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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.

Newest first, then by address. Each study has a usefulness score out of 100 (rubric version 4.0); tap a score to see what makes it up. Tags were assigned automatically from each study's title and summary. The same studies as a filter in the library.

  1. A family-aware All of Us benchmark for polygenic prediction and genomic machine learning

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv 2026-10-26 Genetics

    Polygenic risk scores (PRSs) have improved substantially in predictive performance, yet results remain difficult to compare across studies that differ in cohorts, phenotype definitions, and evaluation procedures.

  2. Genetic susceptibility to Lewy body disease and the distribution of Lewy pathology

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv 2026-10-24 Genetics

    Across all cases, the SNCA association was indexed by a 5′ signal previously associated with dementia with Lewy bodies and rapid eye movement sleep behaviour disorder, rather than the canonical 3′ Parkinson’s disease variant.

  3. Genetic Modifiers of Age at Onset for Parkinson’s Disease in European Populations

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv 2026-10-22 Genetics

    This study represents the largest PD AAO meta-analysis in European-ancestry populations to date.

  4. Optimizing Cognitive Phenotyping for Genetic Discovery in Alzheimer’s Disease: A Simulation-Based Evaluation of Mini-Mental State Examination-Based Decline Measures

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. bioRxiv 2026-10-22 Cognitive tests and assessment

    The phenotypic measures “Slope” and “dMMSE/dt” consistently showed strong performance across a range of data distributions, while “Time-to-MMSE10” was particularly effective in cohorts with a higher proportion of individuals experiencing severe cognitive decline.

  5. Sequence-based variant-effect predictions reveal trait-specific regulatory-layer profiles of complex-trait heritability

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv 2026-10-19 Risk factors

    Partitioned-heritability studies have shown which tissues carry the heritability of complex traits, but whether the regulatory layer whose annotations are most informative for heritability within a tissue differs between traits has not been tested, because measured annotations for different layers come from different sets of biosamples.

  6. Selective vulnerability: validation of atypical neurodegenerative disease variants in histopathological reference cohorts

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Research Square 2026-10-16 Brain tissue and pathology

    Conventional, cohort-based staging exhibited profound topographical inversion, yielding negative correlations for TDP-43 ( ρ = -0.9113, p < 0.001) and α-synuclein ( ρ = -0.8660, p = 0.003) sub-cohorts.

  7. Expression predictions inform molecular interpretation of Alzheimer’s disease risk loci

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv 2026-10-11 Genetics

    Sequence models predict the molecular effects of genetic variation, yet their contribution to interpreting Alzheimer’s disease (AD) association signals remains uncertain.

  8. Mapping polygenic risk scores to brain cells: insights for neurodegenerative diseases

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv 2026-10-11 Genetics

    Neurodegenerative diseases (NDDs) are driven by multiple related yet distinct pathological processes that evolve over decades, resulting in substantial clinical and neuropathological heterogeneity.

  9. A Multiethnic Analysis of DNA Methylation Reveals Links Between Alzheimer’s Disease and Metabolic Comorbidities

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv 2026-10-07 Risk factors

    The two sites associated with interactions between AD and a metabolic condition could explain the influence that those conditions have on the risk for AD and are prime candidates for future study.

  10. White matter hyperintensities partly mediate genetically predicted blood pressure effects on vascular dementia

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Research Square 2026-10-05 Genetics

    Genetically predicted BP raises WMH in European and Japanese ancestry.

  11. Regional similarity to male-typical brain architecture links childhood ADHD to neurophysiological aging in later adulthood

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. bioRxiv 2026-09-29 Genetics

    Identifying early life biomarkers of suboptimal aging trajectories could help design interventions to delay or even prevent the onset of pathological conditions in older adulthood.

  12. Large-Scale Genome-wide association study identified Shared Genetic Risk SNPs Correlates in Epilepsy and Alzheimer's Disease

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Research Square 2026-09-23 Genetics

    Inverse-variance weighted MR indicated that genetically predicted focal epilepsy with hippocampal sclerosis was associated with increased odds of AD (OR=3.99, 95% CI 1.17–13.61; P=0.027).

  13. Genetically predicted multisite chronic pain is associated with lower cognitive performance: a bidirectional Mendelian randomization study with NHANES contextual evidence

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Research Square 2026-09-22 Genetics

    Chronic pain and cognitive impairment are rising ageing-related burdens.

  14. Panel-Gene Transcriptomic Associations and Published-Variant Architecture in Parkinson Disease

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Research Square 2026-09-22 Risk factors

    Parkinson disease (PD) was examined in four primary adult-brain GEO cohorts (GSE49036, GSE20141, GSE8397, GSE7621) using a frozen 468-gene redox, metal, xenobiotic, and barrier panel.

  15. In brain, inverse-variance random-effects meta-analysis (DerSimonian–Laird) across six independent postmortem adult-brain GEO cohorts (GSE33000, GSE132903, GSE173955, GSE159699, GSE5281, GSE48350) yielded 458 analyzable panel genes, 167 at Benjamini–Hochberg FDR < 0.05, and 141 high-confidence genes (FDR < 0.05, measured in at least three cohorts, direction-concordant in at least 70% of cohorts, and nominally significant in at least two cohorts).

  16. 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.

  17. 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.

  18. 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.

  19. 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.

  20. The Association of Thrombophilic and Cardiovascular Genetic Variations with Neurovascular and Neurodegenerative Diseases: A Multivariate Genetic and Clinical Analysis

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Preprints.org 2026-08-31 Cognitive tests and assessment

    MTHFR C677T homozygosity was independently associated with vascular dementia (OR 3.2; 95% CI 1.1–8.9; p=0.027) and showed clustering with cognitive impairment.

  21. Investigating the Causal Relationship between Neuroticism and Alzheimer’s Disease Using Mendelian Randomization and the Mediating Role of Modifiable Risk Factors

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv 2026-08-04 Prevention and risk

    Neuroticism, a personality trait characterized by the predisposition to experience intense and frequent negative emotions, has been associated with an increased risk of Alzheimer’s disease (AD).

  22. Orthogonal Contributions of Genetic, Clinical, and Social Determinants of Health Risk Burdens on Alzheimer’s Disease Pathophysiology

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv 2026-07-15 Brain scans and imaging

    Genetic risks were primarily associated with Aβ and tau pathology, clinical risks with neurodegeneration, and SDoH risks with cognition, suggesting that risk factors exert differential effects on AD pathophysiology.

  23. The Prognostic Value of Genetic Architectures in Cognitive Decline

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv 2026-07-15 Cognitive tests and assessment

    The unsupervised machine learning pipeline successfully identified a composite genetic cluster that emerged as an influential predictor in terms of relative magnitude ( η p 2 ).

  24. TrustPGS: When can a polygenic score be trusted? A per-individual reliability framework across ancestries

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. bioRxiv 2026-07-07 Clinical trials

    Polygenic scores summarise genetic predisposition to a trait, but a population-level accuracy figure cannot tell a clinician whether a given prediction is reliable for the person in front of them.

  25. 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.

  26. 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).

  27. Genetic risk in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. NPJ systems biology and applications 2026-02-14 Genetics

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) has a strong genetic predisposition.

  28. Proteomic biomarkers of cognitive function, APOE ε4 status, and dementia in Generation Scotland

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv 2026-01-29 Biomarkers

    Untargeted mass spectrometry remains underutilised for blood-based biomarker discovery in dementia research from large cohorts, where affinity-based approaches dominate.

  29. Identification of chemicals targeting dementia genes and pathways in the Comparative Toxicogenomics Database

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2025-12-22 Risk factors

    We identified chemicals enriched for dementia pathways, suggesting broad classes of chemicals contribute to dementia.

  30. Polygenicity and APOE ε4 shape response to intervention in mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 69 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2025-12-12 Prevention trials

    Both intervention and control groups showed cognitive improvement over 24 weeks, with greater gains in the intervention arm.

  31. Genetic drivers of progression in Alzheimer's disease are distinct from disease risk

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences 2025-11-19 Genetics

    Established AD risk factors, including APOE ε4 dosage and polygenic risk scores, were not associated with disease progression amyloid positive individuals who are actively declining.

  32. Polygenic risk score and cluster-based analysis suggests links between type 2 diabetes and vascular dementia in the KARE study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Nature communications 2025-11-19 Genetics

    Type 2 diabetes is an established risk factor for dementia.

  33. 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.

  34. Shared genes and pathways in dementia: Insights from genome-wide association studies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2025-11 Genetics

    Dementia, a collective term for neurodegenerative disorders marked by cognitive decline, affects millions worldwide, and is expected to rise significantly in prevalence.

  35. Consensus meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies for Alzheimer's disease and related dementia

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences 2025-10-23 Genetics

    To better characterize the genetic architecture underlying Alzheimer's disease (AD) and related dementia (ADRD), we performed a meta-analysis of European ancestry genome-wide association studies in 128,681 cases or proxy cases of ADRD and 849,833 (proxy) controls.

  36. Phosphodiesterase-5 Inhibition and Alzheimer's Disease Risk: A Mendelian Randomisation Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Aging cell 2025-10-13 Genetics

    While preclinical studies suggest that Phosphodiesterase 5 (PDE5) inhibition may reduce cognitive impairment, findings from observational studies on whether PDE5 inhibitors reduce Alzheimer's disease (AD) risk have been inconsistent.

  37. Genome-wide association study provides insights into the genetic basis of Lewy body dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 75 out of 100. Molecular psychiatry 2025-10-09 Genetics

    Lewy body dementia (LBD) is the second most prevalent dementia, however most genetic risk remains uncharacterized.

  38. Cross-Ancestry Polygenic Risk Scores Enhance Alzheimer's Disease Risk Prediction in Multiethnic Cohorts

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences 2025-10-07 Genetics

    The cross-ancestry Bayesian PRS model demonstrated the highest predictive performance in non-European populations.

  39. Mapping cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers to dementia risk through Mendelian randomization

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Medicine 2025-09-26 Tau biomarkers

    Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) biomarkers can directly reflect physiological and pathological changes within the central nervous system, serving as a critical element in the preliminary diagnosis and disease monitoring of central nervous system disorders.

  40. 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).

  41. Mediterranean-DASH Intervention for Neurodegenerative Delay (MIND) Trial: Genetic Resource for Precision Nutrition

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 83 out of 100. Nutrients 2025-08-04 Prevention and risk

    Significant study-site, specimen type, and batch effects were observed.

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

  43. 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.

  44. Cross-ancestry genome-wide association study identifies implications of SORL1 in cerebral beta-amyloid deposition

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 79 out of 100. Nature communications 2025-04-02 Genetics

    GWAS of Alzheimer's disease have been predominantly based on European ancestry cohorts with clinically diagnosed patients.

  45. 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).

  46. Structural variants linked to Alzheimer's disease and other common age-related clinical and neuropathologic traits

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 70 out of 100. Genome medicine 2025-03-04 Genetics

    First, we mapped SVs across 81 AD risk loci and discovered 22 SVs in linkage disequilibrium (LD) with GWAS lead variants and directly associated with the phenotypes tested.

  47. Evaluating pathogenicity of variants of unknown significance in APP, PSEN1, and PSEN2

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics 2025-01-27 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Autosomal dominant Alzheimer's disease (ADAD) is driven by rare variants in APP, PSEN1, and PSEN2.

  48. Multivariate proteome-wide association study to identify causal proteins for Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. American journal of human genetics 2025-01-09 Genetics

    Alzheimer disease (AD) is a complex and progressive neurodegenerative disorder that accounts for the majority of individuals with dementia.

  49. Shared Genetic Architecture Between COVID-19 Severity and Alzheimer's Disease Across European and African Ancestries

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Research square 2024-12-24 Genetics

    The global outbreak of COVID-19, caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, has been linked to long-term neurological complications, including an increased risk of Alzheimer's disease (AD) among older adults.

  50. Translational Research on Polygenic Risk Scores in Common Neurodegenerative Diseases - A Scoping Review Protocol

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Acta medica academica 2024-12 Genetics

    The purpose of this protocol is to clearly describe the process for the scoping review we plan to conduct on the topic of polygenic risk scores (PRS) in common neurodegenerative diseases.

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