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Identification and description of three families with familial Alzheimer disease that segregate variants in the SORL1 gene

Overview of attention for article published in Acta Neuropathologica Communications, June 2017
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Title
Identification and description of three families with familial Alzheimer disease that segregate variants in the SORL1 gene
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Acta Neuropathologica Communications, June 2017
DOI 10.1186/s40478-017-0441-9
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Håkan Thonberg, Huei-Hsin Chiang, Lena Lilius, Charlotte Forsell, Anna-Karin Lindström, Charlotte Johansson, Jenny Björkström, Steinunn Thordardottir, Kristel Sleegers, Christine Van Broeckhoven, Annica Rönnbäck, Caroline Graff

Abstract

Alzheimer disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder and the most common form of dementia. The majority of AD cases are sporadic, while up to 5% are families with an early onset AD (EOAD). Mutations in one of the three genes: amyloid beta precursor protein (APP), presenilin 1 (PSEN1) or presenilin 2 (PSEN2) can be disease causing. However, most EOAD families do not carry mutations in any of these three genes, and candidate genes, such as the sortilin-related receptor 1 (SORL1), have been suggested to be potentially causative. To identify AD causative variants, we performed whole-exome sequencing on five individuals from a family with EOAD and a missense variant, p.Arg1303Cys (c.3907C > T) was identified in SORL1 which segregated with disease and was further characterized with immunohistochemistry on two post mortem autopsy cases from the same family. In a targeted re-sequencing effort on independent index patients from 35 EOAD-families, a second SORL1 variant, c.3050-2A > G, was found which segregated with the disease in 3 affected and was absent in one unaffected family member. The c.3050-2A > G variant is located two nucleotides upstream of exon 22 and was shown to cause exon 22 skipping, resulting in a deletion of amino acids Gly1017- Glu1074 of SORL1. Furthermore, a third SORL1 variant, c.5195G > C, recently identified in a Swedish case control cohort included in the European Early-Onset Dementia (EU EOD) consortium study, was detected in two affected siblings in a third family with familial EOAD. The finding of three SORL1-variants that segregate with disease in three separate families with EOAD supports the involvement of SORL1 in AD pathology. The cause of these rare monogenic forms of EOAD has proven difficult to find and the use of exome and genome sequencing may be a successful route to target them.

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Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 15 19%
Student > Bachelor 11 14%
Researcher 10 13%
Student > Doctoral Student 7 9%
Student > Master 7 9%
Other 8 10%
Unknown 19 25%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 19 25%
Neuroscience 15 19%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 9 12%
Medicine and Dentistry 6 8%
Psychology 3 4%
Other 6 8%
Unknown 19 25%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 17. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 05 January 2023.
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#258
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