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Genetic overlap between Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease at the MAPT locus.

Mol. Psychiatry 20, 1588-1595 (2015)
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We investigated the genetic overlap between Alzheimer's disease (AD) and Parkinson's disease (PD). Using summary statistics (P-values) from large recent genome-wide association studies (GWAS) (total n = 89 904 individuals), we sought to identify single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) associating with both AD and PD. We found and replicated association of both AD and PD with the A allele of rs393152 within the extended MAPT region on chromosome 17 (meta analysis P-value across five independent AD cohorts = 1.65 x 10(-7)). In independent datasets, we found a dose-dependent effect of the A allele of rs393152 on intra-cerebral MAPT transcript levels and volume loss within the entorhinal cortex and hippocampus. Our findings identify the tau-associated MAPT locus as a site of genetic overlap between AD and PD, and extending prior work, we show that the MAPT region increases risk of Alzheimer's neurodegeneration.
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Publication type Article: Journal article
Document type Scientific Article
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ISSN (print) / ISBN 1359-4184
e-ISSN 1476-5578
Journal Molecular Psychiatry
Quellenangaben Volume: 20, Issue: 12, Pages: 1588-1595 Article Number: , Supplement: ,
Publisher Nature Publishing Group
Non-patent literature Publications
Reviewing status Peer reviewed
Institute(s) Institute of Epidemiology II (EPI2)
Institute of Human Genetics (IHG)