease Across Ancestries 2026-09-25

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1,346 studies carry this tag.

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1982 to 2026

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  • Neurology 92
  • The Journal of biological chemistry 67
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 47
  • Archives of neurology 43
  • JAMA neurology 36

372 journals in all.

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  1. Evidence for Reduced Somatic T-Cell Receptor Sequence Diversity Profiles Among Midwestern Amish in an Aging Cohort Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. Annals of human genetics 2026-10-18 Tau biomarkers

    The causes of late onset Alzheimer disease (LOAD) are not known but several recent lines of evidence implicate the adaptive immune system.

  2. Gantenerumab reduces brain amyloid-β proteoforms: Biochemical evaluation in dominantly inherited Alzheimer disease

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv 2026-09-29 Tau biomarkers

    Symptomatic DIAD participants who had been treated for ∼ 4 years with anti-Aβ monoclonal antibodies (gantenerumab, n=4 or solanezumab, n=4) were compared with untreated, symptomatic DIAD mutation carriers (n=40) and with age-relevant non-DIAD controls with modest or no plaque pathology (n=18).

  3. Genetic Insights Into Protective Effects of GLP-1 Receptor Agonists on Stroke and Alzheimer Disease Across Ancestries

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 35 out of 100. Neurology Genetics 2026-09-25 Drug development

    Stroke and dementia are leading causes of death and disability worldwide, requiring enhanced preventive strategies.

  4. Distinct lipid mediator profiles in brain and liver tissues in Alzheimer's disease

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv (preprint) 2026-09-23 Brain tissue and pathology

    INTRODUCTIONInflammation plays a central role in Alzheimers Disease (AD), with oxylipins, endocannabinoids, and polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) acting as potent modulators.

  5. Integrated genomic meta-analysis identifies cell-type-specific signatures and targets in early Alzheimer's disease

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv (preprint) 2026-09-23 Genetics

    Cellular mechanisms in early Alzheimers disease (AD) remain poorly understood despite generation of extensive observational multiomic data.

  6. Genetic Associations with Alzheimer's, Lewy Body and Vascular Neuropathology Reveal Shared and Distinct Biological Pathways

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv (preprint) 2026-09-22 Genetics

    INTRODUCTIONAlzheimers, Lewy body and vascular neuropathology underpin the most common forms of dementia.

  7. Genetically Predicted Blood DNA Methylation Reveals Putative Regulatory Signals Associated with ALS Risk

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv (preprint) 2026-09-20 Genetics

    Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a fatal neurodegenerative disorder whose genetic architecture and underlying molecular mechanisms remain incompletely understood, particularly in sporadic disease.

  8. Heritability and rare variant contributions to Alzheimer disease in the Midwestern Amish

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv (preprint) 2026-09-20 Genetics

    Structured AbstractO_ST_ABSBackgroundC_ST_ABSThe genetic architecture of Alzheimer disease remains incompletely understood.

  9. Population-scale burden analysis of rare damaging coding variants identifies novel risk genes for Alzheimer's disease and related dementias and Parkinson's disease and related disorders

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv (preprint) 2026-09-18 How common it is

    Alzheimers disease and related dementias (ADRD)1 and Parkinsons disease and related disorders (PDRD)2 have substantial genetic contributions, yet the role of rare damaging coding variants remains incompletely characterized at population scale3-6.

  10. Proteomic markers linking anxiety phenotypes to Alzheimers disease risk: a multi-analyte proteomic analysis

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv (preprint) 2026-09-17 Biomarkers

    ImportanceAnxiety phenotypes - rumination, global anxiety, and worry (RAW) - are increasingly associated with Alzheimers disease and related dementias (ADRD) risk, yet how anxiety phenotypes relate to coordinated, multi-system biology in the at-risk older adults is unknown.

  11. The interplay of PICALM with APOE ε4 on Alzheimer’s disease: clues from two longitudinal cohorts and proteomic studies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 34 out of 100. Translational Psychiatry 2026-09-15 Genetics

    APOE and PICALM are prominent risk genes for late-onset Alzheimer’s disease (AD).

  12. APOE-stratified genome-wide association analyses provide insights into the genetic etiology of Alzheimers's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Nature genetics 2026-09-14 Genetics

    Among the more than 90 identified genetic risk loci for late-onset Alzheimer's disease (AD) and related dementias, the apolipoprotein E (APOE) gene ɛ2/ɛ3/ɛ4 polymorphisms remain the longstanding benchmark for genetic disease risk with a consistently large effect across studies 1-10 .

  13. Clonal Haematopoiesis Tracks Alzheimer's-like Cortical Atrophy in Community-Dwelling Older Adults

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv (preprint) 2026-09-12 Brain scans and imaging

    BackgroundClonal haematopoiesis (CH), the age-related expansion of mutated blood stem cells, is detectable in around 10% of people in their seventies, rises steeply with age, and is associated with several diseases.

  14. BackgroundAnti-amyloid-{beta} (A{beta}) monoclonal antibodies are disease-modifying treatments for early Alzheimers disease but are associated with amyloid-related imaging abnormalities (ARIA) and intracranial hemorrhage (ICH).

  15. Endocannabinoid System Genes in Dementia: A Systematic Mendelian Randomization Study of Functional Variants and Tissue-Specific Expression Across Clinical, Molecular, and Neuroimaging Phenotypes

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv (preprint) 2026-09-10 Lewy body dementia

    ResultsThe CNR2 missense variant rs4649124 was associated with increased vascular dementia risk (BH-adjusted P = 0.049) after correction at the 5% false discovery rate (FDR) threshold, with additional associations at the 10% FDR threshold for all-cause dementia risk (BH-adjusted P = 0.051) and lower circulating APP (BH-adjusted P = 0.088) and BDNF (BH-adjusted P = 0.083) levels.

  16. Rare extreme polygenic risk scores strongly indicate Alzheimer's disease risk

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv (preprint) 2026-09-09 Genetics

    BackgroundAlzheimers disease (AD) pathology often accumulates years before memory loss, creating a need to identify high-risk individuals presymptomatically.

  17. Sex-aware Cross-tissue Regulatory Transformer Identified Sexually Dimorphic Alzheimer's Disease Risk Loci and Causal Cellular Circuit

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv (preprint) 2026-09-09 Genetics

    Sex differences in Alzheimers disease (AD) genetic effects and regulatory contexts remain incompletely resolved.

  18. Shared genetic architecture between brain iron deposition and Alzheimer's disease

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv (preprint) 2026-09-09 Genetics

    Brain iron accumulation is well established in Alzheimers disease (AD), but whether the two share a genetic basis remains unclear.

  19. Ancestry-specific effects of APOE on Alzheimer Disease Endophenotypes

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv (preprint) 2026-09-05 Biomarkers

    INTRODUCTIONAPOE*{varepsilon}4 is the strongest genetic risk factor for Alzheimers disease (AD), yet its effect varies across ancestral populations.

  20. Alismatis Rhizoma prevents AβO-induced neuronal cell death and synaptic loss in Alzheimer’s disease models

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 32 out of 100. Frontiers in Pharmacology 2026-09-04 Disease mechanisms

    In AβO-injected mice, AR, particularly at 200 mg/kg, attenuated memory deficits, reduced hippocampal neuronal degeneration, preserved synaptic protein immunoreactivity and increased markers of hippocampal cell proliferation and immature neurons.

  21. Presynaptic accumulation of APP-CTFβ may contribute to synaptic dysfunction in Alzheimer’s disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. The EMBO Journal 2026-09-01 Disease mechanisms

    The study of Alzheimer's disease (AD)-associated mutations has implicated dysregulation of amyloid precursor protein (APP) proteolysis in the disease.

  22. Association Between Alzheimer Pathology, Sleep, and Cognition in Patients With Late-Onset Unexplained Epilepsy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Neurology 2026-08-31 Biomarkers

    = 0.032). In individuals with LOUE, elevated plasma p-tau217 was associated with both cognitive impairment and disrupted sleep microarchitecture, with the most pronounced cognitive deficits observed in individuals with medication refractory epilepsy.

  23. Meta-analysis of glucose metabolism across Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and ALS reveals distinct patterns of cortical hypometabolism versus subcortical hypermetabolism with disease-specific spatial signatures

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv (preprint) 2026-08-31 Brain scans and imaging

    The purpose of this meta-analysis was to determine the common signature of dysregulated brain glucose metabolism in late-onset age-associated neurodegenerative diseases (A2NDs), including Alzheimer disease, Parkinson disease, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

  24. Absorption and Co-expression Modules Show Where Polygenic and Proteomic Risk Scores Diverge in Neurodegenerative Diseases

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv (preprint) 2026-08-27 Genetics

    Polygenic and proteomic risk scores are both proposed for pre-symptomatic stratification, yet the extent to which they provide overlapping or complementary information has not been measured across neurodegenerative disease.

  25. Fine-mapping HLA-II haplotypes in Alzheimer's disease and healthy longevity reveals distinct associations with microglial HLA-II load and neuropathology

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv (preprint) 2026-08-27 How common it is

    Human leukocyte antigen (HLA) class II variation is implicated in Alzheimers disease (AD) and longevity, but its mechanisms within the major histocompatibility complex remain unclear.

  26. Exome analysis of 22,319 individuals links extremely rare copy-number variants and 22q11.21 dosage to Alzheimer risk

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. American Journal of Human Genetics 2026-08-26 Genetics

    Copy-number variants (CNVs) are major contributors to human disease.

  27. Genetic architecture of Alzheimer's disease is enriched in peripheral immune and metabolic programs

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv (preprint) 2026-08-22 Genetics

    Alzheimers disease (AD) is defined by progressive neurodegeneration, yet a substantial fraction of its genetic risk maps to non-neuronal processes.

  28. Entorhinal cortex astrocytes in early Alzheimer disease: Human evidence, cross-species circuit rationale, and translational boundaries

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 28 out of 100. Journal of Neuropathology & Experimental Neurology 2026-08-18 Genetics

    Alzheimer disease (AD) pathology affects the transentorhinal/entorhinal region early but whether entorhinal cortex (EC) astrocytes are causal drivers or therapeutic targets remains unresolved.

  29. Fine-mapping reveals four TMEM106B haplotypes associated with neurodegenerative risk and preserved cognition at extreme age

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv (preprint) 2026-08-17 Genetics

    Genetic variation at the TMEM106B locus has been associated with Alzheimers disease (AD) and related neurodegenerative phenotypes, yet its haplotypic architecture remains incompletely resolved.

  30. Genomics link obesity and type 2 diabetes to Alzheimers disease to unveil novel biological insights

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv (preprint) 2026-08-17 Digital health tools

    Body mass index (BMI), type 2 diabetes (T2D) and related cardiometabolic features associate with Alzheimers disease (AD) risk, yet shared mechanisms remain poorly understood.

  31. Long-read sequencing reveals hidden structural complexity within Alzheimers disease-associated GWAS loci

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv (preprint) 2026-08-17 Genetics

    Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) typically represent Alzheimers disease (AD) risk loci by a single lead SNP, although the lead SNP may capture only part of the genetic variation at a locus.

  32. Network connectivity and amyloid-β align with tau in atypical Alzheimer disease subtypes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Alzheimer s Research & Therapy 2026-08-14 Brain scans and imaging

    Converging evidence suggests that accumulation may be driven by spreading through network connections and/or interactions with amyloid-β (Aβ).

  33. Effects of sexual differentiation and APOE genotype on the development of Alzheimer-related pathology in female EFAD mice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 33 out of 100. Biology of Sex Differences 2026-08-12 Genetics

    These findings suggest that sexual differentiation in early life has modest effects on adult development of AD in females, a relationship that appeared stronger in the context of APOE4 .

  34. Apoptosis protein markers in comorbid type 2 diabetes mellitus and depression; relationships with cognitive performance, incident dementia, and white matter hyperintensities

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Journal of Affective Disorders 2026-08-05 Vascular contributions

    Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and major depressive disorder (MDD) are reciprocal risk factors, and both elevate dementia risk.

  35. Genetic Modifiers of ABCA1 Activity Interact with APOE Isoforms to Mediate Alzheimer's Disease Risk

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Annals of Neurology 2026-08-03 Genetics

    Damaging nonsynonymous ABCA1 variants had differential AD risk effects between APOE genotype groups and exhibited interaction effects with APOE ε2 and ε4.

  36. CD33 and clusterin interact biophysically and genetically to modulate Alzheimer risk

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Nature Communications 2026-07-17 Risk genes beyond APOE

    We report the results of structural, functional and genetic studies on the CD33 sialic acid- binding receptor that reveal how non-coding variants in CD33 alter risk for Alzheimer’s disease (AD).

  37. Orexin, Sleep, and Cognition in Alzheimer Disease: Non-REM Oscillatory Activity and Neural Resilience

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Neurology 2026-07-14 Tau biomarkers

    Sleep spindles (SPs) and slow oscillations (SOs) are linked to cognition and neurodegeneration; however, their relationship with CSF orexin concentrations in symptomatic AD has not been characterized.

  38. CD33 and clusterin interact biophysically and genetically to modulate Alzheimer risk

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 37 out of 100. DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) 2026-07-01 Genetics

    We show that CD33M ectodomain dimerizes, enabling binding of large multi-sialylated molecules.

  39. Lymphoid-like Suppressive Microglia in Alzheimer’s Disease: A New Neuroimmune Regulatory Axis?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 32 out of 100. Cells 2026-06-24 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Microglia are central regulators of Alzheimer's disease pathogenesis, but their roles cannot be reduced to a simple protective-versus-harmful dichotomy.

  40. β-amyloid PET Signal Reduction in Regions with ARIA-E Following Anti-amyloid Therapy for Alzheimer Disease (P1-12.010)

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 32 out of 100. Neurology 2026-06-09 Biomarkers

    To determine the relationship between regional brain edema caused by anti-amyloid monoclonal antibody therapy (ARIA-E) and the degree of regional β-amyloid (Aβ) positron emission tomography (PET) signal reduction.

  41. CHMP2B p.Ala30Ser Variant in Biomarker-Confirmed Early-Onset Alzheimer Disease: A Potential Endolysosomal Disease Modifier

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 30 out of 100. Alzheimer disease and associated disorders 2026-06-04 Tau biomarkers

    Endolysosomal dysfunction has been increasingly implicated in the pathogenesis of neurodegenerative diseases.

  42. Differences in amyloid PET positivity based on ethnoracial group and social determinants of health: The new IDEAS study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Carolina Digital Repository (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) 2026-06-04 Risk factors

    Among 5757 participants (21.7% Black, 20.3% Latinx, 58.1% AORE), we found lower odds of amyloid positivity in Black (odds ratio [OR]: 0.72, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.62-0.83) and Latinx (OR: 0.78, 95% CI: 0.67-0.91) compared to AORE.

  43. Influence of Cardiometabolic and Alzheimer Disease Genetics on Cognitive-Related Outcomes in a Diverse Population

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Neurology 2026-06-03 Genetics

    Late-life dementia has a strong heritable component.

  44. Multi-Dimensional Transcriptomics Reveals the Prominent Role of Neuroinflammation in Alzheimer’s Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. International Journal of Molecular Sciences 2026-06-02 Inflammation and the immune system

    Alzheimer's Disease (AD), the most common form of dementia, is pathologically defined by extracellular beta-amyloid (Aβ) plaques and intraneuronal neurofibrillary tangles (NFTs), accompanied by chronic neuroinflammation.

  45. Transcriptome-informed metabolic modeling reveals astrocyte-specific vulnerabilities in mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer’s disease progression

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Frontiers in Bioinformatics 2026-06-02 Mild cognitive impairment

    The analyses supported stage-dependent remodeling of astrocyte-associated transcriptional and metabolic programs during disease progression.

  46. Single-cell atlas reveals pathological amplification of aging programs and proteostasis collapse in microglia of Alzheimer′s disease mice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 30 out of 100. DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) 2026-06-01 Risk genes beyond APOE

    The pathological activation of AD microglia significantly amplifies endogenous aging characteristics.

  47. Association of residential neighborhood disadvantage with amyloid PET positivity among cognitively impaired individuals

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 33 out of 100. Carolina Digital Repository (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) 2026-05-29 Risk factors

    Among 15,346 White, 829 Latino, 637 Black/African American, and 321 Asian individuals, 51% were female, mean age was 75.7 years, 535 (3.8%) resided in ADI 91 to 100 decile, and 61.6% were amyloid PET positive.

  48. Exploring the Pathogenesis of Alzheimer Disease in Basal Forebrain Cholinergic Neurons and Converging Insights from Alternative Hypothesis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 26 out of 100. International Journal of Drug Delivery Technology 2026-05-22 Genetics

    Alzheimer disease is characterized by gradual and progressive neurodegeneration caused by neuronal cell death.

  49. Advanced glycation end-products in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer’s disease: a review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 27 out of 100. Psychiatria i Psychologia Kliniczna 2026-05-21 Disease mechanisms

    Alzheimer’s disease is the leading cause of dementia and represents a growing global health challenge.

  50. A plasma protein signature for cerebral amyloid angiopathy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Acta Neuropathologica 2026-05-20 Treatments

    Cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA) is a cerebrovascular disorder characterized by the deposition of amyloid-β (Aβ) in the walls of leptomeningeal and cortical blood vessels that increases risk of intracerebral hemorrhages and progressive cognitive decline.

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