The role of ECE1 variants in cognitive ability in old age and Alzheimer's disease risk

Hamilton, Gillian, Harris, Sarah E., Davies, Gail, Liewald, David C., Tenesa, Albert, Payton, Antony, Horan, Michael A., Ollier, William E.R., Pendleton, Neil, Starr, John M., Porteous, David, Deary, Ian J., Denning, Nicola, Escott-Price, Valentina ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1784-5483, Gerrish, Amy, Hamshere, Marian Lindsay ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8990-0958, Holmans, Peter Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0870-9412, O'Donovan, Michael Conlon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7073-2379, Owen, Michael John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4798-0862, Sims, Rebecca ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3885-1199, Thomas, Charlene and Williams, Julie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4069-0259 2012. The role of ECE1 variants in cognitive ability in old age and Alzheimer's disease risk. American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B: Neuropsychiatric Genetics 159B (6) , pp. 696-709. 10.1002/ajmg.b.32073

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Abstract

The β-amyloid peptide may play a central role in Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathogenesis. We have evaluated variants in seven Aβ-degrading genes (ACE, ECE1, ECE2, IDE, MME, PLAU, and TF) for association with AD risk in the Genetic and Environmental Risk in Alzheimer's Disease Consortium 1 (GERAD1) cohort, and with three cognitive phenotypes in the Lothian Birth Cohort 1936 (LBC1936), using 128 and 121 SNPs, respectively. In GERAD1, we identified a significant association between a four-SNP intragenic ECE1 haplotype and risk of AD in individuals that carried at least one APOE ε4 allele (P = 0.00035, odds ratio = 1.61). In LBC1936, we identified a significant association between a different two-SNP ECE1 intragenic haplotype and non-verbal reasoning in individuals lacking the APOE ε4 allele (P = 0.00036, β = -0.19). Both results showed a trend towards significance after permutation (0.05 < P < 0.10). A follow-up cognitive genetic study evaluated the association of ECE1 SNPs in three additional cohorts of non-demented older people. Meta-analysis of the four cohorts identified the significant association (Z < 0.05) of SNPs in the ECE-1b promoter with non-verbal reasoning scores, particularly in individuals lacking the APOE ε4 allele. Our genetic findings are not wholly consistent. Nonetheless, the AD associated intronic haplotype is linked to the 338A variant of known ECE1b promoter variant, 338C>A (rs213045). We observed significantly less expression from the 338A variant in two human neuroblastoma cell lines and speculate that this promoter may be subject to tissue-specific regulation.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	MRC Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics (CNGG) Medicine Systems Immunity Research Institute (SIURI) Neuroscience and Mental Health Research Institute (NMHRI)
Subjects:	R Medicine > R Medicine (General)
Additional Information:	Nicola Denning, Valentina Escott-Price, Amy Gerrish, Marian Hamshere, Peter Holmans, Michael O'Donovan, Michael Owen, Rebecca Sims, Charlene Thomas and Julie Williams are collaborators on this article.
Publisher:	Wiley-Blackwell
ISSN:	1552-4841
Last Modified:	05 Aug 2023 01:57
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/79812

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