GBM6330E — Final Project

Diversity
in Alzheimer's Disease
Research

Inclusion of diversity in the prevention and diagnosis of neurodegenerative diseases — the example of Alzheimer's disease.

An interactive, reproducible, open-science platform linking datasets, atlases, harmonisation pipelines, and an original reproducibility audit.

31+
Documented datasets
6
World regions covered
20+
Countries represented
3
Open sub-repositories
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Why diversity matters in AD research

The 2024 Lancet Commission identified 14 modifiable risk factors accounting for ~45% of dementia cases worldwide — yet the majority of evidence comes from high-income, predominantly European-descent cohorts. Genetic, environmental, and sex-specific risk factors remain poorly characterised in underrepresented populations.

Livingston et al., The Lancet 2024 · doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(24)01296-0