Genetic meta-analysis of diagnosed Alzheimer's disease identifies new risk loci and implicates Aβ, tau, immunity and lipid processing

BW Kunkle, B Grenier-Boley, R Sims, JC Bis… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Risk for late-onset Alzheimer's disease (LOAD), the most prevalent dementia, is partially
driven by genetics. To identify LOAD risk loci, we performed a large genome-wide …

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 …

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 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 …

Genomic variants, genes, and pathways of Alzheimer's disease: An overview

AC Naj, GD Schellenberg… - American Journal of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Alzheimer's disease (AD)(MIM: 104300) is a highly heritable disease with great complexity
in its genetic contributors, and represents the most common form of dementia. With the …

Genetics of Alzheimer's disease

V Chouraki, S Seshadri - Advances in genetics, 2014 - Elsevier
Alzheimer's disease (AD) represents the main form of dementia, and is a major public health
problem. Despite intensive research efforts, current treatments have only marginal …

Pathway-specific polygenic risk scores as predictors of amyloid-β deposition and cognitive function in a sample at increased risk for Alzheimer's disease

BF Darst, RL Koscik, AM Racine, JM Oh… - Journal of …, 2017 - content.iospress.com
Polygenic risk scores (PRSs) have been used to combine the effects of variants with small
effects identified by genome-wide association studies. We explore the potential for using …

Genome-wide association study of Alzheimer's disease

MI Kamboh, FY Demirci, X Wang, RL Minster… - Translational …, 2012 - nature.com
In addition to apolipoprotein E (APOE), recent large genome-wide association studies
(GWASs) have identified nine other genes/loci (CR1, BIN1, CLU, PICALM, MS4A4/MS4A6E …

Genome-wide association studies in Alzheimer's disease: a review

G Tosto, C Reitz - Current neurology and neuroscience reports, 2013 - Springer
Over the past decade, research aiming to disentangle the genetic underpinnings of late-
onset Alzheimer's disease has mostly focused on the identification of common variants …

Current status on Alzheimer disease molecular genetics: from past, to present, to future

K Bettens, K Sleegers… - Human molecular …, 2010 - academic.oup.com
Linkage studies, candidate gene and whole-genome association studies have resulted in a
tremendous amount of putative risk genes for Alzheimer's disease (AD). Yet, besides the …