Two new genes linked to Alzheimer's disease discovered (IMAGE)

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Two new genes linked to Alzheimer's disease discovered

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A schematic overview of the study design. AD = Alzheimer's disease; ADNI = Alzheimer's disease Neuroimaging Initiative; ADSP = Alzheimer's disease Sequencing Project; cis-GReX = cis-genetically regulated expression; FOCUS = Fine-mapping of causal gene sets; GWAS = Genome-wide association study; IGAP = International Genomics of Alzheimer's Project; PGC-ALZ = Alzheimer's disease working group of the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium; TWAS = Transcriptome-wide association study; UKBB = UK Biobank.

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Liu N, et al., 2021, PLOS Genetics

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