Dementia with Lewy bodies: genomics, transcriptomics, and its future with data science

Goddard, TR, Brookes, KJ ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2427-2513, Sharma, R, Moemeni, A and Rajkumar, AP, 2024. Dementia with Lewy bodies: genomics, transcriptomics, and its future with data science. Cells, 13 (3): 223. ISSN 2073-4409

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Abstract

Dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) is a significant public health issue. It is the second most common neurodegenerative dementia and presents with severe neuropsychiatric symptoms. Genomic and transcriptomic analyses have provided some insight into disease pathology. Variants within SNCA, GBA, APOE, SNCB, and MAPT have been shown to be associated with DLB in repeated genomic studies. Transcriptomic analysis, conducted predominantly on candidate genes, has identified signatures of synuclein aggregation, protein degradation, amyloid deposition, neuroinflammation, mitochondrial dysfunction, and the upregulation of heat-shock proteins in DLB. Yet, the understanding of DLB molecular pathology is incomplete. This precipitates the current clinical position whereby there are no available disease-modifying treatments or blood-based diagnostic biomarkers. Data science methods have the potential to improve disease understanding, optimising therapeutic intervention and drug development, to reduce disease burden. Genomic prediction will facilitate the early identification of cases and the timely application of future disease-modifying treatments. Transcript-level analyses across the entire transcriptome and machine learning analysis of multi-omic data will uncover novel signatures that may provide clues to DLB pathology and improve drug development. This review will discuss the current genomic and transcriptomic understanding of DLB, highlight gaps in the literature, and describe data science methods that may advance the field.

Item Type: Journal article
Publication Title: Cells
Creators: Goddard, T.R., Brookes, K.J., Sharma, R., Moemeni, A. and Rajkumar, A.P.
Publisher: MDPI
Date: 25 January 2024
Volume: 13
Number: 3
ISSN: 2073-4409
Identifiers:
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Type
10.3390/cells13030223
DOI
2260868
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Rights: This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Divisions: Schools > School of Science and Technology
Record created by: Jonathan Gallacher
Date Added: 23 Oct 2024 09:13
Last Modified: 23 Oct 2024 09:13
URI: https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/52458

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