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An ancestral inversion of 900 kb on chromosome 17q21, which includes the microtubule-associated protein tau ( MAPT ) gene, defines two haplotype clades in Caucasians (H1 and H2). The H1 haplotype has been linked inconsistently with AD. In a previous study, we showed that an SNP tagging this haplotype (rs1800547) was associated with AD risk in a large population from the Dementia Genetics Spanish Consortium (DEGESCO) including 4435 cases and 6147 controls. The association was mainly driven by individuals that were non-carriers of the  APOE  ε4 allele. Our aim was to replicate our previous findings in an independent sample of 4124 AD cases and 3290 controls from Spain (GR@ACE project) and to analyze the effect of the H1 sub-haplotype structure on the risk of AD. The H1 haplotype was associated with AD risk (OR = 1.12;  p  = 0.0025). Stratification analysis showed that this association was mainly driven by the  APOE  ε4 non-carriers (OR = 1.15;  p  = 0.0022). Pooled analysis of both Spanish datasets ( n  = 17,996) showed that the highest AD risk related to the  MAPT  H1/H2 haplotype was in those individuals that were the oldest [third tertile (>77 years)] and did not carry  APOE  ε4 allele ( p  = 0.001). We did not find a significant association between H1 sub-haplotypes and AD. H1c was nominally associated but lost statistical significance after adjusting by population sub-structure. Our results are consistent with the hypothesis that genetic variants linked to the  MAPT  H1/H2 are tracking a genuine risk allele for AD. The fact that this association is stronger in  APOE  ε4 non-carriers partially explains previous controversial results and might be related to a slower alternative causal pathway less dependent on brain amyloid load.

The MAPT H1 Haplotype Is a Risk Factor for Alzheimer’s Disease in APOE ε4 Non-carriers