Project description:Protein from astrocytes (glial fibrillary acidic protein-positive cells), neurons (beta-III tubulin-positive cells), and unsorted (cell suspension without any enrichment based on astrocyte or neuron markers) from human, post-mortem Alzheimer's disease (AD) and aged-matched non-symptomatic (NS) prefrontal cortex brain samples.
Project description:To assess for the potential contribution of dysregulated long non-coding RNA expression in autism pathogenesis, we profiled lncRNAs and mRNAs from post mortem brain tissue from autism patients and age/sex matched controls 4 brain tissue samples from autism patients (2 patients, 1 prefrontal cortex and cerebellum sample from each) were compared to 4 brain tissue samples from non-affected controls (2 patients, 1 prefrontal cortex and cerebellum sample from each)
Project description:Analysis of gene expression in two large schizophrenia cohorts identifies multiple changes associated with nerve terminal function. Schizophrenia is a severe psychiatric disorder with a world-wide prevalence of 1%. The pathophysiology of the illness is not understood, but is thought to have a strong genetic component with some environmental influences on aetiology. To gain further insight into disease mechanism, we used microarray technology to determine the expression of over 30 000 mRNA transcripts in post-mortem tissue from a brain region associated with the pathophysiology of the disease (Brodmann area 10: anterior prefrontal cortex) in 28 schizophrenic and 23 control patients. Post-mortem derived BA10 tissue from 28 schizophrenic and 23 control patients were compared. Age, gender, post-mortem delay and pH of brain lysates data were also captured.
Project description:Whole genome transcriptome poly-A selected strand specific 100bp paired-end RNA sequencing of post-mortem brain tissue from prefrontal cortex and orbitofrontal cortex were performed. Brain tissue samples were collected from four different biobanks in England and USA.
Project description:The study included post-mortem brain tissue samples from 68 schizophrenia patients and 44 age and sex matched control subjects. Whole transcriptome poly-A selected paired-end RNA sequencing was performed on tissue from prefrontal cortex and orbitofrontal cortex. RNA expression differences were detected between case and control individuals, focusing both on single genes and pathways.
Project description:Background: Schizophrenia is a severe neuropsychiatric disorder that is hypothesized to result from disturbances in early brain development, and there is mounting evidence to support a role for developmentally-regulated epigenetic variation in the molecular etiology of the disorder. Here, we describe a systematic study of schizophrenia-associated methylomic variation in the adult brain and its relationship to changes in DNA methylation across human fetal brain development. Results: We profile methylomic variation in matched prefrontal cortex and cerebellum brain tissue from schizophrenia patients and controls, identifying disease-associated differential DNA methylation at multiple loci, particularly in the prefrontal cortex, and confirming these differences in an independent set of adult brain samples. Our data reveal discrete modules of co-methylated loci associated with schizophrenia that are enriched for genes involved in neurodevelopmental processes and include loci implicated by genetic studies of the disorder. Methylomic data from human fetal cortex samples, spanning 23 to 184 days post-conception, indicates that disease-associated differentially methylated positions are significantly enriched for loci at which DNA methylation is dynamically altered during human fetal brain development. Conclusions: Our data support the hypothesis that schizophrenia has an important early neurodevelopmental component, and suggest that epigenetic mechanisms may mediate these effects. 33 post-mortem brain (prefrontal cortex) samples (18 schizophrenia cases and 15 controls) were obtained from Douglas Bell-Canada Brain Bank (DBCBB), Montreal, Canada. Bisulfite converted DNA from these samples were hybridised to the Illumina Infinium 450k Human Methylation Beadchip v1.0.
Project description:The aim of this work was to test the mRNA polyadenylation status in the brain of autistic patients. We performed poly(U)-chromatography on RNA purified from post-mortem prefrontal cortex tissue of control and idiopathic ASD cases.
Project description:Using post mortem prefrontal cortex material provided by the Harvard Brain Tissue Resource Center at McLean Hospital, DNA methylation data was generated using CHARM.
Project description:This SuperSeries is composed of the following subset Series:; GSE5388: Adult postmortem brain tissue (dorsolateral prefrontal cortex) in subjects with bipolar disorder; GSE5389: Adult postmortem brain tissue (ortibtofrontal cortex) in subjects with bipolar disorder; Bipolar affective disorder is a severe psychiatric disorder with a strong genetic component but unknown pathophysiology. We used microarray technology (Affymetrix HG-U133A GeneChips) to determine the expression of approximately 22 000 mRNA transcripts in post-mortem brain tissue (dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and orbitofrontal cortex) from patients with bipolar disorder and matched healthy controls. Experiment Overall Design: Refer to individual Series
Project description:Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a chronic neurodegenerative disorder that is characterized by progressive neuropathology and cognitive decline. We performed a cross-tissue analysis of methylomic variation in AD using samples from three independent human post-mortem brain cohorts. We identified a differentially methylated region in the ankyrin 1 (ANK1) gene that was associated with neuropathology in the entorhinal cortex, a primary site of AD manifestation. This region was confirmed as being substantially hypermethylated in two other cortical regions (superior temporal gyrus and prefrontal cortex), but not in the cerebellum, a region largely protected from neurodegeneration in AD, or whole blood obtained pre-mortem from the same individuals. Neuropathology-associated ANK1 hypermethylation was subsequently confirmed in cortical samples from three independent brain cohorts. This study represents, to the best of our knowledge, the first epigenome-wide association study of AD employing a sequential replication design across multiple tissues and highlights the power of this approach for identifying methylomic variation associated with complex disease. For the first (discovery) stage of our analysis, we used multiple tissues from donors (N = 122) archived in the MRC London Brainbank for Neurodegenerative Disease. From each donor, we isolated genomic DNA from four brain regions (EC, superior temporal gyrus (STG), prefrontal cortex (PFC) and CER) and, where available, from whole blood obtained pre-mortem. Our analyses focused on identifying differentially methylated positions (DMPs) associated with Braak staging, a standardized measure of neurofibrillary tangle burden determined at autopsy.