Nature Communications (Nov 2020)

Molecular estimation of neurodegeneration pseudotime in older brains

  • Sumit Mukherjee,
  • Laura Heath,
  • Christoph Preuss,
  • Suman Jayadev,
  • Gwenn A. Garden,
  • Anna K. Greenwood,
  • Solveig K. Sieberts,
  • Philip L. De Jager,
  • Nilüfer Ertekin-Taner,
  • Gregory W. Carter,
  • Lara M. Mangravite,
  • Benjamin A. Logsdon

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19622-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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The limited understanding of the temporal molecular changes in late-onset Alzheimer’s disease hinder the development of therapeutic treatment. The authors use manifold learning to develop a molecular model for disease progression from RNASeq data from human postmortem brain samples.