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SynthesisAlzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association2017

A candidate regulatory variant at the TREM gene cluster associates with decreased Alzheimer's disease risk and increased TREML1 and TREM2 brain gene expression.

Minerva M Carrasquillo, Mariet Allen, Jeremy D Burgess, Xue Wang, Samantha L Strickland, Shivani Aryal, Joanna Siuda, Michaela L Kachadoorian, Christopher Medway, Curtis S Younkin and 20 more

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Synthesis in Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 45 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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45 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 61 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

30 authors at 8 institutions in 2 countries.

Minerva M CarrasquilloDepartment of Neuroscience, Mayo Clinic Florida, Jacksonville, FL, USA.
Mariet AllenDepartment of Neuroscience, Mayo Clinic Florida, Jacksonville, FL, USA.
Jeremy D BurgessDepartment of Neuroscience, Mayo Clinic Florida, Jacksonville, FL, USA.
Xue WangDepartment of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic Florida, Jacksonville, FL, USA.
Samantha L StricklandDepartment of Neuroscience, Mayo Clinic Florida, Jacksonville, FL, USA.
Shivani AryalDepartment of Neuroscience, Mayo Clinic Florida, Jacksonville, FL, USA.
Joanna SiudaDepartment of Neuroscience, Mayo Clinic Florida, Jacksonville, FL, USA.
Michaela L KachadoorianDepartment of Neuroscience, Mayo Clinic Florida, Jacksonville, FL, USA.
Christopher MedwayDepartment of Neuroscience, Mayo Clinic Florida, Jacksonville, FL, USA; Human Genetics Group, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK.
Curtis S YounkinDepartment of Neuroscience, Mayo Clinic Florida, Jacksonville, FL, USA.
Asha NairDepartment of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic Rochester, MN, USA.
Chen WangDepartment of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic Rochester, MN, USA.
Pritha ChananaDepartment of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic Rochester, MN, USA.
Daniel SerieDepartment of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic Florida, Jacksonville, FL, USA.
Thuy NguyenDepartment of Neuroscience, Mayo Clinic Florida, Jacksonville, FL, USA.
Sarah LincolnDepartment of Neuroscience, Mayo Clinic Florida, Jacksonville, FL, USA.
Kimberly G MalphrusDepartment of Neuroscience, Mayo Clinic Florida, Jacksonville, FL, USA.
Kevin MorganHuman Genetics Group, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK.
Todd E GoldeDepartment of Neuroscience, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA.
Nathan D PriceInstitute for Systems Biology, Seattle, WA, USA.
Charles C WhiteAnn Romney Center for Neurologic Diseases, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA; Department of Neurology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA; Department of Psychiatry, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA; Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Philip L De JagerAnn Romney Center for Neurologic Diseases, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA; Department of Neurology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA; Department of Psychiatry, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA; Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA, USA; Department of Neurology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
David A BennettRush Alzheimer's Disease Center, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA.
Yan W AsmannDepartment of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic Florida, Jacksonville, FL, USA.
Julia E CrookDepartment of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic Florida, Jacksonville, FL, USA.
Ronald C PetersenDepartment of Neurology, Mayo Clinic Minnesota, Rochester, MN, USA.
Neill R Graff-RadfordDepartment of Neurology, Mayo Clinic Florida, Jacksonville, FL, USA.
Dennis W DicksonDepartment of Neuroscience, Mayo Clinic Florida, Jacksonville, FL, USA.
Steven G YounkinDepartment of Neuroscience, Mayo Clinic Florida, Jacksonville, FL, USA.
Nilüfer Ertekin-TanerDepartment of Neuroscience, Mayo Clinic Florida, Jacksonville, FL, USA; Department of Neurology, Mayo Clinic Florida, Jacksonville, FL, USA. Electronic address: taner.nilufer@mayo.edu.
Jacksonville College · USMayo Clinic · USMayo Clinic in Florida · USBroad Institute · USUniversity of Nottingham · GBInstitute for Systems Biology · USRush University Medical Center · USUniversity of Florida · US

Funding

Vascular Structure and Function in Cognitive AgingP01AG003949 · NIA · YESHIVA UNIVERSITY · PI Charles B Hall · 1985 to 2026
$73.9M
SUPPLEMENT TO RUSH ALZHEIMERS DISEASE CENTER COREP30AG010161 · NIA · RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER · PI LEURGANS, SUE E. · 1991 to 2020
$49.1M
THE PGRN/TDP-43 AXIS IN ALZHEIMER?S DISEASE AND NEURODEGENERATIONP50AG016574 · NIA · MAYO CLINIC ROCHESTER · PI PETERSEN, RONALD C · 1999 to 2018
$36.9M
Integrating the exposome and methylome to inform brain molecular changes in ADRD across established diverse cohorts.U01AG046139 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA · PI ERTEKIN-TANER, NILUFER, FUNK, CORY · 2013 to 2022
$24.6M
University of Florida Older Americans Independence Center (OAIC)P30AG028740 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA · PI Peihua Qiu · 2007 to 2026
$22.8M
TRANSGENIC MODELING OF TAUOPATHYP01AG017216 · NIA · MAYO CLINIC JACKSONVILLE · PI DICKSON, DENNIS WILLIAM · 1999 to 2011
$12.0M
Integrative translational discovery of vascular risk factors in aging and dementiaRF1AG051504 · NIA · MAYO CLINIC JACKSONVILLE · PI BU, GUOJUN, ERTEKIN-TANER, NILUFER · 2015 to 2019
$9.8M
PREDICTORS OF THE RATE OF COGNITIVE DECLINE IN ELDERLY SUBJECTSP50AG025711 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA · PI POTTER, HUNTINGTON · 2005 to 2010
$8.2M
University of Florida - Mt. Sinai Medical Center AD Research CenterP50AG047266 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA · PI LOEWENSTEIN, DAVID · 2015 to 2019
$7.3M
Risk Factors, Pathology, and Clinical Expressions of ADRF1AG015819 · NIA · RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER · PI BENNETT, DAVID ALAN · 2014 to 2014
$6.0M
PLASMA A BETA AS A SURROGATE GENETIC MARKER FOR LOADR01AG018023 · NIA · MAYO CLINIC JACKSONVILLE · PI YOUNKIN, STEVEN G · 2001 to 2012
$3.3M
Gene discovery in PSP by transcriptome, neuropathology and sequence analysisR01NS080820 · NINDS · MAYO CLINIC JACKSONVILLE · PI ERTEKIN-TANER, NILUFER · 2013 to 2017
$1.8M
NIA NIH HHS P01 AG003949NIA NIH HHS P01 AG017216NIA NIH HHS P30 AG010161NIA NIH HHS P30 AG028740NIA NIH HHS P50 AG016574NIA NIH HHS P50 AG025711NIA NIH HHS P50 AG047266NIA NIH HHS R01 AG018023NIA NIH HHS R01 AG032990NIA NIH HHS RF1 AG015819NIA NIH HHS RF1 AG051504NIA NIH HHS U01 AG046139NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS080820
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

introductionWe hypothesized that common Alzheimer's disease (AD)-associated variants within the triggering receptor expressed on myeloid (TREM) gene cluster influence disease through gene expression.

methodsExpression microarrays on temporal cortex and cerebellum from ∼400 neuropathologically diagnosed subjects and two independent RNAseq replication cohorts were used for expression quantitative trait locus analysis.

resultsA variant within a DNase hypersensitive site 5' of TREM2, rs9357347-C, associates with reduced AD risk and increased TREML1 and TREM2 levels (uncorrected P = 6.3 × 10 DISCUSSION: Our findings point to rs9357347 as a functional regulatory variant that contributes to a protective effect observed at the TREM locus in the International Genomics of Alzheimer's Project genome-wide association study meta-analysis and suggest concomitant increase in TREML1 and TREM2 brain levels as a potential mechanism for protection from AD.

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AgedAged, 80 and overAlzheimer DiseaseCerebellumFemaleGene ExpressionGenetic Predisposition to DiseaseGenetic VariationHumansLinkage DisequilibriumMaleMembrane GlycoproteinsMicroarray AnalysisMultigene FamilyQuantitative Trait LociReceptors, ImmunologicMembrane GlycoproteinsReceptors, ImmunologicTREM2 protein, humanTREML1 protein, humanAlzheimer's diseaseeQTLRegulatory variantTREM2TREML1

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PMID27939925
PMCPMC5462884
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