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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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1,613 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. Central and Peripheral Mechanisms in ApoE4-Driven Diabetic Pathology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. International journal of molecular sciences 2020-02-14 Genetics

    Apolipoprotein E (APOE) ε4 gene allele and type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) are prime risk factors for Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  2. Impact of HMGB1, RAGE, and TLR4 in Alzheimer's Disease (AD): From Risk Factors to Therapeutic Targeting

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Cells 2020-02-07 Inflammation and the immune system

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a devastating neurodegenerative disorder and a leading cause of dementia, with accumulation of amyloid-beta (Aβ) and neurofibrillary tangles (NFTs) as defining pathological features.

  3. Validation of a novel and accurate ApoE4 assay for automated chemistry analyzers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Scientific reports 2020-02-07 Genetics

    The allele ε4 of the apolipoprotein E gene (APOE ε4) is the major genetic risk factor for non-dominantly inherited Alzheimer's Disease (AD).

  4. Apolipoprotein E and oxidative stress in brain with relevance to Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Neurobiology of disease 2020-02-06 Genetics

    Inheritance of apolipoprotein E4 (APOE4) is a major risk factor for development of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  5. Interaction between APOE genotype and diabetes in cognitive decline

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2020-02-06 Genetics

    A significant interaction between diabetes and APOE genotype exists, where diabetes affected cognitive decline in APOE3 carriers and APOE2 carriers, but not APOE4 carriers.

  6. Neuroanatomical spread of amyloid β and tau in Alzheimer's disease: implications for primary prevention

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 65 out of 100. Brain communications 2020-02-06 Mild cognitive impairment

    Regions with early signs of elevated amyloid β uptake were used to form an early, focal composite and compared to a commonly used global composite, in a separate validation sample.

  7. Exceptionally low likelihood of Alzheimer's dementia in APOE2 homozygotes from a 5,000-person neuropathological study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Nature communications 2020-02-03 Prevention and risk

    Each additional copy of the apolipoprotein E4 (APOE4) allele is associated with a higher risk of Alzheimer's dementia, while the APOE2 allele is associated with a lower risk of Alzheimer's dementia, it is not yet known whether APOE2 homozygotes have a particularly low risk.

  8. APOE4 exacerbates α-synuclein pathology and related toxicity independent of amyloid

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Science translational medicine 2020-02-01 Disease mechanisms

    The apolipoprotein E ( APOE ) ε4 allele is the strongest genetic risk factor for late-onset Alzheimer's disease mainly by driving amyloid-β pathology.

  9. APOE genotype regulates pathology and disease progression in synucleinopathy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Science translational medicine 2020-02-01 Caregiving

    Apolipoprotein E ( APOE ) ε4 genotype is associated with increased risk of dementia in Parkinson's disease (PD), but the mechanism is not clear, because patients often have a mixture of α-synuclein (αSyn), amyloid-β (Aβ), and tau pathologies.

  10. Glycogen synthase kinase-3 signaling in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Biochimica et biophysica acta. Molecular cell research 2020-01-30 Caregiving

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common form of neurodegenerative disorder with dementia, accounting for approximately 70% of the all cases.

  11. Novel Alzheimer risk genes determine the microglia response to amyloid-β but not to TAU pathology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. EMBO molecular medicine 2020-01-17 Genetics

    Polygenic risk scores have identified that genetic variants without genome-wide significance still add to the genetic risk of developing Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  12. Apolipoprotein E Interferes with IAPP Aggregation and Protects Pericytes from IAPP-Induced Toxicity

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Biomolecules 2020-01-14 Genetics

    Apolipoprotein E (ApoE) has become a primary focus of research after the discovery of its strong linkage to Alzheimer's disease (AD), where the ApoE4 variant is the highest genetic risk factor for this disease.

  13. Alzheimer-like amyloid and tau alterations associated with cognitive deficit in temporal lobe epilepsy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2020-01-01 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Temporal lobe epilepsy represents a major cause of drug-resistant epilepsy.

  14. CCL23: A Chemokine Associated with Progression from Mild Cognitive Impairment to Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2020-01-01 Biomarkers

    CCL23 is a chemokine implicated in inflammation and host defense responses.

  15. Telomere Length and the Risk of Alzheimer's Disease: The Rotterdam Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2020-01-01 Long-term cohort studies

    There is a wide interest in biomarkers that capture the burden of detrimental factors as these accumulate with the passage of time, i.e., increasing age.

  16. The potential role of nutritional components in improving brain function among patients with Alzheimers disease: a meta-analysis of RCT studies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Neurosciences (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) 2020-01-01 Inflammation and the immune system

    Chain-free SFA and TFA occur in greater amounts in the brains of individuals with AD than in those without AD.

  17. HHV-6A infection induces amyloid-beta expression and activation of microglial cells

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2019-12-12 TREM2 and immune genetics

    The control of viral infections in the brain involves the activation of microglial cells, the macrophages of the brain that are constantly surveying the central nervous system, and the production of amyloid-beta (Aβ) as an anti-microbial molecule.

  18. Cerebral amyloid angiopathy and Alzheimer disease - one peptide, two pathways

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Nature reviews. Neurology 2019-12-11 Brain tissue and pathology

    The shared role of amyloid-β (Aβ) deposition in cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA) and Alzheimer disease (AD) is arguably the clearest instance of crosstalk between neurodegenerative and cerebrovascular processes.

  19. Studies have shown an overlap of Aβ plaques, tau tangles, and α-synuclein (α-syn) pathologies in the brains of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and Parkinson's disease (PD) with dementia (PDD) patients, with increased pathological burden correlating with severity of cognitive and motor symptoms.

  20. Resistance to autosomal dominant Alzheimer's disease in an APOE3 Christchurch homozygote: a case report

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Nature medicine 2019-11-04 Genetics

    We identified a PSEN1 (presenilin 1) mutation carrier from the world's largest autosomal dominant Alzheimer's disease kindred, who did not develop mild cognitive impairment until her seventies, three decades after the expected age of clinical onset.

  21. Lack of hepatic apoE does not influence early Aβ deposition: observations from a new APOE knock-in model

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Molecular neurodegeneration 2019-10-17 Genetics

    These new knock-in strains offer a novel and dynamic tool to study the role of APOE in AD pathogenesis in a spatially and temporally controlled manner.

  22. Causal Effect of Lp(a) [Lipoprotein(a)] Level on Ischemic Stroke and Alzheimer Disease: A Mendelian Randomization Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Stroke 2019-10-10 Genetics

    This study provides evidence to support that high Lp(a) concentrations was causally associated with an increased risk of large artery stroke but a decreased risk of small vessel stroke and Alzheimer disease.

  23. Genetic variability in response to amyloid beta deposition influences Alzheimer's disease risk

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Brain communications 2019-10-10 TREM2 and immune genetics

    Genome-wide association studies of late-onset Alzheimer's disease risk have previously identified genes primarily expressed in microglia that form a transcriptional network.

  24. An atlas of cortical circular RNA expression in Alzheimer disease brains demonstrates clinical and pathological associations

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 70 out of 100. Nature neuroscience 2019-10-07 Getting a diagnosis

    Parietal cortex RNA-sequencing (RNA-seq) data were generated from individuals with and without Alzheimer disease (AD; n control = 13; n AD = 83) from the Knight Alzheimer Disease Research Center (Knight ADRC).

  25. APOE ε4, white matter hyperintensities, and cognition in Alzheimer and Lewy body dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 70 out of 100. Neurology 2019-10-01 Brain scans and imaging

    APOE ε4 may influence the association between WMH and cognitive performance in AD and DLB.

  26. GWAS Identifies 44 Independent Associated Genomic Loci for Self-Reported Adult Hearing Difficulty in UK Biobank

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. American journal of human genetics 2019-09-26 Prevention and risk

    Age-related hearing impairment (ARHI) is the most common sensory impairment in the aging population; a third of individuals are affected by disabling hearing loss by the age of 65.

  27. PSEN1ΔE9, APPswe, and APOE4 Confer Disparate Phenotypes in Human iPSC-Derived Microglia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Stem cell reports 2019-09-12 Inflammation and the immune system

    Here we elucidate the effect of Alzheimer disease (AD)-predisposing genetic backgrounds, APOE4, PSEN1ΔE9, and APPswe, on functionality of human microglia-like cells (iMGLs).

  28. When time's arrow doesn't bend: APOE-ε4 influences episodic memory before old age

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Neuropsychologia 2019-08-29 Genetics

    Episodic memory impairment is the hallmark symptom of Alzheimer's Disease (AD).

  29. Genome-wide association analysis of dementia and its clinical endophenotypes reveal novel loci associated with Alzheimer's disease and three causality networks: The GR@ACE project

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 67 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2019-08-28 Caregiving

    The regulation of vasculature is a prominent causal component of probable AD.

  30. Aβ-induced acceleration of Alzheimer-related τ-pathology spreading and its association with prion protein

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica 2019-08-14 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Extracellular deposition of amyloid β-protein (Aβ) in amyloid plaques and intracellular accumulation of abnormally phosphorylated τ-protein (p-τ) in neurofibrillary tangles (NFTs) represent pathological hallmark lesions of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  31. Apolipoprotein E and Alzheimer disease: pathobiology and targeting strategies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Nature reviews. Neurology 2019-07-31 Genetics

    Polymorphism in the apolipoprotein E (APOE) gene is a major genetic risk determinant of late-onset Alzheimer disease (AD), with the APOE*ε4 allele conferring an increased risk and the APOE*ε2 allele conferring a decreased risk relative to the common APOE*ε3 allele.

  32. Differential Signaling Mediated by ApoE2, ApoE3, and ApoE4 in Human Neurons Parallels Alzheimer's Disease Risk

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2019-07-22 Genetics

    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.

  33. Association of Early-Onset Alzheimer Disease With Elevated Low-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol Levels and Rare Genetic Coding Variants of APOB

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2019-07-01 Genetics

    Elevated LDL-C levels were associated with higher probability of having EOAD, and EOAD cases were enriched for rare coding variants in APOB, which codes for the major protein of LDL-C.

  34. F4‐01‐05: RACIAL AND ETHNIC DIFFERENCES IN AMYLOID PET POSITIVITY IN THE IDEAS STUDY

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2019-07-01 Health systems and care delivery

    Racial and ethnic differences in Alzheimer's disease (AD) and related dementias are well documented.

  35. Melatonin in Alzheimer's Disease: A Latent Endogenous Regulator of Neurogenesis to Mitigate Alzheimer's Neuropathology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Molecular neurobiology 2019-06-17 Disease mechanisms

    Melatonin, a pineal gland synthesized neurohormone is known as a multifunctioning pleiotropic agent which has a wide range of neuroprotective role in manifold age-related neurodegenerative disorders especially Alzheimer's diseases (AD).

  36. Mediterranean and MIND Diets Containing Olive Biophenols Reduces the Prevalence of Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. International journal of molecular sciences 2019-06-07 Prevention trials

    The risk of Alzheimer's disease (AD) increases with nonmodifiable conditions including age and lack of effective efficacious pharmacotherapy.

  37. Endo-lysosomal dysregulations and late-onset Alzheimer's disease: impact of genetic risk factors

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Molecular neurodegeneration 2019-06-03 TREM2 and immune genetics

    Increasing evidence supports that cellular dysregulations in the degradative routes contribute to the initiation and progression of neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's disease.

  38. Apolipoprotein E associated with reconstituted high-density lipoprotein-like particles is protected from aggregation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. FEBS letters 2019-05-27 Genetics

    Apolipoprotein E (APOE) genotype determines Alzheimer's disease (AD) susceptibility, with the APOE ε4 allele being an established risk factor for late-onset AD.

  39. APOE genotype and sex affect microglial interactions with plaques in Alzheimer's disease mice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica communications 2019-05-21 TREM2 and immune genetics

    Microglia affect Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathogenesis in opposing manners, by protecting against amyloid accumulation in early phases of the disease and promoting neuropathology in advanced stages.

  40. Differential default mode network trajectories in asymptomatic individuals at risk for Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2019-05-18 Brain scans and imaging

    Widespread DMN FC changes were shown in frontal and posterior areas, as well as in the right hippocampus.

  41. Microglial inflammation and phagocytosis in Alzheimer's disease: Potential therapeutic targets

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. British journal of pharmacology 2019-05-11 TREM2 and immune genetics

    One of the largest unmet medical needs is a disease-modifying treatment for Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  42. Alzheimer's Disease Microbiome Is Associated with Dysregulation of the Anti-Inflammatory P-Glycoprotein Pathway

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. mBio 2019-05-07 How common it is

    Alzheimer's disease (AD), the most common cause of dementia, has long been associated with bacterial infections and inflammation-causing immunosenescence.

  43. Altered microbiomes distinguish Alzheimer's disease from amnestic mild cognitive impairment and health in a Chinese cohort

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. Brain, behavior, and immunity 2019-05-04 Getting a diagnosis

    Recently, several animal studies indicated that the 'gut-brain' axis might contribute to the amyloid deposition of AD.

  44. Targeting Apolipoprotein E for Alzheimer's Disease: An Industry Perspective

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. International journal of molecular sciences 2019-05-01 Genetics

    Apolipoprotein E (apoE), a key lipid transport protein in the brain, is predominantly produced by astrocytes.

  45. Beta Amyloid Deposition Is Not Associated With Cognitive Impairment in Parkinson's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Frontiers in neurology 2019-04-24 Biomarkers

    The extent to which Alzheimer neuropathology, particularly the accumulation of misfolded beta-amyloid, contributes to cognitive decline and dementia in Parkinson's disease (PD) is unresolved.

  46. Activation of PPARA-mediated autophagy reduces Alzheimer disease-like pathology and cognitive decline in a murine model

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Autophagy 2019-04-06 Biomarkers

    We found that pharmacological activation of PPARA by the PPARA agonists gemfibrozil and Wy14643 induces autophagy in human microglia (HM) cells and U251 human glioma cells stably expressing the human APP (amyloid beta precursor protein) mutant (APP-p.M671L) and this effect is PPARA-dependent.

  47. Curcumin restores innate immune Alzheimer's disease risk gene expression to ameliorate Alzheimer pathogenesis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Neurobiology of disease 2019-04-02 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) genetics implies a causal role for innate immune genes, TREM2 and CD33, products that oppose each other in the downstream Syk tyrosine kinase pathway, activating microglial phagocytosis of amyloid (Aβ).

  48. Neuronal apolipoprotein E4 increases cell death and phosphorylated tau release in alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2019-03-27 Genetics

    Our results demonstrate that endogenous expression of E4 by stem-cell-derived forebrain excitatory neurons predisposes neurons to calcium dysregulation and ultimately cell death.

  49. PSEN2 (presenilin 2) mutants linked to familial Alzheimer disease impair autophagy by altering Ca2+ homeostasis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Autophagy 2019-03-27 Risk genes beyond APOE

    PSEN2 (presenilin 2) is one of the 3 proteins that, when mutated, causes early onset familial Alzheimer disease (FAD) cases.

  50. SORL1 genetic variants and Alzheimer disease risk: a literature review and meta-analysis of sequencing data

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica 2019-03-25 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Massive parallel sequencing recently allowed the identification of three genes carrying a higher burden of rare, protein-truncating and missense predicted damaging variants in Alzheimer disease (AD) cases as compared to controls: TREM2, SORL1, and ABCA7.

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