MAPT and Alzheimer disease: Finally, we observed that only in AD patients, but not in normal controls or mild cognitive impairment (MCI) individuals, TREML2 rs3747742 exhibited a strong association with CSF total-tau levels at baseline (β = -22.1210, p = 0.0166) and 4-year follow-up (β = -0.3961, p = 0.0115).