Nature Communications (Feb 2022)

Inferring protein expression changes from mRNA in Alzheimer’s dementia using deep neural networks

  • Shinya Tasaki,
  • Jishu Xu,
  • Denis R. Avey,
  • Lynnaun Johnson,
  • Vladislav A. Petyuk,
  • Robert J. Dawe,
  • David A. Bennett,
  • Yanling Wang,
  • Chris Gaiteri

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-28280-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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Protein changes in a brain with Alzheimer’s are not often accompanied by transcriptional differences. Here, using a deep neural network that predicts protein abundance from mRNA expression, the authors track the early protein changes in Alzheimer’s dementia.