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    Linkage analyses in Caribbean Hispanic families identify novel loci associated with familial late-onset Alzheimer's disease
    (Elsevier, 2015-12) Barral, Sandra; Cheng, Rong; Reitz, Christiane; Vardarajan, Badri; Lee, Joseph; Kunkle, Brian; Beecham, Gary; Cantwell, Laura S.; Pericak-Vance, Margaret A.; Farrer, Lindsay A.; Haines, Jonathan L.; Goate, Alison M.; Foroud, Tatiana; Boerwinkle, Eric; Schellenberg, Gerard D.; Mayeux, Richard; Department of Medical and Molecular Genetics, IU School of Medicine
    INTRODUCTION: We performed linkage analyses in Caribbean Hispanic families with multiple late-onset Alzheimer's disease (LOAD) cases to identify regions that may contain disease causative variants. METHODS: We selected 67 LOAD families to perform genome-wide linkage scan. Analysis of the linked regions was repeated using the entire sample of 282 families. Validated chromosomal regions were analyzed using joint linkage and association. RESULTS: We identified 26 regions linked to LOAD (HLOD ≥3.6). We validated 13 of the regions (HLOD ≥2.5) using the entire family sample. The strongest signal was at 11q12.3 (rs2232932: HLODmax = 4.7, Pjoint = 6.6 × 10(-6)), a locus located ∼2 Mb upstream of the membrane-spanning 4A gene cluster. We additionally identified a locus at 7p14.3 (rs10255835: HLODmax = 4.9, Pjoint = 1.2 × 10(-5)), a region harboring genes associated with the nervous system (GARS, GHRHR, and NEUROD6). DISCUSSION: Future sequencing efforts should focus on these regions because they may harbor familial LOAD causative mutations.