SORL1 is genetically associated with late-onset Alzheimer's disease in Japanese, Koreans and Caucasians.

Autor: Akinori Miyashita, Asako Koike, Gyungah Jun, Li-San Wang, Satoshi Takahashi, Etsuro Matsubara, Takeshi Kawarabayashi, Mikio Shoji, Naoki Tomita, Hiroyuki Arai, Takashi Asada, Yasuo Harigaya, Masaki Ikeda, Masakuni Amari, Haruo Hanyu, Susumu Higuchi, Takeshi Ikeuchi, Masatoyo Nishizawa, Masaichi Suga, Yasuhiro Kawase, Hiroyasu Akatsu, Kenji Kosaka, Takayuki Yamamoto, Masaki Imagawa, Tsuyoshi Hamaguchi, Masahito Yamada, Takashi Morihara, Masatoshi Takeda, Takeo Takao, Kenji Nakata, Yoshikatsu Fujisawa, Ken Sasaki, Ken Watanabe, Kenji Nakashima, Katsuya Urakami, Terumi Ooya, Mitsuo Takahashi, Takefumi Yuzuriha, Kayoko Serikawa, Seishi Yoshimoto, Ryuji Nakagawa, Jong-Won Kim, Chang-Seok Ki, Hong-Hee Won, Duk L Na, Sang Won Seo, Inhee Mook-Jung, Alzheimer Disease Genetics Consortium, Peter St George-Hyslop, Richard Mayeux, Jonathan L Haines, Margaret A Pericak-Vance, Makiko Yoshida, Nao Nishida, Katsushi Tokunaga, Ken Yamamoto, Shoji Tsuji, Ichiro Kanazawa, Yasuo Ihara, Gerard D Schellenberg, Lindsay A Farrer, Ryozo Kuwano
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2013
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Zdroj: PLoS ONE, Vol 8, Iss 4, p e58618 (2013)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1932-6203
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0058618
Popis: To discover susceptibility genes of late-onset Alzheimer's disease (LOAD), we conducted a 3-stage genome-wide association study (GWAS) using three populations: Japanese from the Japanese Genetic Consortium for Alzheimer Disease (JGSCAD), Koreans, and Caucasians from the Alzheimer Disease Genetic Consortium (ADGC). In Stage 1, we evaluated data for 5,877,918 genotyped and imputed SNPs in Japanese cases (n = 1,008) and controls (n = 1,016). Genome-wide significance was observed with 12 SNPs in the APOE region. Seven SNPs from other distinct regions with p-values
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