Article ; Online: Beyond association: successes and challenges in linking non-coding genetic variation to functional consequences that modulate Alzheimer's disease risk.
2021 Volume 16, Issue 1, Page(s) 27
Abstract: Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common type of dementia, affecting millions of people worldwide; however, no disease-modifying treatments are currently available. Genome-wide association studies (GWASs) have identified more than 40 loci associated ... ...
| Abstract | Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common type of dementia, affecting millions of people worldwide; however, no disease-modifying treatments are currently available. Genome-wide association studies (GWASs) have identified more than 40 loci associated with AD risk. However, most of the disease-associated variants reside in non-coding regions of the genome, making it difficult to elucidate how they affect disease susceptibility. Nonetheless, identification of the regulatory elements, genes, pathways and cell type/tissue(s) impacted by these variants to modulate AD risk is critical to our understanding of disease pathogenesis and ability to develop effective therapeutics. In this review, we provide an overview of the methods and approaches used in the field to identify the functional effects of AD risk variants in the causal path to disease risk modification as well as describe the most recent findings. We first discuss efforts in cell type/tissue prioritization followed by recent progress in candidate causal variant and gene nomination. We discuss statistical methods for fine-mapping as well as approaches that integrate multiple levels of evidence, such as epigenomic and transcriptomic data, to identify causal variants and risk mechanisms of AD-associated loci. Additionally, we discuss experimental approaches and data resources that will be needed to validate and further elucidate the effects of these variants and genes on biological pathways, cellular phenotypes and disease risk. Finally, we discuss future steps that need to be taken to ensure that AD GWAS functional mapping efforts lead to novel findings and bring us closer to finding effective treatments for this devastating disease. |
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| MeSH term(s) | Age of Onset ; Alzheimer Disease/epidemiology ; Alzheimer Disease/genetics ; Bayes Theorem ; CRISPR-Cas Systems ; Causality ; Chromatin/genetics ; Epigenomics ; Gene Editing ; Gene Expression Regulation ; Genome-Wide Association Study ; Humans ; Models, Genetic ; Molecular Sequence Annotation ; Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide ; Risk ; Transcriptome |
| Chemical Substances | Chromatin |
| Language | English |
| Publishing date | 2021-04-21 |
| Publishing country | England |
| Document type | Journal Article ; Review |
| ZDB-ID | 2244557-2 |
| ISSN | 1750-1326 ; 1750-1326 |
| ISSN (online) | 1750-1326 |
| ISSN | 1750-1326 |
| DOI | 10.1186/s13024-021-00449-0 |
| Database | MEDical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System OnLINE |
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