Nature Communications (Apr 2017)

Diurnal and seasonal molecular rhythms in human neocortex and their relation to Alzheimer’s disease

  • Andrew S. P. Lim,
  • Hans-Ulrich Klein,
  • Lei Yu,
  • Lori B. Chibnik,
  • Sanam Ali,
  • Jishu Xu,
  • David A. Bennett,
  • Philip L. De Jager

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14931
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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Diurnal and seasonal rhythms modulate brain function, but we do not know the genomic basis for these rhythms. Here, Limet al. show diurnal and seasonal rhythms of gene expression in the human brain, their relationship to histone acetylation and DNA methylation, and their disruption in Alzheimer’s disease.