Validation of a polygenic risk score for dementia in black and white individuals
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Marden, Jessica R.
Walter, Stefan
Tchetgen Tchetgen, Eric J.
Kawachi, Ichiro
Glymour, M. Maria
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Marden, Jessica R., Stefan Walter, Eric J. Tchetgen Tchetgen, Ichiro Kawachi, and M. Maria Glymour. 2014. “Validation of a Polygenic Risk Score for Dementia in Black and White Individuals.” Brain and Behavior 4 (5): 687–97. https://doi.org/10.1002/brb3.248.Abstract
Objective: To determine whether a polygenic risk score for Alzheimer's disease (AD) predicts dementia probability and memory functioning in non-Hispanic black (NHB) and non-Hispanic white (NHW) participants from a sample not used in previous genome-wide association studies. Methods: Non-Hispanic white and NHB Health and Retirement Study (HRS) participants provided genetic information and either a composite memory score (n = 10,401) or a dementia probability score (n = 7690). Dementia probability score was estimated for participants' age 65+ from 2006 to 2010, while memory score was available for participants age 50+. We calculated AD genetic risk scores (AD-GRS) based on 10 polymorphisms confirmed to predict AD, weighting alleles by beta coefficients reported in AlzGene meta-analyses. We used pooled logistic regression to estimate the association of the AD-GRS with dementia probability and generalized linear models to estimate its effect on memory score. Results: Each 0.10 unit change in the AD-GRS was associated with larger relative effects on dementia among NHW aged 65+ (OR = 2.22; 95% CI: 1.79, 2.74; P < 0.001) than NHB (OR = 1.33; 95% CI: 1.00, 1.77; P = 0.047), although additive effect estimates were similar. Each 0.10 unit change in the AD-GRS was associated with a -0.07 (95% CI: -0.09, -0.05; P < 0.001) SD difference in memory score among NHW aged 50+, but no significant differences among NHB (beta = -0.01; 95% CI: -0.04, 0.01; P = 0.546). [Correction added on 29 July 2014, after first online publication: confidence intervals have been amended.] The estimated effect of the GRS was significantly smaller among NHB than NHW (P < 0.05) for both outcomes. Conclusion: This analysis provides evidence for differential relative effects of the GRS on dementia probability and memory score among NHW and NHB in a new, national data set.Terms of Use
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