Sex‐specific genetic predictors of memory, executive function, and language performance

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Titel: Sex‐specific genetic predictors of memory, executive function, and language performance
Beteiligte: Eissman, Jaclyn M.; Smith, Alexandra N.; Mukherjee, Shubhabrata; Lee, Michael L.; Choi, Seo‐Eun; Scollard, Phoebe; Trittschuh, Emily H.; Mez, Jesse B.; Bush, William S.; Engelman, Corinne D.; Lu, Qiongshi; Fardo, David W.; Widaman, Keith F.; Buckley, Rachel F.; Mormino, Elizabeth C.; Kunkle, Brian W.; Naj, Adam C.; Clark, Lindsay R.; Gifford, Katherine A.; Cuccaro, Michael L.; Cruchaga, Carlos; Pericak‐Vance, Margaret A.; Farrer, Lindsay A.; Wang, Li‐San; [...]
Erschienen: Wiley, 2022
Erschienen in: Alzheimer's & Dementia
Sprache: Englisch
DOI: 10.1002/alz.067842
ISSN: 1552-5260; 1552-5279
Schlagwörter: Psychiatry and Mental health ; Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience ; Geriatrics and Gerontology ; Neurology (clinical) ; Developmental Neuroscience ; Health Policy ; Epidemiology
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Beschreibung: <jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:sec><jats:title>Background</jats:title><jats:p>Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is more prevalent in women than men, and robust evidence shows sex differences in the biological response to the AD neuropathological cascade. However, there is a lack of large‐scale genetic studies on sex‐specific genetic predictors of AD‐related cognitive outcomes. Thus, we sought to elucidate the sex‐specific genetic etiology of memory, executive function, and language performance.</jats:p></jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Method</jats:title><jats:p>This study included six cohorts of cognitive aging (N<jats:sub>males</jats:sub>=7,267, N<jats:sub>females</jats:sub>=9,518). We applied psychometric approaches to build harmonized memory, executive function, and language composite scores. Next, for all domains, we calculated slopes from the cognitive scores (two or more timepoints) with linear mixed effects models. Then we performed sex‐stratified and sex‐interaction GWAS on these phenotypes, covarying for baseline age and the first three genetic principal components. We meta‐analyzed across cohorts with a fixed‐effects model. Sensitivity analyses for all models restricted the sample to cognitively unimpaired individuals.</jats:p></jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Result</jats:title><jats:p>In addition to well‐established associations with cognition at the <jats:italic>APOE</jats:italic> locus, we identified three genetic loci that showed sex‐specific effects with cognition. A chromosome 16 locus (rs114106271), a splicing‐quantitative trait locus for <jats:italic>RP11‐152O14.4</jats:italic> and <jats:italic>LINC02180</jats:italic> in the testis (GTEx), associated with baseline memory performance in men (β=0.13, P=2.40×10‐8; P<jats:sub>Interaction</jats:sub>=8.96×10‐6; Figures 1‐2) but not in women (β=‐0.01, P=0.76). A chromosome 14 locus (rs34074573), an expression‐quantitative trait locus (GTEx) for <jats:italic>HOMEZ</jats:italic> (a homeobox gene), and for <jats:italic>BCL2L2</jats:italic> (a previously reported AD risk gene), associated with longitudinal memory performance in men (β=‐0.01, P=4.15×10‐8; P<jats:sub>Interaction</jats:sub>=5.83×10‐7; Figures 3‐4) but not in women (β=0.001, P=0.09). Finally, a chromosome 6 locus (rs9382966) associated with longitudinal language performance in men with near genome‐wide significance (β=‐0.004, P=6.29×10‐8; P<jats:sub>Interaction</jats:sub>=2.01×10‐4) but not in women (β=‐0.0003, P=0.61).</jats:p></jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Conclusion</jats:title><jats:p>Our results highlight some key sex differences in the genetic architecture of cognitive outcomes. Findings further suggest that some sex‐specific genetic predictors have domain‐specific associations, providing an exciting opportunity to better understand the molecular basis of memory, executive function, and language through genomic analysis. Although our findings need to be replicated, our GWAS analyses highlight the contribution of sex‐specific genetic predictors beyond the <jats:italic>APOE</jats:italic> locus in conferring risk for late‐life cognitive decline.</jats:p></jats:sec>

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