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Glenn Doyle
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Single-nuclei transcriptomics of schizophrenia prefrontal cortex primarily implicates neuronal subtypes

Benjamin Reiner et al.Jul 29, 2020
Abstract Transcriptomic studies of bulk neural tissue homogenates from persons with schizophrenia and controls have identified differentially expressed genes in multiple brain regions. However, the brain’s heterogeneous nature prevents identification of relevant cell types. This study analyzed single-nuclei transcriptomics of ~275,000 nuclei from frozen human postmortem dorsolateral prefrontal cortex samples from males with schizophrenia (n = 12) and controls (n = 14). 4,766 differential expression events were identified in 2,994 unique genes in 16 of 20 transcriptomically-distinct cell populations. ~96% of differentially expressed genes occurred in five neuronal cell types, and differentially expressed genes were enriched for genes associated with schizophrenia and bipolar GWAS loci. Downstream analyses identified cluster-specific enriched gene ontologies, KEGG pathways, and canonical pathways. Additionally, microRNAs and transcription factors with overrepresented neuronal cell type-specific targets were identified. These results expand our knowledge of disrupted gene expression in specific cell types and permit new insight into the pathophysiology of schizophrenia.
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