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Alzheimers Dement
December 2024
Department of Medicine (Biomedical Genetics), Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA.
Background: Several viruses have been linked to Alzheimer disease (AD) by independent lines of evidence.
Method: Whole genome and whole exome sequences (WGS/WES) derived from brain (3,404 AD cases, 894 controls) and blood (15,612 AD cases, 24,544 controls) obtained from European ancestry (EU), African American (AA), Mexican (HMX), South Asian Indian (IND), and Caribbean Hispanic (CH) participants of the Alzheimer's Disease Sequencing Project (ADSP) and 276 AD cases 3,584 controls (all EU) from the Framingham Heart Study (FHS) that did not align to the human reference genome were aligned to viral reference genomes. A genome-wide association study (GWAS) for viral DNA load was conducted using PLINK software and regression models with covariates for sex, age, ancestry principal components, and tissue source.
Alzheimers Dement
December 2024
The project leading to this paper has received funding from the Innovative Medicines Initiative 2 Joint Undertaking under grant agreement No 115952, Brussels, Belgium.
Background: Published data have highlighted associations between Alzheimer's disease (AD) susceptibility loci and AD-related brain changes. The amyloid imaging to prevent AD (AMYPAD) consortium is a European collaboration consisting of several parent cohorts, four of which had raw genotype array data available. We sought to integrate and harmonise the genetic data, calculate AD polygenic risk scores (PRS), and investigate their association with global amyloid deposition.
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December 2024
Huashan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, Shanghai, China.
Background: Cognition and its two critical proxies, socioeconomic status (SES) and educational attainment (EA), contribute substantially to human health and are heritable. Elucidating the genetic characteristics of SES/EA/Cognition not only helps to understand the innate individual differences in cognition, but also aids in unraveling the biological mechanisms of complex cognitive-related disorders such as Alzheimer's disease (AD). Here, we explored the rare and common protein-coding variants impacting the comprehensive cognition phenotypic spectrum by leveraging large-scale exomes.
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December 2024
University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA.
Background: Alzheimer's disease (AD), characterized by tau lesions and amyloid plaques, has traditionally been investigated within the cortical domain. Recent neuroimaging studies have implicated micro- and macrostructural abnormalities in cortical layers during the progression of AD. While examinations from diverse brain regions have contributed to comprehending the regional severity, these approaches have constrained the ability to delineate cortical alterations in AD.
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December 2024
Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, Institute for Computational Biology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA.
Background: Recent advances in Alzheimer's Disease (AD) research have emphasized the importance of recruiting from diverse populations. Notably, African-descent individuals have an almost doubled risk of developing AD compared to European-descent individuals. Transcriptome-wide association studies (TWAS) have advanced the analysis of non-coding variants by integrating gene expression with GWAS data.
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