<p>A polygenic score (PGS) for Alzheimer’s disease (AD) was derived recently from data on genome-wide significant loci in European ancestry populations. We applied this PGS to populations in 17 European countries and observed a consistent association with the AD risk, age at onset and cerebrospinal fluid levels of AD biomarkers, independently of apolipoprotein E locus (<i>APOE</i>). This PGS was also associated with the AD risk in many other populations of diverse ancestries. A cross-ancestry polygenic risk score improved the association with the AD risk in most of the multiancestry populations tested when the <i>APOE</i> region was included. Finally, we found that the PGS/polygenic risk score captured AD-specific information because the association weakened as the diagnosis was broadened. In conclusion, a simple PGS captures the AD-specific genetic information that is common to populations of different ancestries, although studies of more diverse populations are still needed to better characterize the genetics of AD.</p>

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Transferability of European-derived Alzheimer’s disease polygenic risk scores across multiancestry populations

  • Aude Nicolas,
  • Richard Sherva,
  • Benjamin Grenier-Boley,
  • Yoontae Kim,
  • Masataka Kikuchi,
  • Jigyasha Timsina,
  • Itziar de Rojas,
  • María Carolina Dalmasso,
  • Xiaopu Zhou,
  • Yann Le Guen,
  • Carlos E. Arboleda-Bustos,
  • Maria Aparecida Camargos Bicalho,
  • Maëlenn Guerchet,
  • Sven van der Lee,
  • Monica Goss,
  • Atahualpa Castillo,
  • Céline Bellenguez,
  • Fahri Küçükali,
  • Claudia L. Satizabal,
  • Bernard Fongang,
  • Qiong Yang,
  • Oliver Peters,
  • Anja Schneider,
  • Martin Dichgans,
  • Dan Rujescu,
  • Norbert Scherbaum,
  • Jürgen Deckert,
  • Steffi Riedel-Heller,
  • Lucrezia Hausner,
  • Laura Molina-Porcel,
  • Emrah Düzel,
  • Timo Grimmer,
  • Jens Wiltfang,
  • Stefanie Heilmann-Heimbach,
  • Susanne Moebus,
  • Thomas Tegos,
  • Nikolaos Scarmeas,
  • Oriol Dols-Icardo,
  • Fermin Moreno,
  • Jordi Pérez-Tur,
  • María J. Bullido,
  • Pau Pastor,
  • Raquel Sánchez-Valle,
  • Victoria Álvarez,
  • Han Cao,
  • Nancy Y. Ip,
  • Amy K. Y. Fu,
  • Fanny C. F. Ip,
  • Natividad Olivar,
  • Carolina Muchnik,
  • Carolina Cuesta,
  • Lorenzo Campanelli,
  • Patricia Solis,
  • Daniel Gustavo Politis,
  • Silvia Kochen,
  • Luis Ignacio Brusco,
  • Mercè Boada,
  • Pablo García-González,
  • Raquel Puerta,
  • Pablo Mir,
  • Luis M. Real,
  • Gerard Piñol-Ripoll,
  • Jose María García-Alberca,
  • Jose Luís Royo,
  • Eloy Rodriguez-Rodriguez,
  • Hilkka Soininen,
  • Sami Heikkinen,
  • Alexandre de Mendonça,
  • Shima Mehrabian,
  • Latchezar Traykov,
  • Jakub Hort,
  • Martin Vyhnalek,
  • Katrine Laura Rasmussen,
  • Jesper Qvist Thomassen,
  • Yolande A. L. Pijnenburg,
  • Henne Holstege,
  • John C. van Swieten,
  • Harro Seelaar,
  • Jurgen A. H. R. Claassen,
  • Willemijn J. Jansen,
  • Inez Ramakers,
  • Frans Verhey,
  • Aad van der Lugt,
  • Philip Scheltens,
  • Jenny Ortega-Rojas,
  • Ana Gabriela Concha Mera,
  • Maria F. Mahecha,
  • Rodrigo Pardo,
  • Gonzalo Arboleda,
  • Shahram Bahrami,
  • Vera Fominykh,
  • Geir Selbæk,
  • Caroline Graff,
  • Goran Papenberg,
  • Vilmantas Giedraitis,
  • Anne Boland,
  • Jean-François Deleuze,
  • Luiz Armando de Marco,
  • Edgar Nunes de Moraes,
  • Bernardo de Mattos Viana,
  • Marco Túlio Gualberto Cintra,
  • Teresa Juarez-Cedillo,
  • Anthony J. Griswold,
  • Tatiana Forund,
  • Jonathan Haines,
  • Lindsay Farrer,
  • Anita DeStefano,
  • Ellen Wijsman,
  • Richard Mayeux,
  • Margaret Pericak-Vance,
  • Brian Kunkle,
  • Alison Goate,
  • Gerard D. Schellenberg,
  • Badri Vardarajan,
  • Li-San Wang,
  • Yuk Yee Leung,
  • Clifton L. Dalgard,
  • Gael Nicolas,
  • David Wallon,
  • Carole Dufouil,
  • Florence Pasquier,
  • Olivier Hanon,
  • Stéphanie Debette,
  • Edna Grünblatt,
  • Julius Popp,
  • Bárbara Angel,
  • Sergio Gloger,
  • Maria Victoria Chacon,
  • Rafael Aranguiz,
  • Paulina Orellana,
  • Andrea Slachevsky,
  • Christian Gonzalez-Billault,
  • Cecilia Albala,
  • Patricio Fuentes,
  • Perminder Sachdev,
  • Karen A. Mather,
  • Richard L. Hauger,
  • Victoria Merritt,
  • Matthew Panizzon,
  • Rui Zhang,
  • J. Michael Gaziano,
  • Roberta Ghidoni,
  • Daniela Galimberti,
  • Beatrice Arosio,
  • Patrizia Mecocci,
  • Vincenzo Solfrizzi,
  • Lucilla Parnetti,
  • Alessio Squassina,
  • Lucio Tremolizzo,
  • Barbara Borroni,
  • Benedetta Nacmias,
  • Paolo Caffarra,
  • Davide Seripa,
  • Innocenzo Rainero,
  • Antonio Daniele,
  • Fabrizio Piras,
  • Sonia Moreno-Grau,
  • Najaf Amin,
  • Peter A. Holmans,
  • Luca Kleineidam,
  • Dag Aarsland,
  • Pablo Garcia-Gonzalez,
  • Carla Abdelnour,
  • Emilio Alarcón-Martín,
  • Daniel Alcolea,
  • Montserrat Alegret,
  • Ignacio Alvarez,
  • Nicola J. Armstrong,
  • Tsolaki Anthoula,
  • Ildebrando Appollonio,
  • Marina Arcaro,
  • Silvana Archetti,
  • Alfonso Arias Pastor,
  • Lavinia Athanasiu,
  • Henri Bailly,
  • Nerisa Banaj,
  • Miquel Baquero,
  • Ana Belén Pastor,
  • Sonia Bellini,
  • Claudine Berr,
  • Céline Besse,
  • Valentina Bessi,
  • Giuliano Binetti,
  • Alessandra Bizarro,
  • Rafael Blesa,
  • Silvia Boschi,
  • Paola Bossù,
  • Geir Bråthen,
  • Catherine Bresner,
  • Henry Brodaty,
  • Keeley J. Brookes,
  • Dolores Buiza-Rueda,
  • Katharina Bûrger,
  • Vanessa Burholt,
  • Miguel Calero,
  • Geneviève Chene,
  • Ángel Carracedo,
  • Roberta Cecchetti,
  • Laura Cervera-Carles,
  • Camille Charbonnier,
  • Caterina Chillotti,
  • Simona Ciccone,
  • Jordi Clarimon,
  • Christopher Clark,
  • Elisa Conti,
  • Anaïs Corma-Gómez,
  • Guido Maria Giuffrè,
  • Carlo Custodero,
  • Delphine Daian,
  • Efthimios Dardiotis,
  • Peter Paul de Deyn,
  • Teodoro del Ser,
  • Nicola Denning,
  • Janine Diehl-Schmid,
  • Mónica Diez-Fairen,
  • Paolo Dionigi Rossi,
  • Srdjan Djurovic,
  • Emmanuelle Duron,
  • Sebastiaan Engelborghs,
  • Ana Espinosa,
  • Michael Ewers,
  • Tagliavini Fabrizio,
  • Sune Fallgaard Nielsen,
  • Lucia Farotti,
  • Chiara Fenoglio,
  • Marta Fernández-Fuertes,
  • Catarina B. Ferreira,
  • Evelyn Ferri,
  • Bertrand Fin,
  • Peter Fischer,
  • Tormod Fladby,
  • Klaus Fließbach,
  • Juan Fortea,
  • Tatiana M. Foroud,
  • Silvia Fostinelli,
  • Nick C. Fox,
  • Emlio Franco-Macías,
  • Ana Frank-García,
  • Lutz Froelich,
  • Jose Maria García-Alberca,
  • Sebastian Garcia-Madrona,
  • Guillermo Garcia-Ribas,
  • Ina Giegling,
  • Giaccone Giorgio,
  • Oliver Goldhardt,
  • Antonio González-Pérez,
  • Giulia Grande,
  • Emma Green,
  • Tamar Guetta-Baranes,
  • Annakaisa Haapasalo,
  • Georgios Hadjigeorgiou,
  • Harald Hampel,
  • John Hardy,
  • Annette M. Hartmann,
  • Janet Harwood,
  • Seppo Helisalmi,
  • Michael T. Heneka,
  • Isabel Hernández,
  • Martin J. Herrmann,
  • Per Hoffmann,
  • Clive Holmes,
  • Raquel Huerto Vilas,
  • Marc Hulsman,
  • Geert Jan Biessels,
  • Charlotte Johansson,
  • Lena Kilander,
  • Anne Kinhult Ståhlbom,
  • Miia Kivipelto,
  • Anne Koivisto,
  • Johannes Kornhuber,
  • Mary H. Kosmidis,
  • Carmen Lage,
  • Erika J. Laukka,
  • Alessandra Lauria,
  • Jenni Lehtisalo,
  • Ondrej Lerch,
  • Alberto Lleó,
  • Adolfo López-de Munain,
  • Seth Love,
  • Malin Löwemark,
  • Lauren Luckcuck,
  • Juan Macías,
  • Catherine A. MacLeod,
  • Wolfgang Maier,
  • Francesca Mangialasche,
  • Marco Spallazzi,
  • Marta Marquié,
  • Rachel Marshall,
  • Angel Martín Montes,
  • Carmen Martínez Rodríguez,
  • Simon Mead,
  • Miguel Medina,
  • Alun Meggy,
  • Silvia Mendoza,
  • Manuel Menéndez-González,
  • Merel Mol,
  • Laura Montrreal,
  • Kevin Morgan,
  • Markus M. Möthen,
  • Tiia Ngandu,
  • Børge G. Nordestgaard,
  • Robert Olaso,
  • Adelina Orellana,
  • Michela Orsini,
  • Gemma Ortega,
  • Alessandro Padovani,
  • Alba Pérez-Cordón,
  • Pierre Pericard,
  • Juan A. Pineda,
  • Claudia Pisanu,
  • Thomas Polak,
  • Danielle Posthuma,
  • Josef Priller,
  • Olivier Quenez,
  • Inés Quintela,
  • Alberto Rábano,
  • Marcel J. T. Reinders,
  • Peter Riederer,
  • Natalia Roberto,
  • Arvid Rongve,
  • Irene Rosas Allende,
  • Maitée Rosende-Roca,
  • Jose Luis Royo,
  • Elisa Rubino,
  • María Eugenia Sáez,
  • Paraskevi Sakka,
  • Ingvild Saltvedt,
  • Ángela Sanabria,
  • María Bernal Sánchez-Arjona,
  • Florentino Sanchez-Garcia,
  • Pascual Sánchez-Juan,
  • Sigrid B. Sando,
  • Michela Scamosci,
  • Elio Scarpini,
  • Martin Scherer,
  • Matthias Schmid,
  • Jonathan M. Schott,
  • Alexey A. Shadrin,
  • Olivia Skrobot,
  • Alina Solomon,
  • Sandro Sorbi,
  • Oscar Sotolongo-Grau,
  • Annika Spottke,
  • Eystein Stordal,
  • Juan Pablo Tartan,
  • Lluís Tárraga,
  • Niccolo Tesí,
  • Anbupalam Thalamuthu,
  • Tegos Thomas,
  • Anne Tybjærg-Hansen,
  • Andre Uitterlinden,
  • Abbe Ullgren,
  • Ingun Ulstein,
  • Sergi Valero,
  • Christine Van Broeckhoven,
  • Jasper Van Dongen,
  • Rik Vandenberghe,
  • Jean-Sébastien Vidal,
  • Jonathan Vogelgsang,
  • Michael Wagner,
  • Leonie Weinhold,
  • Gill Windle,
  • Bob Woods,
  • Mary Yannakoulia,
  • Miren Zulaica,
  • Hampton L. Leonard,
  • Jenifer S. Yokoyama,
  • Mike A. Nalls,
  • Akinori Miyashita,
  • Norikazu Hara,
  • Kouichi Ozaki,
  • Shumpei Niida,
  • Julie Williams,
  • Carlo Masullo,
  • Philippe Amouyel,
  • Pierre-Marie Preux,
  • Pascal Mbelesso,
  • Bébène Bandzouzi,
  • Andy Saykin,
  • Frank Jessen,
  • Patrick G. Kehoe,
  • Cornelia Van Duijn,
  • Nesrine Ben Salem,
  • Ruth Frikke-Schmidt,
  • Lotfi Cherni,
  • Michael D. Greicius,
  • Magda Tsolaki,
  • Pascual Sánchez-Juan,
  • Marco Aurélio Romano Silva,
  • Tenielle Porter,
  • Simon M. Laws,
  • Kristel Sleegers,
  • Martin Ingelsson,
  • Jean-François Dartigues,
  • Sudha Seshadri,
  • Giacomina Rossi,
  • Laura Morelli,
  • Mikko Hiltunen,
  • Rebecca Sims,
  • Wiesje van der Flier,
  • Ole A. Andreassen,
  • Humberto Arboleda,
  • Carlos Cruchaga,
  • Valentina Escott-Price,
  • Agustín Ruiz,
  • Kun Ho Lee,
  • Takeshi Ikeuchi,
  • Alfredo Ramirez,
  • Jungsoo Gim,
  • Mark Logue,
  • Jean-Charles Lambert

摘要

A polygenic score (PGS) for Alzheimer’s disease (AD) was derived recently from data on genome-wide significant loci in European ancestry populations. We applied this PGS to populations in 17 European countries and observed a consistent association with the AD risk, age at onset and cerebrospinal fluid levels of AD biomarkers, independently of apolipoprotein E locus (APOE). This PGS was also associated with the AD risk in many other populations of diverse ancestries. A cross-ancestry polygenic risk score improved the association with the AD risk in most of the multiancestry populations tested when the APOE region was included. Finally, we found that the PGS/polygenic risk score captured AD-specific information because the association weakened as the diagnosis was broadened. In conclusion, a simple PGS captures the AD-specific genetic information that is common to populations of different ancestries, although studies of more diverse populations are still needed to better characterize the genetics of AD.