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GWAS of cerebrospinal fluid tau levels identifies risk variants for Alzheimer's disease.

TitleGWAS of cerebrospinal fluid tau levels identifies risk variants for Alzheimer's disease.
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication2013
AuthorsCruchaga, C, Kauwe, JSK, Harari, O, Jin, SChih, Cai, Y, Karch, CM, Benitez, BA, Jeng, AT, Skorupa, T, Carrell, D, Bertelsen, S, Bailey, M, McKean, D, Shulman, JM, De Jager, PL, Chibnik, L, Bennett, DA, Arnold, SE, Harold, D, Sims, R, Gerrish, A, Williams, J, Van Deerlin, VM, Lee, VM-Y, Shaw, LM, Trojanowski, JQ, Haines, JL, Mayeux, R, Pericak-Vance, MA, Farrer, LA, Schellenberg, GD, Peskind, ER, Galasko, D, Fagan, AM, Holtzman, DM, Morris, JC, Goate, AM
Corporate AuthorsGERAD Consortium, Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI), Alzheimer Disease Genetic Consortium (ADGC)
JournalNeuron
Volume78
Issue2
Pagination256-68
Date Published2013 Apr 24
ISSN1097-4199
KeywordsAged, Aged, 80 and over, Alzheimer Disease, Amyloid beta-Peptides, Apolipoproteins E, Case-Control Studies, Chromosomes, Human, Pair 3, Chromosomes, Human, Pair 6, Female, Genome-Wide Association Study, Genotype, Humans, Male, Membrane Glycoproteins, Middle Aged, Muscle Proteins, Peptide Fragments, Phenotype, Phosphorylation, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Receptors, Immunologic, Risk Factors, Serine, tau Proteins, Transcription Factors
Abstract

Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) tau, tau phosphorylated at threonine 181 (ptau), and Aβ₄₂ are established biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease (AD) and have been used as quantitative traits for genetic analyses. We performed the largest genome-wide association study for cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) tau/ptau levels published to date (n = 1,269), identifying three genome-wide significant loci for CSF tau and ptau: rs9877502 (p = 4.89 × 10⁻⁹ for tau) located at 3q28 between GEMC1 and OSTN, rs514716 (p = 1.07 × 10⁻⁸ and p = 3.22 × 10⁻⁹ for tau and ptau, respectively), located at 9p24.2 within GLIS3 and rs6922617 (p = 3.58 × 10⁻⁸ for CSF ptau) at 6p21.1 within the TREM gene cluster, a region recently reported to harbor rare variants that increase AD risk. In independent data sets, rs9877502 showed a strong association with risk for AD, tangle pathology, and global cognitive decline (p = 2.67 × 10⁻⁴, 0.039, 4.86 × 10⁻⁵, respectively) illustrating how this endophenotype-based approach can be used to identify new AD risk loci.

DOI10.1016/j.neuron.2013.02.026
Alternate JournalNeuron
PubMed ID23562540
PubMed Central IDPMC3664945
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