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Genome-wide DNA methylation profiling in the superior temporal gyrus reveals epigenetic signatures associated with Alzheimer’s disease

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Title
Genome-wide DNA methylation profiling in the superior temporal gyrus reveals epigenetic signatures associated with Alzheimer’s disease
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Genome Medicine, January 2016
DOI 10.1186/s13073-015-0258-8
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Corey T. Watson, Panos Roussos, Paras Garg, Daniel J. Ho, Nidha Azam, Pavel L. Katsel, Vahram Haroutunian, Andrew J. Sharp

Abstract

Alzheimer's disease affects ~13 % of people in the United States 65 years and older, making it the most common neurodegenerative disorder. Recent work has identified roles for environmental, genetic, and epigenetic factors in Alzheimer's disease risk. We performed a genome-wide screen of DNA methylation using the Illumina Infinium HumanMethylation450 platform on bulk tissue samples from the superior temporal gyrus of patients with Alzheimer's disease and non-demented controls. We paired a sliding window approach with multivariate linear regression to characterize Alzheimer's disease-associated differentially methylated regions (DMRs). We identified 479 DMRs exhibiting a strong bias for hypermethylated changes, a subset of which were independently associated with aging. DMR intervals overlapped 475 RefSeq genes enriched for gene ontology categories with relevant roles in neuron function and development, as well as cellular metabolism, and included genes reported in Alzheimer's disease genome-wide and epigenome-wide association studies. DMRs were enriched for brain-specific histone signatures and for binding motifs of transcription factors with roles in the brain and Alzheimer's disease pathology. Notably, hypermethylated DMRs preferentially overlapped poised promoter regions, marked by H3K27me3 and H3K4me3, previously shown to co-localize with aging-associated hypermethylation. Finally, the integration of DMR-associated single nucleotide polymorphisms with Alzheimer's disease genome-wide association study risk loci and brain expression quantitative trait loci highlights multiple potential DMRs of interest for further functional analysis. We have characterized changes in DNA methylation in the superior temporal gyrus of patients with Alzheimer's disease, highlighting novel loci that facilitate better characterization of pathways and mechanisms underlying Alzheimer's disease pathogenesis, and improve our understanding of epigenetic signatures that may contribute to the development of disease.

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Country Count As %
Netherlands 1 <1%
Unknown 173 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 34 20%
Student > Ph. D. Student 32 18%
Student > Bachelor 18 10%
Student > Master 16 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 13 7%
Other 28 16%
Unknown 33 19%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 42 24%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 30 17%
Neuroscience 27 16%
Medicine and Dentistry 11 6%
Computer Science 6 3%
Other 18 10%
Unknown 40 23%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 16. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 22 February 2016.
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