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ReviewCurrent opinion in neurobiology2020

The aging transcriptome: read between the lines.

Anabel Perez-Gomez, Joel N Buxbaum, Michael Petrascheck

Abstract readReview
In one paragraph

Review in Current opinion in neurobiology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 32 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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32citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

32 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  5. Cellular Senescence of Patient-derived Fibroblasts Reveals the Mid-old Stage as a Critical Window for Transcriptomic Signatures Linked to Alzheimer's Disease Biomarkers and Classification.Clinical psychopharmacology and neuroscience : the official scientific journal of the Korean College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2026
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  11. A novel information-theoretic approach reveals loss of effective biomolecular communication in aging muscle cells.The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences · 2025
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  20. Multiomics of Aging and Aging-Related Diseases.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Anabel Perez-GomezDepartment of Molecular Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute, 10550 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA, 92037, USA; Department of Neuroscience, The Scripps Research Institute, 10550 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA, 92037, USA.
Joel N BuxbaumDepartment of Molecular Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute, 10550 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA, 92037, USA; Protego Biopharma, 3210 Merryfield Row, San Diego, CA 92121, USA.
Michael PetrascheckDepartment of Molecular Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute, 10550 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA, 92037, USA; Department of Neuroscience, The Scripps Research Institute, 10550 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA, 92037, USA. Electronic address: pscheck@scripps.edu.

Funding

Modulation of Sensory Perception to Treat Age Related DiseaseDP2OD008398 · OD · SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE, THE · PI PETRASCHECK, MICHAEL · 2011 to 2011
$2.8M
Mechanisms of mRNA translation that modulate protein aggregationR21NS107951 · NINDS · SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE, THE · PI PETRASCHECK, MICHAEL · 2018 to 2019
$532k
NIH HHS DP2 OD008398NINDS NIH HHS R21 NS107951
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The increasing sophistication of gene expression technologies has given rise to the idea that aging could be understood by analyzing transcriptomes. Mapping trajectories of gene expression changes in aging organisms, across different tissues and brain regions has provided insights on how biological functions change with age. However, recent publications suggest that transcriptional regulation itself deteriorates with age. Loss of transcriptional regulation will lead to non-regulated gene expression changes, but current analysis strategies were not designed to disentangle mixtures of regulated and non-regulated changes. Disentangling transcriptional data to distinguish adaptive, regulatory changes, from those that are the consequence of the age-associated deterioration is likely to create an analytical challenge but promises to unlock yet poorly understood aspects of many age-associated transcriptomes.

Indexed as

Gene Expression RegulationTranscriptomeBrainGene Expression Profiling

Identifiers

PMID32563038
PMCPMC7484127

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