Oliver Peters
German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases
238 Papers
477 Citations
Oliver Peters is an academic researcher from German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medicine & Dementia. The author has an hindex of 40, co-authored 165 publications. Previous affiliations of Oliver Peters include University of Düsseldorf & Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine.
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New insights into the genetic etiology of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias
Céline Bellenguez,Fahri Küçükali,Iris E. Jansen,Luca Kleineidam,Sonia Moreno-Grau,Najaf Amin,Adam C. Naj,R. Campos-Martín,Benjamin Grenier-Boley,Víctor Andrade,Peter Holmans,Anne Boland,Vincent Damotte,S. J. van der Lee,Marcos R. Costa,Teemu Kuulasmaa,Qiong Yang,Itziar de Rojas,Joshua C. Bis,Amber Yaqub,Ivana Prokic,Julien Chapuis,Shahzad Ahmad,Vilmantas Giedraitis,Dag Aarsland,Carla Abdelnour,Emilio Alarcón-Martín,Daniel Alcolea,Montserrat Alegret,Ignacio Alvarez,Victoria Alvarez,Nicola J. Armstrong,Anthoula Tsolaki,Carmen Antúnez,Ildebrando Appollonio,Marina Arcaro,Silvana Archetti,Alfonso Arias Pastor,Beatrice Arosio,Lavinia Athanasiu,Henri Bailly,Nerisa Banaj,Miquel Baquero,Sandra Barral,Alexa S. Beiser,Ana Pastor,Jennifer E. Below,Penny Benchek,Luisa Benussi,Claudine Berr,Céline Besse,Valentina Bessi,Giuliano Binetti,Alessandra Bizarro,Rafael Blesa,Mercè Boada,Eric Boerwinkle,S. Borroni,Silvia Boschi,Paola Bossù,Geir Bråthen,Jan Bressler,Catherine Bresner,Henry Brodaty,Keeley J. Brookes,Luis I. Brusco,Dolores Buiza-Rueda,Katharina Bürger,Vanessa Burholt,William S. Bush,Miguel Calero,Laura B. Cantwell,Geneviève Chêne,Jaeyoon Chung,Michael L. Cuccaro,Angel Carracedo,Roberta Cecchetti,Laura Cervera-Carles,Camille Charbonnier,Hung-Hsin Chen,Caterina Chillotti,Simona Ciccone,Jurgen A.H.R. Claassen,Christopher M. Clark,Elisa Conti,Anaïs Corma-Gómez,Emanuele Maria Costantini,Carlo Custodero,D. Daian,Maria Carolina Dalmasso,Antonio Daniele,Efthimios Dardiotis,Jean-François Dartigues,Peter Paul De Deyn,Katia de Paiva Lopes,Lot de Witte,Stéphanie Debette,Jürgen Deckert,Teodoro Del Ser,Nicola Denning,Anita L. DeStefano,Martin Dichgans,Janine Diehl-Schmid,Monica Diez-Fairen,Paolo Rosso,Srdjan Djurovic,Emmanuelle Duron,Emrah Düzel,Carole Dufouil,Gudny Eiriksdottir,Sebastiaan Engelborghs,Valentina Escott-Price,Ana Espinosa,Michael Ewers,Kelley Faber,Tagliavini Fabrizio,Sune F. Nielsen,David W. Fardo,Lucia Farotti,Chiara Fenoglio,Marta Fernández-Fuertes,Raffaele Ferrari,Catarina Beatriz Silva Ferreira,Evelyn Ferri,Bertrand Fin,Peter Fischer,Tormod Fladby,Klaus Fliessbach,Bernard Fongang,Myriam Fornage,Juan Fortea,Tatiana Foroud,Silvia Fostinelli,Nick C. Fox,Emilio Franco-Macías,María J. Bullido,Ana Frank-García,Lutz Froelich,Brian Fulton-Howard,Daniela Galimberti,José María García-Alberca,Pablo Garcia-Gonzalez,Sebastián García-Madrona,Guillermo García-Ribas,Roberta Ghidoni,Ina Giegling,Giaccone Giorgio,Alison Goate,Oliver Goldhardt,Duber Gomez-Fonseca,Antonio González-Pérez,Caroline Graff,Giulia Grande,Emma Green,Timo Grimmer,Edna Grünblatt,Michelle Grunin,Vilmundur Gudnason,Tamar Guetta-Baranes,Annakaisa Haapasalo,Georgios M. Hadjigeorgiou,Jonathan L. Haines,Kara L. Hamilton-Nelson,Harald Hampel,Olivier Hanon,John Hardy,T. Hartmann,Lucrezia Hausner,Janet C Harwood,Stefanie Heilmann-Heimbach,Seppo Helisalmi,Michael T. Heneka,Isabel Hernández,Martin J. Herrmann,Per Hoffmann,Clive Holmes,Henne Holstege,Raquel Huerto Vilas,Marc Hulsman,Jack Humphrey,Geert Jan Biessels,Xueqiu Jian,Charlotte Johansson,Gyungah Jun,Y. Kastumata,John S. K. Kauwe,Patrick G. Kehoe,Lena Kilander,Anne Kinhult Ståhlbom,Miia Kivipelto,Anne M. Koivisto,Johannes Kornhuber,Mary H. Kosmidis,Walter A. Kukull,Pavel P. Kuksa,Brian W. Kunkle,Amanda B. Kuzma,Carmen Lage,Erika J. Laukka,Lenore J. Launer,Alessandra Lauria,Chien‐Yueh Lee,Jenni Lehtisalo,Ondrej Lerch,Alberto Lleó,W. T. Longstreth,Oscar L. Lopez,Adolfo López de Munain,Seth Love,Malin Löwemark,L. Luckcuck,Kathryn L. Lunetta,Yiyi Ma,Juan Macías,Catherine A. MacLeod,Wolfgang Mader,Francesca Mangialasche,Marco Spallazzi,Marta Marquié,Rachel Marshall,Eden R. Martin,Angel Martin Montes,Carmen Martinez Rodriguez,Carlo Masullo,Richard Mayeux,Simon Head,Patrizia Mecocci,Miguel Medina,Alun Meggy,Shima Mehrabian,Silvia Mendoza,Manuel Menéndez-González,Pablo Mir,Susanne Moebus,Merel O. Mol,Laura Molina-Porcel,Laura Montrreal,Laura Morelli,Fermin Moreno,Kevin Morgan,Thomas H. Mosley,Markus M. Nöthen,Carolina Muchnik,Shubhabrata Mukherjee,Benedetta Nacmias,Tiia Ngandu,Gaël Nicolas,Børge G. Nordestgaard,Robert Olaso,Adelina Orellana,Michela Orsini,G. Ortega,Alessandro Padovani,Caffarra Paolo,Goran Papenberg,Lucilla Parnetti,Florence Pasquier,Pau Pastor,Gina M. Peloso,Alba Pérez-Cordón,Jordi Pérez-Tur,Pierre Pericard,Oliver Peters,Yolande A.L. Pijnenburg,Juan A. Pineda,Gerard Piñol-Ripoll,Claudia Pisanu,Thomas Polak,Julius Popp,Danielle Posthuma,Josef Priller,Raquel Delgado Puerta,Olivier Quenez,Inés Quintela,Jesper Qvist Thomassen,Alberto Rábano,Innocenzo Rainero,Farid Rajabli,Inez H.G.B. Ramakers,Luis Miguel Real,Marcel J. T. Reinders,Christiane Reitz,Dolly Reyes-Dumeyer,Perry G. Ridge,Steffi G. Riedel-Heller,Peter Riederer,Natalia Roberto,Eloy Rodríguez-Rodríguez,Arvid Rongve,I. Allende,Maitée Rosende-Roca,Jose Luis Royo,Elisa Rubino,Dan Rujescu,María Eugenia Sáez,Paraskevi Sakka,Ingvild Saltvedt,Angela Sanabria,M B Sánchez-Arjona,Florentino Sanchez-Garcia,Pascual Sanchez Juan,Raquel Sánchez-Valle,Sigrid Botne Sando,Chloé Sarnowski,Claudia L. Satizabal,Michela Scamosci,Nikolaos Scarmeas,Elio Scarpini,Philip Scheltens,Norbert Scherbaum,Martin Scherer,Matthias Schmid,Anja Schneider,Jonathan M. Schott,Geir Selbæk,Davide Seripa,Manuel Serrano,Jin Sha,Alexey A. Shadrin,Olivia Anna Skrobot,Susan Slifer,G. Snijders,Hilkka Soininen,Vincenzo Solfrizzi,Alina Solomon,Yeunjoo E. Song,Sandro Sorbi,Oscar Sotolongo-Grau,Gianfranco Spalletta,Annika Spottke,Alessio Squassina,Eystein Stordal,Juan Pablo Tartan,Lluís Tárraga,Niccolò Tesi,Anbupalam Thalamuthu,Tegos Thomas,Giuseppe Tosto,Latchezar Traykov,Lucio Tremolizzo,Anne Tybjærg-Hansen,André G. Uitterlinden,Abbe Ullgren,Ingun Ulstein,Sergi Valero,Otto Valladares,Christine Van Broeckhoven,Jeffery M. Vance,Badri N. Vardarajan,Aad Van Der Lugt,Jasper Van Dongen,Jeroen van Rooij,John C. van Swieten,Rik Vandenberghe,Frans R.J. Verhey,Jean-Sébastien Vidal,Jonathan Vogelgsang,Martin Vyhnalek,Michael Wagner,David Wallon,Li-San Wang,Ruiqi Wang,Leonie Weinhold,Jens Wiltfang,Gill Windle,Bob Woods,Mary Yannakoulia,Habil Zare,Yi Zhao,Xiaoling Zhang,Congcong Zhu,Miren Zulaica,Lindsay A. Farrer,Bruce M. Psaty,Mohsen Ghanbari,Towfique Raj,Perminder S. Sachdev,Karen A. Mather,Frank Jessen,M. Arfan Ikram,Alexandre de Mendonça,Jakub Hort,Magda Tsolaki,Margaret A. Pericak-Vance,Philippe Amouyel,Julie Williams,Ruth Frikke-Schmidt,Jordi Clarimón,Jean-François Deleuze,Giacomina Rossi,Sudha Seshadri,Ole A. Andreassen,Martin Ingelsson,Mikko Hiltunen,Kristel Sleegers,Gerard D. Schellenberg,Cornelia M. van Duijn,Rebecca Sims,Wiesje M. van der Flier,Agustín Ruiz,Alfredo Ramirez,Jean-Charles Lambert +401 more
TL;DR: This paper performed a two-stage genome-wide association study with 111,326 clinically diagnosed/proxy AD cases and 677,663 controls and found 75 risk loci, of which 42 were new at the time of analysis.
Rare coding variants in PLCG2, ABI3, and TREM2 implicate microglial-mediated innate immunity in Alzheimer's disease
Rebecca Sims,Sven J. van der Lee,Adam C. Naj,Céline Bellenguez,Céline Bellenguez,Nandini Badarinarayan,Johanna Jakobsdottir,Brian W. Kunkle,Anne Boland,Rachel Raybould,Joshua C. Bis,Eden R. Martin,Benjamin Grenier-Boley,Benjamin Grenier-Boley,Stefanie Heilmann-Heimbach,Vincent Chouraki,Vincent Chouraki,Amanda B. Kuzma,Kristel Sleegers,Kristel Sleegers,Maria Vronskaya,Agustín Ruiz,Robert R. Graham,Robert Olaso,Per Hoffmann,Per Hoffmann,Megan L. Grove,Badri N. Vardarajan,Mikko Hiltunen,Markus M. Nöthen,Charles C. White,Kara L. Hamilton-Nelson,Jacques Epelbaum,Wolfgang Maier,Wolfgang Maier,Seung Hoan Choi,Gary W. Beecham,Cécile Dulary,Stefan Herms,Stefan Herms,Albert V. Smith,Cory C. Funk,Céline Derbois,Andreas J. Forstner,Shahzad Ahmad,Hong-Dong Li,Delphine Bacq,Denise Harold,Claudia L. Satizabal,Claudia L. Satizabal,Otto Valladares,Alessio Squassina,Rhodri Thomas,Jennifer A. Brody,Liming Qu,Pascual Sánchez-Juan,Taniesha Morgan,Frank J. Wolters,Yi Zhao,Florentino Sanchez Garcia,Nicola Denning,Myriam Fornage,John Malamon,Maria Candida Deniz Naranjo,Elisa Majounie,Thomas H. Mosley,Beth A. Dombroski,David Wallon,Michelle K. Lupton,Michelle K. Lupton,Josée Dupuis,Patrice L. Whitehead,Laura Fratiglioni,Laura Fratiglioni,Christopher Medway,Xueqiu Jian,Shubhabrata Mukherjee,Lina Keller,Kristelle Brown,Honghuang Lin,Laura B. Cantwell,Francesco Panza,Bernadette McGuinness,Sonia Moreno-Grau,Jeremy D. Burgess,Vincenzo Solfrizzi,Petra Proitsi,Hieab H.H. Adams,Mariet Allen,Davide Seripa,Pau Pastor,L. Adrienne Cupples,L. Adrienne Cupples,Nathan D. Price,Didier Hannequin,Ana Frank-García,Ana Frank-García,Daniel Levy,Daniel Levy,Paramita Chakrabarty,Paolo Caffarra,Paolo Caffarra,Ina Giegling,Alexa S. Beiser,Alexa S. Beiser,Vilmantas Giedraitis,Harald Hampel,Harald Hampel,Melissa E. Garcia,Xue Wang,Lars Lannfelt,Patrizia Mecocci,Gudny Eiriksdottir,Paul K. Crane,Florence Pasquier,Florence Pasquier,Virginia Boccardi,Isabel Henández,Robert Barber,Martin Scherer,Lluís Tárraga,Perrie M. Adams,Markus Leber,Yuning Chen,Marilyn S. Albert,Steffi G. Riedel-Heller,Valur Emilsson,Duane Beekly,Anne Braae,Reinhold Schmidt,Deborah Blacker,Carlo Masullo,Helena Schmidt,Rachelle S. Doody,Gianfranco Spalletta,W. T. Longstreth,Thomas Fairchild,Paola Bossù,Oscar L. Lopez,Matthew P. Frosch,Eleonora Sacchinelli,Bernardino Ghetti,Qiong Yang,Ryan M. Huebinger,Frank Jessen,Frank Jessen,Frank Jessen,Shuo Li,M. Ilyas Kamboh,John C. Morris,Oscar Sotolongo-Grau,Mindy J. Katz,Chris Corcoran,Melanie L. Dunstan,Amy Braddel,Charlene Thomas,Alun Meggy,Rachel Marshall,Amy Gerrish,Jade Chapman,Miquel Aguilar,Sarah Taylor,Matt Hill,Monica Diez Fairen,Angela Hodges,Bruno Vellas,Hilkka Soininen,Iwona Kłoszewska,Makrina Daniilidou,James Uphill,Yogen Patel,Joseph T. Hughes,Jenny Lord,James Turton,Annette M. Hartmann,Roberta Cecchetti,Chiara Fenoglio,Maria Serpente,Marina Arcaro,Carlo Caltagirone,Maria Donata Orfei,Antonio Ciaramella,Sabrina Pichler,Manuel Mayhaus,Wei Gu,Alberto Lleó,Juan Fortea,Rafael Blesa,Imelda Barber,Keeley J. Brookes,Chiara Cupidi,Raffaele Maletta,David Carrell,Sandro Sorbi,Susanne Moebus,Maria Urbano,Alberto Pilotto,Johannes Kornhuber,Paolo Bosco,Stephen Todd,David Craig,Janet A. Johnston,Michael Gill,Brian A. Lawlor,Aoibhinn Lynch,Nick C. Fox,John Hardy,Roger L. Albin,Liana G. Apostolova,Liana G. Apostolova,Liana G. Apostolova,Steven E. Arnold,Sanjay Asthana,Craig S. Atwood,Clinton T. Baldwin,Lisa L. Barnes,Sandra Barral,Thomas G. Beach,James T. Becker,Eileen H. Bigio,Thomas D. Bird,Bradley F. Boeve,James Bowen,Adam L. Boxer,James R. Burke,Jeffrey M. Burns,Joseph D. Buxbaum,Nigel J. Cairns,Chuanhai Cao,Christopher S. Carlson,Cynthia M. Carlsson,Regina M. Carney,Minerva M. Carrasquillo,Steven L. Carroll,Carolina Ceballos Diaz,Helena C. Chui,David G. Clark,David G. Clark,David H. Cribbs,Elizabeth Crocco,Charles DeCarli,Malcolm B. Dick,Ranjan Duara,Denis A. Evans,Kelley Faber,Kenneth B. Fallon,David W. Fardo,Martin R. Farlow,Steven H. Ferris,Tatiana Foroud,Douglas Galasko,Marla Gearing,Daniel H. Geschwind,John R. Gilbert,Neill R. Graff-Radford,Robert C. Green,John H. Growdon,Ronald L. Hamilton,Lindy E. Harrell,Lawrence S. Honig,Matthew J. Huentelman,Christine M. Hulette,Bradley T. Hyman,Gail P. Jarvik,Erin L. Abner,Lee-Way Jin,Gyungah Jun,Anna Karydas,Jeffrey Kaye,Jeffrey Kaye,Ronald C. Kim,Neil W. Kowall,Joel H. Kramer,Frank M. LaFerla,James J. Lah,James B. Leverenz,Allan I. Levey,Ge Li,Andrew P. Lieberman,Kathryn L. Lunetta,Constantine G. Lyketsos,Daniel C. Marson,Frank Martiniuk,Deborah C. Mash,Eliezer Masliah,Wayne C. McCormick,Susan M. McCurry,Andrew McDavid,Ann C. McKee,M.-Marsel Mesulam,Bruce L. Miller,Carol A. Miller,Joshua W. Miller,Jill R. Murrell,Amanda J. Myers,Sid E. O'Bryant,John M Olichney,Vernon S. Pankratz,Joseph E. Parisi,Henry L. Paulson,William Perry,Elaine R. Peskind,Aimee Pierce,Wayne W. Poon,Huntington Potter,Joseph F. Quinn,Joseph F. Quinn,Ashok Raj,Murray A. Raskind,Barry Reisberg,Christiane Reitz,John M. Ringman,Erik D. Roberson,Ekaterina Rogaeva,Howard J. Rosen,Roger N. Rosenberg,Mark A. Sager,Andrew J. Saykin,Julie A. Schneider,Lon S. Schneider,William W. Seeley,Amanda Smith,Joshua A. Sonnen,Salvatore Spina,Robert S. Stern,Russell H. Swerdlow,Rudolph E. Tanzi,Tricia A. Thornton-Wells,John Q. Trojanowski,Juan C. Troncoso,Vivianna M. Van Deerlin,Linda J. Van Eldik,Harry V. Vinters,Jean Paul G. Vonsattel,Sandra Weintraub,Kathleen A. Welsh-Bohmer,Kirk C. Wilhelmsen,Jennifer Williamson,Thomas S. Wingo,Randall L. Woltjer,Clinton B. Wright,Chang En Yu,Lei Yu,Fabienne Garzia,Feroze Golamaully,Gislain Septier,Sebastien Engelborghs,Rik Vandenberghe,Peter Paul De Deyn,Carmen Muñoz Fernadez,Yoland Aladro Benito,Håkan Thonberg,Charlotte Forsell,Lena Lilius,Anne Kinhult-Ståhlbom,Lena Kilander,RoseMarie Brundin,Letizia Concari,Letizia Concari,Seppo Helisalmi,Anne M. Koivisto,Annakaisa Haapasalo,Vincent Dermecourt,Nathalie Fievet,Olivier Hanon,Carole Dufouil,Carole Dufouil,Alexis Brice,Alexis Brice,Karen Ritchie,Bruno Dubois,Bruno Dubois,Jayanadra J. Himali,C. Dirk Keene,JoAnn T. Tschanz,Annette L. Fitzpatrick,Walter A. Kukull,Maria C. Norton,Thor Aspelund,Eric B. Larson,Eric B. Larson,Ronald G. Munger,Jerome I. Rotter,Richard B. Lipton,María J. Bullido,María J. Bullido,Albert Hofman,Thomas J. Montine,Eliecer Coto,Eric Boerwinkle,Eric Boerwinkle,Ronald C. Petersen,Victoria Alvarez,Fernando Rivadeneira,Eric M. Reiman,Maura Gallo,Christopher J. O'Donnell,Joan S. Reisch,Amalia C. Bruni,Donald R. Royall,Martin Dichgans,Martin Dichgans,Mary Sano,Daniela Galimberti,Peter St George-Hyslop,Peter St George-Hyslop,Elio Scarpini,Debby W. Tsuang,Michelangelo Mancuso,Ubaldo Bonuccelli,Ashley R. Winslow,Antonio Daniele,Chuang Kuo Wu,Oliver Peters,Benedetta Nacmias,Matthias Riemenschneider,Reinhard Heun,Carol Brayne,David C. Rubinsztein,Jose Bras,Jose Bras,Rita Guerreiro,Rita Guerreiro,Ammar Al-Chalabi,Christopher Shaw,John Collinge,David G. Mann,David G. Mann,Jordi Clarimón,Rebecca Sussams,Simon Lovestone,Michael Conlon O'Donovan,Michael John Owen,Timothy W. Behrens,Simon Mead,André G. Uitterlinden,André G. Uitterlinden,Carlos Cruchaga,Martin Ingelsson,David A. Bennett,John Powell,Todd E. Golde,Caroline Graff,Philip L. De Jager,Kevin Morgan,Nilufer Ertekin-Taner,Onofre Combarros,Bruce M. Psaty,Peter Passmore,Steven G. Younkin,Claudine Berr,Vilmundur Gudnason,Dan Rujescu,Dennis W. Dickson,Jean-François Dartigues,Anita L. DeStefano,Anita L. DeStefano,Sara Ortega-Cubero,Hakon Hakonarson,Dominique Campion,Mercè Boada,John K Kauwe,Lindsay A. Farrer,Christine Van Broeckhoven,Christine Van Broeckhoven,M. Arfan Ikram,Lesley Jones,Jonathan L. Haines,Christophe Tzourio,Lenore J. Launer,Lenore J. Launer,Valentina Escott-Price,Richard Mayeux,Jean-François Deleuze,Najaf Amin,Alison Goate,Margaret A. Pericak-Vance,Peter Holmans,Cornelia M. van Duijn,Alfredo Ramirez,Alfredo Ramirez,Li-San Wang,Jean-Charles Lambert,Jean-Charles Lambert,Sudha Seshadri,Sudha Seshadri,Julie Williams,Gerard D. Schellenberg +487 more
TL;DR: Three new genome-wide significant nonsynonymous variants associated with Alzheimer's disease are observed, providing additional evidence that the microglia-mediated innate immune response contributes directly to the development of Alzheimer's Disease.
An unconventional role for miRNA: let-7 activates Toll-like receptor 7 and causes neurodegeneration
Sabrina M. Lehmann,Christina Krüger,Boyoun Park,Katja Derkow,Karen Rosenberger,Jan Baumgart,Thorsten Trimbuch,Gina D. Eom,Michael Hinz,David Kaul,Piet Habbel,Roland E. Kälin,Eleonora Franzoni,Agnieszka Rybak,Duong T. T. Nguyen,Rüdiger W. Veh,Olaf Ninnemann,Oliver Peters,Robert Nitsch,Frank L. Heppner,Douglas T. Golenbock,Eckart Schott,Hidde L. Ploegh,F. Gregory Wulczyn,Seija Lehnardt +24 more
TL;DR: The results suggest that microRNAs can function as signaling molecules and identify TLR7 as an essential element in a pathway that contributes to the spread of CNS damage.
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Genetic evidence implicates the immune system and cholesterol metabolism in the aetiology of Alzheimer's disease.
Lesley Jones,Peter Holmans,Marian L. Hamshere,Denise Harold,Valentina Moskvina,Dobril Ivanov,Andrew Pocklington,Richard Abraham,Paul Hollingworth,Rebecca Sims,Amy Gerrish,Jaspreet Singh Pahwa,Nicola L. Jones,Alexandra Stretton,Angharad R. Morgan,Simon Lovestone,John Powell,Petroula Proitsi,Michelle K. Lupton,Carol Brayne,David C. Rubinsztein,Michael Gill,Brian A. Lawlor,Aoibhinn Lynch,Kevin Morgan,Kristelle Brown,Peter Passmore,David Craig,Bernadette McGuinness,Stephen Todd,Clive Holmes,David G. Mann,A. David Smith,Seth Love,Patrick G. Kehoe,Simon Mead,Nick C. Fox,Martin N. Rossor,John Collinge,Wolfgang Maier,Frank Jessen,Britta Schürmann,Hendrik van den Bussche,Isabella Heuser,Oliver Peters,Johannes Kornhuber,Jens Wiltfang,Martin Dichgans,Lutz Frölich,Harald Hampel,Harald Hampel,Michael Hüll,Dan Rujescu,Alison Goate,John S. K. Kauwe,Carlos Cruchaga,Petra Nowotny,John C. Morris,Kevin Mayo,Gill Livingston,Nicholas Bass,Hugh Gurling,Andrew McQuillin,Rhian Gwilliam,Panos Deloukas,Ammar Al-Chalabi,Christopher Shaw,Andrew B. Singleton,Rita Guerreiro,Thomas W. Mühleisen,Markus M. Nöthen,Susanne Moebus,Karl-Heinz Jöckel,Norman Klopp,H.-Erich Wichmann,Eckhard Rüther,Minerva M. Carrasquillo,V. Shane Pankratz,Steven G. Younkin,John Hardy,Michael Conlon O'Donovan,Michael John Owen,Julie Williams +82 more
TL;DR: Independent evidence from two large studies demonstrates that these processes related to cholesterol metabolism and the innate immune response are aetiologically relevant, and suggests that they may be suitable targets for novel and existing therapeutic approaches.
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Identification and Characterization of Circular RNAs As a New Class of Putative Biomarkers in Human Blood
TL;DR: Sequenced RNA in human peripheral whole blood reveals and quantifies the activity of hundreds of coding genes not accessible by classical mRNA specific assays, suggesting that circRNAs could be used as biomarker molecules in standard clinical blood samples.