The amyloid-β pathway in Alzheimer's disease

H Hampel, J Hardy, K Blennow, C Chen, G Perry… - Molecular …, 2021 - nature.com
Breakthroughs in molecular medicine have positioned the amyloid-β (Aβ) pathway at the
center of Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathophysiology. While the detailed molecular …

The neuroimmune axis of Alzheimer's disease

M Jorfi, A Maaser-Hecker, RE Tanzi - Genome Medicine, 2023 - Springer
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a genetically complex and heterogeneous disorder with
multifaceted neuropathological features, including β-amyloid plaques, neurofibrillary …

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 …

Genome-wide meta-analysis, fine-mapping and integrative prioritization implicate new Alzheimer's disease risk genes

J Schwartzentruber, S Cooper, JZ Liu… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Genome-wide association studies have discovered numerous genomic loci associated with
Alzheimer's disease (AD); yet the causal genes and variants are incompletely identified. We …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Microglial efferocytosis: diving into the Alzheimer's disease gene pool

C Romero-Molina, F Garretti, SJ Andrews, E Marcora… - Neuron, 2022 - cell.com
Genome-wide association studies and functional genomics studies have linked specific cell
types, genes, and pathways to Alzheimer's disease (AD) risk. In particular, AD risk alleles …

The GenomeAsia 100K Project enables genetic discoveries across Asia

Nature, 2019 - nature.com
The underrepresentation of non-Europeans in human genetic studies so far has limited the
diversity of individuals in genomic datasets and led to reduced medical relevance for a large …

Inflammation: the link between comorbidities, genetics, and Alzheimer's disease

EA Newcombe, J Camats-Perna, ML Silva… - Journal of …, 2018 - Springer
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disorder, most cases of which lack a clear
causative event. This has made the disease difficult to characterize and, thus, diagnose …