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1. Identification and description of three families with familial Alzheimer disease that segregate variants in the SORL1 gene

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Håkan Thonberg, Huei-Hsin Chiang, Lena Lilius, Charlotte Forsell, Anna-Karin Lindström, Charlotte Johansson, Jenny Björkström, Steinunn Thordardottir, Kristel Sleegers, Christine Van Broeckhoven, Annica Rönnbäck, and Caroline Graff

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Alzheimer disease, Whole-exome sequencing, SORL1, Inherited, Familial, Neurology. Diseases of the nervous system, RC346-429
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Abstract Alzheimer disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder and the most common form of dementia. The majority of AD cases are sporadic, while up to 5% are families with an early onset AD (EOAD). Mutations in one of the three genes: amyloid beta precursor protein (APP), presenilin 1 (PSEN1) or presenilin 2 (PSEN2) can be disease causing. However, most EOAD families do not carry mutations in any of these three genes, and candidate genes, such as the sortilin-related receptor 1 (SORL1), have been suggested to be potentially causative. To identify AD causative variants, we performed whole-exome sequencing on five individuals from a family with EOAD and a missense variant, p.Arg1303Cys (c.3907C > T) was identified in SORL1 which segregated with disease and was further characterized with immunohistochemistry on two post mortem autopsy cases from the same family. In a targeted re-sequencing effort on independent index patients from 35 EOAD-families, a second SORL1 variant, c.3050-2A > G, was found which segregated with the disease in 3 affected and was absent in one unaffected family member. The c.3050-2A > G variant is located two nucleotides upstream of exon 22 and was shown to cause exon 22 skipping, resulting in a deletion of amino acids Gly1017- Glu1074 of SORL1. Furthermore, a third SORL1 variant, c.5195G > C, recently identified in a Swedish case control cohort included in the European Early-Onset Dementia (EU EOD) consortium study, was detected in two affected siblings in a third family with familial EOAD. The finding of three SORL1-variants that segregate with disease in three separate families with EOAD supports the involvement of SORL1 in AD pathology. The cause of these rare monogenic forms of EOAD has proven difficult to find and the use of exome and genome sequencing may be a successful route to target them.

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2017
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2. 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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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
Abstract

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. Pathogenic huntingtin repeat expansions in patients with frontotemporal dementia and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

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Ramita Dewan, Ruth Chia, Jinhui Ding, Richard A. Hickman, Thor D. Stein, Yevgeniya Abramzon, Sarah Ahmed, Marya S. Sabir, Makayla K. Portley, Arianna Tucci, Kristina Ibáñez, F.N.U. Shankaracharya, Pamela Keagle, Giacomina Rossi, Paola Caroppo, Fabrizio Tagliavini, Maria L. Waldo, Per M. Johansson, Christer F. Nilsson, James B. Rowe, Luisa Benussi, Giuliano Binetti, Roberta Ghidoni, Edwin Jabbari, Coralie Viollet, Jonathan D. Glass, Andrew B. Singleton, Vincenzo Silani, Owen A. Ross, Mina Ryten, Ali Torkamani, Toshiko Tanaka, Luigi Ferrucci, Susan M. Resnick, Stuart Pickering-Brown, Christopher B. Brady, Neil Kowal, John A. Hardy, Vivianna Van Deerlin, Jean Paul Vonsattel, Matthew B. Harms, Huw R. Morris, Raffaele Ferrari, John E. Landers, Adriano Chiò, J. Raphael Gibbs, Clifton L. Dalgard, Sonja W. Scholz, Bryan J. Traynor, Adelani Adeleye, Camille Alba, Dagmar Bacikova, Daniel N. Hupalo, Elisa McGrath Martinez, Harvey B. Pollard, Gauthaman Sukumar, Anthony R. Soltis, Meila Tuck, Xijun Zhang, Matthew D. Wilkerson, Bradley N. Smith, Nicola Ticozzi, Claudia Fallini, Athina Soragia Gkazi, Simon D. Topp, Jason Kost, Emma L. Scotter, Kevin P. Kenna, Jack W. Miller, Cinzia Tiloca, Caroline Vance, Eric W. Danielson, Claire Troakes, Claudia Colombrita, Safa Al-Sarraj, Elizabeth A. Lewis, Andrew King, Daniela Calini, Viviana Pensato, Barbara Castellotti, Jacqueline de Belleroche, Frank Baas, Anneloor L.M.A. ten Asbroek, Peter C. Sapp, Diane McKenna-Yasek, Russell L. McLaughlin, Meraida Polak, Seneshaw Asress, Jesús Esteban-Pérez, José Luis Muñoz-Blanco, Zorica Stevic, Sandra D’Alfonso, Letizia Mazzini, Giacomo P. Comi, Roberto Del Bo, Mauro Ceroni, Stella Gagliardi, Giorgia Querin, Cinzia Bertolin, Wouter van Rheenen, Frank P. Diekstra, Rosa Rademakers, Marka van Blitterswijk, Kevin B. Boylan, Giuseppe Lauria, Stefano Duga, Stefania Corti, Cristina Cereda, Lucia Corrado, Gianni Sorarù, Kelly L. Williams, Garth A. Nicholson, Ian P. Blair, Claire Leblond-Manry, Guy A. Rouleau, Orla Hardiman, Karen E. Morrison, Jan H. Veldink, Leonard H. van den Berg, Ammar Al-Chalabi, Hardev Pall, Pamela J. Shaw, Martin R. Turner, Kevin Talbot, Franco Taroni, Alberto García-Redondo, Zheyang Wu, Cinzia Gellera, Antonia Ratti, Robert H. Brown, Christopher E. Shaw, John C. Ambrose, Prabhu Arumugam, Emma L. Baple, Marta Bleda, Freya Boardman-Pretty, Jeanne M. Boissiere, Christopher R. Boustred, H. Brittain, Mark J. Caulfield, Georgia C. Chan, Clare E.H. Craig, Louise C. Daugherty, Anna de Burca, Andrew Devereau, Greg Elgar, Rebecca E. Foulger, Tom Fowler, Pedro Furió-Tarí, Joanne M. Hackett, Dina Halai, Angela Hamblin, Shirley Henderson, James E. Holman, Tim J.P. Hubbard, Rob Jackson, Louise J. Jones, Dalia Kasperaviciute, Melis Kayikci, Lea Lahnstein, Kay Lawson, Sarah E.A. Leigh, Ivonne U.S. Leong, Javier F. Lopez, Fiona Maleady-Crowe, Joanne Mason, Ellen M. McDonagh, Loukas Moutsianas, Michael Mueller, Nirupa Murugaesu, Anna C. Need, Chris A. Odhams, Christine Patch, Daniel Perez-Gil, Dimitris Polychronopoulos, John Pullinger, Tahrima Rahim, Augusto Rendon, Pablo Riesgo-Ferreiro, Tim Rogers, Kevin Savage, Kushmita Sawant, Richard H. Scott, Afshan Siddiq, Alexander Sieghart, Damian Smedley, Katherine R. Smith, Alona Sosinsky, William Spooner, Helen E. Stevens, Alexander Stuckey, Razvan Sultana, Ellen R.A. Thomas, Simon R. Thompson, Carolyn Tregidgo, Emma Walsh, Sarah A. Watters, Matthew J. Welland, Eleanor Williams, Katarzyna Witkowska, Suzanne M. Wood, Magdalena Zarowiecki, Sampath Arepalli, Pavan Auluck, Robert H. Baloh, Robert Bowser, Alexis Brice, James Broach, William Camu, John Cooper-Knock, Philippe Corcia, Carsten Drepper, Vivian E. Drory, Travis L. Dunckley, Faraz Faghri, Jennifer Farren, Eva Feldman, Mary Kay Floeter, Pietro Fratta, Glenn Gerhard, Summer B. Gibson, Stephen A. Goutman, Terry D. Heiman-Patterson, Dena G. Hernandez, Ben Hoover, Lilja Jansson, Freya Kamel, Janine Kirby, Neil W. Kowall, Hannu Laaksovirta, Francesco Landi, Isabelle Le Ber, Serge Lumbroso, Daniel JL. MacGowan, Nicholas J. Maragakis, Gabriele Mora, Kevin Mouzat, Liisa Myllykangas, Mike A. Nalls, Richard W. Orrell, Lyle W. Ostrow, Roger Pamphlett, Erik Pioro, Stefan M. Pulst, John M. Ravits, Alan E. Renton, Wim Robberecht, Ian Robey, Ekaterina Rogaeva, Jeffrey D. Rothstein, Michael Sendtner, Katie C. Sidle, Zachary Simmons, David J. Stone, Pentti J. Tienari, John Q. Trojanowski, Juan C. Troncoso, Miko Valori, Philip Van Damme, Ludo Van Den Bosch, Lorne Zinman, Diego Albani, Barbara Borroni, Alessandro Padovani, Amalia Bruni, Jordi Clarimon, Oriol Dols-Icardo, Ignacio Illán-Gala, Alberto Lleó, Adrian Danek, Daniela Galimberti, Elio Scarpini, Maria Serpente, Caroline Graff, Huei-Hsin Chiang, Behzad Khoshnood, Linn Öijerstedt, Christopher M. Morris, Benedetta Nacmias, Sandro Sorbi, Jorgen E. Nielsen, Lynne E. Hjermind, Valeria Novelli, Annibale A. Puca, Pau Pastor, Ignacio Alvarez, Monica Diez-Fairen, Miquel Aguilar, Robert Perneczky, Janine Diehl-Schimd, Mina Rossi, Agustin Ruiz, Mercè Boada, Isabel Hernández, Sonia Moreno-Grau, Johannes C. Schlachetzki, Dag Aarsland, Marilyn S. Albert, Johannes Attems, Matthew J. Barrett, Thomas G. Beach, Lynn M. Bekris, David A. Bennett, Lilah M. Besser, Eileen H. Bigio, Sandra E. Black, Bradley F. Boeve, Ryan C. Bohannan, Francesca Brett, Maura Brunetti, Chad A. Caraway, Jose-Alberto Palma, Andrea Calvo, Antonio Canosa, Dennis Dickson, Charles Duyckaerts, Kelley Faber, Tanis Ferman, Margaret E. Flanagan, Gianluca Floris, Tatiana M. Foroud, Juan Fortea, Ziv Gan-Or, Steve Gentleman, Bernardino Ghetti, Jesse Raphael Gibbs, Alison Goate, David Goldstein, Isabel González-Aramburu, Neill R. Graff-Radford, Angela K. Hodges, Heng-Chen Hu, Daniel Hupalo, Jon Infante, Alex Iranzo, Scott M. Kaiser, Horacio Kaufmann, Julia Keith, Ronald C. Kim, Gregory Klein, Rejko Krüger, Walter Kukull, Amanda Kuzma, Carmen Lage, Suzanne Lesage, James B. Leverenz, Giancarlo Logroscino, Grisel Lopez, Seth Love, Qinwen Mao, Maria Jose Marti, Elisa Martinez-McGrath, Mario Masellis, Eliezer Masliah, Patrick May, Ian McKeith, Marek-Marsel Mesulam, Edwin S. Monuki, Kathy L. Newell, Lucy Norcliffe-Kaufmann, Laura Palmer, Matthew Perkins, Olga Pletnikova, Laura Molina-Porcel, Regina H. Reynolds, Eloy Rodríguez-Rodríguez, Jonathan D. Rohrer, Pascual Sanchez-Juan, Clemens R. Scherzer, Geidy E. Serrano, Vikram Shakkottai, Ellen Sidransky, Nahid Tayebi, Alan J. Thomas, Bension S. Tilley, Ronald L. Walton, Randy Woltjer, Zbigniew K. Wszolek, Georgia Xiromerisiou, Chiara Zecca, Hemali Phatnani, Justin Kwan, Dhruv Sareen, James R. Broach, Ximena Arcila-Londono, Edward B. Lee, Neil A. Shneider, Ernest Fraenkel, Noah Zaitlen, James D. Berry, Andrea Malaspina, Gregory A. Cox, Leslie M. Thompson, Steve Finkbeiner, Efthimios Dardiotis, Timothy M. Miller, Siddharthan Chandran, Suvankar Pal, Eran Hornstein, Daniel J. MacGowan, Terry Heiman-Patterson, Molly G. Hammell, Nikolaos.A. Patsopoulos, Oleg Butovsky, Joshua Dubnau, Avindra Nath, Matt Harms, Eleonora Aronica, Mary Poss, Jennifer Phillips-Cremins, John Crary, Nazem Atassi, Dale J. Lange, Darius J. Adams, Leonidas Stefanis, Marc Gotkine, Suma Babu, Towfique Raj, Sabrina Paganoni, Ophir Shalem, Colin Smith, Bin Zhang, Brent Harris, Iris Broce, Vivian Drory, John Ravits, Corey McMillan, Vilas Menon, Lani Wu, Steven Altschuler, Khaled Amar, Neil Archibald, Oliver Bandmann, Erica Capps, Alistair Church, Jan Coebergh, Alyssa Costantini, Peter Critchley, Boyd CP. Ghosh, Michele T.M. Hu, Christopher Kobylecki, P. Nigel Leigh, Carl Mann, Luke A. Massey, Uma Nath, Nicola Pavese, Dominic Paviour, Jagdish Sharma, Jenny Vaughan, HUS Neurocenter, Neurologian yksikkö, Department of Neurosciences, Clinicum, Pentti Tienari / Principal Investigator, Parkinson's UK, Human Genetics, ARD - Amsterdam Reproduction and Development, ANS - Complex Trait Genetics, Pathology, ANS - Cellular & Molecular Mechanisms, AII - Inflammatory diseases, Universidad de Cantabria, Rowe, James [0000-0001-7216-8679], and Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository

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0301 basic medicine, Huntington's Disease, Pathology, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Huntingtin, Neurology, 1702 Cognitive Sciences, International ALS/FTD Genomics Consortium, Neurodegenerative, frontotemporal dementia, 3124 Neurology and psychiatry, 0302 clinical medicine, Medicine, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, Psychology, Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Aetiology, Alzheimer's Disease Related Dementias (ADRD), NYGC ALS Consortium, Huntingtin Protein, DNA Repeat Expansion, General Neuroscience, Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD), International FTD Genetics Consortium, whole-genome sequencing, Frontotemporal Dementia, Neurological, Cognitive Sciences, Lewy body dementia, huntingtin, repeat expansions, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, Humans, Mutation, Whole Genome Sequencing, Frontotemporal dementia, Huntington’s disease, medicine.medical_specialty, congenital, hereditary, and neonatal diseases and abnormalities, FALS Sequencing Consortium, Article, 03 medical and health sciences, Atrophy, Rare Diseases, American Genome Center, Clinical Research, mental disorders, Genetics, Acquired Cognitive Impairment, Dementia, PROSPECT Consortium, Neurology & Neurosurgery, Lewy body, business.industry, International LBD Genomics Consortium, Neurosciences, 3112 Neurosciences, Alzheimer's Disease including Alzheimer's Disease Related Dementias (AD/ADRD), nutritional and metabolic diseases, medicine.disease, Brain Disorders, nervous system diseases, 030104 developmental biology, Genomics England Research Consortium, 1701 Psychology, ALS, business, 1109 Neurosciences, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery
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Hannu Laaksovirta konsortion jäsenenä. The Genomics England Research Consortium, The International ALS/FTD Genomics Consortium (iAFGC), The International FTD Genetics Consortium (IFGC), The International LBD Genomics Consortium (iLBDGC), The NYGC ALS Consortium, The PROSPECT Consortium,17 James B. Rowe,17 Luisa Benussi,18 Giuliano Binetti,18,19 Roberta Ghidoni,18 Edwin Jabbari,20,21 Coralie Viollet,22 Jonathan D. Glass,23 Andrew B. Singleton,24 Vincenzo Silani,25,26 Owen A. Ross,27 Mina Ryten,8,28,29 Ali Torkamani,30 Toshiko Tanaka,31 Luigi Ferrucci,31 Susan M. Resnick,32 We examined the role of repeat expansions in the pathogenesis of frontotemporal dementia (FTD) and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) by analyzing whole-genome sequence data from 2,442 FTD/ALS patients, 2,599 Lewy body dementia (LBD) patients, and 3,158 neurologically healthy subjects. Pathogenic expansions (range, 40?64 CAG repeats) in the huntingtin (HTT) gene were found in three (0.12%) patients diagnosed with pure FTD/ALS syndromes but were not present in the LBD or healthy cohorts. We replicated our findings in an independent collection of 3,674 FTD/ALS patients. Postmortem evaluations of two patients revealed the classical TDP-43 pathology of FTD/ALS, as well as huntingtin-positive, ubiquitin-positive aggregates in the frontal cortex. The neostriatal atrophy that pathologically defines Huntington?s disease was absent in both cases. Our findings reveal an etiological relationship between HTT repeat expansions and FTD/ALS syndromes and indicate that genetic screening of FTD/ALS patients for HTT repeat expansions should be considered. We examined the role of repeat expansions in the pathogenesis of frontotemporal dementia (FTD) and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) by analyzing whole-genome sequence data from 2,442 FTD/ALS patients, 2,599 Lewy body dementia (LBD) patients, and 3,158 neurologically healthy subjects. Pathogenic expansions (range, 40?64 CAG repeats) in the huntingtin (HTT) gene were found in three (0.12%) patients diagnosed with pure FTD/ALS syndromes but were not present in the LBD or healthy cohorts. We replicated our findings in an independent collection of 3,674 FTD/ALS patients. Postmortem evaluations of two patients revealed the classical TDP-43 pathology of FTD/ALS, as well as huntingtin-positive, ubiquitin-positive aggregates in the frontal cortex. The neostriatal atrophy that pathologically defines Huntington?s disease was absent in both cases. Our findings reveal an etiological relationship between HTT repeat expansions and FTD/ALS syndromes and indicate that genetic screening of FTD/ALS patients for HTT repeat expansions should be considered.

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2020
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5. Mendelian randomization implies no direct causal association between leukocyte telomere length and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

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Manuel Mayhaus, Sandro Sorbi, Peter R. Schofield, A. Rollin, A. Karydas, Alessandro Padovani, Gilles Gasparoni, Peter St George-Hyslop, Carol Dobson-Stone, Stefano F. Cappa, D. S. Knopman, John Hardy, John R. Hodges, Graziella Milan, Florence Pasquier, Christopher Morris, Edward D. Huey, Marc Cruts, Y.A.L. Pijnenburg, R. C. Petersen, Elisa Rubino, P. Scheltens, Vincent Deramecourt, Neil Graff-Radford, Elio Scarpini, Ting Wang, Panagiotis Alexopoulos, Peter Heutink, Lena E. Hjermind, AB Singleton, Jordan Grafman, Elizabeth Thompson, Adrian Danek, Pietro Pietrini, Raffaele Ferrari, Innocenzo Rainero, C. Van Broeckhoven, Rosa Capozzo, Adaikalavan Ramasamy, J. van der Zee, Eric M. Wassermann, Karin Nilsson, Ging-Yuek Robin Hsiung, J. C. van Swieten, Ping Zeng, Rosa Rademakers, Siro Bagnoli, Amalia C. Bruni, Anna Richardson, Dimitrios Kapogiannis, Ian R. A. Mackenzie, Martin N. Rossor, Bruce L. Miller, Roberta Ghidoni, Raffaele Maletta, Massimo Franceschi, Rafael Blesa, Vivianna M. Van Deerlin, Christer Nilsson, Glenda M. Halliday, Jordi Clarimón, John Q. Trojanowski, Michael Tierney, Valeria Novelli, Agustín Ruiz, Didier Hannequin, Giorgio Giaccone, Elise G.P. Dopper, Nicoletta Smirne, F Tagliavini, I. Leber, Julie S. Snowden, Sara Rollinson, Alexis Brice, Ian G. McKeith, John E. Nielsen, Paolo Sorrentino, Véronique Golfier, Maura Gallo, Lauren Bartley, B. F. Boeve, Giancarlo Logroscino, Elena Alonso, Lorenzo Pinessi, Matt Baker, Nigel J. Cairns, Matthias Riemenschneider, William S. Brooks, Alexander Gerhard, Mark Kristiansen, Eric Haan, Israel Hernandez, Ekaterina Rogaeva, Jason D. Warren, Thibaud Lebouvier, Nick C. Fox, Stuart Pickering-Brown, Giacomina Rossi, Carlos Cruchaga, G. Binetti, Maria Landqvist Waldö, William W. Seeley, Jonathan D. Rohrer, Keith A. Josephs, Diego Albani, Wei Gu, Huei-Hsin Chiang, Luigi Ferrucci, H. Zhao, Howie Rosen, Pau Pastor, Alfredo Postiglione, Evelyn Jaros, Livia Bernardi, Dena G. Hernandez, Alberto Lleó, James B. Rowe, Parastoo Momeni, Maria Serpente, Huw R. Morris, Timothy D. Griffiths, Maria Grazia Spillantini, Alan J. Thomas, Maria Elena Conidi, M. Anfossi, Sabrina Pichler, Martine Vercelletto, Murray Grossman, Johannes C. M. Schlachetzki, Gianluigi Forloni, Dennis W. Dickson, Chiara Fenoglio, Olivier Piguet, John B.J. Kwok, Benedetta Nacmias, Harro Seelaar, Robert Perneczky, A. Baborie, Patrizia Rizzu, Y. Gao, Simon Mead, Janine Diehl-Schmid, Sara Ortega-Cubero, Mike A. Nalls, Daniela Galimberti, Annibale Alessandro Puca, Cristina Razquin, Mercè Boada, Johannes Attems, Luisa Benussi, Chiara Cupidi, Irene Piaceri, Xinghao Yu, Joseph E. Parisi, Alexander Kurz, John Collinge, James Uphill, Barbara Borroni, Francesca Frangipane, Caroline Graff, Bernd Ibach, D. M. A. Mann, Amsterdam Neuroscience - Neurodegeneration, Human genetics, Neurology, Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository, and Int FTD-Genomics Consortium IFGC

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0301 basic medicine, Oncology, lcsh:Medicine, Genome-wide association study, Neurodegenerative, 631/208, 0302 clinical medicine, Leukocytes, Odds Ratio, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, Aetiology, Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, lcsh:Science, Telomerase, Telomere Shortening, education.field_of_study, Multidisciplinary, 692/617, article, Mendelian Randomization Analysis, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, Asian Continental Ancestry Group, Cholesterol, European Continental Ancestry Group, Genome-Wide Association Study, Humans, Lipoproteins, LDL, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Proportional Hazards Models, Telomere, Frontotemporal Dementia, Single Nucleotide, Neurology, Engineering sciences. Technology, 692/499, medicine.medical_specialty, Lipoproteins, 692/308, Population, White People, LDL, Mendelian randomization (MR) , leukocyte telomere length (LTL) , amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), 03 medical and health sciences, Medical research, Rare Diseases, Asian People, Internal medicine, Mendelian randomization, Genetics, medicine, Polymorphism, education, Genetic association, business.industry, Proportional hazards model, International FTD-Genomics Consortium, lcsh:R, Neurosciences, Odds ratio, medicine.disease, Computational biology and bioinformatics, Brain Disorders, 030104 developmental biology, Risk factors, lcsh:Q, 631/114, ALS, business, ddc:600, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery
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Funder: QingLan Research Project of Jiangsu for Outstanding Young Teachers, Funder: Project funded by Postdoctoral Science Foundation of Xuzhou Medical University, Funder: Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions (PAPD) for Xuzhou Medical University, We employed Mendelian randomization (MR) to evaluate the causal relationship between leukocyte telomere length (LTL) and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) with summary statistics from genome-wide association studies (n = ~ 38,000 for LTL and ~ 81,000 for ALS in the European population; n = ~ 23,000 for LTL and ~ 4,100 for ALS in the Asian population). We further evaluated mediation roles of lipids in the pathway from LTL to ALS. The odds ratio per standard deviation decrease of LTL on ALS was 1.10 (95% CI 0.93–1.31, p = 0.274) in the European population and 0.75 (95% CI 0.53–1.07, p = 0.116) in the Asian population. This null association was also detected between LTL and frontotemporal dementia in the European population. However, we found that an indirect effect of LTL on ALS might be mediated by low density lipoprotein (LDL) or total cholesterol (TC) in the European population. These results were robust against extensive sensitivity analyses. Overall, our MR study did not support the direct causal association between LTL and the ALS risk in neither population, but provided suggestive evidence for the mediation role of LDL or TC on the influence of LTL and ALS in the European population.

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2020
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6. No common founder for C9orf72 expansion mutation in Sweden

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Anna-Karin Lindström, Håkan Thonberg, Huei-Hsin Chiang, Caroline Graff, Lena Lilius, Charlotte Forsell, and Inger Nennesmo

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Adult, Male, 0301 basic medicine, Chromosome 9, Single-nucleotide polymorphism, Biology, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, C9orf72, Genetics, medicine, Humans, SNP, Gene, Genetics (clinical), Aged, Aged, 80 and over, Sweden, DNA Repeat Expansion, C9orf72 Protein, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, Haplotype, Proteins, Middle Aged, medicine.disease, 030104 developmental biology, Haplotypes, Frontotemporal Dementia, Mutation (genetic algorithm), Female, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery, Frontotemporal dementia
Abstract

Hexanucleotide expansion mutations in the chromosome 9 open reading frame 72 (C9orf72) gene is the most common genetic cause for frontotemporal dementia (FTD) and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). SNP haplotype analyses have suggested that all C9orf72 expansion mutations originate from a common founder. However, not all C9orf72 expansion mutation carriers have the same haplotype. To investigate if the C9orf72 expansion mutation carriers in Sweden share a common founder, we have genotyped SNPs flanking the C9orf72 expansion mutation in cases with FTD, FTD-ALS or ALS to perform haplotype analysis. We have genotyped 57 SNPs in 232 cases of which 45 carried the C9orf72 expansion mutation. Two risk haplotypes consisting of 31 SNPs, spanning 131 kbp, were found to be significantly associated with the mutation. In summary, haplotype analysis on Swedish C9orf72 expansion mutation carriers indicates that the C9orf72 expansion mutation arose on at least two risk haplotypes.

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2016
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7. 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
Abstract

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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8. 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

9. Rare Variants inPLD3Do Not Affect Risk for Early-Onset Alzheimer Disease in a European Consortium Cohort

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Kristel Sleegers, Nathalie Geerts, Ellen Gelpi, Lubina Dillen, Caroline Graff, Christine Van Broeckhoven, Tobi Van den Bossche, Albert Lladó, Alessandro Padovani, Sandro Sorbi, Barbara Borroni, Huei-Hsin Chiang, Benedetta Nacmias, Janine Diehl-Schmid, Jordi Clarimón, Patrick Cras, Panagiotis Alexopoulos, Håkan Thonberg, Sara Ortega-Cubero, Julie van der Zee, Radoslav Matej, Rita Cacace, Annelies Laureys, Pau Pastor, Giuliano Binetti, Maria A. Pastor, Raquel Sánchez-Valle, Maria Koutroumani, Rik Vandenberghe, Alexandre de Mendonça, Mathieu Vandenbulcke, Magda Tsolaki, Isabel Santana, Madalena Martins, Peter Paul De Deyn, Zdenek Rohan, Alberto Lleó, Roberta Ghidoni, Maria Rosário Almeida, Sebastiaan Engelborghs, Juan Fortea, and Luisa Benussi

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medicine.medical_specialty, Case-control study, Odds ratio, Biology, medicine.disease, Bioinformatics, 3. Good health, Minor allele frequency, Internal medicine, Cohort, Genetics, medicine, Missense mutation, Alzheimer's disease, Age of onset, Genetics (clinical), Cohort study
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Rare variants in the phospholipase D3 gene (PLD3) were associated with increased risk for late-onset Alzheimer disease (LOAD). We identified a missense mutation in PLD3 in whole-genome sequence data of a patient with autopsy confirmed Alzheimer disease (AD) and onset age of 50 years. Subsequently, we sequenced PLD3 in a Belgian early-onset Alzheimer disease (EOAD) patient (N = 261) and control (N = 319) cohort, as well as in European EOAD patients (N = 946) and control individuals (N = 1,209) ascertained in different European countries. Overall, we identified 22 rare variants with a minor allele frequency

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2015
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10. Identification and description of three families with familial Alzheimer disease that segregate variants in the SORL1 gene

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Charlotte Johansson, Annica Rönnbäck, Anna-Karin Lindström, Huei-Hsin Chiang, Kristel Sleegers, Håkan Thonberg, Steinunn Thordardottir, Lena Lilius, Christine Van Broeckhoven, Caroline Graff, Charlotte Forsell, and Jenny Björkström

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0301 basic medicine, Male, Inherited, Candidate gene, SORL1, Biology, Bioinformatics, lcsh:RC346-429, Presenilin, Pathology and Forensic Medicine, Cohort Studies, 03 medical and health sciences, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Amyloid beta-Protein Precursor, 0302 clinical medicine, Familial, Alzheimer Disease, PSEN2, Exome Sequencing, medicine, PSEN1, Humans, Family, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Exome, lcsh:Neurology. Diseases of the nervous system, Exome sequencing, LDL-Receptor Related Proteins, Aged, Genetics, Aged, 80 and over, Research, Brain, Genetic Variation, Membrane Transport Proteins, Middle Aged, medicine.disease, Immunohistochemistry, 030104 developmental biology, Case-Control Studies, Whole-exome sequencing, Female, Human medicine, Neurology (clinical), Alzheimer's disease, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery
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Alzheimer disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder and the most common form of dementia. The majority of AD cases are sporadic, while up to 5% are families with an early onset AD (EOAD). Mutations in one of the three genes: amyloid beta precursor protein (APP), presenilin 1 (PSEN1) or presenilin 2 (PSEN2) can be disease causing. However, most EOAD families do not carry mutations in any of these three genes, and candidate genes, such as the sortilin-related receptor 1 (SORL1), have been suggested to be potentially causative. To identify AD causative variants, we performed whole-exome sequencing on five individuals from a family with EOAD and a missense variant, p.Arg1303Cys (c.3907C > T) was identified in SORL1 which segregated with disease and was further characterized with immunohistochemistry on two post mortem autopsy cases from the same family. In a targeted re-sequencing effort on independent index patients from 35 EOAD-families, a second SORL1 variant, c.3050-2A > G, was found which segregated with the disease in 3 affected and was absent in one unaffected family member. The c.3050-2A > G variant is located two nucleotides upstream of exon 22 and was shown to cause exon 22 skipping, resulting in a deletion of amino acids Gly1017- Glu1074 of SORL1. Furthermore, a third SORL1 variant, c.5195G > C, recently identified in a Swedish case control cohort included in the European Early-Onset Dementia (EU EOD) consortium study, was detected in two affected siblings in a third family with familial EOAD. The finding of three SORL1-variants that segregate with disease in three separate families with EOAD supports the involvement of SORL1 in AD pathology. The cause of these rare monogenic forms of EOAD has proven difficult to find and the use of exome and genome sequencing may be a successful route to target them. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s40478-017-0441-9) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

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2017

11. Confirmation of high frequency of C9orf72 mutations in patients with frontotemporal dementia from Sweden

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Huei-Hsin Chiang, Linn Öijerstedt, Anna-Karin Lindström, Charlotte Forsell, Caroline Graff, Lena Lilius, Håkan Thonberg, and Jenny Björkström

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0301 basic medicine, Aging, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, C9orf72, mental disorders, medicine, Humans, Dementia, Family history, Mutation frequency, Genetics, C9orf72 Protein, business.industry, General Neuroscience, Memory clinic, medicine.disease, 030104 developmental biology, Frontotemporal Dementia, Porphyria, Acute Intermittent, Mutation, Mutation (genetic algorithm), Neurology (clinical), Geriatrics and Gerontology, Trinucleotide repeat expansion, business, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery, Developmental Biology, Frontotemporal dementia
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Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is the second most common early-onset dementia. Up to half of the cases are familial, and several mutations have been identified as pathogenic. Repeat expansion mutations in C9orf72 are the most common genetic cause of FTD and are particularly frequent in Sweden and Finland. We aimed to determine the mutation frequency in patients with FTD ascertained at a memory clinic in Sweden and assess the inheritance pattern in the families. We screened 132 patients with FTD for mutations in C9orf72, GRN, and MAPT, and the frequency was 34.1%. Two novel variations, not previously published, were found; a pathogenic GRN mutation and a MAPT variation in intron 9 that we report as VUS. The likelihood of finding a mutation was highest in patients with a clear family history of dementia or motor neuron disease (76%), but mutations were also found in apparent sporadic cases. This confirms that FTD cohorts from Sweden have a relatively higher risk of an underlying mutation in all risk categories compared with other reported cohorts.

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2019
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12. C9orf72, age at onset, and ancestry help discriminate behavioral from language variants in FTLD cohorts.

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Costa, Beatrice, Manzoni, Claudia, Bernal-Quiros, Manuel, Kia, Demis A., Aguilar, Miquel, Alvarez, Ignacio, Alvarez, Victoria, Andreassen, Ole, Anfossi, Maria, Bagnoli, Silvia, Benussi, Luisa, Bernardi, Livia, Binetti, Giuliano, Blackburn, Daniel, Boada, Mercè, Borroni, Barbara, Bowns, Lucy, Bråthen, Geir, Bruni, Amalia C., and Huei-Hsin Chiang

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2020
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13. The PSEN1 I143T mutation in a Swedish family with Alzheimer's disease: clinical report and quantification of Aβ in different brain regions

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Huei-Hsin Chiang, Hedvig Welander, Lars O. Tjernberg, Lina Keller, Åsa K. Wallin, Caroline Graff, and Inger Nennesmo

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Adult, Male, medicine.medical_specialty, Amyloid, Neuropathology, Biology, Article, Presenilin, Fatal Outcome, Alzheimer Disease, Internal medicine, PSEN2, Presenilin-1, Genetics, Amyloid precursor protein, PSEN1, medicine, Humans, Genetics (clinical), Family Health, Sweden, Amyloid beta-Peptides, P3 peptide, Brain, medicine.disease, Pedigree, Endocrinology, Mutation, Immunology, biology.protein, Female, Alzheimer's disease
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Early-onset dominantly inherited forms of Alzheimer's disease (AD) are rare, but studies of such cases have revealed important information about the disease mechanisms. Importantly, mutations in amyloid precursor protein (APP), presenilin 1 (PSEN1) and PSEN2, alter the APP processing and lead to an increased amyloid β-peptide (Aβ) 42/40 ratio. This, together with other studies on pathogenic mechanisms, show that Aβ42 is a major player in the etiology of AD. Here, we present a clinical and neuropathological description of a Swedish family with an I143T mutation in the PSEN1 gene, which gives rise to a severe form of AD. We also performed an extensive investigation on the concentration and distribution of Aβ species of different lengths in six brain regions from two mutation carriers. Our study showed that Aβ42 and a longer peptide, Aβ43, were present both in plaque cores and in total amyloid preparations, and were each clearly more frequent than Aβ40 in all examined regions, as shown by both mass spectrometry and immunohistochemistry.

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2010
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14. Progranulin mutation causes frontotemporal dementia in the Swedish Karolinska family

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Huei-Hsin Chiang, Tiina Robins, Inger Nennesmo, Behnosh F. Björk, Lina Rosvall, Karin Axelman, Caroline Graff, and Jesper Brohede

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Epidemiology, DNA Mutational Analysis, Neuropsychological Tests, Biology, medicine.disease_cause, White People, Frameshift mutation, law.invention, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Progranulins, Developmental Neuroscience, law, medicine, Humans, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Genetic Testing, Age of Onset, Frameshift Mutation, Polymerase chain reaction, Aged, Genetic testing, Sweden, Genetics, Mutation, medicine.diagnostic_test, Health Policy, Neurodegenerative Diseases, Middle Aged, medicine.disease, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Phenotype, Temporal Lobe, Frontal Lobe, Pedigree, Psychiatry and Mental health, Intercellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins, Dementia, Neurology (clinical), Geriatrics and Gerontology, Age of onset, Cognition Disorders, Haploinsufficiency, Frontotemporal dementia
Abstract

Background Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is a neurodegenerative disease characterized by cognitive impairment, language dysfunction, and/or changes in personality. Recently it has been shown that progranulin ( GRN ) mutations can cause FTD as well as other neurodegenerative phenotypes. Methods DNA from 30 family members, of whom seven were diagnosed with FTD, in the Karolinska family was available for GRN sequencing. Fibroblast cell mRNA from one affected family member and six control individuals was available for relative quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction to investigate the effect of the mutation. Furthermore, the cDNA of an affected individual was sequenced. Results Clinical and neuropathologic findings of a previously undescribed family branch are presented. A frameshift mutation in GRN (g.102delC) was detected in all affected family members and absent in four unaffected family members older than 70 years. Real-time polymerase chain reaction data showed an ∼50% reduction of GRN fibroblast mRNA in an affected individual. The mutated mRNA transcripts were undetectable by cDNA sequencing. Conclusions Segregation and RNA analyses showed that the g.102delC mutation, previously reported, causes FTD in the Karolinska family. Our findings add further support to the significance of GRN in FTD etiology and the presence of modifying genes, which emphasize the need for further studies into the mechanisms of clinical heterogeneity. However, the results already call for attention to the complexity of predictive genetic testing of GRN mutations.

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2008
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15. Genetic variability in SQSTM1 and risk of early-onset Alzheimer dementia: a European early-onset dementia consortium study

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Julie van der Zee, Roberta Ghidoni, Nathalie Geerts, Huei Hsin Chiang, Giovanni B. Frisoni, Alberto Lleó, Céline Merlin, Alessandro Padovani, Maria Rosário Almeida, Christine Van Broeckhoven, Juan Fortea, Sebastiaan Engelborghs, Raquel Sánchez-Valle, Jordi Clarimón, Håkan Thonberg, Pau Pastor, Karolien Bettens, Luisa Benussi, Benedetta Nacmias, Elise Cuyvers, Giuliano Binetti, Caroline Graff, Janine Diehl-Schmid, Caroline Robberecht, Alexandre de Mendonça, Panagiotis Alexopoulos, Lubina Dillen, Sara Ortega-Cubero, Kristel Sleegers, Ellen Gelpi, Rik Vandenberghe, Sandro Sorbi, Maria A. Pastor, Barbara Borroni, Mathieu Vandenbulcke, Gian Maria Fabrizi, Peter Paul De Deyn, Zdenek Rohan, Radoslav Matěj, Isabel Santana, Madalena Martins, Agustín Ruiz, Albert Lladó, Molecular Neuroscience and Ageing Research (MOLAR), Clinical sciences, Neurology, and Pathologic Biochemistry and Physiology

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NATIONAL INSTITUTE, Male, Aging, genetic association, PATHOGENESIS, SQSTM1/p62, P62, Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing/genetics, SUSCEPTIBILITY, Bioinformatics, AMYOTROPHIC-LATERAL-SCLEROSIS, Cohort Studies, ddc:616.89, 0302 clinical medicine, European early-onset dementia consortium, Belgium, SQSTM1 gene, Sequestosome-1 Protein, genetic variability, middle aged, genetics, exon, SQSTM1 protein, human, Medicine(all), 0303 health sciences, education.field_of_study, SEQUESTOSOME 1/P62, General Neuroscience, Frontotemporal lobar degeneration, Middle Aged, Alzheimer's disease, cohort analysis, meta-analysis, rare variants, female, Genetic Variation/genetics, priority journal, risk factor, Cohort, meta analysis (topic), Female, BONE, PAGETS-DISEASE, prospective study, Risk, medicine.medical_specialty, Neuroscience(all), Clinical Neurology, DNA sequence, gene sequence, signal transducing adaptor protein, gene frequency, Article, Alzheimer Disease/epidemiology, 03 medical and health sciences, Sequestosome 1, Meta-Analysis as Topic, Alzheimer Disease, Internal medicine, medicine, Dementia, Humans, controlled study, Genetic variability, human, education, gene, Belgium/epidemiology, Biology, 030304 developmental biology, Genetic association, Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing, Aged, FRONTOTEMPORAL LOBAR DEGENERATION, business.industry, MUTATIONS, Genetic Variation, Rare variants, Sequence Analysis, DNA, medicine.disease, major clinical study, Minor allele frequency, Ageing, Meta-analysis, Neurology (clinical), Human medicine, Geriatrics and Gerontology, business, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery, Developmental Biology
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Meta-analysis of existing genome-wide association studies on Alzheimer's disease (AD) showed subgenome-wide association of an intronic variant in the sequestosome 1 (SQSTM1) gene with AD. We performed targeted resequencing of SQSTM1 in Flanders-Belgian AD patients selected to be enriched for a genetic background (n = 435) and geographically matched nonaffected individuals (n = 872) to investigate the role of both common and rare SQSTM1 variants. Results were extended to the European early-onset dementia cohorts (926 early-onset Alzheimer's disease [EOAD] patients and 1476 nonaffected individuals). Of the 61 detected exonic variants in SQSTM1, the majority were rare (n = 57). Rare variant (minor allele frequency

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2015

16. Rare Variants in PLD3 Do Not Affect Risk for Early-Onset Alzheimer Disease in a European Consortium Cohort

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Rita Cacace, Tobi Van den Bossche, Sebastiaan Engelborghs, Nathalie Geerts, Annelies Laureys, Lubina Dillen, Caroline Graff, Håkan Thonberg, Huei-Hsin Chiang, Pau Pastor, Sara Ortega-Cubero, Maria A. Pastor, Janine Diehl-Schmid, Panagiotis Alexopoulos, Luisa Benussi, Roberta Ghidoni, Giuliano Binetti, Benedetta Nacmias, Sandro Sorbi, Raquel Sanchez-Valle, Albert Lladó, Ellen Gelpi, and Maria Rosári

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2015
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17. P2‐027: IDENTIFICATION OF A SORL1 MUTATION IN A FAMILY WITH ALZHEIMER DISEASE USING WHOLE EXOME SEQUENCING

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Marie Westerlund, Huei-Hsin Chiang, Charlotte Forsell, and Caroline Graff

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Pathology, medicine.medical_specialty, Epidemiology, Health Policy, SORL1, Hippocampus, Neuropathology, Biology, medicine.disease, Psychiatry and Mental health, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Developmental Neuroscience, Cerebral blood flow, Amyloid precursor protein, biology.protein, medicine, Neurology (clinical), Geriatrics and Gerontology, Alzheimer's disease, Chromosome 21, Trisomy
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to be due to the extra dosage of the amyloid precursor protein(APP) gene: an established risk factor for AD. Studying mouse models of DS have led to a greater understanding of the significance of trisomy 21 and its relationship with AD. The Tc1 DS mouse carries an almost-complete copy of human chromosome 21 but is not functionally trisomic for APP, an important gene in AD development. The unique genetics of the Tc1 allow the study of the DS phenotype without the effects of APP pathology. Initial characterisation showed abnormalities in cerebellar neuronal density and skull morphology; no additional cerebral defects have since been identified. Cerebral blood flow (CBF) is a key biomarker of tissue vitality and function, and regional hypoperfusion has been observed in AD patients. We used arterial spin labeling (ASL) to image CBF in the Tc1 mouse to investigate the specific effects of chromosome 21 on brain function, without the confounding effects of triplication of the APP gene. Methods: Tc1 mice and wild-type (WT) littermates were imaged in vivo using a 9.4T scanner. Anaesthesia was maintained at 1.25% isoflurane during imaging. A flow-sensitive alternating inversion recovery (FAIR) sequence with a 4-shot segmented spin-echo EPI readout was implemented with parameters: 5 slices, slice thickness1⁄41mm, FOV1⁄420x20mm,matrix size1⁄464x64mm. Results: Figure 1 shows the mean CBF for the Tc1 and control mice within the cortex(A) and hippocampus(B). The Tc1 animals demonstrated a significant decreased in CBF(p

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2014
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18. 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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19. Rare mutations in SQSTM1 modify susceptibility to frontotemporal lobar degeneration

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Patrick Cras, Panagiotis Alexopoulos, Bart Dermaut, Robert Perneczky, Raquel Sánchez-Valle, Janine Diehl-Schmid, Christine Van Broeckhoven, Karin Peeters, Peter Paul De Deyn, Marc Cruts, Patrick Santens, Marleen Van den Broeck, Alberto Lleó, Eva Parobkova, Jennifer Müller vom Hagen, Radoslav Matěj, Rik Vandenberghe, Ivailo Tournev, Anne Sieben, Peter De Jonghe, Tobias B. Haack, Julie van der Zee, Eric Salmon, Stayko Sarafov, Philip Van Damme, Sara Ortega-Cubero, Gabriel Miltenberger-Miltenyi, Alexandre de Mendonça, Isabel Santana, Beatriz Santiago, Tim Van Langenhove, Benedetta Nacmias, William Deschamps, Alessandro Padovani, Huei Hsin Chiang, Oriol Dols-Icardo, Sebastiaan Engelborghs, Agustín Ruiz, Céline Merlin, Frank Jessen, Ludger Schöls, Sandro Sorbi, Silvia Testi, Håkan Thonberg, Roberta Ghidoni, Maria Rosário Almeida, Jean Jacques Martin, Frederico Simões do Couto, Holger Prokisch, Maria Mattheijssens, Isabel Hernández, Pau Pastor, Jordi Clarimón, Tim M. Strom, Wim Robberecht, Matthis Synofzik, Kristel Sleegers, Ellen Gelpi, Mathieu Vandenbulcke, Alfredo Ramirez, Christian Bonvicini, Giuliano Binetti, Cristina Razquin, Gian Maria Fabrizi, Mercè Boada, Albena Jordanova, Michael T. Heneka, Gabor G. Kovacs, Silvia Bagnoli, Barbara Borroni, Giovanni B. Frisoni, Katrien Smets, Annelies Laureys, Albert Lladó, Luisa Benussi, Walter Maetzler, Lubina Dillen, Silvana Archetti, Thomas Ströbel, Caroline Graff, and Frisoni, Giovanni

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Male, Pathology, International Cooperation, DNA Mutational Analysis, P62, Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing/genetics, AMYOTROPHIC-LATERAL-SCLEROSIS, DIPEPTIDE-REPEAT PROTEINS, Cohort Studies, ddc:616.89, Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration/genetics/pathology, genetics [Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing], Sequestosome-1 Protein, Medicine and Health Sciences, Coding region, SQSTM1, Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, genetics [Genetic Predisposition to Disease], SQSTM1 protein, human, Genetics, Aged, 80 and over, education.field_of_study, Genetic Predisposition to Disease/genetics, DEMENTIA, p62, GLIAL INCLUSIONS, Frontotemporal lobar degeneration, Middle Aged, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide/genetics, 3. Good health, Europe, DNA-Binding Proteins, Sequestosome 1, genetics [Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide], Female, genetics [Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration], FTLD, BONE, Life Sciences & Biomedicine, Adult, medicine.medical_specialty, DIAGNOSTIC-CRITERIA, Clinical Neurology, Als, Ftld, Rare Variants, Sqstm1, genetics [DNA-Binding Proteins], Biology, BINDING PROTEIN, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Pathology and Forensic Medicine, sequestosome 1, ALS, rare variants, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Meta-Analysis as Topic, mental disorders, medicine, Dementia, Animals, Humans, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, ddc:610, Allele, education, Gene, Aged, Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing, Original Paper, Science & Technology, Neurology & Neurosurgery, pathology [Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration], Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, Neurosciences, Rare variants, 1103 Clinical Sciences, medicine.disease, GENE, Minor allele frequency, PAGET-DISEASE, Neurology (clinical), Human medicine, Neurosciences & Neurology, Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration, 1109 Neurosciences, DNA-Binding Proteins/genetics
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Mutations in the gene coding for Sequestosome 1 (SQSTM1) have been genetically associated with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and Paget disease of bone. In the present study, we analyzed the SQSTM1 coding sequence for mutations in an extended cohort of 1,808 patients with frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD), ascertained within the European Early-Onset Dementia consortium. As control dataset, we sequenced 1,625 European control individuals and analyzed whole-exome sequence data of 2,274 German individuals (total n = 3,899). Association of rare SQSTM1 mutations was calculated in a meta-analysis of 4,332 FTLD and 10,240 control alleles. We identified 25 coding variants in FTLD patients of which 10 have not been described. Fifteen mutations were absent in the control individuals (carrier frequency

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2014
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20. Novel progranulin mutations with reduced serum-progranulin levels in frontotemporal lobar degeneration

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Lena Lilius, Linn Öijerstedt, Inger Nennesmo, Marie Westerlund, Håkan Thonberg, Huei-Hsin Chiang, Steinunn Thordardottir, Caroline Graff, Krishnan Shanmugarajan, and Charlotte Forsell

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Pathology, medicine.medical_specialty, Disease, Biology, medicine.disease_cause, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Article, Cohort Studies, Progranulins, mental disorders, Genetics, medicine, Dementia, Humans, Family, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Mutation frequency, Genetics (clinical), Aged, Aged, 80 and over, Cerebral Cortex, Mutation, Case-control study, nutritional and metabolic diseases, Frontotemporal lobar degeneration, medicine.disease, Immunohistochemistry, nervous system diseases, DNA-Binding Proteins, Case-Control Studies, Intercellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins, Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration, Haploinsufficiency, Microsatellite Repeats
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Frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease with an age at onset generally below 65 years. Mutations in progranulin (GRN) have been reported to be able to cause FTLD through haploinsufficiency. We have sequenced GRN in 121 patients with FTLD and detected six different mutations in eight patients: p.Gly35Glufs*19, p.Asn118Phefs*4, p.Val200Glyfs*18, p.Tyr294*, p.Cys404* and p.Cys416Leufs*30. Serum was available for five of the mutations, where the serum-GRN levels were found to be >50% reduced compared with FTLD patients without GRN mutations. Moreover, the p.Cys416Leufs*30 mutation segregated in an affected family with different dementia diagnoses. The mutation frequency of GRN mutation was 6.6% in our FTLD cohort.

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2013

21. A pan-European study of the C9orf72 repeat associated with FTLD: geographic prevalence, genomic instability, and intermediate repeats

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Julie, van der Zee, Ilse, Gijselinck, Lubina, Dillen, Tim, Van Langenhove, Jessie, Theuns, Sebastiaan, Engelborghs, Stéphanie, Philtjens, Mathieu, Vandenbulcke, Kristel, Sleegers, Anne, Sieben, Veerle, Bäumer, Githa, Maes, Ellen, Corsmit, Barbara, Borroni, Alessandro, Padovani, Silvana, Archetti, Robert, Perneczky, Janine, Diehl-Schmid, Alexandre, de Mendonça, Gabriel, Miltenberger-Miltenyi, Sónia, Pereira, José, Pimentel, Benedetta, Nacmias, Silvia, Bagnoli, Sandro, Sorbi, Caroline, Graff, Huei-Hsin, Chiang, Marie, Westerlund, Raquel, Sanchez-Valle, Albert, Llado, Ellen, Gelpi, Isabel, Santana, Maria Rosário, Almeida, Beatriz, Santiago, Giovanni, Frisoni, Orazio, Zanetti, Cristian, Bonvicini, Matthis, Synofzik, Walter, Maetzler, Jennifer Müller, Vom Hagen, Ludger, Schöls, Michael T, Heneka, Frank, Jessen, Radoslav, Matej, Eva, Parobkova, Gabor G, Kovacs, Thomas, Ströbel, Stayko, Sarafov, Ivailo, Tournev, Albena, Jordanova, Adrian, Danek, Thomas, Arzberger, Gian Maria, Fabrizi, Silvia, Testi, Eric, Salmon, Patrick, Santens, Jean-Jacques, Martin, Patrick, Cras, Rik, Vandenberghe, Peter Paul, De Deyn, Marc, Cruts, Christine, Van Broeckhoven, Peter P, De Deyn, Jennifer, Müller Vom Hagen, Alfredo, Ramirez, Delia, Kurzwelly, Carmen, Sachtleben, Wolfgang, Mairer, Clara, Firmo, Anna, Antonell, Jose, Molinuevo, Anne, Kinhult Ståhlbom, Håkan, Thonberg, Inger, Nennesmo, Anne, Börjesson-Hanson, Valentina, Bessi, Irene, Piaceri, Maria, Helena Ribeiro, Maria, Rosário Almeida, Catarina, Oliveira, João, Massano, Carolina, Garret, Paula, Pires, Adrian, Danel, Gian, Maria Fabrizi, Sergio, Ferrari, Tiziana, Cavallaro, European Early-Onset Dementia (EOD) Consortium, Clinical sciences, Neurology, Physiotherapy, Human Physiology and Anatomy, and Pathologic Biochemistry and Physiology

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epidemiology [Finland], Finland/epidemiology, Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration/epidemiology, genetics [Alzheimer Disease], epidemiology [Spain], genetics [Chromosomes, Human, Pair 9], methods [Genome-Wide Association Study], Cohort Studies, 0302 clinical medicine, Replication slippage, C9orf72, Germany, Prevalence, Age of Onset, epidemiology [Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration], Genetics (clinical), Finland, Research Articles, FTLD, repeat expansion, intermediate alleles, European early-onset dementia consortium, Medicine(all), Genetics, Aged, 80 and over, 0303 health sciences, DNA Repeat Expansion, epidemiology [Europe], Frontotemporal lobar degeneration, Middle Aged, Europe, Proteins/genetics, Genome-Wide Association Study/methods, Spain/epidemiology, genetics [Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration], Chromosomes, Human, Pair 9, Adult, Molecular Sequence Data, Chromosomes, Human, Pair 9/genetics, Germany/epidemiology, epidemiology [Germany], Biology, Genomic Instability, Europe/epidemiology, 03 medical and health sciences, Alzheimer Disease, medicine, Humans, ddc:610, Indel, Alleles, 030304 developmental biology, Aged, Sweden, Alzheimer Disease/genetics, European Early-Onset Dementia consortium, Base Sequence, C9orf72 Protein, Haplotype, Proteins, epidemiology [Sweden], medicine.disease, genetics [Proteins], Sweden/epidemiology, Haplotypes, Spain, Human medicine, C9orf72 protein, human, Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration, Trinucleotide repeat expansion, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery, Genome-Wide Association Study
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We assessed the geographical distribution of C9orf72 G4C2 expansions in a pan-European frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD) cohort (n = 1205), ascertained by the European Early-Onset Dementia (EOD) consortium. Next, we performed a meta-analysis of our data and that of other European studies, together 2,668 patients from 15 Western European countries. The frequency of the C9orf72 expansions in Western Europe was 9.98% in overall FTLD, with 18.52% in familial, and 6.26% in sporadic FTLD patients. Outliers were Finland and Sweden with overall frequencies of respectively 29.33% and 20.73%, but also Spain with 25.49%. In contrast, prevalence in Germany was limited to 4.82%. In addition, we studied the role of intermediate repeats (7 to 24 repeat units), which are strongly correlated with the risk haplotype, on disease and C9orf72 expression. In vitro reporter gene expression studies demonstrated significantly decreased transcriptional activity of C9orf72 with increasing number of normal repeat units, indicating that intermediate repeats might act as predisposing alleles and in favor of the loss-of-function disease mechanism. Further, we observed a significantly increased frequency of short indels in the GC-rich low complexity sequence (LCS) adjacent to the G4C2 repeat in C9orf72 expansion carriers (p < 0.001) with the most common indel creating one long contiguous imperfect G4C2 repeat which is likely more prone to replication slippage and pathological expansion.

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2012
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22. Novel TARDBP mutations in Nordic ALS patients

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Ole Gredal, Huei-Hsin Chiang, Ole-Bjørn Tysnes, Caroline Graff, Peter M. Andersen, and Peter Broegger Christensen

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Male, medicine.medical_specialty, Mutation rate, Denmark, Molecular Sequence Data, Mutation, Missense, Biology, TARDBP, Mutation Rate, Molecular genetics, Genetics, medicine, Missense mutation, Animals, Humans, Amino Acid Sequence, Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Genetics (clinical), Finland, Aged, Sweden, Norway, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, Sequence Analysis, DNA, Middle Aged, medicine.disease, DNA-Binding Proteins, Statistical genetics, Frontotemporal Dementia, Medical genetics, Sequence Alignment, Frontotemporal dementia
Abstract

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a neurodegenerative syndrome primarily affecting the upper and lower motor neurons. A characteristic neuropathological finding in ALS patients is neuronal inclusions positive for TAR DNA-binding protein 43 (TDP-43). Subsequently, mutations in the gene encoding TDP-43, TARDBP, proved to be involved in the development of ALS. We thus sequenced TARDBP in 177 Nordic ALS patients and found two previously reported (p.A90V and p.S379P) and two novel (p.G357R and p.R361T) missense variations in three familial ALS patients. The p.A90V and p.G357R variations were detected in the same patient and p.R361T was present in a family with both ALS and frontotemporal dementia-ALS. None of the missense variations were present in 200 neurologically healthy controls. However, p.A90V has also been reported in healthy individuals by others. Thus, the data suggest that these variations are rare and p.G357R, p.R361T and p.S379P are likely pathogenic but further functional characterization is needed to prove their pathogenicity. The mutation frequency in TARDBP in Nordic ALS patients was 1.7%. The ALS cohort was highly selected for a positive family history suggesting that mutations in TARDBP generally are a rare cause of ALS in Nordic countries.

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2012
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23. Association of TMEM106B Gene Polymorphism With Age at Onset in Granulin Mutation Carriers and Plasma Granulin Protein Levels

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Joanne Norton, Anthony L. Hinrichs, Alison Goate, Jun Wang, Kevin H. Mayo, Huei-Hsin Chiang, John C. Morris, Carlos Cruchaga, Noah Spiegel, Sarah Bertelsen, and Caroline Graff

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Genetics, Linkage disequilibrium, nutritional and metabolic diseases, Granulin, Heterozygote advantage, Single-nucleotide polymorphism, Frontotemporal lobar degeneration, Biology, medicine.disease, nervous system diseases, Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous), mental disorders, medicine, Neurology (clinical), Gene polymorphism, Age of onset, Allele
Abstract

Objective—A recent genome-wide association study for frontotemporal lobar degeneration with TAR DNA-binding protein inclusions (FTLD-TDP), identified rs1990622 (TMEM106B) as a risk factor for FTLD-TDP. In this study we tested whether rs1990622 is associated with age at onset (AAO) in granulin (GRN) mutation carriers and with plasma GRN levels in mutation carriers and healthy elderly individuals. Design—Rs1990622 was genotyped in GRN mutation carriers and tested for association with AAO using the Kaplan-Meier and a Cox proportional hazards model. Subjects—We analyzed 50 affected and unaffected GRN mutation carriers from four previously reported FTLD-TDP families (HDDD1, FD1, HDDD2 and the Karolinska family). GRN plasma levels were also measured in 73 healthy, elderly individuals.

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2011
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24. P1‐091: TMEM106B gene polymorphism is associated with age at onset in granulin mutation carriers and plasma granulin protein levels in healthy individuals

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Joanne Norton, Huei-Hsin Chiang, Caroline Graff, Jun Wang, Anthony L. Hinrichs, John C. Morris, Kevin Mayo, Alison Goate, and Carlos Cruchaga

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Genetics, Psychiatry and Mental health, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Developmental Neuroscience, Epidemiology, Health Policy, Healthy individuals, Mutation (genetic algorithm), Granulin, Neurology (clinical), Gene polymorphism, Geriatrics and Gerontology, Biology
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2010
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25. P1‐054: TARDBP mutation frequency in Scandinavian amyotrophic lateral sclerosis patients

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Peter M. Andersen, Huei-Hsin Chiang, and Caroline Graff

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Pathology, medicine.medical_specialty, Epidemiology, business.industry, Health Policy, medicine.disease, TARDBP, Psychiatry and Mental health, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Developmental Neuroscience, Medicine, Neurology (clinical), Geriatrics and Gerontology, Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Mutation frequency, business
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2010
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26. Identification and description of three families with familial Alzheimer disease that segregate variants in the SORL1 gene.

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Thonberg, Håkan, Huei-Hsin Chiang, Lilius, Lena, Forsell, Charlotte, Lindström, Anna-Karin, Johansson, Charlotte, Björkström, Jenny, Thordardottir, Steinunn, Sleegers, Kristel, Van Broeckhoven, Christine, Rönnbäck, Annica, and Graff, Caroline

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*ALZHEIMER'S disease diagnosis, *PRESENILIN genetics, *GENETIC mutation, *IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY, *NUCLEOTIDE sequencing, *PHYSIOLOGY
Abstract

Alzheimer disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder and the most common form of dementia. The majority of AD cases are sporadic, while up to 5% are families with an early onset AD (EOAD). Mutations in one of the three genes: amyloid beta precursor protein (APP), presenilin 1 (PSEN1) or presenilin 2 (PSEN2) can be disease causing. However, most EOAD families do not carry mutations in any of these three genes, and candidate genes, such as the sortilin-related receptor 1 (SORL1), have been suggested to be potentially causative. To identify AD causative variants, we performed whole-exome sequencing on five individuals from a family with EOAD and a missense variant, p.Arg1303Cys (c.3907C > T) was identified in SORL1 which segregated with disease and was further characterized with immunohistochemistry on two post mortem autopsy cases from the same family. In a targeted re-sequencing effort on independent index patients from 35 EOAD-families, a second SORL1 variant, c.3050-2A > G, was found which segregated with the disease in 3 affected and was absent in one unaffected family member. The c.3050-2A > G variant is located two nucleotides upstream of exon 22 and was shown to cause exon 22 skipping, resulting in a deletion of amino acids Gly1017-Glu1074 of SORL1. Furthermore, a third SORL1 variant, c.5195G > C, recently identified in a Swedish case control cohort included in the European Early-Onset Dementia (EU EOD) consortium study, was detected in two affected siblings in a third family with familial EOAD. The finding of three SORL1-variants that segregate with disease in three separate families with EOAD supports the involvement of SORL1 in AD pathology. The cause of these rare monogenic forms of EOAD has proven difficult to find and the use of exome and genome sequencing may be a successful route to target them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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2017
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27. P3-278: Progranulin mutations in Swedish FTD patients

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Huei-Hsin Chiang, Tiina Robins, Lina Rosvall, and Caroline Graff

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Psychiatry and Mental health, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Developmental Neuroscience, Epidemiology, Health Policy, Neurology (clinical), Geriatrics and Gerontology
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2008
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28. The PSEN1 I143T mutation in a Swedish family with Alzheimer's disease: clinical report and quantification of Aβ in different brain regions.

Author

Keller, Lina, Welander, Hedvig, Huei-Hsin Chiang, Tjernberg, Lars O., Nennesmo, Inger, Wallin, Åsa K., and Graff, Caroline

Subjects
ALZHEIMER'S disease, BASAL ganglia diseases, DISEASES in older people, GLYCOPROTEINS, IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY, ETIOLOGY of diseases
Abstract

Early-onset dominantly inherited forms of Alzheimer's disease (AD) are rare, but studies of such cases have revealed important information about the disease mechanisms. Importantly, mutations in amyloid precursor protein (APP), presenilin 1 (PSEN1) and PSEN2, alter the APP processing and lead to an increased amyloid β-peptide (Aβ) 42/40 ratio. This, together with other studies on pathogenic mechanisms, show that Aβ42 is a major player in the etiology of AD. Here, we present a clinical and neuropathological description of a Swedish family with an I143T mutation in the PSEN1 gene, which gives rise to a severe form of AD. We also performed an extensive investigation on the concentration and distribution of Aβ species of different lengths in six brain regions from two mutation carriers. Our study showed that Aβ42 and a longer peptide, Aβ43, were present both in plaque cores and in total amyloid preparations, and were each clearly more frequent than Aβ40 in all examined regions, as shown by both mass spectrometry and immunohistochemistry. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2010
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