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  1. ApoE4 and Psychosis in Neurodegenerative and Non-Neurodegenerative Disease: A Scoping Review 2026-10-27
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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. Apolipoprotein E (APOE) allele distribution in the world. Is APOE*4 a ‘thrifty’ allele?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Annals of Human Genetics 1999-07-01 Genetics

    Apolipoprotein E (APOE = gene, apoE = protein) plays a central role in plasma lipoprotein metabolism and in lipid transport within tissues.

  2. Functional characterization of apolipoprotein E isoforms overexpressed in Escherichia coli

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Protein expression and purification 1999-07 Genetics

    Apolipoprotein (apo) E plays an important role in lipid metabolism, and the major isoforms of apoE (apoE2, apoE3, and apoE4) have significantly different metabolic effects.

  3. Immunization with amyloid-beta attenuates Alzheimer-disease-like pathology in the PDAPP mouse

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Nature 1999-07-01 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Amyloid-beta peptide (Abeta) seems to have a central role in the neuropathology of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  4. The apolipoprotein E epsilon2 allele and the pathological features in cerebral amyloid angiopathy-related hemorrhage

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology 1999-07-01 Genetics

    Cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA) is associated with apolipoprotein E (APOE gene, apoE protein) polymorphism: current evidence suggests that the epsilon4 allele is a risk factor for the development of CAA and the epsilon2 allele predisposes to hemorrhage.

  5. A stop-codon mutation in the BRI gene associated with familial British dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Nature 1999-06-01 Brain tissue and pathology

    Familial British dementia (FBD), previously designated familial cerebral amyloid angiopathy-British type, is an autosomal dominant disorder of undetermined origin characterized by progressive dementia, spasticity, and cerebellar ataxia, with onset at around the fifth decade of life.

  6. Crystal structure of the N-terminal, growth factor-like domain of Alzheimer amyloid precursor protein

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Nature structural biology 1999-04-01 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Amyloid precursor protein (APP) plays a central role in Alzheimer disease.

  7. Differential effects of apolipoprotein E isoforms on metal-induced aggregation of A beta using physiological concentrations

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Biochemistry 1999-04-01 Genetics

    The epsilon 4 allele of apolipoprotein E (APOE) has been found to be a risk factor for late-onset Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  8. Translation of the alzheimer amyloid precursor protein mRNA is up-regulated by interleukin-1 through 5'-untranslated region sequences

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. The Journal of biological chemistry 1999-03-01 Risk genes beyond APOE

    The amyloid precursor protein (APP) has been associated with Alzheimer's disease (AD) because APP is processed into the beta-peptide that accumulates in amyloid plaques, and APP gene mutations can cause early onset AD.

  9. Age of onset in Huntington disease: sex specific influence of apolipoprotein E genotype and normal CAG repeat length

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 35 out of 100. Journal of medical genetics 1999-02-01 Genetics

    Age of onset (AO) of Huntington disease (HD) is known to be correlated with the length of an expanded CAG repeat in the HD gene.

  10. Endoplasmic reticulum and trans-Golgi network generate distinct populations of Alzheimer beta-amyloid peptides

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 1999-01-01 Risk genes beyond APOE

    The excessive generation and accumulation of 40- and 42-aa beta-amyloid peptides (Abeta40/Abeta42) in selectively vulnerable brain regions is a major neuropathological feature of Alzheimer's disease.

  11. TNFalpha plus IFNgamma induce the production of Alzheimer beta-amyloid peptides and decrease the secretion of APPs

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology 1999-01-01 Risk genes beyond APOE

    The appearance of inflammatory markers associated with amyloid plaques indicates a state of chronic inflammation in Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  12. Alzheimer amyloid protein precursor in the rat hippocampus: transport and processing through the perforant path

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 1998-12-01 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Amyloid deposition is a neuropathological hallmark of Alzheimer's disease.

  13. Caspase dependent DNA fragmentation might be associated with excitotoxicity in Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology 1998-11-01 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Recent studies have shown that deficient functioning of glutamate transporters (GTs) in Alzheimer disease (AD) might lead to neurodegeneration via excitotoxicity; however, the characteristics of cell death and pathways involved are not yet clear.

  14. Generation and regulation of beta-amyloid peptide variants by neurons

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. Journal of neurochemistry 1998-11-01 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Studies of processing of the Alzheimer beta-amyloid precursor protein (betaAPP) have been performed to date mostly in continuous cell lines and indicate the existence of two principal metabolic pathways: the "beta-secretase" pathway, which generates beta-amyloid (A beta(1-40/42); approximately 4 kDa), and the "alpha-secretase" pathway, which generates a smaller fragment, the "p3" peptide (A beta(17-40/42); approximately 3 kDa).

  15. Microglial activation induced by factor(s) contained in sera from Alzheimer-related ApoE genotypes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 35 out of 100. Journal of neuroscience research 1998-11-01 Down syndrome and Alzheimer's

    The risk of developing AD definitely increases with (a) age, (b) head injuries, (c) family history of AD or Down syndrome, (d) sex (higher prevalence of AD in women), (e) vascular disease, (f) exposure to environmental toxins, (g) infectious processes, or (h) changes in immune function, and recent advances in molecular genetics have suggested that genetic predisposition (i) can be considered one of the most important risk factors in the development of AD.

  16. Advanced glycation end products in Alzheimer's disease and other neurodegenerative diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. The American journal of pathology 1998-10-01 Genetics

    Advanced glycation end products (AGEs) have been implicated in the chronic complications of diabetes mellitus and have been reported to play an important role in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease.

  17. HIV-infected subjects with the E4 allele for APOE have excess dementia and peripheral neuropathy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Nature medicine 1998-10-01 Genetics

    HIV produces a chronic viral infection of the central nervous system that elicits chronic glial activation and overexpression of glial cytokines that are also implicated in Alzheimer disease (AD) pathogenesis.

  18. Alpha-2 macroglobulin is genetically associated with Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Nature genetics 1998-08-01 Genetics

    Alpha-2-macroglobulin (alpha-2M; encoded by the gene A2M) is a serum pan-protease inhibitor that has been implicated in Alzheimer disease (AD) based on its ability to mediate the clearance and degradation of A beta, the major component of beta-amyloid deposits.

  19. Evidence for an Alzheimer disease susceptibility locus on chromosome 12 and for further locus heterogeneity

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. JAMA 1998-08-01 Genetics

    Using parametric methods, no evidence for linkage to the region spanned by the chromosome 12 markers could be detected if familial AD is assumed to arise from the same genetic locus in all 53 families.

  20. Apolipoprotein E genotype and deposits of Abeta40 and Abeta42 in Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Archives of neurology 1998-07-01 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Previous data from familial AD due to mutations in presenilin 1 and presenilin 2 genes and the amyloid precursor protein suggest that the long form of Abeta peptide, Abeta42, is selectively increased in these circumstances.

  21. Microglial activation in Alzheimer disease: Association with APOE genotype

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Brain pathology (Zurich, Switzerland) 1998-07-01 Genetics

    Microglial cells are considered to play an important role in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer disease.

  22. Risk estimates of dementia by apolipoprotein E genotypes from a population-based incidence study: the Rotterdam Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 69 out of 100. Archives of neurology 1998-07-01 Genetics

    The APOE genotype is an important determinant of the risk of dementia.

  23. Distribution of reducible 4-hydroxynonenal adduct immunoreactivity in Alzheimer disease is associated with APOE genotype

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology 1998-05-01 Genetics

    Two major risk factors for late-onset familial and sporadic Alzheimer disease (AD), a leading cause of dementia worldwide, are increasing age and inheritance of the epsilon4 allele of the apolipoprotein E gene (APOE4).

  24. Glial fibrillary acidic protein-apolipoprotein E (apoE) transgenic mice: astrocyte-specific expression and differing biological effects of astrocyte-secreted apoE3 and apoE4 lipoproteins

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 1998-05-01 Biomarkers

    The epsilon4 allele of apolipoprotein E (apoE) is associated with increased risk for Alzheimer's disease (AD) and poor outcome after brain injury.

  25. Degeneration in vivo of rat hippocampal neurons by wild-type Alzheimer amyloid precursor protein overexpressed by adenovirus-mediated gene transfer

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 1998-04-01 Risk genes beyond APOE

    In an attempt to elucidate the pathological implications of intracellular accumulation of the amyloid precursor protein (APP) in postmitotic neurons in vivo, we transferred APP695 cDNA into rat hippocampal neurons by using a replication-defective adenovirus vector.

  26. Phosphatidylinositol and inositol involvement in Alzheimer amyloid-beta fibril growth and arrest

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. Journal of molecular biology 1998-04-01 Risk genes beyond APOE

    A key pathological feature of Alzheimer's disease is the formation and accumulation of amyloid fibres.

  27. Hippocampal atrophy and apolipoprotein E genotype are independently associated with Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Annals of neurology 1998-03-01 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    A variety of anatomic and functional neuroimaging findings are associated with Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  28. The APOE-epsilon4 allele and the risk of Alzheimer disease among African Americans, whites, and Hispanics

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 70 out of 100. JAMA 1998-03-01 Genetics

    The presence of an APOE-epsilon4 allele is a determinant of AD risk in whites, but African Americans and Hispanics have an increased frequency of AD regardless of their APOE genotype.

  29. Utility of the apolipoprotein E genotype in the diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease. Alzheimer's Disease Centers Consortium on Apolipoprotein E and Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. The New England journal of medicine 1998-02-01 Getting a diagnosis

    APOE genotyping does not provide sufficient sensitivity or specificity to be used alone as a diagnostic test for Alzheimer's disease, but when used in combination with clinical criteria, it improves the specificity of the diagnosis.

  30. Accelerated Alzheimer-type phenotype in transgenic mice carrying both mutant amyloid precursor protein and presenilin 1 transgenes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. Nature medicine 1998-01-01 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Genetic causes of Alzheimer's disease (AD) include mutations in the amyloid precursor protein (APP), presenilin 1 (PS1), and presenilin 2 (PS2) genes.

  31. Mutant genes in familial Alzheimer's disease and transgenic models

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Annual review of neuroscience 1998-01-01 Brain tissue and pathology

    The most common cause of dementia occurring in mid- to late-life is Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  32. Serum total cholesterol, apolipoprotein E epsilon 4 allele, and Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Neuroepidemiology 1998-01-01 Genetics

    The epsilon 4 allele of the apolipoprotein E (apoE) is associated with Alzheimer's disease (AD) and also with elevated serum total cholesterol and low-density lipoprotein levels.

  33. Lack of apolipoprotein E dramatically reduces amyloid β-peptide deposition

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Nature Genetics 1997-11-01 Genetics

  34. Two amyloid precursor protein transgenic mouse models with Alzheimer disease-like pathology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 1997-11-01 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Mutations in the amyloid precursor protein (APP) gene cause early-onset familial Alzheimer disease (AD) by affecting the formation of the amyloid beta (A beta) peptide, the major constituent of AD plaques.

  35. Accelerated amyloid deposition in the brains of transgenic mice coexpressing mutant presenilin 1 and amyloid precursor proteins

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Neuron 1997-10-01 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Missense mutations in two related genes, termed presenilin 1 (PS1) and presenilin 2 (PS2), cause dementia in a subset of early-onset familial Alzheimer's disease (FAD) pedigrees.

  36. Complete genomic screen in late-onset familial Alzheimer disease. Evidence for a new locus on chromosome 12

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. JAMA 1997-10-01 Genetics

    Fifteen chromosomal regions warranted initial follow-up.

  37. Among Caucasian subjects from clinic- or autopsy-based studies, the risk of AD was significantly increased for people with genotypes epsilon2/epsilon4 (OR=2.6, 95% CI=1.6-4.0), epsilon3/epsilon4 (OR=3.2, 95% CI=2.8-3.8), and epsilon4/epsilon4 (OR=14.9, 95% CI= 10.8-20.6); whereas, the ORs were decreased for people with genotypes epsilon2/epsilon2 (OR=0.6, 95% CI=0.2-2.0) and epsilon2/epsilon3 (OR=0.6, 95% CI=0.5-0.8).

  38. Genetic modification of the phenotypes produced by amyloid precursor protein overexpression in transgenic mice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. Human molecular genetics 1997-10-01 Genetics

    Overexpression of Alzheimer amyloid precursor protein (APP) produces dramatically different phenotypes in transgenic mice depending on the genetic background.

  39. Distinct sites of intracellular production for Alzheimer's disease A beta40/42 amyloid peptides

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Nature medicine 1997-09-01 Risk genes beyond APOE

    The Alzheimer amyloid precursor protein (APP) is cleaved by several proteases, the most studied, but still unidentified ones, are those involved in the release of a fragment of APP, the amyloidogenic beta-protein A beta.

  40. Both apolipoprotein E and A-I genes are present in a nonmammalian vertebrate and are highly expressed during embryonic development

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 1997-08-01 Genetics

    Apolipoprotein E (apoE) is associated with several classes of plasma lipoproteins and mediates uptake of lipoproteins through its ability to interact with specific cell surface receptors.

  41. Cerebrovascular smooth muscle cells internalize Alzheimer amyloid beta protein via a lipoprotein pathway: implications for cerebral amyloid angiopathy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 35 out of 100. Laboratory investigation; a journal of technical methods and pathology 1997-08-01 Genetics

    Cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA) is caused by the cerebrovascular deposition of Alzheimer amyloid beta protein (Abeta) and shows an increased incidence in carriers of the apolipoprotein E (APOE) epsilon4 genotype.

  42. Glutamate transporter alterations in Alzheimer disease are possibly associated with abnormal APP expression

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology 1997-08-01 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Recent studies have shown that deficient functioning of glutamate transporters (GTs) in Alzheimer disease (AD) might lead to neurodegeneration.

  43. Increased neuronal endocytosis and protease delivery to early endosomes in sporadic Alzheimer's disease: neuropathologic evidence for a mechanism of increased beta-amyloidogenesis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 1997-08-01 Genetics

    The early endosome is the first vacuolar compartment along the endocytic pathway.

  44. Microglial activation by Alzheimer amyloid precursor protein and modulation by apolipoprotein E

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Nature 1997-08-01 Risk genes beyond APOE

    A role for beta-amyloid precursor protein (beta-APP) in the development of Alzheimer's disease has been indicated by genetics, and many conditions in which beta-APP is raised have been associated with an increased risk of Alzheimer's disease or an Alzheimer's-like pathology.

  45. Association of human, rat, and rabbit apolipoprotein E with beta-amyloid

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Journal of neuroscience research 1997-07-01 Genetics

    In humans, apolipoprotein E (apoE) has three major isoforms, E2 (Cys112, Cys158), E3 (Cys112, Arg158), and E4 (Arg112, Arg158).

  46. Genetic association of the low-density lipoprotein receptor-related protein gene (LRP), an apolipoprotein E receptor, with late-onset Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Neurology 1997-07-01 Brain tissue and pathology

    The presence of the APOE epsilon 4 allele encoding apolipoprotein E4 (apoE4) is the major genetic risk factor for late-onset Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  47. Interaction between amyloid precursor protein and presenilins in mammalian cells: implications for the pathogenesis of Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 1997-07-01 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Mutations in the presenilin 1 (PS1) and presenilin 2 (PS2) genes increase the production of the highly amyloidogenic 42-residue form of amyloid beta-protein (Abeta42) in a variety of cell lines and transgenic mice.

  48. Amyloid-beta peptide-receptor for advanced glycation endproduct interaction elicits neuronal expression of macrophage-colony stimulating factor: a proinflammatory pathway in Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 1997-05-01 Inflammation and the immune system

    In Alzheimer disease (AD), neurons are thought to be subjected to the deleterious cytotoxic effects of activated microglia.

  49. Impaired learning and LTP in mice expressing the carboxy terminus of the Alzheimer amyloid precursor protein

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Nature 1997-05-01 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Proteolytic processing of amyloid precursor protein (APP) through an endosomal/lysosomal pathway generates carboxy-terminal polypeptides that contain an intact beta-amyloid domain.

  50. Astrocyte-apolipoprotein E associations in senile plaques in Alzheimer disease and vascular lesions: a regional immunohistochemical study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology 1997-04-01 Biomarkers

    While apolipoprotein E (ApoE) and beta-amyloid (A beta) co-localize in senile plaques in cortex and cerebellum in Alzheimer disease (AD), the A beta-positive, predominantly diffuse plaques in the striatum do not exhibit ApoE immunoreactivity regardless of disease duration.

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