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  1. Evidence for Reduced Somatic T-Cell Receptor Sequence Diversity Profiles Among Midwestern Amish in an Aging Cohort Study 2026-10-18
  2. Gantenerumab reduces brain amyloid-β proteoforms: Biochemical evaluation in dominantly inherited Alzheimer disease 2026-09-29
  3. Genetic Insights Into Protective Effects of GLP-1 Receptor Agonists on Stroke and Alzheimer Disease Across Ancestries 2026-09-25

Studies

1,346 studies carry this tag.

Date range

1982 to 2026

Top journals

  • Neurology 92
  • The Journal of biological chemistry 67
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 47
  • Archives of neurology 43
  • JAMA neurology 36

372 journals in all.

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  1. Neuronal apolipoprotein E4 increases cell death and phosphorylated tau release in alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2019-03-27 Genetics

    Our results demonstrate that endogenous expression of E4 by stem-cell-derived forebrain excitatory neurons predisposes neurons to calcium dysregulation and ultimately cell death.

  2. PSEN2 (presenilin 2) mutants linked to familial Alzheimer disease impair autophagy by altering Ca2+ homeostasis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Autophagy 2019-03-27 Risk genes beyond APOE

    PSEN2 (presenilin 2) is one of the 3 proteins that, when mutated, causes early onset familial Alzheimer disease (FAD) cases.

  3. SORL1 genetic variants and Alzheimer disease risk: a literature review and meta-analysis of sequencing data

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica 2019-03-25 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Massive parallel sequencing recently allowed the identification of three genes carrying a higher burden of rare, protein-truncating and missense predicted damaging variants in Alzheimer disease (AD) cases as compared to controls: TREM2, SORL1, and ABCA7.

  4. Alterations in cholesterol metabolism as a risk factor for developing Alzheimer's disease: Potential novel targets for treatment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. The Journal of steroid biochemistry and molecular biology 2019-03-13 Prevention and risk

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia and it is characterized by the deposition of amyloid-β (Aβ) plaques and neurofibrillary tangles in the brain.

  5. Physical and cognitive training are able to prevent recognition memory deficits related to amyloid beta neurotoxicity

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Behavioural brain research 2019-03-04 Prevention trials

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is characterized by the presence of amyloid-β (Aβ), oxidative damage and neuronal degeneration, which, together with other pathological events, promote progressive memory loss and cognitive decline.

  6. Potential Diagnostic Value of Red Blood Cells α-Synuclein Heteroaggregates in Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Molecular neurobiology 2019-03-02 Biomarkers

    A plethora of complex misfolded protein combinations have been found in Alzheimer disease (AD) brains besides the classical pathological hallmarks.

  7. Association of Rare Coding Mutations With Alzheimer Disease and Other Dementias Among Adults of European Ancestry

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. JAMA network open 2019-03-01 TREM2 and immune genetics

    Some of the unexplained heritability of Alzheimer disease (AD) may be due to rare variants whose effects are not captured in genome-wide association studies because very large samples are needed to observe statistically significant associations.

  8. Genetic meta-analysis of diagnosed Alzheimer's disease identifies new risk loci and implicates Aβ, tau, immunity and lipid processing

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 85 out of 100. Nature genetics 2019-02-28 Risk factors

    Risk for late-onset Alzheimer's disease (LOAD), the most prevalent dementia, is partially driven by genetics.

  9. Genome-wide meta-analysis identifies new loci and functional pathways influencing Alzheimer’s disease risk

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 67 out of 100. Nature Genetics 2019-01-02 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Researchers performed a genome-wide association study of clinically diagnosed Alzheimer's disease and disease-by-proxy.

  10. Glial Fibrillary Acidic Protein in Serum is Increased in Alzheimer's Disease and Correlates with Cognitive Impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2019-01-01 Getting a diagnosis

    Reliable blood biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease (AD) are missing.

  11. Ancestral origin of ApoE ε4 Alzheimer disease risk in Puerto Rican and African American populations

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. PLoS genetics 2018-12-05 Genetics

    The ApoE ε4 allele is the most significant genetic risk factor for late-onset Alzheimer disease.

  12. Lactate Deficit in an Alzheimer Disease Mouse Model: The Relationship With Neuronal Damage

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology 2018-12-01 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Cerebral energy metabolism in Alzheimer disease (AD) has recently been given increasing attention.

  13. Redox proteomics and amyloid β-peptide: insights into Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Journal of neurochemistry 2018-11-27 Down syndrome and Alzheimer's

    Alzheimer disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder associated with aging and characterized pathologically by the presence of senile plaques, neurofibrillary tangles, and neurite and synapse loss.

  14. Prevalence of amyloid-β pathology in distinct variants of primary progressive aphasia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 76 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2018-11-01 Genetics

    Ann Neurol 2018;84:737-748.

  15. Mediterranean diet adherence and rate of cerebral Aβ-amyloid accumulation: Data from the Australian Imaging, Biomarkers and Lifestyle Study of Ageing

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Translational psychiatry 2018-10-30 Prevention trials

    Accumulating research has linked Mediterranean diet (MeDi) adherence with slower cognitive decline and reduced Alzheimer's disease (AD) risk.

  16. Making the final cut: pathogenic amyloid-β peptide generation by γ-secretase

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Cell stress 2018-10-28 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Alzheimer´s disease (AD) is a devastating neurodegenerative disease of the elderly population.

  17. Glycoprotein NMB: a novel Alzheimer's disease associated marker expressed in a subset of activated microglia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica communications 2018-10-19 TREM2 and immune genetics

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is an irreversible, devastating neurodegenerative brain disorder characterized by the loss of neurons and subsequent cognitive decline.

  18. ABI3 and PLCG2 missense variants as risk factors for neurodegenerative diseases in Caucasians and African Americans

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. Molecular neurodegeneration 2018-10-11 Disease mechanisms

    Using Fisher's exact test, there was significant association of both ABI3_rs616338-T (OR = 1.41, p = 0.044) and PLCG2_rs72824905-G (OR = 0.56, p = 0.008) with AD.

  19. Regional amyloid accumulation and cognitive decline in initially amyloid-negative adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Neurology 2018-10-10 Genetics

    Our results indicate that assessing regional changes in amyloid, particularly in posterior cortical regions, can aid in the early detection of subclinical amyloid-related decline in episodic memory as early as middle age.

  20. Association of Chronic Low-grade Inflammation With Risk of Alzheimer Disease in ApoE4 Carriers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. JAMA network open 2018-10-05 Genetics

    Median (interquartile range) CRP levels increased with mean (SD) age (43.3 [9.6] years, 0.95 mg/L [0.40-2.35 mg/L] vs 59.1 [9.6] years, 2.04 mg/L [0.93-4.75 mg/L] vs 61.6 [9.5] years, 2.21 mg/L [1.05-5.12 mg/L]; P Conclusions and relevance In this study, peripheral chronic low-grade inflammation in participants with ApoE4 was associated with shortened latency for onset of AD.

  21. Integrative gene network approaches enable new avenues of exploration that implicate causal genes in sporadic late-onset Alzheimer's disease (LOAD) pathogenesis, thereby offering novel insights for drug-discovery programs.

  22. White matter diffusion alterations precede symptom onset in autosomal dominant Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2018-10-01 TREM2 and immune genetics

    White matter alterations are present in the majority of patients with Alzheimer's disease type dementia.

  23. Early and Longitudinal Microglial Activation but Not Amyloid Accumulation Predicts Cognitive Outcome in PS2APP Mice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine 2018-09-27 Biomarkers

    Better cognitive outcome and higher synaptic density in PS2APP mice was predicted by higher TSPO expression at 8 mo. The progression of TSPO activation to 13 mo also showed a moderate association with spared cognition, but amyloidosis did not correlate with the cognitive outcome, regardless of the time point.

  24. Centenarian controls increase variant effect sizes by an average twofold in an extreme case-extreme control analysis of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. European journal of human genetics : EJHG 2018-09-26 TREM2 and immune genetics

    The detection of genetic loci associated with Alzheimer's disease (AD) requires large numbers of cases and controls because variant effect sizes are mostly small.

  25. APOE ε4 is associated with severity of Lewy body pathology independent of Alzheimer pathology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Neurology 2018-08-24 Genetics

    Our results indicate that APOE ε4 is independently associated with a greater severity of LB pathology.

  26. Whole exome sequencing study identifies novel rare and common Alzheimer's-Associated variants involved in immune response and transcriptional regulation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Molecular psychiatry 2018-08-14 Genetics

    The Alzheimer's Disease Sequencing Project (ADSP) undertook whole exome sequencing in 5,740 late-onset Alzheimer disease (AD) cases and 5,096 cognitively normal controls primarily of European ancestry (EA), among whom 218 cases and 177 controls were Caribbean Hispanic (CH).

  27. Sex Differences in Neuropathology and Cognitive Behavior in APP/PS1/tau Triple-Transgenic Mouse Model of Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. Neuroscience bulletin 2018-08-11 Inflammation and the immune system

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia among the elderly, characterized by amyloid plaques, neurofibrillary tangles, and neuroinflammation in the brain, as well as impaired cognitive behaviors.

  28. Evaluation of TDP-43 proteinopathy and hippocampal sclerosis in relation to APOE ε4 haplotype status: a community-based cohort study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. The Lancet. Neurology 2018-08-06 Caregiving

    APOE ε4 count was associated with higher TDP-43 proteinopathy stage (odds ratio [OR] 2·0, 95% CI 1·6-2·6; p=1·9 × 10 -9 ) and TDP-43 burden (0·40, 0·28-0·52; p=1·2 × 10 -10 ).

  29. Left lateralized cerebral glucose metabolism declines in amyloid-β positive persons with mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. NeuroImage. Clinical 2018-07-17 Long-term cohort studies

    Previous publications indicate that Alzheimer's Disease (AD) related cortical atrophy may develop in asymmetric patterns, with accentuation of the left hemisphere.

  30. Adeno-Associated Viral Vector (Serotype 2)-Nerve Growth Factor for Patients With Alzheimer Disease: A Randomized Clinical Trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 69 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2018-07-01 Treatments

    This multicenter randomized clinical trial demonstrated the feasibility of sham-surgery-controlled stereotactic gene delivery studies in patients with AD.

  31. Genetic variants associated with Alzheimer's disease confer different cerebral cortex cell-type population structure

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Genome medicine 2018-06-08 TREM2 and immune genetics

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is characterized by neuronal loss and astrocytosis in the cerebral cortex.

  32. Inflammation, neurodegeneration and protein aggregation in the retina as ocular biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease in the 3xTg-AD mouse model

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Cell death & disease 2018-06-07 Inflammation and the immune system

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common cause of dementia in the elderly.

  33. Cholesterol impairs autophagy-mediated clearance of amyloid beta while promoting its secretion

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Autophagy 2018-06-04 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Macroautophagy/autophagy failure with the accumulation of autophagosomes is an early neuropathological feature of Alzheimer disease (AD) that directly affects amyloid beta (Aβ) metabolism.

  34. Sex, amyloid, and APOE ε4 and risk of cognitive decline in preclinical Alzheimer's disease: Findings from three well-characterized cohorts

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2018-05-24 Genetics

    Although Aβ did not differ by sex, cognitive decline was greater in females with higher Aβ.

  35. Impact of Reference and Target Region Selection on Amyloid PET SUV Ratios in the Phase 1b PRIME Study of Aducanumab

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine 2018-05-18 Biomarkers

    Of the reference regions used, subcortical white matter, cerebellar white matter, and the pons, alone or in combination, generated the largest effect sizes.

  36. Abnormal clotting of the intrinsic/contact pathway in Alzheimer disease patients is related to cognitive ability

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Blood advances 2018-05-01 Biomarkers

    Alzheimer disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disorder characterized by extracellular β-amyloid (Aβ) deposition.

  37. Glutamate Transporter GLT1 Expression in Alzheimer Disease and Dementia With Lewy Bodies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Frontiers in aging neuroscience 2018-04-26 Biomarkers

    Glutamate transporter solute carrier family 1, member 2 (GLT1/EAAT2), a major modulator of glutamate homeostasis in astrocytes, is assessed in post-mortem human brain samples of frontal cortex area 8 in advanced stages of Alzheimer disease (AD) and terminal stages of dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) in order to gain understanding of astrogliopathy in diseases manifested by dementia.

  38. Shifts in gut microbiota composition in an APP/PSS1 transgenic mouse model of Alzheimer's disease during lifespan

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Letters in applied microbiology 2018-04-16 Inflammation and the immune system

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia and one of the major causes of disability and dependency in older people.

  39. Association of β-Amyloid and Apolipoprotein E ε4 With Memory Decline in Preclinical Alzheimer Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2018-04-01 Brain scans and imaging

    However, the extent to which increasing age, Aβ, and ε4 are associated with memory decline remains unclear, and the age at which memory decline begins for Aβ-positive ε4 carriers and noncarriers has not been determined.

  40. Effect of the Apolipoprotein E Genotype on Cognitive Change During a Multidomain Lifestyle Intervention: A Subgroup Analysis of a Randomized Clinical Trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 79 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2018-04-01 Prevention and risk

    The APOE ε4 carriers and noncarriers were not significantly different at baseline (except for serum cholesterol level).

  41. Synaptic dysfunction in Alzheimer's disease: the effects of amyloid beta on synaptic vesicle dynamics as a novel target for therapeutic intervention

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Neural regeneration research 2018-04-01 Disease mechanisms

    The most prevalent form of dementia in the elderly is Alzheimer's disease.

  42. Targeting of nonlipidated, aggregated apoE with antibodies inhibits amyloid accumulation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. The Journal of clinical investigation 2018-03-30 Genetics

    The apolipoprotein E E4 allele of the APOE gene is the strongest genetic factor for late-onset Alzheimer disease (LOAD).

  43. Dissociable influences of APOE ε4 and polygenic risk of AD dementia on amyloid and cognition

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Neurology 2018-03-28 Genetics

    Genetic risk factors of AD dementia demonstrate effects related to Aβ, as well as synergistic interactions with Aβ.

  44. The effect of APOE and other common genetic variants on the onset of Alzheimer's disease and dementia: a community-based cohort study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 70 out of 100. The Lancet. Neurology 2018-03-16 Long-term cohort studies

    Alzheimer's disease is one of the most heritable diseases in elderly people and the most common type of dementia.

  45. High complement levels in astrocyte-derived exosomes of Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2018-03-10 Brain tissue and pathology

    Astrocytes fulfill neuronal trophic roles normally, but are transformed in Alzheimer disease (AD) into A1-type reactive astrocytes that may destroy neurons through unknown mechanisms.

  46. A key role for MAM in mediating mitochondrial dysfunction in Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Cell death & disease 2018-02-28 Risk genes beyond APOE

    In the last few years, increased emphasis has been devoted to understanding the contribution of mitochondria-associated endoplasmic reticulum (ER) membranes (MAM) to human pathology in general, and neurodegenerative diseases in particular.

  47. Neutrophil hyperactivation correlates with Alzheimer's disease progression

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2018-02-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    Our results indicate that the inflammatory properties of circulating neutrophils shift as the percentage of aged neutrophils expands in patients with AD-changes that may play an instrumental role in establishing systemic chronic inflammation.

  48. Amyloid β causes excitation/inhibition imbalance through dopamine receptor 1-dependent disruption of fast-spiking GABAergic input in anterior cingulate cortex

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Scientific reports 2018-01-10 Disease mechanisms

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common cause of dementia in the elderly.

  49. Immune-related genetic enrichment in frontotemporal dementia: An analysis of genome-wide association studies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. PLoS medicine 2018-01-09 Inflammation and the immune system

    We found up to 270-fold genetic enrichment between FTD and RA, up to 160-fold genetic enrichment between FTD and UC, up to 180-fold genetic enrichment between FTD and T1D, and up to 175-fold genetic enrichment between FTD and CeD.

  50. Oxidative Stress, Amyloid-β Peptide, and Altered Key Molecular Pathways in the Pathogenesis and Progression of Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2018-01-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    Oxidative stress is implicated in the pathogenesis and progression of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and its earlier stage, amnestic mild cognitive impairment (aMCI).

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