Brain microRNAs associated with late-life depressive symptoms are also associated with cognitive trajectory and dementia.

ABSTRACT: Late-life depression is associated with an increased risk for dementia but we have limited knowledge of the molecular mechanisms underlying this association. Here we investigated whether brain microRNAs, important posttranscriptional regulators of gene expression, contribute to this association. Late-life depressive symptoms were assessed annually in 300 participants of the Religious Orders Study and Rush Memory and Aging Project for a mean of 7 years. Participants underwent annual cognitive testing, clinical assessment of cognitive status, and uniform neuropathologic examination after death. microRNAs were profiled from the prefrontal cortex using NanoString platform in the discovery cohort and small RNA sequencing in the replication cohort. A global microRNA association study of late-lif

SUBMITTER: Wingo TS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7004995 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature