| Literature DB >> 30112632 |
Jorge I Vélez1,2, Francisco Lopera3, Penelope K Creagh1, Laura B Piñeros4, Debjani Das5, Martha L Cervantes-Henríquez2,6, Johan E Acosta-López6, Mario A Isaza-Ruget7, Lady G Espinosa7, Simon Easteal5, Gustavo A Quintero8, Claudia Tamar Silva4, Claudio A Mastronardi1,9, Mauricio Arcos-Burgos10,11.
Abstract
The identification of novel genetic variants contributing to the widespread in the age of onset (AOO) of Alzheimer's disease (AD) could aid in the prognosis and/or development of new therapeutic strategies focused on early interventions. We recruited 78 individuals with AD from the Paisa genetic isolate in Antioquia, Colombia. These individuals belong to the world largest multigenerational and extended pedigree segregating AD as a consequence of a dominant fully penetrant mutation in the PSEN1 gene and exhibit an AOO ranging from the early 1930s to the late 1970s. To shed light on the genetic underpinning that could explain the large spread of the age of onset (AOO) of AD, 64 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) associated with neuroanatomical, cardiovascular, and cognitive measures in AD were genotyped. Standard quality control and filtering procedures were applied, and single- and multi-locus linear mixed-effects models were used to identify AOO-associated SNPs. A full two-locus interaction model was fitted to define how identified SNPs interact to modulate AOO. We identified two key epistatic interactions between the APOE*E2 allele and SNPs ASTN2-rs7852878 and SNTG1-rs16914781 that delay AOO by up to ~ 8 years (95% CI 3.2-12.7, P = 1.83 × 10-3) and ~ 7.6 years (95% CI 3.3-11.8, P = 8.69 × 10-4), respectively, and validated our previous finding indicating that APOE*E2 delays AOO of AD in PSEN1 E280 mutation carriers. This new evidence involving APOE*E2 as an AOO delayer could be used for developing precision medicine approaches and predictive genomics models to potentially determine AOO in individuals genetically predisposed to AD.Entities:
Keywords: APOE*E2; ASTN2; Age of onset; Alzheimer’s disease; Extreme phenotypes; Genetic isolate; PSEN1; SNTG1
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Year: 2018 PMID: 30112632 PMCID: PMC6476862 DOI: 10.1007/s12035-018-1298-z
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Mol Neurobiol ISSN: 0893-7648 Impact factor: 5.590
Fig. 1a ADAOO distribution in 78 patients with Alzheimer’s disease carrying the PSEN1 E280A mutation. Notice the presence of two hidden groups with an average ADAOO of ~ 46 and ~ 51 years old, respectively. To identify these groups, a mixture of two Gaussian distributions was fitted as implemented in the mixtools [33] package for R [34]; the number of hidden groups was determined based on the log-likelihood criterion (the lowest the better). The blue vertical line is at ~ 48 years, which corresponds to the average ADAOO in our sample. Box and violin plots for the ADAOO by b gender, c early onset, and d education group. Only differences in the average ADAOO were found by AD status. e ADAOO as a function of the years of education. AD Alzheimer’s disease, ADAOO Alzheimer’s disease age of onset
Results of the association analysis for ADAOO in 78 patients with PSEN1 E280A Alzheimer’s disease (a). Proportion of variance explained and gender- and education-specific effects of ADAOO associated SNPs (b)
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| Chr | SNPa | Position | Gene | Marker information | Multi-locus linear mixed-effects model | |||||
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| 19 | rs7412 | 45,412,078 |
| C/T | T (0.046) | 0.974 | p.Arg176Cys | 8.213 (1.505) | 6.48 × 10−7 | 4.21 × 10−5 |
| 9 | rs7852872 | 119,249,338 |
| C/G | G (0.396) | 0.987 | Intronic | 3.684 (0.881) | 8.10 × 10−5 | 2.63 × 10−3 |
| 8 | rs16914781 | 51,287,481 |
| A/G | G (0.339) | 1.000 | Intronic | 3.273 (0.872) | 3.52 × 10−4 | 7.62 × 10−3 |
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| rs7412 | 0.239 | 0.023 | 2 | 0.989 | 4.303 | 6 | 0.636 | |||
| rs7852872 | 0.133 | 1.041 | 1 | 0.308 | 2.681 | 3 | 0.443 | |||
| rs16914781 | 0.076 | 0.939 | 2 | 0.625 | 6.331 | 6 | 0.387 | |||
aUCSC GRCh37/hg19 coordinates
ADAOO Alzheimer’s disease age of onset, Chr chromosome, SNP single nucleotide polymorphism, Ref/Alt reference/alternate allele, MA minor allele, Freq frequency, CR call rate, β regression coefficient, SE standard error of β, P P value, FDR false discovery rate, PVE proportion of variance explained, χ2 test statistic, df degrees of freedom
Fig. 2a Effect of the presence of the APOE*E2 allele, and the genotypes in rs7852872-ASTN2 and rs16914781-SNTG1 on ADAOO. A two-sample t test indicates the presence of the APOE*E2 allele increases the ADAOO by ~ 8.1 years (t72 = 4.67, 95% CI 4.6–11.6, P = 1.37 × 10−6). Pink, blue, and dotted horizontal lines are, respectively, the within genotype average ADAOO, the individuals’ ADAOO, and the global average ADAOO in our sample. b Effect of the APOE*E2×ASTN2 and APOE*E2×SNTG1 interactions on ADAOO. Green lines symbolize protection, red lines susceptibility, and the gray line the average ADAOO in our sample. Note that the APOE*E2 allele delays ADAOO regardless of the interacting marker. Abbreviations as in Fig. 1