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Genome-wide cross-trait analysis of vascular dementia and Alzheimer's disease highlights novel loci and lung-brain axis

2026-03-02 genetic and genomic medicine Title + abstract only
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Until now, most genetic risk for vascular dementia (VD) remains unknown. Here, we firstly performed the largest cross-ancestry genome-wide association study meta-analysis comprising 5,886 VD and 1,027,883 controls of European, East Asian, South Asian, African, and Admixed American ancestry. We identified 37 genome-wide significant loci including CLU and APOE tagged by common variants and 35 loci tagged by rare variants, and demonstrated enrichment of VD heritability in lung and genetic associati...

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