Normal allele: GG
High levels of cerebrospinal tau are associated with the rs242557 gene variant and a high risk of Parkinson's and Alzheimer's disease.
Polymorphism rs242557 is related to topics like this:
Research and publications:
17266761 Haplotype-based association analysis of the MAPT locus in late-onset Alzheimer's disease.
18065436 The tauopathy associated with mutation 3 in intron 10 of Tau: characterization of the MSTD family.
18841019 Synergistic effect of heme oxygenase-1 and tau genetic variants on Alzheimer's disease risk.
19063963 Genetic predisposition to Parkinson's disease.
19308965 Study of the association of common variations in the MAPT locus with late-onset Alzheimer's disease.
19912324 Association of the MAPT locus with Parkinson's disease.
21391235 Independent and joint effects of the MAPT and SNCA genes in Parkinson disease.
21397051 Variation in MAPT is not a contributing factor to the incomplete penetrance in LHON.
21685912 Identification of common variants influencing risk of the tauopathy progressive supranuclear palsy.
21833654 Biomarkers to identify the pathological basis for frontotemporal lobar degeneration.
22023810 Parkinsonian phenotype in Machado-Joseph disease (MJD/SCA3): a two-case report.
22291217 Assessing the impact of MAPT, SNCA and APOE on the burden of Alzheimer's and Lewy body pathology.
23116876 A preliminary study of STX6, MOBP, MAPT, and EIF2AK3 and late-onset Alzheimer's disease.
24373676 Genetic and neuroanatomic associations in sporadic frontotemporal lobar degeneration.
24851016 Genetic studies in human prion diseases.
25535399 Paclitaxel-induced neuropathy: potential association of MAPT and GSK3B genotypes.
27147968 Genetic Architecture of MAPT Gene Region in Parkinson Disease Subtypes.
28100725 Genome-wide association study identifies MAPT locus influencing human plasma tau levels.
28402959 Meta-analysis of the association between variants in MAPT and neurodegenerative diseases.
28415654 Association between MAPT polymorphisms and risk of Alzheimer's disease: a meta-analysis.
29076559 Genetic influences on cognition in progressive supranuclear palsy.
31234228 Association of MAPT H1 subhaplotypes with neuropathology of lewy body disease.
33635380 Latent trait modeling of tau neuropathology in progressive supranuclear palsy.
33815092 Genetic variation in molecular pathways associated with Alzheimer's disease: a comprehensive review.