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  1. The Alzheimer's Biomarker Consortium-Down Syndrome: Rationale and methodology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 69 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2020-08-03 Down syndrome and Alzheimer's

    This represents the largest U.S.-based, multi-site, biomarker initiative of AD in DS.

  2. Genome-wide Association for Major Depression Through Age at Onset Stratification: Major Depressive Disorder Working Group of the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 69 out of 100. Biological psychiatry 2016-05-24 Genetics

    We demonstrate that using additional phenotype data previously collected by genetic studies to tackle phenotypic heterogeneity in MDD can successfully lead to the discovery of genetic risk factor despite reduced sample size.

  3. Common genetic variants associated with cognitive performance identified using the proxy-phenotype method

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 69 out of 100. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2014-09-08 Genetics

    We identify common genetic variants associated with cognitive performance using a two-stage approach, which we call the proxy-phenotype method.

  4. The PSEN1, p.E318G variant increases the risk of Alzheimer's disease in APOE-ε4 carriers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 69 out of 100. PLoS genetics 2013-08-22 Biomarkers

    The primary constituents of plaques (Aβ42/Aβ40) and neurofibrillary tangles (tau and phosphorylated forms of tau [ptau]) are the current leading diagnostic and prognostic cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) biomarkers for AD.

  5. Brain expression genome-wide association study (eGWAS) identifies human disease-associated variants

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 69 out of 100. PLoS genetics 2012-06-07 Genetics

    Genetic variants that modify brain gene expression may also influence risk for human diseases.

  6. Evidence for novel susceptibility genes for late-onset Alzheimer's disease from a genome-wide association study of putative functional variants

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 69 out of 100. Human molecular genetics 2007-02-22 Genetics

    This study sets out to identify novel susceptibility genes for late-onset Alzheimer's disease (LOAD) in a powerful set of samples from the UK and USA (1808 LOAD cases and 2062 controls).

  7. Longitudinal Multimodal Retinal Imaging in Cognitively Normal Apolipoprotein E4 Carriers and Noncarriers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 68 out of 100. Translational vision science & technology 2026-10-05 Brain scans and imaging

    This study analyzed 871 eyes from 439 participants (230 APOE ε4 noncarriers and 209 carriers).

  8. Genome-wide meta-analysis identifies ancestry-specific loci for Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 68 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2024-07-18 Genetics

    In addition to the apolipoprotein E (APOE) locus, our GWAS of two independent Chinese samples uncovered three novel AD susceptibility loci (KIAA2013, SLC52A3, and TCN2) and a novel ancestry-specific variant within EGFR (rs1815157).

  9. Liver-Specific Polygenic Risk Score Is Associated with Alzheimer's Disease Diagnosis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 68 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2023 Tau biomarkers

    The AD PRS model that was most predictive of AD diagnosis (even without APOE) was the liver AD PRS: n = 1,115; odds ratio = 2.15 (1.67-2.78), p = 3.62×10-9.

  10. Integrate GWAS, eQTL, and mQTL Data to Identify Alzheimer's Disease-Related Genes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 68 out of 100. Frontiers in genetics 2019-10-25 Genetics

    It is estimated that the impact of related genes on the risk of Alzheimer's disease (AD) is nearly 70%.

  11. [Genetic Background for Alzheimer's Disease: Knowledge Accumulated from AD GWAS]

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 68 out of 100. Brain and nerve = Shinkei kenkyu no shinpo 2019-10 Genetics

    Dementia is a leading cause of death in many countries.

  12. Genotyping of the Alzheimer's Disease Genome-Wide Association Study Index Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms in the Brains for Dementia Research Cohort

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 68 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2018 Genetics

    The Brains for Dementia Research project is a recently established longitudinal cohort which aims to provide brain tissue for research purposes from neuropathologically defined samples.

  13. PICALM rs3851179 Variant Confers Susceptibility to Alzheimer's Disease in Chinese Population

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 68 out of 100. Molecular neurobiology 2016-04-05 Genetics

    The association between PICALM rs3851179 variant and Alzheimer's disease (AD) has been well established by previous genome-wide association studies (GWAS) and candidate gene studies in European population.

  14. GWAS-Linked Loci and Neuroimaging Measures in Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 68 out of 100. Molecular neurobiology 2016-01-05 Genetics

    Recently, 19 susceptibility loci for Alzheimer's disease (AD) had been identified through AD genome-wide association studies (GWAS) meta-analysis.

  15. Disease-associated oligodendrocyte responses across neurodegenerative diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 67 out of 100. Cell reports 2022-08-01 Genetics

    Oligodendrocyte dysfunction has been implicated in the pathogenesis of neurodegenerative diseases, so understanding oligodendrocyte activation states would shed light on disease processes.

  16. A multi-omic atlas of the human frontal cortex for aging and Alzheimer's disease research

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 67 out of 100. Scientific data 2018-08-07 Genetics

    We initiated the systematic profiling of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex obtained from a subset of autopsied individuals enrolled in the Religious Orders Study (ROS) or the Rush Memory and Aging Project (MAP), which are jointly designed prospective studies of aging and dementia with detailed, longitudinal cognitive phenotyping during life and a quantitative, structured neuropathologic examination after death.

  17. Human longevity: 25 genetic loci associated in 389,166 UK biobank participants

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 67 out of 100. Aging 2017-12-01 Genetics

    We undertook a genome-wide association study (GWAS) of parental longevity in European descent UK Biobank participants.

  18. Blood metabolite markers of preclinical Alzheimer's disease in two longitudinally followed cohorts of older individuals

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 67 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2016-01-21 Biomarkers

    We believe that ours is the largest blood biomarker study of preclinical AD to date.

  19. Genome-Wide Scan Informed by Age-Related Disease Identifies Loci for Exceptional Human Longevity

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 67 out of 100. PLoS Genetics 2015-12-17 Genetics

    We developed a new statistical framework to find genetic variants associated with extreme longevity.

  20. A novel multi-tissue RNA diagnostic of healthy ageing relates to cognitive health status

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 67 out of 100. Genome biology 2015-09-03 Genetics

    One hundred and fifty probe-sets form an accurate classifier of young versus older muscle tissue and this healthy ageing RNA classifier performed consistently in independent cohorts of human muscle, skin and brain tissue (n = 594, AUC = 0.83-0.96) and thus represents a biomarker for biological age.

  21. Aging effects on DNA methylation modules in human brain and blood tissue

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 67 out of 100. Genome biology 2012-10-03 Genetics

    Overall, our analysis revealed a robustly defined age-related co-methylation module that is present in multiple human tissues, including blood and brain.

  22. Genome-wide association study of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 67 out of 100. Translational psychiatry 2012-05-15 Genetics

    In addition to apolipoprotein E (APOE), recent large genome-wide association studies (GWASs) have identified nine other genes/loci (CR1, BIN1, CLU, PICALM, MS4A4/MS4A6E, CD2AP, CD33, EPHA1 and ABCA7) for late-onset Alzheimer's disease (LOAD).

  23. APOE -ε4 allele[s]-associated adverse events reported from placebo arm in clinical trials for Alzheimer's disease: implications for anti-amyloid beta therapy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. Frontiers in dementia 2024-01-15 Treatments

    APOE -ε4 allele[s] is a risk factor for Alzheimer's disease (AD) and Amyloid-Related Imaging Abnormalities (ARIA) in anti-amyloid beta therapy, and is also associated with cerebrovascular risk factors such as hyperlipidemia or atherosclerosis.

  24. Machine learning suggests polygenic risk for cognitive dysfunction in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. EMBO molecular medicine 2020-12-03 Genetics

    Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a multi-system disease characterized primarily by progressive muscle weakness.

  25. Effects of polygenic risk for Alzheimer's disease on rate of cognitive decline in normal aging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. Translational psychiatry 2020-07-24 Genetics

    Most people's cognitive abilities decline with age, with significant and partly genetically driven, individual differences in rate of change.

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