Henne Holstege
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BACKGROUND: Alzheimer's disease (AD) prevalence increases with age, yet a small fraction of the population reaches ages > 100 years without cognitive decline. We studied the genetic factors associated with such resilience against AD. METHODS: Genome-wide association studies ...
Resilience and resistance to the accumulation of amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary tangles in centenarians
An age-continuous perspective
Introduction: With increasing age, neuropathological substrates associated with Alzheimer's disease (AD) accumulate in brains of cognitively healthy individuals—are they resilient, or resistant to AD-associated neuropathologies?. Methods: In 85 centenarian brains, we correlate ...
Background: Many families with clinical early-onset Alzheimer’s disease (EOAD) remain genetically unexplained. A combination of genetic factors is not standardly investigated. In addition to monogenic causes, we evaluated the possible polygenic architecture in a large series o ...
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have been highly informative in discovering disease-associated loci but are not designed to capture all structural variations in the human genome. Using long-read sequencing data, we discovered widespread structural variation within SINE- ...
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 comp ...
genome-wide association study totaling 111,326 c ...
SnpXplorer
A web application to explore human SNP-associations and annotate SNP-sets
Genetic association studies are frequently used to study the genetic basis of numerous human phenotypes. However, the rapid interrogation of how well a certain genomic region associates across traits as well as the interpretation of genetic associations is often complex and re ...
Dysfunction of the endolysosomal-autophagy network is emerging as an important pathogenic process in Alzheimer's disease. Mutations in the sorting receptor-encoding gene SORL1 cause autosomal-dominant Alzheimer's disease, and SORL1 variants increase risk for late-onset AD. To ...
Studying the genome of centenarians may give insights into the molecular mechanisms underlying extreme human longevity and the escape of age-related diseases. Here, we set out to construct polygenic risk scores (PRSs) for longevity and to investigate the functions of longevity ...
Human longevity is influenced by the genetic risk of age-related diseases. As Alzheimer’s disease (AD) represents a common condition at old age, an interplay between genetic factors affecting AD and longevity is expected. We explored this interplay by studying the prevalence o ...
CHOP
Haplotype-aware path indexing in population graphs
Extreme enrichment of VNTR-associated polymorphicity in human subtelomeres
Genes with most VNTRs are predominantly expressed in the brain
The human genome harbors numerous structural variants (SVs) which, due to their repetitive nature, are currently underexplored in short-read whole-genome sequencing approaches. Using single-molecule, real-time (SMRT) long-read sequencing technology in combination with FALCON-U ...
Broad phenotype of cysteine-altering NOTCH3 variants in UK Biobank
CADASIL to nonpenetrance
To determine the small vessel disease spectrum associated with cysteine-altering NOTCH3 variants in community-dwelling individuals by analyzing the clinical and neuroimaging features of UK Biobank participants harboring such variants. The exome and genome sequencing datasets o ...
Objectives: The objectives of this study were to investigate the effect of genetic and social factors on depressive symptoms and depression over time and to test whether social factors moderate the relationship between depressive symptoms and its underlying genetics in later l ...
Developing Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is influenced by multiple genetic variants that are involved in five major AD-pathways. Per individual, these pathways may differentially contribute to the modification of the AD-risk. The pathways involved in the resilience against AD have ...
Next-generation sequencing has contributed to our understanding of the genetics of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and has explained a substantial part of the missing heritability of familial AD. We sequenced 19 exomes from 8 Dutch families with a high AD burden and identified EIF2AK ...
The detection of genetic loci associated with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) requires large numbers of cases and controls because variant effect sizes are mostly small. We hypothesized that variant effect sizes should increase when individuals who represent the extreme ends of a dis ...
Characterization of pathogenic SORL1 genetic variants for association with Alzheimer's disease
A clinical interpretation strategy
Accumulating evidence suggests that genetic variants in the SORL1 gene are associated with Alzheimer disease (AD), but a strategy to identify which variants are pathogenic is lacking. In a discovery sample of 115 SORL1 variants detected in 1908 Dutch AD cases and controls, we ...