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 …

Insights into Alzheimer's disease from single-cell genomic approaches

MH Murdock, LH Tsai - Nature neuroscience, 2023 - nature.com
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is an age-related disease pathologically defined by the deposition
of amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary tangles in the brain parenchyma. Single-cell profiling …

[PDF][PDF] Cholesterol and matrisome pathways dysregulated in astrocytes and microglia

TCW Julia, L Qian, NH Pipalia, MJ Chao, SA Liang… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
The impact of apolipoprotein E ε4 (APOE4), the strongest genetic risk factor for Alzheimer's
disease (AD), on human brain cellular function remains unclear. Here, we investigated the …

Integrative transcriptomic analysis of the amyotrophic lateral sclerosis spinal cord implicates glial activation and suggests new risk genes

J Humphrey, S Venkatesh, R Hasan, JT Herb… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a progressively fatal neurodegenerative disease
affecting motor neurons in the brain and spinal cord. In this study, we investigated gene …

Microglial efferocytosis: diving into the Alzheimer's disease gene pool

C Romero-Molina, F Garretti, SJ Andrews, E Marcora… - Neuron, 2022 - cell.com
Genome-wide association studies and functional genomics studies have linked specific cell
types, genes, and pathways to Alzheimer's disease (AD) risk. In particular, AD risk alleles …

TREM2 dependent and independent functions of microglia in Alzheimer's disease

J Hou, Y Chen, G Grajales-Reyes… - Molecular …, 2022 - Springer
Microglia are central players in brain innate immunity and have been the subject of
extensive research in Alzheimer's disease (AD). In this review, we aim to summarize the …

Genetic analysis of the human microglial transcriptome across brain regions, aging and disease pathologies

KP Lopes, GJL Snijders, J Humphrey, A Allan… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Microglia have emerged as important players in brain aging and pathology. To understand
how genetic risk for neurological and psychiatric disorders is related to microglial function …

[PDF][PDF] Epigenomic dissection of Alzheimer's disease pinpoints causal variants and reveals epigenome erosion

X Xiong, BT James, CA Boix, YP Park, K Galani… - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Recent work has identified dozens of non-coding loci for Alzheimer's disease (AD) risk, but
their mechanisms and AD transcriptional regulatory circuitry are poorly understood. Here …

Microglial amyloid beta clearance is driven by PIEZO1 channels

H Jäntti, V Sitnikova, Y Ishchenko… - Journal of …, 2022 - Springer
Background Microglia are the endogenous immune cells of the brain and act as sensors of
pathology to maintain brain homeostasis and eliminate potential threats. In Alzheimer's …

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 …