Nature Communications (Aug 2022)

Cross-tissue analysis of blood and brain epigenome-wide association studies in Alzheimer’s disease

  • Tiago C. Silva,
  • Juan I. Young,
  • Lanyu Zhang,
  • Lissette Gomez,
  • Michael A. Schmidt,
  • Achintya Varma,
  • X. Steven Chen,
  • Eden R. Martin,
  • Lily Wang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-32475-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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DNA methylation differences in Alzheimer’s disease have been previously reported, although the interpretation of the differences is unclear. Here, the authors performed epigenome-wide meta-analyses of DNA methylation in blood and brain, and developed a methylation-based risk prediction model for AD.