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ReviewAmerican journal of medical genetics. Part B, Neuropsychiatric genetics : the official publication of the International Society of Psychiatric Genetics2017

Genomic variants, genes, and pathways of Alzheimer's disease: An overview.

Adam C Naj, Gerard D Schellenberg, Alzheimer's Disease Genetics Consortium (ADGC)

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Review in American journal of medical genetics. Part B, Neuropsychiatric genetics : the official publication of the International Society of Psychiatric Genetics, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 107 papers, 7 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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107citing papers in PubMed, 7 pooled it
12.1field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

107 citing papers in PubMed, 7 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 182 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. Salivary lactoferrin as biomarker for Alzheimer's disease: Brain-immunity interactions.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2020
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  10. Alzheimer's disease multi-ancestry genome-wide interaction and stratified study with smoking.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2025
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  11. Ancestral genomic functional differences in oligodendroglia: implications for Alzheimer's disease.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Adam C NajDepartment of Biostatistics and Epidemiology/Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.ORCID 0000-0002-9621-2942
Gerard D SchellenbergDepartment of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Alzheimer's Disease Genetics Consortium (ADGC)
University of Pennsylvania · US

Funding

National Centralized Repository for Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias (NCRAD)U24AG021886 · NIA · INDIANA UNIV-PURDUE UNIV AT INDIANAPOLIS · PI TATIANA M. FOROUD · 2002 to 2026
$119.8M
Alzheimer's Disease Genetics ConsortiumU01AG032984 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI SCHELLENBERG, GERARD DAVID · 2009 to 2024
$60.4M
NIA NIH HHS U01 AG032984NIA NIH HHS U24 AG021886
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Alzheimer's disease (AD) (MIM: 104300) is a highly heritable disease with great complexity in its genetic contributors, and represents the most common form of dementia. With the gradual aging of the world's population, leading to increased prevalence of AD, and the substantial cost of care for those afflicted, identifying the genetic causes of disease represents a critical effort in identifying therapeutic targets. Here we provide a comprehensive review of genomic studies of AD, from the earliest linkage studies identifying monogenic contributors to early-onset forms of AD to the genome-wide and rare variant association studies of recent years that are being used to characterize the mosaic of genetic contributors to late-onset AD (LOAD), and which have identified approximately ∼20 genes with common variants contributing to LOAD risk. In addition, we explore studies employing alternative approaches to identify genetic contributors to AD, including studies of AD-related phenotypes and multi-variant association studies such as pathway analyses. Finally, we introduce studies of next-generation sequencing, which have recently helped identify multiple low-frequency and rare variant contributors to AD, and discuss on-going efforts with next-generation sequencing studies to develop statistically well- powered and comprehensive genomic studies of AD. Through this review, we help uncover the many insights the genetics of AD have provided into the pathways and pathophysiology of AD. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

Indexed as

Alzheimer DiseaseDementiaGenetic LinkageGenetic Predisposition to DiseaseGenetic VariationGenome-Wide Association StudyGenomicsHumansPolymorphism, Single NucleotideAlzheimer's disease (AD)genome-wide association studies (GWAS)late-onset Alzheimer's disease (LOAD)next-generation sequencingpathway analysis

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PMID27943641
PMCPMC6179157
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