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ArticleTranslational psychiatry2014

Transcriptome profiling of human hippocampus dentate gyrus granule cells in mental illness.

R Kohen, A Dobra, J H Tracy, E Haugen

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Article in Translational psychiatry, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 37 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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37citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

37 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 78 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

R KohenDepartment of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
A Dobra1] Department of Statistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA [2] Department of Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Systems, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA [3] Center for Statistics and The Social Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
J H TracyDepartment of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
E HaugenDepartment of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
University of Washington · US

Funding

Molecular Genetics and Gene Expression in Psychiatric DisordersK08MH076098 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI KOHEN, RUTH · 2007 to 2011
$871k
NIMH NIH HHS K08 MH076098NIMH NIH HHS K08MH076098
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This study is, to the best of our knowledge, the first application of whole transcriptome sequencing (RNA-seq) to cells isolated from postmortem human brain by laser capture microdissection. We investigated the transcriptome of dentate gyrus (DG) granule cells in postmortem human hippocampus in 79 subjects with mental illness (schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, major depression) and nonpsychiatric controls. We show that the choice of normalization approach for analysis of RNA-seq data had a strong effect on results; under our experimental conditions a nonstandard normalization method gave superior results. We found evidence of disrupted signaling by miR-182 in mental illness. This was confirmed using a novel method of leveraging microRNA genetic variant information to indicate active targeting. In healthy subjects and those with bipolar disorder, carriers of a high- vs those with a low-expressing genotype of miR-182 had different levels of miR-182 target gene expression, indicating an active role of miR-182 in shaping the DG transcriptome for those subject groups. By contrast, comparing the transcriptome between carriers of different genotypes among subjects with major depression and schizophrenia suggested a loss of DG miR-182 signaling in these conditions.

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Tissue BanksAdultAgedAged, 80 and overBipolar DisorderDentate GyrusFemaleGene Expression ProfilingGenotypeHumansLaser Capture MicrodissectionMajor Depressive DisorderMaleMicroRNAsMiddle AgedSchizophreniaMicroRNAsMirn182 microRNA, human

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PMID24594777
PMCPMC3966046
OpenAlexW2070240385

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