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Integration of functional genomics data to uncover cell type-specific pathways affected in Parkinson's disease

Volpato, Viola 2021. Integration of functional genomics data to uncover cell type-specific pathways affected in Parkinson's disease. Biochemical Society Transactions 49 (5) , 2091–2100. 10.1042/BST20210128

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Abstract

Parkinson's disease (PD) is the second most prevalent late-onset neurodegenerative disorder worldwide after Alzheimer's disease for which available drugs only deliver temporary symptomatic relief. Loss of dopaminergic neurons (DaNs) in the substantia nigra and intracellular alpha-synuclein inclusions are the main hallmarks of the disease but the events that cause this degeneration remain uncertain. Despite cell types other than DaNs such as astrocytes, microglia and oligodendrocytes have been recently associated with the pathogenesis of PD, we still lack an in-depth characterisation of PD-affected brain regions at cell-type resolution that could help our understanding of the disease mechanisms. Nevertheless, publicly available large-scale brain-specific genomic, transcriptomic and epigenomic datasets can be further exploited to extract different layers of cell type-specific biological information for the reconstruction of cell type-specific transcriptional regulatory networks. By intersecting disease risk variants within the networks, it may be possible to study the functional role of these risk variants and their combined effects at cell type- and pathway levels, that, in turn, can facilitate the identification of key regulators involved in disease progression, which are often potential therapeutic targets.

Item Type: Article
Date Type: Publication
Status: Published
Schools: Medicine
MRC Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics (CNGG)
Additional Information: This is an open access article published by Portland Press Limited on behalf of the Biochemical Society and distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 (CC BY).
Publisher: Portland Press
ISSN: 0300-5127
Funders: MRC
Date of First Compliant Deposit: 25 February 2022
Date of Acceptance: 31 August 2021
Last Modified: 06 Sep 2023 19:15
URI: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/147812

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