Disease Score gda Association Type Type Original DB Sentence supporting the association PMID PMID Year
CUI: C0524851
Disease: Neurodegenerative Disorders
Neurodegenerative Disorders
0.100 Biomarker group BEFREE TREM2, Microglia, and Neurodegenerative Diseases. 28442216 2017
CUI: C0524851
Disease: Neurodegenerative Disorders
Neurodegenerative Disorders
0.100 Biomarker group BEFREE Finally, these components of TREM2 biology are applied to a discussion of how TREM2 impacts NDD pathologies and the latest assessment of how these findings might be applied to immune-directed clinical biomarkers and therapeutics. 28768545 2017
CUI: C0524851
Disease: Neurodegenerative Disorders
Neurodegenerative Disorders
0.100 Biomarker group BEFREE Our work identifies the TREM2-APOE pathway as a major regulator of microglial functional phenotype in neurodegenerative diseases and serves as a novel target that could aid in the restoration of homeostatic microglia. 28930663 2017
CUI: C0524851
Disease: Neurodegenerative Disorders
Neurodegenerative Disorders
0.100 GeneticVariation group BEFREE Genetic variants in the triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells 2 (TREM2) increase the risk for several neurodegenerative diseases including Alzheimer's disease and frontotemporal dementia (FTD). 28559417 2017
CUI: C0524851
Disease: Neurodegenerative Disorders
Neurodegenerative Disorders
0.100 Biomarker group BEFREE Recent studies provided insight into the multifaceted roles of TREM2 in regulating extracellular β-amyloid (Aβ) pathology, myeloid cell accumulation, and inflammation observed in AD, yet little is known regarding the role of TREM2 in regulating intracellular microtubule associated protein tau (MAPT; tau) pathology in neurodegenerative diseases and in AD, in particular. 29037207 2017
CUI: C0524851
Disease: Neurodegenerative Disorders
Neurodegenerative Disorders
0.100 Biomarker group BEFREE Here, we review the rapidly developing literature surrounding TREM2 in AD that may provide novel insight into the broader role of the innate immune system in neurodegenerative disease. 28426958 2017
CUI: C0524851
Disease: Neurodegenerative Disorders
Neurodegenerative Disorders
0.100 GeneticVariation group BEFREE In recent years, the importance of TREM2 has been highlighted by the identification of coding variants that increase risk for Alzheimer's disease and other neurodegenerative diseases. 28432014 2017
CUI: C0524851
Disease: Neurodegenerative Disorders
Neurodegenerative Disorders
0.100 GeneticVariation group BEFREE This includes genetic studies demonstrating that mutations in triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells 2 (TREM2) is associated with a higher risk for not only AD but also multiple neurodegenerative diseases. 26976047 2017
CUI: C0524851
Disease: Neurodegenerative Disorders
Neurodegenerative Disorders
0.100 Biomarker group BEFREE Single-cell analysis of DAM in Tg-AD and triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells 2 (Trem2)<sup>-/-</sup> Tg-AD reveals that the DAM program is activated in a two-step process. 28602351 2017
CUI: C0524851
Disease: Neurodegenerative Disorders
Neurodegenerative Disorders
0.100 Biomarker group BEFREE In summary, convergent genetic and expression datasets demonstrate that TREM2 is a potent risk factor for PD and may be a therapeutic target in PD and other neurodegenerative diseases. 26365049 2016
CUI: C0524851
Disease: Neurodegenerative Disorders
Neurodegenerative Disorders
0.100 Biomarker group BEFREE These findings provide a guide to structural and functional differences among genetic variants of TREM2, indicating that therapies targeting the TREM2 pathway should be tailored to these genetic and functional differences with patient-specific medicine approaches for neurodegenerative disorders. 27995897 2016
CUI: C0524851
Disease: Neurodegenerative Disorders
Neurodegenerative Disorders
0.100 GeneticVariation group BEFREE Recent genome-wide association studies revealed TREM2 rs75932628-T variant to be associated with Alzheimer's disease (AD) and other neurodegenerative diseases. 27051467 2016
CUI: C0524851
Disease: Neurodegenerative Disorders
Neurodegenerative Disorders
0.100 AlteredExpression group BEFREE TREM2 is a transmembrane protein involved in innate immunity and is selectively expressed by microglia and genetically linked to AD and other neurodegenerative disorders. 27974666 2016
CUI: C0524851
Disease: Neurodegenerative Disorders
Neurodegenerative Disorders
0.100 GeneticVariation group BEFREE TREM2 rs75932628 is unlikely to play a major role in the pathogenesis of these neurodegenerative diseases. 26058955 2015
CUI: C0524851
Disease: Neurodegenerative Disorders
Neurodegenerative Disorders
0.100 GeneticVariation group BEFREE A rare variant in TREM2 (p.R47H, rs75932628) was recently reported to increase the risk of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and, subsequently, other neurodegenerative diseases, i.e. frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), and Parkinson's disease (PD). 25936935 2015
CUI: C0524851
Disease: Neurodegenerative Disorders
Neurodegenerative Disorders
0.100 GeneticVariation group BEFREE The R47H variant in the triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells 2 gene (TREM2), a modulator of the immune response of microglia, is a strong genetic risk factor for Alzheimer disease (AD) and possibly other neurodegenerative disorders. 26076170 2015
CUI: C0524851
Disease: Neurodegenerative Disorders
Neurodegenerative Disorders
0.100 AlteredExpression group BEFREE Because of the emerging importance in understanding TREM2 expression and functions in human neurodegenerative diseases, we conducted biochemical and morphological studies of TREM2 expression in human post-mortem temporal cortical samples from AD and normal cases. 25186950 2015
CUI: C0524851
Disease: Neurodegenerative Disorders
Neurodegenerative Disorders
0.100 GeneticVariation group BEFREE The association of TREM2 mutations with neurodegenerative disease also calls for the understanding of the biology and pathological role of non-mutated TREM2 on human brains and microglia. 25281879 2015
CUI: C0524851
Disease: Neurodegenerative Disorders
Neurodegenerative Disorders
0.100 GeneticVariation group BEFREE Variants in triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells 2 (TREM2) confer high risk for Alzheimer's disease (AD) and other neurodegenerative diseases. 25732305 2015
CUI: C0524851
Disease: Neurodegenerative Disorders
Neurodegenerative Disorders
0.100 Biomarker group BEFREE TREM2 forms a receptor signaling complex with TYROBP, which triggers the activation of immune responses in macrophages and dendritic cells, and the functional polymorphism of TREM2 is reported to be associated with neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer's disease (AD). 26332043 2015
CUI: C0524851
Disease: Neurodegenerative Disorders
Neurodegenerative Disorders
0.100 GeneticVariation group BEFREE Recently, a rare missense variant (p.R47H) in the microglial activating gene TREM2 was found to increase the risk of several neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer disease. 24535663 2014
CUI: C0524851
Disease: Neurodegenerative Disorders
Neurodegenerative Disorders
0.100 Biomarker group BEFREE A decrease in soluble TREM2 was also observed in the CSF of patients with AD and FTD, further suggesting that reduced TREM2 function may contribute to increased risk for two neurodegenerative disorders. 24990881 2014
CUI: C0524851
Disease: Neurodegenerative Disorders
Neurodegenerative Disorders
0.100 GeneticVariation group BEFREE Our data corroborate and extend previous findings to include an increased frequency of rare heterozygous TREM2 variations in AD and FTD, and show that TREM2 variants may play a role in neurodegenerative diseases in general. 24119542 2014
CUI: C0524851
Disease: Neurodegenerative Disorders
Neurodegenerative Disorders
0.100 GeneticVariation group BEFREE Such studies are crucial to understand the functional consequences of TREM-2 point mutations linked to the development of neurodegenerative diseases and, ultimately, to develop patient-specific molecular therapies to treat them. 24508568 2014
CUI: C0524851
Disease: Neurodegenerative Disorders
Neurodegenerative Disorders
0.100 GeneticVariation group BEFREE With this in mind we set out to assess the genetic association of the Alzheimer's disease-related risk variant in TREM2 (rs75932628, p.R47H) with other related neurodegenerative disorders. 23800361 2013