A genome-wide association study with 1,126,563 individuals identifies new risk loci for Alzheimer’s disease

Douglas P. Wightman; Iris E. Jansen; Jeanne E. Savage; Alexey Shadrin; Shahram Bahrami; Dominic Holland; Arvid Rongve; Sigrid Børte; Bendik S. Winsvold; Ole Kristian Drange; Amy E. Martinsen; Anne Heidi Skogholt; Cristen J. Willer; Geir Bråthen; Ingunn Bosnes; Jonas B. Nielsen; Lars G. Fritsche; Laurent F. Thomas; Linda M. Pedersen; Maiken E. Gabrielsen; Marianne Bakke Johnsen; Tore Wergeland Meisingset; Wei Zhou; Petroula Proitsi; Angela Hodges; Richard Dobson; Latha Velayudhan; Karl Heilbron; Adam Auton; Michelle Agee; Stella Aslibekyan; Elizabeth Babalola; Robert K. Bell; Jessica Bielenberg; Katarzyna Bryc; Emily Bullis; Briana Cameron; Daniella Coker; Gabriel Cuéllar-Partida; Devika Dhamija; Sayantan Das; Sarah L. Elson; Teresa Filshtein; Kipper Fletez‐Brant; Pierre Fontanillas; Will Freyman; Pooja Gandhi; Barry Hicks; David A. Hinds; Karen E. Huber; Ethan M. Jewett; Yunxuan Jiang; Aaron Kleinman; Katelyn Kukar; Vanessa Lane; Keng‐Han Lin; Maya Lowe; Marie K. Luff; Jey C. McCreight; Matthew H. McIntyre; Kimberly F. McManus; Steven J. Micheletti; Meghan E. Moreno; Joanna L. Mountain; Sahar V. Mozaffari; Priyanka Nandakumar; Elizabeth S. Noblin; Jared O’Connell; Aaron A. Petrakovitz; G. David Poznik; Morgan Schumacher; Anjali J. Shastri; Janie F. Shelton; Jingchunzi Shi; Suyash Shringarpure; Chao Tian; Vinh Tran; Joyce Y. Tung; Xin Wang; Wei Wang; Catherine H. Weldon; Peter Wilton; Julia Sealock; Lea K. Davis; Nancy L. Pedersen; Chandra A. Reynolds; Ida Karlsson; Sigurður H. Magnússon; Hreinn Stefánsson; Steinunn Þórðardóttir; Pálmi V. Jónsson; Jón Snædal; Anna Zettergren; Ingmar Skoog; Silke Kern; Margda Wærn; Henrik Zetterberg; Kaj Blennow; Eystein Stordal; Kristian Hveem

doi:10.1038/s41588-021-00921-z

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BiologyDiseaseGenome-wide association studyGeneticsGenetic associationAssociation (psychology)Computational biologySingle-nucleotide polymorphismGeneGenotypeInternal medicineMedicine

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Year: 2021
Type: article
Volume: 53
Issue: 9
Pages: 1276-1282
Citations: 981
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                                    Douglas P. Wightman, 
                                
                                    Iris E. Jansen, 
                                
                                    Jeanne E. Savage
                                
                                et al.
                            
                            (2021). 
                            A genome-wide association study with 1,126,563 individuals identifies new risk loci for Alzheimer’s disease. 
                            Nature Genetics
                            , 53
                            (9)
                            , 1276-1282.
                            https://doi.org/10.1038/s41588-021-00921-z
                        

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DOI: 10.1038/s41588-021-00921-z