Exome sequencing identifies rare damaging variants in ATP8B4 and ABCA1 as risk factors for Alzheimer's disease

Holstege, Henne, Hulsman, Marc, Charbonnier, Camille, Grenier-Boley, Benjamin, Quenez, Olivier, Grozeva, Detelina ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3239-8415, van Rooij, Jeroen G. J., Sims, Rebecca ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3885-1199, Ahmad, Shahzad, Amin, Najaf, Norsworthy, Penny J., Dols-Icardo, Oriol, Hummerich, Holger, Kawalia, Amit, Amouyel, Philippe, Beecham, Gary W., Berr, Claudine, Bis, Joshua C., Boland, Anne, Bossù, Paola, Bouwman, Femke, Bras, Jose, Campion, Dominique, Cochran, J. Nicholas, Daniele, Antonio, Dartigues, Jean-François, Debette, Stéphanie, Deleuze, Jean-François, Denning, Nicola, DeStefano, Anita L., Farrer, Lindsay A., Fernández, Maria Victoria, Fox, Nick C., Galimberti, Daniela, Genin, Emmanuelle, Gille, Johan J. P., Le Guen, Yann, Guerreiro, Rita, Haines, Jonathan L., Holmes, Clive, Ikram, M. Arfan, Ikram, M. Kamran, Jansen, Iris E., Kraaij, Robert, Lathrop, Marc, Lemstra, Afina W., Lleó, Alberto, Luckcuck, Lauren, Mannens, Marcel M. A. M., Marshall, Rachel, Martin, Eden R., Masullo, Carlo, Mayeux, Richard, Mecocci, Patrizia, Meggy, Alun, Mol, Merel O., Morgan, Kevin, Myers, Richard M., Nacmias, Benedetta, Naj, Adam C., Napolioni, Valerio, Pasquier, Florence, Pastor, Pau, Pericak-Vance, Margaret A., Raybould, Rachel, Redon, Richard, Reinders, Marcel J. T., Richard, Anne-Claire, Riedel-Heller, Steffi G., Rivadeneira, Fernando, Rousseau, Stéphane, Ryan, Natalie S., Saad, Salha, Sanchez-Juan, Pascual, Schellenberg, Gerard D., Scheltens, Philip, Schott, Jonathan M., Seripa, Davide, Seshadri, Sudha, Sie, Daoud, Sistermans, Erik A., Sorbi, Sandro, van Spaendonk, Resie, Spalletta, Gianfranco, Tesi, Niccolo?, Tijms, Betty, Uitterlinden, André G., van der Lee, Sven J., Visser, Pieter Jelle, Wagner, Michael, Wallon, David, Wang, Li-San, Zarea, Aline, Clarimon, Jordi, van Swieten, John C., Greicius, Michael D., Yokoyama, Jennifer S., Cruchaga, Carlos, Hardy, John, Ramirez, Alfredo, Mead, Simon, van der Flier, Wiesje M., van Duijn, Cornelia M., Williams, Julie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4069-0259, Nicolas, Gaël, Bellenguez, Céline and Lambert, Jean-Charles 2022. Exome sequencing identifies rare damaging variants in ATP8B4 and ABCA1 as risk factors for Alzheimer's disease. Nature Genetics 54 (12) , pp. 1786-1794. 10.1038/s41588-022-01208-7

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Abstract

Alzheimer’s disease (AD), the leading cause of dementia, has an estimated heritability of approximately 70%1. The genetic component of AD has been mainly assessed using genome-wide association studies, which do not capture the risk contributed by rare variants2. Here, we compared the gene-based burden of rare damaging variants in exome sequencing data from 32,558 individuals—16,036 AD cases and 16,522 controls. Next to variants in TREM2, SORL1 and ABCA7, we observed a significant association of rare, predicted damaging variants in ATP8B4 and ABCA1 with AD risk, and a suggestive signal in ADAM10. Additionally, the rare-variant burden in RIN3, CLU, ZCWPW1 and ACE highlighted these genes as potential drivers of respective AD-genome-wide association study loci. Variants associated with the strongest effect on AD risk, in particular loss-of-function variants, are enriched in early-onset AD cases. Our results provide additional evidence for a major role for amyloid-β precursor protein processing, amyloid-β aggregation, lipid metabolism and microglial function in AD.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Schools > Medicine Research Institutes & Centres > Centre for Trials Research (CNTRR)
Publisher:	Nature Research
ISSN:	1061-4036
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	31 January 2025
Date of Acceptance:	19 September 2022
Last Modified:	05 Mar 2025 15:13
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/175793

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