Project description:Background: Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is an intermediate state between normal aging, and Alzheimer’s disease, and other dementias. Early detection of dementia, and MCI, is a crucial issue in terms of secondary prevention. Blood biomarker detection is a possible way for early detection of MCI. Although disease biomarkers are detected by, in general, using single molecular analysis such as t-test, another possible approach is based on interaction between molecules. Results: Differential correlation analysis, which detects difference on correlation of two variables in case/control study, was carried out to the dataset with 745 microRNAs (miRNAs) from plasma samples of 30 age-matched controls and 23 MCI patients in Japan. The 20 pairs of miRNAs, which consist of 20 miRNAs, were selected as MCI markers. Two pairs of miRNAs (hsa-miR-191 and hsa-miR-101, and hsa-miR-103 and hsa-miR-222) out of 20 attained the highest area under the curve (AUC) value of 0.962 for MCI detection. Other two miRNA pairs that include hsa-miR-191 and hsa-miR-125b also attained high AUC value of ≥ 0.95. Pathway analysis was performed to the MCI markers for further understanding of biological implications. As a result, collapsed correlation on hsa-miR-191 and emerged correlation on hsa-miR-125b may have key role in MCI, and dementia progression. Conclusion: Differential correlation analysis, a bioinformatics tool to elucidate complicated and interdependent biological systems behind diseases, detects effective MCI markers that cannot be found by single molecule analysis such as t-test.
Project description:To explore the microRNAs associated with pathology of early Alzheimer's disease, we detected the microRNA profiles in the plasma of subjects with mild cognitive impairment due to Alzheimer's disease and gender-, age-, education-matched normal control elderly.
Project description:MicroRNAs (miRNAs) could play an important role as potential Alzheimer Disease (AD) biomarkers. Plasma samples were collected from participants: Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) due to AD patients (n= 20), preclinical AD patients (n= 8) and healthy controls (n= 20). Then, small RNA sequencing analysis, followed by miRNA differential expression analysis comparing different methods (DESeq2, edgeR, NOISeq) were carried out.
Project description:The experiment is for demonstrating the miRNA profiles in plasma exosomes derived from mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease patients and healthy donors.
Project description:Plasma EV proteomic profiling from patients with typical PD combined with different degrees of cognitive impairments (PD with Dementia, PD with mild cognitive impairment, and PD with normal cognition), atypical Parkinsonism represented by Multiple System Atrophy, and healthy individuals
Project description:Alzheimer case-control samples originate from the EU funded AddNeuroMed Cohort, which is a large cross-European AD biomarker study relying on human blood as the source of RNA. The design is case-control. Cases are either Alzheimer's disease patients, subjects with mild cognitive impairment or age and gender matched controls.
Project description:Alzheimer case-control samples originate from the EU funded AddNeuroMed Cohort, which is a large cross-European AD biomarker study relying on human blood as the source of RNA. The design is case-control. Cases are either Alzheimer's disease patients, subjects with mild cognitive impairment or age and gender matched controls.
Project description:To explore the lncRNAs associated with pathology of early Alzheimer's disease, we detected the lncRNA profiles in the plasma of subjects with mild cognitive impairment due to Alzheimer's disease and gender-, age-, education-matched normal control elderly.
Project description:Using WGCNA and enrichment analyses to identify pathway level differences between individuals with no cognitive impairment, mild cognitive impairment, and Alzheimer’s disease. Frozen frontal cortex (BA10) tissue from NCI, MCI, and mild/moderate AD cases (n = 12/group) representing both genders was acquired postmortem from participants in the Rush Religious Orders Study, a longitudinal clinical pathologic study of aging and AD in elderly Catholic clergy
