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Single-cell transcriptomic analysis of Alzheimer’s disease

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Alzheimer’s disease is a pervasive neurodegenerative disorder, the molecular complexity of which remains poorly understood. Here, we analysed 80,660 single-nucleus transcriptomes from the prefrontal cortex of 48 individuals with varying degrees of Alzheimer’s disease pathology. Across six major brain cell types, we identified transcriptionally distinct subpopulations, including those associated with pathology and characterized by regulators of myelination, inflammation, and neuron survival. The strongest disease-associated changes appeared early in pathological progression and were highly cell-type specific, whereas genes upregulated at late stages were common across cell types and primarily involved in the global stress response. Notably, we found that female cells were overrepresented in disease-associated subpopulations, and that transcriptional responses were substantially different between sexes in several cell types, including oligodendrocytes. Overall, myelination-related processes were recurrently perturbed in multiple cell types, suggesting that myelination has a key role in Alzheimer’s disease pathophysiology. Our single-cell transcriptomic resource provides a blueprint for interrogating the molecular and cellular basis of Alzheimer’s disease. Single-cell transcriptomics from 48 individuals with varying degrees of Alzheimer’s disease pathology demonstrates that gene-expression changes in Alzheimer’s disease are both cell-type specific and shared, and that transcriptional responses show sexual dimorphism.

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Authors
Mathys, H., Davila-Velderrain, J., Peng, Z., Gao, F., Mohammadi, S., Young, J. Z., Menon, M., He, L., Abdurrob, F., Jiang, X., Martorell, A. J., Ransohoff, R. M., Hafler, B. P., Bennett, D. A., Kellis, M., & Tsai, L.-H.
Affiliations
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology (US)
  • Broad Institute (US)
  • Rush University Medical Center (US)
Corresponding author
  • Kellis, Manolis
  • Tsai, Li-Huei
Venue
Nature
Published
2019-05-01
Volume
570
Issue
7761
Pages
332-337
ISSN
  • 0028-0836 (ISSN-L)
  • 1476-4687
OpenAlex
W2942678593
Cited by
2,568
References
61
Citations by year
2026: 343 · 2025: 403 · 2024: 414 · 2023: 371 · 2022: 375 · 2021: 368 · 2020: 244 · 2019: 45
FWCI
87.80
Type
journal article
Language
en
Locations
  • Nature (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Research Explorer (The University of Manchester) (publishedVersion, other-oa)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
  • Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard (DASH) (Harvard University) (acceptedVersion)
  • RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
Funders
  • Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung (151885)
  • National Institute on Aging (R01AG017917, R01AG058002, R01AG062335, RF1AG054012, U01AG046152, R01AG015819, P30AG010161, RF1AG062377, R01AG046174, RF1AG054321, RF1AG057473, P30AG062421)
  • National Institute of Mental Health (U01MH119509, R01MH109978)
  • National Human Genome Research Institute (R01HG008155)
  • National Eye Institute (K08EY026652)
  • National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (U01NS110453)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience › Alzheimer's disease research and treatments
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
Keywords
Alzheimer's disease, single-nucleus transcriptomics, prefrontal cortex, cell type-specific gene expression, myelination, oligodendrocytes, sex differences, inflammation, neuronal survival, stress response, disease progression, neurodegeneration
MeSH terms
Aging, Alzheimer Disease, Female, Humans, Male, Organ Specificity, RNA, Messenger, Sex Characteristics, Prefrontal Cortex, Sequence Analysis, RNA, Disease Progression, Gene Expression Profiling, Single-Cell Analysis, Transcriptome

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