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Newest in this topic

  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. Metabolomic and lipidomic signatures in autosomal dominant and late-onset Alzheimer's disease brains

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2022-10-17 Risk genes beyond APOE

    We identified 133 unique and shared metabolites associated with ADAD, TREM2, and sAD.

  2. TREM2 risk variants are associated with atypical Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica 2022-09-16 TREM2 and immune genetics

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) has multiple clinically and pathologically defined subtypes where the underlying causes of such heterogeneity are not well established.

  3. Discovery and validation of dominantly inherited Alzheimer's disease mutations in populations from Latin America

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2022-08-05 Risk genes beyond APOE

    We identified five novel variants in the presenilin1 (PSEN1) gene from Brazilian and Mexican families.

  4. 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.

  5. Identifying genetic markers enriched by brain imaging endophenotypes in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. BMC medical genomics 2022-08-01 Genetics

    We propose a novel method to identify disease-related genetic variants enriched by imaging endophenotypes, which are the imaging traits associated with both genetic factors and disease status.

  6. 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.

  7. 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.

  8. 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.

  9. 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.

  10. TREM2 coding variants in Slovak Alzheimer's disease patients

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of integrative neuroscience 2022-06-01 TREM2 and immune genetics

    Four out of 10 TREM2 mutant variants have been identified in the analyzed groups, namely rs75932628 C > T (R47H), rs142232675 C > T (D87N), rs143332484 C > T (R62H), and rs2234253 G > T (T96K).

  11. Genome-wide association study of occupational attainment as a proxy for cognitive reserve

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2022-05-24 Risk factors

    Previous genome-wide association studies have identified numerous genetic variants and revealed the genetic architecture of educational attainment, another marker of cognitive reserve.

  12. Genome-wide association of polygenic risk extremes for Alzheimer's disease in the UK Biobank

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Scientific reports 2022-05-19 Genetics

    In just over a decade, advances in genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have offered an approach to stratify individuals based on genetic risk for disease.

  13. Genome-wide association studies for Alzheimer's disease: bigger is not always better

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Brain communications 2022-05-17 Genetics

    As the size of genome-wide association studies increase, the number of associated trait loci identified inevitably increase.

  14. The genetic architecture of Alzheimer disease risk in the Ohio and Indiana Amish

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. HGG advances 2022-04-27 Genetics

    Alzheimer disease (AD) is the most common type of dementia and is currently estimated to affect 6.2 million Americans.

  15. Bridging the gap: Short structural variants in the genetics of anorexia nervosa

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. The International journal of eating disorders 2022-04-26 Genetics

    Anorexia nervosa (AN) is a devastating disorder with evidence of underexplored heritability.

  16. Polygenic risk score as a possible tool for identifying familial monogenic causes of complex diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Genetics in medicine : official journal of the American College of Medical Genetics 2022-04-23 Genetics

    Monogenic causes of complex diseases were more prevalent among individuals with a parental disease history than in the rest of the population.

  17. Progressive cognitive impairment and familial spastic paraparesis due to PRESENILIN 1 mutation: anatomoclinical characterization

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of neurology 2022-04-19 Risk genes beyond APOE

    The three female patients had an age of onset of symptoms of 38-51 years.

  18. Phenome-Wide Association Study of Polygenic Risk Score for Alzheimer's Disease in Electronic Health Records

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Frontiers in aging neuroscience 2022-03-15 Genetics

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia and a growing public health burden in the United States.

  19. Whole-genome sequencing reveals novel ethnicity-specific rare variants associated with Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 82 out of 100. Molecular psychiatry 2022-03-10 Genetics

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common multifactorial neurodegenerative disease among elderly people.

  20. Ethnic differences in the frequency of β-amyloid deposition in cognitively normal individuals

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2022-03-07 Genetics

    We investigated which factors might explain the differences between the frequencies of brain β-amyloid (Aβ) deposition in Korean and European cognitively normal individuals (CNs).

  21. We retrospectively assessed the diagnostic accuracy of whole genome sequencing to detect the most common repeat expansion loci associated with neurological outcomes (AR, ATN1, ATXN1, ATXN2, ATXN3, ATXN7, C9orf72, CACNA1A, DMPK, FMR1, FXN, HTT, and TBP) using samples obtained within the National Health Service in England from patients who were suspected of having neurological disorders; previous PCR test results were used as the reference standard.

  22. 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.

  23. 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.

  24. Genetics of common cerebral small vessel disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Nature reviews. Neurology 2022-01-05 Genetics

    Cerebral small vessel disease (cSVD) is a leading cause of ischaemic and haemorrhagic stroke and a major contributor to dementia.

  25. Alzheimer's Disease Variant Portal: A Catalog of Genetic Findings for Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2022 Genetics

    ADVP V1.0 (February 2021) catalogs 6,990 associations related to disease-risk, expression quantitative traits, endophenotypes, or neuropathology.

  26. Combinational Drug Repurposing from Genetic Networks Applied to Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2022 Drug development

    It enables robust identification of signaling pathways enriched in disease susceptibility loci.

  27. 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).

  28. Polygenic Risk Scores in Alzheimer's Disease Genetics: Methodology, Applications, Inclusion, and Diversity

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2022 Genetics

    The success of genome-wide association studies (GWAS) completed in the last 15 years has reinforced a key fact: polygenic architecture makes a substantial contribution to variation of susceptibility to complex disease, including Alzheimer's disease.

  29. PSEN2 Mutation Spectrum and Novel Functionally Validated Mutations in Alzheimer's Disease: Data from PUMCH Dementia Cohort

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2022 Biomarkers

    Nine PSEN2 rare variants were found, including two reported (M239T, R62C) and seven novel variants (N141S, I368F, L396I, G117X, I146T, S147N, H220Y).

  30. 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).

  31. A polygenic risk score predicts mosaic loss of chromosome Y in circulating blood cells

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Cell & bioscience 2021-12-12 Genetics

    We calculated a PRS for LOY in 5131 men aged 70 years and older.

  32. We developed an endophenotype disease module-based methodology for Alzheimer's disease (AD) drug repurposing and identified sildenafil as a potential disease risk modifier.

  33. Synergistic insights into human health from aptamer- and antibody-based proteomic profiling

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Nature Communications 2021-11-24 Genetics

    Affinity-based proteomics has enabled scalable quantification of thousands of protein targets in blood enhancing biomarker discovery, understanding of disease mechanisms, and genetic evaluation of drug targets in humans through protein quantitative trait loci (pQTLs).

  34. Association between WWOX/MAF variants and dementia-related neuropathologic endophenotypes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2021-10-29 Genetics

    The genetic locus containing the WWOX and MAF genes was implicated as a clinical Alzheimer's disease (AD) risk locus in two recent large meta-analytic genome wide association studies (GWAS).

  35. GenoRisk: A polygenic risk score for Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (New York, N. Y.) 2021-09-30 Genetics

    The elastic net model that included age, age x sex interaction, allelic APOE terms, and 29 additional SNPs performed the best.

  36. Polygenic score modifies risk for Alzheimer's disease in APOE ε4 homozygotes at phenotypic extremes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2021-08-05 Genetics

    The PRS for AD was significantly higher in APOE ε4 homozygote AD cases compared to older cognitively healthy APOE ε4/ε4 controls (odds ratio [OR] 8.39; confidence interval [CI] 2.0-35.2; P = .003).

  37. Variability in the type and layer distribution of cortical Aβ pathology in familial Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Brain pathology (Zurich, Switzerland) 2021-07-28 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Familial Alzheimer's disease (FAD) is caused by autosomal dominant mutations in the PSEN1, PSEN2 or APP genes, giving rise to considerable clinical and pathological heterogeneity in FAD.

  38. Identifying individuals with high risk of Alzheimer's disease using polygenic risk scores

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Nature communications 2021-07-23 Genetics

    Polygenic Risk Scores (PRS) for AD offer unique possibilities for reliable identification of individuals at high and low risk of AD.

  39. Improving the Utility of Polygenic Risk Scores as a Biomarker for Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Cells 2021-06-29 Genetics

    The treatment of complex and multifactorial diseases constitutes a big challenge in day-to-day clinical practice.

  40. APP, PSEN1, and PSEN2 Variants in Alzheimer's Disease: Systematic Re-evaluation According to ACMG Guidelines

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Frontiers in aging neuroscience 2021-06-18 Risk genes beyond APOE

    The strategies of classifying APP, PSEN1, and PSEN2 variants varied substantially in the previous studies.

  41. Common variants in Alzheimer's disease and risk stratification by polygenic risk scores

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 72 out of 100. Nature communications 2021-06-07 Genetics

    Genetic discoveries of Alzheimer's disease are the drivers of our understanding, and together with polygenetic risk stratification can contribute towards planning of feasible and efficient preventive and curative clinical trials.

  42. Shared Genetic Etiology between Alzheimer's Disease and Blood Levels of Specific Cytokines and Growth Factors

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Genes 2021-06-05 Genetics

    Late-onset Alzheimer's disease (AD) has a significant genetic and immunological component, but the molecular mechanisms through which genetic and immunity-related risk factors and their interplay contribute to AD pathogenesis are unclear.

  43. Genetic underpinnings of sociability in the general population

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology 2021-05-30 Genetics

    Levels of sociability are continuously distributed in the general population, and decreased sociability represents an early manifestation of several brain disorders.

  44. Novel Alzheimer's disease risk variants identified based on whole-genome sequencing of APOE ε4 carriers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Translational psychiatry 2021-05-19 Genetics

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease associated with a complex genetic etiology.

  45. TMEM106B and CPOX are genetic determinants of cerebrospinal fluid Alzheimer's disease biomarker levels

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2021-05-14 Genetics

    We identify novel genome-wide significant associations between DNA variants in TMEM106B and CSF levels of NfL, and between CPOX and YKL-40.

  46. 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.

  47. Spastic paraplegia preceding PSEN1-related familial Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2021-05-02 Risk genes beyond APOE

    We identified a PSEN1 variant (p.Thr291Pro) in an individual presenting with pure SP at 30 years of age.

  48. An expanded set of genome-wide association studies of brain imaging phenotypes in UK Biobank

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Nature neuroscience 2021-04-19 Genetics

    UK Biobank is a major prospective epidemiological study, including multimodal brain imaging, genetics and ongoing health outcomes.

  49. A novel PSEN2 p.Ser175Phe variant in a family with Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology 2021-04-15 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) can be either sporadic or familial, and familial forms of AD accounts for only 5% of the cases.

  50. Obstructive Sleep Apnea and Dementia-Common Gene Associations through Network-Based Identification of Common Driver Genes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Genes 2021-04-09 Risk factors

    42 common genes were identified between OSA and dementia which were primarily linked to the G-coupled protein receptor (GPCR) and olfactory pathways.

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