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We have screened sporadic early-onset Alzheimer's disease (sEOAD, n = 408) samples using the NeuroX array for known causative and predicted pathogenic variants in 16 genes linked to familial forms of neurodegeneration. We found 2 sEOAD individuals harboring a known causative variant in PARK2 known to cause early-onset Parkinson's disease; p.T240M (n = 1) and p.Q34fs delAG (n = 1). In addition, we identified 3 sEOAD individuals harboring a predicted pathogenic variant in MAPT (p.A469T), which has previously been associated with AD. It is currently unknown if these variants affect susceptibility to sEOAD, further studies would be needed to establish this. This work highlights the need to screen sEOAD individuals for variants that are more classically attributed to other forms of neurodegeneration.

Original publication

DOI

10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2016.09.008

Type

Journal article

Journal

Neurobiol Aging

Publication Date

01/2017

Volume

49

Pages

215.e1 - 215.e8

Keywords

Alzheimer's disease, Early-onset, NeuroX, Parkinson's disease, Screening, Sporadic, Alzheimer Disease, DNA Mutational Analysis, Genetic Association Studies, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Genetic Testing, Genetic Variation, Humans, Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis, Parkinson Disease, Ubiquitin-Protein Ligases, tau Proteins