[HTML][HTML] Genome-wide association of polygenic risk extremes for Alzheimer's disease in the UK Biobank

C Gouveia, E Gibbons, N Dehghani, J Eapen… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
In just over a decade, advances in genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have offered
an approach to stratify individuals based on genetic risk for disease. Using recent …

[HTML][HTML] Genetic assessment of age-associated Alzheimer disease risk: development and validation of a polygenic hazard score

RS Desikan, CC Fan, Y Wang, AJ Schork… - PLoS …, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Background Identifying individuals at risk for developing Alzheimer disease (AD) is of utmost
importance. Although genetic studies have identified AD-associated SNPs in APOE and …

Genome-wide association studies for Alzheimer's disease: bigger is not always better

V Escott-Price, J Hardy - Brain Communications, 2022 - academic.oup.com
As the size of genome-wide association studies increase, the number of associated trait loci
identified inevitably increase. One welcomes this if it allows the better delineation of the …

Polygenic risk and hazard scores for Alzheimer's disease prediction

G Leonenko, R Sims, M Shoai, A Frizzati… - Annals of clinical …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Objective Genome‐wide association studies (GWAS) have identified over 30 susceptibility
loci associated with Alzheimer's disease (AD). Using AD GWAS data from the International …

Transferability of Alzheimer disease polygenic risk score across populations and its association with Alzheimer disease-related phenotypes

SH Jung, HR Kim, MY Chun, H Jang, M Cho… - JAMA network …, 2022 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Polygenic risk scores (PRSs), which aggregate the genetic effects of single-
nucleotide variants identified in genome-wide association studies (GWASs), can help …

[HTML][HTML] Gene-wide analysis detects two new susceptibility genes for Alzheimer's disease

V Escott-Price, C Bellenguez, LS Wang, SH Choi… - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Background Alzheimer's disease is a common debilitating dementia with known heritability,
for which 20 late onset susceptibility loci have been identified, but more remain to be …

[HTML][HTML] Alzheimer's disease: analyzing the missing heritability

PG Ridge, S Mukherjee, PK Crane, JSK Kauwe… - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a complex disorder influenced by environmental and genetic
factors. Recent work has identified 11 AD markers in 10 loci. We used Genome-wide …

[HTML][HTML] Associations of Alzheimer's disease risk variants with gene expression, amyloidosis, tauopathy, and neurodegeneration

MS Tan, YX Yang, W Xu, HF Wang, L Tan… - Alzheimer's Research & …, 2021 - Springer
Background Genome-wide association studies have identified more than 30 Alzheimer's
disease (AD) risk genes, although the detailed mechanism through which all these genes …

[HTML][HTML] Meta-analysis of Alzheimer's disease on 9,751 samples from Norway and IGAP study identifies four risk loci

A Witoelar, A Rongve, IS Almdahl, ID Ulstein… - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
A large fraction of genetic risk factors for Alzheimer's Disease (AD) is still not identified,
limiting the understanding of AD pathology and study of therapeutic targets. We conducted a …

Common polygenic variation enhances risk prediction for Alzheimer's disease

V Escott-Price, R Sims, C Bannister, D Harold… - Brain, 2015 - academic.oup.com
The identification of subjects at high risk for Alzheimer's disease is important for prognosis
and early intervention. We investigated the polygenic architecture of Alzheimer's disease …