Yann Roche

This week, exploring the application of AI for early drug discovery has been enlightening. The module at MIT Sloan School of Management has been particularly insightful for me and Normandie Valorisation. #AI #DrugDiscovery #MIT #SloanSchool

📃Scientific paper: Mapping medically relevant RNA isoform diversity in the aged human frontal cortex with deep long-read RNA-seq Abstract: The landscape of RNA isoforms in human cortex is revealed by deep long-read RNA sequencing. Determining whether the RNA isoforms from medically relevant genes have distinct functions could facilitate direct targeting of RNA isoforms for disease treatment. Here, as a step toward this goal for neurological diseases, we sequenced 12 postmortem, aged human frontal cortices (6 Alzheimer disease cases and 6 controls; 50% female) using one Oxford Nanopore PromethION flow cell per sample. We identified 1,917 medically relevant genes expressing multiple isoforms in the frontal cortex where 1,018 had multiple isoforms with different protein-coding sequences. Of these 1,018 genes, 57 are implicated in brain-related diseases including major depression, schizophrenia, Parkinson’s disease and Alzheimer disease. Our study also uncovered 53 new RNA isoforms in medically relevant genes, including several where the new isoform was one of the most highly expressed for that gene. We also reported on five mitochondrially encoded, spliced RNA isoforms. We found 99 differentially expressed RNA isoforms between cases with Alzheimer disease and controls. Continued on ES/IODE ➡️ https://etcse.fr/6EHU ------- If you find this interesting, feel free to follow, comment and share. We need your help to enhance our visibility, so that our platform continues to serve you. #alzheimer #science #health