MAPT, microtubule associated protein tau, 4137

N. diseases: 469; N. variants: 292
Source: ALL
Disease Score gda Association Type Type Original DB Sentence supporting the association PMID PMID Year
CUI: C0497327
Disease: Dementia
Dementia
0.500 Biomarker disease BEFREE Alzheimer´s disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia involving Aβ and tau protein. 30388894 2020
CUI: C0497327
Disease: Dementia
Dementia
0.500 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE All MAPT carriers with dementia showed temporal atrophy, but otherwise, there was no single cognitive test or brain region that was abnormal in all subjects. 31784375 2020
CUI: C0497327
Disease: Dementia
Dementia
0.500 Biomarker disease BEFREE Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common cause of dementia and is characterized by aggregation of amyloid and tau proteins in the brain. 31694431 2020
CUI: C0497327
Disease: Dementia
Dementia
0.500 Biomarker disease BEFREE The transition of tau proteins from its soluble physiological conformation to the pathological aggregate forms found in Alzheimer's disease and related dementias, is poorly understood. 31456657 2019
CUI: C0497327
Disease: Dementia
Dementia
0.500 Biomarker disease BEFREE A number of studies have shown evidence of long-term brain changes and accumulation of pathological biomarkers (e.g., amyloid and tau proteins) related to a history of moderate-to-severe TBI, and research has also demonstrated that individuals with moderate-to-severe injuries have an increased risk of dementia. 31282414 2019
CUI: C0497327
Disease: Dementia
Dementia
0.500 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Mutations in the MAPT gene, which encodes the tau protein, are associated with several neurodegenerative diseases, including frontotemporal dementia (FTD), dementia with epilepsy, and other types of dementia. 30696811 2019
CUI: C0497327
Disease: Dementia
Dementia
0.500 Biomarker disease BEFREE Alzheimer's Disease (AD) is an age-dependent neurodegenerative disorder, the most common type of dementia that is clinically characterized by the presence of beta-amyloid (Aβ) extracellularly and intraneuronal tau protein tangles that eventually leads to the onset of memory and cognition impairment, development of psychiatric symptoms and behavioral disorders that affect basic daily activities. 31642777 2019
CUI: C0497327
Disease: Dementia
Dementia
0.500 Biomarker disease BEFREE Cognitive and <sup>18</sup> F-florbetapir positron emission tomography (PET) data were compared in patients with NT1 aged ≥ 65 years (n = 23) and in age- and sex-matched controls free of clinical dementia selected from the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI; n = 69) and the Multi-Domain Intervention Alzheimer's Prevention Trial (MAPT-18F AV45-PET; n = 23) cohorts. 30387527 2019
CUI: C0497327
Disease: Dementia
Dementia
0.500 Biomarker disease BEFREE In the early stage of AD, amyloid β-induced synapse changes is the main reason, while in the later stage, the accumulation of Tau protein promotes synapse degeneration as the key factor leading to dementia. 31060348 2019
CUI: C0497327
Disease: Dementia
Dementia
0.500 Biomarker disease BEFREE Callosal Angle and Evans Index predict beta amyloid and tau protein in patients with dementia. 30877723 2019
CUI: C0497327
Disease: Dementia
Dementia
0.500 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE The microtubule-associated protein tau gene (<i>MAPT</i>) rs242557 variant is associated with multiple tauopathies and dementia. 30708351 2019
CUI: C0497327
Disease: Dementia
Dementia
0.500 Biomarker disease BEFREE Adherence to multidomain interventions for dementia prevention: Data from the FINGER and MAPT trials. 31047857 2019
CUI: C0497327
Disease: Dementia
Dementia
0.500 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE Alzheimer's disease (AD), the most common type of dementia worldwide, is characterized by high levels of amyloid-β (Aβ) peptide and hyperphosphorylated tau protein. 30775980 2019
CUI: C0497327
Disease: Dementia
Dementia
0.500 Biomarker disease BEFREE The aggregation of fibrils of hyperphosphorylated and C-terminally truncated microtubule-associated tau protein characterizes 80% of all dementia disorders, the most common neurodegenerative disorders. 30529601 2019
CUI: C0497327
Disease: Dementia
Dementia
0.500 Biomarker disease BEFREE Alzheimer's Disease (AD) is the most common type of dementia characterized by amyloid plaques containing Amyloid Beta (Aβ) peptides and neurofibrillary tangles containing tau protein. 30907317 2019
CUI: C0497327
Disease: Dementia
Dementia
0.500 Biomarker disease BEFREE Several aggregation-prone proteins such as the amyloid-beta (Aβ) peptides, tau proteins, and α-synuclein protein are involved in secondary pathogenic cascades initiated by a TBI and are also major building blocks of the hallmark pathological lesions in chronic human neurodegenerative diseases with dementia. 29933008 2019
CUI: C0497327
Disease: Dementia
Dementia
0.500 Biomarker disease BEFREE Although it is believed that tau protein abnormalities and/or the loss of its functions results in neurodegeneration and dementia, the mechanism of tauopathy remains obscure. 29973863 2018
CUI: C0497327
Disease: Dementia
Dementia
0.500 Biomarker disease BEFREE Our study investigated the associations of plasma Aβ and tau proteins with dementia in stroke patients. 30242618 2018
CUI: C0497327
Disease: Dementia
Dementia
0.500 Biomarker disease BEFREE Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia and is characterized by an imbalance between the production and clearance of amyloid-beta (Aβ) and tau proteins. 30478329 2018
CUI: C0497327
Disease: Dementia
Dementia
0.500 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Missense mutations in the microtubule associated protein tau (MAPT) gene have been found to cause familial FTD and PSP, while the P301S mutation in MAPT has been associated with early-onset fast progressive dementia and the presence of seizures. 29621183 2018
CUI: C0497327
Disease: Dementia
Dementia
0.500 Biomarker disease BEFREE Tau protein is a microtubule-stabilising protein whose aggregation is linked to Alzheimer's Disease and other forms of dementia. 31265107 2018
CUI: C0497327
Disease: Dementia
Dementia
0.500 Biomarker disease BEFREE Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia and is distinguished from other dementias by observation of extracellular Amyloid-β (Aβ) plaques and intracellular neurofibrillary tangles, comprised of fibrils of Aβ and tau protein, respectively. 30123109 2018
CUI: C0497327
Disease: Dementia
Dementia
0.500 Biomarker disease BEFREE The microtubule-associated protein tau forms insoluble, amyloid-type aggregates in various dementias, most notably Alzheimer's disease. 29298892 2018
CUI: C0497327
Disease: Dementia
Dementia
0.500 Biomarker disease BEFREE Twenty years ago, we and others showed that mutations in MAPT, the Tau gene, cause familial forms of frontotemporal dementia, thus proving that dysfunction of Tau protein is sufficient to cause neurodegeneration and dementia. 29790176 2018
CUI: C0497327
Disease: Dementia
Dementia
0.500 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE The identification of mutations in MAPT, the gene that encodes tau, causing dementia and parkinsonism established the notion that tau aggregation is responsible for the development of disease. 28789904 2018