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Humanized TREM2 mice reveal microglia-intrinsic and -extrinsic effects of R47H polymorphism.
The Journal of experimental medicine - 5 Mar 2018
Song Wilbur M, Joshita Satoru, Zhou Yingyue, Ulland Tyler K, Gilfillan Susan, Colonna Marco
Abstract excerpt
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disease that causes late-onset dementia. The R47H variant of the microglial receptor TREM2 triples AD risk in genome-wide association studies. In mouse AD models, TREM2-deficient microglia fail to proliferate and cluster around the amyloid-β plaques characteristic of AD. In vitro, the common variant (CV) of TREM2 binds anionic lipids, whereas R47H mutation impairs...
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