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Blood Transcriptomic Meta-analysis Identifies Dysregulation of Hemoglobin and Iron Metabolism in Parkinson’ Disease

Overview of attention for article published in Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, March 2017
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Title
Blood Transcriptomic Meta-analysis Identifies Dysregulation of Hemoglobin and Iron Metabolism in Parkinson’ Disease
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Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, March 2017
DOI 10.3389/fnagi.2017.00073
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Jose A Santiago, Judith A Potashkin

Abstract

Disrupted iron metabolism has been implicated in the pathogenesis of Parkinson's disease (PD), a progressive neurodegenerative disorder that severely affects movement and coordination, yet the molecular mechanisms underlying this association remain unknown. To this end, we performed a transcriptomic meta-analysis of four blood microarrays in PD. We observed a significant downregulation of genes related to hemoglobin including, hemoglobin delta (HBD), alpha hemoglobin stabilizing protein (ASHP), genes implicated in iron metabolism including, solute carrier family 11 member 2 (SLC11A2), ferrochelatase (FECH), and erythrocyte-specific genes including erythrocyte membrane protein (EPB42), and 5'-aminolevulinate synthase 2 (ALAS2). Pathway and network analysis identified enrichment in processes related to mitochondrial membrane, oxygen transport, oxygen and heme binding, hemoglobin complex, erythrocyte development, tetrapyrrole metabolism and the spliceosome. Collectively, we identified a subnetwork of genes in blood that may provide a molecular explanation for the disrupted hemoglobin and iron metabolism in the pathogenesis of PD.

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Unknown 45 100%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 9 20%
Student > Bachelor 7 16%
Researcher 5 11%
Student > Postgraduate 4 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 3 7%
Other 5 11%
Unknown 12 27%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 8 18%
Neuroscience 8 18%
Medicine and Dentistry 6 13%
Engineering 3 7%
Computer Science 3 7%
Other 4 9%
Unknown 13 29%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 12. 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 05 May 2017.
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#2,586,493
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#895
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#50,006
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Outputs of similar age from Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience
#30
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