Get help now — free helplines

You can call any of these for free. You do not need a diagnosis, an appointment, or a crisis to call — questions and plain exhaustion are reasons enough.

  • Alzheimer's Association 24/7 Helpline 800-272-3900 24 hours a day, 365 days a year Free, confidential support and information for people with dementia, caregivers, families and the public. Master's-level clinicians. Also Spanish.
  • 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline 988 24/7 Call or text 988, or chat at 988lifeline.org. For anyone in emotional distress or a mental-health crisis, including caregivers.
  • Alzheimer's Foundation of America (AFA) Helpline 866-232-8484 9:00 am - 9:00 pm ET, seven days a week Licensed social workers providing support, info and referrals. Also text message and web chat. Text: 646-586-5283

In a medical emergency, call 911. More numbers, and what each line does, on the help page.

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

Highest usefulness score first. Studies without a score come last.

  1. Human apolipoprotein E isoforms are differentially sialylated and the sialic acid moiety in ApoE2 attenuates ApoE2-Aβ interaction and Aβ fibrillation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Neurobiology of disease 2022-01-15 Genetics

    The APOE genotype is the most prominent genetic risk factor for the development of late-onset Alzheimer''s disease (LOAD); however, the underlying mechanisms remain unclear.

  2. Genetics of common cerebral small vessel disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Nature reviews. Neurology 2022-01-05 Genetics

    Cerebral small vessel disease (cSVD) is a leading cause of ischaemic and haemorrhagic stroke and a major contributor to dementia.

  3. Alzheimer's Disease Variant Portal: A Catalog of Genetic Findings for Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2022 Genetics

    ADVP V1.0 (February 2021) catalogs 6,990 associations related to disease-risk, expression quantitative traits, endophenotypes, or neuropathology.

  4. Polygenic Risk Scores in Alzheimer's Disease Genetics: Methodology, Applications, Inclusion, and Diversity

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2022 Genetics

    The success of genome-wide association studies (GWAS) completed in the last 15 years has reinforced a key fact: polygenic architecture makes a substantial contribution to variation of susceptibility to complex disease, including Alzheimer's disease.

  5. Combinational Drug Repurposing from Genetic Networks Applied to Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2022 Drug development

    It enables robust identification of signaling pathways enriched in disease susceptibility loci.

  6. Single-cell Transcriptional Changes in Neurodegenerative Diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Neuroscience 2021-11-06 Genetics

    In recent decades, our understanding of the molecular changes involved in neurodegenerative diseases has been transformed.

  7. Drug repositioning based on the heterogeneous information fusion graph convolutional network

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Briefings in bioinformatics 2021-11-05 Drug development

    In silico reuse of old drugs (also known as drug repositioning) to treat common and rare diseases is increasingly becoming an attractive proposition because it involves the use of de-risked drugs, with potentially lower overall development costs and shorter development timelines.

  8. A drug repositioning algorithm based on a deep autoencoder and adaptive fusion

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. BMC bioinformatics 2021-10-30 Drug development

    In this study, a drug repositioning algorithm based on a deep autoencoder and adaptive fusion was proposed to mitigate the problems of decreased precision and low-efficiency multisource data fusion caused by data sparseness.

  9. Association between WWOX/MAF variants and dementia-related neuropathologic endophenotypes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2021-10-29 Genetics

    The genetic locus containing the WWOX and MAF genes was implicated as a clinical Alzheimer's disease (AD) risk locus in two recent large meta-analytic genome wide association studies (GWAS).

  10. A Friend and a Foe: 50 Years of the Apolipoprotein E Research Trail

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. The Israel Medical Association journal : IMAJ 2021-10 Genetics

    An arginine-rich apolipoprotein was discovered 50 years ago and became known as apolipoprotein E (ApoE) 10 years later.

  11. ApoE4 increases susceptibility to stress-induced age-dependent depression-like behavior and cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of psychiatric research 2021-09-10 Genetics

    Though apolipoprotein E ε4 (APOE ε4) is a major genetic risk factor for late-onset Alzheimer's disease, its association with depression remains controversial.

  12. Interactions between Apolipoprotein E Metabolism and Retinal Inflammation in Age-Related Macular Degeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Life (Basel, Switzerland) 2021-06-29 Genetics

    Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is a multifactorial retinal disorder that is a major global cause of severe visual impairment.

  13. Improving the Utility of Polygenic Risk Scores as a Biomarker for Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Cells 2021-06-29 Genetics

    The treatment of complex and multifactorial diseases constitutes a big challenge in day-to-day clinical practice.

  14. Shared Genetic Etiology between Alzheimer's Disease and Blood Levels of Specific Cytokines and Growth Factors

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Genes 2021-06-05 Genetics

    Late-onset Alzheimer's disease (AD) has a significant genetic and immunological component, but the molecular mechanisms through which genetic and immunity-related risk factors and their interplay contribute to AD pathogenesis are unclear.

  15. Apolipoprotein E isoform-dependent effects on the processing of Alzheimer's amyloid-β

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Biochimica et biophysica acta. Molecular and cell biology of lipids 2021-05-24 Genetics

    Since the identification of the apolipoprotein E (apoE) *ε4 allele as a major genetic risk factor for late-onset Alzheimer's disease, significant efforts have been aimed at elucidating how apoE4 expression confers greater brain amyloid-β (Aβ) burden, earlier disease onset and worse clinical outcomes compared to apoE2 and apoE3.

  16. Novel Alzheimer's disease risk variants identified based on whole-genome sequencing of APOE ε4 carriers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Translational psychiatry 2021-05-19 Genetics

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease associated with a complex genetic etiology.

  17. A novel PSEN2 p.Ser175Phe variant in a family with Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology 2021-04-15 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) can be either sporadic or familial, and familial forms of AD accounts for only 5% of the cases.

  18. Multiomics integrative analysis identifies APOE allele-specific blood biomarkers associated to Alzheimer's disease etiopathogenesis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Aging 2021-04-12 Genetics

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia, currently affecting 35 million people worldwide.

  19. Obstructive Sleep Apnea and Dementia-Common Gene Associations through Network-Based Identification of Common Driver Genes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Genes 2021-04-09 Risk factors

    42 common genes were identified between OSA and dementia which were primarily linked to the G-coupled protein receptor (GPCR) and olfactory pathways.

  20. Polygenic Score Models for Alzheimer's Disease: From Research to Clinical Applications

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Frontiers in neuroscience 2021-03-29 Genetics

    The high prevalence of Alzheimer's disease (AD) among the elderly population and its lack of effective treatments make this disease a critical threat to human health.

  21. The Impact of Complement Genes on the Risk of Late-Onset Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Genes 2021-03-20 Genetics

    Late-onset Alzheimer's disease (LOAD), the most common cause of dementia, and a huge global health challenge, is a neurodegenerative disease of uncertain aetiology.

  22. Early-onset familial Alzheimer's disease in a family with mutation of presenilin 2 gene

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Zhong nan da xue xue bao. Yi xue ban = Journal of Central South University. Medical sciences 2021-02-28 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common senile neurodegenerative disease characterized by progressive cognitive dysfunction, psychological and behavioral abnormalities, and impaired ability of activities of daily living.

  23. A Structured Brain-wide and Genome-wide Association Study Using ADNI PET Images

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. The Canadian journal of statistics = Revue canadienne de statistique 2021-02-20 Genetics

    A multi-stage variable selection method is introduced for detecting association signals in structured brain-wide and genome-wide association studies (brain-GWAS).

  24. A genome-wide association study in human lymphoblastoid cells supports safety of mitochondrial complex I inhibitor

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Mitochondrion 2021-02-19 Genetics

    Novel therapeutic strategies for Alzheimer's disease (AD) are of the greatest priority given the consistent failure of recent clinical trials focused on Aβ or pTau.

  25. An Integrated Multi-omics Approach Identifies Therapeutic Potential for ATP6V1A in Late Onset Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Neuron 2021-01-20 Drug development

    In this issue of Neuron, Wang et al. employ an impressive multi-omics approach, including gene co-expression network analyses and drug repositioning, to normalize disease-disrupted gene modules and identify a therapeutically relevant driver of Alzheimer's disease.

From across this topic

10 of the 933 studies in this topic, picked by a fixed rule (a hash of each study's address), not by score or date; each page of this list shows a different 10. The same 10 appear here every time.

Other topics