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  1. Human apolipoprotein E ɛ4 expression impairs cerebral vascularization and blood-brain barrier function in mice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of cerebral blood flow and metabolism : official journal of the International Society of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism 2014-10-22 Genetics

    Human apolipoprotein E (APOE) exists in three isoforms ɛ2, ɛ3, and ɛ4, of which APOE4 is the main genetic risk factor of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  2. APOE ε4: the most prevalent yet understudied risk factor for Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2014-09-10 Genetics

    Brain pathology of Alzheimer's diseases (AD) and the genetics of autosomal dominant familial AD have been the "lamp posts" under which the AD field has been looking for therapeutic targets.

  3. Human apolipoprotein e resequencing by proteomic analysis and its application to serotyping

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. PloS one 2014-01-14 Genetics

    The mean coverage of the amino acid sequence of full-length ApoE was 91.6% in the protein resequence.

  4. Rare autosomal copy number variations in early-onset familial Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Molecular psychiatry 2013-06-11 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Over 200 rare and fully penetrant pathogenic mutations in amyloid precursor protein (APP), presenilin 1 and 2 (PSEN1 and PSEN2) cause a subset of early-onset familial Alzheimer's disease (EO-FAD).

  5. Ataxia, dementia, and hypogonadotropism caused by disordered ubiquitination

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. The New England journal of medicine 2013-05-08 Genetics

    The syndrome of hypogonadotropic hypogonadism, ataxia, and dementia can be caused by inactivating mutations in RNF216 or by the combination of mutations in RNF216 and OTUD4.

  6. ApoE4 decreases spine density and dendritic complexity in cortical neurons in vivo

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2009-12-02 Genetics

    The three human alleles of apolipoprotein E (APOE) differentially influence outcome after CNS injury and affect one's risk of developing Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  7. A high-density whole-genome association study reveals that APOE is the major susceptibility gene for sporadic late-onset Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. The Journal of clinical psychiatry 2007-04-01 Genetics

    This study provides empirical support for the suggestion that the APOE locus is the major susceptibility gene for late-onset AD in the human genome, with an OR significantly greater than any other locus in the human genome.

  8. Cockayne syndrome in adults: review with clinical and pathologic study of a new case

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of child neurology 2006-11-01 Risk factors

    Cockayne syndrome and xeroderma pigmentosum-Cockayne syndrome complex are rare autosomal recessive disorders with poorly understood biology.

  9. Gene regulation and DNA damage in the ageing human brain

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Nature 2004-06-09 Disease mechanisms

    The ageing of the human brain is a cause of cognitive decline in the elderly and the major risk factor for Alzheimer's disease.

  10. Down's syndrome

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Lancet (London, England) 2003-04-01 Risk factors

    The sequencing of chromosome 21 and the use of models of Down's syndrome in mice have allowed us to relate genes and sets of genes to the neuropathogenesis of this syndrome, and to better understand its phenotype.

  11. Early onset familial Alzheimer's disease: Mutation frequency in 31 families

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Neurology 2003-01-28 Risk genes beyond APOE

    The mean AAO was 46.9 years (median 45 years; range 33 to 60 years).

  12. Variable expression of familial Alzheimer disease associated with presenilin 2 mutation M239I

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Neurology 2000-05-23 Risk genes beyond APOE

    In a family with autopsy-confirmed Alzheimer disease, the authors found a mutation in the presenilin 2 (PS2) gene (PSEN2) that predicts a methionine-to-isoleucine change at PS2 residue 239 (M239I), at which a change to valine was known in another family.

  13. A Familial Alzheimer's Disease Locus on Chromosome 1

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Science 1995-08-18 Risk genes beyond APOE

    The Volga German kindreds are a group of seven related families with autosomal dominant early-onset Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  14. Differential effects of apolipoproteins E3 and E4 on neuronal growth in vitro

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Science (New York, N.Y.) 1994-05-01 Genetics

    Apolipoprotein E4 (apoE4), one of the three common isoforms of apoE, has been implicated in Alzheimer's disease.

  15. Genetic linkage evidence for a familial Alzheimer's disease locus on chromosome 14

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Science (New York, N.Y.) 1992-10-01 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Linkage analysis was used to search the genome for chromosomal regions harboring familial Alzheimer's disease genes.

  16. A new mitochondrial disease associated with mitochondrial DNA heteroplasmy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. American journal of human genetics 1990-03-01 Disease mechanisms

    A variable combination of developmental delay, retinitis pigmentosa, dementia, seizures, ataxia, proximal neurogenic muscle weakness, and sensory neuropathy occurred in four members of a family and was maternally transmitted.

  17. The genetic defect in familial Alzheimer's disease is not tightly linked to the amyloid beta-protein gene

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Nature 1987-09-01 Down syndrome and Alzheimer's

    Amyloid beta-protein (AP) is a peptide of relative molecular mass (Mr) 42,000 found in the senile plaques, cerebrovascular amyloid deposits, and neurofibrillary tangles of patients with Alzheimer's disease and Down's syndrome (trisomy 21).

  18. Beta amyloid gene duplication in Alzheimer's disease and karyotypically normal Down syndrome

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Science (New York, N.Y.) 1987-03-01 Down syndrome and Alzheimer's

    With the recently cloned complementary DNA probe, lambda Am4 for the chromosome 21 gene encoding brain amyloid polypeptide (beta amyloid protein) of Alzheimer's disease, leukocyte DNA from three patients with sporadic Alzheimer's disease and two patients with karyotypically normal Down syndrome was found to contain three copies of this gene.

  19. The genetic defect causing familial Alzheimer's disease maps on chromosome 21

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Science (New York, N.Y.) 1987-02-01 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Alzheimer's disease is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality among the elderly.

  20. Integrating spatial transcriptomics data across different conditions, technologies and developmental stages

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Nature computational science 2023-10-12 Digital health tools

    With the rapid generation of spatial transcriptomics (ST) data, integrative analysis of multiple ST datasets from different conditions, technologies and developmental stages is becoming increasingly important.

  21. Integrating Comorbidity Knowledge for Alzheimer's Disease Drug Repurposing using Multi-task Graph Neural Network

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. AMIA Joint Summits on Translational Science proceedings. AMIA Joint Summits on Translational Science 2023-06-16 Drug development

    Alzheimer's Disease (AD) is a multifactorial disease that shares common etiologies with its multiple comorbidities, especially vascular diseases.

  22. Cholesterol and matrisome pathways dysregulated in astrocytes and microglia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Cell 2022-06-01 Genetics

    The impact of apolipoprotein E ε4 (APOE4), the strongest genetic risk factor for Alzheimer's disease (AD), on human brain cellular function remains unclear.

  23. Astrocytes and oligodendrocytes undergo subtype-specific transcriptional changes in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Neuron 2022-04-04 Genetics

    Resolving glial contributions to Alzheimer's disease (AD) is necessary because changes in neuronal function, such as reduced synaptic density, altered electrophysiological properties, and degeneration, are not entirely cell autonomous.

  24. MicroRNAs in Alzheimer's disease: Potential diagnostic markers and therapeutic targets

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Biomedicine & pharmacotherapy = Biomedecine & pharmacotherapie 2022-02-15 Treatments

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common neurodegenerative disease, with cognitive decline as the primary clinical feature.

  25. Transcriptomic taxonomy and neurogenic trajectories of adult human, macaque, and pig hippocampal and entorhinal cells

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Neuron 2021-11-18 Genetics

    The hippocampal-entorhinal system supports cognitive functions, has lifelong neurogenic capabilities in many species, and is selectively vulnerable to Alzheimer's disease.

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