Document Type
Article
Publication Date
7-14-2020
Publication Title
Cell Rep
Keywords
Alzheimer's disease; RNA-seq; aging; coexpression analysis; differential expression analysis; meta-analysis; mouse models; neuroinflammation; transcriptome; genomics
Abstract
We present a consensus atlas of the human brain transcriptome in Alzheimer's disease (AD), based on meta-analysis of differential gene expression in 2,114 postmortem samples. We discover 30 brain coexpression modules from seven regions as the major source of AD transcriptional perturbations. We next examine overlap with 251 brain differentially expressed gene sets from mouse models of AD and other neurodegenerative disorders. Human-mouse overlaps highlight responses to amyloid versus tau pathology and reveal age- and sex-dependent expression signatures for disease progression. Human coexpression modules enriched for neuronal and/or microglial genes broadly overlap with mouse models of AD, Huntington's disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, and aging. Other human coexpression modules, including those implicated in proteostasis, are not activated in AD models but rather following other, unexpected genetic manipulations. Our results comprise a cross-species resource, highlighting transcriptional networks altered by human brain pathophysiology and identifying correspondences with mouse models for AD preclinical studies.
Clinical Institute
Neurosciences (Brain & Spine)
Department
Institute for Systems Biology
Department
Neurosciences
Recommended Citation
Wan, Ying-Wooi; Al-Ouran, Rami; Mangleburg, Carl G; Perumal, Thanneer M; Lee, Tom V; Allison, Katherine; Swarup, Vivek; Funk, Cory C; Gaiteri, Chris; Allen, Mariet; Wang, Minghui; Neuner, Sarah M; Kaczorowski, Catherine C; Philip, Vivek M; Howell, Gareth R; Martini-Stoica, Heidi; Zheng, Hui; Mei, Hongkang; Zhong, Xiaoyan; Kim, Jungwoo Wren; Dawson, Valina L; Dawson, Ted M; Pao, Ping-Chieh; Tsai, Li-Huei; Haure-Mirande, Jean-Vianney; Ehrlich, Michelle E; Chakrabarty, Paramita; Levites, Yona; Wang, Xue; Dammer, Eric B; Srivastava, Gyan; Mukherjee, Sumit; Sieberts, Solveig K; Omberg, Larsson; Dang, Kristen D; Eddy, James A; Snyder, Phil; Chae, Yooree; Amberkar, Sandeep; Wei, Wenbin; Hide, Winston; Preuss, Christoph; Ergun, Ayla; Ebert, Phillip J; Airey, David C; Mostafavi, Sara; Yu, Lei; Klein, Hans-Ulrich; Accelerating Medicines Partnership; Alzheimer’s Disease Consortium; Carter, Gregory W; Collier, David A; Golde, Todd E; Levey, Allan I; Bennett, David A; Estrada, Karol; Townsend, T Matthew; Zhang, Bin; Schadt, Eric; De Jager, Philip L; Price, Nathan D; Ertekin-Taner, Nilüfer; Liu, Zhandong; Shulman, Joshua M; Mangravite, Lara M; and Logsdon, Benjamin A, "Meta-Analysis of the Alzheimer's Disease Human Brain Transcriptome and Functional Dissection in Mouse Models." (2020). Articles, Abstracts, and Reports. 3372.
https://digitalcommons.providence.org/publications/3372
