The inheritance of the most common TREM2 variant, R47H (arginine to histidine at position 47), impairs ligand binding and confers a markedly increased risk for developing late-onset AD [17,18] and other neurodegenerative diseases, such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, frontotemporal dementia, and PD [19,20,21]. Here, TREM2 is linked to neurodegenerative disease.