Clinical and Genetic Analysis of Costa Rican Patients with Parkinson’s Disease
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Project description:Clinical and Genetic Analysis of Costa Rican Patients with Parkinson’s Disease
| PRJNA746011 | ENA
Project description:Background: Most research in genomics of Parkinson's disease (PD) has been done in subjects of European ancestry, leading to sampling bias and leaving Latin American populations underrepresented. We sought to clinically characterize PD patients of Costa Rican origin and to sequence familial PD and atypical parkinsonism-associated genes in cases and controls. Methods: We enrolled 118 PD patients with 97 unrelated controls. Collected information included demographics, exposure to risk and protective factors, and motor and cognitive assessments. We sequenced coding and untranslated regions in familial PD and atypical parkinsonism-associated genes including GBA, SNCA, VPS35, LRRK2, GCH1, PRKN, PINK1, DJ-1, VPS13C, and ATP13A2. Results: Mean age of PD probands was 62.12 ± 13.51 years; 57.6% were male. The frequency of risk and protective factors averaged ~45%. Physical activity significantly correlated with better motor performance despite years of disease. Increased years of education were significantly associated with better cognitive function, whereas hallucinations, falls, mood disorders, and coffee consumption correlated with worse cognitive performance. We did not identify an association between tested genes and PD or any damaging homozygous or compound heterozygous variants. Rare variants in LRRK2 were nominally associated with PD; six were located between amino acids p.1620 and 1623 in the C-terminal-of-ROC (COR) domain of Lrrk2. Non-synonymous GBA variants (p.T369M, p.N370S, and p.L444P) were identified in three healthy individuals. One PD patient carried a pathogenic GCH1 variant, p.K224R. Discussion: This is the first study that describes sociodemographics, risk factors, clinical presentation, and genetics of Costa Rican patients with PD, adding information to genomics research in a Latino population.
| S-EPMC8371686 | biostudies-literature
Project description:Center for Common Disease Genomics (CCDG) - Cardiovascular: Harvard Gene-Diet Interaction in a Costa Rican Cohort
| PRJNA673014 | ENA
Project description:Center for Common Disease Genomics (CCDG) - Cardiovascular: Harvard Gene-Diet Interaction in a Costa Rican Cohort
| PRJNA673013 | ENA
Project description:Advanced age represents one of the major risk factors for Parkinson’s Disease. Recent studies posit a role for microRNAs in Parkinson’s Disease and it is well established that microRNAs are remodelled during ageing, but the relationship between the two processes have not been clarified yet. The aim of the present study is to unravel the relevance of microRNAs as biomarkers of Parkinson’s Disease within the ageing framework. We used Next Generation Sequencing to profile serum microRNAs from samples informative for Parkinson’s Disease (recently diagnosed, drug-naïve Parkinson’s Disease patients) and healthy ageing (centenarians) plus healthy controls age-matched with Parkinson’s Disease patients. Potential candidates, emerging from the combination of differential expression and network analyses, were further validated in an independent cohort including both drug-naïve and advanced Parkinson’s Disease patients together with healthy siblings of Parkinson’s Disease patients at higher genetic risk for Parkinson’s Disease. While we did not find evidences of microRNAs co-regulated in Parkinson’s Disease and ageing, we report that hsa-miR-144-3p is consistently down-regulated in early and advanced Parkinson’s Disease and in Parkinson’s Disease siblings. Interestingly, functional analysis revealed that hsa-miR-144-3p is involved in the regulation of coagulation, a process known to be altered in Parkinson’s Disease. Our results consistently show the down-regulation of hsa-mir144-3p in early and advanced Parkinson’s Disease, robustly confirmed across a variety of analytical and experimental analyses. These results are promising, and additional research is needed to unveil the functional details of its relevance and involvement in Parkinson’s Disease.
2022-02-02 | GSE180193 | GEO
Project description:Parkinson’s disease (PD) is the most common movement disorder in the aging population, with an estimated prevalence of 1% of people above 60 years old. More recently, PD risk genes, have been found to be regulated by the small non-coding RNAs, (microRNAs or miRNAs), and, as such, may contribute to PD development through a direct regulation on the mitochondrial and immune pathways. Many of these are influenced by epigenetic mechanisms, among which ones mediated by, miRNAs, that regulate gene expression at a post transcriptional level by binding to their 3′ un-translated region (3′ UTR) of target messenger RNAs (mRNAs) inducing mRNA degradation and translational repression. This study aimed to identify and characterize miRNA to evaluate their possible deregulation in PD patients compared to CRTL. In addition, we investigated how specific miRNAs are able to target genes and, thus, to modulate their functions in PD patient. Small RNA expression profiling was performed by next-generation sequencing in PD patients and CTRL after filtered out low-quality reads and trimming the adaptors. The obtained high-quality reads were aligned against the human genome reference.
2023-09-01 | E-MTAB-12087 | biostudies-arrayexpress
Project description:The study will examine associations between dietary patterns and the metabolome on a random subset (n=80) of control subjects in a population-based case-control study of myocardial infarction in Costa Rican adults. Each sample will undergo complementary LC-MS-based approaches, specifically untargeted metabolite profiling and targeted lipidomic profiling. Subsequently we will test for associations between 1) previously derived dietary patterns and plasma molecular features and 2) the top plasma correlates of dietary patterns and metabolic syndrome.
2018-06-25 | ST000992 | MetabolomicsWorkbench
Project description:Protein degradation impairment is strongly suspected to play a role in idiopathic Parkinson’s disease (PD). However, current tools and models are lacking to study such disease associated phenotypes across the PD patient population. Here, we generate functional induced dopaminergic neurons (iDANs) directly reprogrammed from adult dermal fibroblasts of patients with PD to investigate intra-neuronal autophagy alterations.
2019-06-01 | GSE125239 | GEO
Project description:Background Information The costa is a prominent striated fiber that is found in protozoa of the Trichomonadidae family that present an undulating membrane. It is composed primarily of proteins that have not yet been explored. In this study, we used cell fractionation to obtain a highly enriched costa fraction whose structure and composition was further analyzed by electron microscopy and mass spectrometry. Results Electron microscopy of negatively stained samples revealed that the costa, which is a periodic structure with alternating electron-dense and electron-lucent bands, displays three distinct regions, named the head, neck and body. Fourier transform analysis showed that the electron-lucent bands present sub-bands with a regular pattern. An analysis of the costa fraction via one- and two-dimensional electrophoresis and liquid chromatography coupled with tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) allowed the identification of 54 hypothetical proteins. Fourteen of those proteins were considered to be major components of the fraction. Conclusions The costa of T. foetus is a complex and organized cytoskeleton structure made of a large number of proteins which is assembled into filamentous structures. Some of these proteins exhibit uncharacterized domains and no function related according to gene ontology, suggesting that the costa structure may be formed by a new class of proteins that differ from those previously described in other organisms. Seven of these proteins contain prefoldin domains displaying coiled-coil regions. This propriety is shared with proteins of the striated fibers of other protozoan as well as in intermediate filaments. Significance Our observations suggest the presence of a new class of the cytoskeleton filaments in T. foetus. We believe that our data could auxiliate in determine the specific locations of these proteins in the distinct regions that compose the costa, as well as to define the functional roles of each component. Therefore, our study will help in the better understanding of the organization and function of this structure in unicellular organisms.
2017-04-04 | PXD005915 | Pride