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SUBMITTER: Shigemizu D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC10310810 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Shigemizu Daichi D Akiyama Shintaro S Suganuma Mutsumi M Furutani Motoki M Yamakawa Akiko A Nakano Yukiko Y Ozaki Kouichi K Niida Shumpei S
Translational psychiatry 20230629 1
Late-onset Alzheimer's disease (LOAD) is the most common multifactorial neurodegenerative disease among elderly people. LOAD is heterogeneous, and the symptoms vary among patients. Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified genetic risk factors for LOAD but not for LOAD subtypes. Here, we examined the genetic architecture of LOAD based on Japanese GWAS data from 1947 patients and 2192 cognitively normal controls in a discovery cohort and 847 patients and 2298 controls in an independe ...[more]