Journal
NEUROBIOLOGY OF AGING
Volume 36, Issue 10, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2015.06.006
Keywords
Genome-wide association studies; Alzheimer's disease; Pathway analysis; Cell adhesion molecules; Brain expression
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Funding
- National Nature Science Foundation of China [81300945, 31200934, 31301938, 81471294, 31171219, 81271213, 81271214]
- National High-Tech Research and Development Project of China [2013AA020106]
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We previously identified the cell adhesion molecule (CAM) pathway as a consistent signal in 2 Alzheimer's disease (AD) genome-wide association studies (GWAS). However, the genetic mechanisms of the CAM pathway in AD are unclear. Here, we conducted pathway analysis using (1) Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes and Gene Ontology pathways; (2) 4 brain expression GWAS datasets; and (3) 2 whole-genome AD case-control expression datasets. Using the 4 brain expression GWAS datasets, we identified that genes regulated by cis-regulatory single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) were significantly enriched in the CAM pathway (p = 2.05E-06, p = 6.10E-07, p = 2.05E-06, and p = 1.47E-07 for each dataset). Interestingly, CAM is a significantly enriched pathway using down-regulated genes (raw p = 0.0235 and adjusted p = 0.0305) and all differentially expressed genes (raw p = 0.0105 and adjusted p = 0.0156) in dataset 5, and all differentially expressed genes (raw p = 0.0041 and adjusted p = 0.0062) in dataset 6. Collectively, our results show that CAM pathway genes are regulated by cis-regulatory SNPs and show significantly altered expression in AD. We believe that our results advance the understanding of AD mechanisms and will be useful for future genetic studies of AD. (C) 2015 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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