A comprehensive genetic association study of Alzheimer disease in African Americans.
Document Type
Article
Abstract
OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the association of genetic variation with late-onset Alzheimer disease (AD) in African Americans, including genes implicated in recent genome-wide association studies of whites.
DESIGN: We analyzed a genome-wide set of 2.5 million imputed markers to evaluate the genetic basis of AD in an African American population.
SUBJECTS: Five hundred thirteen well-characterized African American AD cases and 496 cognitively normal African American control subjects.
SETTING: Data were collected from multiple sites as part of the Multi-Institutional Research on Alzheimer Genetic Epidemiology (MIRAGE) Study and the Henry Ford Health System as part of the Genetic and Environmental Risk Factors for Alzheimer Disease Among African Americans (GenerAAtions) Study.
RESULTS: Several significant single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) were observed in the region of the apolipoprotein E gene (APOE). After adjusting for the confounding effects of APOE genotype, one of these SNPs, rs6859 in PVRL2, remained significantly associated with AD (P = .0087). Association was also observed with SNPs in CLU, PICALM, BIN1, EPHA1, MS4A, ABCA7, and CD33, although the effect direction for some SNPs and the most significant SNPs differed from findings in data sets consisting of whites. Finally, using the African American genome-wide association study data set as a discovery sample, we obtained suggestive evidence of association with SNPs for several novel candidate genes.
CONCLUSIONS: Some genes contribute to AD pathogenesis in both white and African American cohorts, although it is unclear whether the causal variants are the same. A larger African American sample will be needed to confirm novel gene associations, which may be population specific.
Medical Subject Headings
African Americans; Age of Onset; Aged; Alzheimer Disease; Apolipoprotein E2; Apolipoprotein E3; Apolipoprotein E4; Case-Control Studies; Female; Genetic Predisposition to Disease; Genome-Wide Association Study; Genotype; Humans; Male; Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide
Publication Date
12-1-2011
Publication Title
Archives of neurology
ISSN
1538-3687
Volume
68
Issue
12
First Page
1569
Last Page
1579
PubMed ID
22159054
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
10.1001/archneurol.2011.646
Recommended Citation
Logue, Mark W; Schu, Matthew; Vardarajan, Badri N; Buros, Jacki; Green, Robert C; Go, Rodney C P; Griffith, Patrick; Obisesan, Thomas O; Shatz, Rhonna; Borenstein, Amy; Cupples, L Adrienne; Lunetta, Kathryn L; Fallin, M Daniele; Baldwin, Clinton T; Farrer, Lindsay A; and Sabbagh, Marwan N., "A comprehensive genetic association study of Alzheimer disease in African Americans." (2011). Neurology. 1074.
https://scholar.barrowneuro.org/neurology/1074