Manuel Menéndez‐González

Landscape of copy number variants in Spanish People with Dementia

The paper analyzes copy number variants in a Spanish dementia cohort and identifies potential novel genes associated with ADRD but finds no genome-wide significant associations.

Mendelian randomization confirms the role of Y-chromosome loss in Alzheimer's Disease etiopathogenesis in males

This study uses Mendelian randomization to show that genetic risk for mosaic loss of chromosome Y (mLOY) increases AD risk in males, but not females, suggesting mLOY directly contributes to AD pathogenesis.

Regulatory sites for known and novel splicing in human basal ganglia are enriched for disease-relevant information

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.

Common variants in Alzheimer's disease: Novel association of six genetic variants with AD and risk stratification by polygenic risk scores

This paper reports six novel genetic variants associated with Alzheimer's disease risk and demonstrates the utility of polygenic risk scores for risk stratification and age at onset prediction.

The genetic architecture of Parkinson disease in Spain: characterizing population-specific risk, differential haplotype structures, and providing etiologic insight

This study conducts a GWAS of Parkinson disease in Spain, identifies a novel population-specific signal at PARK2 associated with age-at-onset, and highlights genetic substructure for future fine-mapping.

Moving beyond neurons: the role of cell type-specific gene regulation in Parkinson’s disease 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.