Communications Biology (Apr 2022)

Meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies identifies ancestry-specific associations underlying circulating total tau levels

  • Chloé Sarnowski,
  • Mohsen Ghanbari,
  • Joshua C. Bis,
  • Mark Logue,
  • Myriam Fornage,
  • Aniket Mishra,
  • Shahzad Ahmad,
  • Alexa S. Beiser,
  • Eric Boerwinkle,
  • Vincent Bouteloup,
  • Vincent Chouraki,
  • L Adrienne Cupples,
  • Vincent Damotte,
  • Charles S. DeCarli,
  • Anita L. DeStefano,
  • Luc Djoussé,
  • Alison E. Fohner,
  • Carol E. Franz,
  • Tiffany F. Kautz,
  • Jean-Charles Lambert,
  • Michael J. Lyons,
  • Thomas H. Mosley,
  • Kenneth J. Mukamal,
  • Matthew P. Pase,
  • Eliana C. Portilla Fernandez,
  • Robert A. Rissman,
  • Claudia L. Satizabal,
  • Ramachandran S. Vasan,
  • Amber Yaqub,
  • Stephanie Debette,
  • Carole Dufouil,
  • Lenore J. Launer,
  • William S. Kremen,
  • William T. Longstreth,
  • M Arfan Ikram,
  • Sudha Seshadri

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-022-03287-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 5, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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A meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies of circulating total-tau levels identifies loci specific to European or African American ancestries, providing further insight to the genetic etiology of neurological diseases.