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1. SLITRK2, an X-linked modifier of the age at onset in C9orf72 frontotemporal lobar degeneration

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Barbier, Mathieu, Camuzat, Agnès, Hachimi, Khalid El, Guegan, Justine, Rinaldi, Daisy, Lattante, Serena, Houot, Marion, Sánchez-Valle, Raquel, Sabatelli, Mario, Antonell, Anna, Molina-Porcel, Laura, Clot, Fabienne, Couratier, Philippe, van der Ende, Emma, van der Zee, Julie, Manzoni, Claudia, Camu, William, Cazeneuve, Cécile, Sellal, François, Didic, Mira, Golfier, Véronique, Pasquier, Florence, Duyckaerts, Charles, Rossi, Giacomina, Bruni, Amalia C, Alvarez, Victoria, Gómez-Tortosa, Estrella, de Mendonça, Alexandre, Graff, Caroline, Masellis, Mario, Nacmias, Benedetta, Oumoussa, Badreddine Mohand, Jornea, Ludmila, Forlani, Sylvie, Van Deerlin, Viviana, Rohrer, Jonathan D, Gelpi, Ellen, Rademakers, Rosa, Van Swieten, John, Le Guern, Eric, Van Broeckhoven, Christine, Ferrari, Raffaele, Génin, Emmanuelle, Brice, Alexis, Ber, Le, Isabelle Alexis Brice, Sophie, Auriacombe, Serge, Belliard, Anne, Bertrand, Anne, Bissery, Fre ́ de, ́ ric Blanc, Marie-Paule, Boncoeur, Ste, ́ phanie Bombois, Claire Boutoleau-Bretonnie` re, Agne`, s Camuzat, Mathieu, Ceccaldi, Marie, Chupin, Philippe, Couratier, Olivier, Colliot, Vincent, Deramecourt, Mira, Didic, Bruno, Dubois, Charles, Duyckaerts, Fre ́ de, ́ rique Etcharry-Bouyx, Aure, ́ lie Guignebert-Funkiewiez, Maı ̈te, ́ Formaglio, ́ ronique Golfier, Ve, Marie-Odile, Habert, Didier, Hannequin, Lucette, Lacomblez, Julien, Lagarde, ́ raldine Lautrette, Ge, Isabelle Le Ber, Benjamin Le Toullec, Richard, Levy, Marie-Anne, Mackowiak, Bernard-Franc ̧ois Michel, Florence, Pasquier, Thibaud, Lebouvier, Carole Roue, ́ -Jagot, Christel Thauvin- Robinet, Catherine, Thomas-Anterion, Je ́ re, ́ mie Pariente, Franc ̧ois Salachas, Sabrina, Sayah, Franc ̧ois Sellal, Assi-Herve, ́ Oya, Daisy, Rinaldi, Adeline, Rollin-Sillaire, Martine, Vercelletto, David, Wallon, Armelle, Rametti-Lacroux, Raffaele, Ferrari, Hernandez, Dena G., Nalls, Michael A., Rohrer, Jonathan D., Adaikalavan, Ramasamy, Kwok, John B. J., Carol Dobson- Stone, Brooks, William S., Schofield, Peter R., Halliday, Glenda M., Hodges, John R., Olivier, Piguet, Lauren, Bartley, Elizabeth, Thompson, Isabel Herna, ́ ndez, Agustı ́n Ruiz, Merce`, Boada, Barbara, Borroni, Alessandro, Padovani, Carlos, Cruchaga, Cairns, Nigel J., Luisa, Benussi, Giuliano, Binetti, Roberta, Ghidoni, Gianluigi, Forloni, Diego, Albani, Daniela, Galimberti, Chiara, Fenoglio, Maria, Serpente, Elio, Scarpini, ́ n, Jordi Clarimo, Alberto Lleo, ́, Rafael, Blesa, Maria Landqvist Waldo, ̈, Karin, Nilsson, Christer, Nilsson, Mackenzie, Ian R. A., Hsiung, Ging-Yuek R., Mann, David M. A., Jordan, Grafman, Morris, Christopher M., Johannes, Attems, Griffiths, Timothy D., Mckeith, Ian G., Thomas, Alan J., Pietro, Pietrini, Edward, Uey, Wassermann, Eric M., Atik, Baborie, Evelyn, Jaros, Tierney, Michael C., Pau, Pastor, Cristina, Razquin, Sara, Ortega-Cubero, Elena, Alonso, Robert, Perneczky, Janine, Diehl-Schmid, Panagiotis, Alexopoulos, Alexander, Kurz, Rainero, Innocenzo, Rubino, Elisa, Pinessi, Lorenzo, Ekaterina, Rogaeva, Peter St George-Hyslop, Giacomina, Rossi, Fabrizio, Tagliavini, Giorgio, Giaccone, Rowe, James B., Schlachetzki, Johannes C. M., James, Uphill, John, Collinge, Simon, Mead, Adrian, Danek, Van Deerlin, Vivianna M., Murray, Grossman, Trojanowski, John Q., Julie van der Zee, Christine Van Broeckhoven, Cappa, Stefano F., Isabelle, Leber, Alexis, Brice, Benedetta, Nacmias, Sandro, Sorbi, Silvia, Bagnoli, Irene, Piaceri, Nielsen, Jørgen E., Hjermind, Lena E., Matthias, Riemenschneider, Manuel, Mayhaus, Bernd, Ibach, Gilles, Gasparoni, Sabrina, Pichler, Wei, Gu, Rossor, Martin N., Fox, Nick C., Warren, Jason D., Maria Grazia Spillantini, Morris, Huw R., Patrizia, Rizzu, Peter, Heutink, Snowden, Julie S., Sara, Rollinson, Anna, Richardson, Alexander, Gerhard, Bruni, Amalia C., Raffaele, Maletta, Francesca, Frangipane, Chiara, Cupidi, Livia, Bernardi, Maria, Anfossi, Maura, Gallo, Maria Elena Conidi, Nicoletta, Smirne, Rosa, Rademakers, Matt, Baker, Dickson, Dennis W., Graff-Radford, Neill R., Petersen, Ronald C., David, Knopman, Josephs, Keith A., Boeve, Bradley F., Parisi, Joseph E., Seeley, William W., Miller, Bruce L., Karydas, Anna M., Howard, Rosen, van Swieten, John C., Dopper, Elise G. P., Harro, Seelaar, Pijnenburg, Yolande A. L., Philip, Scheltens, Giancarlo, Logroscino, Rosa, Capozzo, Valeria, Novelli, Puca, Annibale A., Massimo, Franceschi, Alfredo, Postiglione, Graziella, Milan, Paolo, Sorrentino, Mark, Kristiansen, Huei-Hsin, Chiang, Caroline, Graff, Adeline, Rollin, Dimitrios, Kapogiannis, Luigi, Ferrucci, Stuart, Pickering-Brown, Singleton, Andrew B., John, Hardy, Parastoo, Momeni., Neurology, Amsterdam Neuroscience - Neurodegeneration, Institut du Cerveau = Paris Brain Institute (ICM), Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière [AP-HP], Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière [AP-HP], Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU), Università cattolica del Sacro Cuore = Catholic University of the Sacred Heart [Roma] (Unicatt), Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli IRCCS, Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Universitat de Barcelona (UB), Centre d'investigation clinique Paris Est [CHU Pitié Salpêtrière] (CIC Paris-Est), Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Sorbonne Université (SU), Hôpital Dupuytren [CHU Limoges], Erasmus University Medical Center [Rotterdam] (Erasmus MC), Center for Molecular Neurology (VIB-UAntwerp), University of Antwerp (UA), University College of London [London] (UCL), Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire [Montpellier] (CHRU Montpellier), Service de Neurologie [Hôpitaux Civils de Colmar], Hôpitaux Civils Colmar, Mécanismes Centraux et Périphériques de la Neurodégénérescence, Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Neurologie, maladies neuro-musculaires [Hôpital de la Timone - APHM], Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Marseille (APHM)- Hôpital de la Timone [CHU - APHM] (TIMONE), Institut de Neurosciences des Systèmes (INS), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Centre Hospitalier Yves le Foll, Lille Neurosciences & Cognition - U 1172 (LilNCog), Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Université de Lille-Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire [Lille] (CHRU Lille), Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Neurologico 'Carlo Besta', Regional Neurogenetic Centre [Lamezia Terme, Italy] (CRN - ASP Catanzaro), Hospital Central de Asturias, Institute of Health Research of Principado de Asturias (ISPA), Fundación Jiménez Díaz, Fundacion Jimenez Diaz [Madrid] (FJD), Faculdade de Medicina [Lisboa], Universidade de Lisboa = University of Lisbon (ULISBOA), Karolinska University Hospital [Stockholm], Sunnybrook Research Institute [Toronto] (SRI), Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Università degli Studi di Firenze = University of Florence (UniFI), Fondazione Don Carlo Gnocchi, Plateforme Post-génomique de la Pitié-Salpêtrière (PASS-P3S), Unité Mixte de Service Production et Analyse de données en Sciences de la vie et en Santé (PASS), Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Sorbonne Université (SU), Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (HUP), Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania-University of Pennsylvania, Neurodegenerative Brain Diseases group, Department of Molecular Genetics, VIB, Antwerpen, Belgium, Génétique, génomique fonctionnelle et biotechnologies (UMR 1078) (GGB), EFS-Université de Brest (UBO)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Institut Brestois Santé Agro Matière (IBSAM), Université de Brest (UBO), The French clinical and genetic Research network on FTLD/FTLD-ALS and PREVDEMALS, The International Frontotemporal Dementia Genomics Consortium, The European Early Onset Dementia (EU -EOD) Consortium, Brainbank Neuro-CEB Neuropathology Network, and Neurological Tissue Bank of the Biobank Hospital Clinic-IDIBAPS

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Adult, Male, TDP-43, C9orf72, SLITRK2, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, frontotemporal dementia, Nerve Tissue Proteins, Settore MED/03 - GENETICA MEDICA, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Cohort Studies, Genes, X-Linked, 80 and over, Medicine, Dementia, Humans, Allele, Age of Onset, Polymorphism, Aged, Aged, 80 and over, biology, C9orf72 Protein, business.industry, Membrane Proteins, MESH: Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration / epidemiology, Frontotemporal Lobar, Degeneration / genetics, Genes, X-Linked / genetics, Genome-Wide Association Study / methods, Frontotemporal lobar degeneration, Single Nucleotide, Middle Aged, X-Linked, medicine.disease, Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Minor allele frequency, Genes, Immunology, Synaptophysin, biology.protein, Female, MESH: Adult, C9orf72 Protein / genetics, Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration / diagnosis, [SDV.NEU]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Neurons and Cognition [q-bio.NC], Human medicine, Neurology (clinical), MESH: Humans, Membrane Proteins / genetics, Nerve Tissue Proteins / genetics, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide / genetics, Age of onset, Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration, business, Frontotemporal dementia, Genome-Wide Association Study
Abstract

The G4C2-repeat expansion in C9orf72 is the most common cause of frontotemporal dementia and of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. The variability of age at onset and phenotypic presentations is a hallmark of C9orf72 disease. In this study, we aimed to identify modifying factors of disease onset in C9orf72 carriers using a family-based approach, in pairs of C9orf72 carrier relatives with concordant or discordant age at onset. Linkage and association analyses provided converging evidence for a locus on chromosome Xq27.3. The minor allele A of rs1009776 was associated with an earlier onset (P = 1 × 10−5). The association with onset of dementia was replicated in an independent cohort of unrelated C9orf72 patients (P = 0.009). The protective major allele delayed the onset of dementia from 5 to 13 years on average depending on the cohort considered. The same trend was observed in an independent cohort of C9orf72 patients with extreme deviation of the age at onset (P = 0.055). No association of rs1009776 was detected in GRN patients, suggesting that the effect of rs1009776 was restricted to the onset of dementia due to C9orf72. The minor allele A is associated with a higher SLITRK2 expression based on both expression quantitative trait loci (eQTL) databases and in-house expression studies performed on C9orf72 brain tissues. SLITRK2 encodes for a post-synaptic adhesion protein. We further show that synaptic vesicle glycoprotein 2 and synaptophysin, two synaptic vesicle proteins, were decreased in frontal cortex of C9orf72 patients carrying the minor allele. Upregulation of SLITRK2 might be associated with synaptic dysfunctions and drives adverse effects in C9orf72 patients that could be modulated in those carrying the protective allele. How the modulation of SLITRK2 expression affects synaptic functions and influences the disease onset of dementia in C9orf72 carriers will require further investigations. In summary, this study describes an original approach to detect modifier genes in rare diseases and reinforces rising links between C9orf72 and synaptic dysfunctions that might directly influence the occurrence of first symptoms.

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2021
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2. Genetic variation in APOE, GRN, and TP53 are phenotype modifiers in frontotemporal dementia

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Eliecer Coto, Pau Pastor, Maria Serpente, Sandro Sorbi, Benedetta Nacmias, Victoria Alvarez, Raffaele Maletta, Livia Bernardi, Sergio Pérez-Oliveira, Paola Caroppo, Roberta Ghidoni, Manuel Menéndez-González, Irene Piaceri, Raffaele Ferrari, Beatriz De la Casa-Fages, Daniela Galimberti, Raquel Sánchez-Valle, Monica Diez-Fairen, Oriol Dols-Icardo, Ignacio Illán-Gala, Ifgc, Daniel Queimaliños-Perez, Elio Scarpini, Julie van der Zee, Amalia C. Bruni, Christine Van Broeckhoven, Maria Rosário Almeida, Giacomina Rossi, Irene Rosas, Carmen Martínez, Silvia Bagnoli, Francisco Grandas, Barbara Borroni, Jordi Clarimón, Alberto Lleó, Giuliano Binetti, Luisa Benussi, Anna Antonell, Maria Anfossi, and EU EOD Consortium

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0301 basic medicine, Apolipoprotein E, Male, Aging, Heterozygote, Biology, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Apolipoproteins E, Progranulins, C9orf72, mental disorders, Genetic variation, medicine, Humans, TP53, Gene, Genetic Association Studies, Genetics, Heterogeneous group, C9orf72 Protein, Age at onset, APOE, Frontotemporal dementia, GRN, Survival probability, General Neuroscience, Genetic Variation, medicine.disease, Phenotype, 030104 developmental biology, Disease risk, Female, Human medicine, Neurology (clinical), Geriatrics and Gerontology, Tumor Suppressor Protein p53, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery, Developmental Biology
Abstract

Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is a clinical, genetic, and pathologic heterogeneous group of neurodegenerative diseases. In this study, we investigated the role of APOƐ4, rs5848 in GRN, and rs1042522 in TP53 gene as disease risk factors and/or phenotype modifiers in 440 FTD patients, including 175 C9orf72 expansion carriers. We found that the C9orf72 expansion carriers showing an earlier age at onset (p < 0.001). Among the clinical groups, the FTD-MND (motoneuron disease) showed the lowest survival (hazard ratio [HR] = 4.12), and the progressive nonfluent aphasia group showed the highest onset age (p = 0.03). In our cohort, the rs1042522 in TP53 was associated with disease onset (p = 0.02) and survival (HR = 1.73) and rs5848 GRN with a significantly shorter survival in CC homozygous patients (HR = 1.98). The frequency of APOƐ4 carriers was significantly increased in the C9orf72 noncarriers (p = 0.022). Although validation of our findings is necessary, our results suggest that TP53, GRN, and APOE genes may act as phenotype modifiers in FTD and should be considered in future clinical trials.

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2021

3. Gene Expression Imputation Across Multiple Tissue Types Provides Insight Into the Genetic Architecture of Frontotemporal Dementia and Its Clinical Subtypes

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Lianne M. Reus, Bogdan Pasaniuc, Danielle Posthuma, Toni Boltz, Yolande A.L. Pijnenburg, Roel A. Ophoff, Raffaele Ferrari, Dena G. Hernandez, Michael A. Nalls, Jonathan D. Rohrer, Adaikalavan Ramasamy, John B.J. Kwok, Carol Dobson-Stone, William S. Brooks, Peter R. Schofield, Glenda M. Halliday, John R. Hodges, Olivier Piguet, Lauren Bartley, Elizabeth Thompson, Isabel Hernández, Agustín Ruiz, Mercè Boada, Barbara Borroni, Alessandro Padovani, Carlos Cruchaga, Nigel J. Cairns, Luisa Benussi, Giuliano Binetti, Roberta Ghidoni, Gianluigi Forloni, Daniela Galimberti, Chiara Fenoglio, Maria Serpente, Elio Scarpini, Jordi Clarimón, Alberto Lleó, Rafael Blesa, Maria Landqvist Waldö, Karin Nilsson, Christer Nilsson, Ian R.A. Mackenzie, Ging-Yuek R. Hsiung, David M.A. Mann, Jordan Grafman, Christopher M. Morris, Johannes Attems, Timothy D. Griffiths, Ian G. McKeith, Alan J. Thomas, Pietro Pietrini, Edward D. Huey, Eric M. Wassermann, Atik Baborie, Evelyn Jaros, Michael C. Tierney, Pau Pastor, Cristina Razquin, Sara Ortega-Cubero, Elena Alonso, Robert Perneczky, Janine Diehl-Schmid, Panagiotis Alexopoulos, Alexander Kurz, Innocenzo Rainero, Elisa Rubino, Lorenzo Pinessi, Ekaterina Rogaeva, Peter St. George-Hyslop, Giacomina Rossi, Fabrizio Tagliavini, Giorgio Giaccone, James B. Rowe, Johannes C.M. Schlachetzki, James Uphill, John Collinge, Simon Mead, Adrian Danek, Vivianna M. Van Deerlin, Murray Grossman, John Q. Trojanowski, Julie van der Zee, Christine Van Broeckhoven, Stefano F. Cappa, Isabelle Le Ber, Didier Hannequin, Véronique Golfier, Martine Vercelletto, Alexis Brice, Benedetta Nacmias, Sandro Sorbi, Silvia Bagnoli, Irene Piaceri, Jørgen E. Nielsen, Lena E. Hjermind, Matthias Riemenschneider, Manuel Mayhaus, Bernd Ibach, Gilles Gasparoni, Sabrina Pichler, Wei Gu, Martin N. Rossor, Nick C. Fox, Jason D. Warren, Maria Grazia Spillantini, Huw R. Morris, Patrizia Rizzu, Peter Heutink, Julie S. Snowden, Sara Rollinson, Anna Richardson, Alexander Gerhard, Amalia C. Bruni, Raffaele Maletta, Francesca Frangipane, Chiara Cupidi, Livia Bernardi, Maria Anfossi, Maura Gallo, Maria Elena Conidi, Nicoletta Smirne, Rosa Rademakers, Matt Baker, Dennis W. Dickson, Neill R. Graff-Radford, Ronald C. Petersen, David Knopman, Keith A. Josephs, Bradley F. Boeve, Joseph E. Parisi, William W. Seeley, Bruce L. Miller, Anna M. Karydas, Howard Rosen, John C. van Swieten, Elise G.P. Dopper, Harro Seelaar, Philip Scheltens, Giancarlo Logroscino, Rosa Capozzo, Valeria Novelli, Annibale A. Puca, Massimo Franceschi, Alfredo Postiglione, Graziella Milan, Paolo Sorrentino, Mark Kristiansen, Huei-Hsin Chiang, Caroline Graff, Florence Pasquier, Adeline Rollin, Vincent Deramecourt, Florence Lebert, Dimitrios Kapogiannis, Luigi Ferrucci, Stuart Pickering-Brown, Andrew B. Singleton, John Hardy, Parastoo Momeni, Complex Trait Genetics, Amsterdam Neuroscience - Complex Trait Genetics, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry / Psychology, Erasmus MC other, Neurology, Psychiatry, Human genetics, Amsterdam Neuroscience - Compulsivity, Impulsivity & Attention, Amsterdam Reproduction & Development (AR&D), and Amsterdam Neuroscience - Neurodegeneration

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0301 basic medicine, Candidate gene, 17q21.31 inversion region, Dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, Expression quantitative trait loci (eQTL), Frontotemporal dementia, SEC22B, Transcriptome-wide association study, Semantic dementia, Gene Expression, Locus (genetics), Biology, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Progressive nonfluent aphasia, mental disorders, medicine, Humans, Gene, Biological Psychiatry, Genetics, nutritional and metabolic diseases, medicine.disease, Genetic architecture, nervous system diseases, 030104 developmental biology, medicine.anatomical_structure, Frontotemporal Dementia, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery
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Background: The etiology of frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is poorly understood. To identify genes with predicted expression levels associated with FTD, we integrated summary statistics with external reference gene expression data using a transcriptome-wide association study approach. Methods: FUSION software was used to leverage FTD summary statistics (all FTD: n = 2154 cases, n = 4308 controls; behavioral variant FTD: n = 1337 cases, n = 2754 controls; semantic dementia: n = 308 cases, n = 616 controls; progressive nonfluent aphasia: n = 269 cases, n = 538 controls; FTD with motor neuron disease: n = 200 cases, n = 400 controls) from the International FTD-Genomics Consortium with 53 expression quantitative loci tissue type panels (n = 12,205; 5 consortia). Significance was assessed using a 5% false discovery rate threshold. Results: We identified 73 significant gene–tissue associations for FTD, representing 44 unique genes in 34 tissue types. Most significant findings were derived from dorsolateral prefrontal cortex splicing data (n = 19 genes, 26%). The 17q21.31 inversion locus contained 23 significant associations, representing 6 unique genes. Other top hits included SEC22B (a gene involved in vesicle trafficking), TRGV5, and ZNF302. A single gene finding (RAB38) was observed for behavioral variant FTD. For other clinical subtypes, no significant associations were observed. Conclusions: We identified novel candidate genes (e.g., SEC22B) and previously reported risk regions (e.g., 17q21.31) for FTD. Most significant associations were observed in dorsolateral prefrontal cortex splicing data despite the modest sample size of this reference panel. This suggests that our findings are specific to FTD and are likely to be biologically relevant highlights of genes at different FTD risk loci that are contributing to the disease pathology.

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2021
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4. Early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease: the role of biomarkers including advanced EEG signal analysis. Report from the IFCN-sponsored panel of experts

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F. Miraglia, P.M. Rossini, Maria Anfossi, F. Vecchio, Bahar Güntekin, Marco Bozzali, Stefano F. Cappa, Camillo Marra, Franca Tecchio, Francisco J. Fraga, Panteleimon Giannakopoulos, Amalia C. Bruni, Claudio Babiloni, Bruno Dubois, Alvaro Pascual-Leone, F. Panza, R. Di Iorio, Giancarlo Logroscino, and Javier Escudero

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medicine.medical_specialty, AD biomarkers, Disease, EEG analysis, Electroencephalography, Sensitivity and Specificity, 050105 experimental psychology, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Neuroimaging, Alzheimer Disease, Physiology (medical), medicine, Dementia, Humans, 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences, Cognitive decline, Intensive care medicine, EEG rhythms, Alzheimer's disease, dementia, early diagnosis, event-related responses, mild cognitive impairment, medicine.diagnostic_test, business.industry, 05 social sciences, Neuropsychology, Brain, Mild cognitive impairment, Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted, medicine.disease, Early diagnosis, Sensory Systems, Settore MED/26 - NEUROLOGIA, Event-related responses, Neurology, Neurology (clinical), Functional magnetic resonance imaging, business, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery, Biomarkers
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Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common neurodegenerative disease among the elderly with a progressive decline in cognitive function significantly affecting quality of life. Both the prevalence and emotional and financial burdens of AD on patients, their families, and society are predicted to grow significantly in the near future, due to a prolongation of the lifespan. Several lines of evidence suggest that modifications of risk-enhancing life styles and initiation of pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatments in the early stage of disease, although not able to modify its course, helps to maintain personal autonomy in daily activities and significantly reduces the total costs of disease management. Moreover, many clinical trials with potentially disease-modifying drugs are devoted to prodromal stages of AD. Thus, the identification of markers of conversion from prodromal form to clinically AD may be crucial for developing strategies of early interventions. The current available markers, including volumetric magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), positron emission tomography (PET), and cerebral spinal fluid (CSF) analysis are expensive, poorly available in community health facilities, and relatively invasive. Taking into account its low cost, widespread availability and non-invasiveness, electroencephalography (EEG) would represent a candidate for tracking the prodromal phases of cognitive decline in routine clinical settings eventually in combination with other markers. In this scenario, the present paper provides an overview of epidemiology, genetic risk factors, neuropsychological, fluid and neuroimaging biomarkers in AD and describes the potential role of EEG in AD investigation, trying in particular to point out whether advanced analysis of EEG rhythms exploring brain function has sufficient specificity/sensitivity/accuracy for the early diagnosis of AD.

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2020

5. Role for ATXN1, ATXN2, and HTT intermediate repeats in frontotemporal dementia and Alzheimer's disease

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Jordi Clarimón, Giuliano Binetti, Maria Rosário Almeida, Pau Pastor, Daniela Galimberti, Maria Serpente, Ignacio Illán-Gala, Silvia Bagnoli, Raquel Sánchez-Valle, Barbara Borroni, Livia Bernardi, Beatriz De la Casa-Fages, Elio Scarpini, Francisco Grandas, Alberto Lleó, Roberta Ghidoni, Anna Antonell, Sandro Sorbi, Raffaele Maletta, Irene Rosas, Paola Caroppo, Irene Piaceri, Benedetta Nacmias, Carmen Martínez, Monica Diez-Fairen, Victoria Alvarez, Maria Anfossi, Oriol Dols-Icardo, Luisa Benussi, Julie van der Zee, Christine Van Broeckhoven, Raffaele Ferrari, Manuel Menéndez-González, Amalia C. Bruni, and Giacomina Rossi

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0301 basic medicine, Male, Aging, medicine.medical_specialty, ATXN2 gene, Genotype, CAG repeats, Disease, Gastroenterology, Pathogenesis, Cohort Studies, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Progressive nonfluent aphasia, Gene Frequency, Trinucleotide Repeats, C9orf72, Alzheimer Disease, Internal medicine, mental disorders, Medicine, Humans, Tauopathie, Allele, Neurodegeneration, Ataxin-1, Ataxin-2, Huntingtin Protein, C9orf72 Protein, business.industry, General Neuroscience, Parkinson Disease, medicine.disease, nervous system diseases, 030104 developmental biology, Frontotemporal Dementia, Cohort, Intermediate alleles, Female, Neurology (clinical), Human medicine, Geriatrics and Gerontology, business, Trinucleotide Repeat Expansion, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery, Developmental Biology, Frontotemporal dementia
Abstract

We analyzed the frequency of intermediate alleles (IAs) in the ATXN1, ATXN2, and HTT genes in several neurodegenerative diseases. The study included 1126 patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD), 440 patients with frontotemporal dementia (FTD), and 610 patients with Parkinson's disease. In all cohorts, we genotyped ATXN1 and ATXN2 CAG repeats. In addition, in the FTD cohort, we determined the number of HIT CAG repeats. The frequency of HIT IAs was higher in patients with FTD (6.9%) versus controls (2.9%) and in the C9orf72 expansion noncarriers (7.2%) versus controls (2.9%), although the difference was nonsignificant after correction for multiple testing. Compared with controls, progressive nonfluent aphasia (PNFA) groups showed a significantly higher frequency of HTT IAs (13.6% vs. 2.9% controls). For the ATXN2 gene, we observed an increase in IA frequency in AD cases (AD 4.1% vs. controls 1.8%) and in the behavioral FTD group (4.8% vs. 1.8%). For the ATXN1 gene, we found a significant increase of IAs in patients with PNFA (18.6%) versus controls (6.7%). In conclusion, our work suggests that the HTT and ATXN1 IAS may contribute to PNFA pathogenesis and point to a link between ATXN2 IAS and AD. (C) 2019 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Published
2019

6. A nonsynonymous mutation in PLCG2 reduces the risk of Alzheimer’s disease, dementia with Lewy bodies and frontotemporal dementia, and increases the likelihood of longevity

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van der Lee, Sven J, Conway, Olivia J, Jansen, Iris, Carrasquillo, Minerva M, Kleineidam, Luca, van den Akker, Erik, Hernández, Isabel, van Eijk, Kristel R, Stringa, Najada, Chen, Jason A, Zettergren, Anna, Andlauer, Till F M, Diez-Fairen, Monica, Simon-Sanchez, Javier, Lleó, Alberto, Zetterberg, Henrik, Nygaard, Marianne, Blauwendraat, Cornelis, Savage, Jeanne E, Mengel-From, Jonas, Moreno-Grau, Sonia, Wagner, Michael, Fortea, Juan, Keogh, Michael J, Blennow, Kaj, Skoog, Ingmar, Friese, Manuel A, Pletnikova, Olga, Zulaica, Miren, Lage, Carmen, de Rojas, Itziar, Riedel-Heller, Steffi, Illán-Gala, Ignacio, Wei, Wei, Jeune, Bernard, Orellana, Adelina, Then Bergh, Florian, Wang, Xue, Hulsman, Marc, Beker, Nina, Tesi, Niccolo, Morris, Christopher M, Indakoetxea, Begoña, Collij, Lyduine E, Scherer, Martin, Morenas-Rodríguez, Estrella, Ifgc, Raffaele, Ferrari, Hernandez, Dena G., Nalls, Michael A., Rohrer, Jonathan D., Adaikalavanramasamy, Kwok, John B. J., Carol, Dobson-Stone, Brooks, William S., Schofield, Peterr., Halliday, Glenda M., Hodges, John R., Olivier, Piguet, Laurenbartley, Elizabeth, Thompson, Eric, Haan, Isabel, Hernández, Agustín, Ruiz, Mercè, Boada, Barbara, Borroni, Alessandro, Padovani, Carlos, Cruchaga, Cairns, Nigel J., Luisa, Benussi, Giuliano, Binetti, Roberta, Ghidoni, Gianluigiforloni, Daniela, Galimberti, Chiara, Fenoglio, Maria, Serpente, Elio, Scarpini, Jordi, Clarimón, Alberto, Lleó, Rafael, Blesa, Maria Landqvist Waldö, Karinnilsson, Christer, Nilsson, Mackenzie, Ian R. A., Hsiung, Ging-Yuek R., Mann, DavidM. A., Jordan, Grafman, Morris, Christopher M., Johannes, Attems, Griffiths, Timothy D., Mckeith, Ian G., Thomas, Alan J., Pietrini, P., Huey, Edward D., Wassermann, Eric M., Atik, Baborie, Evelyn, Jaros, Tierney, Michael C., Pau, Pastor, Cristina, Razquin, Sara, Ortega-Cubero, Elena, Alonso, Robertperneczky, Janine, Diehl-Schmid, Panagiotis, Alexopoulos, Alexander, Kurz, Rainero, Innocenzo, Rubino, Elisa, Pinessi, Lorenzo, Ekaterina, Rogaeva, George-Hyslop, Peterst., Giacomina, Rossi, Fabrizio, Tagliavini, Giorgio, Giaccone, Rowe, James B., Schlachetzki, Johannes C. M., James, Uphill, John, Collinge, Simon, Mead, Adrian, Danek, Van Deerlin, Vivianna M., Murray, Grossman, Trojanowski, John Q., Julie van der Zee, William, Deschamps, Tim, Vanlangenhove, Marc, Cruts, Christine Van Broeckhoven, Cappa, Stefano F., Isabelle Le Ber, Didier, Hannequin, Véronique, Golfier, Martine, Vercelletto, Alexis, Brice, Benedetta, Nacmias, Sandro, Sorbi, Silvia, Bagnoli, Irene, Piaceri, Nielsen, Jørgen E., Hjermind, Lena E., Matthias, Riemenschneider, Manuelmayhaus, Bernd, Ibach, Gilles, Gasparoni, Sabrina, Pichler, Wei, Gu, Rossor, Martin N., Fox, Nick C., Warren, Jason D., Maria Grazia Spillantini, Morris, Huw R., Patrizia, Rizzu, Peter, Heutink, Snowden, Julie S., Sara, Rollinson, Annarichardson, Alexander, Gerhard, Bruni, Amalia C., Raffaele, Maletta, Fran-cesca, Frangipane, Chiara, Cupidi, Livia, Bernardi, Maria, Anfossi, Maura, Gallo, Maria Elena Conidi, Nicoletta, Smirne, Rosa, Rademakers, Matt, Baker, Dickson, Dennis W., Graff-Radford, Neill R., Petersen, Ronald C., Davidknopman, Josephs, Keith A., Boeve, Bradley F., Parisi, Joseph E., Seeley, William W., Miller, Bruce L., Karydas, Anna M., Howard, Rosen, Vanswieten, John C., Dopper, Elise G. P., Harro, Seelaar, Pijnenburg, Yolande A. L., Philipscheltens, Giancarlo, Logroscino, Rosa, Capozzo, Valeria, Novelli, Puca, Annibale A., Massimo, Franceschi, Alfredo, Postiglione, Graziella, Milan, Paolosorrentino, Mark, Kristiansen, Huei-Hsin, Chiang, Caroline, Graff, Florencepasquier, Adeline, Rollin, Vincent, Deramecourt, Florence, Lebert, Dimitrioskapogiannis, Luigi, Ferrucci, Stuart, Pickering-Brown, Singleton, Andrew B., John, Hardy, Parastoo, Momeni, Ironside, James W, van Berckel, Bart N M, Alcolea, Daniel, Wiendl, Heinz, Strickland, Samantha L, Pastor, Pau, Rodríguez Rodríguez, Eloy, Boeve, Bradley F, Petersen, Ronald C, Ferman, Tanis J, van Gerpen, Jay A, Reinders, Marcel J T, Uitti, Ryan J, Tárraga, Lluís, Maier, Wolfgang, Dols-Icardo, Oriol, Kawalia, Amit, Dalmasso, Maria Carolina, Boada, Mercè, Zettl, Uwe K, van Schoor, Natasja M, Beekman, Marian, Allen, Mariet, Masliah, Eliezer, de Munain, Adolfo López, Pantelyat, Alexander, Wszolek, Zbigniew K, Ross, Owen A, Dickson, Dennis W, Graff-Radford, Neill R, Knopman, David, Rademakers, Rosa, Lemstra, Afina W, Pijnenburg, Yolande A L, Scheltens, Philip, Gasser, Thomas, Chinnery, Patrick F, Hemmer, Bernhard, Huisman, Martijn A, Troncoso, Juan, Moreno, Fermin, Nohr, Ellen A, Sørensen, Thorkild I A, Heutink, Peter, Sánchez-Juan, Pascual, Posthuma, Danielle, Clarimón, Jordi, Christensen, Kaare, Ertekin-Taner, Nilüfer, Scholz, Sonja W, Ramirez, Alfredo, Ruiz, Agustín, Slagboom, Eline, van der Flier, Wiesje M, Holstege, Henne, Complex Trait Genetics, Amsterdam Neuroscience - Complex Trait Genetics, Sociology, The Social Context of Aging (SoCA), Universidad de Cantabria, DESGESCO Dementia Genetics, EADB Alzheimer Dis European, IFGC Int FTD-Genomics, IPDGC Int Parkinson Dis Genomics, RiMod-FTD Risk Modifying, Netherlands Brain Bank NBB, GIFT Genetic Invest, van der Lee, Sven J [0000-0003-1606-8643], Andlauer, Till FM [0000-0002-2917-5889], Tesi, Niccolo [0000-0002-1413-5091], Scheltens, Philip [0000-0002-1046-6408], Holstege, Henne [0000-0002-7688-3087], Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository, Amsterdam Neuroscience - Neurodegeneration, Neurology, Epidemiology and Data Science, Radiology and nuclear medicine, Other Research, Divisions, APH - Societal Participation & Health, APH - Aging & Later Life, Human genetics, Amsterdam Reproduction & Development (AR&D), APH - Personalized Medicine, and APH - Methodology

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0301 basic medicine, Parkinson's disease, Dementia with Lewy bodies, genetics [Alzheimer Disease], Disease, metabolism [Microglia], Bioinformatics, Neurodegenerative disease, 0302 clinical medicine, genetics [Lewy Body Disease], pathology [Brain], genetics [Parkinson Disease], Missense mutation, genetics [Frontotemporal Dementia], ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE, Brain, Parkinson Disease, purl.org/becyt/ford/3.1 [https], Alzheimer's disease, Phospholipase C Gamma 2, Biobank, 3. Good health, genetics [Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis], genetics [Phospholipase C gamma], purl.org/becyt/ford/3 [https], immunology [Brain], Microglia, Alzheimer’s disease, Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Frontotemporal dementia, Longevity, Multiple sclerosis, PLCG2, Parkinson’s disease, Progressive supranuclear palsy, Lewy Body Disease, Risk, education, Neuroimaging, Pathology and Forensic Medicine, PARKINSON’S DISEASE, 03 medical and health sciences, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being, Alzheimer Disease, genetics [Dementia], medicine, Humans, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, ddc:610, Alleles, Original Paper, Phospholipase C gamma, business.industry, genetics [Multiple Sclerosis], medicine.disease, 030104 developmental biology, metabolism [Brain], Mutation, Dementia, Human medicine, Neurology (clinical), business, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery, genetics [Longevity], Genome-Wide Association Study
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ATENCIÓ: la correcció està també al DDD, cal relacionar??? https://ddd.uab.cat/record/226203 Altres ajuts: The following studies and consortia have contributed to this manuscript. Amsterdam dementia Cohort (ADC): Research of the Alzheimer center Amsterdam is part of the neurodegeneration research program of Amsterdam Neuroscience. The Alzheimer Center Amsterdam is supported by Stichting Alzheimer Nederland and Stichting VUmc fonds. The clinical database structure was developed with funding from Stichting Dioraphte. Genotyping of the Dutch case-control samples was performed in the context of EADB (European Alzheimer DNA biobank) funded by the JPco-fuND FP-829-029 (ZonMW projectnumber 733051061). 100-Plus study: We are grateful for the collaborative efforts of all participating centenarians and their family members and/or relations. This work was supported by Stichting Alzheimer Nederland (WE09.2014-03), Stichting Diorapthe, horstingstuit foundation, Memorabel (ZonMW projectnumber 733050814) and Stichting VUmc Fonds. Genotyping of the 100-Plus Study was performed in the context of EADB (European Alzheimer DNA biobank) funded by the JPco-fuND FP-829-029 (ZonMW projectnumber 733051061). German Study on Ageing, Cognition and Dementia in Primary Care Patients (AgeCoDe): This study/publication is part of the German Research Network on Dementia (KND), the German Research Network on Degenerative Dementia (KNDD; German Study on Ageing, Cognition and Dementia in Primary Care Patients; AgeCoDe), and the Health Service Research Initiative (Study on Needs, health service use, costs and health-related quality of life in a large sample of oldest-old primary care patients (85+; AgeQualiDe)) and was funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (grants KND: 01GI0102, 01GI0420, 01GI0422, 01GI0423, 01GI0429, 01GI0431, 01GI0433, 01GI0434; grants KNDD: 01GI0710, 01GI0711, 01GI0712, 01GI0713, 01GI0714, 01GI0715, 01GI0716; grants Health Service Research Initiative: 01GY1322A, 01GY1322B, 01GY1322C, 01GY1322D, 01GY1322E, 01GY1322F, 01GY1322G). Alfredo Ramirez was partly supported by the ADAPTED consortium: Alzheimer's disease Apolipoprotein Pathology for Treatment Elucidation and Development, which has received funding from the Innovative Medicines Initiative 2 Joint Undertaking under grant agreement No 115975. Brain compendium: This work was funded by the UK Medical Research Council (13044). P.F.C. is a Wellcome Trust principal Fellow (212219/Z/18/Z) and a UK NIHR Senior Investigator, who receives support from the Medical Research Council Mitochondrial Biology Unit (MC_UU_00015/9), and the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Biomedical Research Centre based at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and the University of Cambridge. The views expressed are those of the author(s) and not necessarily those of the NHS, the NIHR, or the Department of Health.Clinical AD, Sweden: We would like to thank UCL Genomics for performing the genotyping analyses. Danish data: The studies behind the Danish long-lived cases received funding from The National Program for Research Infrastructure 2007 (grant no. 09-063256), the Danish Agency for Science Technology and Innovation, the Velux Foundation, the US National Institute of Health (P01 AG08761), the Danish Agency for Science, Technology and Innovation/The Danish Council for Independent Research (grant no. 11-107308), the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2011) under grant agreement no. 259679, the INTERREG 4 A programme Syddanmark-Schleswig-K.E.R.N. (by EU funds from the European Regional Development Fund), the CERA Foundation (Lyon), the AXA Research Fund, Paris, and The Health Foundation (Helsefonden), Copenhagen, Denmark. The GOYA study was conducted as part of the activities of the Danish Obesity Research Centre (DanORC, www.danorc.dk) and The MRC centre for Causal Analyses in Translational Epidemiology (MRC CAiTE). The genotyping for GOYA was funded by the Wellcome Trust (WT 084762). GOYA is a nested study within The Danish National Birth Cohort which was established with major funding from the Danish National Research Foundation. Additional support for this cohort has been obtained from the Pharmacy Foundation, the Egmont Foundation, The March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation, the Augustinus Foundation, and the Health Foundation. Fundació ACE (FACE): We would like to thank patients and controls who participated in this project. We are indebted to Trinitat Port-Carbó and her family for their support of Fundació ACE research programs. Fundació ACE collaborates with the Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red sobre Enfermedades Neurodegenerativas (CIBERNED, Spain) and is one of the participating centers of the Dementia Genetics Spanish Consortium (DEGESCO). Agustín Ruiz has received support from the EU/EFPIA Innovative Medicines Initiative Joint Undertaking ADAPTED Grant No. 115975 and by grants PI13/02434 and PI16/01861. Acción Estratégica en Salud, integrated in the Spanish National R + D + I Plan and financed by ISCIII (Instituto de Salud Carlos III)-Subdirección General de Evaluación and the Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional (FEDER- "Una manera de Hacer Europa"), by Fundación bancaria "La Caixa" and Grifols SA (GR@ACE project). Genetics of Healthy Ageing Study (GEHA - NL): The work described in this paper was funded mainly by the EU GEHA Project contract no. LSHM-CT-2004-503-270. Gothenburg Birth Cohort (GBC) Studies: We would like to thank UCL Genomics for performing the genotyping analyses. The studies were supported by The Stena Foundation, The Swedish Research Council (2015-02830, 2013-8717), The Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Wellfare (2013-1202, 2005-0762, 2008-1210, 2013-2300, 2013-2496, 2013-0475), The Brain Foundation, Sahlgrenska University Hospital (ALF), The Alzheimer's Association (IIRG-03-6168), The Alzheimer's Association Zenith Award (ZEN-01-3151), Eivind och Elsa K:son Sylvans Stiftelse, The Swedish Alzheimer Foundation. International FTD-Genomics Consortium (IFGC): International FTD-Genomics Consortium (IFGC): The authors thank the IFGC for providing relevant data to support the analyses presented in this manuscript. Further acknowledgments for IFGC (https://ifgcsite.wordpress.com/), e.g. full members list and affiliations, are found in the online supplementary files. IPDGC (​The International Parkinson Disease Genomics Consortium): We also would like to thank all members of the International Parkinson Disease Genomics Consortium (IPDGC). See for a complete overview of members, acknowledgements and funding http://pdgenetics.org/partners. Kompetenznetz Multiple Sklerose (KKNMS): This work was supported by the German Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF) as part of the "German Competence Network Multiple Sclerosis" (KKNMS) (grant nos. 01GI0916 and 01GI0917) and the Munich Cluster for Systems Neurology (SyNergy). TA was supported by the BMBF through the Integrated Network IntegraMent, under the auspices of the e:Med Programme (01ZX1614J). BH was supported by the EU Horizon 2020 project MultipleMS.Longitudinal Aging Study Amsterdam (LASA) is largely supported by a grant from the Netherlands Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sports, Directorate of Long-Term Care. The authors are grateful to all LASA participants, the fieldwork team and all researchers for their ongoing commitment to the study. Leiden Longevity Study: This study was supported by a grant from the Innovation-Oriented Research Program on Genomics (SenterNovem IGE05007), the Centre for Medical Systems Biology, and the Netherlands Consortium for Healthy Ageing (Grant 050-060-810), all in the framework of the Netherlands Genomics Initiative/Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) and by Unilever Colworth.Maria Carolina Dalmasso: Georg Forster Research Award (Alexander von Humboldt Foundation). Mayo Clinic AD, DLB, PD, PSP: We thank the patients and their families for their participation, without whom these studies would not have been possible. Funding for this work was supported by National Institute on Aging [RF AG051504 to NET.; U01 AG046139 to NET]; and National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke [R01 NS080820 to NET; P50 NS072187]. The Mayo Clinic is a Lewy Body Dementia Association (LBDA) Research Center of Excellence, American Parkinson Disease Association (APDA) Information and Referral Center and Center for Advanced Research, NINDS Tau Center without Walls (U54-NS100693) and is supported by Mayo Clinic AD and related dementias genetics program, The Little Family Foundation, the Mangurian Foundation for Lewy body research and NINDS R01 NS078086 (to OAR). The PD program at the Mayo Clinic Florida is also supported by the Mayo Clinic Center for Regenerative Medicine, Mayo Clinic Center for Individualized Medicine, Mayo Clinic Neuroscience Focused Research Team (Cecilia and Dan Carmichael Family Foundation, and the James C. and Sarah K. Kennedy Fund for Neurodegenerative Disease Research at Mayo Clinic in Florida), the gift from Carl Edward Bolch, Jr., and Susan Bass Bolch, and The Sol Goldman Charitable Trust. Samples included in this study are from the brain bank at Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville which is supported by CurePSP The online version of this article (10.1007/s00401-019-02026-8) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

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2019
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7. Integrative system biology analyses of CRISPR-edited iPSC-derived neurons and human brains reveal deficiencies of presynaptic signaling in FTLD and PSP

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Jiang, Shan, Wen, Natalie, Zeran, Li, Dube, Umber, Del Aguila, Jorge, Budde, John, Martinez, Rita, Hsu, Simon, Fernandez, Maria V, Cairns, Nigel J, Harari, Oscar, Cruchaga, Carlos, Karch, Celeste MRaffaele Ferrari, Dena, G Hernandez, Michael, A Nalls, Jonathan, D Rohrer, Adaikalavan, Ramasamy, John B, J Kwok, Carol, Dobson-Stone, William, S Brooks, Peter, R Schofield, Glenda, M Halliday, John, R Hodges, Olivier, Piguet, Lauren, Bartley, Elizabeth, Thompson, Eric, Haan, Isabel, Hernández, Agustín, Ruiz, Mercè, Boada, Barbara, Borroni, Alessandro, Padovani, Carlos, Cruchaga, Nigel, J Cairns, Luisa, Benussi, Giuliano, Binetti, Roberta, Ghidoni, Gianluigi, Forloni, Daniela, Galimberti, Chiara, Fenoglio, Maria, Serpente, Elio, Scarpini, Jordi, Clarimón, Alberto, Lleó, Rafael, Blesa, Maria Landqvist Waldö, Karin, Nilsson, Christer, Nilsson, Ian R, A Mackenzie, Ging-Yuek, R Hsiung, David M, A Mann, Jordan, Grafman, Christopher, M Morris, Johannes, Attems, Timothy, D Griffiths, Ian, G McKeith, Alan, J Thomas, Pietrini, P, Edward, D Huey, Eric, M Wassermann, Atik, Baborie, Evelyn, Jaros, Michael, C Tierney, Pau, Pastor, Cristina, Razquin, Sara, Ortega-Cubero, Elena, Alonso, Robert, Perneczky, Janine, Diehl-Schmid, Panagiotis, Alexopoulos, Alexander, Kurz, Rainero, Innocenzo, Rubino, Elisa, Lorenzo, Pinessi, Ekaterina, Rogaeva, Peter St George-Hyslop, Giacomina, Rossi, Fabrizio, Tagliavini, Giorgio, Giaccone, James, B Rowe, Johannes C, M Schlachetzki, James, Uphill, John, Collinge, Simon, Mead, Adrian, Danek, Vivianna, M Van Deerlin, Murray, Grossman, John, Q Trojanowski, Julie van der Zee, William, Deschamps, Tim Van Langenhove, Marc, Cruts, Christine Van Broeckhoven, Stefano, F Cappa, Isabelle Le Ber, Didier, Hannequin, Véronique, Golfier, Martine, Vercelletto, Alexis, Brice, Benedetta, Nacmias, Sandro, Sorbi, Silvia, Bagnoli, Irene, Piaceri, Jørgen, E Nielsen, Lena, E Hjermind, Matthias, Riemenschneider, Manuel, Mayhaus, Bernd, Ibach, Gilles, Gasparoni, Sabrina, Pichler, Wei, Gu, Martin, N Rossor, Nick, C Fox, Jason, D Warren, Maria Grazia Spillantini, Huw, R Morris, Patrizia, Rizzu, Peter, Heutink, Julie, S Snowden, Sara, Rollinson, Anna, Richardson, Alexander, Gerhard, Amalia, C Bruni, Raffaele, Maletta, Francesca, Frangipane, Chiara, Cupidi, Livia, Bernardi, Maria, Anfossi, Maura, Gallo, Maria Elena Conidi, Nicoletta, Smirne, Rosa, Rademakers, Matt, Baker, Dennis, W Dickson, Neill, R Graff-Radford, Ronald, C Petersen, David, Knopman, Keith, A Josephs, Bradley, F Boeve, Joseph, E Parisi, William, W Seeley, Bruce, L Miller, Anna, M Karydas, Howard, Rosen, John, C van Swieten, Elise G, P Dopper, Harro, Seelaar, Yolande A, L Pijnenburg, Philip, Scheltens, Giancarlo, Logroscino, Rosa, Capozzo, Valeria, Novelli, Annibale, A Puca, Massimo, Franceschi, Alfredo, Postiglione, Graziella, Milan, Paolo, Sorrentino, Mark, Kristiansen, Huei-Hsin, Chiang, Caroline, Graff, Florence, Pasquier, Adeline, Rollin, Vincent, Deramecourt, Florence, Lebert, Dimitrios, Kapogiannis, Luigi, Ferrucci, Stuart, Pickering-Brown, Andrew, B Singleton, John, Hardy, and Parastoo, Momeni

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0301 basic medicine, Male, Tau protein, Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells, tau Proteins, medicine.disease_cause, Article, lcsh:RC321-571, Progressive supranuclear palsy, 03 medical and health sciences, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Receptors, GABA, medicine, Animals, Humans, Induced pluripotent stem cell, lcsh:Neurosciences. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry, Biological Psychiatry, Aged, Aged, 80 and over, Neurons, Mutation, biology, Brain, Frontotemporal lobar degeneration, Human brain, medicine.disease, 3. Good health, Cell biology, Mice, Inbred C57BL, Psychiatry and Mental health, 030104 developmental biology, medicine.anatomical_structure, biology.protein, Female, Tauopathy, Supranuclear Palsy, Progressive, CRISPR-Cas Systems, Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration, Transcriptome, Frontotemporal dementia, Signal Transduction
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Mutations in the microtubule-associated protein tau (MAPT) gene cause autosomal dominant frontotemporal lobar degeneration with tau inclusions (FTLD-tau). MAPT p.R406W carriers present clinically with progressive memory loss and neuropathologically with neuronal and glial tauopathy. However, the pathogenic events triggered by the expression of the mutant tau protein remain poorly understood. To identify the genes and pathways that are dysregulated in FTLD-tau, we performed transcriptomic analyses in induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC)–derived neurons carrying MAPT p.R406W and CRISPR/Cas9-corrected isogenic controls. We found that the expression of the MAPT p.R406W mutation was sufficient to create a significantly different transcriptomic profile compared with that of the isogeneic controls and to cause the differential expression of 328 genes. Sixty-one of these genes were also differentially expressed in the same direction between MAPT p.R406W carriers and pathology-free human control brains. We found that genes differentially expressed in the stem cell models and human brains were enriched for pathways involving gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) receptors and pre-synaptic function. The expression of GABA receptor genes, including GABRB2 and GABRG2, were consistently reduced in iPSC-derived neurons and brains from MAPT p.R406W carriers. Interestingly, we found that GABA receptor genes, including GABRB2 and GABRG2, are significantly lower in symptomatic mouse models of tauopathy, as well as in brains with progressive supranuclear palsy. Genome wide association analyses reveal that common variants within GABRB2 are associated with increased risk for frontotemporal dementia (P −3). Thus, our systems biology approach, which leverages molecular data from stem cells, animal models, and human brain tissue can reveal novel disease mechanisms. Here, we demonstrate that MAPT p.R406W is sufficient to induce changes in GABA-mediated signaling and synaptic function, which may contribute to the pathogenesis of FTLD-tau and other primary tauopathies.

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2018

8. Homozygous carriers of APP A713T mutation in an autosomal dominant Alzheimer disease family

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Nicoletta Smirne, Maura Gallo, Livia Bernardi, Maria Anfossi, Annamaria Confaloni, Giusi Torchia, Paola Piscopo, Maria Elena Conidi, Francesca Frangipane, Chiara Cupidi, Raffaele Di Lorenzo, Alessandra Clodomiro, Raffaele Maletta, Amalia C Bruni, Maria Gabriella Muraca, Sabrina A.M. Curcio, Maria Mirabelli, Gianfranco Puccio, Paola Mandich, Rosanna Colao, and Franca Vasso

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Male, Apolipoprotein E, Heterozygote, Disease, Biology, Asymptomatic, Article, Amyloid beta-Protein Precursor, Alzheimer Disease, medicine, Humans, Aged, Dominance (genetics), Genetics, TREM2, Homozygote, Heterozygote advantage, Middle Aged, medicine.disease, Phenotype, Pedigree, Mutation, Female, Neurology (clinical), Alzheimer's disease, medicine.symptom
Abstract

Objective: To report, for the first time, a large autosomal dominant Alzheimer disease (AD) family in which the APP A713T mutation is present in the homozygous and heterozygous state. To date, the mutation has been reported as dominant, and in the heterozygous state associated with familial AD and cerebrovascular lesions. Methods: The family described here has been genealogically reconstructed over 6 generations dating back to the 19th century. Plasma β-amyloid peptide was measured. Sequencing of causative AD genes was performed. Results: Twenty-one individuals, all but 1 born from 2 consanguineous unions, were studied: 8 were described as affected through history, 5 were studied clinically and genetically, and 8 were asymptomatic at-risk subjects. The A713T mutation was detected in the homozygous state in 3 patients and in the heterozygous state in 8 subjects (6 asymptomatic and 2 affected). Conclusions: Our findings, also supported by the β-amyloid plasma assay, confirm (1) the pathogenic role of the APP A713T mutation, (2) the specific phenotype (AD with cerebrovascular lesions) associated with this mutation, and (3) the large span of age at onset, not influenced by APOE , TOMM40 , and TREM2 genes. No substantial differences concerning clinical phenotype were evidenced between heterozygous and homozygous patients, in line with the classic definition of dominance. Therefore, in this study, AD followed the classic definition of a dominant disease, contrary to that reported in a previously described AD family with recessive APP mutation. This confirms that genetic AD may be considered a disease with dominant and recessive traits of inheritance.

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2015
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9. Potential genetic modifiers of disease risk and age at onset in patients with frontotemporal lobar degeneration and GRN mutations: a genome-wide association study

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David J. Irwin, Nilufer Ertekin-Taner, Sara Rollinson, Mads Kjolby, John Hardy, Julia Kofler, Robert A. Rissman, Bernardino Ghetti, Stuart Pickering-Brown, Jonathan Glass, Carlos Cruchaga, Jonathan D. Rohrer, Keith A. Josephs, Maura Gallo, Parastoo Momeni, Emilia J. Sitek, Matthis Synofzik, Sandro Sorbi, Carlo Wilke, Oscar L. Lopez, Nigel J. Cairns, Miren Zulaica, Peter Heutink, Leonard Petrucelli, Bret M. Evers, Luisa Benussi, Jeroen van Rooij, Olivier Piguet, Sandra E. Black, Bradley F. Boeve, Cyril Pottier, Eric M. Reiman, Melissa E. Murray, Ralph B. Perkerson, Daniela Galimberti, Thomas G. Beach, Giorgio G. Fumagalli, Giacomina Rossi, David M. A. Mann, John B.J. Kwok, Harro Seelaar, Edward B. Lee, Jean-Paul Vonsattel, Didier Hannequin, Rosa Rademakers, John R. Hodges, Nicole A. Finch, John Q. Trojanowski, David S. Knopman, Yingxue Ren, Albert Lladó, Anders Nykjaer, Claire Troakes, Linn Öijerstedt, EunRan Suh, Isabelle Le Ber, Juliane Winkelmann, Ian R. Mackenzie, Glenda M. Halliday, William W. Seeley, Salvatore Spina, Simon Mead, Elio Scarpini, Fabrizio Tagliavini, Bruce L. Miller, Mariely DeJesus-Hernandez, Dennis W. Dickson, Elizabeth Christopher, Mario Masellis, Florence Pasquier, Roberta Ghidoni, Janine Diehl-Schmid, Silvia Bagnoli, Barbara Borroni, Adam L. Boxer, Adrian L. Oblak, Elizabeth Finger, Carol F. Lippa, Giuliano Binetti, Eileen H. Bigio, Vivianna M. Van Deerlin, Anna Karydas, William S. Brooks, Julie S. Snowden, Anna Richardson, Lea T. Grinberg, Manuela Neumann, Jordan Grafman, Zbigniew K. Wszolek, Edward D. Huey, Caroline Graff, John C. van Swieten, Sandra Weintraub, Raffaele Maletta, Ekaterina Rogaeva, Fermin Moreno, Raffaele Ferrari, Charles L. White, Adolfo López de Munain, Neill R. Graff-Radford, Camilla Ferrari, Jill R. Murell, Marwan N. Sabbagh, Raquel Sánchez-Valle, Marka van Blitterswijk, Alessandro Padovani, Peter Johannsen, Daniel J. Serie, Francesca Frangipane, Safa Al-Sarraj, Anna Antonell, Kevin F. Bieniek, Tsz H. Wong, Ging-Yuek Robin Hsiung, Jarosław Sławek, Matthew B. Baker, Gregory D. Jenkins, Ronald C. Petersen, Murray Grossman, Benedetta Nacmias, Tammee M. Parsons, Lawrence S. Honig, Maria Anfossi, Richard J. Caselli, Changiz Geula, Marla Gearing, M.-Marsel Mesulam, Xiaolai Zhou, Joanna M. Biernacka, Joseph E. Parisi, Irene Piaceri, Jorgen E. Nielsen, Amalia C. Bruni, Human genetics, Amsterdam Neuroscience - Neurodegeneration, Erasmus MC other, and Neurology

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0301 basic medicine, Oncology, Male, RNA, Messenger/metabolism, Genome-wide association study, Disease, Gene mutation, genetics [Progranulins], 0302 clinical medicine, Progranulins, Cerebellum, GFRA2 protein, human, Medicine, Age of Onset, genetics [Genetic Predisposition to Disease], Genetic Predisposition to Disease/genetics, Frontotemporal lobar degeneration, metabolism [Cerebellum], Middle Aged, 3. Good health, Frontotemporal Dementia, Female, genetics [Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration], Frontotemporal dementia, medicine.medical_specialty, Glial Cell Line-Derived Neurotrophic Factor Receptors, Mutation/genetics, Genetic counseling, genetics [Mutation], Progranulins/genetics, metabolism [RNA, Messenger], Article, 03 medical and health sciences, Internal medicine, Humans, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, ddc:610, RNA, Messenger, Cerebellum/metabolism, Aged, business.industry, metabolism [Progranulins], Case-control study, genetics [Glial Cell Line-Derived Neurotrophic Factor Receptors], Odds ratio, medicine.disease, metabolism [Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration], metabolism [Glial Cell Line-Derived Neurotrophic Factor Receptors], 030104 developmental biology, Case-Control Studies, Mutation, GRN protein, human, Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration/genetics, Neurology (clinical), Human medicine, Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration, business, Glial Cell Line-Derived Neurotrophic Factor Receptors/genetics, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery, Genome-Wide Association Study
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Background: Loss-of-function mutations in GRN cause frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD). Patients with GRN mutations present with a uniform subtype of TAR DNA-binding protein 43 (TDP-43) pathology at autopsy (FTLD-TDP type A); however, age at onset and clinical presentation are variable, even within families. We aimed to identify potential genetic modifiers of disease onset and disease risk in GRN mutation carriers. Methods: The study was done in three stages: a discovery stage, a replication stage, and a meta-analysis of the discovery and replication data. In the discovery stage, genome-wide logistic and linear regression analyses were done to test the association of genetic variants with disease risk (case or control status) and age at onset in patients with a GRN mutation and controls free of neurodegenerative disorders. Suggestive loci (p−5) were genotyped in a replication cohort of patients and controls, followed by a meta-analysis. The effect of genome-wide significant variants at the GFRA2 locus on expression of GFRA2 was assessed using mRNA expression studies in cerebellar tissue samples from the Mayo Clinic brain bank. The effect of the GFRA2 locus on progranulin concentrations was studied using previously generated ELISA-based expression data. Co-immunoprecipitation experiments in HEK293T cells were done to test for a direct interaction between GFRA2 and progranulin. Findings: Individuals were enrolled in the current study between Sept 16, 2014, and Oct 5, 2017. After quality control measures, statistical analyses in the discovery stage included 382 unrelated symptomatic GRN mutation carriers and 1146 controls free of neurodegenerative disorders collected from 34 research centres located in the USA, Canada, Australia, and Europe. In the replication stage, 210 patients (67 symptomatic GRN mutation carriers and 143 patients with FTLD without GRN mutations pathologically confirmed as FTLD-TDP type A) and 1798 controls free of neurodegenerative diseases were recruited from 26 sites, 20 of which overlapped with the discovery stage. No genome-wide significant association with age at onset was identified in the discovery or replication stages, or in the meta-analysis. However, in the case-control analysis, we replicated the previously reported TMEM106B association (rs1990622 meta-analysis odds ratio [OR] 0·54, 95% CI 0·46–0·63; p=3·54 × 10−16), and identified a novel genome-wide significant locus at GFRA2 on chromosome 8p21.3 associated with disease risk (rs36196656 meta-analysis OR 1·49, 95% CI 1·30–1·71; p=1·58 × 10−8). Expression analyses showed that the risk-associated allele at rs36196656 decreased GFRA2 mRNA concentrations in cerebellar tissue (p=0·04). No effect of rs36196656 on plasma and CSF progranulin concentrations was detected by ELISA; however, co-immunoprecipitation experiments in HEK293T cells did suggest a direct binding of progranulin and GFRA2. Interpretation: TMEM106B-related and GFRA2-related pathways might be future targets for treatments for FTLD, but the biological interaction between progranulin and these potential disease modifiers requires further study. TMEM106B and GFRA2 might also provide opportunities to select and stratify patients for future clinical trials and, when more is known about their potential effects, to inform genetic counselling, especially for asymptomatic individuals. Funding: National Institute on Aging, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Italian Ministry of Health, UK National Institute for Health Research, National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia, and the French National Research Agency.

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2018
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10. Frontotemporal dementia and its subtypes: A genome-wide association study

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Yolande A.L. Pijnenburg, Wei Gu, Harro Seelaar, Robert Perneczky, Alfredo Postiglione, Ronald C. Petersen, Timothy D. Griffiths, Pau Pastor, Marc Cruts, Elise G.P. Dopper, Sabrina Pichler, Chiara Fenoglio, Patrizia Rizzu, Adeline Rollin, Maria Serpente, Peter Heutink, Sandro Sorbi, Lauren Bartley, Maria Landqvist Waldö, Luigi Ferrucci, William S. Brooks, Luisa Benussi, William W. Seeley, Maria Anfossi, Atik Baborie, Innocenzo Rainero, Rosa Capozzo, Alessandro Padovani, Stefano F. Cappa, Glenda M. Halliday, Jørgen E. Nielsen, Sara Ortega-Cubero, Vivianna M. Van Deerlin, Ekaterina Rogaeva, Mike A. Nalls, Giacomina Rossi, Alberto Lleó, Edward D. Huey, Jordi Clarimón, Simon Mead, Janine Diehl-Schmid, John Q. Trojanowski, Adaikalavan Ramasamy, Matthias Riemenschneider, John Hardy, Annibale Alessandro Puca, Cristina Razquin, Mercè Boada, Martine Vercelletto, Isabelle Le Ber, Graziella Milan, Johannes Attems, Francesca Frangipane, Jason D. Warren, Lena E. Hjermind, John R. Hodges, Gianluigi Forloni, Dennis W. Dickson, Daniela Galimberti, Elisa Rubino, Karin Nilsson, Raffaele Maletta, Christine Van Broeckhoven, Valeria Novelli, Anna Richardson, Anna Karydas, David S. Knopman, Nick C. Fox, Stuart Pickering-Brown, Carlos Cruchaga, Isabel Hernández, Livia Bernardi, Philip Scheltens, Martin N. Rossor, Julie S. Snowden, Massimo Franceschi, Rosa Rademakers, Bruce L. Miller, Alan J. Thomas, Florence Lebert, Matthew C. Baker, Jonathan D. Rohrer, Keith A. Josephs, Tim Van Langenhove, Fabrizio Tagliavini, Carol Dobson-Stone, Elizabeth Thompson, Silvia Bagnoli, Barbara Borroni, Sara Rollinson, Irene Piaceri, David M. A. Mann, Bernd Ibach, Ian G. McKeith, Agustín Ruiz, Huw R. Morris, Giancarlo Logroscino, Maura Gallo, Elena Alonso, Alexis Brice, Adrian Danek, Paolo Sorrentino, Nicoletta Smirne, Raffaele Ferrari, Panagiotis Alexopoulos, Johannes C. M. Schlachetzki, Alexander Gerhard, Manuel Mayhaus, Alexander Kurz, Amalia C. Bruni, Michael Tierney, Didier Hannequin, William Deschamps, Florence Pasquier, Joseph E. Parisi, Rafael Blesa, Elio Scarpini, Ian R. A. Mackenzie, Peter R. Schofield, Giuliano Binetti, Evelyn Jaros, Julie van der Zee, John Collinge, Maria Elena Conidi, Howard J. Rosen, Caroline Graff, Christer Nilsson, Huei-Hsin Chiang, Nigel J. Cairns, Jordan Grafman, Eric M. Wassermann, Parastoo Momeni, Maria Grazia Spillantini, Ging-Yuek Robin Hsiung, Andrew B. Singleton, Chiara Cupidi, James Uphill, Dimitrios Kapogiannis, Bradley F. Boeve, Christopher Morris, Vincent Deramecourt, Giorgio Giaccone, James B. Rowe, Murray Grossman, Benedetta Nacmias, Roberta Ghidoni, Véronique Golfier, Dena G. Hernandez, Lorenzo Pinessi, Neill R. Graff-Radford, John C. van Swieten, Pietro Pietrini, Gilles Gasparoni, Peter St George-Hyslop, Mark Kristiansen, Eric Haan, Olivier Piguet, John B.J. Kwok, Human genetics, Neurology, NCA - neurodegeneration, Surgery, Clinical Genetics, Erasmus MC other, Ferrari, R, Hernandez, Dg, Nalls, Ma, Rohrer, Jd, Ramasamy, A, Kwok, Jb, Dobson Stone, C, Brooks, W, Schofield, Pr, Halliday, Gm, Hodges, Jr, Piguet, O, Bartley, L, Thompson, E, Haan, E, Hern?ndez, I, Ruiz, A, Boada, M, Borroni, B, Padovani, A, Cruchaga, C, Cairns, Nj, Benussi, L, Binetti, G, Ghidoni, R, Forloni, G, Galimberti, D, Fenoglio, C, Serpente, M, Scarpini, E, Clarim?n, J, Lle?, A, Blesa, R, Wald?, Ml, Nilsson, K, Nilsson, C, Mackenzie, Ir, Hsiung, Gy, Mann, Dm, Grafman, J, Morris, Cm, Attems, J, Griffiths, Td, Mckeith, Ig, Thomas, Aj, Pietrini, P, Huey, Ed, Wassermann, Em, Baborie, A, Jaros, E, Tierney, Mc, Pastor, P, Razquin, C, Ortega Cubero, S, Alonso, E, Perneczky, R, Diehl Schmid, J, Alexopoulos, P, Kurz, A, Rainero, I, Rubino, E, Pinessi, L, Rogaeva, E, St George Hyslop, P, Rossi, G, Tagliavini, F, Giaccone, G, Rowe, Jb, Schlachetzki, Jc, Uphill, J, Collinge, J, Mead, S, Danek, A, Van Deerlin, Vm, Grossman, M, Trojanowski, Jq, van der Zee, J, Deschamps, W, Van Langenhove, T, Cruts, M, Van Broeckhoven, C, Cappa, Sf, Le Ber, I, Hannequin, D, Golfier, V, Vercelletto, M, Brice, A, Nacmias, B, Sorbi, S, Bagnoli, S, Piaceri, I, Nielsen, Je, Hjermind, Le, Riemenschneider, M, Mayhaus, M, Ibach, B, Gasparoni, G, Pichler, S, Gu, W, Rossor, Mn, Fox, Nc, Warren, Jd, Spillantini, Mg, Morris, Hr, Rizzu, P, Heutink, P, Snowden, J, Rollinson, S, Richardson, A, Gerhard, A, Bruni, Ac, Maletta, R, Frangipane, F, Cupidi, C, Bernardi, L, Anfossi, M, Gallo, M, Conidi, Me, Smirne, N, Rademakers, R, Baker, M, Dickson, Dw, Graff Radford, Nr, Petersen, Rc, Knopman, D, Josephs, Ka, Boeve, Bf, Parisi, Je, Seeley, Ww, Miller, Bl, Karydas, Am, Rosen, H, van Swieten, Jc, Dopper, Eg, Seelaar, H, Pijnenburg, Ya, Scheltens, P, Logroscino, G, Capozzo, R, Novelli, V, Puca, Aa, Franceschi, M, Postiglione, Alfredo, Milan, G, Sorrentino, P, Kristiansen, M, Chiang, Hh, Graff, C, Pasquier, F, Rollin, A, Deramecourt, V, Lebert, F, Kapogiannis, D, Ferrucci, L, Pickering Brown, S, Singleton, Ab, Hardy, J, and Momeni, P.

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Adult, Male, Pathology, medicine.medical_specialty, Genotype, Semantic dementia, Genome-wide association study, Locus (genetics), classification [Frontotemporal Dementia], methods [Genome-Wide Association Study], diagnosis [Frontotemporal Dementia], C9orf72, mental disorders, medicine, Dementia, Humans, ddc:610, genetics [Frontotemporal Dementia], Aged, Genetics, Aged, 80 and over, Genetic heterogeneity, Middle Aged, medicine.disease, Frontotemporal Dementia, Female, Human medicine, Neurology (clinical), Alzheimer's disease, Psychology, Frontotemporal dementia, Genome-Wide Association Study
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Summary Background Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is a complex disorder characterised by a broad range of clinical manifestations, differential pathological signatures, and genetic variability. Mutations in three genes— MAPT , GRN , and C9orf72 —have been associated with FTD. We sought to identify novel genetic risk loci associated with the disorder. Methods We did a two-stage genome-wide association study on clinical FTD, analysing samples from 3526 patients with FTD and 9402 healthy controls. To reduce genetic heterogeneity, all participants were of European ancestry. In the discovery phase (samples from 2154 patients with FTD and 4308 controls), we did separate association analyses for each FTD subtype (behavioural variant FTD, semantic dementia, progressive non-fluent aphasia, and FTD overlapping with motor neuron disease [FTD-MND]), followed by a meta-analysis of the entire dataset. We carried forward replication of the novel suggestive loci in an independent sample series (samples from 1372 patients and 5094 controls) and then did joint phase and brain expression and methylation quantitative trait loci analyses for the associated (p −8 ) single-nucleotide polymorphisms. Findings We identified novel associations exceeding the genome-wide significance threshold (p −8 ). Combined (joint) analyses of discovery and replication phases showed genome-wide significant association at 6p21.3, HLA locus (immune system), for rs9268877 (p=1·05 × 10 −8 ; odds ratio=1·204 [95% CI 1·11–1·30]), rs9268856 (p=5·51 × 10 −9 ; 0·809 [0·76–0·86]) and rs1980493 (p value=1·57 × 10 −8 , 0·775 [0·69–0·86]) in the entire cohort. We also identified a potential novel locus at 11q14, encompassing RAB38 / CTSC (the transcripts of which are related to lysosomal biology), for the behavioural FTD subtype for which joint analyses showed suggestive association for rs302668 (p=2·44 × 10 −7 ; 0·814 [0·71–0·92]). Analysis of expression and methylation quantitative trait loci data suggested that these loci might affect expression and methylation in cis . Interpretation Our findings suggest that immune system processes (link to 6p21.3) and possibly lysosomal and autophagy pathways (link to 11q14) are potentially involved in FTD. Our findings need to be replicated to better define the association of the newly identified loci with disease and to shed light on the pathomechanisms contributing to FTD. Funding The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke and National Institute on Aging, the Wellcome/MRC Centre on Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's Research UK, and Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center.

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2014
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11. Autosomal dominant frontotemporal lobar degeneration due to the C9ORF72 hexanucleotide repeat expansion: late-onset psychotic clinical presentation

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Irene Piaceri, Giacomo P. Comi, Elio Scarpini, Annachiara Cagnin, Alessandra Marcone, Federica Agosta, Giuseppe Magnani, Patrizia Ferrero, Sandro Sorbi, Giuseppina Talarico, Maria Serpente, Alessandra Clodomiro, Claudio Mariani, Zhengrui Xi, Massimo Filippi, Elisa Rubino, Giancarlo Comi, Massimo Franceschi, Paola Piscopo, Andrea Arighi, Chiara Fenoglio, Francesca Clerici, Chiara Cerami, Valentina Bessi, Bernardo Dell'Osso, Giorgio G. Fumagalli, Chiara Cupidi, Maria Anfossi, Annamaria Confaloni, Chiara Villa, Giuseppe Bruno, Maria Teresa Giordana, Rossana Bonsi, Daniela Galimberti, Amalia C. Bruni, Innocenzo Rainero, Ekaterina Rogaeva, Silvia Bagnoli, A. Carlo Altamura, Stefano F. Cappa, Roberto Del Bo, Benedetta Nacmias, Galimberti, D, Fenoglio, C, Serpente, M, Villa, C, Bonsi, R, Arighi, A, Fumagalli, Gg, Del Bo, M, Bruni, Ac, Anfossi, M, Clodomiro, A, Cupidi, C, Nacmias, B, Sorbi, S, Piaceri, I, Bagnoli, S, Bessi, V, Marcone, A, Cerami, C, Cappa, Sf, Filippi, M, Agosta, F, Magnani, G, Comi, G, Franceschi, M, Rainero, I, Giordana, Mt, Rubino, E, Ferrero, P, Rogaeva, E, Xi, Z, Confaloni, A, Piscopo, P, Bruno, G, Talarico, G, Cagnin, A, Clerici, F, Dell’Osso, B, Comi, Gp, Altamura, Ac, Mariani, C, Scarpini, E., Fumagalli, G, Del Bo, R, Bruni, A, Cappa, S, Giordana, M, Dell'Osso, B, Altamura, A, and Scarpini, E

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Adult, Male, Pediatrics, medicine.medical_specialty, Pathology, Population, Progressive supranuclear palsy, C9orf72, mental disorders, medicine, Dementia, Humans, c9orf72, clinical presentation, dementia, frontotemporal lobar degeneration, hexanucleotide repeat expansion, late onset psychosis, phenotype, Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, education, Frontotemporal lobar degeneration, C9ORF72, Biological Psychiatry, Aged, Aged, 80 and over, education.field_of_study, DNA Repeat Expansion, C9orf72 Protein, Proteins, Frontotemporal lobar degeneration, Middle Aged, medicine.disease, Psychotic Disorders, Female, Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration, Trinucleotide repeat expansion, Psychology
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Background: A hexanucleotide repeat expansion in the first intron of C9ORF72 has been shown to be responsible for a high number of familial cases of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis or frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD). Atypical presentations have been described, particularly psychosis. Methods: We determined the frequency of the hexanucleotide repeat expansions in a population of 651 FTLD patients and compared the clinical characteristics of carriers and noncarriers. In addition, we genotyped 21 patients with corticobasal syndrome, 31 patients with progressive supranuclear palsy, and 222 control subjects. Results: The pathogenic repeat expansion was detected in 39 (6%) patients with FTLD (17 male and 22 female subjects); however, it was not detected in any corticobasal syndrome and progressive supranuclear palsy patients or controls. Twenty-four of 39 carriers had positive family history for dementia and/or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (61.5%), whereas only 145 of 612 noncarriers had positive family history (23.7%; p

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2013

12. Epidemiology and genetics of frontotemporal dementia: a door-to-door survey in southern Italy

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Maria Anfossi, Francesca Frangipane, Sandra Marzano, Raffale Di Lorenzo, Francesco Comito, Alessandra Clodomiro, Maura Gallo, Vincenzo Valenti, Livia Bernardi, Sabrina A.M. Curcio, Danielle Moreno, Raffaele Maletta, Maria Mirabelli, Christine Sato, Ekaterina Rogaeva, Silvana Geracitano, Gianfranco Puccio, Maria Elena Conidi, Rosa Anna Leone, Mahdi Ghani, Zhengrui Xi, Rosanna Colao, Amalia C. Bruni, Chiara Cupidi, Peter St George-Hyslop, Nicoletta Smirne, Annelisa Borelli, and Maria Angela Zirilli

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Male, Aging, Prevalence, Cohort Studies, 0302 clinical medicine, Progranulins, Epidemiology, Aged, 80 and over, 0303 health sciences, education.field_of_study, medicine.diagnostic_test, General Neuroscience, Age Factors, Middle Aged, 3. Good health, DNA-Binding Proteins, Italy, Frontotemporal Dementia, Population study, Intercellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins, Female, Alzheimer's disease, Frontotemporal dementia, medicine.medical_specialty, Population, tau Proteins, Article, 03 medical and health sciences, Alzheimer Disease, Internal medicine, mental disorders, medicine, Humans, Genetic Testing, RNA, Messenger, education, Psychiatry, Vascular dementia, 030304 developmental biology, Genetic testing, Aged, C9orf72 Protein, business.industry, Dementia, Vascular, nutritional and metabolic diseases, Proteins, medicine.disease, Health Surveys, nervous system diseases, Mutation, RNA-Binding Protein FUS, Neurology (clinical), Geriatrics and Gerontology, business, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery, Developmental Biology
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The objectives of this study were to estimate frontotemporal dementia (FTD) prevalence, identify FTD-related mutations, and correlate FTD phenotype with mutations in a Southern Italian population. The study population consisted of subjects ≥ 50 years of age residing in the Community of Biv. on January 1, 2004, and a door-to-door 2-phase design was used. Genetic and biochemical analyses were done on samples collected from 32 patients. Prevalence rates were 0.6 for Alzheimer's disease, 0.4 for vascular dementia (VD), 3.5 for FTD, 0.2 for Parkinson dementia, and 1.2 for unspecified dementia. Three GRN (1 known and 2 novel) mutations with reduced plasma protein levels were found associated to 3 distinct phenotypes (behavioral, affective, and delirious type). We report an unusually high FTD prevalence in the investigated population, but a low prevalence of Alzheimer's disease. We confirm the heterogeneity of FTD phenotype associated with different GRN mutations.

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2012

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