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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. 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.

  2. Genome-wide association study identifies four novel loci associated with Alzheimer's endophenotypes and disease modifiers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica 2017-02-28 Genetics

    More than 20 genetic loci have been associated with risk for Alzheimer's disease (AD), but reported genome-wide significant loci do not account for all the estimated heritability and provide little information about underlying biological mechanisms.

  3. Case-control association mapping by proxy using family history of disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 81 out of 100. Nature genetics 2017-01-16 Genetics

    Collecting cases for case-control genetic association studies can be time-consuming and expensive.

  4. Comprehensive Screening for Disease Risk Variants in Early-Onset Alzheimer's Disease Genes in African Americans Identifies Novel PSEN Variants

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2017 Risk genes beyond APOE

    We conducted a comprehensive screening of rare coding variants in an African American cohort to identify novel pathogenic mutations within the early-onset Alzheimer's disease (EOAD) genes (APP, PSEN1, and PSEN2) in this understudied population.

  5. Genomic variants, genes, and pathways of Alzheimer's disease: An overview

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. American journal of medical genetics. Part B, Neuropsychiatric genetics : the official publication of the International Society of Psychiatric Genetics 2017-01-01 Genetics

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) (MIM: 104300) is a highly heritable disease with great complexity in its genetic contributors, and represents the most common form of dementia.

  6. No Genetic Overlap Between Circulating Iron Levels and Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 80 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2017 Genetics

    Iron deposition in the brain is a prominent feature of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  7. Two novel loci, COBL and SLC10A2, for Alzheimer's disease in African Americans

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2016-10-20 Genetics

    Two SNPs at novel loci, rs112404845 (P = 3.8 × 10-8), upstream of COBL, and rs16961023 (P = 4.6 × 10-8), downstream of SLC10A2, obtained genome-wide significant evidence of association with the posterior liability.

  8. Mutations, associated with early-onset Alzheimer's disease, discovered in Asian countries

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Clinical interventions in aging 2016-10-17 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Alzheimer's disease (AD), the most common form of senile dementia, is a genetically complex disorder.

  9. Genome-wide association analysis of secondary imaging phenotypes from the Alzheimer's disease neuroimaging initiative study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. NeuroImage 2016-10-04 Genetics

    The aim of this paper is to systematically evaluate a biased sampling issue associated with genome-wide association analysis (GWAS) of imaging phenotypes for most imaging genetic studies, including the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI).

  10. Genome-wide Association for Major Depression Through Age at Onset Stratification: Major Depressive Disorder Working Group of the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 69 out of 100. Biological psychiatry 2016-05-24 Genetics

    We demonstrate that using additional phenotype data previously collected by genetic studies to tackle phenotypic heterogeneity in MDD can successfully lead to the discovery of genetic risk factor despite reduced sample size.

  11. Multi-ethnic genome-wide association study identifies novel locus for type 2 diabetes susceptibility

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. European journal of human genetics : EJHG 2016-05-18 Genetics

    Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have traditionally been undertaken in homogeneous populations from the same ancestry group.

  12. Whole-Genome Sequencing of a Healthy Aging Cohort

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Cell 2016-04-21 Genetics

    Studies of long-lived individuals have revealed few genetic mechanisms for protection against age-associated disease.

  13. Genome-wide association study of cognitive functions and educational attainment in UK Biobank (N=112 151)

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Molecular psychiatry 2016-04-05 Genetics

    People's differences in cognitive functions are partly heritable and are associated with important life outcomes.

  14. PICALM rs3851179 Variant Confers Susceptibility to Alzheimer's Disease in Chinese Population

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 68 out of 100. Molecular neurobiology 2016-04-05 Genetics

    The association between PICALM rs3851179 variant and Alzheimer's disease (AD) has been well established by previous genome-wide association studies (GWAS) and candidate gene studies in European population.

  15. Molecular genetics of early-onset Alzheimer's disease revisited

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2016-03-24 Genetics

    As the discovery of the Alzheimer's disease (AD) genes, APP, PSEN1, and PSEN2, in families with autosomal dominant early-onset AD (EOAD), gene discovery in familial EOAD came more or less to a standstill.

  16. 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.

  17. Genetic risk factors for the posterior cortical atrophy variant of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2016-03-15 Genetics

    We confirm that variation in/near APOE/TOMM40 (P = 6 × 10(-14)) alters PCA risk, but with smaller effect than for typical AD (PCA: odds ratio [OR] = 2.03, typical AD: OR = 2.83, P = .0007).

  18. HYDRA: Revealing heterogeneity of imaging and genetic patterns through a multiple max-margin discriminative analysis framework

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. NeuroImage 2016-02-23 Digital health tools

    The genetics dataset yielded two subtypes of AD characterized mainly by the presence/absence of the apolipoprotein E (APOE) ε4 genotype, but also involving differential presence of risk alleles of CD2AP, SPON1 and LOC39095 SNPs that were associated with differences in the respective patterns of brain atrophy, especially in the precuneus.

  19. 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.

  20. GWAS-Linked Loci and Neuroimaging Measures in Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 68 out of 100. Molecular neurobiology 2016-01-05 Genetics

    Recently, 19 susceptibility loci for Alzheimer's disease (AD) had been identified through AD genome-wide association studies (GWAS) meta-analysis.

  21. Genome-Wide Scan Informed by Age-Related Disease Identifies Loci for Exceptional Human Longevity

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 67 out of 100. PLoS Genetics 2015-12-17 Genetics

    We developed a new statistical framework to find genetic variants associated with extreme longevity.

  22. Common polygenic variation enhances risk prediction for Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2015-10-21 Genetics

    The identification of subjects at high risk for Alzheimer's disease is important for prognosis and early intervention.

  23. A potential endophenotype for Alzheimer's disease: cerebrospinal fluid clusterin

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2015-09-25 Tau biomarkers

    Genome-wide association studies have associated clusterin (CLU) variants with Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  24. Phenome-wide analysis of genome-wide polygenic scores

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Molecular Psychiatry 2015-08-25 Genetics

    Genome-wide polygenic scores (GPS), which aggregate the effects of thousands of DNA variants from genome-wide association studies (GWAS), have the potential to make genetic predictions for individuals.

  25. A genome-wide association study of late-onset Alzheimer's disease in a Japanese population

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Psychiatric genetics 2015-08 Genetics

    Our data indicated that 18p11.32 (rs1992269, P = 9.77 × 10(-7)), CNTNAP2 (rs802571, P = 1.26 × 10(-6)), and 12q24.23 (rs11613092, P = 6.85 × 10(-6)) were suggestive loci for susceptibility to LOAD.

  26. Genetic studies of quantitative MCI and AD phenotypes in ADNI: Progress, opportunities, and plans

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2015-07-01 Genetics

    Numerous genetic susceptibility and protective markers for AD and disease biomarkers have been identified and replicated using ADNI data and have heavily implicated immune, mitochondrial, cell cycle/fate, and other biological processes.

  27. Identification of PSEN2 mutation p.N141I in Argentine pedigrees with early-onset familial Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2015-06-15 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Presenilin 2 gene (PSEN2) mutations account for <5% of all early-onset familial Alzheimer's disease (EOFAD) cases and only 13 have strong evidence for pathogenicity.

  28. Whole-genome sequencing reveals important role for TBK1 and OPTN mutations in frontotemporal lobar degeneration without motor neuron disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica 2015-05-06 Genetics

    Frontotemporal lobar degeneration with TAR DNA-binding protein 43 inclusions (FTLD-TDP) is the most common pathology associated with frontotemporal dementia (FTD).

  29. Genetic contributions to variation in general cognitive function: a meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies in the CHARGE consortium (N=53949)

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 86 out of 100. Molecular psychiatry 2015-02-03 Genetics

    General cognitive function is substantially heritable across the human life course from adolescence to old age.

  30. Convergent genetic and expression data implicate immunity in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2014-12-20 Genetics

    The immune response, regulation of endocytosis, cholesterol transport, and protein ubiquitination represent prime targets for AD therapeutics.

  31. Rare variant testing of imputed data: an analysis pipeline typified

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Human heredity 2014-12-10 Genetics

    Important methodological advancements in rare variant association testing have been made recently, among them collapsing tests, kernel methods and the variable threshold (VT) technique.

  32. Genome-wide association studies in neurology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Annals of translational medicine 2014-12 Genetics

    Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) are a powerful tool for understanding the genetic underpinnings of human disease.

  33. Clinical and neuroimaging characterization of Chinese dementia patients with PSEN1 and PSEN2 mutations

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders 2014-10-15 Risk genes beyond APOE

    We identified 1 known pathogenic PSEN1 (p.His163Arg, c.488A>G) mutation and 3 novel PSEN2 mutations in 6 patients.

  34. Common genetic variants associated with cognitive performance identified using the proxy-phenotype method

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 69 out of 100. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2014-09-08 Genetics

    We identify common genetic variants associated with cognitive performance using a two-stage approach, which we call the proxy-phenotype method.

  35. Genome-wide pathway analysis of a genome-wide association study on Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 79 out of 100. Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology 2014-07-19 Genetics

    The aims of this study were to identify candidate single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and mechanisms of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and to generate SNP to gene to pathway hypotheses.

  36. Alzheimer's disease genetics: from the bench to the clinic

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Neuron 2014-07-01 Genetics

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a clinically heterogeneous neurodegenerative disease with a strong genetic component.

  37. LEVERAGING LOCAL IDENTITY-BY-DESCENT INCREASES THE POWER OF CASE/CONTROL GWAS WITH RELATED INDIVIDUALS

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. The annals of applied statistics 2014-06 Genetics

    Large case/control genome-wide association studies (GWAS) often include groups of related individuals with known relationships.

  38. Polarization of the effects of autoimmune and neurodegenerative risk alleles in leukocytes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Science (New York, N.Y.) 2014-05-01 Disparities

    To extend our understanding of the genetic basis of human immune function and dysfunction, we performed an expression quantitative trait locus (eQTL) study of purified CD4(+) T cells and monocytes, representing adaptive and innate immunity, in a multi-ethnic cohort of 461 healthy individuals.

  39. Familial Alzheimer's disease sustained by presenilin 2 mutations: systematic review of literature and genotype-phenotype correlation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews 2014-03-02 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Familial Alzheimer's disease (FAD), despite representing a rare condition, is attracting a growing interest in the scientific community.

  40. Mutational analysis in early-onset familial Alzheimer's disease in Mainland China

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2014-02-20 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Mutations of 3 causative genes, namely presenilin 1 (PSEN1), presenilin 2 (PSEN2), and amyloid precursor protein (APP), have been identified as the major causes of early-onset familial Alzheimer's disease (EOFAD).

  41. Triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells 2 variants are rare in Parkinson's disease in a Han Chinese cohort

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2014-02-05 TREM2 and immune genetics

    Recent studies have reported that a rare nonsynonymous variant rs75932628-T in the TREM2 gene is associated with increased risk of Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease (PD) in European-descended populations.

  42. A novel PSEN1 mutation (I238M) associated with early-onset Alzheimer's disease in an African-American woman

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2014 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Mutations in PSEN1 are the most common cause of autosomal dominant familial Alzheimer's disease (FAD).

  43. Rare coding variants in the phospholipase D3 gene confer risk for Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Nature 2013-12-11 Genetics

    Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified several risk variants for late-onset Alzheimer's disease (LOAD).

  44. Investigation of triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells 2 variant in the Wisconsin Registry for Alzheimer's Prevention

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2013-11-20 TREM2 and immune genetics

    Recent studies have found an association between a variant in triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells 2 (TREM2) (rs75932628-T) and both Alzheimer's disease (AD) and cognitive function in individuals aged 80-100 years.

  45. 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.

  46. SQSTM1 mutations in French patients with frontotemporal dementia or frontotemporal dementia with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2013-11-01 Genetics

    Although the frequency of the mutations is low in our series (4 of 188 patients [2%]), our results, similar to those already reported, support a direct pathogenic role of p62 in different types of FTD.

  47. Dominantly Inherited Alzheimer Network: facilitating research and clinical trials

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2013-10-17 Treatments

    The Dominantly Inherited Alzheimer Network (DIAN) is an international registry of individuals at risk for developing autosomal dominant Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  48. Epidemiology and etiology of Alzheimer's disease: from genetic to non-genetic factors

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Current Alzheimer research 2013-10-01 Genetics

    At present, the etiology of Alzheimer's disease (AD) is still unclear, but both genetic and non-genetic factors are thought to take part in the etiopathogenesis of AD.

  49. Pathways to neurodegeneration: mechanistic insights from GWAS in Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, and related disorders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. American journal of neurodegenerative disease 2013-09-18 Genetics

    Recently, GWAS of complex diseases and traits have focused less on individual susceptibility variants and instead have emphasized the biological pathways and networks revealed by genetic associations.

  50. The PSEN1, p.E318G variant increases the risk of Alzheimer's disease in APOE-ε4 carriers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 69 out of 100. PLoS genetics 2013-08-22 Biomarkers

    The primary constituents of plaques (Aβ42/Aβ40) and neurofibrillary tangles (tau and phosphorylated forms of tau [ptau]) are the current leading diagnostic and prognostic cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) biomarkers for AD.

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