Source: ALL
Disease Risk Allele Score vda Association Type Original DB Sentence supporting the association PMID PMID Year
Alzheimer's Disease
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
0.900 GeneticVariation BEFREE Recent studies have found an association between a variant in triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells 2 (TREM2) (rs75932628-T) and both Alzheimer's disease (AD) and cognitive function in individuals aged 80-100 years. 24378087 2014
Alzheimer's Disease
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
0.900 GeneticVariation BEFREE Recently, 3 rare coding variants significantly associated with Alzheimer's disease (AD) risk have been identified in western populations using whole exome sequencing method, including p.R47H in TREM2, p.V232M in PLD3, and p.T835M in UNC5C. 24866402 2014
Alzheimer's Disease
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
0.900 GeneticVariation BEFREE Furthermore, carriers of the rs75932628 risk allele showed significantly increased levels of CSF-total-tau (P = .0110) but not Aβ42 suggesting that TREM2's role in AD may involve tau dysfunction. 25936935 2015
Alzheimer's Disease
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
0.900 GeneticVariation 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
Alzheimer's Disease
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
0.900 GeneticVariation BEFREE Several studies have shown that TREM2 gene variant rs75932628-T increased the risks for Alzheimer's disease (AD), Parkinson's disease, frontotemporal dementia and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. 25186950 2015
Alzheimer's Disease
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
0.900 GeneticVariation BEFREE Although rs75932628 in triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells 2 (TREM2) was shown to increase the risk for Alzheimer's disease, there is no agreement on the association between this variant and the risk for Parkinson's disease (PD). 26058955 2015
Alzheimer's Disease
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
0.900 GeneticVariation BEFREE Three variants in TREM2 (rs75932628 (R47H), rs2234255 (H157Y), and rs143332484 (R62H)) were significantly associated with AD risk, but the similar associations between rs104894002 (Q33X), rs2234253 (T96K), rs142232675 (D87N), rs2234256 (L211P), and AD were not proven. 30883352 2019
Alzheimer's Disease
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
0.900 GeneticVariation BEFREE Shedding is not altered for the R47H-mutated TREM2 protein that confers an increased risk for the development of Alzheimers disease. 28923481 2017
Alzheimer's Disease
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
0.900 GeneticVariation BEFREE We did not identify the polymorphism p.R47H (rs75932628), strongly associated with an increased risk of developing Alzheimer's disease. 23759145 2013
Alzheimer's Disease
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
0.900 GeneticVariation BEFREE These data suggest that the AD-associated TREM2 R47H variant increases risk for AD by conferring a loss of TREM2 function and enhancing neuritic dystrophy around plaques. 29859094 2018
Alzheimer's Disease
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
0.900 GeneticVariation BEFREE Meta-analysis including 11 previously screened AD cohorts confirmed the association of p.R47H with AD (p = 2.93×10(-17)). 24119542 2014
Alzheimer's Disease
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
0.900 GeneticVariation BEFREE Meta-analysis of rs75932628 genotypes imputed from genomewide association studies confirmed this association (P=0.002), as did direct genotyping of an additional series of 1887 patients with Alzheimer's disease and 4061 controls (P<0.001). 23150934 2013
Alzheimer's Disease
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
0.900 GeneticVariation BEFREE In contrast, CSF sTREM2 levels were significantly higher in R47H carriers compared to non-carriers (P = 6×10(-3)), suggesting that this variant does not impact protein expression and increases AD risk through a different pathogenic mechanism than NHD variants. 26754641 2016
Alzheimer's Disease
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
0.900 GeneticVariation BEFREE The rare variant R47H TREM2 is associated with an increased risk for Alzheimer's disease, supporting the hypothesis that TREM2 loss of function may exacerbate disease progression. 29599291 2018
Alzheimer's Disease
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
0.900 GeneticVariation BEFREE While our results serve to confirm the association between R47H and risk of AD, the observed effect on risk was substantially smaller than that previously reported. 25186855 2014
Alzheimer's Disease
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
0.900 GeneticVariation BEFREE In addition to Alzheimer's disease risk, we also examined the association of R47H with Alzheimer's disease-related phenotypes, including age-at-onset, psychosis, and amyloid deposition but found no significant association. 26058841 2015
Alzheimer's Disease
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
0.900 GeneticVariation BEFREE We find p.R47H is a risk factor for AD, but not frontotemporal dementia or prion disease. 25160042 2014
Alzheimer's Disease
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
0.900 GeneticVariation BEFREE The frequency of rs75932628-T as well as the amount of rare variants were higher in the AD patients than in the controls, but this did not reach a statistically significant association with AD (odds ratio: 4.8; 95% confidence interval: 0.54 to 43.6; p = 0.270). 26021840 2015
Alzheimer's Disease
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
0.900 GeneticVariation BEFREE Lymphoblast-derived integration-free iPS cell line from a female 67-year-old Alzheimer's disease patient with TREM2 (R47H) missense mutation. 27789408 2016
Alzheimer's Disease
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
0.900 GeneticVariation BEFREE Recent studies have identified a rare coding variant (p.R47H) in TREM2 that confers a high risk for Alzheimer's disease (AD). 24439484 2014
Alzheimer's Disease
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
0.900 GeneticVariation GWASCAT A rare missense mutation (rs75932628-T) in the gene encoding the triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells 2 (TREM2), which was predicted to result in an R47H substitution, was found to confer a significant risk of Alzheimer's disease in Iceland (odds ratio, 2.92; 95% confidence interval [CI], 2.09 to 4.09; P=3.42×10(-10)). 23150908 2013
Alzheimer's Disease
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
0.900 GeneticVariation BEFREE A meta-analysis comprising 32,598 subjects from 4 previous studies demonstrated the large effect of the p.R47H variant in AD risk (OR = 4.11, 95% CI = 2.99-5.68, p = 5.27×10(-18)). 24041969 2014
Alzheimer's Disease
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
0.900 GeneticVariation BEFREE We generated transgenic mice expressing human CV or R47H TREM2 and lacking endogenous TREM2 in the 5XFAD AD model. 29321225 2018
Alzheimer's Disease
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
0.900 GeneticVariation BEFREE Two rare variants have been nominally associated with AD risk or protection (TREM2 p.R47H, MAF approximately 0.002, OR approximately 4 and APP p.A673T, MAF approximately 0.0005, OR approximately 0.2). 28002825 2016
Alzheimer's Disease
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
0.900 GeneticVariation BEFREE Given the reported antiinflammatory role of TREM2 in the brain, the R47H substitution may lead to an increased predisposition to Alzheimer's disease through impaired containment of inflammatory processes. 23150908 2013