Cell subtype-specific effects of genetic variation in the Alzheimer's disease brain

M Fujita, Z Gao, L Zeng, C McCabe, CC White, B Ng… - Nature Genetics, 2024 - nature.com
The relationship between genetic variation and gene expression in brain cell types and
subtypes remains understudied. Here, we generated single-nucleus RNA sequencing data …

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

MR Corces, A Shcherbina, S Kundu, MJ Gloudemans… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Genome-wide association studies of neurological diseases have identified thousands of
variants associated with disease phenotypes. However, most of these variants do not alter …

Genome-wide association identifies the first risk loci for psychosis in Alzheimer disease

MAA DeMichele-Sweet, L Klei, B Creese… - Molecular …, 2021 - nature.com
Psychotic symptoms, defined as the occurrence of delusions or hallucinations, are frequent
in Alzheimer disease (AD with psychosis, AD+ P). AD+ P affects~ 50% of individuals with …

A genome-wide association study with 1,126,563 individuals identifies new risk loci for Alzheimer's disease

DP Wightman, IE Jansen, JE Savage, AA Shadrin… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Late-onset Alzheimer's disease is a prevalent age-related polygenic disease that accounts
for 50–70% of dementia cases. Currently, only a fraction of the genetic variants underlying …

New insights into the genetic etiology of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias

C Bellenguez, F Küçükali, IE Jansen, L Kleineidam… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract Characterization of the genetic landscape of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and related
dementias (ADD) provides a unique opportunity for a better understanding of the associated …

Discovery of gene-gene interactions across multiple independent data sets of late onset Alzheimer disease from the Alzheimer Disease Genetics Consortium

TJ Hohman, WS Bush, L Jiang, KD Brown-Gentry… - Neurobiology of …, 2016 - Elsevier
Late-onset Alzheimer disease (AD) has a complex genetic etiology, involving locus
heterogeneity, polygenic inheritance, and gene-gene interactions; however, the …

The complex genetic architecture of Alzheimer's disease: novel insights and future directions

SJ Andrews, AE Renton, B Fulton-Howard… - …, 2023 - thelancet.com
Background Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a complex multifactorial neurodegenerative
disorder and the most common form of dementia. AD is highly heritable, with heritability …

Step by step: towards a better understanding of the genetic architecture of Alzheimer's disease

JC Lambert, A Ramirez, B Grenier-Boley… - Molecular …, 2023 - nature.com
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is considered to have a large genetic component. Our knowledge
of this component has progressed over the last 10 years, thanks notably to the advent of …

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 …

Genome-wide analysis of genetic predisposition to Alzheimer's disease and related sex disparities

A Nazarian, AI Yashin, AM Kulminski - Alzheimer's research & therapy, 2019 - Springer
Background Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common cause of dementia in the elderly
and the sixth leading cause of death in the United States. AD is mainly considered a …