SynthesisActa neuropathologica communications2014
Integrated multi-cohort transcriptional meta-analysis of neurodegenerative diseases.
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68 citing papers in PubMed, 10 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 95 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Comprehensive multi-cohort transcriptional meta-analysis of muscle diseases identifies a signature of disease severity.Scientific reports · 2022Pooled it
- Differentially Expressed miRNAs in Age-Related Neurodegenerative Diseases: A Meta-Analysis.Genes · 2022Pooled it
- Systematic review and meta-analysis of human transcriptomics reveals neuroinflammation, deficient energy metabolism, and proteostasis failure across neurodegeneration.Neurobiology of disease · 2021Pooled it
- Genes associated with body weight gain and feed intake identified by meta-analysis of the mesenteric fat from crossbred beef steers.PloS one · 2020Pooled it
- Meta-Analysis of Gene Expression Changes in the Blood of Patients with Mild Cognitive Impairment and Alzheimer's Disease Dementia.International journal of molecular sciences · 2019Pooled it
- Meta-analysis of transcriptomic changes in optic nerve injury and neurodegenerative models reveals a fundamental response to injury throughout the central nervous system.Molecular vision · 2017Pooled it
- Genome-wide expression for diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis: a multicohort analysis.The Lancet. Respiratory medicine · 2016Pooled it
- Integrated, Multi-cohort Analysis Identifies Conserved Transcriptional Signatures across Multiple Respiratory Viruses.Immunity · 2015Pooled it
- Induction of a common microglia gene expression signature by aging and neurodegenerative conditions: a co-expression meta-analysis.Acta neuropathologica communications · 2015Pooled it
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- Plasma-Derived miRNAs as Fluid Biomarkers to Differentiate Alzheimer's and Frontotemporal Dementia.Current issues in molecular biology · 2026Article
- GRACKLE: an interpretable matrix factorization approach for biomedical representation learning.Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) · 2025Article
- Uncovering New Therapeutic Targets for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and Neurological Diseases Using Real-World Data.Clinical pharmacology and therapeutics · 2025Article
- Integrated Bioinformatics-Based Identification and Validation of Neuroinflammation-Related Hub Genes in Primary Open-Angle Glaucoma.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Article
- Investigation of the Circular Transcriptome in Alzheimer's Disease Brain.Journal of molecular neuroscience : MN · 2024Article
- In vivo validation of late-onset Alzheimer's disease genetic risk factors.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2024Article
- Management of the Brain: Essential Oils as Promising Neuroinflammation Modulator in Neurodegenerative Diseases.Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
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Abstract
introductionNeurodegenerative diseases share common pathologic features including neuroinflammation, mitochondrial dysfunction and protein aggregation, suggesting common underlying mechanisms of neurodegeneration. We undertook a meta-analysis of public gene expression data for neurodegenerative diseases to identify a common transcriptional signature of neurodegeneration.
resultsUsing 1,270 post-mortem central nervous system tissue samples from 13 patient cohorts covering four neurodegenerative diseases, we identified 243 differentially expressed genes, which were similarly dysregulated in 15 additional patient cohorts of 205 samples including seven neurodegenerative diseases. This gene signature correlated with histologic disease severity. Metallothioneins featured prominently among differentially expressed genes, and functional pathway analysis identified specific convergent themes of dysregulation. MetaCore network analyses revealed various novel candidate hub genes (e.g. STAU2). Genes associated with M1-polarized macrophages and reactive astrocytes were strongly enriched in the meta-analysis data. Evaluation of genes enriched in neurons revealed 70 down-regulated genes, over half not previously associated with neurodegeneration. Comparison with aging brain data (3 patient cohorts, 221 samples) revealed 53 of these to be unique to neurodegenerative disease, many of which are strong candidates to be important in neuropathogenesis (e.g. NDN, NAP1L2). ENCODE ChIP-seq analysis predicted common upstream transcriptional regulators not associated with normal aging (REST, RBBP5, SIN3A, SP2, YY1, ZNF143, IKZF1). Finally, we removed genes common to neurodegeneration from disease-specific gene signatures, revealing uniquely robust immune response and JAK-STAT signaling in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
conclusionsOur results implicate pervasive bioenergetic deficits, M1-type microglial activation and gliosis as unifying themes of neurodegeneration, and identify numerous novel genes associated with neurodegenerative processes.
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