bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/491902; this version posted December 11, 2018. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder. All rights reserved. No reuse allowed without permission. Title Page Novel Alzheimer risk genes determine the microglia response to amyloid-β but not to TAU pathology Annerieke Sierksma, PhD1,2,3, Ashley Lu, MSc1,2,3, Evgenia Salta, PhD2,3, Renzo Mancuso, PhD2,3, Jesus Zoco, MSc2,3, David Blum, PhD4, Prof Luc Buée, PhD4, Prof Bart De Strooper, PhD2,3,5,6, Mark Fiers, PhD2,3,6 Affiliations 1. These authors contributed equally 2. VIB Center for Brain & Disease Research, Leuven, Belgium 3. KU Leuven, Department of Neurosciences, Leuven research Institute for Neuroscience and Disease (LIND), Leuven, Belgium 4. Université Lille, INSERM, CHU Lille, LabEx DISTALZ, UMR-S 1172, Alzheimer & Tauopathies, Lille, France 5. Dementia Research Institute, ION, University College London, London, UK 6. Senior and corresponding authors Contact: Dr. Mark Fiers & Prof. Bart De Strooper, VIB - Center for Brain & Disease Research, KU Leuven - Department of Neurosciences, O&N4, Herestraat 49 box 602 Leuven, Belgium. E-mail:
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[email protected] 1 bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/491902; this version posted December 11, 2018. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder. All rights reserved. No reuse allowed without permission. Abstract Background: Thousands of SNPs associated with risk of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) in genome-wide association studies (GWAS) do not reach genome-wide significance.