期刊
BRIEFINGS IN BIOINFORMATICS
卷 23, 期 6, 页码 -出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/bib/bbac394
关键词
Psychosis in Alzheimer's disease; Antipsychotics; Network analysis; Systems pharmacology
资金
- National Institutes of Health [MH116046, AG027224, AG062493, AG066468, AG005133]
- University of Pittsburgh Center for Research Computing [NIH S100D028483-01A1]
Approximately 50% of AD patients develop psychosis, which is associated with more severe cognitive decline compared to those without psychosis. There is currently no approved medication specifically for AD with psychosis, although atypical antipsychotics are commonly used. In this study, the genetic differences between AD+P and schizophrenia were compared, and specific protein-protein interaction networks were constructed. The efficacy of antipsychotics was found to be lower in AD+P, suggesting that the underlying mechanisms of AD+P may be distinct from schizophrenia.
Approximately 50% of Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients will develop psychotic symptoms and these patients will experience severe rapid cognitive decline compared with those without psychosis (AD-P). Currently, no medication has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration for AD with psychosis (AD+P) specifically, although atypical antipsychotics are widely used in clinical practice. These drugs have demonstrated modest efficacy in managing psychosis in individuals with AD, with an increased frequency of adverse events, including excess mortality. We compared the differences between the genetic variations/genes associated with AD+P and schizophrenia from existing Genome-Wide Association Study and differentially expressed genes (DEGs). We also constructed disease-specific protein-protein interaction networks for AD+P and schizophrenia. Network efficiency was then calculated to characterize the topological structures of these two networks. The efficiency of antipsychotics in these two networks was calculated. A weight adjustment based on binding affinity to drug targets was later applied to refine our results, and 2013 and 2123 genes were identified as related to AD+P and schizophrenia, respectively, with only 115 genes shared. Antipsychotics showed a significantly lower efficiency in the AD+P network than in the schizophrenia network (P < 0.001) indicating that antipsychotics may have less impact in AD+P than in schizophrenia. AD+P may be caused by mechanisms distinct from those in schizophrenia which result in a decreased efficacy of antipsychotics in AD+P. In addition, the network analysis methods provided quantitative explanations of the lower efficacy of antipsychotics in AD+P.
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