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  1. Apolipoprotein E Alleles and Motor Signs in Older Adults with Alzheimer's Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. International journal of molecular sciences 2025-09-03 Genetics

    We investigated associations between apolipoprotein E (APOE) alleles and motor manifestations in Alzheimer's dementia (AD) capitalizing on National Alzheimer's Coordinating Center data: the baseline evaluations of older adults (≥60 years) with a diagnosis of AD were analyzed.

  2. Polygenic risk score of Alzheimer's disease is associated with cognitive trajectories and phenotypes of cerebral organoids

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2025-09 Genetics

    OptPRS predicted AD dementia and Aβ positivity, independent of apolipoprotein E (APOE).

  3. Trends and mechanisms of Alzheimer's disease and hearing impairment: A 20-year perspective

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Ageing research reviews 2025-06-09 Risk factors

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) and hearing loss (HL) are major age-related public health challenges with emerging evidence suggesting their interconnection.

  4. Exploring the effect of APOE ε4 on biomarkers of neurodegeneration in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Clinica chimica acta; international journal of clinical chemistry 2024-07-18 Biomarkers

    The study population consisted of 194 patients (123 AD and 71 non-AD).

  5. Genome-wide association study in Alzheimer's disease: a bibliometric and visualization analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Frontiers in aging neuroscience 2023-11-29 Genetics

    A total of 1,350 publications with 59,818 citations were identified.

  6. Pathway-Specific Polygenic Risk Scores Correlate with Clinical Status and Alzheimer's Disease-Related Biomarkers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2023 Genetics

    Thirteen pathway clusters were identified, and eight pathway-specific PRSs were significantly associated with AD diagnosis.

  7. A Genome-Wide Association Study of 2304 Extreme Longevity Cases Identifies Novel Longevity Variants

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. International journal of molecular sciences 2022-12-21 Genetics

    We performed a genome-wide association study (GWAS) of human extreme longevity (EL), defined as surviving past the 99th survival percentile, by aggregating data from four centenarian studies.

  8. Multi-Omic analyses characterize the ceramide/sphingomyelin pathway as a therapeutic target in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Communications biology 2022-10-08 Genetics

    Dysregulation of sphingomyelin and ceramide metabolism have been implicated in Alzheimer's disease.

  9. Alzheimer's polygenic hazard score in SuperAgers: SuperGenes or SuperResilience?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (New York, N. Y.) 2022-08-02 Genetics

    A total of 37 SuperAgers (73% female, mean [standard deviation] 82.7 [2.8] years old) and 35 controls (54% female, 83.7 [4.3] years old) were included.

  10. Clinical impact of whole-genome sequencing in patients with early-onset dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry 2022-07-29 Genetics

    Clinical genetic diagnosis was achieved in 7 of 50 (14%) of the patients, with a further 8 patients (16%) found to have established risk factors which may have contributed to their EOD.

  11. Polygenic score for Alzheimer's disease identifies differential atrophy in hippocampal subfield volumes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. PloS one 2022-07-13 Genetics

    Hippocampal subfield atrophy is a prime structural change in the brain, associated with cognitive aging and neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease.

  12. Genome-Wide association study of quantitative biomarkers identifies a novel locus for alzheimer's disease at 12p12.1

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. BMC genomics 2022-01-28 Genetics

    Using the data from the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI), we performed a genome-wide association study (GWAS) between 565,373 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and 16 key AD biomarkers from 1,576 subjects at four visits.

  13. Screening for Genetic Mutations Associated with Early-Onset Alzheimer's Disease in Han Chinese

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Current Alzheimer research 2022 Risk genes beyond APOE

    We identified 7 functional variants in APP/PSENs in 8 patients, including 1 APP mutation (p. Val715Met), 3 PSEN1 mutations (p. Phe177Ser; p. Arg377Met; p. Ile416Thr), and 3 PSEN2 mutations (p. Glu24Lys; p. Gly34Ser; p. Met239Thr).

  14. A genome-wide association study of plasma phosphorylated tau181

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2021-05-04 Biomarkers

    Plasma phosphorylated tau at threonine-181 (P-tau181) demonstrates promise as an accessible blood-based biomarker specific to Alzheimer's Disease (AD), with levels recently demonstrating high predictive accuracy for AD-relevant pathology.

  15. Resistance to autosomal dominant Alzheimer's disease in an APOE3 Christchurch homozygote: a case report

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Nature medicine 2019-11-04 Genetics

    We identified a PSEN1 (presenilin 1) mutation carrier from the world's largest autosomal dominant Alzheimer's disease kindred, who did not develop mild cognitive impairment until her seventies, three decades after the expected age of clinical onset.

  16. Lack of association between triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells 2 polymorphism rs75932628 and late-onset Alzheimer's disease in a Chinese Han population

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Psychiatric genetics 2018-02 TREM2 and immune genetics

    Recently, several studies have investigated the association between the rare mutation of triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells 2 (TREM2) gene (rs75932628-T) and the risk of late-onset Alzheimer's disease (LOAD), but they did not draw the same conclusion.

  17. Genome-wide association and interaction studies of CSF T-tau/Aβ42 ratio in ADNI cohort

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2017-05-15 Genetics

    The pathogenic relevance in Alzheimer's disease (AD) presents a decrease of cerebrospinal fluid amyloid-ß42 (Aß42) burden and an increase in cerebrospinal fluid total tau (T-tau) levels.

  18. African American exome sequencing identifies potential risk variants at Alzheimer disease loci

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Neurology. Genetics 2017-04-07 Genetics

    Two ABCA7 missense variants (rs3764647 and rs3752239) demonstrated significant association with AD risk.

  19. Human longevity is influenced by many genetic variants: evidence from 75,000 UK Biobank participants

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Aging 2016-03-23 Genetics

    Variation in human lifespan is 20 to 30% heritable in twins but few genetic variants have been identified.

  20. Shared genetic aetiology between cognitive functions and physical and mental health in UK Biobank (N=112 151) and 24 GWAS consortia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Molecular psychiatry 2016-01-26 Genetics

    Causes of the well-documented association between low levels of cognitive functioning and many adverse neuropsychiatric outcomes, poorer physical health and earlier death remain unknown.

  21. Alzheimer's disease: early alterations in brain DNA methylation at ANK1, BIN1, RHBDF2 and other loci

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Nature neuroscience 2014-08-17 Genetics

    We used a collection of 708 prospectively collected autopsied brains to assess the methylation state of the brain's DNA in relation to Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  22. Alzheimer's disease: analyzing the missing heritability

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. PloS one 2013-11-07 Genetics

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a complex disorder influenced by environmental and genetic factors.

  23. Atypical aging in Down syndrome

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Developmental disabilities research reviews 2013-01-01 Down syndrome and Alzheimer's

    At present, there may be over 210,000 people with Down syndrome (DS) over the age of 55 in the United States (US) who have significant needs for augmented services due to circumstances related to ordinary and/or pathological aging.

  24. DNA methylation in the human cerebral cortex is dynamically regulated throughout the life span and involves differentiated neurons

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. PloS one 2007-09-19 Genetics

    The role of DNA cytosine methylation, an epigenetic regulator of chromatin structure and function, during normal and pathological brain development and aging remains unclear.

  25. Neuropsychological effects of bilateral STN stimulation in Parkinson disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Neurology 2006-06-26 Genetics

    The Alzheimer’s Disease Sequencing Project (ADSP) performed whole genome sequencing (WGS) of 584 subjects from 111 multiplex families at three sequencing centers.

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