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Item CYP1B1-RMDN2 Alzheimer's disease endophenotype locus identified for cerebral tau PET(Springer Nature, 2024-09-20) Nho, Kwangsik; Risacher, Shannon L.; Apostolova, Liana G.; Bice, Paula J.; Brosch, Jared R.; Deardorff, Rachael; Faber, Kelley; Farlow, Martin R.; Foroud, Tatiana; Gao, Sujuan; Rosewood, Thea; Kim, Jun Pyo; Nudelman, Kelly; Yu, Meichen; Aisen, Paul; Sperling, Reisa; Hooli, Basavaraj; Shcherbinin, Sergey; Svaldi, Diana; Jack, Clifford R., Jr.; Jagust, William J.; Landau, Susan; Vasanthakumar, Aparna; Waring, Jeffrey F.; Doré, Vincent; Laws, Simon M.; Masters, Colin L.; Porter, Tenielle; Rowe, Christopher C.; Villemagne, Victor L.; Dumitrescu, Logan; Hohman, Timothy J.; Libby, Julia B.; Mormino, Elizabeth; Buckley, Rachel F.; Johnson, Keith; Yang, Hyun-Sik; Petersen, Ronald C.; Ramanan, Vijay K.; Ertekin-Taner, Nilüfer; Vemuri, Prashanthi; Cohen, Ann D.; Fan, Kang-Hsien; Kamboh, M. Ilyas; Lopez, Oscar L.; Bennett, David A.; Ali, Muhammad; Benzinger, Tammie; Cruchaga, Carlos; Hobbs, Diana; De Jager, Philip L.; Fujita, Masashi; Jadhav, Vaishnavi; Lamb, Bruce T.; Tsai, Andy P.; Castanho, Isabel; Mill, Jonathan; Weiner, Michael W.; Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI); Department of Defense Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (DoD-ADNI); Anti-Amyloid Treatment in Asymptomatic Alzheimer’s Study (A4 Study) and Longitudinal Evaluation of Amyloid Risk and Neurodegeneration (LEARN); Australian Imaging, Biomarker & Lifestyle Study (AIBL); Saykin, Andrew J.; Radiology and Imaging Sciences, School of MedicineDetermining the genetic architecture of Alzheimer's disease pathologies can enhance mechanistic understanding and inform precision medicine strategies. Here, we perform a genome-wide association study of cortical tau quantified by positron emission tomography in 3046 participants from 12 independent studies. The CYP1B1-RMDN2 locus is associated with tau deposition. The most significant signal is at rs2113389, explaining 4.3% of the variation in cortical tau, while APOE4 rs429358 accounts for 3.6%. rs2113389 is associated with higher tau and faster cognitive decline. Additive effects, but no interactions, are observed between rs2113389 and diagnosis, APOE4, and amyloid beta positivity. CYP1B1 expression is upregulated in AD. rs2113389 is associated with higher CYP1B1 expression and methylation levels. Mouse model studies provide additional functional evidence for a relationship between CYP1B1 and tau deposition but not amyloid beta. These results provide insight into the genetic basis of cerebral tau deposition and support novel pathways for therapeutic development in AD.Item Gene-based GWAS and -biological pathway analysis of the resilience of executive functioning(Springer US, 2014-03) Mukherjee, Shubhabrata; Kim, Sungeun; Ramanan, Vijay K.; Gibbons, Laura E.; Nho, Kwangsik; Glymour, M. Maria; Ertekin-Taner, Nilüfer; Montine, Thomas J.; Saykin, Andrew J.; Crane, Paul K.; Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative; Department of Radiology and Imaging Sciences, School of MedicineResilience in executive functioning (EF) is characterized by high EF measured by neuropsychological test performance despite structural brain damage from neurodegenerative conditions. We previously reported single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) genome-wide association study (GWAS) results for EF resilience. Here, we report gene- and pathway-based analyses of the same resilience phenotype, using an optimal SNP-set (Sequence) Kernel Association Test (SKAT) for gene-based analyses (conservative threshold for genome-wide significance = 0.05/18,123=2.8×10−6) and the gene-set enrichment package GSA-SNP for biological pathway analyses (False discovery rate (FDR) < 0.05). Gene-based analyses found a genome-wide significant association between RNASE13 and EF resilience (p=1.33×10−7). Genetic pathways involved with dendritic/neuron spine, presynaptic membrane, postsynaptic density etc. were enriched with association to EF resilience. Although replication of these results is necessary, our findings indicate the potential value of gene- and pathway-based analyses in research on determinants of cognitive resilience.Item Genome-wide association study of corticobasal degeneration identifies risk variants shared with progressive supranuclear palsy(Nature Publishing Group, 2015-06-16) Kouri, Naomi; Ross, Owen A.; Dombroski, Beth; Younkin, Curtis S.; Serie, Daniel J.; Soto-Ortolaza, Alexandra; Baker, Matthew; Finch, Ni Cole A.; Yoon, Hyejin; Kim, Jungsu; Fujioka, Shinsuke; McLean, Catriona A.; Ghetti, Bernardino; Spina, Salvatore; Cantwell, Laura B.; Farlow, Martin R.; Grafman, Jordan; Huey, Edward D.; Ryung Han, Mi; Beecher, Sherry; Geller, Evan T.; Kretzschmar, Hans A.; Roeber, Sigrun; Gearing, Marla; Juncos, Jorge L.; Vonsattel, Jean Paul G.; Van Deerlin, Vivianna M.; Grossman, Murray; Hurtig, Howard I.; Gross, Rachel G.; Arnold, Steven E.; Trojanowski, John Q.; Lee, Virginia M.; Wenning, Gregor K.; White, Charles L.; Höglinger, Günter U.; Müller, Ulrich; Devlin, Bernie; Golbe, Lawrence I.; Crook, Julia; Parisi, Joseph E.; Boeve, Bradley F.; Josephs, Keith A.; Wszolek, Zbigniew K.; Uitti, Ryan J.; Graff-Radford, Neill R.; Litvan, Irene; Younkin, Steven G.; Wang, Li-San; Ertekin-Taner, Nilüfer; Rademakers, Rosa; Hakonarsen, Hakon; Schellenberg, Gerard D.; Dickson, Dennis W.; Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, IU School of MedicineCorticobasal degeneration (CBD) is a neurodegenerative disorder affecting movement and cognition, definitively diagnosed only at autopsy. Here, we conduct a genome-wide association study (GWAS) in CBD cases (n=152) and 3,311 controls, and 67 CBD cases and 439 controls in a replication stage. Associations with meta-analysis were 17q21 at MAPT (P=1.42 × 10−12), 8p12 at lnc-KIF13B-1, a long non-coding RNA (rs643472; P=3.41 × 10−8), and 2p22 at SOS1 (rs963731; P=1.76 × 10−7). Testing for association of CBD with top progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) GWAS single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) identified associations at MOBP (3p22; rs1768208; P=2.07 × 10−7) and MAPT H1c (17q21; rs242557; P=7.91 × 10−6). We previously reported SNP/transcript level associations with rs8070723/MAPT, rs242557/MAPT, and rs1768208/MOBP and herein identified association with rs963731/SOS1. We identify new CBD susceptibility loci and show that CBD and PSP share a genetic risk factor other than MAPT at 3p22 MOBP (myelin-associated oligodendrocyte basic protein).Item Genome-wide transcriptome analysis identifies novel dysregulated genes implicated in Alzheimer's pathology(Wiley, 2020-08-05) Nho, Kwangsik; Nudelman, Kelly; Allen, Mariet; Hodges, Angela; Kim, Sungeun; Risacher, Shannon L.; Apostolova, Liana G.; Lin, Kuang; Lunnon, Katie; Wang, Xue; Burgess, Jeremy D.; Ertekin-Taner, Nilüfer; Petersen, Ronald C.; Wang, Lisu; Qi, Zhenhao; He, Aiqing; Neuhaus, Isaac; Patel, Vishal; Foroud, Tatiana; Faber, Kelley M.; Lovestone, Simon; Simmons, Andrew; Weiner, Michael W.; Saykin, Andrew J.; Radiology and Imaging Sciences, School of MedicineINTRODUCTION: Abnormal gene expression patterns may contribute to the onset and progression of late-onset Alzheimer’s disease (LOAD). METHODS: We performed transcriptome-wide meta-analysis (N=1,440) of blood-based microarray gene expression profiles as well as neuroimaging and CSF endophenotype analysis. RESULTS: We identified and replicated five genes (CREB5, CD46, TMBIM6, IRAK3, and RPAIN) as significantly dysregulated in LOAD. The most significantly altered gene, CREB5, was also associated with brain atrophy and increased amyloid-β accumulation, especially in the entorhinal cortex region. cis-eQTL mapping analysis of CREB5 detected five significant associations (p<5x10−8), where rs56388170 (most significant) was also significantly associated with global cortical amyloid-β (Aβ) deposition measured by [18F]Florbetapir PET and CSF Aβ1-42. DISCUSSION: RNA from peripheral blood indicated a differential gene expression pattern in LOAD. Genes identified have been implicated in biological processes relevant to AD. CREB, in particular, plays a key role in nervous system development, cell survival, plasticity and learning and memory.Item Gliovascular transcriptional perturbations in Alzheimer's disease reveal molecular mechanisms of blood brain barrier dysfunction(Springer Nature, 2024-06-20) İş, Özkan; Wang, Xue; Reddy, Joseph S.; Min, Yuhao; Yilmaz, Elanur; Bhattarai, Prabesh; Patel, Tulsi; Bergman, Jeremiah; Quicksall, Zachary; Heckman, Michael G.; Tutor-New, Frederick Q.; Demirdogen, Birsen Can; White, Launia; Koga, Shunsuke; Krause, Vincent; Inoue, Yasuteru; Kanekiyo, Takahisa; Cosacak, Mehmet Ilyas; Nelson, Nastasia; Lee, Annie J.; Vardarajan, Badri; Mayeux, Richard; Kouri, Naomi; Deniz, Kaancan; Carnwath, Troy; Oatman, Stephanie R.; Lewis-Tuffin, Laura J.; Nguyen, Thuy; Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative; Carrasquillo, Minerva M.; Graff-Radford, Jonathan; Petersen, Ronald C.; Jack, Clifford R., Jr.; Kantarci, Kejal; Murray, Melissa E.; Nho, Kwangsik; Saykin, Andrew J.; Dickson, Dennis W.; Kizil, Caghan; Allen, Mariet; Ertekin-Taner, Nilüfer; Radiology and Imaging Sciences, School of MedicineTo uncover molecular changes underlying blood-brain-barrier dysfunction in Alzheimer’s disease, we performed single nucleus RNA sequencing in 24 Alzheimer’s disease and control brains and focused on vascular and astrocyte clusters as main cell types of blood-brain-barrier gliovascular-unit. The majority of the vascular transcriptional changes were in pericytes. Of the vascular molecular targets predicted to interact with astrocytic ligands, SMAD3, upregulated in Alzheimer’s disease pericytes, has the highest number of ligands including VEGFA, downregulated in Alzheimer’s disease astrocytes. We validated these findings with external datasets comprising 4,730 pericyte and 150,664 astrocyte nuclei. Blood SMAD3 levels are associated with Alzheimer’s disease-related neuroimaging outcomes. We determined inverse relationships between pericytic SMAD3 and astrocytic VEGFA in human iPSC and zebrafish models. Here, we detect vast transcriptome changes in Alzheimer’s disease at the gliovascular-unit, prioritize perturbed pericytic SMAD3-astrocytic VEGFA interactions, and validate these in cross-species models to provide a molecular mechanism of blood-brain-barrier disintegrity in Alzheimer’s disease.Item Individual bioenergetic capacity as a potential source of resilience to Alzheimer's disease(medRxiv, 2024-01-24) Arnold, Matthias; Buyukozkan, Mustafa; Doraiswamy, P. Murali; Nho, Kwangsik; Wu, Tong; Gudnason, Vilmundur; Launer, Lenore J.; Wang-Sattler, Rui; Adamski, Jerzy; The Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative; Alzheimer’s Disease Metabolomics Consortium; De Jager, Philip L.; Ertekin-Taner, Nilüfer; Bennett, David A.; Saykin, Andrew J.; Peters, Annette; Suhre, Karsten; Kaddurah-Daouk, Rima; Kastenmüller, Gabi; Krumsiek, Jan; Radiology and Imaging Sciences, School of MedicineImpaired glucose uptake in the brain is one of the earliest presymptomatic manifestations of Alzheimer's disease (AD). The absence of symptoms for extended periods of time suggests that compensatory metabolic mechanisms can provide resilience. Here, we introduce the concept of a systemic 'bioenergetic capacity' as the innate ability to maintain energy homeostasis under pathological conditions, potentially serving as such a compensatory mechanism. We argue that fasting blood acylcarnitine profiles provide an approximate peripheral measure for this capacity that mirrors bioenergetic dysregulation in the brain. Using unsupervised subgroup identification, we show that fasting serum acylcarnitine profiles of participants from the AD Neuroimaging Initiative yields bioenergetically distinct subgroups with significant differences in AD biomarker profiles and cognitive function. To assess the potential clinical relevance of this finding, we examined factors that may offer diagnostic and therapeutic opportunities. First, we identified a genotype affecting the bioenergetic capacity which was linked to succinylcarnitine metabolism and significantly modulated the rate of future cognitive decline. Second, a potentially modifiable influence of beta-oxidation efficiency seemed to decelerate bioenergetic aging and disease progression. Our findings, which are supported by data from more than 9,000 individuals, suggest that interventions tailored to enhance energetic health and to slow bioenergetic aging could mitigate the risk of symptomatic AD, especially in individuals with specific mitochondrial genotypes.Item Potential genetic modifiers of disease risk and age at onset in patients with frontotemporal lobar degeneration and GRN mutations: a genome-wide association study(Elsevier, 2018-06) Pottier, Cyril; Zhou, Xiaolai; Perkerson, Ralph B.; Baker, Matt; Jenkins, Gregory D.; Serie, Daniel J.; Ghidoni, Roberta; Benussi, Luisa; Binetti, Giuliano; de Munain, Adolfo López; Zulaica, Miren; Moreno, Fermin; Le Ber, Isabelle; Pasquier, Florence; Hannequin, Didier; Sánchez-Valle, Raquel; Antonell, Anna; Lladó, Albert; Parsons, Tammee M.; Finch, NiCole A.; Finger, Elizabeth C.; Lippa, Carol F.; Huey, Edward D.; Neumann, Manuela; Heutink, Peter; Synofzik, Matthis; Wilke, Carlo; Rissman, Robert A.; Slawek, Jaroslaw; Sitek, Emilia; Johannsen, Peter; Nielsen, Jørgen E.; Ren, Yingxue; van Blitterswijk, Marka; DeJesus-Hernandez, Mariely; Christopher, Elizabeth; Murray, Melissa E.; Bieniek, Kevin F.; Evers, Bret M.; Ferrari, Camilla; Rollinson, Sara; Richardson, Anna; Scarpini, Elio; Fumagalli, Giorgio G.; Padovani, Alessandro; Hardy, John; Momeni, Parastoo; Ferrari, Raffaele; Frangipane, Francesca; Maletta, Raffaele; Anfossi, Maria; Gallo, Maura; Petrucelli, Leonard; Suh, EunRan; Lopez, Oscar L.; Wong, Tsz H.; van Rooij, Jeroen G. J.; Seelaar, Harro; Mead, Simon; Caselli, Richard J.; Reiman, Eric M.; Sabbagh, Marwan Noel; Kjolby, Mads; Nykjaer, Anders; Karydas, Anna M.; Boxer, Adam L.; Grinberg, Lea T.; Grafman, Jordan; Spina, Salvatore; Oblak, Adrian; Mesulam, M-Marsel; Weintraub, Sandra; Geula, Changiz; Hodges, John R.; Piguet, Olivier; Brooks, William S.; Irwin, David J.; Trojanowski, John Q.; Lee, Edward B.; Josephs, Keith A.; Parisi, Joseph E.; Ertekin-Taner, Nilüfer; Knopman, David S.; Nacmias, Benedetta; Piaceri, Irene; Bagnoli, Silvia; Sorbi, Sandro; Gearing, Marla; Glass, Jonathan; Beach, Thomas G.; Black, Sandra E.; Masellis, Mario; Rogaeva, Ekaterina; Vonsattel, Jean-Paul; Honig, Lawrence S.; Kofler, Julia; Bruni, Amalia C.; Snowden, Julie; Mann, David; Pickering-Brown, Stuart; Diehl-Schmid, Janine; Winkelmann, Juliane; Galimberti, Daniela; Graff, Caroline; Öijerstedt, Linn; Troakes, Claire; Al-Sarraj, Safa; Cruchaga, Carlos; Cairns, Nigel J.; Rohrer, Jonathan D.; Halliday, Glenda M.; Kwok, John B.; van Swieten, John C.; White, Charles L.; Ghetti, Bernardino; Murell, Jill R.; Mackenzie, Ian R. A.; Hsiung, Ging-Yuek R.; Borroni, Barbara; Rossi, Giacomina; Tagliavini, Fabrizio; Wszolek, Zbigniew K.; Petersen, Ronald C.; Bigio, Eileen H.; Grossman, Murray; Van Deerlin, Vivianna M.; Seeley, William W.; Miller, Bruce L.; Graff-Radford, Neill R.; Boeve, Bradley F.; Dickson, Dennis W.; Biernacka, Joanna M.; Rademakers, Rosa; Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, School of MedicineBACKGROUND: Loss-of-function mutations in GRN cause frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD). Patients with GRN mutations present with a uniform subtype of TAR DNA-binding protein 43 (TDP-43) pathology at autopsy (FTLD-TDP type A); however, age at onset and clinical presentation are variable, even within families. We aimed to identify potential genetic modifiers of disease onset and disease risk in GRN mutation carriers. METHODS: The study was done in three stages: a discovery stage, a replication stage, and a meta-analysis of the discovery and replication data. In the discovery stage, genome-wide logistic and linear regression analyses were done to test the association of genetic variants with disease risk (case or control status) and age at onset in patients with a GRN mutation and controls free of neurodegenerative disorders. Suggestive loci (p<1 × 10-5) were genotyped in a replication cohort of patients and controls, followed by a meta-analysis. The effect of genome-wide significant variants at the GFRA2 locus on expression of GFRA2 was assessed using mRNA expression studies in cerebellar tissue samples from the Mayo Clinic brain bank. The effect of the GFRA2 locus on progranulin concentrations was studied using previously generated ELISA-based expression data. Co-immunoprecipitation experiments in HEK293T cells were done to test for a direct interaction between GFRA2 and progranulin. FINDINGS: Individuals were enrolled in the current study between Sept 16, 2014, and Oct 5, 2017. After quality control measures, statistical analyses in the discovery stage included 382 unrelated symptomatic GRN mutation carriers and 1146 controls free of neurodegenerative disorders collected from 34 research centres located in the USA, Canada, Australia, and Europe. In the replication stage, 210 patients (67 symptomatic GRN mutation carriers and 143 patients with FTLD without GRN mutations pathologically confirmed as FTLD-TDP type A) and 1798 controls free of neurodegenerative diseases were recruited from 26 sites, 20 of which overlapped with the discovery stage. No genome-wide significant association with age at onset was identified in the discovery or replication stages, or in the meta-analysis. However, in the case-control analysis, we replicated the previously reported TMEM106B association (rs1990622 meta-analysis odds ratio [OR] 0·54, 95% CI 0·46-0·63; p=3·54 × 10-16), and identified a novel genome-wide significant locus at GFRA2 on chromosome 8p21.3 associated with disease risk (rs36196656 meta-analysis OR 1·49, 95% CI 1·30-1·71; p=1·58 × 10-8). Expression analyses showed that the risk-associated allele at rs36196656 decreased GFRA2 mRNA concentrations in cerebellar tissue (p=0·04). No effect of rs36196656 on plasma and CSF progranulin concentrations was detected by ELISA; however, co-immunoprecipitation experiments in HEK293T cells did suggest a direct binding of progranulin and GFRA2. INTERPRETATION: TMEM106B-related and GFRA2-related pathways might be future targets for treatments for FTLD, but the biological interaction between progranulin and these potential disease modifiers requires further study. TMEM106B and GFRA2 might also provide opportunities to select and stratify patients for future clinical trials and, when more is known about their potential effects, to inform genetic counselling, especially for asymptomatic individuals. FUNDING: National Institute on Aging, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Italian Ministry of Health, UK National Institute for Health Research, National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia, and the French National Research Agency.Item TREM2 is associated with increased risk for Alzheimer's disease in African Americans(Springer (Biomed Central Ltd.), 2015) Jin, Sheng Chih; Carrasquillo, Minerva M.; Benitez, Bruno A.; Skorupa, Tara; Carrell, David; Patel, Dwani; Lincoln, Sarah; Krishnan, Siddharth; Kachadoorian, Michaela; Reitz, Christiane; Mayeux, Richard; Wingo, Thomas S.; Lah, James J.; Levey, Allan I.; Murrell, Jill; Hendrie, Hugh; Foroud, Tatiana; Graff-Radford, Neill R.; Goate, Alison M.; Cruchaga, Carlos; Ertekin-Taner, Nilüfer; Department of Psychiatry, IU School of MedicineBACKGROUND: TREM2 encodes for triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells 2 and has rare, coding variants that associate with risk for late-onset Alzheimer's disease (LOAD) in Caucasians of European and North-American origin. This study evaluated the role of TREM2 in LOAD risk in African-American (AA) subjects. We performed exonic sequencing and validation in two independent cohorts of >800 subjects. We selected six coding variants (p.R47H, p.R62H, p.D87N, p.E151K, p.W191X, and p.L211P) for case-control analyses in a total of 906 LOAD cases vs. 2,487 controls. RESULTS: We identified significant LOAD risk association with p.L211P (p=0.01, OR=1.27, 95%CI=1.05-1.54) and suggestive association with p.W191X (p=0.08, OR=1.35, 95%CI=0.97-1.87). Conditional analysis suggests that p.L211P, which is in linkage disequilibrium with p.W191X, may be the stronger variant of the two, but does not rule out independent contribution of the latter. TREM2 p.L211P resides within the cytoplasmic domain and p.W191X is a stop-gain mutation within the shorter TREM-2V transcript. The coding variants within the extracellular domain of TREM2 previously shown to confer LOAD risk in Caucasians were extremely rare in our AA cohort and did not associate with LOAD risk. CONCLUSIONS: Our findings suggest that TREM2 coding variants also confer LOAD risk in AA, but implicate variants within different regions of the gene than those identified for Caucasian subjects. These results underscore the importance of investigating different ethnic populations for disease risk variant discovery, which may uncover allelic heterogeneity with potentially diverse mechanisms of action.Item Two novel loci, COBL and SLC10A2, for Alzheimer's disease in African Americans(Elsevier, 2017-02) Mez, Jesse; Chung, Jaeyoon; Jun, Gyungah; Kriegel, Joshua; Bourlas, Alexandra P.; Sherva, Richard; Logue, Mark W.; Barnes, Lisa L.; Bennett, David A.; Buxbaum, Joseph D.; Byrd, Goldie S.; Crane, Paul K.; Ertekin-Taner, Nilüfer; Evans, Denis; Fallin, M. Daniele; Foroud, Tatiana; Goate, Alison; Graff-Radford, Neill R.; Hall, Kathleen S.; Kamboh, M. Ilyas; Kukull, Walter A.; Larson, Eric B.; Manly, Jennifer J.; Haines, Jonathan L.; Mayeux, Richard; Pericak-Vance, Margaret A.; Schellenberg, Gerard D.; Lunetta, Kathryn L.; Farrer, Lindsay A.; Department of Medical & Molecular Genetics, IU School of MedicineINTRODUCTION: African Americans' (AAs) late-onset Alzheimer's disease (LOAD) genetic risk profile is incompletely understood. Including clinical covariates in genetic analyses using informed conditioning might improve study power. METHODS: We conducted a genome-wide association study (GWAS) in AAs employing informed conditioning in 1825 LOAD cases and 3784 cognitively normal controls. We derived a posterior liability conditioned on age, sex, diabetes status, current smoking status, educational attainment, and affection status, with parameters informed by external prevalence information. We assessed association between the posterior liability and a genome-wide set of single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), controlling for APOE and ABCA7, identified previously in a LOAD GWAS of AAs. RESULTS: Two SNPs at novel loci, rs112404845 (P = 3.8 × 10-8), upstream of COBL, and rs16961023 (P = 4.6 × 10-8), downstream of SLC10A2, obtained genome-wide significant evidence of association with the posterior liability. DISCUSSION: An informed conditioning approach can detect LOAD genetic associations in AAs not identified by traditional GWAS.