Can Genetic Analysis of Putative Blood Alzheimer’s Disease Biomarkers Lead to Identification of Susceptibility Loci?

• Robert C. Barber ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Robert C. Barber, Nicole R. Phillips, Jeffrey L. Tilson, Kirk C. Wilhelmsen

  * E-mail: Robert.barber@unthsc.edu

  Affiliations Department of Molecular & Medical Genetics, University of North Texas Health Science Center, Fort Worth, Texas, United States of America, Institute for Aging and Alzheimer’s Disease Research, University of North Texas Health Science Center, Fort Worth, Texas, United States of America

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• Nicole R. Phillips ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Robert C. Barber, Nicole R. Phillips, Jeffrey L. Tilson, Kirk C. Wilhelmsen

  Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Dallas, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

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• Jeffrey L. Tilson ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Robert C. Barber, Nicole R. Phillips, Jeffrey L. Tilson, Kirk C. Wilhelmsen

  Affiliation Renaissance Computing Institute, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Ryan M. Huebinger,

  Affiliation Department of Surgery, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

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• Shantanu J. Shewale,

  Affiliation Department of Molecular & Medical Genetics, University of North Texas Health Science Center, Fort Worth, Texas, United States of America

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• Jessica L. Koenig,

  Affiliation Department of Molecular & Medical Genetics, University of North Texas Health Science Center, Fort Worth, Texas, United States of America

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• Jeffrey S. Mitchel,

  Affiliation Department of Molecular & Medical Genetics, University of North Texas Health Science Center, Fort Worth, Texas, United States of America

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• Sid E. O’Bryant,

  Affiliations Institute for Aging and Alzheimer’s Disease Research, University of North Texas Health Science Center, Fort Worth, Texas, United States of America, Department of Internal Medicine, University of North Texas Health Science Center, Fort Worth, Texas, United States of America

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• Stephen C. Waring,

  Affiliation Essentia Institute of Rural Health, Duluth, Minnesota, United States of America

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• Ramon Diaz-Arrastia,

  Affiliation Center for Neuroscience and Regenerative Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

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• Scott Chasse,

  Affiliation Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Kirk C. Wilhelmsen ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Robert C. Barber, Nicole R. Phillips, Jeffrey L. Tilson, Kirk C. Wilhelmsen

  Affiliations Renaissance Computing Institute, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Genetic Medicine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

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• for the Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative and the Texas Alzheimer’s Research and Care Consortium

  ¶A complete listing of ADNI and TARCC investigators can be found in the Acknowledgments.

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