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Alzheimer's disease: analyzing the missing heritability.
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- A genome-wide search for pleiotropy in more than 100,000 harmonized longitudinal cognitive domain scores.Molecular neurodegeneration · 2023Pooled it
- Region-based analysis of rare genomic variants in whole-genome sequencing datasets reveal two novel Alzheimer's disease-associated genes: DTNB and DLG2.Molecular psychiatry · 2022Pooled it
- Apolipoprotein E Genotype Moderation of the Association Between Physical Activity and Brain Health. A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2021Pooled it
- Evaluation of the Genetic Variance of Alzheimer's Disease Explained by the Disease-Associated Chromosomal Regions.Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD · 2019Pooled it
- Meta-analysis of Alzheimer's disease on 9,751 samples from Norway and IGAP study identifies four risk loci.Scientific reports · 2018Pooled it
- Crowdsourced estimation of cognitive decline and resilience in Alzheimer's disease.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2016Pooled it
- Interaction between variants in CLU and MS4A4E modulates Alzheimer's disease risk.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2016Pooled it
- A meta-analysis of heritability of cognitive aging: minding the "missing heritability" gap.Neuropsychology review · 2015Pooled it
- The Gray Matters App Targeting Health Behaviors Associated with Alzheimer's Risk: Improvements in Intrinsic Motivation and Impact on Diet Quality and Physical Activity.The journal of nutrition, health & aging · 2020Trial
- Network-based discovery of regulatory drivers of cognitive decline in alzheimer's disease.npj aging · 2026Article
- Novel Alzheimer's disease-associated variants and genetic interactions identified from UK biobank whole-exome sequencing data using IBI-DT.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Omics-driven strategies for identifying biomarkers in Alzheimer's disease.Metabolic brain disease · 2026Review
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- Structural variation detection and association analysis of whole-genome-sequence data from 16,543 Alzheimer's disease sequencing project subjects.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2025Article
- Whole Genome Variable Number Tandem Repeat Analysis in Alzheimer Disease.Neurology. Genetics · 2025Article
- Sex Differences in Apolipoprotein E and Alzheimer Disease Pathology Across Ancestries.JAMA network open · 2025Article
- Interaction of genetic variants and methylation in transcript-level expression regulation in Alzheimer's disease by multi-omics data analysis.BMC genomics · 2025Article
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Abstract
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a complex disorder influenced by environmental and genetic factors. Recent work has identified 11 AD markers in 10 loci. We used Genome-wide Complex Trait Analysis to analyze >2 million SNPs for 10,922 individuals from the Alzheimer's Disease Genetics Consortium to assess the phenotypic variance explained first by known late-onset AD loci, and then by all SNPs in the Alzheimer's Disease Genetics Consortium dataset. In all, 33% of total phenotypic variance is explained by all common SNPs. APOE alone explained 6% and other known markers 2%, meaning more than 25% of phenotypic variance remains unexplained by known markers, but is tagged by common SNPs included on genotyping arrays or imputed with HapMap genotypes. Novel AD markers that explain large amounts of phenotypic variance are likely to be rare and unidentifiable using genome-wide association studies. Based on our findings and the current direction of human genetics research, we suggest specific study designs for future studies to identify the remaining heritability of Alzheimer's disease.
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