Interpretation of risk loci from genome-wide association studies of Alzheimer's disease

SJ Andrews, B Fulton-Howard, A Goate - The Lancet Neurology, 2020 - thelancet.com
Background Alzheimer's disease is a debilitating and highly heritable neurological
condition. As such, genetic studies have sought to understand the genetic architecture of …

Genetic variations underlying Alzheimer's disease: evidence from genome-wide association studies and beyond

E Cuyvers, K Sleegers - The Lancet Neurology, 2016 - thelancet.com
With the advent of genome-wide association studies (GWAS) and next-generation
sequencing, more than 20 risk loci that affect Alzheimer's disease have been identified …

Genetic insights in Alzheimer's disease

K Bettens, K Sleegers, C Van Broeckhoven - The lancet neurology, 2013 - thelancet.com
In the search for new genes in Alzheimer's disease, classic linkage-based and candidate-
gene-based association studies have been supplanted by exome sequencing, genome …

Genome-wide association studies for Alzheimer's disease: bigger is not always better

V Escott-Price, J Hardy - Brain Communications, 2022 - academic.oup.com
As the size of genome-wide association studies increase, the number of associated trait loci
identified inevitably increase. One welcomes this if it allows the better delineation of the …

Meta-analysis of 74,046 individuals identifies 11 new susceptibility loci for Alzheimer's disease

JC Lambert, CA Ibrahim-Verbaas, D Harold, AC Naj… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
Eleven susceptibility loci for late-onset Alzheimer's disease (LOAD) were identified by
previous studies; however, a large portion of the genetic risk for this disease remains …

Polygenic risk and hazard scores for Alzheimer's disease prediction

G Leonenko, R Sims, M Shoai, A Frizzati… - Annals of clinical …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Objective Genome‐wide association studies (GWAS) have identified over 30 susceptibility
loci associated with Alzheimer's disease (AD). Using AD GWAS data from the International …

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 …

An overview of genome-wide association studies in Alzheimer's disease

L Shen, J Jia - Neuroscience bulletin, 2016 - Springer
Genome-wide association studies (GWASs) have revealed a plethora of putative
susceptibility genes for Alzheimer's disease (AD). With the sole exception of the APOE gene …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] A 22-single nucleotide polymorphism Alzheimer's disease risk score correlates with family history, onset age, and cerebrospinal fluid Aβ42

K Sleegers, K Bettens, A De Roeck… - Alzheimer's & …, 2015 - Elsevier
Introduction The ability to identify individuals at increased genetic risk for Alzheimer's
disease (AD) may streamline biomarker and drug trials and aid clinical and personal …