Common variants at MS4A4/MS4A6E, CD2AP, CD33 and EPHA1 are associated with late-onset Alzheimer's disease

Adam C. Naj, Gyungah Jun, Gary W. Beecham, Li San Wang, Badri Narayan Vardarajan, Jacqueline Buros, Paul J. Gallins, Joseph D. Buxbaum, Gail P. Jarvik, Paul K. Crane, Eric B. Larson, Thomas D. Bird, Bradley F. Boeve, Neill R. Graff-Radford, Philip L. De Jager, Denis Evans, Julie A. Schneider, Minerva M. Carrasquillo, Nilufer Ertekin-Taner, Steven G. YounkinCarlos Cruchaga, John S.K. Kauwe, Petra Nowotny, Patricia Kramer, John Hardy, Matthew J. Huentelman, Amanda J. Myers, Michael M. Barmada, F. Yesim Demirci, Clinton T. Baldwin, Robert C. Green, Ekaterina Rogaeva, Peter St George-Hyslop, Steven E. Arnold, Robert Barber, Thomas Beach, Eileen H. Bigio, James D. Bowen, Adam Boxer, James R. Burke, Nigel J. Cairns, Chris S. Carlson, Regina M. Carney, Steven L. Carroll, Helena C. Chui, David G. Clark, Jason Corneveaux, Carl W. Cotman, Jeffrey L. Cummings, Charles Decarli, Steven T. Dekosky, Ramon Diaz-Arrastia, Malcolm Dick, Dennis W. Dickson, William G. Ellis, Kelley M. Faber, Kenneth B. Fallon, Martin R. Farlow, Steven Ferris, Matthew P. Frosch, Douglas R. Galasko, Mary Ganguli, Marla Gearing, Daniel H. Geschwind, Bernardino Ghetti, John R. Gilbert, Sid Gilman, Bruno Giordani, Jonathan D. Glass, John H. Growdon, Ronald L. Hamilton, Lindy E. Harrell, Elizabeth Head, Lawrence S. Honig, Christine M. Hulette, Bradley T. Hyman, Gregory A. Jicha, Lee Way Jin, Nancy Johnson, Jason Karlawish, Anna Karydas, Jeffrey A. Kaye, Ronald Kim, Edward H. Koo, Neil W. Kowall, James J. Lah, Allan I. Levey, Andrew P. Lieberman, Oscar L. Lopez, Wendy J. MacK, Daniel C. Marson, Frank Martiniuk, Deborah C. Mash, Eliezer Masliah, Wayne C. McCormick, Susan M. McCurry, Andrew N. McDavid, Ann C. McKee, Marsel Mesulam, Bruce L. Miller, Carol A. Miller, Joshua W. Miller, Joseph E. Parisi, Daniel P. Perl, Elaine Peskind, Ronald C. Petersen, Wayne W. Poon, Joseph F. Quinn, Ruchita A. Rajbhandary, Murray Raskind, Barry Reisberg, John M. Ringman, Erik D. Roberson, Roger N. Rosenberg, Mary Sano, Lon S. Schneider, William Seeley, Michael L. Shelanski, Michael A. Slifer, Charles D. Smith, Joshua A. Sonnen, Salvatore Spina, Robert A. Stern, Rudolph E. Tanzi, John Q. Trojanowski, Juan C. Troncoso, Vivianna M. Van Deerlin, Harry V. Vinters, Jean Paul Vonsattel, Sandra Weintraub, Kathleen A. Welsh-Bohmer, Jennifer Williamson, Randall L. Woltjer, Laura B. Cantwell, Beth A. Dombroski, Duane Beekly, Kathryn L. Lunetta, Eden R. Martin, M. Ilyas Kamboh, Andrew J. Saykin, Eric M. Reiman, David A. Bennett, John C. Morris, Thomas J. Montine, Alison M. Goate, Deborah Blacker, Debby W. Tsuang, Hakon Hakonarson, Walter A. Kukull, Tatiana M. Foroud, Jonathan L. Haines, Richard Mayeux, Margaret A. Pericak-Vance, Lindsay A. Farrer, Gerard D. Schellenberg

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Abstract

The Alzheimer Disease Genetics Consortium (ADGC) performed a genome-wide association study of late-onset Alzheimer disease using a three-stage design consisting of a discovery stage (stage 1) and two replication stages (stages 2 and 3). Both joint analysis and meta-analysis approaches were used. We obtained genome-wide significant results at MS4A4A (rs4938933; stages 1 and 2, meta-analysis P (P M) = 1.7 × 10 -9, joint analysis P (P J) = 1.7 × 10 -9; stages 1, 2 and 3, P M = 8.2 × 10 -12), CD2AP (rs9349407; stages 1, 2 and 3, P M = 8.6 × 10 -9), EPHA1 (rs11767557; stages 1, 2 and 3, P M = 6.0 × 10 -10) and CD33 (rs3865444; stages 1, 2 and 3, P M = 1.6 × 10 -9). We also replicated previous associations at CR1 (rs6701713; P M = 4.6 × 10 -10, P J = 5.2 × 10 -11), CLU (rs1532278; P M = 8.3 × 10 -8, P J = 1.9 × 10 -8), BIN1 (rs7561528; P M = 4.0 × 10 -14, P J = 5.2 × 10 -14) and PICALM (rs561655; P M = 7.0 × 10 -11, P J = 1.0 × 10 -10), but not at EXOC3L2, to late-onset Alzheimer's disease susceptibility.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)436-443
Number of pages8
JournalNature genetics
Volume43
Issue number5
DOIs
StatePublished - May 2011

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Genetics

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