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The role of TREM2 R47H as a risk factor for Alzheimer's disease, frontotemporal lobar degeneration, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, and Parkinson's disease

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Lill, Christina M., Rengmark, Aina, Pihlstrøm, Lasse, Fogh, Isabella, Shatunov, Aleksey, Sleiman, Patrick M., Wang, Li‐San, Liu, Tian +44 more·2015·Alzheimer's & Dementia

Abstract

A rare variant in TREM2 (p.R47H, rs75932628) was recently reported to increase the risk of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and, subsequently, other neurodegenerative diseases, i.e. frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), and Parkinson's disease (PD). Here we comprehensively assessed TREM2 rs75932628 for association with these diseases in a total of 19,940 previously untyped subjects of European descent. These data were combined with those from 28 published data sets by meta‐analysis. Furthermore, we tested whether rs75932628 shows association with amyloid beta (Aβ 42) and total‐tau protein levels in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) of 828 individuals with AD or mild cognitive impairment. Our data show that rs75932628 is highly significantly associated with the risk of AD across 24,086 AD cases and 148,993 controls of European descent (odds ratio or OR = 2.71, P = 4.67 × 10−25). No consistent evidence for association was found between this marker and the risk of FTLD (OR = 2.24, P = .0113 across 2673 cases/9283 controls), PD (OR = 1.36, P = .0767 across 8311 cases/79,938 controls) and ALS (OR = 1.41, P = .198 across 5544 cases/7072 controls). Furthermore, carriers of the rs75932628 risk allele showed significantly increased levels of CSF‐total‐tau (P = .0110) but not Aβ 42 suggesting that TREM2's role in AD may involve tau dysfunction.

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  • In the CSF of AD patients, the R47H variant of TREM2 or soluble TREM2 correlates with total or phosphorylated tau (Thr181), respectively, but not with Aβ42.

    “In the CSF of AD patients, the R47H (rs75932628) variant of TREM2 or soluble TREM2 has been found to correlate with total or phosphorylated tau (Thr181), respectively, but not with Aβ42 [124, 125].”

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Lill, C. M., Rengmark, A., Pihlstrøm, L., Fogh, I., Shatunov, A., Sleiman, P. M., Wang, L., Liu, T., Lassen, C. F., Meissner, E., Alexopoulos, P., Calvo, A., Chio, A., Dizdar, N., Faltraco, F., Forsgren, L., Kirchheiner, J., Kurz, A., Larsen, J. P., Liebsch, M., Linder, J., Morrison, K. E., Nissbrandt, H., Otto, M., Pahnke, J., Partch, A., Restagno, G., Rujescu, D., Schnack, C., Shaw, C. E., Shaw, P. J., Tumani, H., Tysnes, O., Valladares, O., Silani, V., van den Berg, L. H., van Rheenen, W., Veldink, J. H., Lindenberger, U., Steinhagen‐Thiessen, E., SLAGEN Consortium, Teipel, S., Perneczky, R., Hakonarson, H., Hampel, H., von Arnim, C. A. F., Olsen, J. H., Van Deerlin, V. M., Al‐Chalabi, A., Toft, M., Ritz, B., & Bertram, L.
Affiliations
  • Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics (DE)
  • Oslo University Hospital (NO)
  • King's College London (GB)
  • Center for Applied Genomics Abramson Research Center, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Philadelphia PA USA
  • University of Pennsylvania (US)
  • Max Planck Institute for Human Development (DE)
  • Danish Cancer Society (DK)
  • Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy Technische Universität München Munich Germany
  • University of Turin (IT)
  • Rita Levi Montalcini Department of Neuroscience, ALS Center University of Torino Torino Italy
  • Linköping University (SE)
  • Goethe University Frankfurt (DE)
  • Umeå University (SE)
  • Universität Ulm (DE)
  • Technical University of Munich (DE)
  • The Norwegian Centre for Movement Disorders Stavanger University Hospital Stavanger Norway
  • University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (GB)
  • University of Gothenburg (SE)
  • Azienda Ospedaliera Citta' della Salute e della Scienza di Torino (IT)
  • Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (DE)
  • University of Sheffield (GB)
  • Haukeland University Hospital (NO)
  • University of Milan (IT)
  • Department of Neurology, Neuromuscular Diseases Brain Center Rudolf Magnus, Netherlands ALS Center University Medical Center Utrecht Utrecht The Netherlands
  • University Medical Center Utrecht (NL)
  • Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin (DE)
  • German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DE)
  • West London Mental Health NHS Trust (GB)
  • Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (US)
  • Sorbonne Université (FR)
  • Department of Neurology University of Ulm Ulm Germany
  • Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia PA USA
  • University of California, Los Angeles (US)
Corresponding author
Lill, Christina M.
Venue
Alzheimer's & Dementia
Publisher
Wiley
Published
2015-04-29
Volume
11
Issue
12
Pages
1407-1416
ISSN
  • 1552-5260 (ISSN-L)
  • 1552-5279
OpenAlex
W2055995786
Cited by
205
References
42
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FWCI
3.42
Type
journal article
Language
en
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Funders
  • Cure Alzheimer's Fund
  • Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Physiology › Alzheimer's disease research and treatments
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Neurology › Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms
Keywords
TREM2
MeSH terms
Aged, Alleles, Alzheimer Disease, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, Female, Genotype, Humans, Male, Membrane Glycoproteins, Middle Aged, Parkinson Disease, Receptors, Immunologic, Risk Factors, Case-Control Studies, tau Proteins, Neurodegenerative Diseases, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Quantitative Trait Loci, White People, Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration

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