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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

Studies

1,350 studies carry this tag.

Date range

1982 to 2026

Top journals

  • 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. Investigation of the roles of microglia and astrocytes in cerebral amyloid angiopathy across diverse murine strains

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 35 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-12-01 Brain tissue and pathology

    We have shown that B6 and WSB genetic backgrounds are less susceptible to CAA compared to BXW, which develops robust CAA.

  2. Mosaic Loss of Chromosome Y and Plasma Aβ42/p‐tau181 Ratio as Biomarkers for Alzheimer's Disease in the Midwestern Amish

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

    We observed two promising biomarkers of AD, mLOY and APR, both contribute discriminating AD and CI but differently.

  3. Novel early‐onset Alzheimer‐associated genes influence risk through dysregulation of glutamate, immune activation, and intracell signaling pathways

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-12-01 Genetics

    Alzheimer Disease (AD) is a highly polygenic dementia that presents with relatively earlier onset (≤65yo; EOAD) in about 5% of cases.

  4. Novel sex‐specific candidate loci associated with Alzheimer disease identified through sex‐aware multi‐ancestry genome‐wide meta‐analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-12-01 Genetics

    Cross-ancestry sex-stratified analyses identified several loci with evidence of interaction (p 0.05).

  5. Significant association between SCN8A and Alzheimer disease in Puerto Ricans

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-12-01 Genetics

    ) within the first intron of SCN8A on chromosome 12 (Figure 1), overlapping a significant region in the previous admixture mapping analysis. eHiCA revealed more and stronger interactions between rs4761988 and SLC4A8, SCN8A and FIGNL2 in EU compared to AF genome (Figure 2), consistent with the admixture mapping result.

  6. Transcriptomic analysis from 3D cultures of Presilinin‐1 G206A carriers reveals genetic expression differences associated with age‐of‐onset variability

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

    We sequenced a total of 38,577 nuclei and detected an average of 2,700 genes per cell.

  7. Impact of learning APOE genotype on cognitively unimpaired adults: a pre-screening cohort study of the Alzheimer's Prevention Initiative Generation Study 1

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. The Lancet Healthy Longevity 2025-11-27 Genetics

    The apolipoprotein E (APOE) gene is the best established genetic risk factor for Alzheimer's disease in later life, with the ε4 allele conferring higher risk.

  8. Unlocking the Sugar Code: Implications and Consequences of Glycosylation in Alzheimer’s Disease and Other Tauopathies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Biomedicines 2025-11-26 Disease mechanisms

    Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the most prevalent cause of dementia, characterized by progressive cognitive decline, amyloid-β (Aβ) plaques, and neurofibrillary tangles composed of hyperphosphorylated tau protein.

  9. Association Between Choroid Plexus Morphological Alterations, Alzheimer Pathologies, and Cognitive Impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Neurology 2025-11-24 Brain scans and imaging

    = 0.022). Our approach captured the complex morphological alterations of the ChP in AD.

  10. β-Amyloid PET Signal Reduction in Prior ARIA-E Regions after Antiamyloid Therapy for Alzheimer Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. American Journal of Neuroradiology 2025-11-19 Biomarkers

    In 4 of 5 patients treated with lecanemab or donanemab and who had moderate or severe ARIA-E, Aβ PET signal decreased significantly more in regions that had been involved with ARIA-E. Greater regional Aβ PET signal reduction in areas involved by ARIA-E may reflect enhanced local Aβ clearance, reduced tracer binding site availability, impaired glymphatic flow from immune complex deposition, or other mechanisms.

  11. Engineered butyrate-producing yeasts mitigate Alzheimer-associated phenotypes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy 2025-11-16 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the most prevalent neurodegenerative disease without effective treatments. 1 Extracellular amyloid plaques, neurofibrillary tangles, neuroinflammation, and neuronal loss are the characteristics of AD neuropathology.

  12. Polymer-Engineered Aβ-Degrading Proteases via Photo-ATRP for Alzheimer's Disease Therapeutics

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 27 out of 100. Eurasian journal of applied biotechnology 2025-11-14 Drug development

    BSA-polymer conjugates displayed enhanced resistance to proteolytic degradation.

  13. Microglia modulate Aβ-dependent astrocyte reactivity in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. Nature Neuroscience 2025-11-06 Laboratory science

    Experimental evidence suggests that activated microglia induce astrocyte reactivity in neurodegenerative disorders, such as Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  14. Iatrogenic cerebral proteinopathies—The dawn of transmissible neurodegeneration? The example of cerebral amyloid angiopathy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Frontiers in Neurology 2025-11-05 Brain tissue and pathology

    Several reports confirmed possible inadvertent iatrogenic intracranial transmission of Aβ pathology via medical and surgical procedures (1,2).A common molecular mechanism, described in prion diseases, is proposed to trigger the replication and spread of different misfolded proteins in the central nervous system (CNS), causing different neurodegenerative diseases associated with disease-specific proteins such as α-synuclein in Parkinson's disease, and amyloid-beta (Aβ) in Alzheimer's disease, and cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA) (3).

  15. Association of Platelet Aggregation With Markers of Alzheimer Disease Pathology in Middle-Aged Participants of the Framingham Heart Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Neurology 2025-11-04 Brain scans and imaging

    < 0.035), consistent with a neurodegenerative pattern.

  16. Brain delivery of a neurotrophic peptide derived from secreted amyloid precursor protein APPsα as a therapeutic strategy for Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. Journal of Controlled Release 2025-11-02 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Whereas neurotoxic Aβ is derived from amyloid precursor protein (APP) by β- and γ-secretase cleavage, APP processing along the non-amyloidogenic pathway results in the secretion of the large neurotrophic ectodomain APPsα.

  17. HIF‐1 Targeting Intervention Renders Protection From Alzheimer's‐Like Pathology in a Humanized Mice Model of HIV Infection

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 37 out of 100. Journal of Extracellular Vesicles 2025-11-01 Risk genes beyond APOE

    HIV-associated neurocognitive disorders (HAND) affect 30%-50% of individuals living with HIV on combination antiretroviral therapy, with Alzheimer 's-like pathology as a potent comorbidity of HAND.

  18. T cell drives microglia specific metabolic plasticity and neurodegeneration in Alzheimer disease 4098

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 31 out of 100. The Journal of Immunology 2025-11-01 Genetics

    Of note, using large-scale transcriptome and chromatin profiling, we show that T cell shape microglia-specific metabolic plasticity in both genetic and epigenetic resolution.

  19. Astrocytes and Microglia in Alzheimer's Disease: Friends, Foes, or Both?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Developmental Neurobiology 2025-10-31 Inflammation and the immune system

    Alzheimer's disease (AD), the most prevalent form of dementia, is neuropathologically defined by the accumulation of extracellular amyloid-beta (Aβ) plaques and intracellular neurofibrillary tangles of hyperphosphorylated tau.

  20. Identifying potential drug targets for cerebral amyloid angiopathy: A Mendelian randomization study based on the druggable genes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 33 out of 100. Medicine 2025-10-31 Brain tissue and pathology

    Cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA), which is prevalent among older adults, constitutes a major cause of brain hemorrhage, dementia, and cognitive decline.

  21. rs140926439 Variant in the Fibronectin FN1 Gene Lowers Risk of Alzheimer Disease in APOEε4 Carriers in the UK Biobank Cohort

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 31 out of 100. Alzheimer Disease & Associated Disorders 2025-10-30 Genetics

    When rs140926439 was absent, 0.10% of APOEε2/3 carriers had AD, while 0.43% of APOEε4 carriers or homozygotes had AD.

  22. Revealing the nervous system requirements of Alzheimer disease risk genes in Drosophila

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 34 out of 100. The American Journal of Human Genetics 2025-10-29 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Most Alzheimer disease (AD) susceptibility genes have poorly understood roles in the central nervous system (CNS).

  23. Development of Biotin and Horseradish Peroxidase Labelling against Monoclonal Antibody Amyloid-β42 and Its Application on Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 25 out of 100. Jurnal Penelitian Pendidikan IPA 2025-10-25 Treatments

    Alzheimer disease is one of the causes of dementia that could make the patient lose their memories until they unable to do normal activities.

  24. The role of neutrophils, red blood cells, and platelets in the pathology of Alzheimer’s disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 35 out of 100. Annals of Medicine 2025-10-24 Disease mechanisms

    Emerging evidence transcends the traditional central nervous system (CNS)-centric perspective, revealing that neutrophils, red blood cells (RBCs), and platelets may play critical roles in AD pathogenesis by modulating systemic inflammatory responses, disrupting blood-brain barrier integrity, and participating in the CNS-peripheral interactions.

  25. Lysosomal proteomics reveals mechanisms of neuronal APOE4-associated lysosomal dysfunction

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Autophagy 2025-10-17 Genetics

    : Aβ-β-amyloid; AD-Alzheimer disease; APMS-affinity purification mass spectrometry; APOE-apolipoprotein E; APP-amyloid beta precursor protein; BafA1-bafilomycin A1; CMA-chaperone-mediated autophagy; COP-coatomer; ER-endoplasmic reticulum; ERAD-endoplasmic reticulum-associated degradation; ERGIC-endoplasmic reticulum-Golgi intermediate compartment; FCCP-carbonyl cyanide p-trifluoromethoxyphenylhydrazone; GABA-gamma-aminobutyric acid; GFP-green fluorescent protein; GPI-glycerophosphoinositol; GPN-glycyl-L-phenylalanine 2-naphthylamide; HA-hemagglutinin protein tag; iPSC-induced pluripotent stem cells; LAMP1-lysosomal associated membrane protein 1; LGALS3BP-galectin 3 binding protein; LysoIP-lysosomal immunoprecipitation; MAPT-microtubule associated protein tau; MR-CTSB-magic red cathepsin B; MS-mass spectrometry; NFT-neurofibrillary tangles; PCA-principal component analysis; PLA-proximity ligation assay; PSEN1-presenilin 1; PSEN2-presenilin 2; p-MAPT/Tau-phospho-MAPT/tau; ROS-reactive oxygen species; RT-qPCR-reverse transcriptase quantitative polymerase chain reaction; SEM-standard error of the mean; siRNA-short interfering RNA; SRCR-scavenger receptor cysteine-rich domain; TMED-transmembrane p24 trafficking protein; TMEM192-transmembrane protein 192.

  26. Exploring causal relationships between epigenetic age acceleration and Alzheimer’s disease: a bidirectional Mendelian randomization study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Clinical Epigenetics 2025-10-03 Genetics

    Employing the random-effects IVW approach, we found that, as indicated by GrimAge, EAA was associated with an increased risk of AD (Odds Ratio [OR] = 1.025, 95% Confidence Interval [CI]: 1.006-1.044, p = 0.009).

  27. APOE ε4 linked effects on clinical features and neuropathology in dementia with Lewy bodies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-10-01 Genetics

    In analyses of APOE ε4 carriers, dosage, and genetic risk score, APOE ε4 was associated with lower odds of fluctuating cognition and parkinsonism and higher odds of visual hallucinations.

  28. α‐Synuclein seed amplification assay in Lewy body dementia versus Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 34 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia Diagnosis Assessment & Disease Monitoring 2025-10-01 Getting a diagnosis

    The accuracy of α-synuclein-SAA for DLB was 87% (95% confidence interval [CI]: 77% to 98%) in CSF, 85% (95% CI: 75% to 98%) in skin, 58% (95% CI: 47% to 69%) in olfactory mucosa, and 59% (95% CI: 51% to 66%) in urine.

  29. Small-Molecule Inhibitors of Amyloid Beta: Insights from Molecular Dynamics—Part B: Natural Compounds

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 33 out of 100. Pharmaceuticals 2025-09-28 Disease mechanisms

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia, characterized by progressive memory loss and cognitive decline.

  30. Red blood cell ω-3 status and longitudinal cognition in individuals at risk of Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Journal of Nutrition 2025-09-27 Genetics

    RBC DHA was associated with a positive (improved) global cognition (PACC) rate of change (estimate: 0.011; 95% CI: 0.001, 0.021; P = 0.024).

  31. UCH-L1 in Alzheimer’s Disease: A Crucial Player in Dementia-Associated Mechanisms

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. International Journal of Molecular Sciences 2025-09-16 Inflammation and the immune system

    Ubiquitin carboxyl-terminal hydrolase L1 (UCH-L1) is a critical deubiquitinating enzyme that is highly expressed in the central nervous system, where it participates in protein degradation and turnover as part of the ubiquitin-proteasome system (UPS).

  32. ApoE4 Upregulates GSK ‐3β to Aggravate Alzheimer‐Like Pathologies and Cognitive Impairment in Type 2 Diabetic Mice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. CNS Neuroscience & Therapeutics 2025-09-01 Genetics

    We observed that GSK-3β activity was significantly upregulated in ApoE4 mice, accompanied by disruption of the insulin signaling pathway.

  33. Emerging Role of Oligodendrocytes Malfunction in the Progression of Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Journal of Neuroimmune Pharmacology 2025-09-01 Disease mechanisms

    Alzheimer's disease (AD), the most prevalent form of dementia, is characterized by hallmark pathologies such as amyloid-beta (Aβ) plaque accumulation, tau hyperphosphorylation, and progressive neuronal dysfunction.

  34. A biophysical and molecular characterization of the interaction between the Alzheimer risk factor BIN1 and the neuronal scaffold protein p140Cap

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 35 out of 100. Journal of Biological Chemistry 2025-08-30 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Bridging Integrator 1 (BIN1) is a genetic risk factor for late-onset Alzheimer disease.

  35. MS4A6A/Ms4a6d deficiency disrupts neuroprotective microglia functions and promotes inflammation in Alzheimer’s disease model

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Molecular Neurodegeneration 2025-08-28 Inflammation and the immune system

    We identified several new mutations of MS4A6A with altered AD risks, and discovered specific correlation for some of them with the amount of β-amyloid in cerebrospinal fluid.

  36. The impact of polygenic risk for alzheimer’s disease on neurotransmitter-related grey matter atrophy in the alzheimer continuum

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Neurological Sciences 2025-08-25 Genetics

    In the whole sample, both PRSs were associated with the strength of correlation between GMV and different serotonin receptors and fluorodopa uptake.

  37. Cortical Gray Matter Proteins Associated With Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy in Community-Dwelling Older Adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Neurology 2025-08-22 Genetics

    < 0.001). This study suggests 2 molecular pathways underlying CAA, with a larger effect size for the pathway including SFRP1 and APOE protein and C-terminally truncated Aβ before position 40.

  38. Moderating role of triglycerides in the relationship between amyloid-β, hippocampal atrophy, and cognitive decline in mild cognitive impairment and early Alzheimer’s disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience 2025-08-22 Mild cognitive impairment

    These findings highlight hippocampal atrophy as a key pathway linking Aβ burden to cognitive impairment.

  39. Thymosin beta 4 as an Alzheimer disease intervention target identified using human brain organoids

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Stem Cell Reports 2025-08-15 Risk genes beyond APOE

    The developmental origin of Alzheimer disease (AD) has been proposed but is arguably debated.

  40. Unraveling the conformational landscape of amyloid precursor protein intracellular domain

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 35 out of 100. Biophysical Journal 2025-08-15 Risk genes beyond APOE

    The amyloid precursor protein intracellular domain (AICD), a cleavage product of amyloid precursor protein implicated in Alzheimer disease and amyloid lateral sclerosis, is a functionally important but structurally elusive intrinsically disordered protein.

  41. Cholinergic basal forebrain atrophy accelerates cognitive decline via cortical thinning: The moderating role of amyloid-β pathology in preclinical Alzheimer’s disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. The Journal of Prevention of Alzheimer s Disease 2025-07-29 Brain scans and imaging

    Progressive cortical thinning in multiple cognition-related regions was significantly associated with cBF atrophy.

  42. Early Dysregulation of RNA Splicing and Translation Processes Are Key Markers from Mild Cognitive Impairment to Alzheimer’s Disease: An In Silico Transcriptomic Analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. International Journal of Molecular Sciences 2025-07-28 Mild cognitive impairment

    About one billion people worldwide are affected by neurologic disorders.

  43. BACE1 as an early biomarker and its relevance to risk factors for Alzheimer’s disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Brain Research Bulletin 2025-07-22 Risk factors

    While the β-secretase BACE1 is responsible for the rate-limiting initial step to generate amyloid-β (Aβ) peptides, BACE1 inhibitor clinical trials have been halted due to a lack of efficacy and/or safety concerns at symptomatic/prodromal stages of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  44. Combating Genetic Heterogeneity for Polygenic Prediction of Susceptibility to Brain β-Amyloid Deposition

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 33 out of 100. Neurology Genetics 2025-07-21 Genetics

    The APOE (apolipoprotein E) ε4 allele is the strongest known genetic risk factor for sporadic Alzheimer disease (AD) and for brain amyloidosis, an early marker of disease pathophysiology.

  45. Reduced retinal thickness and risk of Alzheimer’s disease: a bidirectional two-sample Mendelian randomization study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Ageing and Neurodegenerative Diseases 2025-07-21 Genetics

    No significant associations were found between retinal thickness and AD risk (RNFL: odds ratio [OR]IVW = 1.001, 95% confidence interval [CI] = 0.986-1.017, P = 0.883; GCIPL: ORIVW = 1.008, 95% CI = 0.997-1.019, P = 0.172).

  46. Using cross-population GWAS meta-analyses, we identify novel LOAD susceptibility loci in/near LRRC4C and LHX5-AS1, both with known roles in neuronal development, as well as several novel population-unique loci.

  47. APOE ε4 carriers share immune-related proteomic changes across neurodegenerative diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. Nature medicine 2025-07-15 Digital health tools

    The APOE ε4 genetic variant is the strongest genetic risk factor for late-onset Alzheimer's disease (AD) and is increasingly being implicated in other neurodegenerative diseases.

  48. Ethanol consumption aggravates amyloid pathology and neuroinflammation in Alzheimer’s disease associated with inflammasome activation and ASC speck propagation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Journal of Neuroinflammation 2025-07-15 Inflammation and the immune system

    In this study, we show that repeated ethanol binges aggravate the amyloid pathology and plaque burden in the hippocampus of APP/PS1 mice.

  49. Age-related cerebral amyloid angiopathy accumulation in the APPSw mouse model is associated with perivascular inflammation and brain-wide vascular and inflammatory gene and protein changes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Neurobiology of Disease 2025-07-02 Brain tissue and pathology

    Cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA) is an extremely common pathology of Alzheimer's disease (AD) included under vascular contributions to cognitive impairment and dementia (VCID).

  50. Exploring potential mechanisms of an African protective locus for Alzheimer's disease in APOEε4 carriers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-07-01 Genetics

    > 0.95) and is present in all African ancestry tested.

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