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Table 1 Summary of recent sc/snRNA-seq and snATC-seq studies on human brain tissue from individuals with AD, with publicly available data

From: Cell type-specific changes identified by single-cell transcriptomics in Alzheimer’s disease

Study

Donors (n)

Region

Cohort(s)

Nuclei (n)

Modalities

Cell types highlighted

Mathys, Davila-Valderrain, et al. (2019) [40]

48

DLPFC

ROS, MAP

60,462

snRNA-seq

Neu, Oligo, Astro, Mic

Grubman, Chew, Ouyang, et al. (2019) [41]

12

EC

VBB

13,214

snRNA-seq

Oligo, Astr, Mic, OPC

Zhou et al. (2020) [42]

32

PFC

ROS, MAP, Knight-ADRC, BRI

112,809

snRNA-seq

Neu, Oligo, Astro, Mic, Endo

Otero-Garcia et al. (2022) [43]

8

DLPFC

Multiple cohorts

116,684

scRNA-seq

Neu

Cain, Taga, et al. (2020) [28]

24

DLPFC

ROS, MAP

168,713

snRNA-seq

Neu, Oligo, Astro, Mic, Endo

Lau et al. (2020) [44]

20

PFC

SWDBB

167,776

snRNA-seq

Neu, Oligo, Astro, Mic, Endo

Olah, Menon, et al. (2020) [29]

17

DLPFC, TC

ROS, MAP

16,242

scRNA-seq

Mic

Leng, Li, et al. (2021) [45]

10

SFG, EC

NDBB, BBAS

106,136

snRNA-seq

Neu, Oligo, Astro, Mic

Gerrits et al. (2021) [46]

18

OC, OTC

NBB-IBB

482,472

snRNA-seq

Mic, Astro, Endo, Peri

Morabito, Miyoshi, Michael, et al. (2021) [47]

18

PFC

UCI MIND

61,472

snRNA-seq, snATC-seq

Neu, Oligo, Astro, Mic

Brase et al. (2021) [48]

67

PC

Knight-ADRC, DIAN

294,114

snRNA-seq

Neu, Oligo, Astro, Mic

Yang et al. (2022) [30]

26

SFC, H

Stanford/VA/NIA ACRC

143,793

snRNA-seq

Endo, Peri, Fibro

Sadick et al. (2022) [49]

16

PFC

NYU-ADRC, UCSD-ADRC, BTRC

65,180

snRNA-seq

Oligo, Astro

  1. Brain regions: DLPFC dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, EC entorhinal cortex, PFC prefrontal cortex, TC temporal cortex, SFG superior frontal gyrus, OC occipital cortex, OTC occipitotemporal cortex, PC parietal cortex, SFC superior frontal cortex, H hippocampus. Cohorts: ROS Religious Orders Study at Rush University, MAP Memory and Aging Project at Rush University, VBB Victorian Brain Bank at the Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, BRI Brain Research Institute at Niigata University, SWDBB South West Dementia Brain Bank, NDBB Neurodegenerative Disease Brain Bank at University of California San Francisco, BBAS Brazilian BioBank for Aging Studies at the University of Sao Paulo, NBB-IBB NeuroBiobank of the Institute Born-Bunge, UCI MIND University of California Irvine Institute for Memory Impairments and Neurological Disorders, Knight-ADRC Knight Alzheimer Disease Research Center at Washington University, DIAN Dominantly Inherited Alzheimer Network, Stanford/VA/NIA ACRC Stanford/VA/NIA Aging Clinical Research Center, NYU-ADRC NYU Grossman School of Medicine’s Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center, UCSD-ADRC University of California San Diego Shiley-Marcos ADRC, BTRC Rhode Island Hospital’s Brain Tissue Resource Center