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- Title
Transcriptional dissection of symptomatic profiles across the brain of men and women with depression.
- Authors
Mansouri, Samaneh; Pessoni, André M.; Marroquín-Rivera, Arturo; Parise, Eric M.; Tamminga, Carol A.; Turecki, Gustavo; Nestler, Eric J.; Chen, Ting-Huei; Labonté, Benoit
- Abstract
Major depressive disorder (MDD) is one of the most important causes of disability worldwide. While recent work provides insights into the molecular alterations in the brain of patients with MDD, whether these molecular signatures can be associated with the expression of specific symptom domains remains unclear. Here, we identified sex-specific gene modules associated with the expression of MDD, combining differential gene expression and co-expression network analyses in six cortical and subcortical brain regions. Our results show varying levels of network homology between males and females across brain regions, although the associations between these structures and the expression of MDD remain highly sex specific. We refined these associations to several symptom domains and identified transcriptional signatures associated with distinct functional pathways, including GABAergic and glutamatergic neurotransmission, metabolic processes and intracellular signal transduction, across brain regions associated with distinct symptomatic profiles in a sex-specific fashion. In most cases, these associations were specific to males or to females with MDD, although a subset of gene modules associated with common symptomatic features in both sexes were also identified. Together, our findings suggest that the expression of distinct MDD symptom domains associates with sex-specific transcriptional structures across brain regions. Recent research sheds light on sex-specific molecular changes in the brains of MDD patients, but their association with specific symptoms is still uncertain. Here, the authors revealed the existence of gene signatures underlying the expression of distinct symptom domains in the brain of men and women with depression.
- Subjects
DEPRESSION in women; DEPRESSION in men; GENE expression; MENTAL depression; BRAIN; GENE regulatory networks; CELLULAR signal transduction; NEURAL transmission; SEXING of animals
- Publication
Nature Communications, 2023, Vol 14, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
2041-1723
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/s41467-023-42686-5