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Common variation in **GRB-associated Binding Protein 2 (GAB2)** and increased risk for Alzheimer dementia
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Abstract
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| GRB-associated binding protein 2 (GAB2) was recently reported to be a modifier of late-onset Alzheimer dementia (AD) risk in carriers of the APOE 4 allele in a genome-wide association analysis. We aimed to investigate this association in a well-characterized Belgian late-onset AD patient/control group: 528 Belgian AD patients (mean onset age 79.0±5.2 years, 70.2% females) and 601 ethnically matched control individuals (mean age 61.9±15.3 years, 57.1% females) were genotyped for 10 SNPs across the GAB2 locus. For 2 SNPs the most common genotype was associated with risk for AD, with the most significant result for rs4945261 [OR 1.49 (95%CI 1.04-2.15)]. After stratification by presence or absence of APOE 4 these associations were present in APOE 4 carriers only. When assessing the effect of APOE and rs4945261 in one model, rs4945261 did not show a main effect, but the joint risk effect of rs4945261-GG and APOE 4 on AD was significant (OR 3.87, 95%CI 2.66-5.63; p=1.0E-12), with a deviation of 1.87 from the multiplicative model of interaction. Haplotype analyses showed evidence of association in the total (global psim 0.04) and APOE 4+ (global psim 0.02) but not in the APOE 4 - group (global psim 0.6). The association was driven by a higher frequency of the major haplotype in patients. Our data independently replicate an association between GAB2 and late-onset AD, which appears to be limited to APOE 4 carriers. |
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Language
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English
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Source (journal)
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Human mutation. - New York, N.Y.
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Publication
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New York, N.Y.
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2009
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ISSN
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1059-7794
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DOI
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10.1002/HUMU.20909
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Volume/pages
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30
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(2009)
, p. E338-E344
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ISI
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000279979200004
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Full text (Publisher's DOI)
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