Disease Score gda Association Type Type Original DB Sentence supporting the association PMID PMID Year
Familial Alzheimer's disease of early onset
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Mutations in the genes encoding amyloid precursor protein (APP) or presenilin (PS) cause early onset familial Alzheimer's disease (AD), and sequential cleavages of the APP by β-secretase and γ-secretase/presenilin generate amyloid β protein (Aβ), the major component of pathological hallmark, neuritic plaques, in brains of AD patients. 30763650 2019
Familial Alzheimer's disease of early onset
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Dominant missense mutation in the presenilins and the amyloid precursor protein (APP) cause early-onset familial Alzheimer's disease (FAD). 29619615 2019
Familial Alzheimer's disease of early onset
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Dominant mutations in APP and presenilin cause early onset familial Alzheimer's disease (FAD). 31625391 2019
Familial Alzheimer's disease of early onset
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE All known rare mutations in APP and the γ-secretase catalytic component, presenilin, which lead to increased amyloid βpeptide production, are responsible for early-onset familial Alzheimer's disease. 28152299 2017
Familial Alzheimer's disease of early onset
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE We conclude that ethnic differences, environment or additional unknown factors may challenge the homogeneity of EOFAD with identical APP mutations. 27838006 2017
Familial Alzheimer's disease of early onset
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE Mutations within the β-amyloid peptide () sequence that cause early onset familial Alzheimer's disease (FAD) have been shown to promote aggregation. 25376379 2015
Familial Alzheimer's disease of early onset
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Over 200 rare and fully penetrant pathogenic mutations in amyloid precursor protein (APP), presenilin 1 and 2 (PSEN1 and PSEN2) cause a subset of early-onset familial Alzheimer's disease (EO-FAD). 23752245 2014
Familial Alzheimer's disease of early onset
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Novel APP K724M mutation causes Chinese early-onset familial Alzheimer's disease and increases amyloid-β42 to amyloid-β40 ratio. 25018108 2014
Familial Alzheimer's disease of early onset
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE We recently identified a rare APP variant encoding an alanine-to-threonine substitution at residue 673 (A673T) that confers protection against development of AD (Jonsson, T., Atwal, J. K., Steinberg, S., Snaedal, J., Jonsson, P. V., Bjornsson, S., Stefansson, H., Sulem, P., Gudbjartsson, D., Maloney, J., Hoyte, K., Gustafson, A., Liu, Y., Lu, Y., Bhangale, T., Graham, R. R., Huttenlocher, J., Bjornsdottir, G., Andreassen, O. 25253696 2014
Familial Alzheimer's disease of early onset
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE Genetic screening for mutations in PSEN1, PSEN2, and APP was conducted in a total of 32 families with clinical diagnoses of EOFAD from Mainland China. 24650794 2014
Familial Alzheimer's disease of early onset
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Early-onset familial Alzheimer disease (AD) is an autosomal dominant disorder caused by mutations in the amyloid precursor protein, presenilin 1 (PSEN1), or presenilin 2 gene. 23850332 2014
Familial Alzheimer's disease of early onset
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Here we demonstrate that mutations in the transmembrane domain of APP causing aggressive early-onset familial Alzheimer's disease affect both γ- and ε-cleavage sites, by raising the Aβ42/40 ratio and inhibiting the production of AICD50-99, one of the two physiological APP intracellular domains (ICDs). 23907250 2013
Familial Alzheimer's disease of early onset
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE To investigate the particular pathology of the Arctic APP (APParc) early-onset familial Alzheimer disease (eoFAD) mutation for the first time in vivo with PET in comparison with other eoFAD mutations and sporadic Alzheimer disease (sAD). 22700814 2012
Familial Alzheimer's disease of early onset
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE Amyloid precursor protein gene (APP) duplications have been identified in screens of selected probands with early onset familial Alzheimer's disease (FAD). 21193246 2012
Familial Alzheimer's disease of early onset
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE More than 30 different rare mutations, including copy number variants (CNVs), in the amyloid precursor protein gene (APP) cause early-onset familial Alzheimer disease (EOFAD), whereas the contribution of common APP variants to disease risk remains controversial. 22491860 2012
Familial Alzheimer's disease of early onset
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Mutations in the presenilin 2 (PSEN2) gene are less commonly identified as genetic causes of early-onset familial Alzheimer's disease than mutations in the amyloid precursor protein (APP) and the presenilin 1 (PSEN1) genes. 21544564 2011
Familial Alzheimer's disease of early onset
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Mutations in the presenilin 1 (PSEN1) gene are more commonly identified as genetic causes of early-onset familial Alzheimer's disease than mutations in the amyloid precursor protein (APP) and the presenilin 2 (PSEN2) genes. 20213228 2010
Familial Alzheimer's disease of early onset
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Importantly, we demonstrate that rPS harboring mutations that cause early onset familial Alzheimer's disease (FAD) lead to elevations in the ratio of Aβ42 to Aβ40 peptides produced from a wild-type APP substrate and that rPS enhances the Aβ42/Aβ40 peptide ratio from FAD-linked mutant APP substrates, findings that are entirely consistent with the results obtained in in vivo settings. 21115843 2010
Familial Alzheimer's disease of early onset
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE Mutations in presenilin (PS) and amyloid precursor protein (APP) genes are a predominant cause for early-onset familial Alzheimer disease (AD). 19524115 2009
Familial Alzheimer's disease of early onset
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE The occurrence of duplications of the amyloid precursor protein gene (APP) has been described in European families with early-onset familial Alzheimer disease (EO-FAD) and cerebral amyloid angiopathy. 19684239 2009
Familial Alzheimer's disease of early onset
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Early onset familial Alzheimer disease (EOFAD) can be caused by mutations in genes for amyloid precursor protein, presenilin 1 (PSEN1), or presenilin 2 (PSEN2). 18580586 2008
Familial Alzheimer's disease of early onset
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Three major causative genes have been implicated as the cause of early-onset familial Alzheimer's disease (AD): the amyloid precursor protein gene (APP), presenilin-1 (PSEN1) and PSEN2. 18587238 2008
Familial Alzheimer's disease of early onset
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE These results demonstrate that familial AD mutations in the polypeptide backbone of APP can affect processing of the attached N-glycans; however, whether these changes in N-glycosylation affect Abeta production remains to be established. 18521746 2008
Familial Alzheimer's disease of early onset
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Three rare forms of autosomal-dominant early-onset familial Alzheimer disease have been identified and are associated with mutations in amyloid precursor protein, presenilin 1, and presenilin 2 genes. 18414205 2008
Familial Alzheimer's disease of early onset
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Early onset familial Alzheimer's disease (FAD) is linked to autosomal dominant mutations in the amyloid precursor protein (APP) and presenilin 1 and 2 (PS1 and PS2) genes. 16923170 2006