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Revealing the nervous system requirements of Alzheimer disease risk genes in Drosophila.
American journal of human genetics - 4 Dec 2025
Deger Jennifer M, Hannan Shabab B, Gu Mingxue, Strohlein Colleen E, Goodman Lindsey D, Pasupuleti Sasidhar, Shaik Zahid, Ma Liwen, Li Yarong, Li Jiayang, Stephens Morgan C, Tyrlík Michal, Liu Zhandong, Al-Ramahi Ismael, Botas Juan, Shaw Chad A, Kanca Oguz, Bellen Hugo J, Shulman Joshua M
Abstract excerpt
Most Alzheimer disease (AD) susceptibility genes have poorly understood roles in the central nervous system (CNS). To address this gap, we systematically characterized 100 conserved candidate AD risk genes using a cross-species strategy in the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster. Genes were prioritized based primarily on human functional genomic evidence. We generated custom loss-of-function alleles for each of...
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