Abstract
We characterized the role of structural variants, a largely unexplored type of genetic variation, in two non-Alzheimer's dementias, namely Lewy body dementia (LBD) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD)/amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). To do this, we applied an advanced structural variant calling pipeline (GATK-SV) to short-read whole-genome sequence data from 5,213 European-ancestry cases and 4,132 controls. We discovered, replicated, and validated a deletion in TPCN1 as a novel risk locus for LBD and detected the known structural variants at the C9orf72 and MAPT loci as associated with FTD/ALS. We also identified rare pathogenic structural variants in both LBD and FTD/ALS. Finally, we assembled a catalog of structural variants that can be mined for new insights into the pathogenesis of these understudied forms of dementia.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 100316 |
Journal | Cell Genomics |
Volume | 3 |
Issue number | 6 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 14 Jun 2023 |
Keywords
- Lewy body dementia
- amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
- case-control study
- frontotemporal dementia
- genome-wide association study
- non–Alzheimer's dementia
- resource
- structural variant