ArticleNature communications2025
Sex-specific associations of gene expression with Alzheimer's disease neuropathology and ante-mortem cognitive performance.
Article in Nature communications, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
10 citing papers in PubMed.
- Sex-specific regulation of angiogenin in Alzheimer's disease.Molecular psychiatry · 2026Article
- Associations between serum estradiol and estrone and Alzheimer's disease biomarkers: An analysis in female participants from the European Prevention of Alzheimer's Dementia Longitudinal Cohort Study (EPAD LCS).Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2026Article
- Peripheral and Central miRNA Signatures in Alzheimer's Disease: Tissue-Specific Variability, Sex-Associated Differences, and Implications for Blood-Based Biomarkers.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026Review
- Silencer variants are key drivers of gene up-regulation in Alzheimer's disease.Science advances · 2026Article
- Review
- Aberrant medial entorhinal cortex dynamics link tau pathology to spatial memory impairment.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Whole blood gene expression moderates associations between AD biomarkers and cognitive decline in cognitively unimpaired older adults.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2026Article
- SLC10A3 drives glioblastoma progression by remodeling the immunosuppressive microenvironment and promoting M2 macrophage migration.Frontiers in oncology · 2026Article
- Blood-based Transcriptomics Reveal Sex- and Amyloid-Modulated Biology of Plasma pTau217 in Preclinical Alzheimer's Disease.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Tau pathology is associated with postsynaptic metabotropic glutamate receptor 5 (mGluR5) in early Alzheimer's disease in a sex-specific manner.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2025Article
Corrections and comments
- Update of
- Update of
Authors and funding
14 authors.
Funding
Abstract
The biological mechanisms underlying the increased prevalence of Alzheimer's disease (AD) in women remain undefined. While previous case/control studies have identified sex-biased molecular pathways, the sex-specific relationships between gene expression and AD endophenotypes, particularly involving sex chromosomes, are underexplored. With bulk transcriptomic data across 3 brain regions from 767 decedents, we investigated sex-specific associations between gene expression and post-mortem β-amyloid and tau, as well as antemortem longitudinal cognition. Among 23,118 significant gene associations, 10% were sex-specific, with 73% of these identified in females and primarily associated with tau tangles and longitudinal cognition (90%). Notably, four X-linked genes, MCF2, HDAC8, FTX, and SLC10A3, demonstrated significant sex differences in their associations with AD endophenotypes (i.e., significant sex x gene interaction). Our results also uncovered sex-specific biological pathways, including a female-specific role of neuroinflammation and neuronal development, underscoring the importance of sex-aware analyses to advance precision medicine approaches in AD.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.