Nature Communications (Feb 2021)

Machine learning identifies candidates for drug repurposing in Alzheimer’s disease

  • Steve Rodriguez,
  • Clemens Hug,
  • Petar Todorov,
  • Nienke Moret,
  • Sarah A. Boswell,
  • Kyle Evans,
  • George Zhou,
  • Nathan T. Johnson,
  • Bradley T. Hyman,
  • Peter K. Sorger,
  • Mark W. Albers,
  • Artem Sokolov

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21330-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Clinical trials of novel therapeutics for Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) have provided largely negative results, so far. Here, the authors present a machine learning framework that quantifies potential associations between the pathology of AD severity and gene-based molecular mechanisms to enable drug repurposing.