Genetically predicted body mass index and Alzheimer's disease-related phenotypes in three large samples: Mendelian randomization analyses

Alzheimer's and Dementia

Volumn 11, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 1439-1451

  Mukherjee, Shubhabrata ^a   Walter, Stefan ^b   Kauwe, John S K ^c   Saykin, Andrew J ^d   Bennett, David A ^e   Larson, Eric B ^f   Crane, Paul K ^a   Glymour, M Maria ^b   Albert, Marilyn S ^g   Albin, Roger L ^h,i,j   Apostolova, Liana G ^k   Arnold, Steven E ^l   Asthana, Sanjay ^m,n   Atwood, Craig S ^m,n   Baldwin, Clinton T ^o   Barber, Robert C ^p   Barmada, Michael M ^q   Barnes, Lisa L ^r   Beach, Thomas G ^s   Becker, James T ^t   Beecham, Gary W ^u   Beekly, Duane ^a   Bigio, Eileen H ^v   Bird, Thomas D ^a,w   Blacker, Deborah ^x,y   Boeve, Bradley F ^z   Bowen, James D ^aa   Boxer, Adam ^b   Burke, James R ^ab   Buxbaum, Joseph D ^ac   Cairns, Nigel J ^ad   Cantwell, Laura B ^l   Cao, Chuanhai ^ae   Carlson, Chris S ^af   Carlsson, Cynthia M ⁿ   Carney, Regina M ^u   Carrasquillo, Minerva M ^ag   Carroll, Steven L ^ah   Chui, Helena C ^ai   Clark, David G ^aj   Corneveaux, Jason ^ak   Cribbs, David H ^al   Crocco, Elizabeth A ^u   Cruchaga, Carlos ^am   De Jager, Philip L ^y,an   DeCarli, Charles ^ao   Demirci, F Yesim ^q   Dick, Malcolm ^ap   Dickson, Dennis W ^ag   Duara, Ranjan ^aq   Ertekin Taner, Nilufer ^ag,ar   Evans, Denis ^as   Faber, Kelley M ^d   Fallon, Kenneth B ^ah   Farlow, Martin R ^d   Farrer, Lindsay A ^o,at   Ferris, Steven ^au   Foroud, Tatiana M ^d   Frosch, Matthew P ^y   Galasko, Douglas R ^av   Gearing, Marla ^aw,ax   Geschwind, Daniel H ^ay   Ghetti, Bernardino ^d   Gilbert, John R ^u   Glass, Jonathan D ^aw   Goate, Alison M ^am   Graff Radford, Neill R ^ag,ar   Green, Robert C ^az   Growdon, John H ^y   Haines, Jonathan L ^ba   Hakonarson, Hakon ^bb   Hamilton, Ronald L ^t   Hamilton Nelson, Kara L ^u   Hardy, John ^bc   Harrell, Lindy E ^aj   Head, Elizabeth ^bd   Honig, Lawrence S ^be   Huebinger, Ryan M ^bf   Huentelman, Matthew J ^ak   Hulette, Christine M ^ab   Hyman, Bradley T ^y   Jarvik, Gail P ^a   Jicha, Gregory A ^bd   Jin, Lee Way ^ao   Jun, Gyungah ^o,at   Kamboh, M Ilyas ^q,t   Karydas, Anna ^b   Kaye, Jeffrey A ^bg,bh   Kim, Ronald ^al   Kowall, Neil W ^o   Kramer, Joel H ^b   Kukull, Walter A ^a   Kunkle, Brian W ^u   LaFerla, Frank M ^al   Lah, James J ^aw   Leverenz, James B ^bi   Levey, Allan I ^aw   Li, Ge ^bj   Lieberman, Andrew P ^h   Lin, Chiao Feng ^l   Lopez, Oscar L ^t   Lunetta, Kathryn L ^at   Lyketsos, Constantine G ^g   Mack, Wendy J ^ai   Marson, Daniel C ^aj   Martin, Eden R ^u   Martiniuk, Frank ^au   Mash, Deborah C ^u   Masliah, Eliezer ^av,bk   Mayeux, Richard ^be,bl   McCormick, Wayne C ^a   McCurry, Susan M ^a   McDavid, Andrew N ^af   McKee, Ann C ^o   Mesulam, Marsel ^v   Miller, Bruce L ^b   Miller, Carol A ^bm   Miller, Joshua W ^ao   Montine, Thomas J ^a   Morris, John C ^ad,am   Murrell, Jill R ^d   Myers, Amanda J ^u   Naj, Adam C ^l   Olichney, John M ^ao   Pankratz, Vernon S ^z   Parisi, Joseph E ^z   Partch, Amanda ^l   Paulson, Henry L ^j   Pericak Vance, Margaret A ^u   Perry, William ^u   Peskind, Elaine ^bj   Petersen, Ronald C ^z   Pierce, Aimee ^al   Poon, Wayne W ^ap   Potter, Huntington ^bn   Quinn, Joseph F ^bg   Raj, Ashok ^ae   Raskind, Murray ^bj   Reiman, Eric M ^ak,bo,bp,bq   Reisberg, Barry ^au   Reitz, Christiane ^be,bl   Ringman, John M ^k   Roberson, Erik D ^aj   Rogaeva, Ekaterina ^br   Rosen, Howard J ^b   Rosenberg, Roger N ^bs   Sager, Mark A ⁿ   Sano, Mary ^ac   Schellenberg, Gerard D ^l   Schneider, Julie A ^r   Schneider, Lon S ^ai   Seeley, William W ^b   Smith, Amanda G ^ae   Sonnen, Joshua A ^a   Spina, Salvatore ^d   George Hyslop, Peter St ^br,bt   Stern, Robert A ^o   Tanzi, Rudolph E ^y   Thornton Wells, Tricia A ^bu   Trojanowski, John Q ^l   Troncoso, Juan C ^g   Tsuang, Debby W ^w,bj   Valladares, Otto ^l   Van Deerlin, Vivianna M ^l   Van Eldik, Linda J ^bd   Vardarajan, Badri N ^be,bl   Vinters, Harry V ^k   Vonsattel, Jean Paul ^be   Wang, Li San ^l   Weintraub, Sandra ^v   Welsh Bohmer, Kathleen A ^ab   Williamson, Jennifer ^be   Wishnek, Sarah ^u   Woltjer, Randall L ^bg   Wright, Clinton B ^u   Younkin, Steven G ^ag   Yu, Chang En ^a   Yu, Lei ^r   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e RUSH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f GROUP HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^g JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

ⁱ VA ANN ARBOR HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^k UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^l UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^m UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^o BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^p UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^q UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^r RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^s SUN HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^t UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^u UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^v NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^w VA PUGET SOUND HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^x HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^y MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^z MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^aa SWEDISH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^ab DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^ac MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^ad WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^ae UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^af USA   (United States)

^ag MAYO GRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

^ah University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^ai UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^aj University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^ak TRANSLATIONAL GENOMICS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^al UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^am WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^an BROAD INSTITUTE OF MIT AND HARVARD   (United States)

^ao UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^ap UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^aq MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^ar MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^as RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^at BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^au NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^av UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^aw EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^ax EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^ay UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^az HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^ba CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^bb CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

^bc UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^bd UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^be Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^bf UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^bg OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^bh PORTLAND VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^bi LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^bj UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^bk UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^bl Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons   (United States)

^bm UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^bn UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^bo ARIZONA ALZHEIMER S CONSORTIUM   (United States)

^bp UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^bq BANNER ALZHEIMER S INSTITUTE   (United States)

^br UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^bs UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^bt UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^bu VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Dementia; Mendelian randomization; Obesity

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMENTIA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENDELIAN RANDOMIZATION ANALYSIS; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; AGED; COMPLICATION; FEMALE; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; MALE; OBESITY; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BODY MASS INDEX; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MENDELIAN RANDOMIZATION ANALYSIS; OBESITY; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84952308113     PISSN: 15525260     EISSN: 15525279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jalz.2015.05.015     Document Type: Article

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