Hearing difficulty is linked to Alzheimer’s disease by common genetic vulnerability, not shared genetic architecture

Abstract Age-related hearing loss was recently established as the largest modifiable risk factor for Alzheimer’s disease (AD), however, the reasons for this link remain unclear. We investigate shared underlying genetic associations using results from recent large genome-wide association studies (GWA...

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Main Authors: Fatin N. Zainul Abidin, Helena R. R. Wells, Andre Altmann, Sally J. Dawson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2021-07-01
Series:npj Aging and Mechanisms of Disease
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41514-021-00069-4