Other than the APOE peak at 19q13, the 9q22 region was identified in our original genomic scan as the candidate region with the highest multipoint lod score (MLS) in the subset of late onset Alzheimer's Disease (AD) families (MLS = 2.9 at 101 cM) from the NIMH Genetics Initiative sample.
Post hoc data analyses suggested that there might be a stronger effect of CTSD genotype on AD risk in males, and an interaction between CTSD and APOE genotypes in males but not females.
These findings suggested that GSTM1 and GSTT1 null deletions may be associated with susceptibility to AD and people with APOE e4 and GSTM1 null deletion have a higher increased risk for Late-onset AD in Iranian population.
Genetic linkage and association studies in late-onset Alzheimer's disease (LOAD) or its endophenotypes have pointed to several regions on chromosome 10q, among these the ∼ 250 kb linkage disequilibrium (LD) block harboring the genes IDE, KIF1, and HHEX.
Premature termination codon (PTC) mutations in the ATP-Binding Cassette, Sub-Family A, Member 7 gene (ABCA7) have recently been identified as intermediate-to-high penetrant risk factor for late-onset Alzheimer's disease (LOAD).
Both allelic and genotypic associations of three SNPs (rs157580, rs2075650, and rs11556505) with LOAD risk were observed in the total sample as well as in the non- APOE ε4 carriers.
There is now overwhelming evidence that the varepsilon4 allele of apolipoprotein (APOE) gene is a major risk factor for late-onset Alzheimer's disease (AD).
After stratification by apolipoprotein E (APOE) ε4-carrying status, only APOEε4 noncarriers (P=0.035, adjusted OR=1.656, 95% CI: 1.036-2.647) showed the relation between LOAD and SIRT2 rs10410544 T allele.
A significant association was observed between late-onset Alzheimer's disease and the epsilon 4 (112Cys-->Arg) allele of apolipoprotein E; however, no association was detected with apolipoprotein CII.
The odds ratios (ORs) with the respective 95% confidence interval (95%CI) were put to use for the evaluation of the robustness of the link of the MTHFRC677T polymorphism with the vulnerability to LOAD.
Follow-up genotyping analysis revealed that a novel missense mutation P318L appeared to exert risk effect for development of LOAD; and rs67327804 was also significantly associated with LOAD risk even after adjusting for age, gender, and apolipoprotein E ε4 status.
Here we used it to demonstrate a strong correlation between MMPLS scores to characterize the linkage between the covarying patterns of fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography (FDG PET) measurements of regional glucose metabolism and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) measurements of regional gray matter associated with apolipoprotein E (APOE) ε4 gene dose (i.e., three levels of genetic risk for late-onset Alzheimer's disease (AD)) in cognitively normal, late-middle-aged persons.
Our data revealed that ACE I/D polymorphism is considered to be an additional risk factor, which has strong synergistic interaction with APOE epsilon 4 on the risk of LOAD.
To compare differences in severity and type of electroencephalography (EEG) abnormalities between early and late onset Alzheimer's disease (AD) and to assess the influence of APOE genotype on this association, in order to understand the biological differences in AD according to age at onset
We also tested for epistatic interaction between these variants and APOE ε4 as well as with the previously replicated LOAD GWAS genes (CLU: rs11136000, CR1: rs3818361, and PICALM: rs3851179).
APOE, MTHFR A1298C and BDNF C270T polymorphisms may be associated with LOAD and BDNF and MTHFR alleles may play a role in the age at onset of the LOAD.