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Sex and APOE ε4 genotype modify the Alzheimer’s disease serum metabolome

2020· article· en· 213 citations· W3009710006 on OpenAlex· 10.1038/s41467-020-14959-w

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Abstract

Late-onset Alzheimer's disease (AD) can, in part, be considered a metabolic disease. Besides age, female sex and APOE ε4 genotype represent strong risk factors for AD that also give rise to large metabolic differences. We systematically investigated group-specific metabolic alterations by conducting stratified association analyses of 139 serum metabolites in 1,517 individuals from the AD Neuroimaging Initiative with AD biomarkers. We observed substantial sex differences in effects of 15 metabolites with partially overlapping differences for APOE ε4 status groups. Several group-specific metabolic alterations were not observed in unstratified analyses using sex and APOE ε4 as covariates. Combined stratification revealed further subgroup-specific metabolic effects limited to APOE ε4+ females. The observed metabolic alterations suggest that females experience greater impairment of mitochondrial energy production than males. Dissecting metabolic heterogeneity in AD pathogenesis can therefore enable grading the biomedical relevance for specific pathways within specific subgroups, guiding the way to personalized medicine.

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The record

Venue
Nature Communications
Topic
Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies
Field
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
Canadian institutions
not available
Funders
National Institute on AgingNational Institute of Biomedical Imaging and BioengineeringCanadian Institutes of Health ResearchQatar National Research FundGenentechU.S. National Library of MedicineIXICOH. Lundbeck A/SServierEisaiNorthern California Institute for Research and EducationFoundation for the National Institutes of HealthFonds National de la Recherche LuxembourgPfizerBiogenBioClinicaF. Hoffmann-La RocheUniversity of Southern CaliforniaNovartis Pharmaceuticals CorporationMeso Scale DiagnosticsCure Alzheimer's FundU.S. Department of DefenseEli Lilly and CompanyBristol-Myers SquibbAlzheimer's AssociationNational Institutes of HealthU.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Keywords
MetabolomeApolipoprotein EGenotypeDiseaseMedicineBiologyBioinformaticsGeneticsMetabolomicsInternal medicineGene
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yes