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  1. Apolipoprotein E variation at the sequence haplotype level: implications for the origin and maintenance of a major human polymorphism

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. American journal of human genetics 2000-09-13 Disparities

    Three common protein isoforms of apolipoprotein E (apoE), encoded by the epsilon2, epsilon3, and epsilon4 alleles of the APOE gene, differ in their association with cardiovascular and Alzheimer's disease risk.

  2. Cerebral amyloid angiopathy-related hemorrhage. Interaction of APOE epsilon2 with putative clinical risk factors

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Stroke 1999-08-01 Digital health tools

    Our findings suggest that antiplatelet or anticoagulant medication, hypertension, or minor head trauma are most likely to precipitate cerebral hemorrhage in patients with CAA who are also epsilon2 carriers.

  3. Mechanisms of sex differences in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Neuron 2024-02-22 Genetics

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) and the mechanisms underlying its etiology and progression are complex and multifactorial.

  4. Addressing Overlapping Sample Challenges in Genome-Wide Association Studies: Meta-Reductive Approach

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. PloS one 2023-12-11 Genetics

    Polygenic risk scores (PRS) are instrumental in genetics, offering insights into an individual level genetic risk to a range of diseases based on accumulated genetic variations.

  5. 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).

  6. Molecular genetics of neuropsychiatric illness: some musings

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Frontiers in genetics 2023-11-01 Genetics

    Research into the genetic underpinnings of neuropsychiatric illness has occurred at many levels.

  7. Influence of Alzheimer's disease related neuropathology on local microenvironment gene expression in the human inferior temporal cortex

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. GEN biotechnology 2023-10-16 Genetics

    Neuropathological lesions in the brains of individuals affected with neurodegenerative disorders are hypothesized to trigger molecular and cellular processes that disturb homeostasis of local microenvironments.

  8. Integrating single-nucleus sequence profiling to reveal the transcriptional dynamics of Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, and multiple sclerosis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of translational medicine 2023-09-21 Genetics

    The gene regulatory network analysis identified several hub genes regulated in AD, PD, and MS, in which HSPB1 and HSPA1A were key molecules.

  9. 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.

  10. Multi-omic atlas of the parahippocampal gyrus in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Scientific data 2023-09-08 Genetics

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia worldwide, with a projection of 151 million cases by 2050.

  11. Alzheimer's Disease: Causal Effect between Obesity and APOE Gene Polymorphisms

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. International journal of molecular sciences 2023-08-31 Genetics

    Currently studies on the correlation between obesity and Alzheimer's disease (AD) are still unclear.

  12. Vascular cognitive impairment - Past, present, and future challenges

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Ageing research reviews 2023-08-25 Vascular contributions

    Vascular cognitive impairment (VCI) is a lifelong process encompassing a broad spectrum of cognitive disorders, ranging from subtle or mild deficits to prodromal and fully developed dementia, originating from cerebrovascular lesions such as large and small vessel disease.

  13. Genetics of Alzheimer's Disease in the African American Population

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of clinical medicine 2023-08-09 Genetics

    Black/African American (AA) individuals have a higher risk of Alzheimer's disease (AD) than White non-Hispanic persons of European ancestry (EUR) for reasons that may include economic disparities, cardiovascular health, quality of education, and biases in the methods used to diagnose AD.

  14. Proteomics analysis of plasma from middle-aged adults identifies protein markers of dementia risk in later life

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Science translational medicine 2023-07-19 Disease mechanisms

    A diverse set of biological processes have been implicated in the pathophysiology of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and related dementias.

  15. The impact of alcohol abuse on Alzheimer's disease (AD) is poorly understood.

  16. 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.

  17. Shared genetic risk loci between Alzheimer's disease and related dementias, Parkinson's disease, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2023-06-16 Genetics

    Eleven loci with GWAS hits for one disorder were also associated with one or both of the other disorders: one with all three disorders (the MAPT/KANSL1 locus), five with ADRD and PD (near LCORL, CLU, SETD1A/KAT8, WWOX, and GRN), three with ADRD and ALS (near GPX3, HS3ST5/HDAC2/MARCKS, and TSPOAP1), and two with PD and ALS (near GAK/TMEM175 and NEK1).

  18. 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).

  19. Neurogenomics of Alzheimer's disease (AD): An Asian population review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Clinica chimica acta; international journal of clinical chemistry 2023-05-19 Genetics

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is on the rise worldwide.

  20. 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.

  21. 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).

  22. The dysfunction of astrocytes in response to environmental factors contributes to many neurological diseases by impacting neuroinflammation responses, glutamate and ion homeostasis, and cholesterol and sphingolipid metabolism, which calls for comprehensive and high-resolution analysis.

  23. 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).

  24. Frontotemporal dementia presentation in patients with heterozygous p.H157Y variant of TREM2

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of medical genetics 2023-02-22 TREM2 and immune genetics

    The two Colombian cases presented with early behavioural changes, greater impairments in general cognition and executive function compared with both HC and Ng-FTD groups.

  25. Apolipoprotein E4 has extensive conformational heterogeneity in lipid-free and lipid-bound forms

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2023-02-07 Genetics

    The ε4-allele variant of apolipoprotein E (ApoE4) is the strongest genetic risk factor for Alzheimer's disease, although it only differs from its neutral counterpart ApoE3 by a single amino acid substitution.

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