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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.

Download bibliography of all 933 studies, highest score first: BibTeX (.bib) · RIS (.ris)

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  1. The role of DNA methylation in aging, rejuvenation, and age-related disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Rejuvenation research 2012-10-01 Genetics

    DNA methylation is a major control program that modulates gene expression in a plethora of organisms.

  2. Genetic architectures of psychiatric disorders: the emerging picture and its implications

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Nature reviews. Genetics 2012-07-10 Prevention and risk

    Psychiatric disorders are among the most intractable enigmas in medicine.

  3. Long non-coding RNAs in Huntington's disease neurodegeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Neurobiology of disease 2011-12-14 Brain scans and imaging

    Neurodegeneration in the brains of Huntington's disease patients is accompanied by widespread changes in gene regulatory networks.

  4. Molecular characterization of the translocation breakpoints in the Down syndrome mouse model Ts65Dn

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Mammalian genome : official journal of the International Mammalian Genome Society 2011-09-28 Down syndrome and Alzheimer's

    Ts65Dn is a mouse model of Down syndrome: a syndrome that results from chromosome (Chr) 21 trisomy and is associated with congenital defects, cognitive impairment, and ultimately Alzheimer's disease.

  5. Genetic counseling and testing for Alzheimer disease: joint practice guidelines of the American College of Medical Genetics and the National Society of Genetic Counselors

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Genetics in medicine : official journal of the American College of Medical Genetics 2011-06-01 Disparities

    Alzheimer disease is the most common cause of dementia.

  6. Age-related macular degeneration (AMD): Alzheimer's disease in the eye?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2011-01-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is a late-onset, neurodegenerative retinal disease that shares several clinical and pathological features with Alzheimer's disease (AD), including stress stimuli such as oxidative stress and inflammation.

  7. Long-term social isolation exacerbates the impairment of spatial working memory in APP/PS1 transgenic mice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Brain research 2010-11-26 Biomarkers

    The interaction between gene and environment is known to play a major role in the etiology of several neuropsychiatric disorders, including Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  8. The genetic architecture of Alzheimer's disease: beyond APP, PSENs and APOE

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2010-07-01 Genetics

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a complex disorder with a clear genetic component.

  9. Voxelwise genome-wide association study (vGWAS)

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. NeuroImage 2010-02-17 Genetics

    The structure of the human brain is highly heritable, and is thought to be influenced by many common genetic variants, many of which are currently unknown.

  10. Systemic mitochondrial dysfunction and the etiology of Alzheimer's disease and down syndrome dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2010-01-01 Down syndrome and Alzheimer's

    Increasing evidence is implicating mitochondrial dysfunction as a central factor in the etiology of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  11. Cholesterol metabolism and transport in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Journal of neurochemistry 2009-12-01 Drug development

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common neurodegenerative disorder, affecting millions of people worldwide.

  12. Genome-wide association studies in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Human molecular genetics 2009-10-01 Genetics

    Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have gained considerable momentum over the last couple of years for the identification of novel complex disease genes.

  13. Molecular genetic analysis of Down syndrome

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Human genetics 2009-06-13 Down syndrome and Alzheimer's

    Down syndrome (DS) is caused by trisomy of all or part of human chromosome 21 (HSA21) and is the most common genetic cause of significant intellectual disability.

  14. Apolipoprotein E: structure determines function, from atherosclerosis to Alzheimer's disease to AIDS

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Journal of lipid research 2008-12-22 Genetics

    Apolipoprotein (apo) E has roles beyond lipoprotein metabolism.

  15. Identification of miRNA changes in Alzheimer's disease brain and CSF yields putative biomarkers and insights into disease pathways

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2008-05-01 Tau biomarkers

    MicroRNAs have essential functional roles in brain development and neuronal specification but their roles in neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease (AD) is unknown.

  16. Alzheimer's disease is associated with reduced expression of energy metabolism genes in posterior cingulate neurons

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2008-03-10 Genetics

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is associated with regional reductions in fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography (FDG PET) measurements of the cerebral metabolic rate for glucose, which may begin long before the onset of histopathological or clinical features, especially in carriers of a common AD susceptibility gene.

  17. Expression of APP pathway mRNAs and proteins in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Brain research 2007-06-05 Biomarkers

    In both trisomy 21 and rare cases of triplication of amyloid precursor protein (APP) Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathological changes are believed to be secondary to increased expression of APP.

  18. A human phenome-interactome network of protein complexes implicated in genetic disorders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Nature biotechnology 2007-03-01 Risk factors

    We performed a systematic, large-scale analysis of human protein complexes comprising gene products implicated in many different categories of human disease to create a phenome-interactome network.

  19. Predicting the insurgence of human genetic diseases associated to single point protein mutations with support vector machines and evolutionary information

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) 2006-08-07 Digital health tools

    In this paper, we develop a method based on support vector machines (SVMs) that starting from the protein sequence information can predict whether a new phenotype derived from a nsSNP can be related to a genetic disease in humans.

  20. Apolipoprotein E structure: insights into function

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Trends in biochemical sciences 2006-07-03 Genetics

    Human apolipoprotein E (apoE) is a member of the family of soluble apolipoproteins.

  21. Apolipoprotein E allele-dependent pathogenesis: a model for age-related retinal degeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2005-08-03 Brain scans and imaging

    Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is a late-onset, multifactorial, neurodegenerative disease of the retina and the leading cause of irreversible vision loss in the elderly in the Western world.

  22. The SELDI-TOF MS approach to proteomics: protein profiling and biomarker identification

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Biochemical and biophysical research communications 2002-04-01 Genetics

    The need for methods to identify disease biomarkers is underscored by the survival-rate of patients diagnosed at early stages of cancer progression.

  23. Apolipoprotein E polymorphism and cardiovascular disease: a HuGE review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. American journal of epidemiology 2002-03-01 Genetics

    This review examines the association between the apolipoprotein (apo) var epsilon gene polymorphism (or its protein product (apo E)), metabolic regulation of cholesterol, and cardiovascular disease.

  24. Procreative beneficence: why we should select the best children

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Bioethics 2001-10-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Eugenic selection of embryos is now possible by employing in vitro fertilization (IVF) and preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD).

  25. Local cellular sources of apolipoprotein E in the human retina and retinal pigmented epithelium: implications for the process of drusen formation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. American journal of ophthalmology 2001-06-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Apolipoprotein E protein is strategically located at the same anatomic locus where drusen are situated, and the retinal pigmented epithelium is the most likely local biosynthetic source of apolipoprotein E at that location.

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