Notably, AD risk variants in triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells 2 (TREM2) (Guerreiro et al., 2013; Jonsson et al., 2013) and myeloid cell surface antigen CD33 (Bradshaw et al., 2013) particularly highlight the importance of immune activation in clearing Aβ from the brain (Efthymiou and Goate, 2017). Here, CD33 is linked to Alzheimer disease.