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ReviewMolecular psychiatry2025

The genetics of neurodegenerative diseases is the genetics of age-related damage clearance failure.

John Hardy, Valentina Escott-Price

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Review in Molecular psychiatry, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

15 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  12. Beyond prion-like spreading in neurodegenerative disease.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2025
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  13. Small-diffusible aggregates, plaques, tangles, and dynamic equilibria: Untangling 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

2 authors.

John HardyDepartment of Neurodegenerative Disease, UCL Institute of Neurology, United Kingdom and UK Dementia Research Institute at UCL, London, UK. j.hardy@ucl.ac.uk.
Valentina Escott-PriceDepartment of Psychological Medicine and Clinical Neuroscience, Cardiff University, United Kingdom and UK Dementia Research Institute at Cardiff, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK. EscottPriceV@cardiff.ac.uk.ORCID 0000-0003-1784-5483

Funding

RCUK | Medical Research Council (MRC) MR/L023784/2
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In this perspective we draw together the data from the genome wide association studies for Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease and the tauopathies and reach the conclusion that in each case, most of the risk loci are involved in the clearance of the deposited proteins: in Alzheimer's disease, the microglial removal of Aβ, in the synucleinopathies, the lysosomal clearance of synuclein and in the tauopathies, the removal of tau protein by the ubiquitin proteasome. We make the point that most loci identified through genome wide association studies are not strictly pathogenic but rather relate to failures to remove age related damage. We discuss these issues in the context of copathologies in elderly individuals and the prediction of disease through polygenic risk score analysis at different ages. Finally, we discuss what analytic approaches are needed now that we have adequately sized case control analyses in white populations.

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AgingNeurodegenerative DiseasesAlzheimer DiseaseAmyloid beta-PeptidesGenetic Predisposition to DiseaseGenome-Wide Association StudyHumansMultifactorial InheritanceParkinson DiseaseTauopathiestau ProteinsAmyloid beta-Peptidestau Proteins

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PMID39880902
PMCPMC12092245

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