Massive GWAS Meta-Analysis Digs Up Trove of Alzheimer’s Genes
Researchers unearthed 75 risk loci, 42 of them new, and nominated candidate genes for each. A polygenic risk score based on all variants predicted AD risk with high accuracy.
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TWAS x GWAS? Transcriptome Analysis Finds 11 Parkinson’s Genes
Transcriptomic and epigenomic data pin PD risk genes in GWAS loci; six affect splicing, five expression, four are new.
Earliest of Them All: Blood P-Tau231 Assay Flags Pre-Amyloid Alzheimer’s
The first ultrasensitive plasma test for this old marker differentiates Alzheimer’s from healthy controls and non-AD dementias. It segregates people stepwise at phases of pathogenesis down to Braak stages 1 and 2 and below amyloid PET positivity.
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