Genetics of Alzheimer's disease in the African American population

MW Logue, S Dasgupta, LA Farrer - Journal of Clinical Medicine, 2023 - mdpi.com
difference limits our understanding of the genetic basis of AD in non-EUR populations because
the impact of particular genetic loci … ), different patterns of linkage disequilibrium (LD, ie, …

A locus at 19q13.31 significantly reduces the ApoE ε4 risk for Alzheimer's Disease in African Ancestry

, … Sequencing Project, Alzheimer's Disease Genetic … - … genetics, 2022 - journals.plos.org
… identify the genetic variants that drive this risk difference and … and 4,331 cognitively intact
African American individuals. We … genetic region that includes +/-3 mB around the ApoE gene. …

Apolipoprotein L1 high-risk genotypes and albuminuria in sub-Saharan African populations

JT Brandenburg, MA Govender… - … of the American …, 2022 - journals.lww.com
differed between and within West and South Africa and were … Almost 50% of the African
American population carries one … African samples for rs60910145 (in linkage disequilibrium with …

Associations of genetically predicted Lp (a)(lipoprotein [a]) levels with cardiovascular traits in individuals of European and African Ancestry

BA Satterfield, O Dikilitas, MS Safarova… - Circulation: Genomic …, 2021 - Am Heart Assoc
… estimates differed by ancestry, we quantified heterogeneity when combining EA and AA
results for each ASCVD phenotype using I 2 and Cochran Q heterogeneity test (Table 3). I 2 …

Lipoprotein (a): a genetically determined, causal, and prevalent risk factor for atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease: a scientific statement from the American Heart …

…, American Heart Association Council on … - … , and vascular biology, 2022 - Am Heart Assoc
… the LPA locus strongly associate with Lp(a) levels. Although some are in … linkage disequilibrium
with LPA allele sizes, the associations with Lp(a) levels in plasma differ between different

APOC3 genetic variation, serum triglycerides, and risk of coronary artery disease in Asian Indians, Europeans, and other ethnic groups

S Goyal, Y Tanigawa, W Zhang, JF Chai… - Lipids in Health and …, 2021 - Springer
… We present linkage disequilibrium (LD) using the GIH panel (… In contrast, one African American
carrier from MISS_OLIVER … Perhaps, because of these differences, we and other studies …

Genetic associations between serum low LDL-cholesterol levels and variants in LDLR, APOB, PCSK9 and LDLRAP1 in African populations

M Hayat, R Kerr, AR Bentley, CN Rotimi, FJ Raal… - PLoS …, 2020 - journals.plos.org
… Studies in African Americans have replicated some of these … linkage disequilibrium in African
populations [19–25]. However, … Using a different cohort from West Africa, we replicated the …

[HTML][HTML] Lipoprotein (a) beyond the kringle IV repeat polymorphism: the complexity of genetic variation in the LPA gene

S Coassin, F Kronenberg - Atherosclerosis, 2022 - Elsevier
… He described both the apolipoprotein E polymorphism and the … Multiple levels of linkage
disequilibrium between … [65], likely reflecting differences in the genetic ancestry at the LPA locus. …

Novel Alzheimer disease risk loci and pathways in African American individuals using the African genome resources panel: a meta-analysis

BW Kunkle, M Schmidt, HU Klein, AC Naj… - JAMA …, 2021 - jamanetwork.com
… cassette transporter (ABCA7), apolipoprotein E ϵ4,and the … to these observed ancestral
differences in disease risk, we … in the same linkage disequilibrium block as the African American

Candidate Gene Analysis Reveals Strong Association of CETP Variants With High Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol and PCSK9 Variants With Low Density …

G Agongo, L Amenga-Etego, EA Nonterah… - … in Genetics, 2020 - frontiersin.org
… identified three novel variants in linkage disequilibrium in … of 10,903 individuals from six
different sites of which our study … lipid trait GWAS loci in African Americans and strengthen the …