Supplementary notes The IGAP comprises 4 major groups studying the genetics of Alzheimer’s disease, the Alzheimer Disease Genetics Consortium (ADGC), the neurology working group of the Cohorts for Heart and Aging Research in Genomic Epidemiology (CHARGE), the European Initiative for Alzheimer Disease (EADI) and the Genetic and Environmental Risk in Alzheimer's Disease (GERAD). 1. ADGC consortium Regina M Carney1, Deborah C Mash2, Marilyn S Albert3, Roger L Albin4,5, Liana G Apostolova6, Steven E Arnold8, Clinton T Baldwin8, Michael M Barmada9, Lisa L Barnes10,11, Thomas G Beach12, Eileen H Bigio13, Thomas D Bird14, Bradley F Boeve15, James D Bowen16, Adam Boxer17, James R Burk18, Nigel J Cairns19, Chuanhai Cao20, Chris S Carlson21, Steven L Carroll22, Lori B Chibnik23,24, Helena C Chui25, David G Clark26, Jason Corneveaux27, David G Cribbs28, Charles DeCarli29, Steven T DeKosky30, F Yesim Demirci9, Malcolm Dick31, Dennis W Dickson32, Ranjan Duara33, Nilufer ErtekinTaner32,34, Kenneth B Fallon22, Martin R Farlow35, Steven Ferris36, Matthew P Frosch37, Douglas R Galasko38, Mary Ganguli39, Marla Gearing40,41, Daniel H Geschwind42, Bernardino Ghetti 43, Sid Gilman4, Jonathan D Glass44, Robert C Green45, John H Growdon46, Ronald L Hamilton47, Chiao-Feng Lin48,Lindy E Harrell 26, Elizabeth Head49, Lawrence S Honig50, Christine M Hulette51, Bradley T Hyman46, Gail P Jarvik52,53, Gregory A Jicha54, Lee-Way Jin55, Anna Karydas17, John SK Kauwe56, Jeffrey A Kaye57,58, Ronald Kim59, Edward H Koo38, Neil W Kowall60,61, Joel H Kramer62, Patricia Kramer57,63, Frank M LaFerla64, James J Lah44, James B Leverenz65, Allan I Levey44, Ge Li66, Andrew P Lieberman67, Constantine G Lyketsos68, Wendy J Mack69, Daniel C Marson26, Frank Martiniuk70, Eliezer Masliah38,71, Wayne C McCormick72, Susan M McCurry73, Andrew N McDavid21, Ann C McKee60,61, Marsel Mesulam74, Bruce L Miller17, Carol A Miller75, Brian Kunkle76, Joshua W Miller55, John C Morris19,77, Jill R Murrell43,78, John M Olichney29, Vernon S Pankratz80, Joseph E Parisi81,82, Elaine Peskind66, Tricia A Thornton-Wells8315, Ronald C Petersen1583, Aimee Pierce28, Wayne W Poon31, Huntington Potter84, Joseph F Quinn57, Ashok Raj84, Murray Raskind66, Eric M. Reiman27,85,86, Barry Reisberg36,87, John M Ringman6, Erik D Roberson2648, Howard J Rosen17, Roger N Rosenberg88, Mary Sano89, Andrew J Saykin43,90, Julie A Schneider10,91, Lon S Schneider6,92, William W Seeley17, Amanda G Smith84, Joshua A Sonnen65, Salvatore Spina43, Robert A Stern60, Rudolph E Tanzi46, John Q Trojanowski93, Juan C Troncoso94, Vivianna M Van Deerlin93, Linda J Van Eldik95, Harry V Vinters6,96, Jean Paul Vonsattel97, Sandra Weintraub74, Robert Green98, Kathleen A Welsh-Bohmer18,99, Jennifer Williamson50, Randall L Woltjer100, Chang-En Yu72, Robert Barber101, Adam C Naj102,103, Gyungah Jun104,105,106, Gary W Beecham1,107, Badri N Vardarajan104, Otto Valladares48, Christiane Reitz108,109, Joseph D Buxbaum110,111,112, Clinton Baldwin104, Najaf Amin113, Philip L De Jager114,115, Denis Evans116, Matthew J Huentelman117, M Ilyas Kamboh118,119, Amanda J Myers120, Ekaterina Rogaeva121, Peter St George-Hyslop121,122, Lei Yu123, John R Gilbert1,107, Hakon Hakonarson124, Kara L Hamilton-Nelson1, Kelley M Faber125, Laura B Cantwell48, Deborah Blacker126,127, David A Bennett123,128, Thomas J Montine129, Tatiana M Foroud125, Walter A Kukull130, Kathryn L Lunetta106, John SK Kauwe131, Eric Boerwinkle132,133, Eden R Martin1,107, Li-San Wang48. 1. The John P. Hussman Institute for Human Genomics, University of Miami, Miami, FL, 33124, USA 2. Department of Neurology, University of Miami, Miami, FL, 33124, USA 3. Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, 21218, USA 4. Department of Neurology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, USA 5. Geriatric Research, Education and Clinical Center (GRECC), VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System (VAAAHS), Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, USA 6. Department of Neurology, University of California Los Angeles , Los Angeles, CA, 94607, USA 7. Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA 8. Department of Medicine (Biomedical Genetics), Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, 02215, USA 9. Department of Human Genetics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, USA 10. Department of Neurological Sciences, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, 60612, USA 11. Department of Behavioral Sciences, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, 60612, USA 12. Civil Laboratory for Neuropathology, Banner Sun Health Research Institute, Phoenix, AZ, 85351, USA 13. Department of Pathology, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, 60208, USA 14. Department of Neurology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 98195, USA 15. Department of Neurology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, 55902, USA 16. Swedish Medical Center, Seattle, WA, 98195, USA 17. Department of Neurology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, 94122, USA 18. Department of Medicine, Duke University, Durham, NC, 27710, USA 19. Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University, St. Louis, MO, 63130, USA 20. USF Health Byrd Alzheimer's Institute, University of South Florida, Tampa, CA, 33620, USA 21. Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, 98195, USA 22. Department of Pathology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, 35294, USA 23. Program in Translational NeuroPsychiatric Genomics, Institute for the Neurosciences, Department of Neurology & Psychiatry, Bringham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02215, USA 24. Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute, Boston, MA, 02215, USA 25. Department of Neurology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 94607, USA 26. Department of Neurology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, 35294, USA 27. Neurogenomics Division, Translational Genomics Research Institute, Phoenix, AZ, 85004, USA 28. Department of Neurology, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, 92617, USA 29. Department of Neurology, University of California Davis, Sacramento, CA, 95616, USA 30. University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA, 22903, USA 31. Institute for Memory Impairments and Neurological Disorders, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, 92617, USA 32. Department of Neuroscience, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL, 55902, USA 33. Wien Center for Alzheimer's Disease and Memory Disorders, Mount Sinai Medical Center, Miami Beach, FL, 10029, USA 34. Department of Neurology, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL, 55902, USA 35. Department of Neurology, Indiana University 36. Department of Psychiatry, New York University, New York, NY, 10027, USA 37. C.S. Kubik Laboratory for Neuropathology, Massachusetts General Hospital, , Indianapolis, IN, 46202, USA Charlestown, MA, 02114, USA 38. Department of Neurosciences, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, 92093, USA 39. Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, USA 40. Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, 30329, USA 41. Emory Alzheimer's Disease Center, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, 30329, USA 42. Neurogenetics Program, University of California Los Angeles , Los Angeles, CA, 94607, USA 43. Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN, 46202, USA 44. Department of Neurology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, 30329, USA 45. Division of Genetics, Department of Medicine and Partners Center for Personalized Genetic Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02215 46. , USA Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02215, USA 47. Department of Pathology (Neuropathology), University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, USA 48. Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA 49. Sanders-Brown Center on Aging, Department of Molecular and Biomedical Pharmacology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, 40506, USA 50. Taub Institute on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain, Department of Neurology, Columbia University, New York, NY, 10027, USA 51. Department of Pathology, Duke University, Durham, NC, 27710, USA 52. Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 98195, USA 53. Department of Medicine (Medical Genetics), University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 98195, USA 54. Sanders-Brown Center on Aging, Department Neurology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, 40506, USA 55. Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of California Davis, Sacramento, CA, 95616, USA 56. Department of Biology, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 02215, USA 57. Department of Neurology, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, 97239, USA 58. Department of Neurology, Portland Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Portland, OR, 97239, USA 59. Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, 92617, USA 60. Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, 02215, USA 61. Department of Pathology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, 02215, USA 62. Department of Neuropsychology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, 94122, USA 63. Department of Molecular & Medical Genetics, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, 97239, USA 64. Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, 92617, USA 65. Department of Pathology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 98195, USA 66. Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Washington , Seattle, WA, 98195, USA 67. Department of Pathology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, USA 68. Department of Psychiatry, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, 21218, USA 69. Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California Angeles, CA, 94607, USA , Los 70. Department of Medicine - Pulmonary, New York University, New York, NY, 10027, USA 71. Department of Pathology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, 92093, USA 72. Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 98195, USA 73. School of Nursing Northwest Research Group on Aging, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 98195, USA 74. Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer's Disease Center, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, 60208, USA 75. Department of Pathology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 94607, USA 76. Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 98101, USA 77. Department of Neurology, Washington University, St. Louis, MO, 98101, USA 78. Department of Medical and Molecular Genetics, Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN, 46202, USA 80. Department of Biostatistics, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, 55902, USA 81. Department of Anatomic Pathology, Mayo Clinic, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, 55902, USA 82. Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, 55902, USA 83. Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, 37212, USA 84. USF Health Byrd Alzheimer's Institute, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, 33613 , USA 85. Arizona Alzheimer’s Consortium, Department of Psychiatry, University of Arizona, Phoenix, AZ, 85004, USA 86. Banner Alzheimer's Institute, Phoenix, AZ, 85004, USA 87. Alzheimer's Disease Center, New York University, New York, NY, 10027, USA 88. Department of Neurology, University of Texas Southwestern, Dallas, TX, 75390, USA 89. Department of Psychiatry, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, 10027, USA 90. Department of Radiology and Imaging Sciences, Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN, 46202, USA 91. Department of Pathology (Neuropathology), Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, 60208, USA 92. Department of Psychiatry, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 94607, USA 93. Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA 94. Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, 21218, USA 95. Sanders-Brown Center on Aging, Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, 40506, USA 96. Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, 94607, USA 97. Taub Institute on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain, Department of Pathology, Columbia University, New York, NY, 10027, USA 98. Division of Genetics, Department of Medicine and Partners Center for Personalized Genetic Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, USA. 99. Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Duke University, Durham, NC, 27710, USA 100. Department of Pathology, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, 97239, USA 101. Department of Pharmacology and Neuroscience, University of North Texas Health Science Center, Fort Worth, TX, 76102, USA 102. Department of Biostatistics Epidemiology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA 103. Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA 104. Department of Medicine (Biomedical Genetics), Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, 02218, USA 105. Department of Ophthalmology, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, 02215, USA 106. Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, 02118, USA 107. Dr. John T. Macdonald Foundation Department of Human Genetics, University of Miami, Miami, FL, 33124, USA 108. Taub Institute on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain, Department of Neurology, Columbia University New York, NY, 10027, USA 109. Gertrude H. Sergievsky Center, Department of Neurology, Columbia University, New York, NY, 10027, USA 110. Department of Neuroscience, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY 10027, USA 111. Department of Psychiatry, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY 10027, USA 112. Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY 10027, USA 113. Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus MC University Medical Center, Rotterdam, 3015 CE the Netherlands 114. Program in Translational NeuroPsychiatric Genomics, Institute for the Neurosciences, Department of Neurology & Psychiatry, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02215 USA 115. Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute, Boston, MA 02215 USA 116. Rush Institute for Healthy Aging, Department of Internal Medicine, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60612, USA 117. Neurogenomics Division, Translational Genomics Research Institute, Phoenix, AZ 85004, USA 118. Department of Human Genetics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA 119. Alzheimer's Disease Research Center, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA 120. Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, FL 33124, USA 121. Tanz Centre for Research in Neurodegenerative Disease, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 1A1, Canada 122. Cambridge Institute for Medical Research and Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1TN, UK 123. Department of Neurological Sciences, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60612, USA 124. Center for Applied Genomics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA 125. Department of Medical and Molecular Genetics, Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA 126. Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA 127. Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA 128. Rush Alzheimer's Disease Center, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60612, USA 129. Department of Pathology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA 130. Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA 131. Department of Biology, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, 84602, USA 132. Human Genome Sequencing Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA 133. Human Genetics Center and Div. of Epidemiology, University of Texas Health Sciences Center at Houston, Houston, TX 77030, USA 2. CHARGE consortium Rhoda Au1, Philip A Wolf1, Alexa Beiser2, Stephanie Debette1,3, Qiong Yang2, Galit Weinstein1, Andrew D Johnson4, Jing Wang2, Andre G Uiterlinden5,6,7, Fernando Rivadeneira5, Peter J Koudstaal8, William T Longstreth Jr 9,10,11, James T Becker12, Lewis H Kuller13, Thomas Lumley14, Kenneth Rice15, Melissa Garcia16, Thor Aspelund17, Josef JM Marksteiner18, Peter Dal-Bianco19, Anna Maria Töglhofer20, Paul Freudenberger20, Gerhard Ransmayr21, Thomas Benke22, Anna M Toeglhofer20, Jan Bressler23, Monique MB Breteler24, Myriam Fornage25, Reinhold Schmidt26, Reposo Ramírez-Lorca27, Antonio González-Perez27, Carla A Ibrahim-Verbaas28, Anita L DeStefano29, Tamara B Harris30, Albert V Smith31,32, M Arfan Ikram33,34,Helena Schmidt20, Seung-Hoan Choi29, Annette L Fitzpatrick30,35, Paul K Crane36, Vilmundur Gudnason31,32, Oscar L Lopez37, Francisco J Morón27, Gudny Eiriksdottir32, Eric B Larson36,38, Debby W Tsuang39, Duane Beekly40, Palmi V Jonsson31,41, Thomas H Mosley Jr42, Renee FAG de Bruijn43, Jerome I Rotter44, Michael A Nalls45, Albert Hofman33,34, Bruce M Psaty30,46. 1. Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 2118, USA 2. Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA 2118, USA 3. UMR744 Inserm, Lille, France 4. NHLBI Center for Cardiovascular Genomics, the Framingham Study, Framingham, MA 1702, USA 5. Department of Internal Medicine, Erasmus MC University Medical Center, Rotterdam, 3000 CA, the Netherlands (Uiterlinden) 6. Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus University Medical Center, PO Box 2040, 3000 CA Rotterdam, The Netherlands (Uiterlinden) 7. Netherlands Consortium for Healthy Aging (NCHA), Leiden, The Netherlands (Uiterlinden) 8. Department of Neurology, Erasmus MC University Medical Center, Rotterdam 3000 CA, the Netherlands 9. Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98101, USA 10. Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98101, USA 11. Group Health Research Institute, Group Health Cooperative, Seattle, WA 98101, USA 12. The Departments of Neurology and Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA 13. Departments of Medicine and Epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA 14. Department of Statistics, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand. 15. Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, School of Medicine, Seattle, WA 98101, USA 16. Laboratory of Epidemiology, Demography and Biometry, National Institute on Aging, Bethesda, MD, 20892, USA 17. The Icelandic Heart Association, Landspitali-University Hospital, Reykjavik, Iceland 18. Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, General Hospital, Hall, 6060, Austria 19. Department of Neurology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, 1090, Austria 20. Institute for Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Medical University of Graz, Graz, 8010, Austria 21. Department of Neurology and Psychiatry,General Hospital Linz, Austria, Linz, 4020, Austria 22 Clinic of Neurology, Medical University Innsbruck, Innsbruck, 6020, Austria 23. School of Public Health, University of Texas Health Sciences Center at Houston, Houston, TX 77030, USA 24. German Center for Neurodegenerative diseases (DZNE), Bonn, 53175, Germany 25. Institute of Molecular Medicine and School of Public Health Division of Epidemiology Human Genetics and Environmental Sciences, University of Texas Health Sciences Center at Houston, Houston, TX 77030, USA 26. Department of Neurology, Medical University Graz, Graz, Austria 27. Departamento de Genómica Estructural . Neocodex, Sevilla, 8029, Spain 28. Department of Epidemiology, Clinical Genetics and Neurology, Erasmus MC University Medical Center, Rotterdam, 3015 CE, the Netherlands 29. Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, 02118, USA 30. Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 98101, USA 31. University of Iceland, Faculty of Medicine, Reykjavik, Iceland 32. Icelandic Heart Association, Kopavogur, Iceland 33. Departments of Epidemiology, Neurology and Radiology, Erasmus MC University Medical Center, Rotterdam, 3015 CE, the Netherlands 34. Netherlands Consortium for Healthy Aging, Leiden, The Netherlands 35. Department of Epidemiology and Global Health, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98101, USA 36. Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA 37. Departments of Neurology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 USA 38. Group Health Research Institute, Group Health, Seattle, WA 98195, USA 39. Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA 40. National Alzheimer's Coordinating Center, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA 41. Landspitali University Hospital, Reykjavik, Iceland 42. Department of Medicine (Geriatrics), University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS 39216 USA 43. Departments of Neurology and Epidemiology, Erasmus MC University Medical Center, Rotterdam, 3015 CE, the Netherlands 44. Medical Genetics Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA 90048, USA 45. Laboratory of Neurogenetics, Intramural Research Program, National Institute on Aging, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA 46. Group Health Research Institute, Group Health Cooperative, Seattle, WA. 98101, USA 3. EADI consortium Jean-Charles Lambert1,2,3, Benjamin Grenier-Boley1,2,3, Florence Pasquier2,4, Vincent Deramecourt2,4, Nathalie Fiévet1,3,, Diana Zelenika5, Yoichiro Kamatani6, Marie-Thérèse Bihoreau5, Mark Lathrop5,6,7, Olivier Hanon8, Dominique Campion9, Claudine Berr10, Luc Letenneur11, Kristel Sleegers12,13, Lina Keller14, Pascale Barberger-Gateau11, Carole Dufouil11, David Wallon9, Jordi Clarimon15,16, Alberti Lleo15,16, Paola Bossù17, Gianfranco Spalletta17, Sandro Sorbi18,19, Florentino Sanchez Garcia20, Maria Candida Deniz Naranjo20, Paolo Bosco21, Daniela Galimberti22, Michelangelo Mancuso23, Patrizia Mecocci24, Maria Del Zompo25, Alberto Pilotto26, Maria Bullido27,28,29, Francesco Panza30, Paolo Caffarra31,32, Benedetta Nacmias18,19, Lars Lannfelt33, Martin Ingelsson33, Victoria Alvarez34, Cristina Razquin35, Pau Pastor35,36, Ignacio Mateo37, Eliecer Coto34, Onofre Combarros37, Hilkka Soininen38,39, Laura Fratiglioni14,40, Karolien Bettens12,13, Alexis Brice41,42, Didier Hannequin9, Karen Ritchie10,43, Mikko Hiltunen38,39, Jean-François Dartigues11,44, Christophe Tzourio45, Caroline Graff40,46, Annick Alpérovitch47, Anne Boland5, Marc Delépine5, Bruno Dubois48, Emmanuelle Duron49, Jacques Epelbaum50, Caroline Van Cauwenberghe12,51, Sebastiaan Engelborghs51,52, Rik Vandenberghe53,54, Peter P. De Deyn51,52, Raffaele Ferri55, Carmelo Romano55, Carlo Caltagirone56, Maria Donata Orfei56, Antonio Ciaramella56, Elio Scarpini57,58, Chiara Fenoglio57,58, Gabriele Siciliano23, Ubaldo Bonuccelli23, Silvia Bagnoli19,59, Laura Bracco19,59, Valentina Bessi19,59, Roberta Cecchetti60,61, Patrizia Bastiani60,61, Alessio Squassina62, Davide Seripa63, Ana Frank-García28,29,64, Isabel Sastre,28,29,65, Rafael Blesa16,66, Daniel Alcolea16,66, Marc Suárez-Calvet16,66, Pascual Sánchez-Juan37, Carmen Muñoz Fernandez67, Yolanda Aladro Benito67, Håkan Thonberg68, Charlotte Forsell46, Lena Lilius46, Anne Kinhult-Ståhlbom68, Vilmantas Giedraitis33, Lena Kilander33, Rose Marie Brundin33, Letizia Concari69,70, Seppo Helisalmi39,71, Anne Maria Koivisto39,71, Annakaisa Haapasalo39,71, Vincenzo Solfrizzi72, Vincenza Frisardi73, Jurg Ott74, Christine Van Broeckhoven12,13, Philippe Amouyel1,2,3,4,75. 1. Inserm, U744, Lille, 59000, France 2. Université Lille 2, Lille, 59000, France 3. Institut Pasteur de Lille, Lille, 59000, France 4. CNR-MAJ, Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire de Lille, Lille, 59000, France 5. Centre National de Genotypage, Institut Genomique, Commissariat à l'énergie Atomique, Evry, France 6. Fondation Jean Dausset, CEPH, Paris, France 7. McGill University and Génome Québec Innovation Centre, Montreal, Canada 8. University Paris Descartes, Sorbonne Paris V; Broca Hospital, Geriatrics department; Paris, France 9. CNR-MAJ; Inserm, U1079; Rouen University Hospital; 76031 France, Rouen, France 10. Inserm, U1061; Faculty of Medicine; Hôpital La Colombière; Montpellier, France 11. Inserm, U897; Victor Segalen University; F-33076, Bordeaux, France 12. Neurodegenerative Brain Diseases Group, Department of Molecular Genetics, VIB, Antwerp, Belgium 13. Department of Molecular Genetics, VIB, Laboratory of Neurogenetics, Institute Born-Bunge, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium 14. Aging Reasearch Center, Dept Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society, Karolinska Institutet and Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden 15. Neurology Department. IIB Sant Pau. Sant Pau Hospital. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain. 16. Center for Networker Biomedical Research in Neurodegenerative Diseases (CIBERNED), Barcelona, Spain. 17. Clinical and Behavioral Neurology, Fondazione Santa Lucia, Roma, Italy 18. NEUROFARBA Department of Neuroscience, Psychology, Drug Research and Child Health, University of Florence, Florence, Italy 19. Centro di Ricerca, Trasferimento e Alta Formazione DENOTHE, University of Florence, Florence, Italy 20. Department of Immunology, Hospital Universitario Dr. Negrin, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain 21. IRCCS Associazione Oasi Maria SS, Troina, Italy 22. University of Milan, Fondazione Cà Granda, IRCCS Ospedale Policlinico, Milan, Italy 23. Neurological Clinic, University of Pisa, Italy 24. Section of Gerontology and Geriatrics, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy 25. Section of Neuroscience and Clinical Pharmacology, Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy 26. Gerontology and Geriatrics Research Laboratory, I.R.C.C.S. Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza, San Giovanni Rotondo (FG), Italy 27. Centro de Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa (CSIC-UAM); Madrid, Spain 28. Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red sobre Enfermedades Neurodegenerativas (CIBERNED), Madrid, Spain 29. Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria “Hospital la Paz” (IdIPaz), Madrid, Spain 30. Departement of Geriatrics,Center for Aging Brain ,University of Bari, Bari, Italy 31. Department of Neuroscience-University of Parma, Parma, Italy 32. Center for Cognitive Disorders AUSL, Parma, Italy 33. Dept. of Public Health/Geriatrics, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden 34. Genetica molecular-Huca-Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain 35. Neurogenetics Laboratory, Division of Neurosciences, Center for Applied Medical Research, University of Navarra School of Medicine, Pamplona, Spain 36. CIBERNED, Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Neurodegenerativas, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Spain 37. Neurology Service and CIBERNED, "Marqués de Valdecilla" University Hospital (University of Cantabria and IFIMAV), Santander, Spain 38. Institute of Clinical Medicine - Neurology, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, 70211 Finland 39. Department of Neurology, Kuopio University Hospital, FIN-70211 Kuopio, Finland 40. Dept Geriatric Medicine, Genetics Unit, Karolinska University Hospital Huddinge, S14186 Stockholm 41. INSERM UMR_S975-CNRS UMR 7225, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Centre de recherche de l'Institut du Cerveau et de la Moëlle épinière-CRICM, Hôpital de la Salpêtrière, Paris France 42. AP-HP, Hôpital de la Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France 43. Imperial College, London 44. Centre de Mémoire de Ressources et de Recherche de Bordeaux, CHU de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France 45. Inserm, U708; Victor Segalen University; F-33076, Bordeaux, France 46. Karolinska Institutet, Dept Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society, KIADRC, Novum floor 5, S14186 Stockholm, Sweden 47. Inserm U708, Victor Segalen University, F-33076, Bordeaux, France 48. IM2A - CRicm-UMRS975, AP-HP, Hôpital de la Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France 49. CMRR Paris Sud Ile-de-France, service de gériatrie, Hôpital Broca, 54-56 rue Pascal, 75013 Paris 50. UMR 894 Inserm, Psychiatry and Neurosciences Center, Paris, France 51. Institute Born-Bunge, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium 52. Department of Neurology and Memory Clinic, Hospital Network Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium 53. Laboratory for Cognitive Neurology, Department of Neurology, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium 54. Department of Neurology and Memory Clinic, University Hospitals Leuven Gasthuisberg, Leuven, Belgium 55. IRCCS Associazione Oasi Maria SS, Troina, Italy 56. Clinical and Behavioral Neurology, Fondazione Santa Lucia, Roma ,Italy 57. University of Milan, Milan, Italy 58. Fondazione Cà Granda, IRCCS Ospedale Policlinico, Milan, Italy 59. Department of Neurological and Psychiatric Sciences, University of Florence, Florence, Italy 60. Section of Gerontology and Geriatrics, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine Perugia, Italy 61. University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy 62. Section of Neuroscience and Clinical Pharmacology, Department of Biomedical Science, University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy 63. Gerontology and Geriatrics Research Laboratory, I.R.C.C.S. Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza, San Giovanni Rotondo (FG), Italy 64. Neurology Service; Hospital Universitario La Paz (UAM), Madrid, Spain 65. Centro de Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa (CSIC-UAM), Madrid, Spain 66. Neurology Department. IIB Sant Pau. Sant Pau Hospital. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Barcelona, Spain. 67. Department of Neurology, Hospital Universitario Dr. Negrin, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain 68. Dept Geriatric Medicine, Genetics Unit, Karolinska University Hospital Huddinge, S-14186 Stockholm, Sweden 69. Department of Neuroscience-University of Parma-Italy, Parma, Italy 70. Center for Cognitive Disorders AUSL, Parma, Italy 71. Institute of Clinical Medicine - Neurology, University of Eastern Finland, FIN- 70211, Kuopio, Finland 72. Department of Geriatrics, Center for Aging Brain ,University of Bari, Bari, Italy 73. Department of Neurosciences and Sensory Organs, Aldo Moro University of Bari, Bari, Italy 74. Laboratory of Statistical Genetics, The Rockfeller University, 1230 York Avenue, New York, NY, 10065, USA 75. Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire de Lille, Lille, 59000, France. 4. GERAD consortium Jade Chapman1, Alexandra Stretton1, Angharad Morgan1, Patrick G Kehoe2, Christopher Medway3, Jenny Lord3, James Turton3, Nigel M Hooper4, Emma Vardy5, Jason D Warren6, Jonathan M Schott6, James Uphill7, Natalie Ryan6, Martin Rossor6,7, Yoav Ben-Shlomo8, Daniilidou Makrina9, Olymbia Gkatzima9, Michelle Lupton10, Maria Koutroumani9, Despoina Avramidou9, Antonia Germanou9, Dan Rujescu11, Steffi RiedelHeller12, Martin Dichgans13, Reiner Heun14, Heike Kölsch14, Britta Schürmann14, Christine Herold15, Dmitriy Drichel15, Per Hoffmann16, Johannes Kornhuber17, Wei Gu18, Thomas Feulner18, Hendrik van den Bussche19, Brian Lawlor20, Aoibhinn Lynch20, David Mann21, David A Smith22, Donald Warden22, Gordon Wilcock22, Isabella Heuser23, Jens Wiltfang24, Lutz Frölich25, Michael Hüll26, Kevin Mayo27, Gill Livingston28, Nicholas J Bass28, Hugh Gurling28, Andrew McQuillin28, Rhian Gwilliam29, Panagiotis Deloukas29, Ammar Al-Chalabi30, Christopher E Shaw30, Andrew B Singleton31, Rita Guerreiro31, Karl-Heinz Jöckel32, Norman Klopp33, H-Erich Wichmann33, Dennis W Dickson34, Neill R Graff-Radford34, Li Ma34, Gina Bisceglio34, Elizabeth Fisher35, Nick Warner36, Stuart Pickering-Brown37, Giancarlo Russo38, Nicola Jones1, Charlene Thomas1, Melanie L Dunstan1, Paul Hollingworth1, Carlos Cruchaga39, David Craig40, Janet A Johnston40, Simon Lovestone41, David C Rubinsztein42, Alison M Goate39, Michael Gill43, Kristelle Brown3, Bernadette McGuinness40, Stephen Todd40, Seth Love2, John Gallacher44, Anthony Bayer44, Magda Tsolaki45, Petra Proitsi41, John Collinge7, Nick C Fox6, John Hardy46, Robert Clarke47, Carol Brayne48, Fiona Matthews49, Susanne Moebus50, Harald Hampel51,52, Manuel Mayhaus53, Sabrina Pichler53, Minerva M Carrasquillo54, Fanggeng Zou54, Steven G Younkin54, Wei Gu55, Michael J Owen1, Michael C O'Donovan1, Simon Mead7, Peter Passmore40, Kevin Morgan3, John F Powell41, Matthias Riemenschneider55, Clive Holmes56,Lesley Jones1, Peter A Holmans1, Valentina Moskvina1, Julie Williams1. 1. Institute of Psychological Medicine and Clinical Neurosciences, MRC Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics & Genomics, Cardiff University, UK 2. University of Bristol Institute of Clinical Neurosciences, School of Clinical Sciences, Frenchay Hospital, Bristol, UK 3. Institute of Genetics, Queen's Medical Centre, University of Nottingham, UK. 4. Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, LIGHT Laboratories, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK. 5. Institute for Ageing and Health, Newcastle University, Biomedical Research Building, Campus for Ageing and Vitality, Newcastle upon Tyne. 6. Dementia Research Center, Department of Neurodegenerative Disease, UCL Institute of Neurology, London, UK. 7. MRC Prion Unit, Department of Neurodegenerative Disease, UCL Institute of Neurology, London, UK. 8. School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK 9. Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Despere 3, Thessaloniki, 54621, Greece 10. King's College London, Institute of Psychiatry, Department of Neuroscience, De Crespigny Park, Denmark Hill, London 11. Department of Psychiatry, University of Munich, Munich and University of Halle, Halle, Germany 12. Institute of Social Medicine, Occupational Health and Public Health, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany 13. Institute for Stroke and Dementia Research, Klinikum der Universität München, Munich, Germany and German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE, Munich), Munich, Germany 14. Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Bonn, Germany 15. Deutsches Zentrum für Neurodegenerative Erkrankungen (DZNE, Bonn), Bonn, Germany 16. Division of Medical Genetics, University Hospital and Department of Biomedicine, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland 17. Department of Psychiatry, University of Erlangen, Nürnberg, Germany 18. Dept. Of Psychaitry, University Hospital, Saarland, Germany 19. Institute of Primary Medical Care, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany 20. Mercer's Institute for Research on Aging, St. James Hospital and Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland 21. Clinical Neuroscience Research Group, Greater Manchester Neurosciences Centre, University of Manchester, Salford, UK 22. Oxford Project to Investigate Memory and Ageing (OPTIMA), University of Oxford, Level 4, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford OX3 9DU, UK 23. Department of Psychiatry, Charité, Berlin, Germany 24. LVR-Hospital Essen, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Duisburg-Essen, Germany 25. Central Institute of Mental Health, Medical Faculty Mannheim, University of Heidelberg, Germany. 26. Department of Psychiatry, University of Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt am Main, Germany 27. Departments of Psychiatry, Neurology and Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO 63110, US. 28. Department of Mental Health Sciences, University College London, UK. 29. The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK. 30. MRC Centre for Neurodegeneration Research, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, King’s College London, Institute of Psychiatry, London, SE5 8AF, UK. 31. Laboratory of Neurogenetics, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 20892, USA. 32. Institute for Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology, University Hospital of Essen, University Duisburg-Essen, Hufelandstr. 55, D-45147 Essen, Germany. 33. Institute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany 34. Department of Neuroscience, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Florida, 32224, USA 35. Department of Neurodegenerative Disease, UCL Institute of Neurology, London. 36. Somerset Partnership NHS Trust, Somerset, UK 37. Institute of Brain, Behaviour and Mental Health, Faculty of Human and Medical Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester UK 38. Functional Genomics Center Zurich, ETH/University of Zurich, Switzerland 39. Department of Psychiatry and Hope Center Program on Protein Aggregation and Neurodegeneration, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA 40. Ageing Group, Centre for Public Health, School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences, Queen's University Belfast, UK 41. King's College London, Institute of Psychiatry, Department of Neuroscience, De Crespigny Park, Denmark Hill, London 42. Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK 43. Mercer's Institute for Research on Aging, St. James Hospital and Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. 44. Institute of Primary Care and Public Health, Cardiff University, Neuadd Meirionnydd, University Hospital of Wales, Heath Park, Cardiff UK 45. Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Despere 3, Thessaloniki, 54621, Greece 46. Department of Molecular Neuroscience and Reta Lilla Weston Laboratories, Institute of Neurology, London, UK. 47. Oxford Healthy Aging Project (OHAP), Clinical Trial Service Unit, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK 48. Institute of Public Health, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK 49. MRC Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge, UK 50. Urban Epidemiology, Institute for Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology, University Hospital Essen, University Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany 51. Department of Psychiatry, University Hospital, Saarland 52. Department of Psychiatry, University of Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt am Main, Germany (H.H.) 53. Department of Psychiatry, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich, Germany 54. Department of Neuroscience, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville Florida 32224 55. Department of Psychiatry, University Hospital, Saarland 56. Division of Clinical Neurosciences, School of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK