Alzheimer disease risk genes: 29 and counting

Lars Bertram; Rudolph E. Tanzi

doi:10.1038/s41582-019-0158-4

Alzheimer disease risk genes: 29 and counting

Lars Bertram^*, Rudolph E. Tanzi

^*Corresponding author for this work

Lubeck Interdisciplinary Platform for Genome Analytics

Harvard University

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Abstract

The risk of Alzheimer disease is substantially influenced by genetic factors. A new genome-wide association study of more than 600,000 individuals identifies nine novel Alzheimer disease risk genes, raising the total count of independent risk loci to 29.

Original language	English
Journal	Nature Reviews Neurology
Volume	15
Issue number	4
Pages (from-to)	191-192
Number of pages	2
ISSN	1759-4758
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41582-019-0158-4
Publication status	Published - 01.04.2019

Funding

L.B. is supported by grants from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), the European Research Council (ERC) and the Cure Alzheimer’s Fund (CAF). R.E.T. is supported by the Cure Alzheimer’s Fund and the JPB Foundation.

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