Joint genome-wide profiling of miRNA and mRNA expression in Alzheimer's disease cortex reveals altered miRNA regulation.

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Nunez-Iglesias, J; Liu, C-C; Morgan, TE; Finch, CE; Zhou, XJDate
2010-02-01Source Title
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Nunez-Iglesias, JuanAffiliation
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Nunez-Iglesias, J., Liu, C. -C., Morgan, T. E., Finch, C. E. & Zhou, X. J. (2010). Joint genome-wide profiling of miRNA and mRNA expression in Alzheimer's disease cortex reveals altered miRNA regulation.. PLoS One, 5 (2), pp.e8898-. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0008898.Access Status
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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2813862Abstract
Although microRNAs are being extensively studied for their involvement in cancer and development, little is known about their roles in Alzheimer's disease (AD). In this study, we used microarrays for the first joint profiling and analysis of miRNAs and mRNAs expression in brain cortex from AD and age-matched control subjects. These data provided the unique opportunity to study the relationship between miRNA and mRNA expression in normal and AD brains. Using a non-parametric analysis, we showed that the levels of many miRNAs can be either positively or negatively correlated with those of their target mRNAs. Comparative analysis with independent cancer datasets showed that such miRNA-mRNA expression correlations are not static, but rather context-dependent. Subsequently, we identified a large set of miRNA-mRNA associations that are changed in AD versus control, highlighting AD-specific changes in the miRNA regulatory system. Our results demonstrate a robust relationship between the levels of miRNAs and those of their targets in the brain. This has implications in the study of the molecular pathology of AD, as well as miRNA biology in general.
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