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  • Titel: Common variants in Alzheimer’s disease and risk stratification by polygenic risk scores
  • Beteiligte: de Rojas, Itziar; Moreno-Grau, Sonia; Tesi, Niccolo; Grenier-Boley, Benjamin; Andrade, Victor; Jansen, Iris E.; Pedersen, Nancy L.; Stringa, Najada; Zettergren, Anna; Hernández, Isabel; Montrreal, Laura; Antúnez, Carmen; Antonell, Anna; Tankard, Rick M.; Bis, Joshua C.; Sims, Rebecca; Bellenguez, Céline; Quintela, Inés; González-Perez, Antonio; Calero, Miguel; Franco-Macías, Emilio; Macías, Juan; Blesa, Rafael; Cervera-Carles, Laura; [...]
  • Erschienen: Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2021
  • Erschienen in: Nature Communications
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-22491-8
  • ISSN: 2041-1723
  • Schlagwörter: General Physics and Astronomy ; General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology ; General Chemistry ; Multidisciplinary
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  • Beschreibung: <jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>Genetic discoveries of Alzheimer’s disease are the drivers of our understanding, and together with polygenetic risk stratification can contribute towards planning of feasible and efficient preventive and curative clinical trials. We first perform a large genetic association study by merging all available case-control datasets and by-proxy study results (discovery <jats:italic>n</jats:italic> = 409,435 and validation size <jats:italic>n</jats:italic> = 58,190). Here, we add six variants associated with Alzheimer’s disease risk (near <jats:italic>APP, CHRNE, PRKD3/NDUFAF7, PLCG2</jats:italic> and two exonic variants in the <jats:italic>SHARPIN</jats:italic> gene). Assessment of the polygenic risk score and stratifying by <jats:italic>APOE</jats:italic> reveal a 4 to 5.5 years difference in median age at onset of Alzheimer’s disease patients in <jats:italic>APOE</jats:italic> ɛ4 carriers. Because of this study, the underlying mechanisms of <jats:italic>APP</jats:italic> can be studied to refine the amyloid cascade and the polygenic risk score provides a tool to select individuals at high risk of Alzheimer’s disease.</jats:p>
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