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This page aggregates everything SciDEX knows about GENETIC MODIFIERS: 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.
GENETIC MODIFIERS is a concept in neurodegeneration research. Key relationships include: associated with, regulates, protects against. Associated with Aging, Als, Alzheimer. Connected to 60 entities in the SciDEX knowledge graph.
| Name | GENETIC MODIFIERS |
| Related Diseases | Autosomal-Dominant Alzheimer's Disease, Disease Onset, Alzheimer, Huntington, Ms |
Knowledge base pages for this entity
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GENETIC_MODIFIERS["<b>GENETIC MODIFIERS</b>"]
GENETIC_MODIFIERS -->|"modulates"| Autosomal_Dominant_Alzheimer_s["Autosomal-Dominant Alzheimer's Disease"]
GENETIC_MODIFIERS -.protects against.-> Alzheimer["Alzheimer"]
GENETIC_MODIFIERS -->|"target for"| Ms["Ms"]
GENETIC_MODIFIERS -->|"target for"| Als["Als"]
GENETIC_MODIFIERS -->|"regulates"| Tumor["Tumor"]
GENETIC_MODIFIERS -->|"regulates"| Cancer["Cancer"]
GENETIC_MODIFIERS -.protects against.-> Phagocytosis["Phagocytosis"]
GENETIC_MODIFIERS -->|"target for"| AND["AND"]
GENETIC_MODIFIERS -->|"inhibits"| MYELIN["MYELIN"]
PHAGOCYTOSIS["PHAGOCYTOSIS"] -.protects against.-> GENETIC_MODIFIERS
REELIN["REELIN"] -.protects against.-> GENETIC_MODIFIERS
ALZHEIMER_S_DISEASE["ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE"] -.protects against.-> GENETIC_MODIFIERS
MICROGLIA["MICROGLIA"] -.protects against.-> GENETIC_MODIFIERS
ALZHEIMER["ALZHEIMER"] -.protects against.-> GENETIC_MODIFIERS
NEURODEGENERATIVE_DISEASES["NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES"] -.protects against.-> GENETIC_MODIFIERS
JUN["JUN"] -.protects against.-> GENETIC_MODIFIERS
AND -->|"expressed in"| GENETIC_MODIFIERS
GENES["GENES"] -->|"regulates"| GENETIC_MODIFIERS
PLIN2["PLIN2"] -->|"expressed in"| GENETIC_MODIFIERS
DNA["DNA"] -->|"regulates"| GENETIC_MODIFIERS
MUTYH["MUTYH"] -->|"regulates"| GENETIC_MODIFIERS| Target | Relation | Type | Str |
|---|---|---|---|
| Autosomal-Dominant Alzheimer's Disease | modulates | disease | 0.85 |
| Disease Onset | modulates | phenotype | 0.85 |
| Alzheimer | protects_against | disease | 0.65 |
| Huntington | associated_with | disease | 0.65 |
| Ms | therapeutic_target | disease | 0.65 |
| Als | therapeutic_target | disease | 0.65 |
| Ms | inhibits | disease | 0.65 |
| Ms | regulates | disease | 0.65 |
| Als | associated_with | disease | 0.65 |
| Obesity | associated_with | disease | 0.65 |
| Schizophrenia | associated_with | disease | 0.65 |
| Ms | associated_with | disease | 0.65 |
| Hypertension | associated_with | disease | 0.65 |
| Autism | associated_with | disease | 0.65 |
| Alzheimer | associated_with | disease | 0.65 |
| Carcinoma | associated_with | disease | 0.65 |
| Cancer | associated_with | disease | 0.65 |
| Aging | associated_with | disease | 0.65 |
| Tumor | associated_with | disease | 0.65 |
| Tumor | regulates | disease | 0.65 |
| Cancer | regulates | disease | 0.65 |
| Dementia | biomarker_for | disease | 0.65 |
| Als | biomarker_for | disease | 0.65 |
| Aging | biomarker_for | disease | 0.65 |
| Schizophrenia | biomarker_for | disease | 0.65 |
| Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis | biomarker_for | disease | 0.65 |
| Ftd | associated_with | disease | 0.65 |
| Ms | biomarker_for | disease | 0.65 |
| Frontotemporal Dementia | biomarker_for | disease | 0.65 |
| Als | activates | disease | 0.65 |
| Alzheimer | activates | disease | 0.65 |
| Tauopathy | activates | disease | 0.65 |
| ALS | causes | disease | 0.65 |
| ALS | activates | disease | 0.65 |
| Dementia | expressed_in | disease | 0.65 |
| Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis | expressed_in | disease | 0.65 |
| ALS | expressed_in | disease | 0.65 |
| Frontotemporal Dementia | expressed_in | disease | 0.65 |
| Phagocytosis | protects_against | pathway | 0.60 |
| FAN1 | associated_with | gene | 0.60 |
| HTT | associated_with | gene | 0.60 |
| HUNTINGTON | associated_with | gene | 0.60 |
| DNA | associated_with | gene | 0.60 |
| PMS2 | associated_with | gene | 0.60 |
| PHAGOCYTOSIS | associated_with | gene | 0.60 |
| MICROGLIA | associated_with | gene | 0.60 |
| MYELIN | inhibits | gene | 0.60 |
| AMYLOID | inhibits | gene | 0.60 |
| Phagocytosis | associated_with | pathway | 0.60 |
| Mitochondrial Function | regulates | pathway | 0.60 |
| Source | Relation | Type | Str |
|---|---|---|---|
| PHAGOCYTOSIS | protects_against | gene | 0.60 |
| REELIN | protects_against | gene | 0.60 |
| ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE | protects_against | gene | 0.60 |
| MICROGLIA | protects_against | gene | 0.60 |
| ALZHEIMER | protects_against | gene | 0.60 |
| GENES | associated_with | gene | 0.60 |
| RELN | associated_with | gene | 0.60 |
| NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES | protects_against | gene | 0.60 |
| JUN | protects_against | gene | 0.60 |
| APOE | associated_with | gene | 0.60 |
| MSH3 | associated_with | gene | 0.60 |
| GENES | regulates | gene | 0.60 |
| PLIN2 | expressed_in | gene | 0.60 |
| DNA | regulates | gene | 0.60 |
| MUTYH | regulates | gene | 0.60 |
| AND | expressed_in | gene | 0.60 |
| AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS | biomarker_for | gene | 0.60 |
| TMEM106B | associated_with | gene | 0.60 |
| NEURODEGENERATIVE DISORDERS | biomarker_for | gene | 0.60 |
| PROGRANULIN | biomarker_for | gene | 0.60 |
| DEMENTIA | biomarker_for | gene | 0.60 |
| GRN | associated_with | gene | 0.60 |
| AND | associated_with | gene | 0.60 |
| C9ORF72 | associated_with | gene | 0.60 |
| TAU | activates | gene | 0.60 |
| ALZHEIMER | activates | gene | 0.60 |
| GENES | activates | gene | 0.60 |
| MAPT | activates | gene | 0.60 |
| ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE | activates | gene | 0.60 |
| DNA | associated_with | gene | 0.60 |
| HTT | causes | gene | 0.60 |
| HUNTINGTIN | associated_with | gene | 0.60 |
| HUNTINGTON | associated_with | gene | 0.60 |
| PSP | activates | gene | 0.60 |
| AND | activates | gene | 0.60 |
| NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES | activates | gene | 0.60 |
| VPS29 | activates | gene | 0.60 |
| DEMENTIA | expressed_in | gene | 0.60 |
| REPEAT-CONTAINING TRANSCRIPTS | expressed_in | gene | 0.60 |
| AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS | expressed_in | gene | 0.60 |
| RNA | interacts_with | gene | 0.60 |
| RAN | expressed_in | gene | 0.60 |
| AND | interacts_with | gene | 0.60 |
| C9ORF72 | expressed_in | gene | 0.60 |
| CANCER | regulates | gene | 0.60 |
| disease | associated_with | disease | 0.50 |
| HUNTINGTIN | interacts_with | protein | 0.50 |
| HUNTINGTON | interacts_with | gene | 0.50 |
| disease | interacts_with | disease | 0.50 |
| Dna Repair | interacts_with | pathway | 0.50 |
Hypotheses where this entity is a therapeutic target
| Hypothesis | Score | Disease | Analysis |
|---|---|---|---|
| No targeting hypotheses | |||
Scientific analyses that reference this entity
immunology | 2026-04-08 | 0 hypotheses
Scientific publications cited in analyses involving this entity
| Title & PMID | Authors | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No papers found | ||||