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Newest in this topic

  1. The heritability of blood-based biomarkers related to risk of Alzheimer's disease in a population-based sample of early old-age men 2023-08-25
  2. Cerebrospinal Fluid Fatty Acid-Binding Protein 3 is Related to Dementia Development in a Population-Based Sample of Older Adult Women Followed for 8 Years 2016-01-01
  3. Assessment of TREM2 rs75932628 association with Alzheimer's disease in a population-based sample: the Cache County Study 2013-07-12

Studies

3 studies carry this tag.

Date range

2013 to 2023

Top journals

  • Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 1
  • Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 1
  • Neurobiology of aging 1

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  1. The heritability of blood-based biomarkers related to risk of Alzheimer's disease in a population-based sample of early old-age men

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2023-08-25 Biomarkers

    Except for Aβ42/40, plasma biomarkers are heritable.

  2. Cerebrospinal Fluid Fatty Acid-Binding Protein 3 is Related to Dementia Development in a Population-Based Sample of Older Adult Women Followed for 8 Years

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2016-01-01 Biomarkers

    Between 1992 and 2000, 8 women developed dementia (4 AD, 3 vascular dementia, 1 mixed vascular dementia and AD).

  3. Assessment of TREM2 rs75932628 association with Alzheimer's disease in a population-based sample: the Cache County Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2013-07-12 TREM2 and immune genetics

    Recent studies have identified the rs75932628 (R47H) variant in TREM2 as an Alzheimer's disease risk factor with estimated odds ratio ranging from 2.9 to 5.1.

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