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  1. Hippocampal atrophy as a quantitative trait in a genome-wide association study identifying novel susceptibility genes for Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. PloS one 2009-08-07 Genetics

    Using hippocampal atrophy as a quantitative phenotype in a genome-wide scan, we have identified candidate risk genes for sporadic Alzheimer's disease that merit further investigation.

  2. Epigenetic changes in Alzheimer's disease: decrements in DNA methylation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2008-12-30 Genetics

    DNA methylation is a vital component of the epigenetic machinery that orchestrates changes in multiple genes and helps regulate gene expression in all known vertebrates.

  3. Association of apolipoprotein E gene with risk, cognition, and prognosis of epilepsy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Human genetics 2026-09-26 Genetics

    Previous experimental studies suggested a link between the apolipoprotein E (APOE) gene and epilepsy.

  4. Plasma ApoE proteotyping for ApoE ε4 stratification in the anti-amyloid therapies era

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2026-05-21 Genetics

    The ratio showed excellent separation across genotypes in our cohort.

  5. Genome-Wide Association Study of Incident Dementia in a Community-Based Sample of Older Subjects

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2022 Genetics

    The established association of APOE*4 carriers with AD was confirmed in this community-based sample of older subjects (odds ratio (OR) = 2.22; p = 9.36E-14) and was stronger in females (OR = 2.72; p = 1.74E-10) than in males (OR = 1.88; p = 2.43E-05).

  6. Risk of Alzheimer's disease and related dementia by sex and race/ethnicity: The Multiethnic Cohort Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2021-12-09 Disparities

    The ASDIR for ADRD was higher for women (17.0 per 1000 person-years) than for men (15.3) and varied across African Americans (22.9 in women, 21.5 in men), Native Hawaiians (19.3, 19.4), Latinos (16.8, 14.7), Whites (16.4, 15.5), Japanese Americans (14.8, 13.8), and Filipinos (12.5, 9.7).

  7. Plasma amyloid-β ratios in autosomal dominant Alzheimer's disease: the influence of genotype

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2021-11-29 Biomarkers

    In vitro studies of autosomal dominant Alzheimer's disease implicate longer amyloid-β peptides in disease pathogenesis; however, less is known about the behaviour of these mutations in vivo.

  8. Longitudinal association of apolipoprotein E and sleep with incident dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2021-09-03 Risk factors

    During a median of 10.8 years follow-up, sleeping more or fewer than 7 hours was associated with a higher dementia risk (hazard ratio [HR] for 5 vs 7 hours: 1.35, 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.11-1.64; HR for 9 vs 7 hours: 1.59; 95% CI 1.37-1.85) as was daytime napping (HR for often/all of the time vs never/rarely: 1.67; 95% CI 1.37-2.03).

  9. APOE2 mitigates disease-related phenotypes in an isogenic hiPSC-based model of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Molecular psychiatry 2021-04-09 Genetics

    Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified polymorphism in the Apolipoprotein E gene (APOE) to be the most prominent risk factor for Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  10. Modeling autosomal dominant Alzheimer's disease with machine learning

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2021-01-21 Brain scans and imaging

    The Relief algorithm identified the caudate, cingulate, and precuneus as the strongest predictors among all modalities.

  11. Polygenic risk and hazard scores for Alzheimer's disease prediction

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Annals of clinical and translational neurology 2019-02-18 Genetics

    Polygenic Risk Score significantly predicted the risk associated with age at AD onset when SNPs were preselected for association to AD at P ≤ 0.001.

  12. APOE4 allele disrupts resting state fMRI connectivity in the absence of amyloid plaques or decreased CSF Aβ42

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2010-12-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Identifying high-risk populations is an important component of disease prevention strategies.

  13. Genetic Characterization of MAPT Exon 6 Variants in Indonesian Patients with Vascular Dementia: A Cross-Sectional Sequencing Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. F1000Res 2026-09-10 Cognitive tests and assessment

    This study provides the first molecular characterization of MAPT gene variants in Indonesian patients with vascular dementia.

  14. Characterization of MTHFR Coding Variants in Indonesian Patients With Vascular Dementia: An Exploratory Sequencing Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. F1000Res 2026-09-09 Vascular contributions

    Multiple MTHFR coding variants were identified in this small Indonesian VaD cohort.

  15. GRN rs5848 variant associates with TDP-43 pathology and cancer in opposite directions

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology 2026-09-01 Brain tissue and pathology

    Epidemiologic studies have reported that cancer survivors have a relatively low risk of developing dementia, but the mechanisms underlying that inverse relationship are mostly unknown.

  16. TMEM106B is a selective modulator of TDP-43 pathology in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2026-09 Brain tissue and pathology

    The TMEM106B risk variant was significantly enriched in AD cases with transactive response DNA-binding protein 43 kDa (TDP-43) pathology - associating with increased odds of developing AD TDP-43 subtype α - but failed to associate with Lewy body or vascular pathology.

  17. Phenotypic heterogeneity of type 2 diabetes and risks of complications with a tree-like representation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Cardiovascular diabetology 2026-03-30 Risk factors

    This study included 6406 individuals with newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes from the UK Biobank.

  18. Integrative multi-omics approaches identify molecular pathways and improve Alzheimer's disease risk prediction

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2025-11 Genetics

    Known and novel signals were identified via G/T/PWAS.

  19. GWAS links APOE to neuropsychiatric symptoms in mild cognitive impairment and dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2025-06 Genetics

    We found genome-wide significant signals for agitation, anxiety, apathy, delusions, and hallucinations that were driven by the apolipoprotein E (APOE) ε4 allele.

  20. TREM2 risk variants and associated endophenotypes in alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2025-03-06 TREM2 and immune genetics

    TREM2 variant carriers (64 ± 7 years, 54% female) did not show distinct clinical measures of AD at presentation compared to AD patients not carrying a TREM2 variant (64 ± 7 years, 52% female).

  21. Association of Blood MicroRNA Expression and Polymorphisms with Cognitive and Biomarker Changes in Older Adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. The journal of prevention of Alzheimer's disease 2024 Biomarkers

    Six miRNAs (hsa-miR-128-3p, hsa-miR-144-5p, hsa-miR-146a-5p, hsa-miR-26a-5p, hsa-miR-29c-3p and hsa-miR-363-3p) were downregulated in the blood of individuals with low cognitive performance on the Repeatable Battery for the Assessment of Neuropsychological Status (RBANS).

  22. Brain expression quantitative trait locus and network analyses reveal downstream effects and putative drivers for brain-related diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Nature Genetics 2023-02-23 Genetics

    Gaining insight into the downstream consequences of non-coding variants is an essential step towards the identification of therapeutic targets from genome-wide association study (GWAS) findings.

  23. GSN gene frameshift mutations in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry 2023-01-17 Biomarkers

    Six patients with AD with GSN P3fs and K346fs mutations (0.50%, 6/1192) were identified, who were diagnosed with AD but not FAF.

  24. Investigating the Genetic Characteristics of Hippocampal Volume and Plasma β-Amyloid in a Chinese Community-Dwelling Population

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Neurology 2022-07-18 Genetics

    A total of 1,261 participants from a Chinese community cohort were included and we identified 1 gene, PTPRT, for HV, with the top significant SNPs by whole genome-wide association study (GWAS). rs6030076 (p = 5.48 × 10-8, β = -0.092, SE 0.017) from WES and rs6030088 (p = 8.24 × 10-9, β = -105.22, SE 18.09) from SNP array data were both located in this gene.

  25. Genome-wide association study of brain arteriolosclerosis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Journal of cerebral blood flow and metabolism : official journal of the International Society of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism 2022-02-14 Genetics

    Brain arteriolosclerosis (B-ASC) is characterized by pathologically altered brain parenchymal arterioles.

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