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Genetic insights into the association between inflammatory bowel disease and Alzheimer's disease.
Genes and immunity - 1 Oct 2025
Zeng Lu, White Charles C, Bennett David A, Klein Hans-Ulrich, De Jager Philip L
Abstract excerpt
Myeloid cells, including monocytes, macrophages, and microglia, play major roles in innate and adaptive immune responses. Alzheimer's disease (AD) and inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) susceptibility loci are both enriched for genes expressed in myeloid cells, so we assessed whether these myeloid pathways may be shared. Leveraging genome-wide association study results, we investigated the causal effect of IBD...
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