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Alzheimers Dement (Amst). 2017 Aug 14;8:188-195. doi: 10.1016/j.dadm.2017.07.002. eCollection 2017.

Alzheimer's disease genetic risk variants beyond .

Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Jesse Mez, Jessica R Marden, Shubhabrata Mukherjee, Stefan Walter, Laura E Gibbons, Alden L Gross, Laura B Zahodne, Paola Gilsanz, Paul Brewster, Kwangsik Nho, Paul K Crane, Eric B Larson, M Maria Glymour

Affiliations

  1. Alzheimer's Disease and Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy Center, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA.
  2. Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA.
  3. Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.
  4. Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA, USA.
  5. Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
  6. Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA.
  7. Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Johns Hopkins University Center on Aging and Health, Baltimore, MD, USA.
  8. Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
  9. Institute on Aging & Lifelong Health, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada.
  10. Center for Neuroimaging, Department of Radiology and Imaging Sciences, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA.
  11. Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute, Seattle, WA, USA.

PMID: 28983503 PMCID: PMC5604953 DOI: 10.1016/j.dadm.2017.07.002

Abstract

INTRODUCTION: We hypothesized that, like apolipoprotein E (

METHODS: We used a weighted genetic risk score (GRS) from 21 non-

RESULTS: Higher GRS predicted mortality (hazard ratio = 1.05; 95% confidence interval: 1.00-1.10,

DISCUSSION: Non-

Keywords: APOE; Adult Changes in Thought (ACT); Alzheimer's disease; Cohorts for Heart and Aging Research in Genomic Epidemiology (CHARGE); Collider stratification bias; Genetic risk score; Genome-wide association study (GWAS); Health and Retirement Study (HRS); Longevity; Mortality; Selection bias; Survival analysis; Survivor bias

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