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ArticleAlzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association2020

Shared genetic etiology underlying late-onset Alzheimer's disease and posttraumatic stress syndrome.

Michael W Lutz, Sheng Luo, Douglas E Williamson, Ornit Chiba-Falek

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Article in Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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11 citing papers in PubMed, 24 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Michael W LutzDivision of Translational Brain Sciences, Department of Neurology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-8809-5574
Sheng LuoDepartment of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-4214-5809
Douglas E WilliamsonDepartment of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-5310-1716
Ornit Chiba-FalekDivision of Translational Brain Sciences, Department of Neurology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-2529-8785
Duke University · USWilliamson College · US

Funding

Sex and APOE genotype interact to alter immune regulated metabolism in ADRF1AG057895 · NIA · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI BADEA, ALEXANDRA, COLTON, CAROL ANNE · 2019 to 2019
$5.8M
Brain networks in mouse models of agingR01AG066184 · NIA · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI BADEA, ALEXANDRA · 2019 to 2023
$3.8M
Deciphering the regulation of gene expression in the etiology of LOADR01AG057522 · NIA · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI CHIBA-FALEK, ORNIT, LUTZ, MICHAEL WILLIAM · 2017 to 2021
$3.6M
Shared genetic, epigenetic, and transcriptomic profiles between AD and PTSD: molecular insights into the heterogeneity of neuropsychiatric symptoms in Alzheimers DiseaseR56AG062302 · NIA · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI CHIBA-FALEK, ORNIT, LUO, SHENG · 2018 to 2018
$788k
NIA NIH HHS R01 AG057522NIA NIH HHS R01 AG066184NIA NIH HHS R56 AG062302NIA NIH HHS RF1 AG057895
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

introductionLate-onset Alzheimer's disease (LOAD) manifests comorbid neuropsychiatric symptoms and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is associated with an increased risk for dementia in late life, suggesting the two disorders may share genetic etiologies.

methodsWe performed genetic pleiotropy analysis using LOAD and PTSD genome-wide association study (GWAS) datasets from white and African-American populations, followed by functional-genomic analyses.

resultsWe found an enrichment for LOAD across increasingly stringent levels of significance with the PTSD GWAS association (LOAD|PTSD) in the discovery and replication cohorts and a modest enrichment for the reverse conditional association (PTSD|LOAD). LOAD|PTSD association analysis identified and replicated the MS4A genes region. These genes showed similar expression pattern in brain regions affected in LOAD, and across-brain-tissue analysis identified a significant association for MS4A6A. The African-American samples showed moderate enrichment; however, no false discovery rate-significant associations. DISCUSSION: We demonstrated common genetic signatures for LOAD and PTSD and suggested immune response as a common pathway for these diseases.

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Alzheimer DiseaseGenetic PleiotropyGenome-Wide Association StudyStress Disorders, Post-TraumaticHumansPolymorphism, Single Nucleotidegenetic pleiotropyinflammation and immune-based pathways and Alzheimer's diseaselate-onset Alzheimer's diseaseMS4A gene familyposttraumatic stress disorderPTSD

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PMID32588970
PMCPMC7769164
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