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Newest in this topic

  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. Disease-associated astrocytes in Alzheimer's disease and aging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Nature neuroscience 2020-04-27 Genetics

    The role of non-neuronal cells in Alzheimer's disease progression has not been fully elucidated.

  2. Our understanding of Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathophysiology remains incomplete.

  3. DNA Methylation Biomarkers in Aging and Age-Related Diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Frontiers in genetics 2020-03-10 Genetics

    Recent research efforts provided compelling evidence of genome-wide DNA methylation alterations in aging and age-related disease.

  4. A Proteotranscriptomic-Based Computational Drug-Repositioning Method for Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Frontiers in pharmacology 2020-01-29 Drug development

    Numerous clinical trials of drug candidates for Alzheimer's disease (AD) have failed, and computational drug repositioning approaches using omics data have been proposed as effective alternative approaches to the discovery of drug candidates.

  5. Single-nucleus RNA sequencing reveals transcriptional changes of hippocampal neurons in APP23 mouse model of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Bioscience, biotechnology, and biochemistry 2020-01-13 Genetics

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder that mostly strikes the elderly.

  6. Clonally expanded CD8 T cells patrol the cerebrospinal fluid in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Nature 2020-01-08 Tau biomarkers

    Alzheimer's disease is an incurable neurodegenerative disorder in which neuroinflammation has a critical function 1 .

  7. Deep Multilayer Brain Proteomics Identifies Molecular Networks in Alzheimer's Disease Progression

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Neuron 2020-01-08 Tau biomarkers

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) displays a long asymptomatic stage before dementia.

  8. A single-cell atlas of entorhinal cortex from individuals with Alzheimer's disease reveals cell-type-specific gene expression regulation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Nature neuroscience 2019-12-01 Genetics

    There is currently little information available about how individual cell types contribute to Alzheimer's disease.

  9. Brain cell type-specific enhancer-promoter interactome maps and disease - risk association

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Science (New York, N.Y.) 2019-11-14 Inflammation and the immune system

    Noncoding genetic variation is a major driver of phenotypic diversity, but functional interpretation is challenging.

  10. A combined miRNA-piRNA signature to detect Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Translational psychiatry 2019-10-07 Biomarkers

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common neurodegenerative disorder causing huge emotional and economic burden to our societies.

  11. Long Non-coding RNA BACE1-AS May Serve as an Alzheimer's Disease Blood-Based Biomarker

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Journal of molecular neuroscience : MN 2019-07-01 Biomarkers

    Circulating long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) might serve as biomarkers for different pathological conditions.

  12. Single-cell transcriptomics unveils gene regulatory network plasticity

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Genome biology 2019-06-03 Genetics

    We devise a conceptually different computational framework based on a holistic view, where single-cell datasets are used to infer global, large-scale regulatory networks.

  13. Epigenetic dysregulation of enhancers in neurons is associated with Alzheimer’s disease pathology and cognitive symptoms

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Nature Communications 2019-05-21 Genetics

    Epigenetic control of enhancers alters neuronal functions and may be involved in Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  14. Dynamic DNA Methylation During Aging: A "Prophet" of Age-Related Outcomes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Frontiers in genetics 2019-02-18 Genetics

    The biological markers of aging used to predict physical health status in older people are of great interest.

  15. miR-34a in Neurophysiology and Neuropathology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Journal of molecular neuroscience : MN 2018-11-28 Risk factors

    Epigenetic influence of brain and neuronal function plays key regulatory roles in health and diseases.

  16. Deep proteomic network analysis of Alzheimer's disease brain reveals alterations in RNA binding proteins and RNA splicing associated with disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Molecular neurodegeneration 2018-10-04 Genetics

    Further analysis of the AD brain proteome will continue to yield new insights into the biological basis of AD.

  17. The Mount Sinai cohort of large-scale genomic, transcriptomic and proteomic data in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Scientific data 2018-09-11 Genetics

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) affects half the US population over the age of 85 and is universally fatal following an average course of 10 years of progressive cognitive disability.

  18. A multi-omic atlas of the human frontal cortex for aging and Alzheimer's disease research

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 67 out of 100. Scientific data 2018-08-07 Genetics

    We initiated the systematic profiling of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex obtained from a subset of autopsied individuals enrolled in the Religious Orders Study (ROS) or the Rush Memory and Aging Project (MAP), which are jointly designed prospective studies of aging and dementia with detailed, longitudinal cognitive phenotyping during life and a quantitative, structured neuropathologic examination after death.

  19. Microglial translational profiling reveals a convergent APOE pathway from aging, amyloid, and tau

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. The Journal of experimental medicine 2018-08-06 Genetics

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is an age-associated neurodegenerative disease characterized by amyloidosis, tauopathy, and activation of microglia, the brain resident innate immune cells.

  20. Multiscale Analysis of Independent Alzheimer's Cohorts Finds Disruption of Molecular, Genetic, and Clinical Networks by Human Herpesvirus

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Neuron 2018-06-21 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Investigators have long suspected that pathogenic microbes might contribute to the onset and progression of Alzheimer's disease (AD) although definitive evidence has not been presented.

  21. Epigenetic Regulation in Neurodegenerative Diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Trends in neurosciences 2018-06-07 Genetics

    Mechanisms of epigenetic regulation, including DNA methylation, chromatin remodeling, and histone post-translational modifications, are involved in multiple aspects of neuronal function and development.

  22. An epigenetic biomarker of aging for lifespan and healthspan

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

    Identifying reliable biomarkers of aging is a major goal in geroscience.

  23. Global quantitative analysis of the human brain proteome in Alzheimer's and Parkinson's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Scientific data 2018-03-13 Genetics

    Patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) and Parkinson's disease (PD) often have overlap in clinical presentation and brain neuropathology suggesting that these two diseases share common underlying mechanisms.

  24. Dysregulation of the epigenetic landscape of normal aging in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Nature neuroscience 2018-03-05 Genetics

    Aging is the strongest risk factor for Alzheimer's disease (AD), although the underlying mechanisms remain unclear.

  25. Application of Metabolomics in Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Frontiers in neurology 2018-01-12 Genetics

    Progress toward the development of efficacious therapies for Alzheimer's disease (AD) is halted by a lack of understanding early underlying pathological mechanisms.

  26. Reprogramming neurodegeneration in the big data era

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Current opinion in neurobiology 2018-01-10 Genetics

    Recent genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified numerous genetic risk variants for late-onset Alzheimer's disease (AD) and Parkinson's disease (PD).

  27. Circular RNA and Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Advances in experimental medicine and biology 2018-01-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Circular RNAs (circRNAs) represent a special group of noncoding single-stranded highly stable ribonucleic acid entities abundant in the eukaryotic transcriptome.

  28. Microglia, the CNS-resident immune cells, play important roles in disease, but the spectrum of their possible activation states is not well understood.

  29. Temporal Tracking of Microglia Activation in Neurodegeneration at Single-Cell Resolution

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Cell reports 2017-10-01 Genetics

    Microglia, the tissue-resident macrophages in the brain, are damage sensors that react to nearly any perturbation, including neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  30. A systematic integrated analysis of brain expression profiles reveals YAP1 and other prioritized hub genes as important upstream regulators in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2017-09-18 Genetics

    Early expression disturbance of hub genes is an important feature of AD development, and interfering with this process may reverse the disease progression.

  31. MicroRNA Profiling in Aging Brain of PSEN1/PSEN2 Double Knockout Mice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Molecular neurobiology 2017-09-06 Risk genes beyond APOE

    MicroRNAs are small non-coding RNAs that function as regulators of gene expression.

  32. Synaptic Dysfunction in Alzheimer's Disease: Aβ, Tau, and Epigenetic Alterations

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Molecular neurobiology 2017-04-29 Disease mechanisms

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a complex neurodegenerative disorder characterized in the early stages by loss of learning and memory.

  33. A Multi-network Approach Identifies Protein-Specific Co-expression in Asymptomatic and Symptomatic Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Cell systems 2016-12-15 Genetics

    Here, we report proteomic analyses of 129 human cortical tissues to define changes associated with the asymptomatic and symptomatic stages of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  34. Plasma microRNA biomarker detection for mild cognitive impairment using differential correlation analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Biomarker research 2016-12-12 Biomarkers

    Differential correlation analysis, a bioinformatics tool to elucidate complicated and interdependent biological systems behind diseases, detects effective MCI markers that cannot be found by single molecule analysis such as t-test.

  35. Deficiency in the Ubiquitin Conjugating Enzyme UBE2A in Alzheimer's Disease (AD) is Linked to Deficits in a Natural Circular miRNA-7 Sponge (circRNA; ciRS-7)

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Genes 2016-12-05 Brain scans and imaging

    Our understanding of the highly specialized functions for small non-coding single-stranded RNA (ssRNA) in the transcriptome of the human central nervous system (CNS) continues to evolve.

  36. This transcriptomic network analysis of 19 brain regions provides a comprehensive assessment of the critical molecular pathways associated with AD pathology and offers new insights into molecular mechanisms underlying selective regional vulnerability to AD at different stages of the progression of cognitive compromise and development of the canonical neuropathological lesions of AD.

  37. Human whole genome genotype and transcriptome data for Alzheimer's and other neurodegenerative diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Scientific data 2016-10-11 Genetics

    Previous genome-wide association studies (GWAS), conducted by our group and others, have identified loci that harbor risk variants for neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  38. A comprehensive compilation of SUMO proteomics

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Nature reviews. Molecular cell biology 2016-07-20 Genetics

    Small ubiquitin-like modifiers (SUMOs) are essential for the regulation of several cellular processes and are potential therapeutic targets owing to their involvement in diseases such as cancer and Alzheimer disease.

  39. Untangling the brain's neuroinflammatory and neurodegenerative transcriptional responses

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Nature communications 2016-04-21 Genetics

    A common approach to understanding neurodegenerative disease is comparing gene expression in diseased versus healthy tissues.

  40. Identification of Vulnerable Cell Types in Major Brain Disorders Using Single Cell Transcriptomes and Expression Weighted Cell Type Enrichment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Frontiers in neuroscience 2016-01-27 Genetics

    The cell types that trigger the primary pathology in many brain diseases remain largely unknown.

  41. Genome-wide DNA methylation profiling in the superior temporal gyrus reveals epigenetic signatures associated with Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Genome medicine 2016-01-19 Genetics

    We have characterized changes in DNA methylation in the superior temporal gyrus of patients with Alzheimer's disease, highlighting novel loci that facilitate better characterization of pathways and mechanisms underlying Alzheimer's disease pathogenesis, and improve our understanding of epigenetic signatures that may contribute to the development of disease.

  42. There is an urgent need to develop molecular biomarkers of brain age in order to advance our understanding of age related neurodegeneration.

  43. A novel multi-tissue RNA diagnostic of healthy ageing relates to cognitive health status

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 67 out of 100. Genome biology 2015-09-03 Genetics

    One hundred and fifty probe-sets form an accurate classifier of young versus older muscle tissue and this healthy ageing RNA classifier performed consistently in independent cohorts of human muscle, skin and brain tissue (n = 594, AUC = 0.83-0.96) and thus represents a biomarker for biological age.

  44. Bioinformatics methods in drug repurposing for Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Briefings in bioinformatics 2015-07-21 Drug development

    Alarming epidemiological features of Alzheimer's disease impose curative treatment rather than symptomatic relief.

  45. The epigenetics of aging and neurodegeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Progress in neurobiology 2015-06-11 Genetics

    Epigenetics is a quickly growing field encompassing mechanisms regulating gene expression that do not involve changes in the genotype.

  46. Drug repositioning in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Frontiers in bioscience (Scholar edition) 2015-06-01 Drug development

    Drug repositioning offers an innovative approach to drug discovery with great potential in the field of Alzheimer's Disease and dementia therapeutics.

  47. Conserved epigenomic signals in mice and humans reveal immune basis of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Nature 2015-02-01 Disease mechanisms

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a severe age-related neurodegenerative disorder characterized by accumulation of amyloid-β plaques and neurofibrillary tangles, synaptic and neuronal loss, and cognitive decline.

  48. Prognostic serum miRNA biomarkers associated with Alzheimer's disease shows concordance with neuropsychological and neuroimaging assessment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Molecular psychiatry 2014-10-28 Getting a diagnosis

    There is no consensus for a blood-based test for the early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  49. Alzheimer's disease: early alterations in brain DNA methylation at ANK1, BIN1, RHBDF2 and other loci

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Nature neuroscience 2014-08-17 Genetics

    We used a collection of 708 prospectively collected autopsied brains to assess the methylation state of the brain's DNA in relation to Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  50. Global changes in DNA methylation and hydroxymethylation in Alzheimer's disease human brain

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2013-12-04 Genetics

    DNA methylation (5-methylcytosine [5mC]) is one of several epigenetic markers altered in Alzheimer's disease (AD) brain.

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