Authors
Kuan-lin Huang, Edoardo Marcora, Anna A Pimenova, Antonio F Di Narzo, Manav Kapoor, Sheng Chih Jin, Oscar Harari, Sarah Bertelsen, Benjamin P Fairfax, Jake Czajkowski, Vincent Chouraki, Benjamin Grenier-Boley, Céline Bellenguez, Yuetiva Deming, Andrew McKenzie, Towfique Raj, Alan E Renton, John Budde, Albert Smith, Annette Fitzpatrick, Joshua C Bis, Anita DeStefano, Hieab HH Adams, M Arfan Ikram, Sven Van Der Lee, Jorge L Del-Aguila, Maria Victoria Fernandez, Laura Ibañez, International Genomics of Alzheimer's Project, Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative, Rebecca Sims, Valentina Escott-Price, Richard Mayeux, Jonathan L Haines, Lindsay A Farrer, Margaret A Pericak-Vance, Jean Charles Lambert, Cornelia van Duijn, Lenore Launer, Sudha Seshadri, Julie Williams, Philippe Amouyel, Gerard D Schellenberg, Bin Zhang, Ingrid Borecki, John SK Kauwe, Carlos Cruchaga, Ke Hao, Alison M Goate
Publication date
2017/8/1
Journal
Nature neuroscience
Volume
20
Issue
8
Pages
1052-1061
Publisher
Nature Publishing Group US
Description
A genome-wide survival analysis of 14,406 Alzheimer's disease (AD) cases and 25,849 controls identified eight previously reported AD risk loci and 14 novel loci associated with age at onset. Linkage disequilibrium score regression of 220 cell types implicated the regulation of myeloid gene expression in AD risk. The minor allele of rs1057233 (G), within the previously reported CELF1 AD risk locus, showed association with delayed AD onset and lower expression of SPI1 in monocytes and macrophages. SPI1 encodes PU.1, a transcription factor critical for myeloid cell development and function. AD heritability was enriched within the PU.1 cistrome, implicating a myeloid PU.1 target gene network in AD. Finally, experimentally altered PU.1 levels affected the expression of mouse orthologs of many AD risk genes and the phagocytic activity of mouse microglial cells. Our results suggest that lower SPI1 expression …
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