A genome-wide association study with 1,126,563 individuals identifies new risk loci for Alzheimer's disease
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A genome-wide association study with 1,126,563 individuals identifies new risk loci for Alzheimer's disease
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Author Correction: A genome-wide association study with 1,126,563 individuals identifies new risk loci for Alzheimer's disease.Nat Genet. 2021 Dec;53(12):1722. doi: 10.1038/s41588-021-00977-x. Nat Genet. 2021. PMID: 34773122 No abstract available.
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Author Correction: A genome-wide association study with 1,126,563 individuals identifies new risk loci for Alzheimer's disease.Nat Genet. 2022 Jul;54(7):1062. doi: 10.1038/s41588-022-01126-8. Nat Genet. 2022. PMID: 35726068 No abstract available.
Abstract
Late-onset Alzheimer's disease is a prevalent age-related polygenic disease that accounts for 50-70% of dementia cases. Currently, only a fraction of the genetic variants underlying Alzheimer's disease have been identified. Here we show that increased sample sizes allowed identification of seven previously unidentified genetic loci contributing to Alzheimer's disease. This study highlights microglia, immune cells and protein catabolism as relevant to late-onset Alzheimer's disease, while identifying and prioritizing previously unidentified genes of potential interest. We anticipate that these results can be included in larger meta-analyses of Alzheimer's disease to identify further genetic variants that contribute to Alzheimer's pathology.
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Genome-wide association study identifies new risk loci for Alzheimer disease.Nat Rev Neurol. 2021 Nov;17(11):659. doi: 10.1038/s41582-021-00575-9. Nat Rev Neurol. 2021. PMID: 34599319 No abstract available.
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