Systematic analysis and biomarker study for Alzheimer’s disease

Li, Xinzhong, Wang, Haiyan, Long, Jintao, Pan, Genhua, He, Taigang, Anichtchik, Oleg, Belshaw, Robert, Albani, Diego, Edison, Paul, Green, Elaine K. and Scott, James (2018) Systematic analysis and biomarker study for Alzheimer’s disease. Scientific Reports, 8 (17394). ISSN 2045-2322

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Abstract

Revealing the relationship between dysfunctional genes in blood and brain tissues from patients with Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) will help us to understand the pathology of this disease. In this study, we conducted the first such large systematic analysis to identify differentially expressed genes (DEGs) in blood samples from 245 AD cases, 143 mild cognitive impairment (MCI) cases, and 182 healthy control subjects, and then compare these with DEGs in brain samples. We evaluated our findings using two independent AD blood datasets and performed a gene-based genome-wide association study to identify potential novel risk genes. We identified 789 and 998 DEGs common to both blood and brain of AD and MCI subjects respectively, over 77% of which had the same regulation directions across tissues and disease status, including the known ABCA7, and the novel TYK2 and TCIRG1. A machine learning classification model containing NDUFA1, MRPL51, and RPL36AL, implicating mitochondrial and ribosomal function, was discovered which discriminated between AD patients and controls with 85.9% of area under the curve and 78.1% accuracy (sensitivity = 77.6%, specificity = 78.9%). Moreover, our findings strongly suggest that mitochondrial dysfunction, NF-κB signalling and iNOS signalling are important dysregulated pathways in AD pathogenesis.

Item Type:	Article
Official URL:	https://www.nature.com/srep/
Additional Information:	© 2018 Springer Nature Publishing AG
Divisions:	Methodology
Subjects:	R Medicine > RB Pathology
Date Deposited:	12 Dec 2018 12:55
Last Modified:	20 Feb 2024 03:06
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/91279

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