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Polygenic risk of Alzheimer disease is associated with early- and late-life processes.
Neurology - 2 Aug 2016
Mormino Elizabeth C, Sperling Reisa A, Holmes Avram J, Buckner Randy L, De Jager Philip L, Smoller Jordan W, Sabuncu Mert R
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OBJECTIVE: To examine associations between aggregate genetic risk and Alzheimer disease (AD) markers in stages preceding the clinical symptoms of dementia using data from 2 large observational cohort studies. METHODS: We computed polygenic risk scores (PGRS) using summary statistics from the International Genomics of Alzheimer's Project genome-wide association study of AD. Associations between PGRS and AD markers...
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