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dc.titleEarly white matter pathology in the fornix of the limbic system in Huntington disease
dc.contributor.authorGabery, Sanaz
dc.contributor.authorKwa, Jing Eugene
dc.contributor.authorCheong, Rachel Y.
dc.contributor.authorBaldo, Barbara
dc.contributor.authorFerrari Bardile, C.
dc.contributor.authorTan, Brendan
dc.contributor.authorMcLean, Catriona
dc.contributor.authorGeorgiou-Karistianis, Nellie
dc.contributor.authorPoudel, Govinda R.
dc.contributor.authorHalliday, Glenda
dc.contributor.authorPouladi, Mahmoud A.
dc.contributor.authorPetersén, Å.
dc.date.accessioned2022-10-11T08:07:26Z
dc.date.available2022-10-11T08:07:26Z
dc.date.issued2021-08-26
dc.identifier.citationGabery, Sanaz, Kwa, Jing Eugene, Cheong, Rachel Y., Baldo, Barbara, Ferrari Bardile, C., Tan, Brendan, McLean, Catriona, Georgiou-Karistianis, Nellie, Poudel, Govinda R., Halliday, Glenda, Pouladi, Mahmoud A., Petersén, Å. (2021-08-26). Early white matter pathology in the fornix of the limbic system in Huntington disease. Acta Neuropathologica 142 (5) : 791-806. ScholarBank@NUS Repository. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00401-021-02362-8
dc.identifier.issn0001-6322
dc.identifier.urihttps://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/232202
dc.description.abstractHuntington disease (HD) is a fatal neurodegenerative disorder caused by an expanded CAG repeat in the huntingtin (HTT) gene. The typical motor symptoms have been associated with basal ganglia pathology. However, psychiatric and cognitive symptoms often precede the motor component and may be due to changes in the limbic system. Recent work has indicated pathology in the hypothalamus in HD but other parts of the limbic system have not been extensively studied. Emerging evidence suggests that changes in HD also include white matter pathology. Here we investigated if the main white matter tract of the limbic system, the fornix, is affected in HD. We demonstrate that the fornix is 34% smaller already in prodromal HD and 41% smaller in manifest HD compared to controls using volumetric analyses of MRI of the IMAGE-HD study. In post-mortem fornix tissue from HD cases, we confirm the smaller fornix volume in HD which is accompanied by signs of myelin breakdown and reduced levels of the transcription factor myelin regulating factor but detect no loss of oligodendrocytes. Further analyses using RNA-sequencing demonstrate downregulation of oligodendrocyte identity markers in the fornix of HD cases. Analysis of differentially expressed genes based on transcription-factor/target-gene interactions also revealed enrichment for binding sites of SUZ12 and EZH2, components of the Polycomb Repressive Complex 2, as well as RE1 Regulation Transcription Factor. Taken together, our data show that there is early white matter pathology of the fornix in the limbic system in HD likely due to a combination of reduction in oligodendrocyte genes and myelin break down. © 2021, The Author(s).
dc.publisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
dc.rightsAttribution 4.0 International
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.sourceScopus OA2021
dc.subjectFornix
dc.subjectHuntingtin
dc.subjectMRI
dc.subjectOligodendrocyte
dc.subjectRNA sequencing
dc.typeArticle
dc.contributor.departmentPHYSIOLOGY
dc.description.doi10.1007/s00401-021-02362-8
dc.description.sourcetitleActa Neuropathologica
dc.description.volume142
dc.description.issue5
dc.description.page791-806
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