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ArticleNeurobiology of disease2021

Small nucleolar RNAs in plasma extracellular vesicles and their discriminatory power as diagnostic biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease.

Nicholas F Fitz, Jiebiao Wang, M Ilyas Kamboh, Radosveta Koldamova, Iliya Lefterov

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Article in Neurobiology of disease, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 32 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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32 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 45 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Nicholas F FitzDepartment of Environmental & Occupational Health, School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, United States of America.
Jiebiao WangDepartment of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, United States of America.
M Ilyas KambohDepartment of Human Genetics, School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, United States of America.
Radosveta KoldamovaDepartment of Environmental & Occupational Health, School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, United States of America. Electronic address: radak@pitt.edu.
Iliya LefterovDepartment of Environmental & Occupational Health, School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, United States of America. Electronic address: iliyal@pitt.edu.
University of Pittsburgh · US

Funding

Research Education ComponentP30AG066468 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI HOWARD J AIZENSTEIN · 2020 to 2026
$29.4M
University of Kentucky Alzheimer's Disease Core Center - Biomarker CoreP30AG028383 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY · PI SCHMITT, FREDERICK · 2006 to 2020
$23.3M
Physical exercise and Blood-brain communication: exosomes, Klotho and choroid plexusR01AG066198 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI AMBROSIO, FABRISIA, KOLDAMOVA, RADOSVETA · 2020 to 2024
$3.8M
The interplay between Tau and ncRNAs – genomic and epigenomic clues to early AD pathogenesisR01AG077636 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI RADOSVETA KOLDAMOVA, ILIYA LEFTEROV · 2022 to 2026
$3.5M
APOE Orchestrated Molecular Signatures in Aging Brain and AD-the Contribution of APOE2R01AG057565 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI KOLDAMOVA, RADOSVETA, LEFTEROV, ILIYA · 2018 to 2022
$3.2M
Epigenetic and phenotypic effects of arsenic: impacts on cognition and ADR01ES024233 · NIEHS · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI KOLDAMOVA, RADOSVETA, LEFTEROV, ILIYA · 2014 to 2018
$2.6M
Age dependent APOE isoform specific effect on immune receptor mediated phagocytosis in brainRF1AG056371 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI KOLDAMOVA, RADOSVETA, LEFTEROV, ILIYA · 2017 to 2018
$2.3M
APOE orchestrated ''molecular signatures'' in aging brain and AD - the contribution of APOE2R56AG057565 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI KOLDAMOVA, RADOSVETA, LEFTEROV, ILIYA · 2017 to 2017
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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The clinical diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease, at its early stage, remains a difficult task. Advanced imaging technologies and laboratory assays to detect Aβ peptides Aβ42 and Aβ40, total and phosphorylated tau in CSF provide a set of biomarkers of developing AD brain pathology and facilitate the diagnostic process. The search for biofluid biomarkers, other than in CSF, and the development of biomarker assays have accelerated significantly and now represent the fastest-growing field in AD research. The goal of this study was to determine the differential enrichment of noncoding RNAs (ncRNAs) in plasma-derived extracellular vesicles (EV) of AD patients and Cognitively Normal controls (NC). Using RNA-seq, we profiled four significant classes of ncRNAs: miRNAs, snoRNAs, tRNAs, and piRNAs. We report a significant enrichment of SNORDs - a group of snoRNAs, in AD samples compared to NC. To verify the differential enrichment of two clusters of SNORDs - SNORD115 and SNORD116, localized on human chromosome 15q11-q13, we used plasma samples of an independent group of AD patients and NC. We applied ddPCR technique and identified SNORD115 and SNORD116 with a high discriminatory power to differentiate AD samples from NC. The results of our study present evidence that AD is associated with changes in the enrichment of SNORDs, transcribed from imprinted genomic loci, in plasma EV and provide a rationale to further explore the validity of those SNORDs as plasma biomarkers of AD.

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AgedAged, 80 and overAlzheimer DiseaseBiomarkersCase-Control StudiesExtracellular VesiclesFemaleHumansMaleRNA, Small NucleolarSensitivity and SpecificityBiomarkersRNA, Small NucleolarSNORD115 RNA, humanSNORD116 RNA, humanAlzheimer's diseaseDiagnostic biomarkersExtracellular vesiclesNon-coding RNAssnoRNA

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PMID34411703
PMCPMC9382696
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