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  1. Integrative systems biology identifies shared neuroimmune co-expression programmes across pulmonary tuberculosis and Alzheimer's disease 2026-10-30
  2. Pregnancy History and Loss of Normal PSEN2 Function Impact Female Late-Life Cognitive Processing, Inhibitory Signaling, and Gliosis 2026-10-30
  3. Joint localization and testing reveals spatial context of differential expression 2026-10-29

Studies

274 studies carry this tag.

Date range

1997 to 2026

Top journals

  • bioRxiv 44
  • Research Square 16
  • Nature neuroscience 11
  • Nature communications 10
  • Neuron 10

98 journals in all.

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  1. Blood DNA Methylation Patterns in Older Adults With Evolving Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences 2022-09-01 Genetics

    Dementia and cognitive disorders are major aging-associated pathologies.

  2. Disease-associated oligodendrocyte responses across neurodegenerative diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 67 out of 100. Cell reports 2022-08-01 Genetics

    Oligodendrocyte dysfunction has been implicated in the pathogenesis of neurodegenerative diseases, so understanding oligodendrocyte activation states would shed light on disease processes.

  3. Molecular landscapes of human hippocampal immature neurons across lifespan

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Nature 2022-07-06 Genetics

    Immature dentate granule cells (imGCs) arising from adult hippocampal neurogenesis contribute to plasticity and unique brain functions in rodents 1,2 and are dysregulated in multiple human neurological disorders 3-5 .

  4. A shared disease-associated oligodendrocyte signature among multiple CNS pathologies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Nature neuroscience 2022-06-27 Genetics

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a complex neurodegenerative disease, perturbing neuronal and non-neuronal cell populations.

  5. Bulk and Single-Nucleus Transcriptomics Highlight Intra-Telencephalic and Somatostatin Neurons in Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Frontiers in molecular neuroscience 2022-06-10 Genetics

    Cortical neuron loss is a pathological hallmark of late-onset Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  6. Epigenetic ageing of the prefrontal cortex and cerebellum in humans and chimpanzees

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Epigenetics 2022-06-02 Genetics

    Epigenetic age has emerged as an important biomarker of biological ageing.

  7. Expanding RNAi therapeutics to extrahepatic tissues with lipophilic conjugates

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Nature biotechnology 2022-06-02 Brain scans and imaging

    Therapeutics based on short interfering RNAs (siRNAs) delivered to hepatocytes have been approved, but new delivery solutions are needed to target additional organs.

  8. Genome-wide association meta-analysis identifies 48 risk variants and highlights the role of the stria vascularis in hearing loss

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 83 out of 100. American journal of human genetics 2022-05-16 Risk factors

    Hearing loss is one of the top contributors to years lived with disability and is a risk factor for dementia.

  9. Somatic genomic changes in single Alzheimer's disease neurons

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Nature 2022-04-20 Genetics

    Dementia in Alzheimer's disease progresses alongside neurodegeneration 1-4 , but the specific events that cause neuronal dysfunction and death remain poorly understood.

  10. Astrocytes and oligodendrocytes undergo subtype-specific transcriptional changes in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Neuron 2022-04-04 Genetics

    Resolving glial contributions to Alzheimer's disease (AD) is necessary because changes in neuronal function, such as reduced synaptic density, altered electrophysiological properties, and degeneration, are not entirely cell autonomous.

  11. Guidelines for bioinformatics of single-cell sequencing data analysis in Alzheimer's disease: review, recommendation, implementation and application

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. Molecular neurodegeneration 2022-03-02 Genetics

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia, characterized by progressive cognitive impairment and neurodegeneration.

  12. MicroRNAs in Alzheimer's disease: Potential diagnostic markers and therapeutic targets

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Biomedicine & pharmacotherapy = Biomedecine & pharmacotherapie 2022-02-15 Treatments

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common neurodegenerative disease, with cognitive decline as the primary clinical feature.

  13. Large-scale deep multi-layer analysis of Alzheimer's disease brain reveals strong proteomic disease-related changes not observed at the RNA level

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Nature neuroscience 2022-02-03 Genetics

    The biological processes that are disrupted in the Alzheimer's disease (AD) brain remain incompletely understood.

  14. Single Nucleus Transcriptome Data from Alzheimer's Disease Mouse Models Yield New Insight into Pathophysiology

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

    We identified several DEGs in both neuronal and glial cell subtypes in comparisons of wild type (WT) versus 5XFAD and WT versus T2KO mice, including Ttr, Fth1, Pcsk1n, Malat1, Rpl37, Rtn1, Sepw1, Uba52, Mbp, Arl6ip5, Gm26917, Vwa1, and Pgrmc1.

  15. Transcriptomic taxonomy and neurogenic trajectories of adult human, macaque, and pig hippocampal and entorhinal cells

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Neuron 2021-11-18 Genetics

    The hippocampal-entorhinal system supports cognitive functions, has lifelong neurogenic capabilities in many species, and is selectively vulnerable to Alzheimer's disease.

  16. Identifying phenotype-associated subpopulations by integrating bulk and single-cell sequencing data

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Nature biotechnology 2021-11-11 Genetics

    Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) distinguishes cell types, states and lineages within the context of heterogeneous tissues.

  17. Single-cell Transcriptional Changes in Neurodegenerative Diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Neuroscience 2021-11-06 Genetics

    In recent decades, our understanding of the molecular changes involved in neurodegenerative diseases has been transformed.

  18. Human neocortical expansion involves glutamatergic neuron diversification

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Nature 2021-10-06 Genetics

    The neocortex is disproportionately expanded in human compared with mouse 1,2 , both in its total volume relative to subcortical structures and in the proportion occupied by supragranular layers composed of neurons that selectively make connections within the neocortex and with other telencephalic structures.

  19. Proteomic landscape of Alzheimer's Disease: novel insights into pathogenesis and biomarker discovery

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 83 out of 100. Molecular neurodegeneration 2021-08-12 Genetics

    Mass spectrometry-based proteomics empowers deep profiling of proteome and protein posttranslational modifications (PTMs) in Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  20. Microglia in Alzheimer's disease at single-cell level. Are there common patterns in humans and mice?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. The Journal of experimental medicine 2021-07-22 Genetics

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is characterized by extracellular aggregates of amyloid β peptides, intraneuronal tau aggregates, and neuronal death.

  21. Genomic atlas of the proteome from brain, CSF and plasma prioritizes proteins implicated in neurological disorders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Nature neuroscience 2021-07-08 Genetics

    Understanding the tissue-specific genetic controls of protein levels is essential to uncover mechanisms of post-transcriptional gene regulation.

  22. Single-nucleus chromatin accessibility and transcriptomic characterization of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Nature genetics 2021-07-08 Genetics

    The gene-regulatory landscape of the brain is highly dynamic in health and disease, coordinating a menagerie of biological processes across distinct cell types.

  23. A map of transcriptional heterogeneity and regulatory variation in human microglia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Nature genetics 2021-06-03 Genetics

    Microglia, the tissue-resident macrophages of the central nervous system (CNS), play critical roles in immune defense, development and homeostasis.

  24. Age-dependent instability of mature neuronal fate in induced neurons from Alzheimer's patients

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Cell stem cell 2021-04-27 Genetics

    Sporadic Alzheimer's disease (AD) exclusively affects elderly people.

  25. scGNN is a novel graph neural network framework for single-cell RNA-Seq analyses

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Nature communications 2021-03-25 Genetics

    Single-cell RNA-sequencing (scRNA-Seq) is widely used to reveal the heterogeneity and dynamics of tissues, organisms, and complex diseases, but its analyses still suffer from multiple grand challenges, including the sequencing sparsity and complex differential patterns in gene expression.

  26. Integration of Alzheimer's disease genetics and myeloid genomics identifies disease risk regulatory elements and genes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Nature communications 2021-03-12 Genetics

    Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified more than 40 loci associated with Alzheimer's disease (AD), but the causal variants, regulatory elements, genes and pathways remain largely unknown, impeding a mechanistic understanding of AD pathogenesis.

  27. A genome-wide association study in human lymphoblastoid cells supports safety of mitochondrial complex I inhibitor

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Mitochondrion 2021-02-19 Genetics

    Novel therapeutic strategies for Alzheimer's disease (AD) are of the greatest priority given the consistent failure of recent clinical trials focused on Aβ or pTau.

  28. An Integrated Multi-omics Approach Identifies Therapeutic Potential for ATP6V1A in Late Onset Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Neuron 2021-01-20 Drug development

    In this issue of Neuron, Wang et al. employ an impressive multi-omics approach, including gene co-expression network analyses and drug repositioning, to normalize disease-disrupted gene modules and identify a therapeutically relevant driver of Alzheimer's disease.

  29. Molecular characterization of selectively vulnerable neurons in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Nature neuroscience 2021-01-11 Genetics

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is characterized by the selective vulnerability of specific neuronal populations, the molecular signatures of which are largely unknown.

  30. Presenilin 1 mutation likely contributes to U1 small nuclear RNA dysregulation and Alzheimer's disease-like symptoms

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2021-01-06 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Previous studies showed that U1 small nuclear RNA (snRNA) was selectively enriched in the brain of individuals with familial Alzheimer's disease (AD), resulting in widespread changes in RNA splicing.

  31. Accelerated Epigenetic Aging in Peripheral Blood does not Predict Dementia Risk

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Current Alzheimer research 2021 Genetics

    There was no difference in age acceleration between dementia cases and controls.

  32. Relevance of a Truncated PRESENILIN 2 Transcript to Alzheimer's Disease and Neurodegeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2021 Risk genes beyond APOE

    PS2V levels increased in AD postmortem brain but PS2V was also present at significant levels in FTD and LBD brains.

  33. Single cell RNA sequencing of human microglia uncovers a subset associated with Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Nature communications 2020-11-30 Genetics

    The extent of microglial heterogeneity in humans remains a central yet poorly explored question in light of the development of therapies targeting this cell type.

  34. scREAD: A Single-Cell RNA-Seq Database for Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. iScience 2020-11-05 Genetics

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder of the brain and the most common form of dementia among the elderly.

  35. Single-cell epigenomic analyses implicate candidate causal variants at inherited risk loci for Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Nature genetics 2020-10-26 Genetics

    Genome-wide association studies of neurological diseases have identified thousands of variants associated with disease phenotypes.

  36. Integrated proteomics reveals brain-based cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers in asymptomatic and symptomatic Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Science advances 2020-10-21 Tau biomarkers

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) lacks protein biomarkers reflective of its diverse underlying pathophysiology, hindering diagnostic and therapeutic advancements.

  37. Integrative genomics approach identifies conserved transcriptomic networks in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Human molecular genetics 2020-10-10 Genetics

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a devastating neurological disorder characterized by changes in cell-type proportions and consequently marked alterations of the transcriptome.

  38. An integrated multi-omics approach identifies epigenetic alterations associated with Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Nature genetics 2020-09-28 Genetics

    Protein aggregation is the hallmark of neurodegeneration, but the molecular mechanisms underlying late-onset Alzheimer's disease (AD) are unclear.

  39. Single-nucleus transcriptome analysis reveals dysregulation of angiogenic endothelial cells and neuroprotective glia in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2020-09-28 Genetics

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia but has no effective treatment.

  40. Systems-based proteomics to resolve the biology of Alzheimer's disease beyond amyloid and tau

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology 2020-09-08 Treatments

    The repeated failures of amyloid-targeting therapies have challenged our narrow understanding of Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathogenesis and inspired wide-ranging investigations into the underlying mechanisms of disease.

  41. Considerations for integrative multi-omic approaches to explore Alzheimer's disease mechanisms

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Brain pathology (Zurich, Switzerland) 2020-09 Genetics

    The past decade has seen the maturation of multiple different forms of high-dimensional molecular profiling to the point that these methods could be deployed in initially hundreds and more recently thousands of human samples.

  42. Single-Nucleus RNA-Seq Is Not Suitable for Detection of Microglial Activation Genes in Humans

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Cell reports 2020-09-01 Genetics

    Single-nucleus RNA sequencing (snRNA-seq) is used as an alternative to single-cell RNA-seq, as it allows transcriptomic profiling of frozen tissue.

  43. A single-cell atlas of the human substantia nigra reveals cell-specific pathways associated with neurological disorders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Nature communications 2020-08-21 Genetics

    We describe a human single-nuclei transcriptomic atlas for the substantia nigra (SN), generated by sequencing approximately 17,000 nuclei from matched cortical and SN samples.

  44. MicroRNA predicts cognitive performance in healthy older adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2020-08-03 Biomarkers

    The expression of microRNA (miRNA) is influenced by ongoing biological processes, including aging, and has begun to play a role in the measurement of neurodegenerative processes in central nervous system.

  45. Integrated analysis of ultra-deep proteomes in cortex, cerebrospinal fluid and serum reveals a mitochondrial signature in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Molecular neurodegeneration 2020-07-25 Biomarkers

    Our results demonstrate that novel AD biomarker candidates are identified and confirmed by proteomic studies of brain tissue and biofluids, providing a rich resource for large-scale biomarker validation for the AD community.

  46. Spatial Transcriptomics and In Situ Sequencing to Study Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Cell 2020-07-22 Genetics

    Although complex inflammatory-like alterations are observed around the amyloid plaques of Alzheimer's disease (AD), little is known about the molecular changes and cellular interactions that characterize this response.

  47. Older molecular brain age in severe mental illness

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Molecular psychiatry 2020-07-06 Genetics

    Psychiatric disorders are associated with accelerated aging and enhanced risk for neurodegenerative disorders.

  48. Small RNA fingerprinting of Alzheimer's disease frontal cortex extracellular vesicles and their comparison with peripheral extracellular vesicles

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of extracellular vesicles 2020-06-04 Biomarkers

    Alzheimer's disease is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder, with the strongest disease-associated changes observed at clinical or end-stage disease.

  49. Alzheimer's Patient Microglia Exhibit Enhanced Aging and Unique Transcriptional Activation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Cell reports 2020-06-01 Genetics

    Damage-associated microglia (DAM) profiles observed in Alzheimer's disease (AD)-related mouse models reflect an activation state that could modulate AD risk or progression.

  50. A multiomics approach to heterogeneity in Alzheimer's disease: focused review and roadmap

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2020-05-01 Genetics

    Aetiological and clinical heterogeneity is increasingly recognized as a common characteristic of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias.

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