BDNF, brain derived neurotrophic factor, 627

N. diseases: 992; N. variants: 56
Source: ALL
Disease Score gda Association Type Type Original DB Sentence supporting the association PMID PMID Year
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Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.600 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE A single nucleotide polymorphism in the human BDNF gene (Val66Met) affects memory, and influences Alzheimer's disease and depression vulnerability in a sex-specific manner. 20097294 2010
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Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.600 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE In conclusion, it seems that the BDNF gene does not contribute significantly to the risk of AD or PD in Finnish patients. 16565926 2006
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Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.600 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE To identify genotypic effects of the BDNF and the ApoE genes on disease progression in preclinical AD, we assessed morphological changes using serial magnetic resonance imaging during the preclinical period of AD in 35 individuals. 18786162 2009
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.600 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE In conclusion, val66met polymorphism and BDNF serum level between the three groups and genotype did not significantly affect the serum BDNF level or age, Mini-Mental State Examination score in AD and aMCI. 23270505 2013
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.600 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE A total of 1,081 adults without dementia (375 healthy subjects and 706 individuals with mild cognitive impairment) were recruited from the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) to test the influence of BDNF Val66Met polymorphism on cognitive impairment, brain structure atrophy, and change in the levels of CSF biomarkers. 30775992 2019
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.600 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE The degeneration of cholinergic basal forebrain (cBF) neurons in Alzheimer's disease (AD) leads to the cognitive impairment associated with this condition. cBF neurons express the p75 neurotrophin receptor (p75<sup>NTR</sup>), which mediates cell death, and the extracellular domain of p75<sup>NTR</sup> can bind to amyloid beta (Aβ) and promote its degradation. 30374941 2019
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.600 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Dose-dependent genotype effects of BDNF Val66Met polymorphism on default mode network in early stage Alzheimer's disease. 27494844 2016
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Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.600 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Common pathophysiological events have been identified in depression and AD, including neuroinflammation with an aberrant Tumor Necrosis Factor-α (TNF-α) signaling, and an impairment of Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor (BDNF) and Transforming-Growth-Factor-β1 (TGF-β1) signaling. 29438781 2018
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Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.600 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Our results suggest that genetic variants of neurotrophin system genes might confer susceptibility to AD. 18780967 2008
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Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.600 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Further studies with genetic variations in BDNF relating either to AD-associated depression or to the AD treatment response are suggested. 14730194 2004
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Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.600 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE No association was found between these three BDNF gene variants and AD, AFDs, PTSD, or schizophrenia. 16649215 2006
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Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.600 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE BDNF Val66Met was analyzed in 211 patients with AD and in 402 aged healthy control subjects. 21044653 2011
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.600 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE These results suggested that an NT-3 polymorphism, rs6332, may significantly influence executive function, reflecting interference performances among patients with mild-stage AD. 23075484 2012
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.600 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Our findings suggest that it is unlikely that these BDNF polymorphisms play a major role in the pathogenesis of AD and DLB in the Japanese population. 16899999 2006
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.600 GeneticVariation disease LHGDN The current study does not demonstrate any significant difference in Val66Met BDNF genotype or allele frequencies between AD patients and controls. 15084795 2004
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.600 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE In Alzheimer's disease (AD), a single-nucleotide polymorphism in the gene encoding brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF<sub>Val66Met</sub>) is associated with worse impact of primary AD pathology (beta-amyloid, Aβ) on neurodegeneration and cognitive decline, rendering BDNF<sub>Val66Met</sub> an important modulating factor of cognitive impairment in AD. 30899092 2019
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.600 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE The BDNF Val66Met polymorphism should be considered as a potential moderator of clinical trial outcomes in current treatment and prevention trials in DIAD and sporadic AD.Ann Neurol 2018;84:424-435. 30014553 2018
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.600 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Among 200 outpatients with dementia and MCI, 146 outpatients with mild AD or A-MCI were recruited and divided into two genotypic groups, valine homozygosity (Val/Val) and methionine (Met) carriers, based on the representative BDNF functional polymorphism Val66Met. 22699449 2012
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.600 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE BDNF Val66Met in preclinical Alzheimer's disease is associated with short-term changes in episodic memory and hippocampal volume but not serum mBDNF. 28720165 2017
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Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.600 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Measures of the BDNF genotype, plasma BDNF, MRI-based hippocampal volume, and memory performance were obtained from the Knight Alzheimer Disease Research Center (ADRC) and the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI). 25784293 2015
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.600 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Of the known BDNF polymorphisms, the C270T SNP may influence executive dysfunction as a non-memory cognitive impairment in Japanese patients with AD. 21951954 2011
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.600 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Val66Met Polymorphism in BDNF Has No Sexual and APOE ε4 Status-Based Dimorphic Effects on Susceptibility to Alzheimer's Disease: Evidence From an Updated Meta-Analysis of Case-Control Studies and High-Throughput Genotyping Cohorts. 28984138 2018
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.600 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Our results clarified the available controversies regarding the role of rs6265 in AD and indicated that BDNF may be a female-specific risk gene for AD. 28202203 2017
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.600 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Conflicting results have been reported as to whether genetic variations (Val66Met and C270T) of the brain-derived neurotrophic factor gene (BDNF) confer susceptibility to Alzheimer's disease (AD). 19504537 2010
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Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.600 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE The association between certain neurotrophin gene polymorphisms and AD differs by sex and may explain inconsistent findings in the literature. 28498887 2017