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Longitudinal Expression Changes Are Weak Correlates Of Disease Progression In Huntington’s Disease

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posted on 2020-12-11, 09:25 authored by Christopher T Mitchell, Irina Krier, Jamshid Arjomand, Beth Borowsky, Sarah J Tabrizi, Blair R Leavitt, Ruth Luthi-Carter
Huntington’s disease is a severe but slowly progressive hereditary illness for which only symptomatic treatments are presently available. Clinical measures of disease progression are somewhat subjective and may require years to detect significant change. There is a clear need to identify more sensitive, objective and consistent measures to detect disease progression in Huntington’s disease clinical trials. Whereas Huntington’s disease demonstrates a robust and consistent gene expression signature in the brain, previous studies of blood cell RNAs have lacked concordance with clinical disease stage. Here we utilized longitudinally collected samples from a well-characterized cohort of control, Huntington’s disease-at-risk and Huntington’s disease subjects to evaluate the possible correlation of gene expression and disease status within individuals. We interrogated these data in both cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses. A number of changes in gene expression showed consistency within this study and as compared to previous reports in the literature. The magnitude of the mean disease effect over 2 years’ time was small, however, and did not track closely with motor symptom progression over the same time period. We therefore conclude that while blood-derived gene expression indicators can be of value in understanding Huntington’s disease pathogenesis, they are insufficiently sensitive to be of use as state biomarkers.

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This work was funded Project by CHDI Foundation, Inc., a nonprofit biomedical research organization exclusively dedicated to developing therapeutics that will substantially improve the lives of HD-affected individuals (Project A-3601). Salary support was also provided by the University of Leicester and the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. Supplementary

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Citation

Brain Communications, Volume 2, Issue 2, 2020, fcaa172, https://doi.org/10.1093/braincomms/fcaa172

Author affiliation

Department of Health Sciences, University of Leicester

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  • VoR (Version of Record)

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Brain Communications

Volume

2

Issue

2

Publisher

Oxford University Press (OUP)

eissn

2632-1297

Acceptance date

2020-09-16

Copyright date

2020

Available date

2020-10-17

Language

en

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