A Genome-Wide Study of Single-Nucleotide Polymorphisms in MicroRNAs and Further In Silico Analysis Reveals Their Putative Role in Susceptibility to Late-Onset Alzheimer’s Disease

Abstract Late-onset Alzheimer’s disease (LOAD) is a neurodegenerative disorder of growing relevance in an aging society for which predictive biomarkers are needed. Many genes involved in LOAD are tightly controlled by microRNAs (miRNAs), which can be modulated by single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). Our aim was to determine the association between SNPs in miRNAs and LOAD. We selected all SNPs in pre-miRNAs with a minor allele frequency (MAF) > 1% and genotyped them in a cohort of 229 individuals diagnosed with LOAD and 237 unrelated healthy controls. In silico analyses were performed to predict the effect of SNPs on miRNA stability and detect downstream pathways. Four SNPs were associated with LOAD risk with a p value < 0.01 (rs74704964 in hsa-miR-518d, rs71363366 in hsa-miR-1283-2, rs11983381 in hsa-miR-4653, and rs10934682 in hsa-miR-544b). In silico analyses support a possible functional effect of those SNPs in miRNA levels and in the regulation of pathways of relevance for the development of LOAD. Although the results are promising, additional studies are needed to validate the association between SNPs in miRNAs and the risk of developing LOAD. Graphical abstract.

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2020

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2020

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:58

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Molecular neurobiology - 58(2020), 1 vom: 06. Sept., Seite 55-64

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Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Herrera-Espejo, Soraya [VerfasserIn]
Santos-Zorrozua, Borja [VerfasserIn]
Alvarez-Gonzalez, Paula [VerfasserIn]
Martin-Guerrero, Idoia [VerfasserIn]
M. de Pancorbo, Marian [VerfasserIn]
Garcia-Orad, Africa [VerfasserIn]
Lopez-Lopez, Elixabet [VerfasserIn]

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Late-onset Alzheimer’s disease
MicroRNAs
Single nucleotide polymorphisms
Susceptibility

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© Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2020

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10.1007/s12035-020-02103-0

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OLC2121541381

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