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Title | A locus at 19q13.31 significantly reduces the ApoE ε4 risk for Alzheimer's Disease in African Ancestry. |
Publication Type | Journal Article |
Year of Publication | 2022 |
Authors | Rajabli F, Beecham GW, Hendrie HC, Baiyewu O, Ogunniyi A, Gao S, Kushch NA, Lipkin-Vasquez M, Hamilton-Nelson KL, Young JI, Dykxhoorn DM, Nuytemans K, Kunkle BW, Wang L, Jin F, Liu X, Feliciano-Astacio BE, Schellenberg GD, Dalgard CL, Griswold AJ, Byrd GS, Reitz C, Cuccaro ML, Haines JL, Pericak-Vance MA, Vance JM |
Corporate Authors | Alzheimer’s Disease Sequencing Project, Alzheimer’s Disease Genetic Consortium |
Journal | PLoS Genet |
Volume | 18 |
Issue | 7 |
Pagination | e1009977 |
Date Published | 07/2022 |
ISSN | 1553-7404 |
Keywords | Alleles, Alzheimer Disease, Apolipoprotein E4, Apolipoproteins E, Genotype, Humans, Nigeria, Risk Factors |
Abstract | African descent populations have a lower Alzheimer disease risk from ApoE ε4 compared to other populations. Ancestry analysis showed that the difference in risk between African and European populations lies in the ancestral genomic background surrounding the ApoE locus (local ancestry). Identifying the mechanism(s) of this protection could lead to greater insight into the etiology of Alzheimer disease and more personalized therapeutic intervention. Our objective is to follow up the local ancestry finding and identify the genetic variants that drive this risk difference and result in a lower risk for developing Alzheimer disease in African ancestry populations. We performed association analyses using a logistic regression model with the ApoE ε4 allele as an interaction term and adjusted for genome-wide ancestry, age, and sex. Discovery analysis included imputed SNP data of 1,850 Alzheimer disease and 4,331 cognitively intact African American individuals. We performed replication analyses on 63 whole genome sequenced Alzheimer disease and 648 cognitively intact Ibadan individuals. Additionally, we reproduced results using whole-genome sequencing of 273 Alzheimer disease and 275 cognitively intact admixed Puerto Rican individuals. A further comparison was done with SNP imputation from an additional 8,463 Alzheimer disease and 11,365 cognitively intact non-Hispanic White individuals. We identified a significant interaction between the ApoE ε4 allele and the SNP rs10423769_A allele, (β = -0.54,SE = 0.12,p-value = 7.50x10-6) in the discovery data set, and replicated this finding in Ibadan (β = -1.32,SE = 0.52,p-value = 1.15x10-2) and Puerto Rican (β = -1.27,SE = 0.64,p-value = 4.91x10-2) individuals. The non-Hispanic Whites analyses showed an interaction trending in the "protective" direction but failing to pass a 0.05 significance threshold (β = -1.51,SE = 0.84,p-value = 7.26x10-2). The presence of the rs10423769_A allele reduces the odds ratio for Alzheimer disease risk from 7.2 for ApoE ε4/ε4 carriers lacking the A allele to 2.1 for ApoE ε4/ε4 carriers with at least one A allele. This locus is located approximately 2 mB upstream of the ApoE locus, in a large cluster of pregnancy specific beta-1 glycoproteins on chromosome 19 and lies within a long noncoding RNA, ENSG00000282943. This study identified a new African-ancestry specific locus that reduces the risk effect of ApoE ε4 for developing Alzheimer disease. The mechanism of the interaction with ApoEε4 is not known but suggests a novel mechanism for reducing the risk for ε4 carriers opening the possibility for potential ancestry-specific therapeutic intervention. |
DOI | 10.1371/journal.pgen.1009977 |
Alternate Journal | PLoS Genet |
PubMed ID | 35788729 |
PubMed Central ID | PMC9286282 |
Grant List | U01 AG058654 / AG / NIA NIH HHS / United States R01 AG009956 / AG / NIA NIH HHS / United States U01 AG032984 / AG / NIA NIH HHS / United States U01 AG057659 / AG / NIA NIH HHS / United States R56 AG072547 / AG / NIA NIH HHS / United States R01 HG009658 / HG / NHGRI NIH HHS / United States U01 AG052410 / AG / NIA NIH HHS / United States P30 AG066509 / AG / NIA NIH HHS / United States |