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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

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. Plasma pTau181 and amyloid markers predict conversion to dementia in idiopathic REM sleep behaviour disorder

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 65 out of 100. Brain 2025-01-02 How common it is

    Blood-based biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathology have been investigated intensively as markers for AD-related neurodegeneration.

  2. Alzheimer-typical temporo-parietal atrophy and hypoperfusion are associated with a more significant cholinergic impairment in amnestic neurodegenerative syndromes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 27 out of 100. JuSER Publikationsportal 2025-01-01 Treatments

    However, postmortem investigations indicate that the AD-typical progressive amnestic syndrome may also result from predominantly limbic non-AD neuropathology such as TDP-43 proteinopathy and argyrophilic grain disease.

  3. Cell-weighted polygenic risk scores are associated with β-amyloid and tau biomarkers in Alzheimer’s disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Brain Communications 2025-01-01 Genetics

    We observed differential cellular effects on β-amyloid, pTau217 and cognitive measures.

  4. Genetic association of ABCA7 and PSEN1 polymorphisms with Alzheimer’s disease in the northeast Algerian population: Exploring risk factors

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Archives of Biological Sciences 2025-01-01 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Alzheimer?s disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disorder with a strong genetic component.

  5. Genetic drivers of hippocampal atrophy highlight the role of APOE functional variants and AD polygenicity in Mild Cognitive Impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. NeuroImage Clinical 2025-01-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    • Longitudinal imaging-genetics study of hippocampal atrophy trajectories over 5 years in ADNI. • APOE -ε4 carriership and ApoE CSF proteomic quantitative trait loci are key genetic drivers of accelerated hippocampal atrophy in amyloid-positive MCI. • Genetic effects are stage-specific, with strongest associations during the prodromal phase of AD. • Sex differences in atrophy rates are observed, but do not significantly alter genetic influences. • Findings support the utility of APOE and functional genetic markers as stratification tools for early neurodegeneration in AD.

  6. Late-onset dementia with leukoencephalopathy and a COL4A2 gene variant, causal link or fortuitous association: a case report

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Cerebral Circulation - Cognition and Behavior 2025-01-01 Brain tissue and pathology

    Cerebral small vessel disease can manifest as vascular dementia, typically associated with vascular risk factors or cerebral amyloid angiopathy, and more rarely associated with hereditary conditions.

  7. Layer-Specific Colocalization of Microglia with Amyloid Plaques in the Middle Temporal Gyrus Predicts Cognitive Decline in Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 35 out of 100. Aging and Disease 2025-01-01 Inflammation and the immune system

    Alzheimer's disease (AD), the most common form of dementia, is marked by cognitive decline and amyloid-beta (Aβ) plaque deposition in the brain.

  8. Profiling characteristics of plasma exosomal miRNAs across cognitive stages: from normalcy to mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. RSC Advances 2025-01-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    The rising global prevalence of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and mild cognitive impairment (MCI) underscores the urgent need to elucidate their underlying pathogenic mechanisms.

  9. Selective association of EEG microstates with clinical symptoms and mutation status in monogenic Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. NeuroImage Clinical 2025-01-01 Disease mechanisms

    • EEG microstate analyses were performed in a cohort of autosomal dominant AD. • Coverage of class C decreased in symptomatic mutation carriers • Coverage of class D decreased in presymptomatic and symptomatic mutation carriers. • Coverage of class E increased in presymptomatic and symptomatic mutation carriers. • The findings may support presymptomatic changes in resting-state neuronal networks.

  10. The Effect of APOE ε4 on Alzheimer's Disease Fluid Biomarkers: A Cross-Sectional Study Based on the COAST

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. CNS neuroscience & therapeutics 2025-01-01 Inflammation and the immune system

    APOE ε4 is associated with accelerated progression of AD pathology.

  11. Unraveling APOE4's Role in Alzheimer's Disease: Pathologies and Therapeutic Strategies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Current protein & peptide science 2025 Genetics

    Alzheimer's disease (AD), the most common kind of dementia worldwide, is characterized by elevated levels of the amyloid-β (Aβ) peptide and hyperphosphorylated tau protein in the neurons.

  12. Intracerebral hemorrhage following mild ARIA-H in an APOE ε2 carrier receiving lecanemab

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2024-12-19 Treatments

    Although APOE ε2 is known to be protective against Alzheimer's disease, it has also been shown to increase risk for hemorrhage with cerebral amyloid angiopathy.

  13. Quantitative and Kinetic Proteomics Reveal ApoE Isoform-dependent Proteostasis Adaptations in Mouse Brain

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. PLoS computational biology 2024-12-12 Genetics

    Apolipoprotein E (ApoE) polymorphisms modify the risk of Alzheimer's disease with ApoE4 strongly increasing and ApoE2 modestly decreasing risk relative to the control ApoE3.

  14. Multi Layered Omics Approaches Reveal Glia Specific Alterations in Alzheimer's Disease: A Systematic Review and Future Prospects

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Glia 2024-12-09 Inflammation and the immune system

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common neurodegenerative dementia with multi-layered complexity in its molecular etiology.

  15. Homeostatic microglia initially seed and activated microglia later reshape amyloid plaques in Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. Nature communications 2024-12-05 TREM2 and immune genetics

    The role of microglia in the amyloid cascade of Alzheimer's disease (AD) is debated due to conflicting findings.

  16. Residential Neighborhood Disadvantage and Amyloid Positivity: Findings from IDEAS

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 37 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2024-12-01 Risk factors

    We observed a relationship between residence in a more disadvantaged neighborhood (higher ADI) and lower rates of amyloid positivity.

  17. Residential Neighborhood Disadvantage and Amyloid Positivity: Findings from IDEAS

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 37 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2024-12-01 Risk factors

    We observed a relationship between residence in a more disadvantaged neighborhood (higher ADI) and lower rates of amyloid positivity.

  18. APOE from astrocytes restores Alzheimer's Aβ-pathology and DAM-like responses in APOE deficient microglia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. EMBO molecular medicine 2024-11-11 Genetics

    The major genetic risk factor for Alzheimer's disease (AD), APOE4, accelerates beta-amyloid (Aβ) plaque formation, but whether this is caused by APOE expressed in microglia or astrocytes is debated.

  19. Decreased lipidated ApoE-receptor interactions confer protection against pathogenicity of ApoE and its lipid cargoes in lysosomes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Cell 2024-11-11 Genetics

    While apolipoprotein E (APOE) is the strongest genetic modifier for late-onset Alzheimer's disease (LOAD), the molecular mechanisms underlying isoform-dependent risk and the relevance of ApoE-associated lipids remain elusive.

  20. Haploinsufficiency and Alzheimer's Disease: The Possible Pathogenic and Protective Genetic Factors

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. International journal of molecular sciences 2024-11-07 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a complex neurodegenerative disorder influenced by various genetic factors.

  21. AAVrh.10 delivery of novel APOE2-Christchurch variant suppresses amyloid and Tau pathology in Alzheimer's disease mice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Molecular Therapy 2024-11-06 Genetics

    Gene therapy to treat hereditary disorders conventionally delivers the normal allele to compensate for loss-of-function mutations.

  22. Quinoa is an ancient Andean crop with a significant interest due to its nutritional and health benefits.

  23. Blood-derived mitochondrial DNA copy number is associated with Alzheimer disease, Alzheimer-related biomarkers and serum metabolites

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2024-10-23 Biomarkers

    MR analysis suggested a causal relationship between decreased blood-derived mtDNA-CN and increased risk of AD (OR = 0.68; P = 0.013).

  24. Brain-targeting liposome-based APOE2 gene delivery exacerbates soluble amyloid-β accumulation in App NL-G-F mice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Heliyon 2024-10-18 Genetics

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common cause of late-life dementia characterized by progressive neurodegeneration and brain deposition of amyloid-β (Aβ) and phosphorylated tau.

  25. iPSC-derived blood-brain barrier modeling reveals APOE isoform-dependent interactions with amyloid beta

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Fluids and barriers of the CNS 2024-10-11 Genetics

    Isogenic BMEC-like cells with different APOE genotypes had similar trans-endothelial electrical resistance, tight junction integrity and efflux transporter gene expression.

  26. Mitochondrial dysfunction gene expression, DNA methylation, and inflammatory cytokines interaction activate Alzheimer's disease: a multi-omics Mendelian randomization study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Journal of translational medicine 2024-10-03 Risk genes beyond APOE

    This study highlighted that the AD-causal MD genes could be regulated by epigenetic changes and interact with inflammatory cytokines, providing evidence for AD prevention and intervention.

  27. Role of Apolipoprotein E in Alzheimer's Disease Pathogenesis, Prognosis and Treatment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Discovery medicine 2024-10 Genetics

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is an incurable and progressive neurodegenerative disease with increasing prevalence worldwide.

  28. Alzheimer's disease-linked risk alleles elevate microglial cGAS-associated senescence and neurodegeneration in a tauopathy model

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Neuron 2024-09-30 TREM2 and immune genetics

    The strongest risk factors for late-onset sporadic Alzheimer's disease (AD) include the ε4 allele of apolipoprotein E (APOE), the R47H variant of triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells 2 (TREM2), and female sex.

  29. The influences of ApoE isoforms on endothelial adherens junctions and actin cytoskeleton responding to mCRP

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Angiogenesis 2024-09-14 Genetics

    Apolipoprotein E4 (ApoE4) plays an important role responding to monomeric C-reactive protein (mCRP) via binding to CD31 leading to cerebrovascular damage and Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  30. APOE4-related differences in cortical thickness are modulated by sex in middle age

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Brain imaging and behavior 2024-08-28 Genetics

    Apolipoprotein E (APOE) ε4, the strongest genetic risk for late-onset Alzheimer's disease (AD), confers greater risk in females than males.

  31. Restoring hippocampal glucose metabolism rescues cognition across Alzheimer's disease pathologies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Science (New York, N.Y.) 2024-08-23 Inflammation and the immune system

    Impaired cerebral glucose metabolism is a pathologic feature of Alzheimer's disease (AD), with recent proteomic studies highlighting disrupted glial metabolism in AD.

  32. Impaired cellular copper regulation in the presence of ApoE4

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Journal of neurochemistry 2024-08-12 Genetics

    The strongest genetic risk factor for late-onset Alzheimer's disease (AD) is allelic variation of the APOE gene, with the following risk structure: ε4 > ε3 > ε2.

  33. Human apolipoprotein E glycosylation and sialylation: from structure to function

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Frontiers in molecular neuroscience 2024-08-07 Genetics

    Human apolipoprotein E (ApoE) was first identified as a polymorphic gene in the 1970s; however, the genetic association of ApoE genotypes with late-onset sporadic Alzheimer's disease (sAD) was only discovered 20 years later.

  34. A summary measure of γ-secretase activity (γ-secretase composite [GSC]) was calculated for each variant and compared with clinical history-derived AAO using correlation analyses.

  35. Exploring the effect of APOE ε4 on biomarkers of neurodegeneration in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Clinica chimica acta; international journal of clinical chemistry 2024-07-18 Biomarkers

    The study population consisted of 194 patients (123 AD and 71 non-AD).

  36. APOE4 Increases Energy Metabolism in APOE-Isogenic iPSC-Derived Neurons

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Cells 2024-07-17 Genetics

    The apolipoprotein E4 (APOE4) allele represents the major genetic risk factor for Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  37. Apolipoprotein E polymorphisms and female fertility in a transgenic mouse model of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Scientific reports 2024-07-10 Genetics

    Apolipoprotein E (APOE) is a major cholesterol carrier responsible for lipid transport and injury repair in the brain.

  38. Mapping the impact of age and APOE risk factors for late onset Alzheimer's disease on long range brain connections through multiscale bundle analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Brain structure & function 2024-07-09 Risk factors

    Alzheimer's disease currently has no cure and is usually detected too late for interventions to be effective.

  39. APP antisense oligonucleotides reduce amyloid-β aggregation and rescue endolysosomal dysfunction in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Brain 2024-07-05 Genetics

    APP gene dosage is strongly associated with Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathogenesis.

  40. Adult-onset deactivation of autophagy leads to loss of synapse homeostasis and cognitive impairment, with implications for alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Autophagy 2024-07-01 Biomarkers

    Isolated forebrain synaptosomes, rather than total homogenates, from atg7 iKO mice demonstrated accumulation of synaptic proteins, suggesting that the synapse might be a vulnerable site for protein homeostasis disruption.

  41. Retraction Note: A specific amyloid-beta protein assembly in the brain impairs memory

    ⚠ Retracted — do not rely on it alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Nature 2024-06-24 Laboratory science

    Eighteen years after it was published, Nature formally retracted the landmark 2006 paper that had proposed a specific amyloid protein (Aβ*56) as a cause of memory loss in mice, citing evidence of image manipulation, including splicing, duplication, and use of an image-editing 'eraser' tool.

  42. APOE3 Christchurch Heterozygosity and Autosomal Dominant Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 72 out of 100. New England Journal of Medicine 2024-06-20 Genetics

    Clinical data supported a delayed onset of cognitive impairment in persons who were heterozygous for the APOE3 Ch variant in a kindred with a high prevalence of autosomal dominant Alzheimer's disease.

  43. APOE2 protects against Aβ pathology by improving neuronal mitochondrial function through ERRα signaling

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Cellular & molecular biology letters 2024-06-12 Genetics

    The pathway analysis of six major cell types revealed a strong association between APOE2 and cellular stress and energy metabolism, particularly in excitatory and inhibitory neurons, which was found to be more pronounced in the presence of beta-amyloid (Aβ).

  44. A cross-sectional study of α-synuclein seed amplification assay in Alzheimer's disease neuroimaging initiative: Prevalence and associations with Alzheimer's disease biomarkers and cognitive function

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2024-05-21 Long-term cohort studies

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathology is defined by β-amyloid (Aβ) plaques and neurofibrillary tau, but Lewy bodies (LBs; 𝛼-synuclein aggregates) are a common co-pathology for which effective biomarkers are needed.

  45. APOE4 homozygozity represents a distinct genetic form of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 69 out of 100. Nature medicine 2024-05-06 How common it is

    This study aimed to evaluate the impact of APOE4 homozygosity on Alzheimer's disease (AD) by examining its clinical, pathological and biomarker changes to see whether APOE4 homozygotes constitute a distinct, genetically determined form of AD.

  46. Three major effects of APOE ε4 on Aβ immunotherapy induced ARIA

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Frontiers in aging neuroscience 2024-05-02 Treatments

    The targeting of amyloid-beta (Aβ) plaques therapeutically as one of the primary causes of Alzheimer's disease (AD) dementia has been an ongoing effort spanning decades.

  47. APOE4 homozygosity represents a distinct genetic form of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Nature Medicine 2024-05 Genetics

    Analyzing postmortem brain pathology from over 3,200 people plus biomarker data from more than 10,000 more, researchers found that people who inherit two copies of the APOE4 gene variant (about 2-3% of the population) develop Alzheimer's brain changes almost universally and on a predictable timeline starting around age 55, much like known single-gene forms of Alzheimer's. The authors argue this makes APOE4 homozygosity itself a genetic form of Alzheimer's disease rather than just a risk factor.

  48. Metabolomics profiling reveals distinct, sex-specific signatures in serum and brain metabolomes in mouse models of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2024-04-27 Genetics

    We identified sex differences for several classes of metabolites, such as glycerophospholipids, sphingolipids, and amino acids.

  49. Molecular mechanisms linking type 2 diabetes mellitus and late-onset Alzheimer's disease: A systematic review and qualitative meta-analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. Neurobiology of disease 2024-04-21 Inflammation and the immune system

    Research evidence indicating common metabolic mechanisms through which type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) increases risk of late-onset Alzheimer's dementia (LOAD) has accumulated over recent decades.

  50. Effects of APOE4 on omega-3 brain metabolism across the lifespan

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Trends in endocrinology and metabolism: TEM 2024-04-12 Prevention and risk

    Omega-3 (n-3) polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs), such as docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), have important roles in human nutrition and brain health by promoting neuronal functions, maintaining inflammatory homeostasis, and providing structural integrity.

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