Entity Detail — Knowledge Graph Node
This page aggregates everything SciDEX knows about ALZHEIMER DISEASE: its mechanistic relationships (Knowledge Graph edges), hypotheses targeting it, analyses mentioning it, and supporting scientific papers. The interactive graph below shows its immediate neighbors. All content is AI-synthesized from peer-reviewed literature.
ALZHEIMER DISEASE is a gene implicated in neurodegeneration research. Key relationships include: interacts with, activates, associated with. Associated with ALS, Aging, Als. Connected to 753 entities in the SciDEX knowledge graph.
| Gene Symbol | ALZHEIMER DISEASE |
| Primary Expression | Ca1, Cortex, Hippocampus |
| Pathways | Autophagy, Oxidative Stress, Stem Cell, Complement, Immune Response |
| Associated Diseases | ALS, Aging, Alzheimer, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, Atherosclerosis |
| Interactions | APP, AUTOPHAGY, TAU, LC3, MTORC1, TFEB |
| KG Connections | 1372 knowledge graph edges |
| Databases | GeneCardsUniProtNCBI GeneHPASTRING |
Knowledge base pages for this entity
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ALZHEIMER_DISEASE["ALZHEIMER DISEASE"] -->|"therapeutic target"| Alzheimer["Alzheimer"]
ALZHEIMER_DISEASE["ALZHEIMER DISEASE"] -->|"therapeutic target"| Ms["Ms"]
ALZHEIMER_DISEASE["ALZHEIMER DISEASE"] -->|"therapeutic target"| Cancer["Cancer"]
ALZHEIMER_DISEASE["ALZHEIMER DISEASE"] -->|"therapeutic target"| Diabetes["Diabetes"]
ALZHEIMER_DISEASE["ALZHEIMER DISEASE"] -->|"activates"| Alzheimer_1["Alzheimer"]
ALZHEIMER_DISEASE["ALZHEIMER DISEASE"] -->|"activates"| Anxiety["Anxiety"]
TREM2["TREM2"] -->|"associated"| ALZHEIMER_DISEASE["ALZHEIMER DISEASE"]
ALZHEIMER_S_DISEASE["ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE"] -->|"therapeutic target"| ALZHEIMER_DISEASE["ALZHEIMER DISEASE"]
AKT1["AKT1"] -->|"therapeutic target"| ALZHEIMER_DISEASE["ALZHEIMER DISEASE"]
EGFR["EGFR"] -->|"therapeutic target"| ALZHEIMER_DISEASE["ALZHEIMER DISEASE"]
style ALZHEIMER_DISEASE fill:#4a1a6b,stroke:#4fc3f7,stroke-width:2px,color:#e0e0e0| Target | Relation | Type | Str |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alzheimer | therapeutic_target | disease | 1.00 |
| Alzheimer | activates | disease | 1.00 |
| Alzheimer | associated_with | disease | 1.00 |
| Als | therapeutic_target | disease | 1.00 |
| Aging | associated_with | disease | 1.00 |
| Dementia | biomarker_for | disease | 1.00 |
| Als | associated_with | disease | 1.00 |
| Als | activates | disease | 1.00 |
| Neurodegeneration | associated_with | disease | 1.00 |
| Alzheimer | implicated_in | disease | 1.00 |
| Parkinson | associated_with | disease | 0.95 |
| Inflammation | associated_with | disease | 0.95 |
| Alzheimer | biomarker_for | disease | 0.95 |
| Neurodegeneration | therapeutic_target | disease | 0.95 |
| Alzheimer | contributes_to | disease | 0.95 |
| Neurodegeneration | biomarker_for | disease | 0.95 |
| Autophagy | activates | pathway | 0.90 |
| ALZHEIMER | activates | gene | 0.90 |
| APOE | activates | gene | 0.90 |
| ALZHEIMER | associated_with | gene | 0.90 |
| DEMENTIA | biomarker_for | gene | 0.90 |
| Neurodegeneration | activates | disease | 0.85 |
| Dementia | associated_with | disease | 0.85 |
| Neuroinflammation | associated_with | disease | 0.85 |
| Inflammation | therapeutic_target | disease | 0.85 |
| Cancer | associated_with | disease | 0.85 |
| Obesity | associated_with | disease | 0.85 |
| Alzheimer | causes | disease | 0.85 |
| Aging | activates | disease | 0.85 |
| Neurodegeneration | inhibits | disease | 0.85 |
| Als | biomarker_for | disease | 0.85 |
| Aging | biomarker_for | disease | 0.85 |
| Oxidative Stress | therapeutic_target | pathway | 0.80 |
| DEMENTIA | associated_with | gene | 0.80 |
| AMYLOID | associated_with | gene | 0.80 |
| Stem Cell | associated_with | pathway | 0.80 |
| Alzheimer | interacts_with | disease | 0.75 |
| Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis | associated_with | disease | 0.75 |
| Tauopathy | associated_with | disease | 0.75 |
| Inflammation | activates | disease | 0.75 |
| Als | interacts_with | disease | 0.75 |
| Diabetes | associated_with | disease | 0.75 |
| Dementia | interacts_with | disease | 0.75 |
| Neurodegeneration | interacts_with | disease | 0.75 |
| Alzheimer | expressed_in | disease | 0.75 |
| Alzheimer | regulates | disease | 0.75 |
| Infection | activates | disease | 0.75 |
| Viral Infection | activates | disease | 0.75 |
| Neurodegeneration | contributes_to | disease | 0.75 |
| Cancer | activates | disease | 0.75 |
| Source | Relation | Type | Str |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALZHEIMER | associated_with | gene | 1.00 |
| NEURODEGENERATION | associated_with | gene | 1.00 |
| ALZHEIMER | therapeutic_target | gene | 1.00 |
| TAU | associated_with | gene | 1.00 |
| AGING | associated_with | gene | 1.00 |
| AMYLOID | activates | gene | 1.00 |
| ALZHEIMER | activates | gene | 1.00 |
| AUTOPHAGY | activates | gene | 1.00 |
| TAU | implicated_in | entity | 0.90 |
| NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES | activates | gene | 0.90 |
| NEURODEGENERATION | therapeutic_target | gene | 0.90 |
| ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE | biomarker_for | gene | 0.90 |
| TAU | biomarker_for | gene | 0.90 |
| ALZHEIMER | implicated_in | gene | 0.90 |
| NEURODEGENERATION | biomarker_for | gene | 0.90 |
| NEURODEGENERATION | activates | gene | 0.80 |
| NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES | associated_with | gene | 0.80 |
| AMYLOID | interacts_with | gene | 0.80 |
| AMYLOID | biomarker_for | gene | 0.80 |
| AMYLOID | associated_with | gene | 0.80 |
| ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE | activates | gene | 0.80 |
| ALZHEIMER | interacts_with | gene | 0.80 |
| TAU | interacts_with | gene | 0.80 |
| PARKINSON | associated_with | gene | 0.80 |
| ALZHEIMER | causes | gene | 0.80 |
| AGING | activates | gene | 0.80 |
| ALZHEIMER | contributes_to | gene | 0.80 |
| NEURODEGENERATION | inhibits | gene | 0.80 |
| APP | activates | gene | 0.80 |
| ALZHEIMER | biomarker_for | gene | 0.80 |
| TREM2 | associated_with | gene | 0.70 |
| ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE | therapeutic_target | gene | 0.70 |
| MICROGLIA | activates | gene | 0.70 |
| ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE | expressed_in | gene | 0.70 |
| PER | associated_with | gene | 0.70 |
| CANCER | associated_with | gene | 0.70 |
| MITOCHONDRIA | interacts_with | gene | 0.70 |
| P62 | activates | gene | 0.70 |
| LC3 | activates | gene | 0.70 |
| NEURODEGENERATIVE DISORDERS | activates | gene | 0.70 |
| TAU | activates | gene | 0.70 |
| AUTOPHAGY | associated_with | gene | 0.70 |
| GENES | associated_with | gene | 0.70 |
| NEURODEGENERATION | interacts_with | gene | 0.70 |
| ALZHEIMER | expressed_in | gene | 0.70 |
| AUTOPHAGY | therapeutic_target | gene | 0.70 |
| OXIDATIVE STRESS | therapeutic_target | gene | 0.70 |
| AMYLOID | therapeutic_target | gene | 0.70 |
| NEURODEGENERATIVE DISORDERS | implicated_in | gene | 0.70 |
| NEURODEGENERATION | contributes_to | gene | 0.70 |
Hypotheses where this entity is a therapeutic target
| Hypothesis | Score | Disease | Analysis |
|---|---|---|---|
| No targeting hypotheses | |||
Scientific analyses that reference this entity
neuroscience | 2026-04-04 | 0 hypotheses
neurodegeneration | 2026-04-04 | 0 hypotheses
neurodegeneration | 2026-04-04 | 0 hypotheses
neurodegeneration | 2026-04-04 | 0 hypotheses
neurodegeneration | 2026-04-04 | 0 hypotheses
Scientific publications cited in analyses involving this entity
| Title & PMID | Authors | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No papers found | ||||