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X-chromosome-wide association study for Alzheimer's disease

  • EADB, GR@ACE, DEGESCO, EADI, GERAD, DemGene, FinnGen, ADGC, CHARGE
  • , Céline Bellenguez*
  • , et al.
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Due to methodological reasons, the X-chromosome has not been featured in the major genome-wide association studies on Alzheimer’s Disease (AD). To address this and better characterize the genetic landscape of AD, we performed an in-depth X-Chromosome-Wide Association Study (XWAS) in 115,841 AD cases or AD proxy cases, including 52,214 clinically-diagnosed AD cases, and 613,671 controls. We considered three approaches to account for the different X-chromosome inactivation (XCI) states in females, i.e. random XCI, skewed XCI, and escape XCI. We did not detect any genome-wide significant signals (P ≤ 5 × 10−8) but identified seven X-chromosome-wide significant loci (P ≤ 1.6 × 10−6). The index variants were common for the Xp22.32, FRMPD4, DMD and Xq25 loci, and rare for the WNK3, PJA1, and DACH2 loci. Overall, this well-powered XWAS found no genetic risk factors for AD on the non-pseudoautosomal region of the X-chromosome, but it identified suggestive signals warranting further investigations.


Original languageEnglish
Number of pages12
JournalMolecular Psychiatry
Early online date4 Dec 2024
DOIs
Publication statusE-pub ahead of print - 4 Dec 2024

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