José Brás

The paper analyzes exome data from 22,319 individuals to identify rare CNVs and 22q11.21 dosage as risk factors for Alzheimer's disease.

The paper investigates whether Ide copy number variants influence vascular phenotypes in mice and humans, finding no significant association.

The paper identifies high-priority missense variants in SORL1 associated with increased Alzheimer's Disease risk and earlier onset, suggesting clinical counseling considerations for carriers.

The paper screens a Turkish dementia cohort for VCP variants and identifies a missense variant associated with prodromal dementia with Lewy bodies.

The paper identifies rare damaging variants in ATP8B4 and ABCA1 as novel risk factors for Alzheimer's Disease using exome sequencing data from 32,558 individuals.

The paper identifies human-lineage-specific genomic elements, called CNCRs, and shows their enrichment in neurological disease genes and APOE intron-3 retention transcripts in Alzheimer's disease.

This study highlights how understudied populations have contributed to identifying genetic factors in Alzheimer's disease and compares SNP effects across populations.

This study identifies cell-type-specific expression of dystonia-associated genes and links them to shared genetic and biological mechanisms with psychiatric disorders.

The paper identifies disease-relevant regulatory loci in human basal ganglia using genomic and transcriptomic data from 117 brains, highlighting splicing eQTLs and ASE analyses as sources of cell-specific regulatory information.

The paper investigates the relationship between gene expression and brain atrophy in genetic frontotemporal dementia, finding correlations between atrophy patterns and specific gene sets related to vascular, glial, and neuronal functions.

Across 37,688 Parkinson's cases, 18,618 proxy-cases and 1.4M controls, 90 risk signals map to 78 loci (37 new); an 1805-variant polygenic score explains 26-36% of heritability.

This study connects Parkinson’s disease heritability to cell-type-specific gene regulation, finding enrichment in lysosomal genes in astrocytic and microglial subtypes rather than specific cell types or brain regions.

This study estimates the heritability of dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) and finds it to be higher than previous estimates, with low variance explained by polygenic risk scores from Parkinson's or Alzheimer's disease.

Genetic correlations across 25 brain disorders (215,683 cases) reveal broad psychiatric common-variant sharing, largely distinct neurological disorders, and migraine as the only significant cross-category link.

The paper assesses benign genetic variability in elderly individuals without neurodegenerative disease to aid in distinguishing pathogenic mutations.