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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS
Volume 109, Issue 2, Pages 311-327Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2021.12.009
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- National Centre of Excellence in Research on Parkinson Disease (NCER-PD) - Luxembourg National Research Fund [FNR/NCER13/BM/11264123]
- FNR (AFR, Aides a la Formation-Recherche)
- FNR [FNR9631103, INTER/DFG/19/14429377, PRIDE17/12244779/PARK-QC]
- LCSB flagship project
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Human brain organoids are a valuable tool for studying neurodegenerative diseases like Parkinson's disease. This study shows that the in vitro model of human midbrain organoids accurately recapitulates the developmental path and cellular composition of the in vivo midbrain. The researchers also discovered that a specific genetic variant affects neurodevelopment and identified potential candidate genes associated with this variant.
Human brain organoid models that recapitulate the physiology and complexity of the human brain have a great potential for in vitro disease modeling, in particular for neurodegenerative diseases, such as Parkinson disease. In the present study, we compare single-cell RNA-sequencing data of human midbrain organoids to the developing human embryonic midbrain. We demonstrate that the in vitro model is comparable to its in vivo equivalents in terms of developmental path and cellular composition. Moreover, we investigate the potential of midbrain organoids for modeling early developmental changes in Parkinson disease. Therefore, we compare the single-cell RNA-sequencing data of healthy-individual-derived midbrain organoids to their isogenic LRRK2-p.Gly2019Ser-mutant counterparts. We show that the LRRK2 p.Gly2019Ser variant alters neurodevelopment, resulting in an untimely and incomplete differentiation with reduced cellular variability. Finally, we present four candidate genes, APP, DNAJC6, GATA3, and PTN, that might contribute to the LRRK2p.Gly2019Ser-associated transcriptome changes that occur during early neurodevelopment.
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