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Genome-wide association study identifies variants at CLU and CR1 associated with Alzheimer's disease

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the European Alzheimer's Disease Initiative Investigators, Lambert, Jean-Charles, Heath, Simon, Even, Gael, Campion, Dominique, Sleegers, Kristel, Hiltunen, Mikko, Combarros, Onofre +43 more·2009·Nature Genetics

Abstract

The gene encoding apolipoprotein E (APOE) on chromosome 19 is the only confirmed susceptibility locus for late-onset Alzheimer's disease. To identify other risk loci, we conducted a large genome-wide association study of 2,032 individuals from France with Alzheimer's disease (cases) and 5,328 controls. Markers outside APOE with suggestive evidence of association (P < 10(-5)) were examined in collections from Belgium, Finland, Italy and Spain totaling 3,978 Alzheimer's disease cases and 3,297 controls. Two loci gave replicated evidence of association: one within CLU (also called APOJ), encoding clusterin or apolipoprotein J, on chromosome 8 (rs11136000, OR = 0.86, 95% CI 0.81-0.90, P = 7.5 x 10(-9) for combined data) and the other within CR1, encoding the complement component (3b/4b) receptor 1, on chromosome 1 (rs6656401, OR = 1.21, 95% CI 1.14-1.29, P = 3.7 x 10(-9) for combined data). Previous biological studies support roles of CLU and CR1 in the clearance of beta amyloid (Abeta) peptide, the principal constituent of amyloid plaques, which are one of the major brain lesions of individuals with Alzheimer's disease.

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  • Nearly 30 late-onset Alzheimer's disease susceptibility loci are known, and risk is significantly polygenic.

    “Nearly 30 LOAD susceptibility loci2-12 are known, and risk is significantly polygenic13.”

    From Rare coding variants in PLCG2, ABI3, and TREM2 implicate microglial-mediated innate immunity in Alzheimer's disease (2017) · cites this paper as [4]

    The paper reports genome-wide significant associations for CLU and PICALM, supporting its use among citations for late-onset Alzheimer’s susceptibility loci. It does not establish that nearly 30 loci were known; it says only APOE had previously been established unequivocally. The separate citation 13, not this paper, is attached to the polygenic-risk clause. (LLM, conf=0.83)

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  • GWAS have identified multiple loci associated with AD, including variants in PICALM, CLU, ABCA7, SORL1, CR1, TREM2, and BIN1.

    “Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified multiple loci associated with AD including to name a few, variants in PICALM , CLU , ATP-binding cassette transporter A7 ( ABCA7 ), sortilin related receptor-1 ( SORL1 ), complement receptor 1 ( CR1 ), triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells 2 ( TREM2 ), and bridging integrator 1 ( BIN1 ) genes (219, 236, 254, 300, 343, 344, 528, 543).”

    From Blood-Brain Barrier: From Physiology to Disease and Back (2019) · cites this paper as [343]

    The paper’s Abstract reports genome-wide significant AD associations at CLU and PICALM, and suggestive associations at CR1 and BIN1. It does not support the sentence’s additional named loci—ABCA7, SORL1, and TREM2—from this source. (LLM, conf=0.88)

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  • Several GWAS studies have identified CLU as a significant genetic risk factor for sporadic AD.

    “Several GWAS studies have identified CLU as a significant genetic risk factor for sporadic AD (94, 119, 236, 343).”

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  • More than 30 loci of interest have been identified as associated with AD risk since the 2009 GWAS papers.

    “since the seminal GWAS papers published in 2009 [47, 83], more than 30 loci of interest have been identified to be associated with AD risk (Suppl. Table) [50, 59, 67, 76, 84, 97, 116, 120].”
  • Among 149 identified familial AD and GWAS locus genes, 74 genes (49%) were differentially expressed for at least one cell type.

    “We found that 74 genes (49%) were differentially expressed for at least one cell type, and multiple genes showed region-specific expression, including the lipid transporter ABCA7 (enriched in thalamus), the zinc-finger protein ZNF655 (EC) and the complement receptor CR1 (neocortex)56 (Extended Data Fig. 10).”

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the European Alzheimer's Disease Initiative Investigators, Lambert, J.-C., Heath, S., Even, G., Campion, D., Sleegers, K., Hiltunen, M., Combarros, O., Zelenika, D., Bullido, M. J., Tavernier, B., Letenneur, L., Bettens, K., Berr, C., Pasquier, F., Fiévet, N., Barberger-Gateau, P., Engelborghs, S., De Deyn, P., Mateo, I., Franck, A., Helisalmi, S., Porcellini, E., Hanon, O., de Pancorbo, M. M., Lendon, C., Dufouil, C., Jaillard, C., Leveillard, T., Alvarez, V., Bosco, P., Mancuso, M., Panza, F., Nacmias, B., Bossù, P., Piccardi, P., Annoni, G., Seripa, D., Galimberti, D., Hannequin, D., Licastro, F., Soininen, H., Ritchie, K., Blanché, H., Dartigues, J.-F., Tzourio, C., Gut, I., Van Broeckhoven, C., Alpérovitch, A., Lathrop, M., & Amouyel, P.
Affiliations
  • Inserm (FR)
  • University of Antwerp (BE)
  • Universidad de Cantabria (ES)
  • Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (ES)
  • Institut Pasteur de Lille (FR)
  • Hospital Universitario La Paz (ES)
  • Kuopio University Hospital (FI)
  • Institut de la Vision (FR)
  • University of Pisa (IT)
  • University of Florence (IT)
  • Fondazione Santa Lucia (IT)
  • University of Cagliari (IT)
  • Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza (IT)
  • University of Milan (IT)
  • Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives (FR)
Corresponding author
Amouyel, Philippe
Venue
Nature Genetics
Published
2009-09-06
Volume
41
Issue
10
Pages
1094-1099
ISSN
  • 1061-4036 (ISSN-L)
  • 1546-1718
OpenAlex
W3214092816
Cited by
2,234
References
41
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FWCI
112.24
Type
journal article
Language
en
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  • Nature Genetics (publishedVersion)
  • BOA (University of Milano-Bicocca) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
  • CINECA IRIS Institutial research information system (University of Pisa) (submittedVersion)
  • Archivio istituzionale della ricerca (Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna) (submittedVersion)
  • Florence Research (University of Florence) (submittedVersion)
  • VUBIR (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) (submittedVersion)
Funders
  • U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (Z01 AG000950-06)
  • Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International
  • Wellcome Trust
  • Alzheimer's Society
  • Alzheimer's Research Trust
  • Motor Neurone Disease Association
  • University College London
  • Cardiff University
  • Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung
  • Belgian Federal Science Policy Office
  • Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach-Stiftung
  • Universiteit Antwerpen
  • Vlaamse regering
  • H. Lundbeck A/S
  • Instituut Born-Bunge
  • Heinz Nixdorf Stiftung
  • National Institutes of Health
  • Medical Research Council
  • Bijzonder Onderzoeksfonds UGent
  • Helmholtz Zentrum München
  • National Institute on Aging (Z01AG000950)
  • National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
  • National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
  • National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
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 › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
Keywords
Alzheimer's disease, late-onset Alzheimer's disease, genetic susceptibility, clusterin, complement receptor 1, apolipoprotein E, amyloid-beta clearance, amyloid plaques, genetic susceptibility loci

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