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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. Associations between sleep disturbance and cerebrospinal fluid Aβ, and shared proteomic signatures in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 75 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2026-04 Tau biomarkers

    Baseline sleep disturbance was associated with a faster rate of longitudinal CSF Aβ42 decline.

  2. Genome-wide association study provides insights into the genetic basis of Lewy body dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 75 out of 100. Molecular psychiatry 2025-10-09 Genetics

    Lewy body dementia (LBD) is the second most prevalent dementia, however most genetic risk remains uncharacterized.

  3. Alzheimer's disease risk variants show association with cerebrospinal fluid amyloid beta

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 75 out of 100. Neurogenetics 2008-09-24 Tau biomarkers

    The use of quantitative endophenotypes in genetic studies may provide greater power, allowing for the use of powerful statistical methods and a biological model for the effects of the disease-associated genetic variation.

  4. Genome-wide meta-analysis, fine-mapping and integrative prioritization implicate new Alzheimer's disease risk genes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 74 out of 100. Nature genetics 2021-02-15 Genetics

    Genome-wide association studies have discovered numerous genomic loci associated with Alzheimer's disease (AD); yet the causal genes and variants are incompletely identified.

  5. APOE and Alzheimer's disease: advances in genetics, pathophysiology, and therapeutic approaches

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 74 out of 100. The Lancet. Neurology 2021-01-01 Genetics

    The APOE ε4 allele remains the strongest genetic risk factor for sporadic Alzheimer's disease and the APOE ε2 allele the strongest genetic protective factor after multiple large scale genome-wide association studies and genome-wide association meta-analyses.

  6. Disclosure of APOE genotype for risk of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 74 out of 100. The New England journal of medicine 2009-07-01 Clinical trials

    The disclosure of APOE genotyping results to adult children of patients with Alzheimer's disease did not result in significant short-term psychological risks.

  7. Proteomics reveals three molecular subtypes of Alzheimer's disease with distinct progression patterns

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 73 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2026-02 Tau biomarkers

    Three AD subtypes were identified. Subtype 1, enriched in RNA metabolism pathways, showed the mildest atrophy and slowest cognitive decline.

  8. Longitudinal Genome-Wide Association Study of Cognitive Impairment after Subarachnoid Hemorrhage

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 73 out of 100. Biomedicines 2024-06-22 Genetics

    Cognitive impairment was observed in 65 patients (42.5%) during a mean follow-up of 37.7 ± 12.4 months.

  9. Pathogenic variants in the Longitudinal Early-onset Alzheimer's Disease Study cohort

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 73 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2023-10-06 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Previously reported pathogenic variants in the six genes were identified in 1.35% of EOAD (3/223) and 6.58% of EOnonAD (5/76).

  10. Multi-ancestry meta-analysis and fine-mapping in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 73 out of 100. Molecular psychiatry 2023-05-18 Genetics

    Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of Alzheimer's disease are predominantly carried out in European ancestry individuals despite the known variation in genetic architecture and disease prevalence across global populations.

  11. APOE Variants in an Iberian Alzheimer Cohort Detected through an Optimized Sanger Sequencing Protocol

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 73 out of 100. Genes 2020-12-22 Genetics

    The primary genetic risk factor for late onset Alzheimer's disease (LOAD) is the APOE4 allele of Apolipoprotein E (APOE) gene.

  12. Loneliness as a Pathway Linking Hearing Decline to Cognitive Aging: Longitudinal and Genetic Evidence

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 72 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2026-04-18 Risk factors

    Age-related hearing loss is linked to loneliness and poorer cognitive health, but it remains unclear whether loneliness helps explain associations between hearing difficulties and cognitive performance or dementia, and whether these patterns reflect causal pathways or shared underlying liability.

  13. Common variants in Alzheimer's disease and risk stratification by polygenic risk scores

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 72 out of 100. Nature communications 2021-06-07 Genetics

    Genetic discoveries of Alzheimer's disease are the drivers of our understanding, and together with polygenetic risk stratification can contribute towards planning of feasible and efficient preventive and curative clinical trials.

  14. Genetic architecture of vitamin B12 and folate levels uncovered applying deeply sequenced large datasets

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 72 out of 100. PLoS genetics 2013-06-06 Genetics

    Genome-wide association studies have mainly relied on common HapMap sequence variations.

  15. Genome-wide haplotype association study identifies the FRMD4A gene as a risk locus for Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 72 out of 100. Molecular psychiatry 2012-03-20 Biomarkers

    Recently, several genome-wide association studies (GWASs) have led to the discovery of nine new loci of genetic susceptibility in Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  16. Polygenic scores of Core 1 Alzheimer's disease biomarkers predict early cognitive and pathological change

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2025-11 Biomarkers

    The Core 1 biomarker PGSs predicted AD pathology and associated cognitive performance better than the AD PGSs in both populations.

  17. DNA Methylation in Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. Current topics in behavioral neurosciences 2025 Genetics

    To date, DNA methylation is the best characterized epigenetic modification in Alzheimer's disease.

  18. Plasma biomarkers and genetics in the diagnosis and prediction of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2023-02-01 Biomarkers

    To define Alzheimer's disease with biomarkers rather than clinical assessment, we assessed prediction of research-diagnosed disease status using these biomarkers and tested genetic variants associated with the biomarkers that may reflect more accurately the risk of biochemically defined Alzheimer's disease instead of the risk of dementia.

  19. Genetic and polygenic risk score analysis for Alzheimer's disease in the Chinese population

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2020-08-05 Biomarkers

    SORL1 is associated with AD in the Hong Kong Chinese population.

  20. Genetic variants and functional pathways associated with resilience to Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2020-08-01 Genetics

    Approximately 30% of older adults exhibit the neuropathological features of Alzheimer's disease without signs of cognitive impairment.

  21. Genome-wide association study identifies four novel loci associated with Alzheimer's endophenotypes and disease modifiers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica 2017-02-28 Genetics

    More than 20 genetic loci have been associated with risk for Alzheimer's disease (AD), but reported genome-wide significant loci do not account for all the estimated heritability and provide little information about underlying biological mechanisms.

  22. Structural variants linked to Alzheimer's disease and other common age-related clinical and neuropathologic traits

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 70 out of 100. Genome medicine 2025-03-04 Genetics

    First, we mapped SVs across 81 AD risk loci and discovered 22 SVs in linkage disequilibrium (LD) with GWAS lead variants and directly associated with the phenotypes tested.

  23. Genetic variants for Alzheimer's disease and comorbid conditions

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 70 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2024-11-10 Genetics

    Targeted analysis of 20 SNPs that were reported to be associated with ADRD revealed that six were significantly associated with dual-disease outcomes, specifically congestive heart failure and cancer.

  24. Interplay between Socioeconomic Markers and Polygenic Predisposition on Timing of Dementia Diagnosis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 70 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2020-03-18 Genetics

    A one standard deviation increase in AD-PGS was associated with an accelerated time to dementia diagnosis by 4.8 months.

  25. Polygenicity and APOE ε4 shape response to intervention in mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 69 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2025-12-12 Prevention trials

    Both intervention and control groups showed cognitive improvement over 24 weeks, with greater gains in the intervention arm.

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