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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

Studies

1,613 studies carry this tag.

Date range

1982 to 2026

Top journals

  • 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. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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).

  4. 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.

  5. ApoE is Secreted as a Lipid Nanoparticle by Mammalian Cells: Implications for Alzheimer's Disease Pathogenesis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Biochemistry 2025-10-24 Genetics

    The brain is the most cholesterol-rich organ in the body, and ApoE is the main lipid carrier protein in the brain.

  6. 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.

  7. 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.

  8. 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).

  9. 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.

  10. 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.

  11. 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.

  12. 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).

  13. 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).

  14. Comparison of the ApoE allelic variants in the formation of intracerebral Aβ deposits

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Neurobiology of disease 2025-09-15 Genetics

    In the SAA-APP knock-in model of dense-cored Aβ deposits resulting from accumulation of protofibrillar-favoring Aβ42, we observed that crossing in human APOE reduced amyloid burden.

  15. APOE4 promotes cerebrovascular fibrosis and amyloid deposition via a pericyte-to-myofibroblast transition

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology 2025-09-09 Vascular contributions

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

  16. Apolipoprotein E Alleles and Motor Signs in Older Adults with Alzheimer's Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. International journal of molecular sciences 2025-09-03 Genetics

    We investigated associations between apolipoprotein E (APOE) alleles and motor manifestations in Alzheimer's dementia (AD) capitalizing on National Alzheimer's Coordinating Center data: the baseline evaluations of older adults (≥60 years) with a diagnosis of AD were analyzed.

  17. APOE genotype-dependent differences in human astrocytic energy metabolism

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Frontiers in cellular neuroscience 2025-09-01 Genetics

    ATP Seahorse assay revealed a reduced mitochondrial and glycolytic ATP production in APOE4 iAstrocytes.

  18. 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.

  19. 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.

  20. 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.

  21. 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.

  22. 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.

  23. 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.

  24. 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.

  25. APOE genotypes differentially remodel the astrocytic lipid droplet-associated proteome to shape lipid droplet dynamics

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology 2025-08-20 Genetics

    The lipids and proteins that comprise lipid droplets regulate several cellular functions including lipid storage, stress responses, and inflammation.

  26. 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.

  27. 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.

  28. 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.

  29. 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.

  30. 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).

  31. 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.

  32. 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).

  33. 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.

  34. A novel biochemical analysis for ApoE4 quantification in plasma and discrimination of homozygous and heterozygous APOE ε4 carriers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2025-07-15 Treatments

    ApoE4 levels ascertained by the e4Quant test exhibited clear genotype-dependent stratification.

  35. 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.

  36. 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.

  37. 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).

  38. 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.

  39. Presenilin-1 Familial Alzheimer Mutations Impair γ-Secretase Cleavage of APP Through Stabilized Enzyme–Substrate Complex Formation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. Biomolecules 2025-07-01 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Familial Alzheimer's disease (FAD) is caused by dominant missense mutations in amyloid precursor protein (APP) and presenilin-1 (PSEN1), the catalytic component of γ-secretase that generates amyloid β-peptides (Aβ) from the APP C-terminal fragment C99.

  40. Trajectory of plasma lipidome associated with the risk of late-onset Alzheimer's disease: a longitudinal cohort study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. EBioMedicine 2025-07-01 Brain tissue and pathology

    Longitudinal analysis identified significant associations between the change in ether lipid species (including alkylphosphatidylcholine, alkenylphosphatidylcholine, lysoalkylphosphatidylcholine, and lysoalkenylphosphatidylcholine) and AD dementia conversion.

  41. Alzheimer’s disease polygenic risk’s association with all-cause dementia through the plasma metabolome in the UK Biobank study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. GeroScience 2025-06-30 Long-term cohort studies

    Higher AD PRS was associated with increased risks of all-cause dementia (HR: 1.75, 95% CI: 1.70-1.79, P < 0.001) and AD (HR: 2.02, 95% CI: 1.95-2.09, P < 0.001), with stronger effects in women for both outcomes when considering the main AD PRS which was related to APOE4 status.

  42. Oxidative stress – Alzheimer’s disease – DNA methylation: the role of arsenic

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Essays in Biochemistry 2025-06-30 Disease mechanisms

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disease, representing the seventh cause of death worldwide and the first cause of dementia.

  43. It is associated with intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH), cognitive decline, and gait disturbance.

  44. Cataract Aggravates Alzheimer-Like Pathologies and Cognitive Deficits in an APP/PS1 Mouse Model

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 35 out of 100. Neuroscience Bulletin 2025-06-28 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Clinical investigations have suggested a potential link between cataracts and Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  45. Time Course and Severity of Cognitive Changes as a Function of Aβ Positivity and APOE Genotype in Alzheimer Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Neurology 2025-06-27 Genetics

    We analyzed data from 1,542 participants (mean age = 72.2 years, SD = 7.2; 50.8% female; mean education = 16.3 years, SD = 2.6) and found that APOE4 was associated with steeper declines in episodic memory as a function of Aβ duration.

  46. Mislocalization of nucleic acids is a convergent and targetable mechanism in Alzheimer's disease and frontotemporal dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Cell Reports 2025-06-24 Lewy body dementia

    Nucleocytoplasmic transport defects are observed in Alzheimer's disease (AD) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD).

  47. APOE ε4 and Risk of Intracranial Hemorrhage in Patients With Atrial Fibrillation Taking Apixaban

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. JAMA Neurology 2025-06-23 Genetics

    Of 413 477 All of Us participants, 2038 were eligible.

  48. Protection against APOE4-associated phenotypes with the longevity-promoting intervention 17α-estradiol in middle-aged male mice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 37 out of 100. Communications Medicine 2025-06-10 Genetics

    The apolipoprotein ε4 allele (APOE4) is associated with decreased longevity and increased vulnerability to age-related declines and disorders across multiple systems.

  49. Synaptic markers are associated with cognitive decline after accounting for amyloid burden among an at-risk Alzheimer’s disease cohort

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Scientific Reports 2025-06-03 Disease mechanisms

    Amyloid burden impacts cognitive decline in the pre-dementia stages of Alzheimer's disease (AD), but there remains significant variability in cognitive trajectories that may be explainable by markers of synaptic function and neurodegeneration.

  50. Potential role of Amyloid-β on the association between Orexin-A and blood-brain barrier leakage of globus pallidus in Alzheimer’s disease and dementia with lewy bodies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Alzheimer s Research & Therapy 2025-06-02 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Emerging evidence indicates that globus pallidus (GP) function can be modulated by orexin-A in movement disorders, while its role in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) remains unclear.

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