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Zelaya Huerta, María Victoria

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Zelaya Huerta

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María Victoria

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Ciencias de la Salud

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    Early epigenetic changes of Alzheimer's disease in the human hippocampus
    (2020) Blanco Luquin, Idoia; Acha Santamaría, Blanca; Urdánoz Casado, Amaya; Sánchez Ruiz de Gordoa, Javier; Vicuña-Urriza, Janire; Roldán, Miren; Labarga Gutiérrez, Alberto; Zelaya Huerta, María Victoria; Cabello, Carolina; Méndez López, Iván; Mendióroz Iriarte, Maite; Ciencias de la Salud; Osasun Zientziak; Sociología y Trabajo Social; Soziologia eta Gizarte Lana; Gobierno de Navarra / Nafarroako Gobernua
    The discovery of new biomarkers would be very valuable to improve the detection of early Alzheimer's disease (AD). DNA methylation marks may serve as epigenetic biomarkers of early AD. Here we identified epigenetic marks that are present in the human hippocampus from the earliest stages of AD. A previous methylome dataset of the human AD hippocampus was used to select a set of eight differentially methylated positions (DMPs) since early AD stages. Next, bisulphite pyrosequencing was performed in an expanded homogeneous cohort of 18 pure controls and 35 hippocampal samples with neuropathological changes of pure AD. Correlation between DNA methylation levels in DMPs and phospho-tau protein burden assessed by immunohistochemistry in the hippocampus was also determined. We found four DMPs showing higher levels of DNA methylation at early AD stages compared to controls, involving ELOVL2, GIT1/TP53I13 and the histone gene locus at chromosome 6. DNA methylation levels assessed by bisulphite pyrosequencing correlated with phospho-tau protein burden for ELOVL2 and HIST1H3E/HIST1H3 F genes. In this discovery study, a set of four epigenetic marks of early AD stages have been identified in the human hippocampus. It would be worth studying in-depth the specific pathways related to these epigenetic marks. These early alterations in DNA methylation in the AD hippocampus could be regarded as candidate biomarkers to be explored in future translational studies.