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ArticleFrontiers in aging2025

Investigating shared risk variants and genetic etiology between Alzheimer's disease and three stress-related psychiatric disorders: a large-scale genome-wide cross-trait analysis.

Weijia Dang, Tianqi Hao, Ning Li, Hualin Zhang, Ziqi Li, Hongmei Yu, Yalu Wen, Deqiang Zheng, Long Liu

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  1. Stress, stress systems, and Alzheimer's disease.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2026
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Weijia Dang *Department of Health Statistics, School of Public Health, Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, Shanxi, China.
Tianqi Hao *Department of Health Statistics, School of Public Health, Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, Shanxi, China.
Ning LiDepartment of Epidemiology and Health Statistics, School of Public Health, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.
Hualin ZhangDepartment of Health Statistics, School of Public Health, Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, Shanxi, China.
Ziqi LiDepartment of Health Statistics, School of Public Health, Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, Shanxi, China.
Hongmei YuDepartment of Health Statistics, School of Public Health, Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, Shanxi, China.
Yalu WenDepartment of Statistics, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.
Deqiang ZhengDepartment of Epidemiology and Health Statistics, School of Public Health, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.
Long LiuDepartment of Health Statistics, School of Public Health, Binzhou Medical University, Yantai, Shandong, China.

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Introduction: Observational studies have reported that patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) have a greater burden of comorbidities typically associated with stress-related psychiatric disorders. However, the contribution of hereditary factors to this comorbidity remains unclear. We evaluated phenotypic associations using observational data from the UK Biobank. Method: Our study focused on investigating the shared risk variants and genetic etiology underlying AD and three stress-related psychiatric disorders: post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety disorder, and major depressive disorder. By leveraging summary statistics from genome-wide association studies, we investigated global genetic correlations using linkage disequilibrium score regression, genetic covariance analysis, and high-definition likelihood. Genome-wide cross-trait analysis with association analysis based on subsets and cross-phenotype association were performed to discover genome-wide significant risk variants shared between AD and the three stress-related psychiatric disorders. Results: A significant positive genetic correlation was observed between AD and major depressive disorder using linkage disequilibrium score regression (rg = 0.231; Conclusion: These results advance our knowledge of the shared genetic origins of comorbidities and pave the way for advancements in the diagnosis, management, and prevention of stress-related AD.

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Alzheimer’s diseasegenetic correlationgenome-wide cross-trait analysisshared genetic etiologystress-related psychiatric disorders

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PMID39975850
PMCPMC11837265

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