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Epigenomic dissection of Alzheimer’s disease pinpoints causal variants and reveals epigenome erosion
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Recent work has identified dozens of non-coding loci for Alzheimer's disease (AD) risk, but their mechanisms and AD transcriptional regulatory circuitry are poorly understood. Here, we profile epigenomic and transcriptomic landscapes of 850,000 nuclei from prefrontal cortexes of 92 individuals with and without AD to build a map of the brain regulome, including epigenomic profiles, transcriptional regulators, co-accessibility modules, and peak-to-gene links in a cell-type-specific manner. We develop methods for multimodal integration and detecting regulatory modules using peak-to-gene linking. We show AD risk loci are enriched in microglial enhancers and for specific TFs including SPI1, ELF2, and RUNX1. We detect 9,628 cell-type-specific ATAC-QTL loci, which we integrate alongside peak-to-gene links to prioritize AD variant regulatory circuits. We report differential accessibility of regulatory modules in late AD in glia and in early AD in neurons. Strikingly, late-stage AD brains show global epigenome dysregulation indicative of epigenome erosion and cell identity loss.
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“This is strikingly similar to epigenome erosion, particularly in excitatory neurons and oligodendrocytes, characterized by the loss of cell-type specific chromatin accessibility profile reported in the companion manuscript89.”
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Han, Y., Huang, C., Pan, Y., & Gu, X. (2024) · Journal of Alzheimer s Disease · doi:10.3233/jad-230861 · Cited by 7
GoFCards: an integrated database and analytic platform for gain of function variants in humans
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“The relationship between the epigenome and gene expression in AD received added evidence in the recent data from Xiong et al., 41 which showed a close correspondence between chromatin accessibility and geneexpression.”
Zhang, R., Guo, S., Zhou, J., Lin, X., Wang, Y., Wang, Y., Li, M., Zhao, K., Bao, W., Shui, K., et al. (2025) · Scientific Data · doi:10.1038/s41597-025-04367-4 · Cited by 6
“The coordination between chromatin structure and transcription plays a crucial role in gene regulation, influencing processes from embryonic development to the progression of disease 7,8 .”
fSuSiE enables fine-mapping of QTLs from genome-scale molecular profilesPreprint
Denault, W. R. P., Sun, H. H., Carbonetto, P. S., Liu, A., Jager, P. L. D., Bennett, D., Wang, G., & Stephens, M. (2025) · bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · doi:10.1101/2025.08.17.670732 · Cited by 8
Salminen, A. (2026) · Neurochemistry International · doi:10.1016/j.neuint.2026.106115 · Cited by 5
Zeng, L., Khan, A., Fitzgerald, K. C., Lama, T., Chen, J., Li, R., Harroud, A., Compston, A., Sawcer, S. J., Kermode, A. G., et al. (2026) · Nature Genetics · doi:10.1038/s41588-026-02731-7 · Cited by 5
“Review of reference epigenomic profiles 66 showed that many prioritized variants (Fig.”
The role of astrocytes in Alzheimer’s disease: a bibliometric analysis
An, X., He, J., Bi, B., Wu, G., Xu, J., Yu, W., & Ren, Z. (2024) · Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience · doi:10.3389/fnagi.2024.1481748 · Cited by 5
The China Brain Multi-omics Atlas Project (CBMAP)
Zhou, D., Zhou, Y., Sun, Z., Ji, F., Zhang, D., Wang, Q., Ruan, Y., Wang, Y., Zhu, Y., Sun, X., et al. (2025) · Molecular Psychiatry · doi:10.1038/s41380-025-03250-3 · Cited by 6
“…has analyzed the genomes, epigenomes, transcriptomes, and proteomes of hundreds of human brain tissue samples, primarily from individuals of European ancestry, thereby creating a multi-omics atlas mainly focused on understanding the etiology of Alzheimer ’ s disease (AD) [10, 11, 13, 16 – 18].”
Single-cell sequencing: accurate disease detection
Wang, X., Li, N., Wang, W., & Liu, B. (2025) · Clinical & Translational Oncology · doi:10.1007/s12094-025-04007-8 · Cited by 6
“On September 28, 2023, the team of Professor Li Huei Tsai of Massachusetts Institute of Technology published three research papers related to AD in the journal Cell, analyzing the pathogenesis of AD from multiple perspectives from the cellular, genetic and mechanism levels [72–74].”
Single‐cell digital twins identify drug targets and repurposable medicine in Alzheimer’s disease
Ren, Y., Hu, M., Li, Y. E., Pieper, A. A., Cummings, J. L., & Cheng, F. (2025) · Alzheimer s & Dementia · doi:10.1002/alz70859_102982 · Cited by 4
ACSS2 upregulation enhances neuronal resilience to aging and tau-associated neurodegeneration
Pourshafie, N., Alexander, D. C., Xu, H. W., Yang, K., Donahue, G., Lei, X., Zhang, S., Shcherbakova, O., Hogan, C., Gilbert, M., et al. (2026) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1073/pnas.2503834122 · Cited by 4
Lee, C.-Y., Hwang, A., McRiley, D., Lee, J., Thibodeau, G., Duman, C. H., Zhang, X., Škarica, M., Coudriet, J. M., Xu, S., et al. (2026) · Nature Communications · doi:10.1038/s41467-026-68351-1 · Cited by 5
Impacts of host genetics on gut microbiome composition in Alzheimer’s disease
Liu, J., Cao, J., Jia, L., Gan, Z., Zhao, X., Yang, A., Lai, S., Chen, F., Yang, Y. T., & Zhao, X.-M. (2026) · Microbiome · doi:10.1186/s40168-026-02342-8 · Cited by 4
“To investigate the differential expression patterns of the ES-Ana-associated genes in AD brains, we leveraged a recently published snRNA-seq dataset of prefrontal cortex samples from 15 late-stage AD and 48 non-AD individuals [100].”
Dysfunction of the neurovascular unit as a temporal driver in Alzheimer’s pathogenesis
Wang, L., Han, L., & Liu, S. (2026) · Translational Neurodegeneration · doi:10.1186/s40035-026-00548-2 · Cited by 6
“Microglia play a key role in the onset and progression of AD [79, 80].”
Liu, W., Wu, S.-A., Zhang, B.-X., Guo, S., Li, L., Sun, W., Xiong, X., Nan, J., Wu, J., Zeng, L., et al. (2026) · Nature Neuroscience · doi:10.1038/s41593-026-02299-9 · Cited by 4
Ramamurthy, E., Agarwal, S., Toong, N., Sestili, H. H., Kaplow, I. M., Chen, Z., Phan, B. N., & Pfenning, A. R. (2024) · PLoS Computational Biology · doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1012356 · Cited by 4
The chromatin conformation landscape of Alzheimer’s diseasePreprint
Nativio, R., Lan, Y., Donahue, G. D., Shcherbakova, O., Barnett, N., Titus, K., Chandrashekar, H., Phillips‐Cremins, J. E., Bonini, N. M., & Berger, S. L. (2024) · bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · doi:10.1101/2024.04.09.588722 · Cited by 5
“To understand the changes that may occur to the genome with disease, our work 8,9 and others 10–13 has focused on epigenetic status of the brain in Alzheimer’s.”
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Early microglial priming in Alzheimer’s disease revealed by ME-seqPreprint
Zhu, B., Ghosh, A., Wang, Z., Liao, Z., Appiah, M. G., Li, J., Zhang, M., Tullio, F. D., Kurowski, A., Fullard, J. F., et al. (2026) · bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · doi:10.64898/2026.01.30.702946 · Cited by 4
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Siano, G., Varisco, M., Terrigno, M., Wang, C., Scarlatti, A., Iannone, V., Groth, M., Galas, M., Hoozemans, J. J. M., Cellerino, A., et al. (2025) · Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology · doi:10.3389/fcell.2024.1459573 · Cited by 5
“92 (Zerbino et al., 2018)) with Tophat v2.”
Bone-Derived Factors: Regulating Brain and Treating Alzheimer’s Disease
Guan, Q., Cao, Y., Zou, J., & Zhang, L. (2025) · Biology · doi:10.3390/biology14091112 · Cited by 3
“AD risk loci are significantly enriched in microglial enhancer regions (e.g., binding pockets of SPI1, ELF2, and RUNX1), with late-stage AD exhibiting epigenomic erosion that leads to loss of cellular identity [247].”
Age‐Associated Transcriptomic and Epigenetic Alterations in Mouse Hippocampus
Bilgic, M., Obata, R., Panfil, V., Zhu, Z., Saeki, M., Gotoh, Y., & Kishi, Y. (2025) · Aging Cell · doi:10.1111/acel.70233 · Cited by 5
“Many studies identified the specific molecular state of microglia, immune residents in the brain, in normal aging and in AD conditions in mice and humans (Li et al. 2023; Xiong et al. 2023; Sun et al. 2023; Lopes et al. 2022).”
Flamier, A., Katbe, A., Serhani, D., Hamam, R., Hogan, R., Tavares, E., Héon, E., Hanna, R., & Bernier, G. (2025) · Development · doi:10.1242/dev.204910 · Cited by 3
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FAM134B-mediated ER-phagy degrades APP and suppresses Alzheimer’s disease pathology
Zhang, Y., Sun, J., Cai, Y., Xu, Z., Li, X., Wei, W., Liu, P., Sun, Q., Wang, Z.-H., & Cui, Y. (2026) · The EMBO Journal · doi:10.1038/s44318-026-00818-9 · Cited by 3
“For ATAC-seq enrichment analysis of cortical tissue from AD cases in the Synapse database (dataset syn52293424 (Xiong et al, 2023)), data were processed using the Seurat, SingleCellExperiment, and GenomicRanges R packages.”
Omics-driven strategies for identifying biomarkers in Alzheimer’s disease
Khan, Y., Rekha, A., Ballal, S., Maharana, L., Maqbool, M., Goyal, K., Mishra, R., Uniyal, P., Alam, P., Aljarba, T. M., et al. (2026) · Metabolic Brain Disease · doi:10.1007/s11011-026-01873-1 · Cited by 3
“The late AD human brains exhibited widespread epigenomic mis-regulation with erosion of enhancers and loss of cell identity (Xiong et al. 2023).”
Li, M., Su, Y., Gao, Y., & Tian, W. (2024) · Briefings in Bioinformatics · doi:10.1093/bib/bbae422 · Cited by 3
Genetic architecture of postpartum psychosis: from common to rare genetic variation
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The impact of genetic variability on Alzheimer’s therapies: obstacles for pharmacogenetic progress
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Single-cell multiplex chromatin and RNA interactions in aging human brainPreprint
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“These data are reminiscent of the recent report on the association of a global epigenome dysregulation and AD 43 .”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Xiong, X., James, B. T., Boix, C. A., Park, Y. P., Galani, K., Victor, M. B., Sun, N., Hou, L., Ho, L.-L., Mantero, J., Scannail, A. N., Dileep, V., Dong, W., Mathys, H., Bennett, D. A., Tsai, L.-H., & Kellis, M.
- Affiliations
- MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (US)
- Broad Institute (US)
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (US)
- University of California San Diego (US)
- University of Pittsburgh (US)
- Rush University Medical Center (US)
- Corresponding author
- Tsai, Li-Huei
- Kellis, Manolis
- ORCID
- Venue
- Cell
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2023-09
- Volume
- 186
- Issue
- 20
- Pages
- 4422-4437.e21
- ISSN
- 0092-8674 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC10782612
- OpenAlex
- W4387142583
- Cited by
- 205
- References
- 86
- Citations by year
- 2026: 70 · 2025: 72 · 2024: 51 · 2023: 11
- FWCI
- 36.23
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Cell (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion, other-oa)
- Funders
- Cure Alzheimer's Fund
- National Institutes of Health (AG062377, P30AG10161, NS110453, U01AG46152, AG058002, MH119509, R01AG57473, U01AG61356, AG054012, NS127187, R01AG17917, P30AG72975, AG062335, NS115064, HG008155, MH109978, DA053631, R01AG15819, AG067151, AG074003, AG081017, AG077227, NS129032)
- Russian Science Foundation
- National Science Foundation (1745302)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience › Alzheimer's disease research and treatments
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
- Keywords
- Alzheimer's disease, prefrontal cortex, PU.1, RUNX1, chromatin accessibility, glial cells, neurons
- MeSH terms
- Epigenome, Alzheimer Disease, Brain, Gene Expression Regulation, Humans, Genome-Wide Association Study, Epigenomics
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