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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

1,612 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. Rare genetic variation in fibronectin 1 (FN1) protects against APOEε4 in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 72 out of 100. Acta Neuropathologica 2024-04-10 Genetics

    The risk of developing Alzheimer's disease (AD) significantly increases in individuals carrying the APOEε4 allele.

  2. Onset of Alzheimer disease in apolipoprotein ɛ4 carriers is earlier in butyrylcholinesterase K variant carriers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. BMC neurology 2024-04-09 Tau biomarkers

    The authors sought to examine the impact of the K-variant of butyrylcholinesterase (BCHE-K) carrier status on age-at-diagnosis of Alzheimer disease (AD) in APOE4 carriers.

  3. The Co-oligomers of Aβ42 and Human Islet Amyloid Polypeptide Exacerbate Neurotoxicity and Alzheimer-like Pathology at Cellular Level

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 35 out of 100. Neuroscience 2024-04-09 Tau biomarkers

    The Aβ hypothesis has long been central to Alzheimer's disease (AD) theory, with a recent surge in attention following drug approvals targeting Aβ plaque clearance.

  4. Xenografted human microglia display diverse transcriptomic states in response to Alzheimer's disease-related amyloid-β pathology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Nature neuroscience 2024-03-27 TREM2 and immune genetics

    Microglia are central players in Alzheimer's disease pathology but analyzing microglial states in human brain samples is challenging due to genetic diversity, postmortem delay and admixture of pathologies.

  5. APOE2 gene therapy reduces amyloid deposition and improves markers of neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration in a mouse model of Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Molecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy 2024-03-19 Disease mechanisms

    Epidemiological studies show that individuals who carry the relatively uncommon APOE ε2 allele rarely develop Alzheimer disease, and if they do, they have a later age of onset, milder clinical course, and less severe neuropathological findings than people without this allele.

  6. Glymphatic system dysfunction predicts amyloid deposition, neurodegeneration, and clinical progression in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. Alzheimer's & Dementia 2024-03-19 Laboratory science

    Glymphatic failure may precede amyloid pathology, and predicts amyloid deposition, neurodegeneration, and clinical progression in AD.

  7. APOE4/4 is linked to damaging lipid droplets in Alzheimer's disease microglia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Nature 2024-03-13 Genetics

    Several genetic risk factors for Alzheimer's disease implicate genes involved in lipid metabolism and many of these lipid genes are highly expressed in glial cells 1 .

  8. ApoE Isoforms Inhibit Amyloid Aggregation of Proinflammatory Protein S100A9

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. International journal of molecular sciences 2024-02-09 Genetics

    Increasing evidence suggests that the calcium-binding and proinflammatory protein S100A9 is an important player in neuroinflammation-mediated Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  9. Exploring Natural Compounds for Alzheimer's Disease: Virtual Screening and Docking Study with KIBRA Protein

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Preprints.org 2024-02-05 Drug development

    Therapies targeting amyloid, such as monoclonal antibodies like Lecanemab, Aducanumab, and Donanemab, have garnered FDA approval but remain controversial due to limited clinical benefits and significant side effects against Alzheimer.

  10. Apolipoprotein E Gene in α-Synucleinopathies: A Narrative Review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. International journal of molecular sciences 2024-02-01 Genetics

    In this narrative review, we delved into the intricate interplay between Apolipoprotein E (APOE) alleles (typically associated with Alzheimer's disease-AD) and alpha-synucleinopathies (aS-pathies), involving Parkinson's disease (PD), Parkinson's disease dementia (PDD), dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB), and multiple-system atrophy (MSA).

  11. Apolipoprotein E Polymorphisms in Andean Population of Jujuy, Argentina

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease reports 2024-01-18 Genetics

    The pleiotropic nature of the apolipoprotein E (APOE) gene is associated with complex diseases in different populations.

  12. Deciphering ApoE Genotype-Driven Proteomic and Lipidomic Alterations in Alzheimer's Disease Across Distinct Brain Regions

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Journal of proteome research 2024-01-18 Genetics

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disease with a complex etiology influenced by confounding factors such as genetic polymorphisms, age, sex, and race.

  13. Effects of APOE2 and APOE4 on brain microstructure in older adults: modification by age, sex, and cognitive status

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2024-01-11 Genetics

    Among CN, APOE4 carriers showed lower entorhinal cortex neurite density than non-carriers, whereas APOE2 carriers showed lower cingulum neurite density than non-carriers.

  14. Cell type-specific roles of APOE4 in Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Nature reviews. Neuroscience 2024-01-08 Genetics

    The ɛ4 allele of the apolipoprotein E gene (APOE), which translates to the APOE4 isoform, is the strongest genetic risk factor for late-onset Alzheimer disease (AD).

  15. Onset of Alzheimer disease in apolipoprotein ɛ4 carriers is earlier in butyrylcholinesterase K variant carriers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. BMC neurology 2024-01-03 Tau biomarkers

    In mild AD patients aged less than 75 years, the mean age-at-diagnosis of AD in APOE4 carriers was reduced by over 6 years in BCHE-K carriers versus noncarriers.

  16. Impact of apolipoprotein E isoforms on sporadic Alzheimer's disease: beyond the role of amyloid beta

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Neural regeneration research 2024-01 Genetics

    The impact of apolipoprotein E (ApoE) isoforms on sporadic Alzheimer's disease has long been studied; however, the influences of apolipoprotein E gene (APOE) on healthy and pathological human brains are not fully understood.

  17. Amelioration of Amyloid-β Induced Alzheimer's Disease by Bacopa monnieri through Modulation of Mitochondrial Dysfunction and GSK-3β/Wnt/β-Catenin Signaling

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Molecular nutrition & food research 2023-12-24 Tau biomarkers

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most prevalent dementia, affecting a large number of populations.

  18. Microglial APOE4: more is less and less is more

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Molecular neurodegeneration 2023-12-19 Genetics

    Apolipoprotein E (APOE) is the single greatest genetic risk factor for late onset Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  19. APOE Genotype and Alzheimer Disease Risk Across Age, Sex, and Population Ancestry

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 82 out of 100. JAMA Neurology 2023-12-01 Genetics

    Among 68 756 unique individuals, analyses included 21 852 East Asian (demographic data not available), 5738 Hispanic (68.2% female; mean [SD] age, 75.4 [8.8] years), 7145 non-Hispanic Black (hereafter referred to as Black) (70.8% female; mean [SD] age, 78.4 [8.2] years), and 34 021 non-Hispanic White (hereafter referred to as White) (59.3% female; mean [SD] age, 77.0 [9.1] years) individuals.

  20. Etiology of White Matter Hyperintensities in Autosomal Dominant and Sporadic Alzheimer Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 67 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2023-12-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Data from 3960 MRI sessions among 1141 participants were included: 252 pathogenic variant carriers from DIAN (mean [SD] age, 38.4 [11.2] years; 137 [54%] female), 571 older adults from ADNI (mean [SD] age, 72.8 [7.3] years; 274 [48%] female), and 318 older adults from HABS (mean [SD] age, 72.4 [7.6] years; 194 [61%] female).

  21. Brain apolipoprotein E levels in mice challenged by a Western diet increase in an allele-dependent manner

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Aging brain 2023-11-27 Genetics

    Human apolipoprotein E (APOE) is the greatest determinant of genetic risk for memory deficits and Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  22. Amelioration of Tau and ApoE4-linked glial lipid accumulation and neurodegeneration with an LXR agonist

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Neuron 2023-11-22 Genetics

    Apolipoprotein E (APOE) is a strong genetic risk factor for late-onset Alzheimer's disease (LOAD).

  23. ATG5 (autophagy related 5) in microglia controls hippocampal neurogenesis in Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Autophagy 2023-11-10 Biomarkers

    Macroautophagy/autophagy is the intracellular degradation process of cytoplasmic content and damaged organelles.

  24. Clinical safety and efficacy of allogenic human adipose mesenchymal stromal cells-derived exosomes in patients with mild to moderate Alzheimer's disease: a phase I/II clinical trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. General psychiatry 2023-10-11 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    Intranasal administration of ahaMSCs-Exos was safe and well tolerated, and a dose of at least 4×10 8 particles could be selected for further clinical trials.

  25. The cell biology of APOE in the brain

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Trends in cell biology 2023-10-05 Genetics

    Apolipoprotein E (APOE) traffics lipids in the central nervous system.

  26. Neuron-derived extracellular vesicles in blood reveal effects of exercise in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 67 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2023-09-20 Treatments

    Additionally, our results indicate that AD subjects carrying APOE ε4 are more responsive to the neuroprotective effects of physical activity.

  27. Apolipoprotein E2 Stimulates Protein Synthesis and Promotes Melanoma Progression and Metastasis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Cancer research 2023-09-15 Genetics

    APOE germline variants impact melanoma progression through disparate mechanisms, such as the protein synthesis-promoting function of the APOE2 variant, indicating that germline genetic variants are causal contributors to metastatic outcomes.

  28. The roles of apolipoprotein E ε4 on neuropathology and neuroinflammation in patients with Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. CNS neuroscience & therapeutics 2023-09-12 Genetics

    β amyloid protein (Aβ)1-42 level from the APOE ε4 carrier group was significantly lower than that from the non-carrier group (p = 0.023), which was associated with worse cognitive function.

  29. ApoE4 exacerbates the senescence of hippocampal neurons and spatial cognitive impairment by downregulating acetyl-CoA level

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Aging cell 2023-08-18 Genetics

    Although aging and apolipoprotein E (APOE) ε4 allele have been documented as two major risk factors for late-onset Alzheimer's disease (LOAD), their interaction and potential underlying mechanisms remain unelucidated.

  30. Roles of Oxidative Stress in Synaptic Dysfunction and Neuronal Cell Death in Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) 2023-08-17 Disease mechanisms

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a brain disorder that progressively undermines memory and thinking skills by affecting the hippocampus and entorhinal cortex.

  31. Improving the Bioavailability and Efficacy of Coenzyme Q10 on Alzheimer's Disease Through the Arginine Based Proniosomes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 37 out of 100. Journal of pharmaceutical sciences 2023-07-26 Tau biomarkers

    Coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10) is a fat-soluble vitamin-with a benzoquinone-like structure.

  32. APOE genotypes modify the obesity paradox in dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry 2023-07-06 Genetics

    Obesity was associated with cognitive decline in early elderly cognitively normal individuals without APOE4, especially those with APOE2.

  33. Proteomic clusters underlie heterogeneity in preclinical Alzheimer's disease progression

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2023-07-01 Biomarkers

    Heterogeneity in progression to Alzheimer's disease (AD) poses challenges for both clinical prognosis and clinical trial implementation.

  34. Clonal hematopoiesis is associated with protection from Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 80 out of 100. Nature medicine 2023-06-15 Inflammation and the immune system

    Clonal hematopoiesis of indeterminate potential (CHIP) is a premalignant expansion of mutated hematopoietic stem cells.

  35. Location of pathogenic variants in PSEN1 impacts progression of cognitive, clinical, and neurodegenerative measures in autosomal-dominant Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Aging cell 2023-06-08 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Although pathogenic variants in PSEN1 leading to autosomal-dominant Alzheimer disease (ADAD) are highly penetrant, substantial interindividual variability in the rates of cognitive decline and biomarker change are observed in ADAD.

  36. The triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells 2-apolipoprotein E signaling pathway in diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Chinese medical journal 2023-06-05 TREM2 and immune genetics

    Triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells 2 (TREM2) is a membrane receptor on myeloid cells and plays an important role in the body's immune defense.

  37. Novel loci for Alzheimer's disease identified by a genome-wide association study in Ashkenazi Jews

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Alzheimer's & Dementia 2023-06-01 Genetics

    Our results highlight the efficacy of founder populations for AD genetic studies.

  38. Myelin dysfunction drives amyloid-β deposition in models of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 65 out of 100. Nature 2023-05-31 How common it is

    The incidence of Alzheimer's disease (AD), the leading cause of dementia, increases rapidly with age, but why age constitutes the main risk factor is still poorly understood.

  39. Roles of ApoE4 on the Pathogenesis in Alzheimer's Disease and the Potential Therapeutic Approaches

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Cellular and molecular neurobiology 2023-05-25 Genetics

    The Apolipoprotein E ε4 (ApoE ε4) allele, encoding ApoE4, is the strongest genetic risk factor for late-onset Alzheimer's disease (LOAD).

  40. APOEε4 and risk of Alzheimer's disease - time to move forward

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Frontiers in neuroscience 2023-05-19 TREM2 and immune genetics

    The inheritance of Apolipoprotein E4 (APOEε4) brings the highest genetic risk of Alzheimer's disease (AD), arguably the highest genetic risk in human pathology.

  41. Resilience to autosomal dominant Alzheimer's disease in a Reelin-COLBOS heterozygous man

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Nature Medicine 2023-05-15 Genetics

    We characterized the world's second case with ascertained extreme resilience to autosomal dominant Alzheimer's disease (ADAD).

  42. Reduced binding of apoE4 to complement factor H promotes amyloid-β oligomerization and neuroinflammation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. EMBO reports 2023-05-08 Genetics

    The APOE4 variant of apolipoprotein E (apoE) is the most prevalent genetic risk allele associated with late-onset Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  43. Apolipoprotein E Recognizes Alzheimer's Disease Associated 3-O Sulfation of Heparan Sulfate

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) 2023-04-28 Genetics

    Apolipoprotein E (ApoE)'s ϵ4 alle is the most important genetic risk factor for late onset Alzheimer's Disease (AD).

  44. Amyloid β-Peptide Effects on Glucose Regulation Are Dependent on Apolipoprotein E Genotype

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. eNeuro 2023-04-26 Genetics

    The apolipoprotein E gene (APOE) confers the greatest genetic risk factor for Alzheimer's disease (AD), wherein the ε4 allele confers an elevated risk compared with the ε3 allele.

  45. Single-nucleus RNA-sequencing of autosomal dominant Alzheimer disease and risk variant carriers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Nature communications 2023-04-21 Genetics

    Genetic studies of Alzheimer disease (AD) have prioritized variants in genes related to the amyloid cascade, lipid metabolism, and neuroimmune modulation.

  46. MicroRNA expression in extracellular vesicles as a novel blood-based biomarker for Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2023-04-18 Mild cognitive impairment

    Brain cell-derived small extracellular vesicles (sEVs) in blood offer unique cellular and molecular information related to the onset and progression of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  47. Blood β-synuclein is related to amyloid PET positivity in memory clinic patients

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2023-04-13 Biomarkers

    Plasma β-synuclein demonstrated discriminative properties for Aβ PET positive and negative subjects.

  48. Differential and substrate-specific inhibition of γ-secretase by the C-terminal region of ApoE2, ApoE3, and ApoE4

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Neuron 2023-04-10 Genetics

    Aberrant low γ-secretase activity is associated with most of the presenilin mutations that underlie familial Alzheimer's disease (fAD).

  49. Vascular Risk Predicts Plasma Amyloid β 42/40 Through Cerebral Amyloid Burden in Apolipoprotein E ε4 Carriers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Stroke 2023-04-06 Biomarkers

    Vascular risk significantly predicted cerebral amyloid burden in Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative but not in the UCD-ADRC cohort.

  50. Accelerated Brain Volume Loss Caused by Anti-β-Amyloid Drugs: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 78 out of 100. Neurology 2023-03-27 Treatments

    These findings reveal the potential for anti-Aβ therapies to compromise long-term brain health by accelerating brain atrophy and provide new insight into the adverse impact of ARIA.

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