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EPIGENOMIC FEATURES RELATED TO MICROGLIA ARE ASSOCIATED WITH ATTENUATED EFFECT OF APOE ε4 ON ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RISK IN HUMANS.
Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association - 1 Dec 2020
Ma Yiyi, Yu Lei, Olah Marta, Smith Rebecca, Oatman Stephanie R, Allen Mariet, Pishva Ehsan, Zhang Bin, Menon Vilas, Ertekin-Taner Nilüfer, Lunnon Katie, Bennett David A, Klein Hans-Ulrich, De Jager Philip L
Abstract excerpt
Not all APOE ε4 carriers who survive to advanced age develop Alzheimer's disease (AD); factors attenuating the risk of ε4 on AD may exist. Guided by the top ε4-attenuating signals from methylome-wide association analyses (N=572, ε4+ and ε4-) of neurofibrillary tangles and neuritic plaques, we conducted a meta-analysis for pathological AD within the ε4+ subgroups (N=235) across four independent collections of...
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