Variant Gene Risk Allele Score vda Association Type Original DB Sentence supporting the association PMID PMID Year
dbSNP: rs6265
rs6265
0.040 GeneticVariation BEFREE Here we review the role and relevance of the BDNF Val66Met polymorphism in neurodegenerative diseases, with particular emphasis on glaucoma, multiple sclerosis (MS), Alzheimer's disease (AD) and Parkinson's disease (PD). 29896439

2018

dbSNP: rs759834365
rs759834365
0.040 GeneticVariation BEFREE Here we review the role and relevance of the BDNF Val66Met polymorphism in neurodegenerative diseases, with particular emphasis on glaucoma, multiple sclerosis (MS), Alzheimer's disease (AD) and Parkinson's disease (PD). 29896439

2018

dbSNP: rs759834365
rs759834365
0.040 GeneticVariation BEFREE The common human Val66Met polymorphism of BDNF has been implicated in the pathophysiology of neuropsychiatric and neurodegenerative disorders, and in the outcome of pro-adaptive and therapeutic treatments. 30067287

2018

dbSNP: rs6265
rs6265
0.040 GeneticVariation BEFREE Understanding the role of brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) in synaptic plasticity and synaptogenesis, the impact of the BDNF Val66Met polymorphism in Alzheimer's disease-relevant endophenotypes - including episodic memory and hippocampal volume - and the technological progress in measuring synaptic changes in humans all pave the way for a 'synaptic repair' therapy for neurodegenerative diseases that targets pathophysiology rather than pathogenesis. 23674053

2013

dbSNP: rs759834365
rs759834365
0.040 GeneticVariation BEFREE Understanding the role of brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) in synaptic plasticity and synaptogenesis, the impact of the BDNF Val66Met polymorphism in Alzheimer's disease-relevant endophenotypes - including episodic memory and hippocampal volume - and the technological progress in measuring synaptic changes in humans all pave the way for a 'synaptic repair' therapy for neurodegenerative diseases that targets pathophysiology rather than pathogenesis. 23674053

2013

dbSNP: rs143624519
rs143624519
0.030 GeneticVariation BEFREE These data support a role for phosphorylation of the variant threonine in A152T tau toxicity and suggest a mechanism involving impaired retrograde axonal transport contributing to human neurodegenerative disease. 30590647

2019

dbSNP: rs28933979
rs28933979
TTR
0.030 GeneticVariation BEFREE In the present study we aimed to study TTR V30M aggregates effect in autophagy, a cellular mechanism crucial for cell survival that has been implicated in the development of several neurodegenerative diseases. 27382986

2016

dbSNP: rs28933979
rs28933979
TTR
0.030 GeneticVariation BEFREE Familial amyloid polyneuropathy (FAP) ATTRV30M is a neurodegenerative disorder due to point mutations in the transthyretin gene, with V30M being the commonest. 26286643

2016

dbSNP: rs143624519
rs143624519
0.030 GeneticVariation BEFREE We describe clinical features of 9 patients with neurodegenerative disease (4 women) harboring p.A152T, aged 51 to 79 years at symptom onset. 23518664

2014

dbSNP: rs143624519
rs143624519
0.030 GeneticVariation BEFREE These data provide both the first genetic evidence and functional studies supporting the role of MAPT p.A152T as a rare risk factor for both FTD-s and AD and the concept that rare variants can increase the risk for relatively common, complex neurodegenerative diseases, but since no clear significance threshold for rare genetic variation has been established, some caution is warranted until the findings are further replicated. 22556362

2012

dbSNP: rs28933979
rs28933979
TTR
0.030 GeneticVariation BEFREE Machado-Joseph disease [MJD, also spinocerebellar ataxia type 3 (SCA3)] and familial amyloid polyneuropathy type I (FAP-I or ATTR V30M) are neurodegenerative disorders, inherited in an autosomal dominant fashion, which have a high prevalence in Portugal, probably due to a founder effect. 16630162

2006

dbSNP: rs63751438
rs63751438
0.020 GeneticVariation BEFREE Here, using cell-based assays and tau transgenic mice harboring an acetylation-mimic mutation at residue Lys-280 (K280Q), we evaluated whether this substitution modifies the neurodegenerative disease pathology associated with the aggregate-prone tau P301S variant. 31543505

2019

dbSNP: rs1217691063
rs1217691063
0.020 GeneticVariation BEFREE The functional polymorphism of MTHFR gene, C677T has been shown to impact various diseases and implicated as a risk factor for the development of various neurodegenerative disorders including glaucoma. 27585654

2016

dbSNP: rs387907043
rs387907043
0.020 GeneticVariation BEFREE Mutations in CSPα (i.e., Leu115 to Arg substitution or deletion (Δ) of Leu116) cause adult neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis (ANCL), a dominantly inherited neurodegenerative disease. 25905915

2015

dbSNP: rs104893768
rs104893768
RHO
0.020 GeneticVariation BEFREE The majority of mutations in rhodopsin, including the common P23H substitution, lead to protein misfolding, which is a feature in many neurodegenerative disorders. 24853414

2014

dbSNP: rs34637584
rs34637584
0.020 GeneticVariation BEFREE Parkinson disease is a progressive neurodegenerative disease for which leucine-rich repeat kinase 2 (LRRK2 carriers) p.G2019S confers substantial genotypic and population attributable risk. 24355527

2014

dbSNP: rs63751438
rs63751438
0.020 GeneticVariation BEFREE The activation of Nrf2/ARE genes is neuroprotective in other transgenic mouse models of neurodegenerative diseases and it appears to be an important mediator of the neuroprotective effects of MB in P301S mice. 24556215

2014

dbSNP: rs387907043
rs387907043
0.020 GeneticVariation BEFREE Here we demonstrate that L115R and ΔL116 mutant proteins are mistargeted in neuroendocrine cells and form SDS-resistant aggregates, concordant with the properties of other mutant proteins linked to neurodegenerative disorders. 22902780

2012

dbSNP: rs1800562
rs1800562
0.020 GeneticVariation BEFREE These changes may explain why C282Y-HFE is a risk factor for colon and breast cancer and possibly protective against Alzheimer's disease while H63D-HFE is a risk factor for neurodegenerative diseases. 21243428

2011

dbSNP: rs1800562
rs1800562
0.020 GeneticVariation BEFREE The C282Y mutation is more frequently associated with Hemochromatosis and the frequency of the H63D mutation is receiving increasing attention in neurodegenerative disorders. 17119292

2006

dbSNP: rs34637584
rs34637584
0.020 GeneticVariation BEFREE LRRK2 G2019S is the single most common pathogenic mutation linked to neurodegenerative disease to date. 16250030

2006

dbSNP: rs1217691063
rs1217691063
0.020 GeneticVariation BEFREE Previous reports have shown that the C677T polymorphism of methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase gene has been associated with neurodegenerative disorders. 15390052

2004

dbSNP: rs104893877
rs104893877
0.020 GeneticVariation BEFREE Later, the discovery of two missense mutations (G88C and G209A), which resulted in Ala30Pro (A30P) and Ala53Thr (A53T) substitutions, of the alpha-synuclein gene in certain autosomal-dominant early onset familial Parkinson's disease (PD) has greatly promoted the understanding of the role of alpha-synuclein in the pathogenesis of neurodegenerative diseases, such as PD, dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) and multiple system atrophy (MSA) [5,6,51,75]. 12719631

2003

dbSNP: rs104893878
rs104893878
0.020 GeneticVariation BEFREE Later, the discovery of two missense mutations (G88C and G209A), which resulted in Ala30Pro (A30P) and Ala53Thr (A53T) substitutions, of the alpha-synuclein gene in certain autosomal-dominant early onset familial Parkinson's disease (PD) has greatly promoted the understanding of the role of alpha-synuclein in the pathogenesis of neurodegenerative diseases, such as PD, dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) and multiple system atrophy (MSA) [5,6,51,75]. 12719631

2003

dbSNP: rs104893768
rs104893768
RHO
0.020 GeneticVariation BEFREE We show that expression of P23H, but not wild-type rhodopsin, results in a generalized impairment of the ubiquitin proteasome system, suggesting a mechanism for photoreceptor degeneration that links RP to a broad class of neurodegenerative diseases. 12091393

2002