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  1. ApoE4 and Psychosis in Neurodegenerative and Non-Neurodegenerative Disease: A Scoping Review 2026-10-27
  2. Multimodal mediators connecting APOE4 to dementia 2026-10-21
  3. Reproductive Aging, FSH, and Apolipoprotein Biology in Alzheimer’s Disease 2026-10-19

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1,612 studies carry this tag.

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1982 to 2026

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  • Neurology 93
  • The Journal of biological chemistry 68
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 52
  • Archives of neurology 43
  • Neurobiology of aging 38

457 journals in all.

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  1. ApoE4 and Psychosis in Neurodegenerative and Non-Neurodegenerative Disease: A Scoping Review

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Preprints.org 2026-10-27 Genetics

    Psychosis is a neuropsychiatric feature found across neurodegenerative conditions including Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and Parkinson’s disease (PD).

  2. Multimodal mediators connecting APOE4 to dementia

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Research Square 2026-10-21 Biomarkers

    We revealed graded, allele dosage‑dependent risk elevations for ACD, AD and VaD among APOE4 carriers, whereby homozygous carriers exhibited substantially higher incident dementia risk relative to heterozygous carriers and non‑carriers across all three clinical endpoints.

  3. Reproductive Aging, FSH, and Apolipoprotein Biology in Alzheimer’s Disease

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Preprints.org 2026-10-19 Genetics

    Alzheimer’s disease (AD) affects women more than men, with risk increasing during and after the menopausal transition.

  4. 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.

  5. Clinical utility of plasma APOE proteotyping for Alzheimer’s disease risk and prognosis

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv 2026-10-11 Genetics

    Plasma APOE4 proteotyping accurately distinguished genotype-defined APOE ε4 carrier status and copy number while demonstrating AD-related associations comparable to DNA genotyping.

  6. Longitudinal Multimodal Retinal Imaging in Cognitively Normal Apolipoprotein E4 Carriers and Noncarriers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 68 out of 100. Translational vision science & technology 2026-10-05 Brain scans and imaging

    This study analyzed 871 eyes from 439 participants (230 APOE ε4 noncarriers and 209 carriers).

  7. APOE4 reduction in vascular-associated fibroblasts decreases cerebral amyloid angiopathy and associated vascular dysfunction

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. bioRxiv 2026-10-04 Vascular contributions

    Cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA), characterized by cerebrovascular amyloid deposition, is strongly associated with Alzheimer’s disease, ischemic injury, and lobar hemorrhages.

  8. APOE ε4 Carrier Status and Cognitive Decline in Mild-to-Moderate Alzheimer’s Disease: A Linear Mixed-Effects Analysis of the Placebo Arm of EXPEDITION 1

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

    In this cohort, APOE ε4 carrier status was related to disease severity at baseline rather than to the rate of cognitive decline over 80 weeks.

  9. APOE Genotype and Fluid Biomarkers of Blood-Brain Barrier Integrity: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

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

    Apolipoprotein E (APOE) genotype is theorised to influence dementia risk partly through effects on blood–brain barrier (BBB) function, but clinical studies examining APOE effects on BBB biomarkers report inconsistent results.

  10. 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).

  11. Phenome-wide and proteomic analysis of APOE alleles across different ancestries in the All of Us Research Program

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv 2026-09-28 Lewy body dementia

    We identified 27 phenotypes associated with APOE, mainly in neurological and lipid-related traits.

  12. Association of apolipoprotein E gene with risk, cognition, and prognosis of epilepsy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Human genetics 2026-09-26 Genetics

    Previous experimental studies suggested a link between the apolipoprotein E (APOE) gene and epilepsy.

  13. 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.

  14. A pericyte-to-myofibroblast transition links APOE4 to cerebrovascular degeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Cell 2026-09-24 Vascular contributions

    Cerebrovascular disease is a major but poorly understood feature of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  15. 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.

  16. 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.

  17. 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.

  18. 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.

  19. 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.

  20. 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.

  21. 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.

  22. The longevity gene APOE2 enhances pericyte function and reduces lipid droplets

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2026-09-16 Genetics

    Pericytes are critical for maintaining blood-brain barrier (BBB) integrity and have emerged as key contributors to Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathogenesis.

  23. 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).

  24. 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 .

  25. Ion modulation restores local synaptic function in APOE4 neuronal networks despite persistent impairments in global network organization

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. bioRxiv 2026-09-14 Disease mechanisms

    The apolipoprotein E ε4 (APOE4) allele is the strongest genetic risk factor for developing sporadic Alzheimer’s disease (AD), which accounts for the vast majority of AD cases.

  26. The protein and lipid compositions of brain apolipoprotein E particles are cell type-specific

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. bioRxiv 2026-09-14 Tau biomarkers

    Genetic variation in APOE , which encodes a lipid transporter apolipoprotein E (apoE), is the strongest risk factor for late-onset Alzheimer’s disease (AD).

  27. 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.

  28. Progressive behavioral and cognitive decline in Drosophila harboring AD- associated APOE4 variants

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. bioRxiv 2026-09-12 How common it is

    Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the most prevalent neurodegenerative disorder, and its incidence is rising rapidly with population aging.

  29. 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).

  30. 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.

  31. 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.

  32. 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.

  33. 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.

  34. 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.

  35. 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.

  36. Proteomic signatures of APOE ε4 across human tissues and cell types in Alzheimer’s disease

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. bioRxiv 2026-09-03 Long-term cohort studies

    The apolipoprotein E ε4 ( APOE ε4) allele is the strongest genetic risk factor for late-onset Alzheimer’s disease (AD), yet its associated protein changes across biofluids, brain regions, and cell types remain incompletely understood.

  37. Clinical Phenotype of Apoe Ɛ4 Carriers In Patients With Vascular Dementia: A Cross-Sectional Study From Indonesia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. F1000Res 2026-09-02 Lewy body dementia

    This study demonstrated that APOE4 carrier status was associated with lower MoCA-INA scores in this small VaD cohort.

  38. 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.

  39. 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.

  40. 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.

  41. 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.

  42. 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.

  43. 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.

  44. Quantitative Systems Pharmacology Analysis of Amyloid Aggregation and Hippocampal Atrophy Trajectories in Alzheimer’s Disease by APOE4 Genotype and Valiltramiprosate/ALZ-801 Treatment

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Research Square 2026-08-24 Biomarkers

    Apolipoprotein E4 (APOE4) is a major risk factor for Alzheimer’s disease (AD).

  45. 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.

  46. APOE genotypes differentially remodel the astrocytic lipid droplet proteome to shape lipid droplet dynamics

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Nature communications 2026-08-19 Genetics

    Lipid droplets are dynamic cellular organelles that store neutral lipids and coordinate metabolic and stress-response pathways.

  47. 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.

  48. 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.

  49. 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.

  50. 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.

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