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Jens Wiltfang
Researcher at University of Göttingen
Publications - 637
Citations - 29875
Jens Wiltfang is an academic researcher from University of Göttingen. The author has contributed to research in topics: Dementia & Medicine. The author has an hindex of 75, co-authored 538 publications receiving 25886 citations. Previous affiliations of Jens Wiltfang include University of Erlangen-Nuremberg & Max Planck Society.
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Genome-wide association study identifies variants at CLU and PICALM associated with Alzheimer's disease
Denise Harold,Richard Abraham,Paul Hollingworth,Rebecca Sims,Amy Gerrish,Marian L. Hamshere,Jaspreet Singh Pahwa,Valentina Moskvina,Kimberley Dowzell,Amy L. Williams,Nicola L. Jones,Charlene Thomas,Alexandra Stretton,Angharad R. Morgan,Simon Lovestone,John Powell,Petroula Proitsi,Michelle K. Lupton,Carol Brayne,David C. Rubinsztein,Michael Gill,Brian A. Lawlor,Aoibhinn Lynch,Kevin Morgan,Kristelle Brown,Peter Passmore,David Craig,Bernadette McGuinness,Stephen Todd,Clive Holmes,David M. A. Mann,A. David Smith,Seth Love,Patrick G. Kehoe,John Hardy,Simon Mead,Nick C. Fox,Martin N. Rossor,John Collinge,Wolfgang Maier,Frank Jessen,Britta Schürmann,Hendrik van den Bussche,Isabella Heuser,Johannes Kornhuber,Jens Wiltfang,Martin Dichgans,Lutz Frölich,Harald Hampel,Harald Hampel,Michael Hüll,Dan Rujescu,Alison Goate,John S. K. Kauwe,Carlos Cruchaga,Petra Nowotny,John C. Morris,Kevin Mayo,Kristel Sleegers,Karolien Bettens,Sebastiaan Engelborghs,Peter Paul De Deyn,Christine Van Broeckhoven,Gill Livingston,Nicholas Bass,Hugh Gurling,Andrew McQuillin,Rhian Gwilliam,Panagiotis Deloukas,Ammar Al-Chalabi,Christopher Shaw,Magda Tsolaki,Andrew B. Singleton,Rita Guerreiro,Thomas W. Mühleisen,Markus M. Nöthen,Susanne Moebus,Karl-Heinz Jöckel,Norman Klopp,H-Erich Wichmann,Minerva M. Carrasquillo,V. Shane Pankratz,Steven G. Younkin,Peter Holmans,Michael Conlon O'Donovan,Michael John Owen,Julie Williams +86 more
TL;DR: A two-stage genome-wide association study of Alzheimer's disease involving over 16,000 individuals, the most powerful AD GWAS to date, produced compelling evidence for association with Alzheimer's Disease in the combined dataset.
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Common variants at ABCA7, MS4A6A/MS4A4E, EPHA1, CD33 and CD2AP are associated with Alzheimer's disease.
Paul Hollingworth,Denise Harold,Rebecca Sims,Amy Gerrish,Jean-Charles Lambert,Jean-Charles Lambert,Jean-Charles Lambert,Minerva M. Carrasquillo,Richard Abraham,Marian L. Hamshere,Jaspreet Singh Pahwa,Valentina Moskvina,Kimberley Dowzell,Nicola Jones,Alexandra Stretton,Charlene Thomas,Alexander Richards,Dobril Ivanov,Caroline S. Widdowson,Jade Chapman,Simon Lovestone,John Powell,Petroula Proitsi,Michelle K. Lupton,Carol Brayne,David C. Rubinsztein,Michael Gill,Brian A. Lawlor,Aoibhinn Lynch,Kristelle Brown,Peter Passmore,David Craig,Bernadette McGuinness,Stephen Todd,Clive Holmes,David M. A. Mann,A. David Smith,Helen Beaumont,Donald Warden,Gordon K. Wilcock,Seth Love,Patrick G. Kehoe,Nigel M. Hooper,Emma R L C Vardy,John Hardy,Simon Mead,Nick C. Fox,Martin N. Rossor,John Collinge,Wolfgang Maier,Frank Jessen,Eckart Rüther,Britta Schürmann,R. Heun,Heike Kölsch,Hendrik van den Bussche,Isabella Heuser,Johannes Kornhuber,Jens Wiltfang,Martin Dichgans,Lutz Frölich,Harald Hampel,John Gallacher,Michael Hüll,Dan Rujescu,Ina Giegling,Alison Goate,John S. K. Kauwe,Carlos Cruchaga,Petra Nowotny,John C. Morris,Kevin Mayo,Kristel Sleegers,Karolien Bettens,Sebastiaan Engelborghs,Peter Paul De Deyn,Christine Van Broeckhoven,Gill Livingston,Nicholas Bass,Hugh Gurling,Andrew McQuillin,Rhian Gwilliam,Panagiotis Deloukas,Ammar Al-Chalabi,Christopher Shaw,Magda Tsolaki,Andrew B. Singleton,Rita Guerreiro,Thomas W. Mühleisen,Markus M. Nöthen,Susanne Moebus,Karl-Heinz Jöckel,Norman Klopp,H.-Erich Wichmann,V. Shane Pankratz,Sigrid Botne Sando,Jan O. Aasly,Maria Barcikowska,Zbigniew K. Wszolek,Dennis W. Dickson,Neill R. Graff-Radford,Ronald C. Petersen,Cornelia M. van Duijn,Monique M.B. Breteler,M. Arfan Ikram,Anita L. DeStefano,Annette L. Fitzpatrick,Oscar L. Lopez,Lenore J. Launer,Sudha Seshadri,Claudine Berr,Dominique Campion,Jacques Epelbaum,Jean-François Dartigues,Christophe Tzourio,Annick Alpérovitch,Mark Lathrop,T. Feulner,Patricia Friedrich,Caterina Riehle,Michael Krawczak,Stefan Schreiber,Manuel Mayhaus,S. Nicolhaus,Stefan Wagenpfeil,Stacy Steinberg,Hreinn Stefansson,Kari Stefansson,Jon Snaedal,Sigurbjorn Bjornsson,Palmi V. Jonsson,Vincent Chouraki,Vincent Chouraki,Vincent Chouraki,Benjamin Genier-Boley,Benjamin Genier-Boley,Benjamin Genier-Boley,Mikko Hiltunen,Hilkka Soininen,Onofre Combarros,Diana Zelenika,Marc Delepine,María J. Bullido,Florence Pasquier,Ignacio Mateo,Ana Frank-García,Elisa Porcellini,Olivier Hanon,Eliecer Coto,Victoria Alvarez,Paolo Bosco,Gabriele Siciliano,Michelangelo Mancuso,Francesco Panza,Vincenzo Solfrizzi,Benedetta Nacmias,Sandro Sorbi,Paola Bossù,Paola Piccardi,Beatrice Arosio,Giorgio Annoni,Davide Seripa,Alberto Pilotto,Elio Scarpini,Daniela Galimberti,Alexis Brice,Didier Hannequin,Federico Licastro,Lesley Jones,Peter Holmans,Thorlakur Jonsson,Matthias Riemenschneider,Kevin Morgan,Steven G. Younkin,Michael John Owen,Michael Conlon O'Donovan,Philippe Amouyel,Julie Williams +177 more
TL;DR: Meta-analyses of all data provided compelling evidence that ABCA7 and the MS4A gene cluster are new Alzheimer's disease susceptibility loci and independent evidence for association for three loci reported by the ADGC, which, when combined, showed genome-wide significance.
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Genome-wide association study identifies variants at CLU and PICALM associated with Alzheimertextquotesingles disease
Denise Harold,Richard Abraham,Paul Hollingworth,Rebecca Sims,Amy Gerrish,Marian L. Hamshere,Jaspreet Singh Pahwa,Valentina Moskvina,Kimberley Dowzell,Amy L. Williams,Nicola Jones,Charlene Thomas,Alexandra Stretton,Angharad R. Morgan,Simon Lovestone,John Powell,Petroula Proitsi,Michelle K. Lupton,Carol Brayne,David C. Rubinsztein,Michael Gill,Brian A. Lawlor,Aoibhinn Lynch,Kevin Morgan,Kristelle Brown,Peter Passmore,David Craig,Bernadette McGuinness,Stephen Todd,Clive Holmes,David G. Mann,A. David Smith,Seth Love,Patrick G. Kehoe,John Hardy,Simon Mead,Nick C. Fox,Martin N. Rossor,John Collinge,Wolfgang Maier,Frank Jessen,Britta Schürmann,Reinhard Heun,Hendrik van den Bussche,Isabella Heuser,Johannes Kornhuber,Jens Wiltfang,Martin Dichgans,Lutz Frölich,Harald Hampel,Michael Hüll,Dan Rujescu,Alison Goate,John S. K. Kauwe,Carlos Cruchaga,Petra Nowotny,John C. Morris,Kevin Mayo,Kristel Sleegers,Karolien Bettens,Sebastiaan Engelborghs,Peter Paul De Deyn,Christine Van Broeckhoven,Gill Livingston,Nicholas Bass,Hugh Gurling,Andrew McQuillin,Rhian Gwilliam,Panagiotis Deloukas,Ammar Al-Chalabi,Christopher Shaw,Magda Tsolaki,Andrew B. Singleton,Rita Guerreiro,Thomas W Mühleisen,Markus M Nöthen,Susanne Moebus,Karl-Heinz Jöckel,Norman Klopp,H-Erich Wichmann,Minerva M. Carrasquillo,V. Shane Pankratz,Steven G. Younkin,Peter Holmans,Michael OtextquotesingleDonovan,Michael John Owen,Julie Williams +86 more
TL;DR: A two-stage genome-wide association study of Alzheimer's disease involving over 16,000 individuals, the most powerful AD GWAS to date, produced compelling evidence for association with Alzheimer’s disease in the combined dataset.
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Improved discrimination of AD patients using beta-amyloid((1-42)) and tau levels in CSF
Frank Hulstaert,Kaj Blennow,Adrian Ivanoiu,HC Schoonderwaldt,Matthias Riemenschneider,P.P. De Deyn,C. Bancher,Patrick Cras,Jens Wiltfang,Pankaj Mehta,Khalid Iqbal,Hans Pottel,Eugeen Vanmechelen,Hugo Vanderstichele +13 more
TL;DR: The combined measure of CSF Aβ42 and tau meets the requirements for clinical use in discriminating AD from normal aging and specific neurologic disorders.
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Genetic evidence implicates the immune system and cholesterol metabolism in the aetiology of Alzheimer's disease.
Lesley Jones,Peter Holmans,Marian L. Hamshere,Denise Harold,Valentina Moskvina,Dobril Ivanov,Andrew Pocklington,Richard Abraham,Paul Hollingworth,Rebecca Sims,Amy Gerrish,Jaspreet Singh Pahwa,Nicola L. Jones,Alexandra Stretton,Angharad R. Morgan,Simon Lovestone,John Powell,Petroula Proitsi,Michelle K. Lupton,Carol Brayne,David C. Rubinsztein,Michael Gill,Brian A. Lawlor,Aoibhinn Lynch,Kevin Morgan,Kristelle Brown,Peter Passmore,David Craig,Bernadette McGuinness,Stephen Todd,Clive Holmes,David G. Mann,A. David Smith,Seth Love,Patrick G. Kehoe,Simon Mead,Nick C. Fox,Martin N. Rossor,John Collinge,Wolfgang Maier,Frank Jessen,Britta Schürmann,Hendrik van den Bussche,Isabella Heuser,Oliver Peters,Johannes Kornhuber,Jens Wiltfang,Martin Dichgans,Lutz Frölich,Harald Hampel,Harald Hampel,Michael Hüll,Dan Rujescu,Alison Goate,John S. K. Kauwe,Carlos Cruchaga,Petra Nowotny,John C. Morris,Kevin Mayo,Gill Livingston,Nicholas Bass,Hugh Gurling,Andrew McQuillin,Rhian Gwilliam,Panos Deloukas,Ammar Al-Chalabi,Christopher Shaw,Andrew B. Singleton,Rita Guerreiro,Thomas W. Mühleisen,Markus M. Nöthen,Susanne Moebus,Karl-Heinz Jöckel,Norman Klopp,H.-Erich Wichmann,Eckhard Rüther,Minerva M. Carrasquillo,V. Shane Pankratz,Steven G. Younkin,John Hardy,Michael Conlon O'Donovan,Michael John Owen,Julie Williams +82 more
TL;DR: Independent evidence from two large studies demonstrates that these processes related to cholesterol metabolism and the innate immune response are aetiologically relevant, and suggests that they may be suitable targets for novel and existing therapeutic approaches.