Nimansha Jain1, Alice S Chen-Plotkin1. 1. Department of Neurology, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.
Abstract
PURPOSE OF REVIEW: To review the evidence for genetic modifier effects in the neurodegenerative diseases Huntington's Disease (HD), Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration (FTLD), Alzheimer's Disease (AD), and Parkinson's Disease (PD). RECENT FINDINGS: Increasingly, we understand human disease genetics less through the lens of single-locus/single-trait effects, and more through that of polygenic contributions to disease risk. In addition, specific examples of genetic modifier effects of the chromosome 7 gene TMEM106B on various target genes including those causal for Mendelian classes of FTLD - GRN and c9orf72 - have emerged from both genetic cohort studies and mechanistic examinations of biological pathways. SUMMARY: Here, we summarize the literature reporting genetic modifier effects in HD, FTLD, AD, and PD. We further contextualize reported genetic modifier effects in these diseases in terms of insight they may lend to the concept of a polygenic landscape for the major neurodegenerative diseases.
PURPOSE OF REVIEW: To review the evidence for genetic modifier effects in the neurodegenerative diseases Huntington's Disease (HD), Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration (FTLD), Alzheimer's Disease (AD), and Parkinson's Disease (PD). RECENT FINDINGS: Increasingly, we understand human disease genetics less through the lens of single-locus/single-trait effects, and more through that of polygenic contributions to disease risk. In addition, specific examples of genetic modifier effects of the chromosome 7 gene TMEM106B on various target genes including those causal for Mendelian classes of FTLD - GRN and c9orf72 - have emerged from both genetic cohort studies and mechanistic examinations of biological pathways. SUMMARY: Here, we summarize the literature reporting genetic modifier effects in HD, FTLD, AD, and PD. We further contextualize reported genetic modifier effects in these diseases in terms of insight they may lend to the concept of a polygenic landscape for the major neurodegenerative diseases.
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