ReviewJournal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD2022
ABCA7, a Genetic Risk Factor Associated with Alzheimer's Disease Risk in African Americans.
Review in Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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20 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 26 citations in OpenAlex.
- Assessing the lack of diversity in genetics research across neurodegenerative diseases: A systematic review of the GWAS Catalog and literature.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2024Pooled it
- Human Stem Cell-Derived Models of the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimmune System.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026Review
- ABCA7 rs115550680 risk allele carriers have lower medial temporal lobe dynamic network flexibility than APOE-ε4 allele carriers among older African Americans.Neurobiology of aging · 2026Article
- Sleep disturbances and Alzheimer's disease: a multiscale approach from exposome to neurobiology and precision medicine.GeroScience · 2026Review
- Alzheimer's Disease: From Molecular Pathogenesis to Disease-Modifying Therapies and Clinical Implementation in Aging Populations.Clinical interventions in aging · 2026Review
- Disease-associated RNA and protein signatures in iPSC-derived microglia model of Alzheimer's disease.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2026Article
- APOE, ABCA7, and RASGEF1C are associated with earlier onset of amyloid deposition from more than 4000 harmonized positron emission tomography images.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2025Article
- Integrative analysis of cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers, metabolomics, and polygenic risk reveals novel metabolite associations with Alzheimer's disease.Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD · 2025Article
- Ancestry-Specific Hypothetical Genetic Feedback About Lung Cancer Risk in African American Individuals Who Smoke: Cognitive, Emotional, and Motivational Effects on Cessation.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Association of common and rare variants with Alzheimer's disease in more than 13,000 diverse individuals with whole-genome sequencing from the Alzheimer's Disease Sequencing Project.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2024Article
- Genomic Insights into Dementia: Precision Medicine and the Impact of Gene-Environment Interaction.Aging and disease · 2024Review
- The ABC's of Alzheimer risk gene ABCA7.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2024Review
- Unraveling the Genetic Landscape of Neurological Disorders: Insights into Pathogenesis, Techniques for Variant Identification, and Therapeutic Approaches.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Review
- Assessing the lack of diversity in genetics research across neurodegenerative diseases: a systematic review of the GWAS Catalog and literature.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2024Article
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- Alzheimer's Disease and Alzheimer's Disease-Related Dementias in African Americans: Focus on Caregivers.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Editorial: The UN international day of families: neurodegeneration as a result of genetic inheritance.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2023Article
- Neurovascular Dysfunction in Diverse Communities With Health Disparities-Contributions to Dementia and Alzheimer's Disease.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2022Review
- Protocol for the Asian Cohort for Alzheimer's Disease (ACAD) Study.Alzheimer's & dementia (New York, N. Y.)Article
- ABCA7-80 moderates vascular stiffness-p-tau217 association in older African Americans.Alzheimer's & dementia (New York, N. Y.)Article
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Abstract
African American/Black adults are twice as likely to have Alzheimer's disease (AD) compared to non-Hispanic White adults. Genetics partially contributes to this disparity in AD risk, among other factors, as there are several genetic variants associated with AD that are more prevalent in individuals of African or European ancestry. The phospholipid-transporting ATPase ABCA7 (ABCA7) gene has stronger associations with AD risk in individuals with African ancestry than in individuals with European ancestry. In fact, ABCA7 has been shown to have a stronger effect size than the apolipoprotein E (APOE) ɛ4 allele in African American/Black adults. ABCA7 is a transmembrane protein involved in lipid homeostasis and phagocytosis. ABCA7 dysfunction is associated with increased amyloid-beta production, reduced amyloid-beta clearance, impaired microglial response to inflammation, and endoplasmic reticulum stress. This review explores the impact of ABCA7 mutations that increase AD risk in African American/Black adults on ABCA7 structure and function and their contributions to AD pathogenesis. The combination of biochemical/biophysical and 'omics-based studies of these variants needed to elucidate their downstream impact and molecular contributions to AD pathogenesis is highlighted.
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