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ApoE4 lowers age at onset in patients with frontotemporal dementia and tauopathy independent of amyloid-β copathology

Koriath, C; Lashley, T; Taylor, W; Druyeh, R; Dimitriadis, A; Denning, N; Williams, J; ... Mead, S; + view all (2019) ApoE4 lowers age at onset in patients with frontotemporal dementia and tauopathy independent of amyloid-β copathology. Alzheimer's and Dementia: Diagnosis, Assessment and Disease Monitoring , 11 pp. 277-280. 10.1016/j.dadm.2019.01.010. Green open access

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Abstract

INTRODUCTION: Apolipoprotein E (ApoE) is the most important genetic risk factor for Alzheimer's disease (AD), with ApoE4 thought to enhance and accelerate amyloid-β (Aβ) pathology. ApoE4 has recently been described to increase neurodegeneration in a mouse model of frontotemporal dementia (FTD), in vitro, and in patients, demonstrating that ApoE4 modifies tauopathy independently of Aβ. This raises the question whether ApoE genotype also modifies the clinical phenotype in patients with FTD with tau pathology. // METHODS: We analyzed 704 patients with FTD, including a genetically and neuropathologically confirmed subset, and 452 healthy elderly controls. We compared ApoE4 genotype frequency and age at onset in tau+ or TDP43+ FTD patients with or without Aβ copathology. // RESULTS: The ApoE4 genotype lowered age at onset in patients with FTD and tau pathology, particularly once accounting for confounding effects of Aβ pathology. // DISCUSSION: We conclude that ApoE4 accelerates neurodegeneration in FTD patients with MAPT mutations or FTLD-tau pathology, independent of Aβ.

Type: Article
Title: ApoE4 lowers age at onset in patients with frontotemporal dementia and tauopathy independent of amyloid-β copathology
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1016/j.dadm.2019.01.010
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dadm.2019.01.010
Language: English
Additional information: © 2019 The Authors. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > UCL Institute of Prion Diseases
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > UCL Institute of Prion Diseases > MRC Prion Unit at UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology > Neurodegenerative Diseases
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10071446
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