Molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease

T Guo, D Zhang, Y Zeng, TY Huang, H Xu… - Molecular …, 2020 - Springer
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common neurodegenerative disorder seen in age-
dependent dementia. There is currently no effective treatment for AD, which may be …

The multiplex model of the genetics of Alzheimer's disease

R Sims, M Hill, J Williams - Nature neuroscience, 2020 - nature.com
Genes play a strong role in Alzheimer's disease (AD), with late-onset AD showing heritability
of 58–79% and early-onset AD showing over 90%. Genetic association provides a robust …

Large-scale proteomic analysis of Alzheimer's disease brain and cerebrospinal fluid reveals early changes in energy metabolism associated with microglia and …

ECB Johnson, EB Dammer, DM Duong, L Ping… - Nature medicine, 2020 - nature.com
Our understanding of Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathophysiology remains incomplete. Here
we used quantitative mass spectrometry and coexpression network analysis to conduct the …

The GTEx Consortium atlas of genetic regulatory effects across human tissues

GTEx Consortium - Science, 2020 - science.org
The Genotype-Tissue Expression (GTEx) project was established to characterize genetic
effects on the transcriptome across human tissues and to link these regulatory mechanisms …

Single-cell epigenomic analyses implicate candidate causal variants at inherited risk loci for Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases

MR Corces, A Shcherbina, S Kundu, MJ Gloudemans… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Genome-wide association studies of neurological diseases have identified thousands of
variants associated with disease phenotypes. However, most of these variants do not alter …

An integrated multi-omics approach identifies epigenetic alterations associated with Alzheimer's disease

R Nativio, Y Lan, G Donahue, S Sidoli, A Berson… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Protein aggregation is the hallmark of neurodegeneration, but the molecular mechanisms
underlying late-onset Alzheimer's disease (AD) are unclear. Here we integrated …

Gene expression and functional deficits underlie TREM2-knockout microglia responses in human models of Alzheimer's disease

A McQuade, YJ Kang, J Hasselmann… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
The discovery of TREM2 as a myeloid-specific Alzheimer's disease (AD) risk gene has
accelerated research into the role of microglia in AD. While TREM2 mouse models have …

[HTML][HTML] Microglia require CD4 T cells to complete the fetal-to-adult transition

E Pasciuto, OT Burton, CP Roca, V Lagou, WD Rajan… - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
The brain is a site of relative immune privilege. Although CD4 T cells have been reported in
the central nervous system, their presence in the healthy brain remains controversial, and …

Widespread occurrence of the droplet state of proteins in the human proteome

M Hardenberg, A Horvath, V Ambrus… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
A wide range of proteins have been reported to condensate into a dense liquid phase,
forming a reversible droplet state. Failure in the control of the droplet state can lead to the …

Single-nucleus RNA-seq is not suitable for detection of microglial activation genes in humans

N Thrupp, CS Frigerio, L Wolfs, NG Skene, N Fattorelli… - Cell reports, 2020 - cell.com
Single-nucleus RNA sequencing (snRNA-seq) is used as an alternative to single-cell RNA-
seq, as it allows transcriptomic profiling of frozen tissue. However, it is unclear whether …