About the Authors
- Fanggeng Zou
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Contributed equally to this work with: Fanggeng Zou, High Seng Chai, Curtis S. Younkin, Mariet Allen
Affiliation Department of Neuroscience, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Florida, United States of America
- High Seng Chai
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Contributed equally to this work with: Fanggeng Zou, High Seng Chai, Curtis S. Younkin, Mariet Allen
Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America
- Curtis S. Younkin
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Contributed equally to this work with: Fanggeng Zou, High Seng Chai, Curtis S. Younkin, Mariet Allen
Affiliation Department of Neuroscience, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Florida, United States of America
- Mariet Allen
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Contributed equally to this work with: Fanggeng Zou, High Seng Chai, Curtis S. Younkin, Mariet Allen
Affiliation Department of Neuroscience, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Florida, United States of America
- Julia Crook
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Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Florida, United States of America
- V. Shane Pankratz
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Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America
- Minerva M. Carrasquillo
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Affiliation Department of Neuroscience, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Florida, United States of America
- Christopher N. Rowley
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Affiliation Department of Neuroscience, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Florida, United States of America
- Asha A. Nair
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Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America
- Sumit Middha
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Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America
- Sooraj Maharjan
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Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America
- Thuy Nguyen
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Affiliation Department of Neuroscience, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Florida, United States of America
- Li Ma
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Affiliation Department of Neuroscience, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Florida, United States of America
- Kimberly G. Malphrus
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Affiliation Department of Neuroscience, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Florida, United States of America
- Ryan Palusak
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Affiliation Department of Neuroscience, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Florida, United States of America
- Sarah Lincoln
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Affiliation Department of Neuroscience, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Florida, United States of America
- Gina Bisceglio
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Affiliation Department of Neuroscience, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Florida, United States of America
- Constantin Georgescu
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Affiliation Department of Neuroscience, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Florida, United States of America
- Naomi Kouri
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Affiliation Department of Neuroscience, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Florida, United States of America
- Christopher P. Kolbert
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Affiliation Microarray Core, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America
- Jin Jen
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Affiliation Microarray Core, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America
- Jonathan L. Haines
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Affiliation Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics and Vanderbilt Center for Human Genetics Research, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America
- Richard Mayeux
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Affiliation Gertrude H. Sergievsky Center, Department of Neurology, and Taub Institute on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America
- Margaret A. Pericak-Vance
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Affiliation The John P. Hussman Institute for Human Genomics and Dr. John T. Macdonald Foundation Department of Human Genetics, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, United States of America
- Lindsay A. Farrer
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Affiliation Departments of Biostatistics, Medicine (Genetics Program), Ophthalmology, Neurology, and Epidemiology, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Gerard D. Schellenberg
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Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Alzheimer's Disease Genetics Consortium
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¶Membership of the Alzheimer's Disease Genetics Consortium (ADGC) is provided in the Acknowledgments.
- Ronald C. Petersen
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Affiliation Department of Neurology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America
- Neill R. Graff-Radford
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Affiliation Department of Neurology, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Florida, United States of America
- Dennis W. Dickson
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Affiliation Department of Neuroscience, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Florida, United States of America
- Steven G. Younkin
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Affiliation Department of Neuroscience, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Florida, United States of America
- Nilüfer Ertekin-Taner
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* E-mail: taner.nilufer@mayo.edu
Affiliations Department of Neuroscience, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Florida, United States of America, Department of Neurology, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Florida, United States of America
Competing Interests
NR Graff-Radford has served as a consultant to Codman and received grant support from Elan Pharmaceutical Research, Pfizer Pharmaceuticals, Medivation, and Forrest. RC Petersen has been a consultant to GE Healthcare and Elan Pharmaceuticals, has served on a data safety monitoring committee for Pfizer and Janssen Alzheimer Immunotherapy, and has provided a CME lecture for Novartis. ADGC Authors: T.D.B. received licensing fees from and is on the speaker's bureau of Athena Diagnostics. M.R.F. receives research funding from BristolMyersSquibb Company, Danone Research, Elan Pharmaceuticals, Eli Lilly, Novartis Pharmaceuticals, OctaPharma AG, Pfizer, and Sonexa Therapeutics; receives honoraria as scientific consultant from Accera, Astellas Pharma US Inc., Baxter, Bayer Pharmaceuticals Corporation, BristolMyersSquibb, Eisai Medical Research, GE Healthcare, Medavante, Medivation, Merck, Novartis Pharmaceuticals, Pfizer, Prana Biotechnology, QR Pharma, The sanofi-aventis Group, and Toyama Chemical; and is speaker for Eisai Medical Research, Forest Laboratories, Pfizer, and Novartis Pharmaceuticals. A.M.G. has research funding from AstraZeneca, Pfizer and Genentech, and has received remuneration for giving talks at Pfizer and Genentech. R.C.P. is on the Safety Monitory Committee of Pfizer (Wyeth) and a consultant to the Safety Monitoring Committee at Janssen Alzheimer's Immunotherapy Program (Elan), to Elan Pharmaceuticals, and to GE Healthcare. R.E.T. is a consultant to Eisai, Japan, in the area of Alzheimer's genetics and a shareholder in, and consultant to, Pathway Genomics, San Diego, CA.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: SG Younkin, N Ertekin-Taner. Performed the experiments: F Zou, MM Carrasquillo, CN Rowley, T Nguyen, L Ma, KG Malphrus, R Palusak, S Lincoln, G Bisceglio, N Kouri, CP Kolbert, J Jen. Analyzed the data: F Zou, HS Chai, CS Younkin, J Crook, VS Pankratz, M Allen, MM Carrasquillo, AA Nair, S Middha, S Maharjan, C Gorgescu, SG Younkin, N Ertekin-Taner. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: Alzheimer's Disease Genetics Consortium, JL Haines, R Mayeux, MA Pericak-Vance, LA Farrer, GD Schellenberg, RC Petersen, NR Graff-Radford, DW Dickson, SG Younkin. Wrote the paper: F Zou, HS Chai, CS Younkin, J Crook, VS Pankratz, M Allen, SG Younkin, N Ertekin-Taner.