Large-scale analysis of transposable element insertions in Alzheimer’s disease across different ancestries

Francis P Grenn1,2, Congcong Zhu2, John J. Farrell2, Alzheimer’s Disease Sequencing Project, Eden R. Martin5, William S Bush6, Margaret A. Pericak-Vance5, Li-San Wang7, Gerard Schellenberg7, Jonathan L. Haines6, Kathryn L. Lunetta8, Xiaoling Zhang1,2,8, *, and Lindsay A. Farrer1-4,8,9 *
1.Bioinformatics Program, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
2.Departments of Medicine (Biomedical Genetics), 3.Neurology, and 4.Ophthalmology, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
5.Hussman Institute of Human Genetics, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, USA;
6.Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA;
7.Penn Neurodegeneration Genomics Center, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA
8.Departments of Biostatistics and 9Epidemiology, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA

*Equally supervised this work