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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.

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  1. Familial Alzheimer's disease sustained by presenilin 2 mutations: systematic review of literature and genotype-phenotype correlation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews 2014-03-02 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Familial Alzheimer's disease (FAD), despite representing a rare condition, is attracting a growing interest in the scientific community.

  2. CR1 is associated with amyloid plaque burden and age-related cognitive decline

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2011-03-09 Genetics

    We found that common variation at the CR1 locus has a broad impact on cognition and that this effect is largely mediated by an individual's amyloid plaque burden.

  3. Genetic risk loci for Parkinson's disease and dementia in a large-scale population-based Taiwanese cohort (TPMI)

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. The Lancet regional health. Western Pacific 2026-03-04 Genetics

    Among 463,447 TPMI participants, 4381 PD patients and 43,810 controls were analysed.

  4. Genome-wide association study of abnormal elevation of ALT in patients exposed to atabecestat

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. BMC genomics 2023-09-01 Genetics

    No variant passed the genome-wide significance threshold (p = 5 × 10- 8) in the case-control GWAS.

  5. Genetic Variation in Targets of Antidiabetic Drugs and Alzheimer Disease Risk: A Mendelian Randomization Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Neurology 2022-06-02 Drug development

    Genetic variation in sulfonylurea targets was associated with a lower risk of AD, and future studies are warranted to clarify the underlying mechanistic pathways between sulfonylureas and AD.

  6. PheMap: a multi-resource knowledge base for high-throughput phenotyping within electronic health records

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA 2020-11-01 Digital health tools

    PheMap significantly streamlines the process of extracting research-quality phenotype information from EHRs, with comparable or better performance to current phenotyping approaches.

  7. Genetic modifiers of risk and age at onset in GBA associated Parkinson's disease and Lewy body dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2020-01-01 Genetics

    Variants in GBA, encoding the enzyme glucocerebrosidase, are associated with Lewy body diseases such as Parkinson's disease and Lewy body dementia.

  8. Meta-analysis of modifiable risk factors for Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry 2015-08-20 Drug development

    Effective interventions in diet, medications, biochemical exposures, psychological condition, pre-existing disease and lifestyle may decrease new incidence of AD.

  9. Investigation of triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells 2 variant in the Wisconsin Registry for Alzheimer's Prevention

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2013-11-20 TREM2 and immune genetics

    Recent studies have found an association between a variant in triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells 2 (TREM2) (rs75932628-T) and both Alzheimer's disease (AD) and cognitive function in individuals aged 80-100 years.

  10. Meta-analysis of Alzheimer's disease risk with obesity, diabetes, and related disorders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Biological psychiatry 2009-04-09 Genetics

    Obesity and diabetes significantly and independently increase risk for AD.

  11. Thirty years of Alzheimer's disease genetics: the implications of systematic meta-analyses

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Nature reviews. Neuroscience 2008-10-01 Genetics

    The genetic underpinnings of Alzheimer's disease (AD) remain largely elusive despite early successes in identifying three genes that cause early-onset familial AD (those that encode amyloid precursor protein (APP) and the presenilins (PSEN1 and PSEN2)), and one genetic risk factor for late-onset AD (the gene that encodes apolipoprotein E (APOE)).

  12. Genetic architecture of plasma pTau217 and related biomarkers in Alzheimer's disease via genome-wide association studies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2026-03 Biomarkers

    Genome-wide significant loci were identified for all biomarkers, including DACT1-DAAM1 (pTau217), KCNJ3 (pTau181), KLHDC4 (NfL), SLC10A7 (GFAP), and PPP4R2 (composite score).

  13. Single-cell landscape of sex-specific drivers of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2025-12 Genetics

    Nine female-specific associations were identified and replicated, involving ADGRV1, OR3A3, IFI27L1, LYRM1, STAP2, TSTD2, PDYN, and TMEM50B. We observed the preponderance of protective female-specific associations in neurons.

  14. Plasma levels of glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) and neurofilament light (NEFL) are key dementia biomarkers.

  15. Bidirectional relationship between epigenetic age and brain health events

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. Nature communications 2024-06-25 Genetics

    Chronological age offers an imperfect estimate of the molecular changes that occur with aging.

  16. Genetic influences on brain and cognitive health and their interactions with cardiovascular conditions and depression

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. Nature communications 2024-06-18 Genetics

    Approximately 40% of dementia cases could be prevented or delayed by modifiable risk factors related to lifestyle and environment.

  17. Biobank-wide association scan identifies risk factors for late-onset Alzheimer's disease and endophenotypes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. eLife 2024-05-24 Genetics

    Rich data from large biobanks, coupled with increasingly accessible association statistics from genome-wide association studies (GWAS), provide great opportunities to dissect the complex relationships among human traits and diseases.

  18. Guidelines for bioinformatics of single-cell sequencing data analysis in Alzheimer's disease: review, recommendation, implementation and application

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. Molecular neurodegeneration 2022-03-02 Genetics

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia, characterized by progressive cognitive impairment and neurodegeneration.

  19. Artificial intelligence framework identifies candidate targets for drug repurposing in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2022-01-10 Genetics

    Through this approach, we identified 103 ARGs validated by various levels of pathobiological evidence in AD.

  20. Interactions between dietary patterns and genetic factors in relation to incident dementia among 70-year-olds

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. European journal of nutrition 2021-10-10 Prevention and risk

    There were interactions between the dietary patterns and APOE ε4 status in relation to incident dementia (interaction p value threshold of < 0.1), while no evidence of interactions were found between the dietary patterns and the AD-PRSs.

  21. Genome-wide association study of Alzheimer's disease CSF biomarkers in the EMIF-AD Multimodal Biomarker Discovery dataset

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. Translational psychiatry 2020-11-22 Genetics

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most prevalent neurodegenerative disorder and the most common form of dementia in the elderly.

  22. Association between serum cholesterol levels and Alzheimer's disease in China: a case-control study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. International journal of food sciences and nutrition 2019-01-09 Risk factors

    To examine the association between blood cholesterol concentrations and Alzheimer's disease (AD) in the Chinese elderly.

  23. Organ aging signatures in the plasma proteome track health and disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. Nature 2023-12-06 Biomarkers

    Animal studies show aging varies between individuals as well as between organs within an individual 1-4 , but whether this is true in humans and its effect on age-related diseases is unknown.

  24. Sex differences in the progression of glucose metabolism dysfunction in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. Experimental & molecular medicine 2023-05-01 Biomarkers

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a common neurodegenerative disease characterized by amyloid plaques and impaired brain metabolism.

  25. Association of biological sex with clinical outcomes and biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease in adults with Down syndrome

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. Brain communications 2023-03-17 Biomarkers

    We used within-group locally estimated scatterplot smoothing models to compare the trajectory of biomarker changes with age in females versus males, as well as by apolipoprotein ɛ4 carriership.

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