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Kwangsik Nho1, Sungeun Kim, Shannon L Risacher, Li Shen, Jason J Corneveaux, Shanker Swaminathan, Hai Lin, Vijay K Ramanan, Yunlong Liu, Tatiana M Foroud, Mark H Inlow, Ashley L Siniard, Rebecca A Reiman, Paul S Aisen, Ronald C Petersen, Robert C Green, Clifford R Jack, Michael W Weiner, Clinton T Baldwin, Kathryn L Lunetta, Lindsay A Farrer, Simon J Furney, Simon Lovestone, Andrew Simmons, Patrizia Mecocci, Bruno Vellas, Magda Tsolaki, Iwona Kloszewska, Hilkka Soininen, Brenna C McDonald, Martin R Farlow, Bernardino Ghetti, Matthew J Huentelman, Andrew J Saykin.
Abstract
We used whole-exome sequencing to identify variants other than APOE associated with the rate of hippocampal atrophy in amnestic mild cognitive impairment. An in-silico predicted missense variant in REST (rs3796529) was found exclusively in subjects with slow hippocampal volume loss and validated using unbiased whole-brain analysis and meta-analysis across 5 independent cohorts. REST is a master regulator of neurogenesis and neuronal differentiation that has not been previously implicated in Alzheimer's disease. These findings nominate REST and its functional pathways as protective and illustrate the potential of combining next-generation sequencing with neuroimaging to discover novel disease mechanisms and potential therapeutic targets.Entities:
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Year: 2015 PMID： 25559091 PMCID： PMC4387567 DOI： 10.1002/ana.24349
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Ann Neurol ISSN： 0364-5134 Impact factor: 10.422