Table 5 Associations between shared Alzheimer’s disease (AD)-late-onset epilepsy (LOE) shared genetic risk score (GRS), APOE-ε4 count, and AD/LOE status, UCLA ATLAS patient population, with multi-task elastic net modeling testing sample (N = 2,002)a.

From: Multi-task learning identifies shared genetic risk for late-onset epilepsy and alzheimer’s disease

Phenotype

Variation explained

OR (95% CI)

P-value

APOE-ε4 count

 AD or LOE

1.44%

1.90 (1.41, 2.53)

< 0.001*

 AD only

7.57%

4.31 (2.75, 6.78)

< 0.001*

 LOE only

0.01%

1.05 (0.70, 1.54)

0.81

AD-LOE shared GRS (full)

 AD or LOE

1.79%

1.42 (1.22, 1.64)

< 0.001*

 AD only

6.87%

2.10 (1.64, 2.71)

< 0.001*

 LOE only

0.29%

1.16 (0.97, 1.38)

0.1

AD-LOE shared GRS (without APOE)

 AD or LOE

0.63%

1.24 (1.06, 1.45)

0.01*

 AD only

0.72%

1.28 (0.99, 1.66)

0.056

 LOE only

0.49%

1.21 (1.01, 1.46)

0.04*

  1. APOE apolipoprotein E, CI confidence interval, OR odds ratio.
  2. [a] Model adjustments include age at last visit, sex, and first five ancestry-specific principal components.