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ArticleBrain communications2022

In Alzheimer-prone brain regions, metabolism and risk-gene expression are strongly correlated.

Fengdan Ye, Quentin Funk, Elijah Rockers, Joshua M Shulman, Joseph C Masdeu, Belen Pascual, Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative

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Article in Brain communications, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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11citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
1.9field-weighted citation impact, top 13% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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11 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 17 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Fengdan YeDepartment of Physics and Astronomy, Rice University, Houston, TX 77005, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3896-4003
Quentin FunkNantz National Alzheimer Center, Houston Methodist Neurological and Research Institute, Houston Methodist Hospital, Weill Cornell Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
Elijah RockersNantz National Alzheimer Center, Houston Methodist Neurological and Research Institute, Houston Methodist Hospital, Weill Cornell Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1488-7661
Joshua M ShulmanDepartment of Neurology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
Joseph C MasdeuNantz National Alzheimer Center, Houston Methodist Neurological and Research Institute, Houston Methodist Hospital, Weill Cornell Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9955-6954
Belen PascualNantz National Alzheimer Center, Houston Methodist Neurological and Research Institute, Houston Methodist Hospital, Weill Cornell Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4467-7406
Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative
Houston Methodist · USBaylor College of Medicine · US

Funding

Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative - SupplementU01AG024904 · NIA · NORTHERN CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE RES &EDUC · PI WEINER, MICHAEL W · 2004 to 2015
$121.0M
NIA NIH HHS U01 AG024904
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Neuroimaging in the preclinical phase of Alzheimer's disease provides information crucial to early intervention, particularly in people with a high genetic risk. Metabolic network modularity, recently applied to the study of dementia, is increased in Alzheimer's disease patients compared with controls, but network modularity in cognitively unimpaired elderly with various risks of developing Alzheimer's disease needs to be determined. Based on their 5-year cognitive progression, we stratified 117 cognitively normal participants (78.3 ± 4.0 years of age, 52 women) into three age-matched groups, each with a different level of risk for Alzheimer's disease. From their fluorodeoxyglucose PET we constructed metabolic networks, evaluated their modular structures using the Louvain algorithm, and compared them between risk groups. As the risk for Alzheimer's disease increased, the metabolic connections among brain regions weakened and became more modular, indicating network fragmentation and functional impairment of the brain. We then set out to determine the correlation between regional brain metabolism, particularly in the modules derived from the previous analysis, and the regional expression of Alzheimer-risk genes in the brain, obtained from the Allen Human Brain Atlas. In all risk groups of this elderly population, the regional brain expression of most Alzheimer-risk genes showed a strong correlation with brain metabolism, particularly in the module that corresponded to regions of the brain that are affected earliest and most severely in Alzheimer's disease. Among the genes,

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AHBA gene expressionAlzheimer’s diseaseAPOEbrain metabolismSORL1

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