New insights on the genetic etiology of Alzheimer's and related dementia

C Bellenguez, F Küçükali, I Jansen, V Andrade… - MedRxiv, 2020 - medrxiv.org
Deciphering the genetic landscape of Alzheimer's disease (AD) is essential to define the
pathophysiological pathways involved and to successfully translate genomics to potential …

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 …

Genomic mechanisms in Alzheimer's disease

L Bertram, RE Tanzi - Brain Pathology, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common neurodegenerative disease and, owing to its
increasing prevalence, represents one of the leading public health problems in aging …

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 …

Genome-wide meta-analysis identifies new loci and functional pathways influencing Alzheimer's disease risk

IE Jansen, JE Savage, K Watanabe, J Bryois… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is highly heritable and recent studies have identified over 20
disease-associated genomic loci. Yet these only explain a small proportion of the genetic …

Understanding Alzheimer disease at the interface between genetics and transcriptomics

J Verheijen, K Sleegers - Trends in Genetics, 2018 - cell.com
Over 25 genes are known to affect the risk of developing Alzheimer disease (AD), the most
common neurodegenerative dementia. However, mechanistic insights and improved …

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 …

A transcriptome-wide association study of Alzheimer's disease using prediction models of relevant tissues identifies novel candidate susceptibility genes

Y Sun, J Zhu, D Zhou, S Canchi, C Wu, NJ Cox… - Genome medicine, 2021 - Springer
Background Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified over 56 susceptibility
loci associated with Alzheimer's disease (AD), but the genes responsible for these …

Largest GWAS (N= 1,126,563) of Alzheimer's disease implicates microglia and immune cells

DP Wightman, IE Jansen, JE Savage, AA Shadrin… - MedRxiv, 2020 - medrxiv.org
Late-onset Alzheimer's disease is a prevalent age-related polygenic disease that accounts
for 50-70% of dementia cases. Late-onset Alzheimer's disease is caused by a combination …

Genetics of Alzheimer's disease: the importance of polygenic and epistatic components

N Raghavan, G Tosto - Current neurology and neuroscience reports, 2017 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review We aimed to summarize the recent advances in genetic findings
of Alzheimer's disease (AD), focusing on traditional single-marker and gene approaches …