Divergent trajectories of brain ageing across the seventh decade predict AD pathology in a UK population-based birth cohort

James Groves, Hamilton Se-Hwee Oh, Amelia Farinas, Veronica Augustina Bot, Dylan M Williams, Andrew Wong, William Coath, Ashvini Keshavan, Patricia Moran-Losada, Sarah-Naomi James, Marcus Richards, Jennifer M Nicholas, Alina Isakova, Tony Wyss-Coray, Jonathan M Schott,

BACKGROUND: Ageing is the strongest risk factor for Alzheimer's disease (AD), but the molecular mechanisms underpinning this link are not established. In an identically aged birth cohort, we: 1) tracked proteomic brain ageing trajectories across the seventh decade; 2) tested associations between ageing trajectories and AD pathology; 3) identified which individual proteins influenced associations.