GRN, granulin precursor, 2896

N. diseases: 412; N. variants: 66
Source: ALL
Disease Score gda Association Type Type Original DB Sentence supporting the association PMID PMID Year
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.200 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE Transmembrane protein 106B gene (TMEM106B) variability and influence on progranulin plasma levels in patients with Alzheimer's disease. 25114081 2015
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.200 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE The results suggest that a genetic variant in GRN leading to decreased levels of progranulin may be a risk factor for HpScl in AD, while its role in TDP-43 immunoreactivity in AD remains less certain. 20197700 2010
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.200 GeneticVariation disease LHGDN A mutation scanning of exons and flanking regions of PGRN was carried out in 120 patients with sporadic frontotemporal lobar degeneration and 145 with sporadic AD. 18752597 2008
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.200 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Participants from the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative cohort (ADNI; n = 1,239), with both MRI scans and genotype data, were used to assess the association between brain atrophy and previously identified HS-Aging risk SNPs in the following genes: GRN, TMEM106B, ABCC9, and KCNMB2 (minor allele frequency for each is >30%). 27003218 2016
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.200 Biomarker disease LHGDN Genetic variability in progranulin contributes to risk for clinically diagnosed Alzheimer disease. 18565828 2008
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.200 Biomarker disease BEFREE We conclude that circulating GRN is a promising, nonintrusive biomarker that warrants screening in both patients with dementia of the Alzheimer type and people with mild cognitive impairment; specifically for, but not limited to, those that have a positive family history of neurodegenerative disease. 20387302 2010
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.200 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative cohort (ADNI; n=237) data, combining both multiplexed proteomics CSF and genotype data, were used to assess the association between CSF analytes and risk SNPs in four genes (SNPs): GRN (rs5848), TMEM106B (rs1990622), ABCC9 (rs704180), and KCNMB2 (rs9637454). 28189700 2017
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.200 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Progranulin plasma levels were analyzed in a variety of FTLD phenotypes (n = 71), dementia of the Alzheimer type (DAT) (n = 22) and probable Lewy body dementia (n = 8), both latter groups presented with asymmetric perisylvian atrophy. 23724906 2013
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.200 Biomarker disease BEFREE Progranulin has received attention due to its role in neurodegeneration, where mutation of a single copy of GRN, the gene encoding progranulin, results in frontotemporal dementia, whereas viral delivery of progranulin to the brains of mice exhibiting Parkinson's or Alzheimer's disease phenotypes inhibits the progression of the neurodegenerative phenotypes. 29956265 2018
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.200 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE Here, we describe the application of PGRN gene transfer using in vivo delivery of lentiviral expression vectors in a transgenic mouse model of AD. 28837568 2017
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.200 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE Due to the functions of PGRN in neuronal survival and the clinicopathological overlaps between FTD and other dementias it is likely that reduced PGRN expression is associated with the progression of other neurodegenerative brain diseases including Alzheimer's disease. 17168647 2006
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.200 Biomarker disease BEFREE CSF levels of routine AD biomarkers (phosphorylated tau (p-tau<sub>181</sub>), total tau (t-tau), and amyloid-beta (Aβ)<sub>1-42</sub>) and neurofilament proteins, as well as progranulin levels in both CSF and serum were quantified in definite FTLD (n = 46), clinical AD (n = 45), and cognitively healthy controls (n = 20). 29559004 2018
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.200 Biomarker disease BEFREE In conclusion, we demonstrate that, although CSF PGRN is not a diagnostic biomarker for AD, it may together with sTREM2 reflect microglial activation during the disease. 30482868 2018
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.200 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE In conclusion, HDDD1 is an FTLD-U caused by a PGRN mutation and is neuropathologically heterogeneous with Alzheimer disease as a common comorbidity. 17334266 2007
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.200 GeneticVariation disease CLINVAR
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.200 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Mutations in progranulin (GRN) cause heterogeneous clinical syndromes, including behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD), primary progressive aphasia (PPA), corticobasal syndrome (CBS) and Alzheimer-type dementia (AD-type dementia). 30921613 2019
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.200 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE We identified 9 potentially pathogenic mutations in the AD-causal genes APP, PSEN1, PSEN2, and 6 mutations in a group of non-AD dementia-causal genes including the FTD-causal gene GRN and the VaD-causal gene NOTCH3. 30954774 2019
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.200 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE C9orf72 repeat expansions were present in 0.4 % of AD and in 9.9 % of FTD patients, whereas MAPT and GRN mutations both were present in 0.4 % in AD patients, and in 1.4 % resp.2.7 % in FTD patients. 25108559 2014
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.200 Biomarker disease BEFREE This proof-of-principle report supports the use of gene quantification as diagnostic screen for PGRN mutations and suggests a potential role for progranulin in Alzheimer's disease. 18551524 2008
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.200 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE To describe the prevalence of systemic autoimmune disease in semantic variant primary progressive aphasia (svPPA), a clinical cohort, and in progranulin (PGRN) mutation carriers compared with neurologically healthy normal controls (NC) and Alzheimer's disease (AD) as dementia controls. 23543794 2013
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.200 Biomarker disease BEFREE Because cellular and animal data indicate that increasing PGRN can reverse phenotypes of both FTD and AD, modulating PGRN level has been proposed as a therapeutic strategy for both diseases. 28069809 2017
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.200 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Missense mutations of GRN were also identified, but their effects are not completely clear, in particular unanswered is the question of what neuropathology they elicit, also considering that their occurrence has been reported in patients with typical clinical features of Alzheimer disease. 27997711 2018
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.200 Biomarker disease BEFREE Genetic variability in progranulin contributes to risk for clinically diagnosed Alzheimer disease. 18565828 2008
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.200 Biomarker disease BEFREE In conclusion, our data suggest that PGRN may not be a good biomarker for AD; moreover, gender may influence the plasma PGRN levels of AD patients. 23396349 2013
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.200 Biomarker disease BEFREE Defective lysosomal function defines many neurodegenerative diseases, such as neuronal ceroid lipofuscinoses (NCL) and Niemann-Pick type C (NPC), and is implicated in Alzheimer's disease (AD) and frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD-TDP) with progranulin (PGRN) deficiency. 28903038 2017