Weighted burden analysis of exome-sequenced late onset Alzheimer’s cases and controls provides further evidence for a role for PSEN1 and suggests involvement of the PI3K/Akt/GSK-3β and WNT signalling pathways
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David Curtis,
Kaushiki Bakaya,
Leona Sharma,
Sreejan Bandyopadhyay
Posted 02 Apr 2019
bioRxiv DOI: 10.1101/596007
(published DOI: 10.1111/ahg.12375)
Previous studies have implicated common and rare genetic variants as risk factors for late onset Alzheimer’s disease (AD, LOAD). Here, weighted burden analysis was applied to over 10,000 exome sequenced subjects from the Alzheimer’s Disease Sequencing Project. Analyses were carried out to investigate whether rare variants predicted to have a functional effect within a gene were more commonly seen in cases or in controls. Confirmatory results were obtained for TREM2, ABCA7 and SORL1 . Additional support was provided for PSEN1 (p = 0.0002), which previously had been only weakly implicated in LOAD. There was suggestive evidence that functional variants in PIK3R1, WNT7A, C1R and EXOC5 might increase risk and that variants in TIAF1 and/or NDRG2 might have a protective effect. Overall, there was strong evidence (p = 5 × 10−6) that variants in tyrosine phosphatase genes reduce the risk of developing LOAD. Since PIK3R1 variants are expected to impair PI3K/Akt/GSK-3β signalling while variants in tyrosine phosphatase genes would enhance it, these findings are in line with those from animal models suggesting that this pathway is protective against AD.
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