[HTML][HTML] Human whole genome genotype and transcriptome data for Alzheimer's and other neurodegenerative diseases

M Allen, MM Carrasquillo, C Funk, BD Heavner, F Zou… - Scientific data, 2016 - nature.com
Previous genome-wide association studies (GWAS), conducted by our group and others,
have identified loci that harbor risk variants for neurodegenerative diseases, including …

[HTML][HTML] Shared genetic risk loci between Alzheimer's disease and related dementias, Parkinson's disease, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

M Wainberg, SJ Andrews, SJ Tripathy - Alzheimer's Research & Therapy, 2023 - Springer
Background Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have indicated moderate genetic
overlap between Alzheimer's disease (AD) and related dementias (ADRD), Parkinson's …

Common variants in Alzheimer's disease: Novel association of six genetic variants with AD and risk stratification by polygenic risk scores

I de Rojas, S Moreno-Grau, N Tesi, B Grenier-Boley… - medRxiv, 2019 - medrxiv.org
ABSTRACT BACKGROUND Disentangling the genetic constellation underlying Alzheimer's
disease (AD) is important. Doing so allows us to identify biological pathways underlying AD …

How understudied populations have contributed to our understanding of Alzheimer's disease genetics

N Dehghani, J Bras, R Guerreiro - Brain, 2021 - academic.oup.com
The majority of genome-wide association studies have been conducted using samples with
a broadly European genetic background. As a field, we acknowledge this limitation and the …

Global and local ancestry in African‐Americans: implications for Alzheimer's disease risk

TJ Hohman, JN Cooke‐Bailey, C Reitz… - Alzheimer's & …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Introduction African‐American (AA) individuals have a higher risk for late‐onset
Alzheimer's disease (LOAD) than Americans of primarily European ancestry (EA). Recently …

Genome-wide analysis of genetic loci associated with Alzheimer disease

S Seshadri, AL Fitzpatrick, MA Ikram, AL DeStefano… - Jama, 2010 - jamanetwork.com
Context Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have recently identified CLU, PICALM,
and CR1 as novel genes for late-onset Alzheimer disease (AD). Objectives To identify and …

[HTML][HTML] Genome-wide analysis of genetic predisposition to Alzheimer's disease and related sex disparities

A Nazarian, AI Yashin, AM Kulminski - Alzheimer's research & therapy, 2019 - Springer
Background Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common cause of dementia in the elderly
and the sixth leading cause of death in the United States. AD is mainly considered a …

[HTML][HTML] Multi-tissue neocortical transcriptome-wide association study implicates 8 genes across 6 genomic loci in Alzheimer's disease

J Gockley, KS Montgomery, WL Poehlman, JC Wiley… - Genome medicine, 2021 - Springer
Background Alzheimer's disease (AD) is an incurable neurodegenerative disease currently
affecting 1.75% of the US population, with projected growth to 3.46% by 2050. Identifying …

African American exome sequencing identifies potential risk variants at Alzheimer disease loci

A N'songo, MM Carrasquillo, X Wang… - Neurology …, 2017 - AAN Enterprises
Objective: In African Americans, we sought to systematically identify coding Alzheimer
disease (AD) risk variants at the previously reported AD genome-wide association study …

Examination of the current top candidate genes for AD in a genome-wide association study

TM Feulner, SM Laws, P Friedrich, S Wagenpfeil… - Molecular …, 2010 - nature.com
With the advent of technologies that allow simultaneous genotyping of thousands of single-
nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) across the genome, the genetic contributions to complex …