1. Division of Life Science, State Key Laboratory of Molecular Neuroscience and Molecular Neuroscience Center, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China

    Xiaopu Zhou, Yu Chen, Kin Y. Mok, Fanny C. Ip, Yuewen Chen, Nandita Mullapudi, Amy K. Y. Fu & Nancy Y. Ip

  2. Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Brain Science, Disease and Drug Development, HKUST Shenzhen Research Institute, 518057, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

    Yu Chen, Fanny C. Ip, Yuewen Chen, Amy K. Y. Fu & Nancy Y. Ip

  3. The Brain Cognition and Brain Disease Institute, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen-Hong Kong Institute of Brain Science-Shenzhen Fundamental Research Institutions, 518055, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

    Yu Chen & Yuewen Chen

  4. Department of Molecular Neuroscience, University College London Institute of Neurology, London, WC1N 3BG, UK

    Kin Y. Mok & John Hardy

  5. Therese Pei Fong Chow Research Centre for Prevention of Dementia, Division of Geriatrics, Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong, China

    Timothy C. Y. Kwok

  6. Gerald Choa Neuroscience Centre, Lui Che Woo Institute of Innovative Medicine, Therese Pei Fong Chow Research Centre for Prevention of Dementia, Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong, China

    Vincent C. T. Mok

  7. Department of Neurology, Huashan Hospital, Fudan University, 200040, Shanghai, China

    Qihao Guo

  8. Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA, 27599

    Paola Giusti-Rodríguez, Patrick F. Sullivan & Yun Li

  9. Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institute, SE-171-77, Stockholm, Sweden

    Patrick F. Sullivan

  10. Department of Psychiatry, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA, 27599

    Patrick F. Sullivan

  11. Department of Biostatistics and Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA, 27599

    Yun Li

  12. UC San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, 94143, USA

    Michael W. Weiner, Norbert Schuff, Howard J. Rosen, Bruce L. Miller, Thomas Neylan, Jacqueline Hayes & Shannon Finley

  13. UC San Diego, San Diego, CA, 92093, USA

    Paul Aisen, Leon Thal, James Brewer, Helen Vanderswag, Adam Fleisher, Melissa Davis & Rosemary Morrison

  14. Mayo Clinic, Rochester, NY, 14603, USA

    Ronald Petersen, Clifford R. Jack, Matthew Bernstein, Bret Borowski, Jeff Gunter, Matt Senjem, Prashanthi Vemuri, David Jones, Kejal Kantarci, Chad Ward, Sara S. Mason, Colleen S. Albers, David Knopman & Kris Johnson

  15. UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA

    William Jagust & Susan Landau

  16. UPenn, Philadelphia, PA, 9104, USA

    John Q. Trojanowski, Leslie M. Shaw, Virginia Lee, Magdalena Korecka, Michal Figurski, Steven E. Arnold, Jason H. Karlawish & David Wolk

  17. USC, Los Angeles, CA, 90089, USA

    Arthur W. Toga, Karen Crawford, Scott Neu, Lon S. Schneider, Sonia Pawluczyk, Mauricio Beccera, Liberty Teodoro & Bryan M. Spann

  18. UC Davis, Davis, CA, 95616, USA

    Laurel Beckett, Zaven Khachaturian, Danielle Harvey, Norbert Schuff, Evan Fletcher, Owen Carmichael, John Olichney & Charles DeCarli

  19. Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02115, USA

    Robert C. Green, Reisa A. Sperling, Keith A. Johnson, Gad Marshall, Meghan Frey, Barton Lane, Allyson Rosen & Jared Tinklenberg

  20. Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, 47405, USA

    Andrew J. Saykin, Tatiana M. Foroud, Li Shen, Kelley Faber, Sungeun Kim, Kwangsik Nho, Martin R. Farlow, Ann Marie Hake, Brandy R. Matthews, Scott Herring & Cynthia Hunt

  21. Washington University in St Louis, St Louis, MI, 63130, USA

    John Morris, Marcus Raichle, David Holtzman, Nigel J. Cairns, Erin Householder, Lisa Taylor-Reinwald, Beau Ances, Maria Carroll, Sue Leon, Mark A. Mintun, Stacy Schneider & Angela Oliver

  22. Prevent Alzheimer’s Disease 2020, Rockville, MD, 20850, USA

    Zaven Khachaturian & Lisa Raudin

  23. Siemens, 80333, Munich, Germany

    Greg Sorensen

  24. University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 15260, USA

    Lew Kuller, Oscar L. Lopez & MaryAnn Oakley

  25. Weill Cornell Medical College, Cornell University, New York City, NY, 10065, USA

    Steven Paul, Norman Relkin, Gloria Chaing & Lisa Raudin

  26. Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, Bronx, NY, 10461, USA

    Peter Davies

  27. AD Drug Discovery Foundation, New York City, NY, 10019, USA

    Howard Fillit & Chet Mathis

  28. Acumen Pharmaceuticals, Livermore, CA, 94551, USA

    Franz Hefti

  29. Northwestern University, Evanston and Chicago, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA

    Marek M. Mesulam, Diana Kerwin, Kristine Lipowski, Chuang-Kuo Wu, Nancy Johnson & Jordan Grafman

  30. National Institute of Mental Health, Rockville, MD, 20852, USA

    William Potter

  31. Brown University, Providence, RI, 02912, USA

    Peter Snyder

  32. Eli Lilly, Indianapolis, IN, 46225, USA

    Adam Schwartz

  33. University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 98195, USA

    Tom Montine, Ronald G. Thomas, Michael Donohue, Sarah Walter, Devon Gessert, Tamie Sather, Gus Jiminez & Elaine R. Peskind

  34. UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, USA

    Paul Thompson, Liana Apostolova, Kathleen Tingus, Ellen Woo, Daniel H. S. Silverman, Po H. Lu, George Bartzokis, Adrian Preda & Dana Nguyen

  35. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, USA

    Robert A. Koeppe, Judith L. Heidebrink & Joanne L. Lord

  36. University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, 84112, USA

    Norm Foster, Pierre Tariot & Stephanie Reeder

  37. Banner Alzheimer’s Institute, Phoenix, AZ, 85006, USA

    Eric M. Reiman, Kewei Chen & Adam Fleisher

  38. UC Irvine, Irvine, CA, 92697, USA

    Steven G. Potkin, Ruth A. Mulnard, Gaby Thai & Catherine McAdams-Ortiz

  39. National Institute on Aging, Bethesda, MD, 20892, USA

    Neil Buckholtz & John Hsiao

  40. Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, 21218, USA

    Marylyn Albert, Chiadi Onyike, Daniel D’Agostino, Stephanie Kielb & Donna M. Simpson

  41. Richard Frank Consulting, Washington, 20001, USA

    Richard Frank

  42. Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR, 97239, USA

    Jeffrey Kaye, Joseph Quinn, Betty Lind, Raina Carter & Sara Dolen

  43. Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, 77030, USA

    Rachelle S. Doody, Javier Villanueva-Meyer, Munir Chowdhury, Susan Rountree, Mimi Dang, Yaakov Stern, Lawrence S. Honig & Karen L. Bell

  44. University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL, 35233, USA

    Daniel Marson, Randall Griffith, David Clark, David Geldmacher, John Brockington & Erik Roberson

  45. Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York City, NY, 10029, USA

    Hillel Grossman & Effie Mitsis

  46. Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, 60612, USA

    Leyla de Toledo-Morrell, Raj C. Shah, Debra Fleischman & Konstantinos Arfanakis

  47. Wien Center, Miami, FL, 33140, USA

    Ranjan Duara, Daniel Varon, Maria T. Greig & Peggy Roberts

  48. New York University, New York City, NY, 10003, USA

    James E. Galvin, Brittany Cerbone, Christina A. Michel, Henry Rusinek, Mony J. de Leon, Lidia Glodzik & Susan De Santi

  49. Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, 27710, USA

    P Murali Doraiswamy, Jeffrey R. Petrella, Terence Z. Wong & Olga James

  50. University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, 0506, USA

    Charles D. Smith, Greg Jicha, Peter Hardy, Partha Sinha, Elizabeth Oates & Gary Conrad

  51. University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, 14642, USA

    Anton P. Porsteinsson

  52. University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, Dallas, TX, 75390, USA

    Bonnie S. Goldstein, Kim Martin, Kelly M. Makino, M Saleem Ismail, Connie Brand, Kyle Womack, Dana Mathews, Mary Quiceno, Ramon Diaz-Arrastia, Richard King, Myron Weiner, Kristen Martin-Cook & Michael DeVous

  53. Emory University, Atlanta, GA, 30322, USA

    Allan I Levey, James J. Lah & Janet S. Cellar

  54. Medical Center, University of Kansas, Kansas City, KS, 66103, USA

    Jeffrey M. Burns, Heather S. Anderson & Russell H. Swerdlow

  55. Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL, 32224, USA

    Neill R. Graff-Radford, Francine Parfitt, Tracy Kendall & Heather Johnson

  56. Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, 06510, USA

    Christopher H. van Dyck, Richard E. Carson & Martha G. MacAvoy

  57. McGill University/Montreal-Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, QC, H3T 1E2, Canada

    Howard Chertkow, Howard Bergman & Chris Hosein

  58. University of British Columbia Clinic for AD and Related Disorders, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z3, Canada

    Ging-Yuek Robin Hsiung, Howard Feldman, Benita Mudge & Michele Assaly

  59. Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health, Las Vegas, NV, 89106, USA

    Charles Bernick & Donna Munic

  60. St Joseph’s Health Care, London, ON, N6A 4V2, Canada

    Andrew Kertesz, John Rogers, Dick Trost, Stephen Pasternak, Irina Rachinsky & Dick Drost

  61. Premiere Research Institute, Palm Beach Neurology, Miami, FL, 33407, USA

    Carl Sadowsky, Walter Martinez & Teresa Villena

  62. Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC, 20007, USA

    Raymond Scott Turner, Kathleen Johnson & Brigid Reynolds

  63. Banner Sun Health Research Institute, Sun City, AZ, 85351, USA

    Marwan N. Sabbagh, Christine M. Belden, Sandra A. Jacobson, Sherye A. Sirrel & Neil Kowall

  64. Boston University, Boston, MA, 02215, USA

    Ronald Killiany, Andrew E. Budson, Alexander Norbash & Patricia Lynn Johnson

  65. Howard University, Washington, DC, 20059, USA

    Joanne Allard

  66. Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, 20002, USA

    Alan Lerner, Paula Ogrocki & Leon Hudson

  67. Neurological Care of CNY, Liverpool, NY, 13088, USA

    Smita Kittur

  68. Parkwood Hospital, London, ON, N6C 0A7, Canada

    Michael Borrie, T-Y. Lee & Rob Bartha

  69. University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, 53706, USA

    Sterling Johnson, Sanjay Asthana, Cynthia M. Carlsson, J Jay Fruehling & Sandra Harding

  70. Dent Neurologic Institute, Amherst, NY, 14226, USA

    Vernice Bates, Horacio Capote & Michelle Rainka

  71. Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 43210, USA

    Douglas W. Scharre, Maria Kataki, Anahita Adeli, Eric C. Petrie & Gail Li

  72. Albany Medical College, Albany, NY, 12208, USA

    Earl A. Zimmerman, Dzintra Celmins & Alice D. Brown

  73. Olin Neuropsychiatry Research Center, Hartford Hospital, Hartford, CT, 06114, USA

    Godfrey D. Pearlson, Karen Blank & Karen Anderson

  74. Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH, 03766, USA

    Robert B. Santulli, Tamar J. Kitzmiller & Eben S. Schwartz

  75. Wake Forest University Health Sciences, Winston-Salem, NC, 27157, USA

    Kaycee M. Sink, Jeff D. Williamson, Pradeep Garg & Franklin Watkins

  76. Rhode Island Hospital, Providence, RI, 02903, USA

    Brian R. Ott, Henry Querfurth & Geoffrey Tremont

  77. Butler Hospital, Providence, RI, 02906, USA

    Stephen Salloway, Paul Malloy & Stephen Correia

  78. Medical University South Carolina, Charleston, SC, 29425, USA

    Jacobo Mintzer, Kenneth Spicer, David Bachman & Dino Massoglia

  79. Nathan Kline Institute, Orangeburg, NY, 10962, USA

    Nunzio Pomara, Raymundo Hernando & Antero Sarrael

  80. University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City, IA, 52242, USA

    Susan K. Schultz, Laura L. Boles Ponto, Hyungsub Shim & Karen Elizabeth Smith

  81. USF Health Byrd Alzheimer’s Institute, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, 33613, USA

    Amanda Smith, Kristin Fargher & Balebail Ashok Raj

  82. Department of Defense, Arlington, VA, 22350, USA

    Karl Friedl

  83. Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA

    Jerome A. Yesavage, Joy L. Taylor & Ansgar J. Furst

X.Z., K.Y.M., A.K.F., Y.L. and N.Y.I. conceived of the project; Y.C., T.C.K., V.C.M., Q.G. and F.C.I. organized patient recruitment and sample collection; X.Z., Y.C., Y-W.C. and N.M. performed the experiments; X.Z., K.Y.M. and Y.L. set up the data-processing pipelines; X.Z., Y.C., K.Y.M., J.H., Y.L, A.K.F. and N.Y.I. analyzed the data; X.Z., A.K.F., Y.L. and N.Y.I. wrote the manuscript; P.G-R., P.F.S. and the Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative contributed part of the study data.