Genome-wide analysis of genetic correlation in dementia with Lewy bodies, Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseasesTools Guerreiro, Rita, Escott-Price, Valentina, Darwent, Lee, Parkkinen, Laura, Ansorge, Olaf, Hernandez, Dena, Nalls, Michael A., Clark, Lorraine, Honig, Lawrence, Marder, Karen, Flier, Wiesje van der, Holstege, Henne, Louwersheimer, Eva, Lemstra, Afina, Scheltens, Philip, Barber, Imelda S., Braae, Anne, Brown, Kristelle and Morgan, Kevin (2016) Genome-wide analysis of genetic correlation in dementia with Lewy bodies, Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases. Neurobiology of Aging, 38 . p. 214. ISSN 1558-1497 Full text not available from this repository.AbstractThe similarities between dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) and both Parkinson's disease (PD) and Alzheimer's disease (AD) are many and range from clinical presentation, to neuropathological characteristics, to more recently identified, genetic determinants of risk. Because of these overlapping features, diagnosing DLB is challenging and has clinical implications since some therapeutic agents that are applicable in other diseases have adverse effects in DLB. Having shown that DLB shares some genetic risk with PD and AD, we have now quantified the amount of sharing through the application of genetic correlation estimates, and show that, from a purely genetic perspective, and excluding the strong association at the APOE locus, DLB is equally correlated to AD and PD.
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