Common variants at MS4A4/MS4A6E, CD2AP, CD33 and EPHA1 are associated with late-onset Alzheimer's disease

The Alzheimer Disease Genetics Consortium (ADGC) performed a genome-wide association study of late-onset Alzheimer disease using a three-stage design consisting of a discovery stage (stage 1) and two replication stages (stages 2 and 3). Both joint analysis and meta-analysis approaches were used. We obtained genome-wide significant results at MS4A4A (rs4938933; stages 1 and 2, meta-analysis P (P(M)) = 1.7 × 10(-9), joint analysis P (P(J)) = 1.7 × 10(-9); stages 1, 2 and 3, P(M) = 8.2 × 10(-12)), CD2AP (rs9349407; stages 1, 2 and 3, P(M) = 8.6 × 10(-9)), EPHA1 (rs11767557; stages 1, 2 and 3, P(M) = 6.0 × 10(-10)) and CD33 (rs3865444; stages 1, 2 and 3, P(M) = 1.6 × 10(-9)). We also replicated previous associations at CR1 (rs6701713; P(M) = 4.6 × 10(-10), P(J) = 5.2 × 10(-11)), CLU (rs1532278; P(M) = 8.3 × 10(-8), P(J) = 1.9 × 10(-8)), BIN1 (rs7561528; P(M) = 4.0 × 10(-14), P(J) = 5.2 × 10(-14)) and PICALM (rs561655; P(M) = 7.0 × 10(-11), P(J) = 1.0 × 10(-10)), but not at EXOC3L2, to late-onset Alzheimer's disease susceptibility.     

The fossil vertebrates from East Greenland and their zoological importance

Zusammenfassung Kurzer Bericht über die dänischen Expeditionen nach Ostgrönland (Lauge Koch) 1929–1957. Die zoologische Bedeutung des fossilen Vertebratenmaterials (über 10000 Exemplare) wird angedeutet. Neuere Ergebnisse über die Evolution der Tetrapodenzunge werden besonders im Zusammenhang mit Grönlandmaterial besprochen. Damit wird die Ansicht bestätigt, dass sich die Urodelen selbständig aus porolepiformen Crossopterygiern entwickelt haben, während Anuren, Sauropsiden und Säugetiere von Osteolepiformiern abzuleiten sind. Die Auswertung des umfangreichen Fossilmaterials ergibt eine diphyletische Herkunft der Tetrapoden.