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Genetic Control of Human Brain Transcript Expression in Alzheimer Disease
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We recently surveyed the relationship between the human brain transcriptome and genome in a series of neuropathologically normal postmortem samples. We have now analyzed additional samples with a confirmed pathologic diagnosis of late-onset Alzheimer disease (LOAD; final n = 188 controls, 176 cases). Nine percent of the cortical transcripts that we analyzed had expression profiles correlated with their genotypes in the combined cohort, and approximately 5% of transcripts had SNP-transcript relationships that could distinguish LOAD samples. Two of these transcripts have been previously implicated in LOAD candidate-gene SNP-expression screens. This study shows how the relationship between common inherited genetic variants and brain transcript expression can be used in the study of human brain disorders. We suggest that studying the transcriptome as a quantitative endo-phenotype has greater power for discovering risk SNPs influencing expression than the use of discrete diagnostic categories such as presence or absence of disease.
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- Authors
- Webster, J. A., Gibbs, J. R., Clarke, J., Ray, M., Zhang, W., Holmans, P., Rohrer, K., Zhao, A., Marlowe, L., Kaleem, M., McCorquodale, D. S., Cuello, C., Leung, D., Bryden, L., Nath, P., Zismann, V. L., Joshipura, K., Huentelman, M. J., Hu-Lince, D., Coon, K. D., Craig, D. W., Pearson, J. V., Heward, C. B., Reiman, E. M., Stephan, D., Hardy, J., & Myers, A. J.
- Affiliations
- Translational Genomics Research Institute (US)
- National Institutes of Health (US)
- University of Miami (US)
- Washington University in St. Louis (US)
- Cardiff University (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Myers, Amanda J.
- ORCID
- Venue
- The American Journal of Human Genetics
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2009-04
- Volume
- 84
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 445-458
- ISSN
- 0002-9297 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC2667989
- OpenAlex
- W2101889545
- Cited by
- 304
- References
- 47
- Citations by year
- 2026: 8 · 2025: 9 · 2024: 17 · 2023: 18 · 2022: 8 · 2021: 19 · 2020: 15 · 2019: 18 · 2018: 19 · 2017: 15 · 2016: 14 · 2015: 18 · 2014: 24 · 2013: 25 · 2012: 41
- FWCI
- 17.01
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- The American Journal of Human Genetics (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- UCL Discovery (University College London) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institute on Aging (U01AG016976, P30AG019610)
- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (R01NS059873)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience › Alzheimer's disease research and treatments
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
- Keywords
- Alzheimer's disease, late-onset Alzheimer's disease, brain transcriptome, gene expression, single nucleotide polymorphisms, genetic variants, endophenotypes, postmortem brain, genetic risk factors
- MeSH terms
- Aged, Alzheimer Disease, Brain, Female, Humans, Male, Transcription, Genetic, Case-Control Studies, Age of Onset, Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Gene Expression Profiling, Transcription Initiation Site, Quantitative Trait Loci, Gene Regulatory Networks, Genome-Wide Association Study
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