title: A study of small RNAs from cerebral neocortex of pathology-verified Alzheimer's disease, dementia with lewy bodies, hippocampal sclerosis, frontotemporal lobar dementia, and non-demented human controls.
abstract: MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small (20-22 nucleotides) regulatory non-coding RNAs that strongly influence gene expression. Most prior studies addressing the role of miRNAs in neurodegenerative diseases (NDs) have focused on individual diseases such as Alzheimer's disease (AD), making disease-to-disease comparisons impossible. Using RNA deep sequencing, we sought to analyze in detail the small RNAs (including miRNAs) in the temporal neocortex gray matter from non-demented controls (n = 2), AD (n = 5), dementia with Lewy bodies (n = 4), hippocampal sclerosis of aging (n = 4), and frontotemporal lobar dementia (FTLD) (n = 5) cases, together accounting for the most prevalent ND subtypes. All cases had short postmortem intervals, relatively high-quality RNA, and state-of-the-art neuropathological diagnoses. The resulting data (over 113 million reads in total, averaging 5.6 million reads per sample) and secondary expression analyses constitute an unprecedented look into the human cerebral cortical miRNome at a nucleotide resolution. While we find no apparent changes in isomiR or miRNA editing patterns in correlation with ND pathology, our results validate and extend previous miRNA profiling studies with regard to quantitative changes in NDs. In agreement with this idea, we provide independent cohort validation for changes in miR-132 expression levels in AD (n = 8) and FTLD (n = 14) cases when compared to controls (n = 8). The identification of common and ND-specific putative novel brain miRNAs and/or short-hairpin molecules is also presented. The challenge now is to better understand the impact of these and other alterations on neuronal gene expression networks and neuropathologies.
authors: Axe Neurosciences, Centre de recherche du CHU de Québec, Québec, QC, Canada. sebastien.hebert@crchul.ulaval.ca
authors: Sébastien S
authors: SS
authors: Hébert
authors: Wang-Xia
authors: WX
authors: Wang
authors: Qi
authors: Q
authors: Zhu
authors: Peter T
authors: PT
authors: Nelson
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000375:Aging / Q000502:physiology; D000544:Alzheimer Disease / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism*; D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D015152:Blotting, Northern; D015331:Cohort Studies; D019295:Computational Biology; D003627:Data Interpretation, Statistical; D005260:Female; D057174:Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism*; D006624:Hippocampus / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D020961:Lewy Body Disease / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism*; D008297:Male; D035683:MicroRNAs / Q000235:genetics; D008875:Middle Aged; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D019579:Neocortex / Q000737:chemistry*; D058225:Plaque, Amyloid / Q000473:pathology; D020733:RNA, Small Cytoplasmic / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics*; D060888:Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction; D012598:Sclerosis / Q000473:pathology; D017423:Sequence Analysis, RNA
chemical_list: D035683:MicroRNAs; D020733:RNA, Small Cytoplasmic
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