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  1. A family-aware All of Us benchmark for polygenic prediction and genomic machine learning 2026-10-26
  2. Genetic susceptibility to Lewy body disease and the distribution of Lewy pathology 2026-10-24
  3. Genetic Modifiers of Age at Onset for Parkinson’s Disease in European Populations 2026-10-22

Studies

346 studies carry this tag.

Date range

1992 to 2026

Top journals

  • Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 29
  • Neurobiology of aging 18
  • Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 16
  • Molecular psychiatry 12
  • medRxiv 11

137 journals in all.

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  1. Polygenic Score Models for Alzheimer's Disease: From Research to Clinical Applications

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Frontiers in neuroscience 2021-03-29 Genetics

    The high prevalence of Alzheimer's disease (AD) among the elderly population and its lack of effective treatments make this disease a critical threat to human health.

  2. Coping with brain amyloid: genetic heterogeneity and cognitive resilience to Alzheimer's pathophysiology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica communications 2021-03-23 Genetics

    Although abnormal accumulation of amyloid in the brain is an early biomarker of Alzheimer's disease (AD), wide variation in cognitive trajectories during life can be seen in the setting of brain amyloidosis, ranging from maintenance of normal function to progression to dementia.

  3. The Impact of Complement Genes on the Risk of Late-Onset Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Genes 2021-03-20 Genetics

    Late-onset Alzheimer's disease (LOAD), the most common cause of dementia, and a huge global health challenge, is a neurodegenerative disease of uncertain aetiology.

  4. Early-onset familial Alzheimer's disease in a family with mutation of presenilin 2 gene

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Zhong nan da xue xue bao. Yi xue ban = Journal of Central South University. Medical sciences 2021-02-28 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common senile neurodegenerative disease characterized by progressive cognitive dysfunction, psychological and behavioral abnormalities, and impaired ability of activities of daily living.

  5. A Structured Brain-wide and Genome-wide Association Study Using ADNI PET Images

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. The Canadian journal of statistics = Revue canadienne de statistique 2021-02-20 Genetics

    A multi-stage variable selection method is introduced for detecting association signals in structured brain-wide and genome-wide association studies (brain-GWAS).

  6. Genome-wide meta-analysis, fine-mapping and integrative prioritization implicate new Alzheimer's disease risk genes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 74 out of 100. Nature genetics 2021-02-15 Genetics

    Genome-wide association studies have discovered numerous genomic loci associated with Alzheimer's disease (AD); yet the causal genes and variants are incompletely identified.

  7. Genetic study of young-onset dementia using targeted gene panel sequencing in Taiwan

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. American journal of medical genetics. Part B, Neuropsychiatric genetics : the official publication of the International Society of Psychiatric Genetics 2021-02-13 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Recent genetic progress allows the molecular diagnosis of young-onset dementia, including Alzheimer's disease (AD) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD).

  8. Genetic predictors of participation in optional components of UK Biobank

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Nature Communications 2021-02-09 Genetics

    Large studies (e.g. UK Biobank) are increasingly used for GWAS and Mendelian randomization (MR) studies.

  9. Integrating human brain proteomes with genome-wide association data implicates new proteins in Alzheimer's disease pathogenesis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Nature genetics 2021-01-28 Genetics

    Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified many risk loci for Alzheimer's disease (AD) 1,2 , but how these loci confer AD risk is unclear.

  10. Multivariate genome wide association and network analysis of subcortical imaging phenotypes in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. BMC genomics 2020-12-29 Genetics

    In this paper, we used the MGAS (Multivariate Gene-based Association test by extended Simes procedure) tool to perform multivariate GWAS on eight AD-relevant subcortical imaging measures.

  11. APOE Variants in an Iberian Alzheimer Cohort Detected through an Optimized Sanger Sequencing Protocol

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 73 out of 100. Genes 2020-12-22 Genetics

    The primary genetic risk factor for late onset Alzheimer's disease (LOAD) is the APOE4 allele of Apolipoprotein E (APOE) gene.

  12. 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.

  13. 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.

  14. 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.

  15. Inclusion of African American/Black adults in a pilot brain proteomics study of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Neurobiology of disease 2020-10-10 Disparities

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) disproportionately affects certain racial and ethnic subgroups, such as African American/Black and Hispanic adults.

  16. Risk prediction of late-onset Alzheimer's disease implies an oligogenic architecture

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Nature communications 2020-09-23 Genetics

    Genetic association studies have identified 44 common genome-wide significant risk loci for late-onset Alzheimer's disease (LOAD).

  17. Contribution of homozygous and compound heterozygous missense mutations in VWA2 to Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2020-09-12 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Alzheimer's disease is the most frequent diagnosis of neurodegenerative dementia with early (≤65 years) and late (>65 years) onset ages in familial and sporadic patients.

  18. Assessment of genetic risk for improved clinical-neuropathological correlations

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica communications 2020-09-10 Genetics

    In the clinical diagnosis of dementia with Lewy bodies, distinction from Alzheimer's disease is suboptimal and complicated by shared genetic risk factors and frequent co-pathology.

  19. Disease duration in autosomal dominant familial Alzheimer disease: A survival analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Neurology. Genetics 2020-08-18 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Estimated mean survival was 11.6 (10.4-12.9) years and was similar for APP and PSEN1 mutations.

  20. Education, intelligence, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: A Mendelian randomization study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Annals of clinical and translational neurology 2020-08-18 Risk factors

    Genetically predisposition to longer educational attainment and harder math class taken were associated with significantly lower statistical odds ratio of ALS.

  21. Epigenome-wide analyses identify DNA methylation signatures of dementia risk

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2020-08-10 Genetics

    AD genetic risk and two dementia risk scores were associated with differential methylation.

  22. Genetic and polygenic risk score analysis for Alzheimer's disease in the Chinese population

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2020-08-05 Biomarkers

    SORL1 is associated with AD in the Hong Kong Chinese population.

  23. Genetic variants and functional pathways associated with resilience to Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2020-08-01 Genetics

    Approximately 30% of older adults exhibit the neuropathological features of Alzheimer's disease without signs of cognitive impairment.

  24. 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.

  25. Protein-Protein interactions uncover candidate 'core genes' within omnigenic disease networks

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. PLoS genetics 2020-07-17 Genetics

    Genome wide association studies (GWAS) of human diseases have generally identified many loci associated with risk with relatively small effect sizes.

  26. APOE e4 Genotype Predicts Severe COVID-19 in the UK Biobank Community Cohort

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. The Journals of Gerontology Series A 2020-05-25 Clinical safety

    The novel respiratory disease COVID-19 produces varying symptoms, with fever, cough, and shortness of breath being common.

  27. Polygenic risk and pleiotropy in neurodegenerative diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Neurobiology of disease 2020-05-20 Genetics

    In this paper we explore the phenomenon of pleiotropy in neurodegenerative diseases, focusing on Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  28. MAPT haplotype-stratified GWAS reveals differential association for AD risk variants

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2020-05-13 Genetics

    We identified 11 loci-5 in H2-non-carriers and 6 in H2-carriers-although none of the MAPT haplotype-specific associations achieved genome-wide significance.

  29. Sorting Out the Role of the Sortilin-Related Receptor 1 in Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease reports 2020-05-02 Prevention trials

    Sortilin-related receptor 1 (SORL1) encodes a large, multi-domain containing, membrane-bound receptor involved in endosomal sorting of proteins between the trans-Golgi network, endosomes and the plasma membrane.

  30. High-throughput and efficient multilocus genome-wide association study on longitudinal outcomes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) 2020-05-01 Genetics

    Extensive simulations demonstrated that the proposed approach not only provided accurate selection of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) with comparable or higher power but also robust control of false positives.

  31. Incomplete penetrance in familial Alzheimer's disease with PSEN1 Ala260Gly mutation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology 2020-04-23 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Presenilin1 (PSEN1) gene is the most common known genetic cause of early-onset familial Alzheimer's disease.

  32. The Genetics of Alzheimer's Disease in the Chinese Population

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. International journal of molecular sciences 2020-03-30 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disease characterized by progressive cognitive dysfunction and behavioral impairment.

  33. Shared Causal Paths underlying Alzheimer's dementia and Type 2 Diabetes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Scientific reports 2020-03-05 Genetics

    Although Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a central nervous system disease and type 2 diabetes MELLITUS (T2DM) is a metabolic disorder, an increasing number of genetic epidemiological studies show clear link between AD and T2DM.

  34. The multiplex model of the genetics of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Nature neuroscience 2020-02-28 Genetics

    Genes play a strong role in Alzheimer's disease (AD), with late-onset AD showing heritability of 58-79% and early-onset AD showing over 90%.

  35. GenEpi: gene-based epistasis discovery using machine learning

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. BMC bioinformatics 2020-02-24 Genetics

    In this regard, this study presents GenEpi, a computational package to uncover epistasis associated with phenotypes by the proposed machine learning approach.

  36. Systematic validation of variants of unknown significance in APP, PSEN1 and PSEN2

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Neurobiology of disease 2020-02-19 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disease that is clinically characterized by progressive cognitive decline.

  37. Genome-Wide Association Study of Brain Connectivity Changes for Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Scientific reports 2020-01-29 Genetics

    Variations in the human genome have been found to be an essential factor that affects susceptibility to Alzheimer's disease.

  38. Interpretation of risk loci from genome-wide association studies of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 76 out of 100. The Lancet. Neurology 2020-01-24 Genetics

    This situation presents difficulties for experimental studies, drug development, and other future research.

  39. Polygenic risk for Alzheimer's disease shapes hippocampal scene-selectivity

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology 2020-01-02 Genetics

    Preclinical models of Alzheimer's disease (AD) suggest APOE modulates brain function in structures vulnerable to AD pathophysiology.

  40. 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.

  41. Genome-Wide Association Study Identifies SLAMF1 Affecting the Rate of Memory Decline

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2020 Genetics

    We identified rs13374761-A in SLAMF1 gene associated with less memory decline (MAF = 0.071, β= 0.0103, p = 4.14×10-8).

  42. Identification of Somatic Mutations in Dementia-related Genes in Cancer Patients

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Current Alzheimer research 2020 Risk genes beyond APOE

    From The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) database, we found 1,643 somatic mutations in the APP, PSEN1, PSEN2, MAPT, SNCA and LRRK2 genes in cancer patients.

  43. Presenilin 1 and APP Gene Mutations in Early-Onset AD Families from a Southeast Region of China

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Current Alzheimer research 2020 Risk genes beyond APOE

    A splice mutation (p.S290C) in PSEN1 and a missense mutation (p.V717I) in APP were identified.

  44. Genetics of Alzheimer's disease: where we are, and where we are going

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Current opinion in neurobiology 2019-12-18 Genetics

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) has a very strong genetic component, whose characterization has become an essential part of efforts to understand the pathophysiological processes of the disease.

  45. Genome-wide association study of hippocampal atrophy rate in non-demented elders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Aging 2019-11-23 Genetics

    Hippocampal atrophy rate has been correlated with cognitive decline and its genetic modifiers are still unclear.

  46. Genome-wide association study identifies SIAH3 locus influencing the rate of ventricular enlargement in non-demented elders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Aging 2019-11-11 Genetics

    Ventricular enlargement occurs in several neurodegenerative and psychiatric diseases.

  47. Genome-wide association study of cerebrospinal fluid neurofilament light levels in non-demented elders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Annals of translational medicine 2019-11 Genetics

    Two novel SNPs (rs465401 and rs460420), both near the ADAMTS1 gene on chromosome 21, showed genome-wide significant associations with CSF NFL.

  48. Towards clinical utility of polygenic risk scores

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Human molecular genetics 2019-11-01 Genetics

    Prediction of disease risk is an essential part of preventative medicine, often guiding clinical management.

  49. Genome-Wide Association Studies for Cerebrospinal Fluid Soluble TREM2 in Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Frontiers in aging neuroscience 2019-10-25 Genetics

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia.

  50. 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%.

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