Functional characterization of a single nucleotide polymorphism associated with Alzheimer’s disease in a hiPSC-based neuron model
Lindsay R. Stolzenburg,
Sahar Esmaeeli,
Ameya S. Kulkarni
et al.
Abstract:Neurodegenerative diseases encompass a group of debilitating conditions resulting from progressive nerve cell death. Of these, Alzheimer’s disease (AD) occurs most frequently, but is currently incurable and has limited treatment success. Late onset AD, the most common form, is highly heritable but is caused by a combination of non-genetic risk factors and many low-effect genetic variants whose disease-causing mechanisms remain unclear. By mining the FinnGen study database of phenome-wide association studies, w… Show more
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