Microglia modulate neurodegeneration in Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases

T Bartels, S De Schepper, S Hong - Science, 2020 - science.org
Dementia is a rapidly rising global health crisis that silently disables families and ends lives
and livelihoods around the world. To date, however, no early biomarkers or effective …

Amyloid-β-independent regulators of tau pathology in Alzheimer disease

R van der Kant, LSB Goldstein… - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
The global epidemic of Alzheimer disease (AD) is worsening, and no approved treatment
can revert or arrest progression of this disease. AD pathology is characterized by the …

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 …

Objectives, design and main findings until 2020 from the Rotterdam Study

MA Ikram, G Brusselle, M Ghanbari… - European journal of …, 2020 - Springer
Abstract The Rotterdam Study is an ongoing prospective cohort study that started in 1990 in
the city of Rotterdam, The Netherlands. The study aims to unravel etiology, preclinical …

Tutorial: a guide to performing polygenic risk score analyses

SW Choi, TSH Mak, PF O'Reilly - Nature protocols, 2020 - nature.com
A polygenic score (PGS) or polygenic risk score (PRS) is an estimate of an individual's
genetic liability to a trait or disease, calculated according to their genotype profile and …

An integrated multi-omics approach identifies epigenetic alterations associated with Alzheimer's disease

R Nativio, Y Lan, G Donahue, S Sidoli, A Berson… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Protein aggregation is the hallmark of neurodegeneration, but the molecular mechanisms
underlying late-onset Alzheimer's disease (AD) are unclear. Here we integrated …

The multiplex model of the genetics of Alzheimer's disease

R Sims, M Hill, J Williams - Nature neuroscience, 2020 - nature.com
Genes play a strong role in Alzheimer's disease (AD), with late-onset AD showing heritability
of 58–79% and early-onset AD showing over 90%. Genetic association provides a robust …

Single-nucleus RNA-seq is not suitable for detection of microglial activation genes in humans

N Thrupp, CS Frigerio, L Wolfs, NG Skene, N Fattorelli… - Cell reports, 2020 - cell.com
Single-nucleus RNA sequencing (snRNA-seq) is used as an alternative to single-cell RNA-
seq, as it allows transcriptomic profiling of frozen tissue. However, it is unclear whether …

Modeling Alzheimer's disease with iPSC-derived brain cells

J Penney, WT Ralvenius, LH Tsai - Molecular psychiatry, 2020 - nature.com
Alzheimer's disease is a devastating neurodegenerative disorder with no cure. Countless
promising therapeutics have shown efficacy in rodent Alzheimer's disease models yet failed …

The good, the bad, and the opportunities of the complement system in neurodegenerative disease

ND Schartz, AJ Tenner - Journal of Neuroinflammation, 2020 - Springer
The complement cascade is a critical effector mechanism of the innate immune system that
contributes to the rapid clearance of pathogens and dead or dying cells, as well as …