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 GeneticVariation disease CLINVAR
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 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE Moreover, PGRN expression is increased in activated microglia in many neurodegenerative diseases including Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, motor neuron disease and Alzheimer's disease. 16862116 2006
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 Biomarker disease BEFREE To assess whether PGRN genetic variability contributed to other common neurodegenerative brain diseases, such as Alzheimer disease (AD) or Parkinson disease (PD). 17923627 2007
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 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 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 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 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE PGRN mutations were also identified in other neurodegenerative brain diseases such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and Alzheimer disease, though their biologic contribution to these diseases remains elusive. 18838661 2008
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.200 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE The phenotypes associated with GRN mutations vary greatly: 20/32 (63%) carriers had fvFTD, the other (12/32, 37%) had clinical diagnoses of PPA, CBDS, Lewy body dementia or Alzheimer's disease. 18245784 2008
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.200 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE 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 LHGDN The phenotypes associated with GRN mutations vary greatly: 20/32 (63%) carriers had fvFTD, the other (12/32, 37%) had clinical diagnoses of PPA, CBDS, Lewy body dementia or Alzheimer's disease. 18245784 2008
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.200 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE These data suggest that genetic variability in the GRN gene may also increase the risk for developing AD in a gender-specific manner. 19016491 2009
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.200 Biomarker disease BEFREE These data argue against a direct role of GRN as a susceptibility factor for sporadic AD but support a role of GRN as a disease-modifying gene, possibly contributing to the failure of neuronal survival. 19625741 2009
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.200 Biomarker disease BEFREE Progranulin plasma levels as potential biomarker for the identification of GRN deletion carriers. A case with atypical onset as clinical amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment converted to Alzheimer's disease. 19683260 2009
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.200 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Importantly, ELISA analyses also identified one probable Alzheimer's disease patient (1.4%) carrying a loss-of-function mutation in GRN. 19158106 2009
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 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 Biomarker disease BEFREE Overlapping but distinct networks were involved in the AD-PPA and GRN-PPA subgroups, with more anterior temporal lobe involvement in GRN-PPA. 19679189 2010
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.200 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE In this large kindred, most affected individuals had clinical presentations that resembled Alzheimer disease or amnestic mild cognitive impairment associated with a mutation in PGRN and underlying FTLD-U with NII neuropathologic abnormalities. 20142525 2010
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.200 Biomarker disease BEFREE This case report illustrates PGRN accumulation and Abeta aggregation in preclinical PS-1 AD case and raises the question whether this phenomenon coincides with or precedes Abeta aggregation. 19776335 2010
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.200 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE rs5848 variant of progranulin gene is a risk of Alzheimer's disease in the Taiwanese population. 21212639 2011
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.200 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Here we undertook a systematic study of nonverbal sound processing in patient groups with canonical dementia syndromes comprising clinically diagnosed typical amnestic Alzheimer's disease (AD; n=21), progressive nonfluent aphasia (PNFA; n=5), logopenic progressive aphasia (LPA; n=7) and aphasia in association with a progranulin gene mutation (GAA; n=1), and in healthy age-matched controls (n=20). 21689671 2011
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.200 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE We carried out an association study of BAG1 in a population of 291 patients clinically diagnosed with frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD), none of whom was a carrier of mutations in progranulin or microtubule associated protein tau genes and 374 with AD as compared with 314 age- and gender-matched controls. 21157029 2011