Single-nucleus chromatin accessibility and transcriptomic characterization of Alzheimer’s Disease
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ABSTRACT: The gene-regulatory landscape of the brain is highly dynamic in health and disease, coordinating a menagerie of biological processes across¬ distinct cell-types. Here, we present a multi-omic single-nucleus study of 191,890 nuclei in late-stage Alzheimer’s Disease (AD), accessible through our intuitive web portal, profiling chromatin accessibility and gene expression in the same biological samples and uncovering vast cellular heterogeneity. We identified cell-type specific, disease-associated candidate cis-regulatory elements and their candidate target genes, including an oligodendrocyte-associated regulatory module containing links to APOE and CLU. We describe cis-regulatory relationships in specific cell-types at AD risk loci defined by genome wide association studies (GWAS), demonstrating the utility of this multi-omic single-nucleus approach. Trajectory analysis of glial populations identified disease-relevant transcription factors, like SREBF1 and their regulatory targets. Further, we introduce scWGCNA, a co-expression network analysis strategy robust to the sparsity of single-cell data, to perform a systems-level meta-analysis of AD transcriptomics.
ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens
PROVIDER: GSE174367 | GEO | 2021/05/12
REPOSITORIES: GEO
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