Project description:Transcriptional analysis of multiple brain regions in Parkinson's disease supports the involvement of specific protein processing, energy metabolism, and signaling pathways, and suggests novel disease mechanisms. This SuperSeries is composed of the following subset Series: GSE20168: Transcriptional analysis of prefrontal area 9 in Parkinson's disease GSE20291: Transcriptional analysis of putamen in Parkinson's disease GSE20292: Transcriptional analysis of whole substantia nigra in Parkinson's disease Refer to individual Series
Project description:We report RNA sequencing results of human substantia nigra and putamen samples from Parkinson's disease patients and controls. Each substantia nigra sample is the result of pooling brain tissue from two individuals with the same , while each putamen sample is the result of pooling brain tissue from three individuals. We found 354 differentially expressed genes (DEGs) in the SN of PD patients compared to age-matched controls, while we observed 261 DEGs in the putamen samples. The top-enriched pathways from the SN were associated with “protein folding” and “neurotransmitter transport”, and the putamen DEGs with “synapse organization”. In summary, our data confirms the key role of protein folding and neuronal degeneration in the pathology of PD, and highlights new genes and pathways that have not yet been explored in the context of PD.
Project description:To investigate transcriptomic changes associated with Parkinson's disease development we compared frontal cortex gene expression across four Braak Lewy body stage groups. Additionally we investigated sex-specific gene expression differences in neuropathologically healthy donors and Parkinson's disease patients at Braak Lewy body stage 5. We investigated sex-specific gene expression differences in neuropathologically healthy donors and Parkinson's disease patients at Braak Lewy body stage 5.
Project description:We have generated human induced Pluripotent Stem cells (hiPSc) from Parkinson's Disease patients, using retrovirus-mediated delivery of reprogramming factors. hiPSc lines have been screened using SNP array to assess chromosomal stability (alongside the fibroblast lines from which they derived), and validation of the pluripotency of the hiPSc lines is provided by Pluritest assessment of transcriptome datasets, prior to differentiation to dopaminergic neuronal clutures and downstream functional assays. Fernandes H.J.R., Hartfield E.M., Badger J., Christian H. C., Emmanoulidou E., Vowles J., Evetts S., Vekrellis K., Talbot K., Hu M.T., James W., Cowley S.A., and Wade-Martins, R. Heterozygous glucocerebrosidase mutations in Parkinson's increase autophagic demand, but decrease capacity, in induced pluripotent stem cell-derived dopaminergic neuronal cultures. submitted for publication human iPSc lines were derived from human dermal fibroblasts from 2 Parkinson's Disease patients with heterozygous glucocerebrosidase mutations (GBA N370S) mutations, and 2 idiopathic Parkinson's Disease patients. SNP datasets from the 2 control individuals used in this study have been published previously [PMID 23951090; A mature physiological cellular model of human dopaminergic neurons Hartfield E.M., Yamasaki-Mann M., Fernandes H.J., Vowles., James W.S., Cowley S.A, and Wade-Martins R. In revision]