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Edith Cowan University

Research outputs 2014 to 2021

2018

Alzheimer’s disease

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A Polygenic Risk Score Derived From Episodic Memory Weighted Genetic Variants Is Associated With Cognitive Decline In Preclinical Alzheimer’S Disease, Tenielle Porter, Samantha C. Burnham, Greg Savage, Yen Ying Lim, Paul Maruff, Lidija Milicic, Madeline Peretti, David Ames, Colin L. Masters, Ralph N. Martins, Stephanie Rainey-Smith, Christopher C. Rowe, Olivier Salvado, Kevin Taddei, David Groth, Guiseppe Verdile, Victor L. Villemagne, Simon M. Laws Jan 2018

A Polygenic Risk Score Derived From Episodic Memory Weighted Genetic Variants Is Associated With Cognitive Decline In Preclinical Alzheimer’S Disease, Tenielle Porter, Samantha C. Burnham, Greg Savage, Yen Ying Lim, Paul Maruff, Lidija Milicic, Madeline Peretti, David Ames, Colin L. Masters, Ralph N. Martins, Stephanie Rainey-Smith, Christopher C. Rowe, Olivier Salvado, Kevin Taddei, David Groth, Guiseppe Verdile, Victor L. Villemagne, Simon M. Laws

Research outputs 2014 to 2021

Studies of Alzheimer’s disease risk-weighted polygenic risk scores (PRSs) for cognitive performance have reported inconsistent associations. This inconsistency is particularly evident when PRSs are assessed independent of APOE genotype. As such, the development and assessment of phenotype-specific weightings to derive PRSs for cognitive decline in preclinical AD is warranted. To this end a episodic memory-weighted PRS (emPRS) was derived and assessed against decline in cognitive performance in 226 healthy cognitively normal older adults with high brain Aβ-amyloid burden participants from the Australian Imaging, Biomarkers and Lifestyle (AIBL) study. The effect size for decline in a verbal episodic memory …


Alzheimer's Disease: A Journey From Amyloid Peptides And Oxidative Stress, To Biomarker Technologies And Disease Prevention Strategies-Gains From Aibl And Dian Cohort Studies, Ralph Martins, Victor Villemagnen, Hamid R. Sohrabi, Pratishtha Chatterjee, Tejal M. Shah, Giuseppe Verdile, Paul Fraser, Kevin Taddei, Veer Gupta, Stephanie Rainey-Smith, Eugene Hone, Steve Pedrini, Wei L. Lim, Ian Martins, Shaun Frost, Sunil Gupta, Sid O’Bryant, Alan Rembach, David Ames, Kathryn Ellis, Stephanie J. Fuller, Belinda Brown, Samantha Gardener, Binosha Fernando, Prashant Bharadwaj, Samantha Burnham, Simon Laws, Anna M. Barron, Kathryn Goozee, Eka J. Wahjoepramono, Prita R. Asih, James D. Doecke, Olivier Salvado, Ashley I. Bush, Christopher C. Rowe, Samuel E. Gandy, Colin L. Masters Jan 2018

Alzheimer's Disease: A Journey From Amyloid Peptides And Oxidative Stress, To Biomarker Technologies And Disease Prevention Strategies-Gains From Aibl And Dian Cohort Studies, Ralph Martins, Victor Villemagnen, Hamid R. Sohrabi, Pratishtha Chatterjee, Tejal M. Shah, Giuseppe Verdile, Paul Fraser, Kevin Taddei, Veer Gupta, Stephanie Rainey-Smith, Eugene Hone, Steve Pedrini, Wei L. Lim, Ian Martins, Shaun Frost, Sunil Gupta, Sid O’Bryant, Alan Rembach, David Ames, Kathryn Ellis, Stephanie J. Fuller, Belinda Brown, Samantha Gardener, Binosha Fernando, Prashant Bharadwaj, Samantha Burnham, Simon Laws, Anna M. Barron, Kathryn Goozee, Eka J. Wahjoepramono, Prita R. Asih, James D. Doecke, Olivier Salvado, Ashley I. Bush, Christopher C. Rowe, Samuel E. Gandy, Colin L. Masters

Research outputs 2014 to 2021

Worldwide there are over 46 million people living with dementia, and this number is expected to double every 20 years reaching about 131 million by 2050. The cost to the community and government health systems, as well as the stress on families and carers is incalculable. Over three decades of research into this disease have been undertaken by several research groups in Australia, including work by our original research group inWestern Australia which was involved in the discovery and sequencing of the amyloid-β peptide (also known as Aβ or A4 peptide) extracted from cerebral amyloid plaques. This review discusses the …