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Alzheimer's disease-associated TREM2 variants exhibit either decreased or increased ligand-dependent activation.
Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association - 1 Apr 2017
Song Wilbur, Hooli Basavaraj, Mullin Kristina, Jin Sheng Chih, Cella Marina, Ulland Tyler K, Wang Yaming, Tanzi Rudolph E, Colonna Marco
Abstract excerpt
INTRODUCTION: TREM2 is a lipid-sensing activating receptor on microglia known to be important for Alzheimer's disease (AD), but whether it plays a beneficial or detrimental role in disease pathogenesis is controversial. METHODS: We analyzed AD risk of TREM2 variants in the NIMH AD Genetics Initiative Study and AD Sequencing Project. We compared each variant's risk and functional impact by a reporter assay....
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