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This association was validated using two independent datasets. The pattern includes thimet oligopeptidase (THOP1), which has a long and disputatious relationship with AD. It also spans solute carrier family 39 member 3 (SLC39A3) and small glutamine-rich tetratricopeptide repeat co-chaperone alpha (SGTA) and is upstream from DIRAS family GTPase 1 (DIRAS1). We utilized population data to observe the frequencies of this genetic pattern for 11 different ancestries and noted that it is highly common for Europeans and relatively infrequent for Africans. 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