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Each study has a usefulness score out of 100 (rubric version 4.0). Tap a score to see what makes it up.

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  1. Age-Associated Transcriptomic and Epigenetic Alterations in Mouse Hippocampus

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Aging cell 2025-09-28 Genetics

    Aging represents a major risk for human neurodegenerative disorders, such as dementia and Alzheimer's disease, and is associated with a functional decline in neurons and impaired synaptic plasticity, leading to a gradual decline in memory.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. Single-cell multiregion epigenomic rewiring in Alzheimer's disease progression and cognitive resilience

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Cell 2025-08-01 Genetics

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disorder characterized by progressive cognitive decline, yet its epigenetic underpinnings remain elusive.

  5. Human brain vascular multi-omics elucidates disease-risk associations

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Neuron 2025-07-28 Genetics

    Cerebrovascular dysfunction underlies many neurological disorders, yet how genetic variants in brain vascular cells drive disease risk remains unknown.

  6. Cell-type-directed network-correcting combination therapy for Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Cell 2025-07-21 Genetics

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a multifactorial neurodegenerative disorder characterized by heterogeneous molecular changes across diverse cell types, posing significant challenges for treatment development.

  7. Presence of Alzheimer's disease variants in circular RNA of PSEN1 and PSEN2

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2025-06-16 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Circular RNAs (circRNAs) are emerging as a promising object of study in Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathogenesis.

  8. ApoE4 requires lipidation enhancement to resolve cellular lipid and protein abnormalities following NPC1 inhibition

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Scientific reports 2025-04-29 Genetics

    Apolipoprotein E (ApoE) variants are central to Alzheimer's disease (AD), Lewy body dementia (LBD) and Niemann-Pick disease type C (NPC).

  9. Molecular pathways and diagnosis in spatially resolved Alzheimer's hippocampal atlas

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Neuron 2025-03-31 Genetics

    We employed Stereo-seq combined with single-nucleus RNA sequencing (snRNA-seq) to investigate the gene expression and cell composition changes in human hippocampus with or without Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  10. APOE genotype determines cell-type-specific pathological landscape of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Neuron 2025-03-19 Genetics

    The apolipoprotein E (APOE) gene is the strongest genetic risk modifier for Alzheimer's disease (AD), with the APOE4 allele increasing risk and APOE2 decreasing it compared with the common APOE3 allele.

  11. Evaluating pathogenicity of variants of unknown significance in APP, PSEN1, and PSEN2

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics 2025-01-27 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Autosomal dominant Alzheimer's disease (ADAD) is driven by rare variants in APP, PSEN1, and PSEN2.

  12. Multivariate proteome-wide association study to identify causal proteins for Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. American journal of human genetics 2025-01-09 Genetics

    Alzheimer disease (AD) is a complex and progressive neurodegenerative disorder that accounts for the majority of individuals with dementia.

  13. Transcription Factor-Wide Association Studies to Identify Functional SNPs in Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2025-01-08 Genetics

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder with profound global impact.

  14. Integrative multiomics reveals common endotypes across PSEN1, PSEN2, and APP mutations in familial Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2025-01-04 Risk genes beyond APOE

    We identified common disease endotypes, such as dedifferentiation, dysregulation of synaptic signaling, repression of mitochondrial function and metabolism, and inflammation.

  15. 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.

  16. Cell-type specific epigenetic clocks to quantify biological age at cell-type resolution

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Aging 2024-12-29 Genetics

    The ability to accurately quantify biological age could help monitor and control healthy aging.

  17. RNA Isoform Diversity in Human Neurodegenerative Diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. eNeuro 2024-12-27 Genetics

    Single-nucleus RNA-sequencing (snRNA-seq) has revealed new levels of cellular organization and diversity within the human brain.

  18. 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.

  19. Translational Research on Polygenic Risk Scores in Common Neurodegenerative Diseases - A Scoping Review Protocol

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Acta medica academica 2024-12 Genetics

    The purpose of this protocol is to clearly describe the process for the scoping review we plan to conduct on the topic of polygenic risk scores (PRS) in common neurodegenerative diseases.

  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. 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.

  22. 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.

  23. Lipids, lipoproteins, and apolipoproteins: Associations with cognition and dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Atherosclerosis 2024-09-21 Risk factors

    Due to increasing lifespan and aging populations globally there has been a steep rise in late-life dementia, which is now the second most common cause of death in high-income countries.

  24. 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.

  25. 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.

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