[HTML][HTML] Identification of vulnerable cell types in major brain disorders using single cell transcriptomes and expression weighted cell type enrichment

NG Skene, SGN Grant - Frontiers in neuroscience, 2016 - frontiersin.org
The cell types that trigger the primary pathology in many brain diseases remain largely
unknown. One route to understanding the primary pathological cell type for a particular …

[HTML][HTML] Cross-laboratory analysis of brain cell type transcriptomes with applications to interpretation of bulk tissue data

BO Mancarci, L Toker, SJ Tripathy, B Li, B Rocco… - eneuro, 2017 - eneuro.org
Establishing the molecular diversity of cell types is crucial for the study of the nervous
system. We compiled a cross-laboratory database of mouse brain cell type-specific …

[HTML][HTML] Single nucleus multi-omics identifies human cortical cell regulatory genome diversity

C Luo, H Liu, F Xie, EJ Armand, K Siletti, TE Bakken… - Cell genomics, 2022 - cell.com
Single-cell technologies measure unique cellular signatures but are typically limited to a
single modality. Computational approaches allow the fusion of diverse single-cell data …

[HTML][HTML] Revealing cell vulnerability in Alzheimer's disease by single-cell transcriptomics

CA Saura, A Deprada, MD Capilla-López… - Seminars in cell & …, 2023 - Elsevier
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disorder that by affecting specific brain cell
types and regions cause severe pathological and functional changes in memory neural …

A cell epigenotype specific model for the correction of brain cellular heterogeneity bias and its application to age, brain region and major depression

J Guintivano, MJ Aryee, ZA Kaminsky - Epigenetics, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
Brain cellular heterogeneity may bias cell type specific DNA methylation patterns,
influencing findings in psychiatric epigenetic studies. We performed fluorescence activated …

[HTML][HTML] Inference of cell type content from human brain transcriptomic datasets illuminates the effects of age, manner of death, dissection, and psychiatric diagnosis

MH Hagenauer, A Schulmann, JZ Li, MP Vawter… - PloS one, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Psychiatric illness is unlikely to arise from pathology occurring uniformly across all cell types
in affected brain regions. Despite this, transcriptomic analyses of the human brain have …

Cell-type-specific cis-eQTLs in eight human brain cell types identify novel risk genes for psychiatric and neurological disorders

J Bryois, D Calini, W Macnair, L Foo, E Urich… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
To date, most expression quantitative trait loci (eQTL) studies, which investigate how genetic
variants contribute to gene expression, have been performed in heterogeneous brain …

[HTML][HTML] eFORGE: a tool for identifying cell type-specific signal in epigenomic data

CE Breeze, DS Paul, J van Dongen, LM Butcher… - Cell reports, 2016 - cell.com
Epigenome-wide association studies (EWAS) provide an alternative approach for studying
human disease through consideration of non-genetic variants such as altered DNA …

[HTML][HTML] Single-cell RNA sequencing analysis of human Alzheimer's disease brain samples reveals neuronal and glial specific cells differential expression

L Soreq, H Bird, W Mohamed, J Hardy - PLoS One, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Alzheimer's disease is the most common neurological disease worldwide. Unfortunately,
there are currently no effective treatment methods nor early detection methods. Furthermore …

[HTML][HTML] Deconvolving the contributions of cell-type heterogeneity on cortical gene expression

E Patrick, M Taga, A Ergun, B Ng… - PLOS Computational …, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Complexity of cell-type composition has created much skepticism surrounding the
interpretation of bulk tissue transcriptomic studies. Recent studies have shown that …