The Prediction of Alzheimer’s Disease through Multi-Trait Genetic Modeling

Description

The National Alzheimer’s Coordinating Center (NACC) is responsible for maintaining a database of clinical information collected from the 29 NIA-funded Alzheimer’s Disease Centers (ADCs). Each center collects and manages patient information in a site-specific way, requiring data harmonization on the part of NACC. We created a combined dataset from ADCs 1-7, which included genetic and AD diagnosis information for 5869 subjects (2494 AD cases, 2021 controls, and 1354 missing/unknown) before QC.

For our testing dataset we used the ADRC housed at the University of Pittsburgh, the largest non-NACC ADGC dataset. This input dataset contained 2212 subjects before QC.

Principal Investigators

Li-San Wang — Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
Jung-Ying Tzeng — Department of Statistics and Bioinformatics Research Center, North Carolina State University

Funding Sources

National Institute on Aging (U24-AG041689, U54-AG052427, U01-AG032984, and RF1AG074328) and the University of Pennsylvania Predoctoral Training Grant in Computational Genomics (5T32HG000046-22)

Publications

Clark K. Polygenic Risk Scores in Alzheimer's Disease Genetics: Methodology, Applications, Inclusion, and Diversity. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD. 2022. PubMed link

Acknowledgment statement for any data distributed by NIAGADS:

Data for this study were prepared, archived, and distributed by the National Institute on Aging Alzheimer's Disease Data Storage Site (NIAGADS) at the University of Pennsylvania (U24-AG041689), funded by the National Institute on Aging.

For investigators using The Prediction of Alzheimer’s Disease through Multi-Trait Genetic Modeling data:

The National Institutes of Health, National Institute on Aging (NIH-NIA) supported this work through the following grants: ADGC, U01 AG032984; samples from the National Centralized Repository for Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias (NCRAD), which receives government support under a cooperative agreement grant (U24 AG21886) awarded by the National Institute on Aging (NIA), were used in this study. Sequencing data generation and harmonization is supported by the Genome Center for Alzheimer’s Disease, U54AG052427, and data sharing is supported by NIAGADS, U24AG041689. We thank contributors who collected samples used in this study, as well as patients and their families, whose help and participation made this work possible.

The NACC database is funded by NIA/NIH Grant U24 AG072122. NIH grants supported enrollment and data collection for the individual studies including the Alzheimer’s Disease Centers (ADC, P30 AG062429 (PI James Brewer, MD, PhD), P30 AG066468 (PI Oscar Lopez, MD), P30 AG062421 (PI Bradley Hyman, MD, PhD), P30 AG066509 (PI Thomas Grabowski, MD), P30 AG066514 (PI Mary Sano, PhD), P30 AG066530 (PI Helena Chui, MD), P30 AG066507 (PI Marilyn Albert, PhD), P30 AG066444 (PI John Morris, MD), P30 AG066518 (PI Jeffrey Kaye, MD), P30 AG066512 (PI Thomas Wisniewski, MD), P30 AG066462 (PI Scott Small, MD), P30 AG072979 (PI David Wolk, MD), P30 AG072972 (PI Charles DeCarli, MD), P30 AG072976 (PI Andrew Saykin, PsyD), P30 AG072975 (PI David Bennett, MD), P30 AG072978 (PI Neil Kowall, MD), P30 AG072977 (PI Robert Vassar, PhD), P30 AG066519 (PI Frank LaFerla, PhD), P30 AG062677 (PI Ronald Petersen, MD, PhD), P30 AG079280 (PI Eric Reiman, MD), P30 AG062422 (PI Gil Rabinovici, MD), P30 AG066511 (PI Allan Levey, MD, PhD), P30 AG072946 (PI Linda Van Eldik, PhD), P30 AG062715 (PI Sanjay Asthana, MD, FRCP), P30 AG072973 (PI Russell Swerdlow, MD), P30 AG066506 (PI Todd Golde, MD, PhD), P30 AG066508 (PI Stephen Strittmatter, MD, PhD), P30 AG066515 (PI Victor Henderson, MD, MS), P30 AG072947 (PI Suzanne Craft, PhD), P30 AG072931 (PI Henry Paulson, MD, PhD), P30 AG066546 (PI Sudha Seshadri, MD), P20 AG068024 (PI Erik Roberson, MD, PhD), P20 AG068053 (PI Justin Miller, PhD), P20 AG068077 (PI Gary Rosenberg, MD), P20 AG068082 (PI Angela Jefferson, PhD), P30 AG072958 (PI Heather Whitson, MD), P30 AG072959 (PI James Leverenz, MD). The Miami ascertainment and research were supported in part through: RF1AG054080, R01AG027944, R01AG019085, R01AG028786-02, RC2AG036528. The Columbia ascertainment and research were supported in part through R37AG015473 and U24AG056270. The University of Washington ascertainment and research were supported in part through R01AG044546, RF1AG053303, RF1AG058501, U01AG058922 and R01AG064877. The University of Pittsburgh ascertainment and research were supported in part through AG030653 and AG005133.