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ArticleTranslational psychiatry2024

Comprehensive analysis of genetic risk loci uncovers novel candidate genes and pathways in the comorbidity between depression and Alzheimer's disease.

Bente M Hofstra, Martien J H Kas, Dineke S Verbeek

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Article in Translational psychiatry, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Cellular transcriptomic signatures underpinning the heterogeneity of depression in Alzheimer's disease.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2026
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  4. Neuromodulation and cognition in late-life depression.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2026
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3 authors.

Bente M HofstraDepartment of Genetics, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0001-5197-0160
Martien J H KasGroningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences, University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0002-4471-8618
Dineke S VerbeekDepartment of Genetics, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands. d.s.verbeek@umcg.nl.

Funding

Universitair Medisch Centrum Groningen (University Medical Center Groningen) PhD GrantUniversitair Medisch Centrum Groningen (University Medical Center Groningen) Rosalind Franklin Fellowship
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

There is growing evidence of a shared pathogenesis between Alzheimer's disease and depression. Therefore, we aimed to further investigate their shared disease mechanisms. We made use of publicly available brain-specific eQTL data and gene co-expression networks of previously reported genetic loci associated with these highly comorbid disorders. No direct genetic overlap was observed between Alzheimer's disease and depression in our dataset, but we did detect six shared brain-specific eQTL genes: SRA1, MICA, PCDHA7, PCDHA8, PCDHA10 and PCDHA13. Several pathways were identified as shared between Alzheimer's disease and depression by conducting clustering pathway analysis on hippocampal co-expressed genes; synaptic signaling and organization, myelination, development, and the immune system. This study highlights trans-synaptic signaling and synaptoimmunology in the hippocampus as main shared pathomechanisms of Alzheimer's disease and depression.

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Alzheimer DiseaseGenetic Predisposition to DiseaseHippocampusComorbidityDepressionDepressive DisorderGene Regulatory NetworksHumansQuantitative Trait Loci

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PMCPMC11166962

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