The amyloid-β pathway in Alzheimer's disease

H Hampel, J Hardy, K Blennow, C Chen, G Perry… - Molecular …, 2021 - nature.com
Breakthroughs in molecular medicine have positioned the amyloid-β (Aβ) pathway at the
center of Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathophysiology. While the detailed molecular …

Clinical diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease: recommendations of the International Working Group

B Dubois, N Villain, GB Frisoni, GD Rabinovici… - The Lancet …, 2021 - thelancet.com
Summary In 2018, the US National Institute on Aging and the Alzheimer's Association
proposed a purely biological definition of Alzheimer's disease that relies on biomarkers …

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 …

Single-nucleus chromatin accessibility and transcriptomic characterization of Alzheimer's disease

S Morabito, E Miyoshi, N Michael, S Shahin… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The gene-regulatory landscape of the brain is highly dynamic in health and disease,
coordinating a menagerie of biological processes across distinct cell types. Here, we …

Genome-wide meta-analysis, fine-mapping and integrative prioritization implicate new Alzheimer's disease risk genes

J Schwartzentruber, S Cooper, JZ Liu… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Genome-wide association studies have discovered numerous genomic loci associated with
Alzheimer's disease (AD); yet the causal genes and variants are incompletely identified. We …

Microglia in Alzheimer's disease at single-cell level. Are there common patterns in humans and mice?

Y Chen, M Colonna - Journal of Experimental Medicine, 2021 - rupress.org
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is characterized by extracellular aggregates of amyloid β peptides,
intraneuronal tau aggregates, and neuronal death. This pathology triggers activation of …

Meningeal lymphatics affect microglia responses and anti-Aβ immunotherapy

S Da Mesquita, Z Papadopoulos, T Dykstra, L Brase… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most prevalent cause of dementia. Although there is no
effective treatment for AD, passive immunotherapy with monoclonal antibodies against …

The human connectome in Alzheimer disease—relationship to biomarkers and genetics

M Yu, O Sporns, AJ Saykin - Nature Reviews Neurology, 2021 - nature.com
The pathology of Alzheimer disease (AD) damages structural and functional brain networks,
resulting in cognitive impairment. The results of recent connectomics studies have now …

Genomic atlas of the proteome from brain, CSF and plasma prioritizes proteins implicated in neurological disorders

C Yang, FHG Farias, L Ibanez, A Suhy, B Sadler… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Understanding the tissue-specific genetic controls of protein levels is essential to uncover
mechanisms of post-transcriptional gene regulation. In this study, we generated a genomic …

Integrating human brain proteomes with genome-wide association data implicates new proteins in Alzheimer's disease pathogenesis

AP Wingo, Y Liu, ES Gerasimov, J Gockley… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified many risk loci for Alzheimer's
disease (AD),, but how these loci confer AD risk is unclear. Here, we aimed to identify loci …