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Two novel loci, COBL and SLC10A2, for Alzheimer's disease in African Americans.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

African Americans' (AAs) late-onset Alzheimer's disease (LOAD) genetic risk profile is incompletely understood. Including clinical covariates in genetic analyses using informed conditioning might improve study power.

Methods

We conducted a genome-wide association study (GWAS) in AAs employing informed conditioning in 1825 LOAD cases and 3784 cognitively normal controls. We derived a posterior liability conditioned on age, sex, diabetes status, current smoking status, educational attainment, and affection status, with parameters informed by external prevalence information. We assessed association between the posterior liability and a genome-wide set of single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), controlling for APOE and ABCA7, identified previously in a LOAD GWAS of AAs.

Results

Two SNPs at novel loci, rs112404845 (P = 3.8 × 10^-8), upstream of COBL, and rs16961023 (P = 4.6 × 10^-8), downstream of SLC10A2, obtained genome-wide significant evidence of association with the posterior liability.

Discussion

An informed conditioning approach can detect LOAD genetic associations in AAs not identified by traditional GWAS.

SUBMITTER: Mez J

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5318231 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Two novel loci, COBL and SLC10A2, for Alzheimer's disease in African Americans.

Mez Jesse J Chung Jaeyoon J Jun Gyungah G Kriegel Joshua J Bourlas Alexandra P AP Sherva Richard R Logue Mark W MW Barnes Lisa L LL Bennett David A DA Buxbaum Joseph D JD Byrd Goldie S GS Crane Paul K PK Ertekin-Taner Nilüfer N Evans Denis D Fallin M Daniele MD Foroud Tatiana T Goate Alison A Graff-Radford Neill R NR Hall Kathleen S KS Kamboh M Ilyas MI Kukull Walter A WA Larson Eric B EB Manly Jennifer J JJ Haines Jonathan L JL Mayeux Richard R Pericak-Vance Margaret A MA Schellenberg Gerard D GD Lunetta Kathryn L KL Farrer Lindsay A LA

Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 20161020 2

<h4>Introduction</h4>African Americans' (AAs) late-onset Alzheimer's disease (LOAD) genetic risk profile is incompletely understood. Including clinical covariates in genetic analyses using informed conditioning might improve study power.<h4>Methods</h4>We conducted a genome-wide association study (GWAS) in AAs employing informed conditioning in 1825 LOAD cases and 3784 cognitively normal controls. We derived a posterior liability conditioned on age, sex, diabetes status, current smoking status, ...[more]

PMID: 27770636

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Two novel loci, COBL and SLC10A2, for Alzheimer's disease in African Americans.

Introduction

Methods

Results

Discussion

Publications

Two novel loci, COBL and SLC10A2, for Alzheimer's disease in African Americans.

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