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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. Integration of cell-specific gene expression and chromatin accessibility facilitates localization of neurodegenerative risk in microglia

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. bioRxiv 2026-09-17 Genetics

    Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified many loci that contribute to the risk of neurodegenerative diseases.

  2. Autonomous AI-Driven Nanoscale Spatial Mapping Reveals Novel Targets and Ternary Architectures in 5xFAD Alzheimer's Disease Model

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. bioRxiv 2026-09-16 Disease mechanisms

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is characterized by the deposition of amyloid-beta (Aβ) and microtubule-associated protein tau (MAPT) neurofibrillary tangles in the brain; however, the molecular mechanisms underlying associated synaptic dysfunction remain unclear.

  3. Cell type-specific histone acetylation landscape in Alzheimer’s disease reveals a putative role of MITF in microglia

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. bioRxiv 2026-09-14 Disease mechanisms

    Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is characterised by aberrant amyloid beta and tau aggregation, neuroinflammation, demyelination and neurodegeneration, which have been linked to changes in cell-specific gene expression signatures.

  4. Selective vulnerability and resilience of thalamic neuronal populations in Frontotemporal Dementia

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Research Square 2026-09-11 Lewy body dementia

    Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) caused by progranulin (GRN) mutations is associated with pronounced thalamic degeneration, yet the cellular basis of selective thalamic vulnerability remains poorly understood.

  5. Multi-Omics Analysis Reveals Molecular Responses of Alkaloid Content Variations in Lycoris radiata Across Different Locations

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Research Square 2026-09-08 Disease mechanisms

    The Amaryllidaceae geophyte Lycoris radiata is a primary botanical source of high-value medicinal alkaloids, including the Alzheimer’s therapeutic galanthamine.

  6. A reproducibility-audit framework for generalizable versus dataset- specific molecular transition boundaries in Alzheimer’s disease

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. bioRxiv 2026-09-01 Digital health tools

    Validated on synthetic ground truth, the audit separates a generalizable anchor (PTGDS) from a dataset-specific signal and a global-expression artefact, providing a reusable control for trajectory-based molecular staging.

  7. Hepatic and Brain Spatial Gene Expression Changes in Intragastric Alcohol Fed APP/PS1 Alzheimer's Disease Mouse Model

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Research Square 2026-08-24 Drug development

    These findings implicate significant liver–brain crosstalk through which chronic alcohol exposure may modulate AD-relevant pathology and reinforce the growing recognition of the liver as a critical organ in AD pathogenesis.

  8. Progranulin deficiency-induced lysosomal dysfunction drives maladaptive myeloid cell states through the MITF/TFE transcription factors

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Immunity 2026-08-03 Genetics

    Lysosomal dysfunction in myeloid cells is increasingly implicated in neurodegenerative diseases.

  9. Common Dysregulated Pathways and Genes in Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and Huntington’s Diseases: A Computational Analysis to Nominate Candidate Gene Targets for Drug Repurposing

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. bioRxiv 2026-07-25 Drug development

    Neurodegenerative diseases are a major threat to older adults and represent a growing global health burden as the elderly population continues to expand.

  10. Alzheimer's Disease as the Result of Aberrant Reactivation of Embryonic Brain Pathways Silenced Decades Earlier

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Research Square 2026-07-22 Drug development

    These findings shift AD modeling from passive proteotoxicity to an active, misregulated developmental structural engine, offering a mechanical framework that explains early olfactory vulnerability and non-linear anti-tau clinical trial responses.

  11. Integrated Proteomic and Phosphoproteomic Profiling Reveals Distinct Disease- and Age-Related Molecular Alterations in the Retina and Hippocampus of APP/PS1/MAPT Mice

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Research Square 2026-07-20 Getting a diagnosis

    The retina displayed earlier and broader AD-related molecular alterations than the hippocampus.

  12. Single-cell gene networks nominate IKZF1 as an Alzheimer’s microglial regulator

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. bioRxiv 2026-07-15 Drug development

    IKZF1 is prioritised as a candidate late-disease microglial TF, supported by six convergent evidence dimensions including independent bulk replication.

  13. Integrative single-nucleus multi-omics profiling identifies candidate regulators and signaling axes in Alzheimer’s disease lipid-processing microglia

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. bioRxiv 2026-07-14 Drug development

    Lipid-processing microglia are among the microglial states most strongly associated with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) pathology, yet whether this association reproduces across independent cohorts, what transcriptional programs define the state, and which upstream signals and small molecules can modulate it remain unsolved.

  14. HnRNPAB -targeted antisense oligonucleotides ameliorate tau pathology and cognitive deficits by modulating Alzheimer’s disease-associated alternative splicing

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. bioRxiv 2026-07-03 Drug development

    Aberrant alternative splicing alters multiple disease-associated splicing events, including MAPT exon 10 inclusion linked to tau pathology, and thereby impacts Alzheimer’s disease (AD) progression.

  15. Loss of the lncRNA SOX1-OT promotes p53-dependent cell-cycle arrest in astrocytes

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. bioRxiv 2026-07-03 Drug development

    Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) are increasingly recognized as regulators of brain cell function, but their roles in astrocyte biology and neurodegeneration remain poorly understood.

  16. Human microglial transitions at the Aβ-tau inflection point associate with divergent pathways to dementia and resilience

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Nature medicine 2026-06-04 Genetics

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is not an inevitable outcome of pathology but a dynamic process shaped by how brain cells respond to amyloid-β (Aβ) and tau.

  17. Epigenetically constrained astrocyte states underlie prefrontal cortex vulnerability in Down syndrome–associated Alzheimer’s disease

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. bioRxiv 2026-04-21 Down syndrome and Alzheimer's

    Down syndrome (DS), caused by trisomy 21, confers a near-universal risk for Alzheimer’s disease (AD), yet individuals exhibit marked variability in cognitive decline, suggesting the presence of cellular mechanisms that modulate vulnerability and resilience.

  18. Comprehensive single-cell transcriptomic atlas of microglia in Alzheimer's disease mouse models

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Molecular psychiatry 2026-03-21 Genetics

    Microglia are central mediators of neuroinflammation in Alzheimer's disease (AD), yet conserved microglial states and activation trajectories across AD mouse models remain incompletely defined.

  19. The Amyloid Plaque Proteomes of Alzheimer’s Disease and Mild Cognitive Impairment

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Research Square 2026-03-08 Down syndrome and Alzheimer's

    Amyloid plaques contain numerous proteins in addition to amyloid beta in Alzheimer’s disease (AD).

  20. Human hippocampal neurogenesis in adulthood, ageing and Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Nature 2026-02-25 Genetics

    The existence of human hippocampal neurogenesis has long been disputed1-12 and its relevance in cognition remains unknown.

  21. Proteomics reveals three molecular subtypes of Alzheimer's disease with distinct progression patterns

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 73 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2026-02 Tau biomarkers

    Three AD subtypes were identified. Subtype 1, enriched in RNA metabolism pathways, showed the mildest atrophy and slowest cognitive decline.

  22. Exploring cellular heterogeneity: single-cell and spatial transcriptomics of Alzheimer's disease brains and iPSC-derived microglia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2025-12-28 Genetics

    Our comprehensive atlas revealed pronounced heterogeneity among microglial states, with disease-associated microglia (DAM) significantly enriched in AD brains compared to controls.

  23. Biological Aging Acceleration in Major Depressive Disorder: A Multi-Omics Analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Aging cell 2025-12-04 Genetics

    Major depressive disorder (MDD) is linked to a higher risk of premature aging, but the mechanisms underlying this association remain unclear.

  24. Single-cell landscape of sex-specific drivers of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2025-12 Genetics

    Nine female-specific associations were identified and replicated, involving ADGRV1, OR3A3, IFI27L1, LYRM1, STAP2, TSTD2, PDYN, and TMEM50B. We observed the preponderance of protective female-specific associations in neurons.

  25. Spatial and single-cell transcriptomics reveal the reorganization of cerebellar microglia with aging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Cell reports 2025-11-26 Genetics

    The cerebellum, essential for motor coordination and increasingly recognized for its role in cognition, is typically considered more resilient to aging and largely spared from hallmark Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathology.

  26. Spatial Multi-Omics Workflow and Analytical Guidelines for Alzheimer's Neuropathology

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology 2025-11-17 Genetics

    Spatial biology technologies enable high-dimensional profiling within intact tissues, revealing how molecular and cellular organization drives function and disease.

  27. Single-nucleus multi-omics identifies shared and distinct pathways in Pick's and Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Science advances 2025-11-12 Genetics

    The study of transcriptomic and epigenomic variations in neurodegenerative diseases, particularly tauopathies like Pick's disease (PiD) and Alzheimer's disease (AD), offers insights into their underlying regulatory mechanisms.

  28. Whole-genome Sequence Analysis Revealed Novel Subjective Cognitive Decline-associated Genes in 10,763 Chinese

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Genomics, proteomics & bioinformatics 2025-10-28 Genetics

    Subjective cognitive decline (SCD) is widely regarded as a potential preclinical stage of Alzheimer's disease (AD), yet its genetic basis remains poorly understood.

  29. Brain somatic mutations in Alzheimer's disease: linking genetic mosaicism to neurodegeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Molecular neurodegeneration 2025-10-09 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Somatic mutations are DNA sequence changes that occur in non-reproductive cells during an organism's life and are not inherited by offspring.

  30. Molecular hallmarks of excitatory and inhibitory neuronal resilience to Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Molecular neurodegeneration 2025-10-01 Genetics

    Transcriptomics and polygenic risk analysis position resilience as an intermediate AD state.

  31. Brain Region-Specific Epigenomic Reorganization and Altered Cell States in Alzheimer's Disease

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology 2025-09-30 Genetics

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common neurodegenerative disorder, yet the molecular mechanisms underlying its region- and cell-type-specific pathogenesis remain poorly defined.

  32. miR155 triplicated in Down syndrome regulates hippocampal GABAergic neurogenesis in Alzheimer’s disease

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. bioRxiv 2025-09-30 Down syndrome and Alzheimer's

    MicroRNA dysregulation is implicated in neurodegenerative disorders, including Alzheimer’s disease (AD).

  33. Age-Associated Transcriptomic and Epigenetic Alterations in Mouse Hippocampus

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Aging cell 2025-09-28 Genetics

    Aging represents a major risk for human neurodegenerative disorders, such as dementia and Alzheimer's disease, and is associated with a functional decline in neurons and impaired synaptic plasticity, leading to a gradual decline in memory.

  34. Single-cell transcriptome analysis reveals dysregulation of microglial iron homeostasis in temporal lobe epilepsy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Brain research 2025-08-11 Genetics

    Temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) is the most common and drug-resistant type of epilepsy with an unknown mechanism.

  35. Single-cell multiregion epigenomic rewiring in Alzheimer's disease progression and cognitive resilience

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Cell 2025-08-01 Genetics

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disorder characterized by progressive cognitive decline, yet its epigenetic underpinnings remain elusive.

  36. Human brain vascular multi-omics elucidates disease-risk associations

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Neuron 2025-07-28 Genetics

    Cerebrovascular dysfunction underlies many neurological disorders, yet how genetic variants in brain vascular cells drive disease risk remains unknown.

  37. Cell-type-directed network-correcting combination therapy for Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Cell 2025-07-21 Genetics

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a multifactorial neurodegenerative disorder characterized by heterogeneous molecular changes across diverse cell types, posing significant challenges for treatment development.

  38. Presence of Alzheimer's disease variants in circular RNA of PSEN1 and PSEN2

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2025-06-16 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Circular RNAs (circRNAs) are emerging as a promising object of study in Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathogenesis.

  39. Protective exercise responses in the dentate gyrus of Alzheimer's disease mouse model revealed with single-nucleus RNA-sequencing

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Nature neuroscience 2025-06-12 Genetics

    Exercise's protective effects in Alzheimer's disease (AD) are well recognized, but cell-specific contributions to this phenomenon remain unclear.

  40. Distinct systemic impacts of Aβ42 and Tau revealed by whole-organism snRNA-seq

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Neuron 2025-05-16 Genetics

    Both neuronal and peripheral tissues become disrupted in Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  41. Molecular pathways and diagnosis in spatially resolved Alzheimer's hippocampal atlas

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Neuron 2025-03-31 Genetics

    We employed Stereo-seq combined with single-nucleus RNA sequencing (snRNA-seq) to investigate the gene expression and cell composition changes in human hippocampus with or without Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  42. Harnessing the Evolution of Proteostasis Networks to Reverse Cognitive Dysfunction

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. bioRxiv 2025-03-02 Down syndrome and Alzheimer's

    The integrated stress response (ISR) is a highly conserved network essential for maintaining cellular homeostasis and cognitive function.

  43. Transcription Factor-Wide Association Studies to Identify Functional SNPs in Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2025-01-08 Genetics

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder with profound global impact.

  44. Integrative multiomics reveals common endotypes across PSEN1, PSEN2, and APP mutations in familial Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2025-01-04 Risk genes beyond APOE

    We identified common disease endotypes, such as dedifferentiation, dysregulation of synaptic signaling, repression of mitochondrial function and metabolism, and inflammation.

  45. DNA Methylation in Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. Current topics in behavioral neurosciences 2025 Genetics

    To date, DNA methylation is the best characterized epigenetic modification in Alzheimer's disease.

  46. Cell-type specific epigenetic clocks to quantify biological age at cell-type resolution

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Aging 2024-12-29 Genetics

    The ability to accurately quantify biological age could help monitor and control healthy aging.

  47. RNA Isoform Diversity in Human Neurodegenerative Diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. eNeuro 2024-12-27 Genetics

    Single-nucleus RNA-sequencing (snRNA-seq) has revealed new levels of cellular organization and diversity within the human brain.

  48. Comparative mapping of single-cell transcriptomic landscapes in neurodegenerative diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2024-12-17 Genetics

    The same vulnerable inhibitory neuron subtype was depleted in both AD and DLB.

  49. Spatial and single-nucleus transcriptomic analysis of genetic and sporadic forms of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Nature genetics 2024-11-22 Genetics

    The pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease (AD) depends on environmental and heritable factors, with its molecular etiology still unclear.

  50. Spatial Transcriptomic Analysis Identifies a SERPINA3-Expressing Astrocytic State Associated with the Human Neuritic Plaque Microenvironment

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology 2024-11-14 Genetics

    Single-nucleus transcriptomic studies have revealed glial cell states associated with Alzheimer's disease; however, these nuclei are dissociated from the complex architecture of the human neocortex.

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