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Longitudinal Repeatome Remodeling in Peripheral Blood Following Parkinson's Disease Diagnosis.

Jerzy K Kulski, Sulev Koks

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Jerzy K KulskiSchool of Biomedical Science, Discipline of Microbiology and Immunology, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-9789-245X
Sulev KoksPersonalised Medicine Centre, Health Futures Institute, Murdoch University, Perth, WA 6150, Australia.ORCID 0000-0001-6087-6643

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Michael J. Fox Foundation 18213Perron Institute for Neurological and Translational Science 092018Shake It Up Australia 18213The Multiple Sclerosis Society of Western Australia 032022
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Abstract

BACKGROUND/

objectivesParkinson's disease (PD) is associated with systemic molecular alterations that extend beyond the central nervous system, including changes in peripheral blood transcriptomic profiles. While prior studies have focused predominantly on coding-gene expression, the longitudinal behavior of the peripheral blood repeatome following clinical diagnosis remains poorly characterized. Here, we investigated temporal remodeling of repetitive-element transcription over 36 months post-diagnosis by integrating repeat subfamily- and locus-specific analyses.

methodsRepeatome expression was quantified using SalmonTE and DESeq2 in peripheral blood RNA-seq data from 1560 PD and control individuals at diagnostic baseline (BL) and four follow-up visits (6, 12, 24, and 36 months). Differential expression was assessed at the subfamily level, with additional locus-specific validation in a representative subset.

resultsA total of 259 repeat subfamilies were differentially expressed (padj < 0.05), of which 224 (86.5%) were already detected at baseline. Enrichment of differential expression was significantly higher at baseline than at later visits (odds ratio = 30.9,

conclusionsPeripheral blood repeatome expression differs between PD and control groups, with the dominant signal established at clinical diagnosis and modest longitudinal modulation thereafter. Integration of locus-level analysis indicates that subfamily level patterns arise from discrete genomic events rather than uniform regulation. These findings support a model of systemic, immune-associated transcriptomic remodeling in circulating blood cells and position the peripheral repeatome as a dynamic framework for biomarker discovery and future mechanistic investigation.

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Parkinson DiseaseRepetitive Sequences, Nucleic AcidTranscriptomeAgedBiomarkersFemaleGene Expression ProfilingGene Expression RegulationHumansLongitudinal StudiesMaleMiddle AgedBiomarkersimmune regulationlongitudinal biomarkersParkinson diseaseperipheral blood repeat transcriptomicsrepeatomesmall RNA pseudogenestransposable elements

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PMID42195038
PMCPMC13206192

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