Alzheimer risk genes modulate the relationship between plasma apoE and cortical PiB binding

Andreas Lazaris; Kristy S Hwang; Naira Goukasian; Leslie M Ramirez; Jennifer Eastman; Anna E Blanken; Edmond Teng; Karen Gylys; Greg Cole; Andrew J Saykin; Leslie M Shaw; John Q Trojanowski; William J Jagust; Michael W Weiner; Liana G Apostolova; Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative

doi:10.1212/NXG.0000000000000022

Alzheimer risk genes modulate the relationship between plasma apoE and cortical PiB binding

Neurol Genet. 2015 Oct 15;1(3):e22. doi: 10.1212/NXG.0000000000000022. eCollection 2015 Oct.

Authors

Affiliation

¹ University of California Berkeley (A.L.), Berkeley; Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine (K.S.H.), Rochester, MI; Department of Neurology (K.S.H., N.G., A.E.B., E.T., G.C., L.G.A.), David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA; Drexel University College of Medicine (L.M.R.), Philadelphia, PA; Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine (J.E.), Chicago, IL; Veterans Affairs Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System (E.T., G.C.), Los Angeles, CA; School of Nursing (K.G.), UCLA, Los Angeles, CA; Department of Radiology and Imaging Sciences, Center for Neuroimaging (A.J.S., L.G.A.), Department of Neurology (L.G.A.), and Department of Medical and Molecular Genetics (L.G.A.), School of Medicine, Indiana University, Indianapolis; Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine (L.M.S., J.Q.T.), University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia; Department of Public Health and Neuroscience (W.J.J.), UC Berkeley, CA; and Department of Veterans' Affairs Medical Center (M.W.W.), San Francisco, CA.

Abstract

Objective: We investigated the association between apoE protein plasma levels and brain amyloidosis and the effect of the top 10 Alzheimer disease (AD) risk genes on this association.

Methods: Our dataset consisted of 18 AD, 52 mild cognitive impairment, and 3 cognitively normal Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative 1 (ADNI1) participants with available [(11)C]-Pittsburgh compound B (PiB) and peripheral blood protein data. We used cortical pattern matching to study associations between plasma apoE and cortical PiB binding and the effect of carrier status for the top 10 AD risk genes.

Results: Low plasma apoE was significantly associated with high PiB SUVR, except in the sensorimotor and entorhinal cortex. For BIN1 rs744373, the association was observed only in minor allele carriers. For CD2AP rs9349407 and CR1 rs3818361, the association was preserved only in minor allele noncarriers. We did not find evidence for modulation by CLU, PICALM, ABCA7, BIN1, and MS4A6A.

Conclusions: Our data show that BIN1 rs744373, CD2AP rs9349407, and CR1 rs3818361 genotypes modulate the association between apoE protein plasma levels and brain amyloidosis, implying a potential epigenetic/downstream interaction.

Grants and funding

P30 AG010124/AG/NIA NIH HHS/United States