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Age‐related telomere attrition in the human putamen
Authors
KP Bhatia
T Goncalves
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M Grant‐Peters
DA Kia
M Ryten
SR Schreglmann
L Soreq
K Tomita
NW Wood
Publication date
2 May 2023
Publisher
'Wiley'
Doi
Abstract
Data Availability Statement: The raw data that support the findings of this study are available from the corresponding authors upon reasonable request. Demographic and clinical details of human control spleen-brain tissue donors used in this study are available from Table S1. Gene expression data used in this study are available from GTEx portal and from (Trabzuni et al., 2011).Supporting Information is available online at https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/acel.13861#support-information-section .Copyright © 2023 The Authors. . Age is a major risk factor for neurodegenerative diseases. Shortening of leucocyte telomeres with advancing age, arguably a measure of “biological” age, is a known phenomenon and epidemiologically correlated with age-related disease. The main mechanism of telomere shortening is cell division, rendering telomere length in post-mitotic cells presumably stable. Longitudinal measurement of human brain telomere length is not feasible, and cross-sectional cortical brain samples so far indicated no attrition with age. Hence, age-related changes in telomere length in the brain and the association between telomere length and neurodegenerative diseases remain unknown. Here, we demonstrate that mean telomere length in the putamen, a part of the basal ganglia, physiologically shortens with age, like leukocyte telomeres. This was achieved by using matched brain and leukocyte-rich spleen samples from 98 post-mortem healthy human donors. Using spleen telomeres as a reference, we further found that mean telomere length was brain region-specific, as telomeres in the putamen were significantly shorter than in the cerebellum. Expression analyses of genes involved in telomere length regulation and oxidative phosphorylation revealed that both region- and age-dependent expression pattern corresponded with region-dependent telomere length dynamics. Collectively, our results indicate that mean telomere length in the human putamen physiologically shortens with advancing age and that both local and temporal gene expression dynamics correlate with this, pointing at a potential mechanism for the selective, age-related vulnerability of the nigro-striatal network.Cancer Research UK. Grant Number: C36439/A12097; Horizon 2020 Framework Programme. Grant Number: 634821
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