User profiles for GW Beecham

Gary Beecham

University of Miami
Verified email at med.miami.edu
Cited by 19173

Late-onset vs nonmendelian early-onset Alzheimer disease: A distinction without a difference?

C Reitz, E Rogaeva, GW Beecham - Neurology: Genetics, 2020 - AAN Enterprises
Beecham receives support from the National Institutes for Health: AG062695 (MPI) 2019-…
Beecham also receives support through the BrightFocus foundation: A2018425S (co-I) 2018…

Meta-analysis of 74,046 individuals identifies 11 new susceptibility loci for Alzheimer's disease

…, G Jun, AL DeStefano, JC Bis, GW Beecham… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
Eleven susceptibility loci for late-onset Alzheimer's disease (LOAD) were identified by previous
studies; however, a large portion of the genetic risk for this disease remains unexplained. …

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

AC Naj, G Jun, GW Beecham, LS Wang… - Nature …, 2011 - nature.com
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 …

Genetic meta-analysis of diagnosed Alzheimer's disease identifies new risk loci and implicates Aβ, tau, immunity and lipid processing

…, J Epelbaum, P Hoffmann, M Boada, GW Beecham… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Risk for late-onset Alzheimer’s disease (LOAD), the most prevalent dementia, is partially
driven by genetics. To identify LOAD risk loci, we performed a large genome-wide association …

Rare coding variants in PLCG2, ABI3, and TREM2 implicate microglial-mediated innate immunity in Alzheimer's disease

…, J Epelbaum, W Maier, SH Choi, GW Beecham… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
We identified rare coding variants associated with Alzheimer's disease in a three-stage case–control
study of 85,133 subjects. In stage 1, we genotyped 34,174 samples using a whole-…

Genome‐Wide Association Study Confirms SNPs in SNCA and the MAPT Region as Common Risk Factors for Parkinson Disease

…, A Burt, EH Powell, GW Beecham… - Annals of human …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Parkinson disease (PD) is a chronic neurodegenerative disorder with a cumulative prevalence
of greater than one per thousand. To date three independent genome‐wide association …

Meta-analysis confirms CR1, CLU, and PICALM as alzheimer disease risk loci and reveals interactions with APOE genotypes

G Jun, AC Naj, GW Beecham, LS Wang… - Archives of …, 2010 - jamanetwork.com
Objectives: To determine whether genotypes at CLU, PICALM, and CR1 confer risk for
Alzheimer disease (AD) and whether risk for AD associated with these genes is influenced by …

Large-scale GWAS reveals insights into the genetic architecture of same-sex sexual behavior

…, N Långström, A Auton, KM Harris, GW Beecham… - Science, 2019 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Across human societies and in both sexes, some 2 to 10% of individuals
report engaging in sex with same-sex partners, either exclusively or in addition to sex with …

[HTML][HTML] Genome-wide association meta-analysis of neuropathologic features of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias

GW Beecham, K Hamilton, AC Naj, ER Martin… - PLoS …, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Alzheimer's disease (AD) and related dementias are a major public health challenge and
present a therapeutic imperative for which we need additional insight into molecular …

Meta‐analysis of Parkinson's Disease: Identification of a novel locus, RIT2

N Pankratz, GW Beecham, AL DeStefano… - Annals of …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Objective: Genome‐wide association (GWAS) methods have identified genes contributing
to Parkinson's disease (PD); we sought to identify additional genes associated with PD …