GRN, granulin precursor, 2896

N. diseases: 412; N. variants: 66
Source: ALL
Disease Score gda Association Type Type Original DB Sentence supporting the association PMID PMID Year
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Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.200 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Genetic variants in the granulin (GRN) gene have been shown to increase the risk of Alzheimer's disease (AD). 22890097 2013
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Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.200 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Here we undertook a systematic study of nonverbal sound processing in patient groups with canonical dementia syndromes comprising clinically diagnosed typical amnestic Alzheimer's disease (AD; n=21), progressive nonfluent aphasia (PNFA; n=5), logopenic progressive aphasia (LPA; n=7) and aphasia in association with a progranulin gene mutation (GAA; n=1), and in healthy age-matched controls (n=20). 21689671 2011
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Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.200 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE Here, we describe the application of PGRN gene transfer using in vivo delivery of lentiviral expression vectors in a transgenic mouse model of AD. 28837568 2017
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Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.200 Biomarker disease BEFREE How microglial PGRN might be involved in AD and other neurodegenerative diseases will be discussed. 30862089 2019
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Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.200 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE However, alterations of central nervous progranulin expression also occur in neurodegenerative disorders unrelated to GRN mutations, such as Alzheimer's disease. 27760429 2017
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Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.200 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Importantly, ELISA analyses also identified one probable Alzheimer's disease patient (1.4%) carrying a loss-of-function mutation in GRN. 19158106 2009
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Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.200 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE In conclusion, HDDD1 is an FTLD-U caused by a PGRN mutation and is neuropathologically heterogeneous with Alzheimer disease as a common comorbidity. 17334266 2007
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Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.200 Biomarker disease BEFREE In conclusion, our data suggest that PGRN may not be a good biomarker for AD; moreover, gender may influence the plasma PGRN levels of AD patients. 23396349 2013
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Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.200 Biomarker disease BEFREE In conclusion, we demonstrate that, although CSF PGRN is not a diagnostic biomarker for AD, it may together with sTREM2 reflect microglial activation during the disease. 30482868 2018
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Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.200 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE In contrast, the HpScl groups (HpScl and HpScl-AD) were more likely to exhibit genetic variants in GRN and TMEM106B that are associated with frontotemporal lobar degeneration. 24899141 2014
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Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.200 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE In this large kindred, most affected individuals had clinical presentations that resembled Alzheimer disease or amnestic mild cognitive impairment associated with a mutation in PGRN and underlying FTLD-U with NII neuropathologic abnormalities. 20142525 2010
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Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.200 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE In this manuscript, we review the initial discovery and replication studies describing TMEM106B variants as disease risk factors and modifiers in TDP-43 proteinopathies, such as FTLD-TDP caused by progranulin (GRN) or chromosome 9 open reading frame 72 (C9orf72) mutations, as well as Alzheimer's disease and hippocampal sclerosis. 27543298 2016
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Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.200 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Missense mutations of GRN were also identified, but their effects are not completely clear, in particular unanswered is the question of what neuropathology they elicit, also considering that their occurrence has been reported in patients with typical clinical features of Alzheimer disease. 27997711 2018
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Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.200 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE Moreover, PGRN expression is increased in activated microglia in many neurodegenerative diseases including Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, motor neuron disease and Alzheimer's disease. 16862116 2006
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Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.200 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Mutations in progranulin (GRN) cause heterogeneous clinical syndromes, including behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD), primary progressive aphasia (PPA), corticobasal syndrome (CBS) and Alzheimer-type dementia (AD-type dementia). 30921613 2019
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Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.200 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Novel GRN Mutations in Alzheimer's Disease and Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration. 29614680 2018
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Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.200 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Our data indicate that TT allele of rs5848 is associated with increased risk of AD, suggesting that genetic variant of progranulin gene may play an important role in AD development. 24680777 2014
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Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.200 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Our main objective was to study if low serum progranulin protein (PGRN) levels may detect GRN mutations in a Spanish cohort of patients with FTLD or AD. 22647257 2012
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Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.200 Biomarker disease BEFREE Overlapping but distinct networks were involved in the AD-PPA and GRN-PPA subgroups, with more anterior temporal lobe involvement in GRN-PPA. 19679189 2010
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Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.200 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Participants from the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative cohort (ADNI; n = 1,239), with both MRI scans and genotype data, were used to assess the association between brain atrophy and previously identified HS-Aging risk SNPs in the following genes: GRN, TMEM106B, ABCC9, and KCNMB2 (minor allele frequency for each is >30%). 27003218 2016
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Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.200 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE The phenotypes associated with GRN mutations vary greatly: 20/32 (63%) carriers had fvFTD, the other (12/32, 37%) had clinical diagnoses of PPA, CBDS, Lewy body dementia or Alzheimer's disease. 18245784 2008
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Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.200 GeneticVariation disease LHGDN The phenotypes associated with GRN mutations vary greatly: 20/32 (63%) carriers had fvFTD, the other (12/32, 37%) had clinical diagnoses of PPA, CBDS, Lewy body dementia or Alzheimer's disease. 18245784 2008
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Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.200 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE The purpose of this meta-analysis was to investigate the association between progranulin polymorphism rs5848 and risk of the neurodegenerative diseases frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD), Alzheimer's disease (AD), Parkinson's disease (PD), and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). 25578179 2015
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Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.200 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE The result of the meta-analysis supported T allele of rs5848 within GRN as a risk factor for AD. 26820675 2017
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Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.200 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE The results suggest that a genetic variant in GRN leading to decreased levels of progranulin may be a risk factor for HpScl in AD, while its role in TDP-43 immunoreactivity in AD remains less certain. 20197700 2010