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Genome-wide structural variant analysis identifies risk loci for non-Alzheimer's dementias

Kaivola, K; Chia, R; Ding, J; Rasheed, M; Fujita, M; Menon, V; Walton, RL; ... Lopez, G; + view all (2023) Genome-wide structural variant analysis identifies risk loci for non-Alzheimer's dementias. Cell Genomics , 3 (6) , Article 100316. 10.1016/j.xgen.2023.100316. Green open access

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Abstract

We characterized the role of structural variants, a largely unexplored type of genetic variation, in two non-Alzheimer's dementias, namely Lewy body dementia (LBD) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD)/amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). To do this, we applied an advanced structural variant calling pipeline (GATK-SV) to short-read whole-genome sequence data from 5,213 European-ancestry cases and 4,132 controls. We discovered, replicated, and validated a deletion in TPCN1 as a novel risk locus for LBD and detected the known structural variants at the C9orf72 and MAPT loci as associated with FTD/ALS. We also identified rare pathogenic structural variants in both LBD and FTD/ALS. Finally, we assembled a catalog of structural variants that can be mined for new insights into the pathogenesis of these understudied forms of dementia.

Type: Article
Title: Genome-wide structural variant analysis identifies risk loci for non-Alzheimer's dementias
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1016/j.xgen.2023.100316
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xgen.2023.100316
Language: English
Additional information: This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
Keywords: Lewy body dementia, frontotemporal dementia, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, structural variant, genome-wide association study, resource, case-control study, non–Alzheimer's dementia
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 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/10172559
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