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Gene expression asymmetry in Parkinson's Disease; variation of CCT and BEX gene expression levels are correlated with hemisphere specific severity

Pierce, S. E.; van der Schans, E. J. C.; Ensink, E.; Coetzee, G. A.

2024-07-04 neuroscience
10.1101/2024.07.02.601704 bioRxiv
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Parkinsons Disease (PD) develops unilaterally, which may be related to brain hemispheric differences in gene expression. Here we measured bulk RNA-seq levels in neuronal nuclei obtained from prefrontal cortex postmortem brain samples from males and females with PD and from healthy controls. Left and right hemispheres from each brain were related the side of symptom onset and compared. We employed two a priori approaches; first we identified genes differentially expressed between PD and controls and between left vs right PD brain hemispheres. Second, we examined the presence of, and correlates to, variable asymmetry seen in candidate PD differentially expressed genes. We found large variation among individuals with PD, and PD stratification by gene expression similarity was required for patterns of genetic asymmetry to emerge. For a subset of PD brains, hemispherical variation of CCT and BEX gene levels correlated with the side of PD symptom onset.

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