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  1. Article: Practice effects in cognitive assessments three years later in non-carriers but not in symptom-free mutation carriers of autosomal-dominant Alzheimer's disease: Exemplifying procedural learning and memory?

    Almkvist, Ove / Graff, Caroline

    Frontiers in aging neuroscience

    2022  Volume 14, Page(s) 905329

    Abstract: Practice effects (PEs) defined as an improvement of performance in cognition due to repeated assessments between sessions are well known in unimpaired individuals, while less is known about impaired cognition and particularly in latent brain disease as ... ...

    Abstract Practice effects (PEs) defined as an improvement of performance in cognition due to repeated assessments between sessions are well known in unimpaired individuals, while less is known about impaired cognition and particularly in latent brain disease as autosomal-dominant Alzheimer's disease. The purpose was to evaluate the general (across tests/domains) and domain-specific PE calculated as the annual rate of change (ARC) in relation to years to the estimated disease onset (YECO) and in four groups of AD: asymptomatic mutation carriers (aAD,
    Language English
    Publishing date 2022-10-05
    Publishing country Switzerland
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 2558898-9
    ISSN 1663-4365
    ISSN 1663-4365
    DOI 10.3389/fnagi.2022.905329
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  2. Article ; Online: Cortical microstructural imaging from diffusion MRI: towards sensitive biomarkers for clinical trials.

    Rodriguez-Vieitez, Elena / Vannini, Patrizia / Montal, Victor / Graff, Caroline

    Brain : a journal of neurology

    2024  Volume 147, Issue 3, Page(s) 746–748

    MeSH term(s) Humans ; Alzheimer Disease ; Diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging/methods ; Diffusion Tensor Imaging/methods ; Biomarkers
    Chemical Substances Biomarkers
    Language English
    Publishing date 2024-02-26
    Publishing country England
    Document type Editorial ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't ; Comment
    ZDB-ID 80072-7
    ISSN 1460-2156 ; 0006-8950
    ISSN (online) 1460-2156
    ISSN 0006-8950
    DOI 10.1093/brain/awae054
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  3. Article ; Online: Odor Identification Across Time in Mutation Carriers and Non-Carriers in Autosomal-Dominant Alzheimer's Disease.

    Almkvist, Ove / Larsson, Maria / Graff, Caroline

    Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD

    2023  Volume 97, Issue 2, Page(s) 587–598

    Abstract: Background: Impaired odor identification is a characteristic of sporadic Alzheimer'sdisease(AD), but its presence in autosomal-dominantAD (adAD) remains uncertain.: Objective: To investigate odor identification ability in mutation carriers (MC) and ... ...

    Abstract Background: Impaired odor identification is a characteristic of sporadic Alzheimer'sdisease(AD), but its presence in autosomal-dominantAD (adAD) remains uncertain.
    Objective: To investigate odor identification ability in mutation carriers (MC) and non-carriers (NC) of adAD in relation to years to estimated clinical onset clinical onset (YECO) of disease.
    Methods: Participants from six families with autosomal-dominant mutations (APP Swedish, APP Arctic, and PSEN1 mutations) included 20 MC and 20 NC. The groups were comparable in age, gender, education, number of APOE ɛ4 alleles, and YECO, but differed in global cognition (Mini-Mental State Examination). The MC group included individuals in asymptomatic, symptomatic cognitively unimpaired, mild cognitive impairment, and dementia stages of disease, spanning approximately 40 years of the AD continuum. All NC were asymptomatic. Olfactory function was assessed by means of free and cued identification of common odors summarized as total identification.
    Results: MC performed poorer than NC in free and total identification. Four MC and none of the NC were anosmic. Olfactory functions in MC and NC were significantly and inversely related to time course (YECO) for both free and total identification. The decline in free identification began approximately 10 years prior to the estimated clinical onset of AD in MC. Odor identification proficiency was associated with episodic memory and executive function in MC and NC.
    Conclusions: Impaired odor identification is present well before the clinical diagnosis of AD in MC and is associated with disease progression. Odor identification ability may be a useful early biomarker for adAD.
    MeSH term(s) Humans ; Alzheimer Disease/diagnosis ; Alzheimer Disease/genetics ; Odorants ; Cognitive Dysfunction/diagnosis ; Cognitive Dysfunction/genetics ; Cognitive Dysfunction/complications ; Cognition ; Mutation/genetics ; Presenilin-1/genetics
    Chemical Substances Presenilin-1
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-12-30
    Publishing country Netherlands
    Document type Journal Article ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
    ZDB-ID 1440127-7
    ISSN 1875-8908 ; 1387-2877
    ISSN (online) 1875-8908
    ISSN 1387-2877
    DOI 10.3233/JAD-230618
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    Almkvist, Ove / Graff, Caroline

    Genes

    2021  Volume 12, Issue 12

    Abstract: Mounting evidence shows that ... ...

    Abstract Mounting evidence shows that the
    MeSH term(s) Adult ; Aging ; Alleles ; Alzheimer Disease/physiopathology ; Amyloid beta-Protein Precursor/genetics ; Apolipoprotein E4/genetics ; Case-Control Studies ; Cognitive Dysfunction/genetics ; Cognitive Dysfunction/pathology ; Female ; Humans ; Male ; Middle Aged ; Mutation ; Presenilin-1/genetics
    Chemical Substances APP protein, human ; Amyloid beta-Protein Precursor ; Apolipoprotein E4 ; PSEN1 protein, human ; Presenilin-1
    Language English
    Publishing date 2021-12-07
    Publishing country Switzerland
    Document type Comparative Study ; Journal Article ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
    ZDB-ID 2527218-4
    ISSN 2073-4425 ; 2073-4425
    ISSN (online) 2073-4425
    ISSN 2073-4425
    DOI 10.3390/genes12121954
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  5. Article: The APOE 4 Allele Affects Cognitive Functions Differently in Carriers of APP Mutations Compared to Carriers of PSEN1 Mutations in Autosomal-Dominant Alzheimer’s Disease

    Almkvist, Ove / Graff, Caroline

    Genes. 2021 Dec. 07, v. 12, no. 12

    2021  

    Abstract: Mounting evidence shows that the APOE 4 allele interferes with cognition in sporadic Alzheimer’s disease. Less is known about APOE in autosomal-dominant Alzheimer’s disease (adAD). The present study explored the effects on cognition associated with the ... ...

    Abstract Mounting evidence shows that the APOE 4 allele interferes with cognition in sporadic Alzheimer’s disease. Less is known about APOE in autosomal-dominant Alzheimer’s disease (adAD). The present study explored the effects on cognition associated with the gene–gene interactions between the APOE gene and the APP and PSEN1 genes in adAD. This study includes mutation carriers (MC) and non-carriers (NC) from adAD families with mutations in APP (n = 28 and n = 25; MC and NC, respectively) and PSEN1 (n = 12 and n = 15; MC and NC, respectively) that represent the complete spectrum of disease: AD dementia (n = 8) and mild cognitive impairment (MCI, n = 15 and presymptomatic AD, n = 17). NC represented unimpaired normal aging. There was no significant difference in the distribution of APOE 4 (absence vs. presence) between the APP vs. PSEN1 adAD genes and mutation status (MC vs. NC). However, episodic memory was significantly affected by the interaction between APOE and the APP vs. PSEN1 genes in MC. This was explained by favorable performance in the absence of APOE 4 in PSEN1 compared to APP MC. Similar trends were seen in other cognitive functions. No significant associations between APOE 4 and cognitive performance were obtained in NC. In conclusion, cognitive effects of APOE–adAD gene interaction were differentiated between the PSEN1 and APP mutation carriers, indicating epistasis.
    Keywords alleles ; cognition ; cognitive disorders ; epistasis ; memory ; mutation
    Language English
    Dates of publication 2021-1207
    Publishing place Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
    Document type Article
    ZDB-ID 2527218-4
    ISSN 2073-4425
    ISSN 2073-4425
    DOI 10.3390/genes12121954
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  6. Article ; Online: Correction: Lesion of the subiculum reduces the spread of amyloid beta pathology to interconnected brain regions in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease.

    George, Sonia / Rönnbäck, Annica / Gouras, Gunnar K / Petit, Géraldine H / Grueninger, Fiona / Winblad, Bengt / Graff, Caroline / Brundin, Patrik

    Acta neuropathologica communications

    2024  Volume 12, Issue 1, Page(s) 26

    Language English
    Publishing date 2024-02-14
    Publishing country England
    Document type Published Erratum
    ZDB-ID 2715589-4
    ISSN 2051-5960 ; 2051-5960
    ISSN (online) 2051-5960
    ISSN 2051-5960
    DOI 10.1186/s40478-023-01712-9
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  7. Article ; Online: Findings from the Swedish Study on Familial Alzheimer's Disease Including the APP Swedish Double Mutation.

    Thordardottir, Steinunn / Graff, Caroline

    Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD

    2018  Volume 64, Issue s1, Page(s) S491–S496

    Abstract: This is a brief summary of the findings from the Swedish study on familial Alzheimer's disease (FAD). Similar to other FAD studies, it includes prospective assessments of cognitive function, tissue sampling, and technical analyses such as MRI and PET. ... ...

    Abstract This is a brief summary of the findings from the Swedish study on familial Alzheimer's disease (FAD). Similar to other FAD studies, it includes prospective assessments of cognitive function, tissue sampling, and technical analyses such as MRI and PET. This 24-year-old study involves 69 individuals with a 50% risk of inheriting a disease-causing mutation in presenilin 1 (PSEN1 H163Y or I143T), or amyloid precursor protein (the Swedish APP or the arctic APP mutation) who have made a total of 169 visits. Our results show the extraordinary power in this study design to unravel the earliest changes in preclinical AD. The Swedish FAD study will continue and future research will focus on disentangling the order of pathological change using longitudinal data as well as modeling the changes in patient derived cell systems.
    MeSH term(s) Alzheimer Disease/diagnosis ; Alzheimer Disease/genetics ; Alzheimer Disease/psychology ; Amyloid beta-Protein Precursor/genetics ; Biomarkers/cerebrospinal fluid ; Brain/diagnostic imaging ; Disease Progression ; Humans ; Mutation ; Presenilin-1/genetics ; Sweden
    Chemical Substances APP protein, human ; Amyloid beta-Protein Precursor ; Biomarkers ; PSEN1 protein, human ; Presenilin-1
    Language English
    Publishing date 2018-03-22
    Publishing country Netherlands
    Document type Journal Article ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't ; Review
    ZDB-ID 1440127-7
    ISSN 1875-8908 ; 1387-2877
    ISSN (online) 1875-8908
    ISSN 1387-2877
    DOI 10.3233/JAD-179922
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  8. Article ; Online: APOE ε4 influences cognitive decline positively in APP and negatively in PSEN1 mutation carriers with autosomal-dominant Alzheimer's disease.

    Almkvist, Ove / Johansson, Charlotte / Laffita-Mesa, Jose / Thordardottir, Steinunn / Graff, Caroline

    European journal of neurology

    2022  Volume 29, Issue 12, Page(s) 3580–3589

    Abstract: Background and purpose: The aim was to investigate the effect of APOE ε4 allele on cognitive decline in adAD. Presence of the APOE ε4 allele reduces age of symptom onset, increases disease progression, and lowers cognitive performance in sporadic ... ...

    Abstract Background and purpose: The aim was to investigate the effect of APOE ε4 allele on cognitive decline in adAD. Presence of the APOE ε4 allele reduces age of symptom onset, increases disease progression, and lowers cognitive performance in sporadic Alzheimer's disease (AD), while the impact of the APOE ε4 allele in autosomal-dominant AD (adAD) is incompletely known.
    Methods: Mutation carriers (MCs; n = 39) and non-carriers (NCs; n = 40) from six adAD families harbouring a mutation in the APP (28 MCs and 25 NCs) or the PSEN1 genes (11 MCs and 15 NCs) underwent repeated cognitive assessments. A timeline of disease course was defined as years to expected age of clinical onset (YECO) based on history of disease onset in each family. The MC and NC groups were comparable with regard to demographics and prevalence of the APOE ε4 allele. The relationship between cognitive decline and YECO, YECO
    Results: The trajectory of cognitive decline was significantly predicted by linear and quadratic YECO and education in MCs and was determined by age and education in NCs. Adding APOE ε4 allele (presence/absence) as a predictor did not change the results in the MC and NC groups. The outcome also remained the same for MCs and NCs after adding the APOE-by-YECO interaction as a predictor. Analyses of APP and PSEN1 MCs separately showed favourable APOE-by-YECO interaction in APP (less steep decline) and unfavourable interaction in PSEN1 (steeper decline), linked to the APOE ε4 allele.
    Conclusion: The APOE ε4 allele influences cognitive decline positively in APP and negatively in PSEN1 mutation carriers with adAD, indicating a possible antagonistic pleiotropy.
    MeSH term(s) Humans ; Alzheimer Disease/epidemiology ; Apolipoprotein E4/genetics ; Cognitive Dysfunction/diagnosis ; Disease Progression ; Mutation ; Presenilin-1/genetics
    Chemical Substances Apolipoprotein E4 ; Presenilin-1 ; PSEN1 protein, human
    Language English
    Publishing date 2022-09-11
    Publishing country England
    Document type Journal Article ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
    ZDB-ID 1280785-0
    ISSN 1468-1331 ; 1351-5101 ; 1471-0552
    ISSN (online) 1468-1331
    ISSN 1351-5101 ; 1471-0552
    DOI 10.1111/ene.15536
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  9. Article ; Online: Tracking reactive astrogliosis in autosomal dominant and sporadic Alzheimer's disease with multi-modal PET and plasma GFAP.

    Chiotis, Konstantinos / Johansson, Charlotte / Rodriguez-Vieitez, Elena / Ashton, Nicholas J / Blennow, Kaj / Zetterberg, Henrik / Graff, Caroline / Nordberg, Agneta

    Molecular neurodegeneration

    2023  Volume 18, Issue 1, Page(s) 60

    Abstract: Background: Plasma assays for the detection of Alzheimer's disease neuropathological changes are receiving ever increasing interest. The concentration of plasma glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) has been suggested as a potential marker of ... ...

    Abstract Background: Plasma assays for the detection of Alzheimer's disease neuropathological changes are receiving ever increasing interest. The concentration of plasma glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) has been suggested as a potential marker of astrocytes or recently, amyloid-β burden, although this hypothesis remains unproven. We compared plasma GFAP levels with the astrocyte tracer
    Methods: Twenty-four individuals from families with known Autosomal Dominant Alzheimer's Disease mutations (mutation carriers = 10; non-carriers = 14) and fifteen patients with sporadic Alzheimer's disease were included. The individuals underwent PET imaging with
    Results: In mutation carriers, plasma GFAP levels and
    Conclusions: Plasma GFAP concentration and astrocyte
    MeSH term(s) Humans ; Alzheimer Disease/genetics ; Amyloid beta-Peptides ; Fluorodeoxyglucose F18 ; Glial Fibrillary Acidic Protein ; Gliosis ; Inflammation
    Chemical Substances Amyloid beta-Peptides ; Fluorodeoxyglucose F18 (0Z5B2CJX4D) ; Glial Fibrillary Acidic Protein
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-09-12
    Publishing country England
    Document type Journal Article ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
    ZDB-ID 2244557-2
    ISSN 1750-1326 ; 1750-1326
    ISSN (online) 1750-1326
    ISSN 1750-1326
    DOI 10.1186/s13024-023-00647-y
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  10. Article ; Online: Plasma biomarker profiles in autosomal dominant Alzheimer's disease.

    Johansson, Charlotte / Thordardottir, Steinunn / Laffita-Mesa, José / Rodriguez-Vieitez, Elena / Zetterberg, Henrik / Blennow, Kaj / Graff, Caroline

    Brain : a journal of neurology

    2023  Volume 146, Issue 3, Page(s) 1132–1140

    Abstract: Emerging plasma biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease might be non-invasive tools to trace early Alzheimer's disease-related abnormalities such as the accumulation of amyloid-beta peptides, neurofibrillary tau tangles, glial activation and neurodegeneration. ...

    Abstract Emerging plasma biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease might be non-invasive tools to trace early Alzheimer's disease-related abnormalities such as the accumulation of amyloid-beta peptides, neurofibrillary tau tangles, glial activation and neurodegeneration. It is, however, unclear which pathological processes in the CNS can be adequately detected by peripheral measurements and whether plasma biomarkers are equally applicable in both clinical and preclinical phases. Here we aimed to explore the timing and performance of plasma biomarkers in mutation carriers compared to non-carriers in autosomal dominant Alzheimer's disease. Samples (n = 164) from mutation carriers (n = 33) and non-carriers (n = 42) in a Swedish cohort of autosomal dominant Alzheimer's disease (APP p.KM670/671NL, APP p.E693G and PSEN1 p.H163Y) were included in explorative longitudinal analyses. Plasma phosphorylated tau (P-tau181), total tau (T-tau), neurofilament light chain (NfL) and glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) concentrations were measured with a single-molecule array method as previously described. Plasma biomarkers were additionally correlated to Alzheimer's disease core biomarkers in the CSF. Results from the longitudinal analyses confirmed that plasma P-tau181, NfL and GFAP concentrations were higher in mutation carriers compared to non-carriers. This change was observed in the presymptomatic phase and detectable first as an increase in GFAP approximately 10 years before estimated symptom onset, followed by increased levels of P-tau181 and NfL closer to expected onset. Plasma P-tau181 levels were correlated to levels of P-tau181 and T-tau in the CSF. Altogether, plasma P-tau181, GFAP and NfL seem to be feasible biomarkers to detect different Alzheimer's disease-related pathologies already in presymptomatic individuals. Interestingly, changes in plasma GFAP concentrations were detected prior to P-tau181 and NfL. Our results suggest that plasma GFAP might reflect Alzheimer's disease pathology upstream to accumulation of tangles and neurodegeneration. The implications of these findings need additional validation, in particular because of the limited sample size.
    MeSH term(s) Humans ; Alzheimer Disease/metabolism ; Amyloid beta-Peptides ; Biomarkers ; tau Proteins ; Genes, Dominant
    Chemical Substances Amyloid beta-Peptides ; Biomarkers ; tau Proteins
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-02-08
    Publishing country England
    Document type Journal Article ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't ; Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
    ZDB-ID 80072-7
    ISSN 1460-2156 ; 0006-8950
    ISSN (online) 1460-2156
    ISSN 0006-8950
    DOI 10.1093/brain/awac399
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