Journal
BIOLOGY-BASEL
Volume 9, Issue 9, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/biology9090251
Keywords
mild cognitive impairment; Alzheimer's Disease; genes; miRNAs; regulatory interactions
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- Rede de Pesquisa em Genomica Populacional Humana from Coordenacao de Aperfeicoamento de Pessoal de Nivel Superior-CAPES [3381/2013]
- Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnologico-CNPq
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Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and Alzheimer's Disease (AD) are complex diseases with their molecular architecture not elucidated.APOE, Amyloid Beta Precursor Protein (APP), and Presenilin-1 (PSEN1) are well-known genes associated with both MCI and AD. Recently, epigenetic alterations and dysregulated regulatory elements, such as microRNAs (miRNAs), have been reported associated with neurodegeneration. In this study, differential expression analysis (DEA) was performed for genes and miRNAs based on microarray and RNA-Seq data. Global gene profile of healthy individuals, early and late mild cognitive impairment (EMCI and LMCI, respectively), and AD was obtained from ADNI Cohort. miRNA global profile of healthy individuals and AD patients was extracted from public RNA-Seq data. DEA performed withlimmapackage on ADNI Cohort data highlighted eight differential expressed (DE) genes (AGER,LINC00483,MMP19,CATSPER1,ARFGAP1,GPER1,PHLPP2,TRPM2) (false discovery rate (FDR)p-value < 0.05) between EMCI and LMCI patients. Previous molecular studies showed associations between these genes with dementia and neurological-related pathways. Five dysregulated miRNAs were identified by DEA performed with RNA-Seq data andedgeR(FDRp-value < 0.002). All reported miRNAs in AD interact with the aforementioned genes. Our integrative transcriptomic analysis was able to identify a set of miRNA-gene interactions that may be involved in cognitive and neurodegeneration processes.
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