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ArticleCell reports2025

A single-cell, long-read, isoform-resolved case-control study of FTD reveals cell-type-specific and broad splicing dysregulation in human brain.

Natan Belchikov, Wen Hu, Li Fan, Anoushka Joglekar, Yi He, Careen Foord, Julien Jarroux, Justine Hsu, Shaun Pollard, Sadaf Amin and 20 more

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8 citing papers in PubMed.

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  4. TDP-43: [GU]-ardian of the transcriptome.Molecular neurodegeneration · 2026
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  5. cGAS inhibition delays TDP-43-driven ALS Pathogenesis.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026
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  7. Long-Read Sequencing Reveals RNA Splicing Complexity in Human Diseases.Computational and structural biotechnology journal · 2026
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30 authors.

Natan BelchikovFeil Family Brain and Mind Research Institute, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA; Center for Neurogenetics, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA; Physiology, Biophysics & Systems Biology Program, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
Wen HuFeil Family Brain and Mind Research Institute, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA; Center for Neurogenetics, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
Li FanFeil Family Brain and Mind Research Institute, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA; Helen and Robert Appel Alzheimer's Disease Research Institute, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
Anoushka JoglekarFeil Family Brain and Mind Research Institute, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA; Center for Neurogenetics, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
Yi HeFeil Family Brain and Mind Research Institute, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA; Center for Neurogenetics, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
Careen FoordFeil Family Brain and Mind Research Institute, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA; Center for Neurogenetics, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
Julien JarrouxFeil Family Brain and Mind Research Institute, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA; Center for Neurogenetics, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
Justine HsuFeil Family Brain and Mind Research Institute, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA; Center for Neurogenetics, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
Shaun PollardFeil Family Brain and Mind Research Institute, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA; Center for Neurogenetics, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA; Helen and Robert Appel Alzheimer's Disease Research Institute, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
Sadaf AminFeil Family Brain and Mind Research Institute, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA; Helen and Robert Appel Alzheimer's Disease Research Institute, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
Andrey D PrjibelskiDepartment of Computer Science, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.
Shiaoching GongFeil Family Brain and Mind Research Institute, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA; Helen and Robert Appel Alzheimer's Disease Research Institute, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
Sai ZhangDepartment of Epidemiology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA; Department of Genetics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA; Stanford Center for Genomics and Personalized Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA.
Roberta GiannelliDepartment of Molecular and Cellular Neurobiology, Center for Neurogenomics and Cognitive Research, Amsterdam Neuroscience, VU Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Harro SeelaarDepartment of Neurology and Alzheimer Center Erasmus MC, Erasmus MC University Medical Centre, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
Alexandru I TomescuDepartment of Computer Science, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.
M Elizabeth RossFeil Family Brain and Mind Research Institute, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA; Center for Neurogenetics, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
Alissa Nana LiWeill Institute for Neurosciences, Memory and Aging Center, Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
Lea T GrinbergWeill Institute for Neurosciences, Memory and Aging Center, Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA; Department of Pathology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
Salvatore SpinaWeill Institute for Neurosciences, Memory and Aging Center, Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
Bruce L MillerWeill Institute for Neurosciences, Memory and Aging Center, Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
Johnathan Cooper-KnockSheffield Institute for Translational Neuroscience (SITraN), University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK.
Michael P SnyderDepartment of Genetics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA; Stanford Center for Genomics and Personalized Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA.
William W SeeleyWeill Institute for Neurosciences, Memory and Aging Center, Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA; Department of Pathology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
Priyanka Rao-RuizDepartment of Molecular and Cellular Neurobiology, Center for Neurogenomics and Cognitive Research, Amsterdam Neuroscience, VU Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Sabine SpijkerDepartment of Molecular and Cellular Neurobiology, Center for Neurogenomics and Cognitive Research, Amsterdam Neuroscience, VU Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
August B SmitDepartment of Molecular and Cellular Neurobiology, Center for Neurogenomics and Cognitive Research, Amsterdam Neuroscience, VU Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Claire D ClellandWeill Institute for Neurosciences, Memory and Aging Center, Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
Li GanFeil Family Brain and Mind Research Institute, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA; Helen and Robert Appel Alzheimer's Disease Research Institute, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA. Electronic address: lig2033@med.cornell.edu.
Hagen U TilgnerFeil Family Brain and Mind Research Institute, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA; Center for Neurogenetics, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA. Electronic address: hagen.u.tilgner@gmail.com.

Funding

TDP-43 Loss-of-Function: Biology to BiomarkersP01AG019724 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI Jennifer Merrilees · 2002 to 2026
$67.2M
Research Education ComponentP30AG062422 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI Katherine P Rankin · 2019 to 2026
$36.9M
PrPSc SPECIFIC INTERACTION WITH NOVEL PrP-Fc FUSION PROTEINSP50AG023501 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI MILLER, BRUCE L · 2004 to 2018
$27.1M
Project 3: Autophagy dysfunction and neuronal activity in FTDU54NS100717 · NINDS · WEILL MEDICAL COLL OF CORNELL UNIV · PI COPPOLA, GIOVANNI · 2016 to 2020
$10.8M
Study of Selective Cell and System Vulnerability in Alzheimer's DiseaseR01AG079291 · NIA · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI Li Gan, Yun Li · 2023 to 2026
$5.4M
cGAS inhibitors for Alzheimer's disease treatmentR01AG074541 · NIA · WEILL MEDICAL COLL OF CORNELL UNIV · PI GAN, LI, SINHA, SUBHASH C · 2021 to 2025
$4.2M
Maladaptive antiviral pathways in Alzheimer's diseaseR01AG072758 · NIA · WEILL MEDICAL COLL OF CORNELL UNIV · PI GAN, LI · 2021 to 2025
$4.1M
Integrative Single Cell isoform and chromatin accessibility Mapping of Chronic Opioid Exposure in Cognitive Brain Areas in HIVU01DA053625 · NIDA · WEILL MEDICAL COLL OF CORNELL UNIV · PI MILNER, TERESA A, NDHLOVU, LISHOMWA C · 2021 to 2025
$4.0M
Tri-Institutional PhD Program in Computational Biology & MedicineT32GM132083 · NIGMS · WEILL MEDICAL COLL OF CORNELL UNIV · PI Doron Betel, Iman Hajirasouliha · 2020 to 2026
$3.6M
Tau acetylation in Alzheimer's diseaseR01AG054214 · NIA · WEILL MEDICAL COLL OF CORNELL UNIV · PI GAN, LI · 2017 to 2021
$3.3M
Multiome measurements connecting transcription start sites at single-nucleotide resolution, DNA methylation and open chromatin status to splicing outcome across single cells in health and diseaseR35GM152101 · NIGMS · WEILL MEDICAL COLL OF CORNELL UNIV · PI HAGEN ULRICH TILGNER · 2024 to 2026
$1.7M
Single cell isoform expression across mouse brain regions and developmentRF1MH121267 · NIMH · WEILL MEDICAL COLL OF CORNELL UNIV · PI TILGNER, HAGEN ULRICH · 2019 to 2019
$1.5M
NIA NIH HHS P01 AG019724NIA NIH HHS P30 AG062422NIA NIH HHS P50 AG023501NIA NIH HHS R01 AG054214NIA NIH HHS R01 AG072758NIA NIH HHS R01 AG074541NIA NIH HHS R01 AG079291NIDA NIH HHS T32 DA039080NIDA NIH HHS U01 DA053625NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM152101NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM132083NIMH NIH HHS RF1 MH121267NINDS NIH HHS U54 NS100717
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Progranulin-deficient frontotemporal dementia (GRN-FTD) is a major cause of familial FTD with TAR DNA-binding protein 43 (TDP-43) pathology, which is linked to exon dysregulation. However, little is known about this dysregulation in glial and neuronal cells. Here, using splice-junction-covering enrichment probes, we introduce single-nuclei long-read RNA sequencing 2 (SnISOr-Seq2), targeting 3,630 high-interest genes without loss of precision, and complete the first single-cell, long-read-resolved case-control study for neurodegeneration. Exons affected by FTD-associated skipping are shorter than those whose inclusion is increased. Up to 30% of cell-(sub)type-specific splicing dysregulation is masked by other cell types or cortical layers. Surprisingly, strong splicing dysregulation events can occur in select but not all cell types. In some cases, a cell type switches in FTD to the splicing pattern of a different cell type. In addition, in separate GRN-FTD samples, the more FTD-prone frontal cortex exhibits more FTD-associated splicing patterns than the occipital cortex. Our methodologies are widely applicable to brain and other diseases.

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BrainFrontotemporal DementiaRNA SplicingSingle-Cell AnalysisCase-Control StudiesExonsFemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedNeuronsProgranulinsProtein IsoformsProgranulinsProtein IsoformsCP: Neurosciencefrontotemporal dementiafrontotemporal lobar degenerationlong readneurodegenerationprogranulinRNA isoformsingle cellsingle nucleussplicingTDP-43

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