Korologou-Linden, Roxanna;
Bhatta, Laxmi;
Brumpton, Ben M;
Howe, Laura D;
Millard, Louise AC;
Kolaric, Katarina;
Ben-Shlomo, Yoav;
... Davies, Neil M; + view all
(2022)
The causes and consequences of Alzheimer’s disease: phenome-wide evidence from Mendelian randomization.
Nature Communications
, 13
, Article 4726. 10.1038/s41467-022-32183-6.
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Abstract
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) has no proven causal and modifiable risk factors, or effective interventions. We report a phenome-wide association study (PheWAS) of genetic liability for AD in 334,968 participants of the UK Biobank study, stratified by age. We also examined the effects of AD genetic liability on previously implicated risk factors. We replicated these analyses in the HUNT study. PheWAS hits and previously implicated risk factors were followed up in a Mendelian randomization (MR) framework to identify the causal effect of each risk factor on AD risk. A higher genetic liability for AD was associated with medical history and cognitive, lifestyle, physical and blood-based measures as early as 39 years of age. These effects were largely driven by the APOE gene. The follow-up MR analyses were primarily null, implying that most of these associations are likely to be a consequence of prodromal disease or selection bias, rather than the risk factor causing the disease.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | The causes and consequences of Alzheimer’s disease: phenome-wide evidence from Mendelian randomization |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1038/s41467-022-32183-6 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-32183-6 |
| Language: | English |
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| 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 Population Health Sciences > Institute of Cardiovascular Science UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute of Cardiovascular Science > Population Science and Experimental Medicine UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute of Cardiovascular Science > Population Science and Experimental Medicine > MRC Unit for Lifelong Hlth and Ageing |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10159330 |
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