Abstract

Our ongoing work on dementia with Lewy bodies and Parkinson's disease with dementia primarily focuses on analysis of loci identified in our genome wide association studies in Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease to see if we can tease out the genetic basis of dementia in these disorders which neuropathologically sit between Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease. We have performed and published a genome wide association study in frontotemporal dementia, a focused association study in dementia with Lewy bodies, an analysis of the heritability of dementia with Lewy Bodies, and an assessment of known loci in DLB. We have ongoing a large whole exome sequencing project in both FTD and DLB and have extended this work with a new Investigator, Dr. Scholz, to include whole genome sequencing. This work has now expanded to include whole genome sequencing in 3000 DLB, 3000 FTD cases, the data for which is being made publicly available.

  Funding Agency

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National Institute of Health (NIH)
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National Institute on Aging (NIA)
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Investigator-Initiated Intramural Research Projects (ZIA)
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1ZIAAG000951-17
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9770191
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17
Fiscal Year
2018
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  Institution

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Aging
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  Publications

Guerreiro, Rita; Ross, Owen A; Kun-Rodrigues, Celia et al. (2018) Investigating the genetic architecture of dementia with Lewy bodies: a two-stage genome-wide association study. Lancet Neurol 17:64-74
Burciu, Roxana G; Seidler, Rachael D; Shukla, Priyank et al. (2018) Multimodal neuroimaging and behavioral assessment of ?-synuclein polymorphism rs356219 in older adults. Neurobiol Aging 66:32-39
Ferrari, Raffaele; Grassi, Mario; Graziano, Francesca et al. (2017) Effects of Multiple Genetic Loci on Age at Onset in Frontotemporal Dementia. J Alzheimers Dis 56:1271-1278
Kun-Rodrigues, Celia; Ross, Owen A; Orme, Tatiana et al. (2017) Analysis of C9orf72 repeat expansions in a large international cohort of dementia with Lewy bodies. Neurobiol Aging 49:214.e13-214.e15
McKeith, Ian G; Boeve, Bradley F; Dickson, Dennis W et al. (2017) Diagnosis and management of dementia with Lewy bodies: Fourth consensus report of the DLB Consortium. Neurology 89:88-100
Darwent, Lee; Carmona, Susana; Lohmann, Ebba et al. (2017) Mutations in TYROBP are not a common cause of dementia in a Turkish cohort. Neurobiol Aging 58:240.e1-240.e3
Capozzo, Rosa; Sassi, Celeste; Hammer, Monia B et al. (2017) Clinical and genetic analyses of familial and sporadic frontotemporal dementia patients in Southern Italy. Alzheimers Dement 13:858-869
Siitonen, Maija; Börjesson-Hanson, Anne; Pöyhönen, Minna et al. (2017) Multi-infarct dementia of Swedish type is caused by a 3'UTR mutation of COL4A1. Brain :
Guerreiro, Rita; Escott-Price, Valentina; Darwent, Lee et al. (2016) Genome-wide analysis of genetic correlation in dementia with Lewy bodies, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases. Neurobiol Aging 38:214.e7-214.e10
Federoff, M; Price, T R; Sailer, A et al. (2016) Genome-wide estimate of the heritability of Multiple System Atrophy. Parkinsonism Relat Disord 22:35-41

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