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ArticleiScience2026

Multi-region brain transcriptomes uncover two subtypes of aging individuals with differences in Alzheimer risk and the impact of

Annie J Lee, Yiyi Ma, Lei Yu, Robert J Dawe, Cristin McCabe, Konstantinos Arfanakis, Richard Mayeux, David A Bennett, Hans-Ulrich Klein, Philip L De Jager

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Article in iScience, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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14 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors.

Annie J LeeDepartment of Neurology, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA.
Yiyi MaDepartment of Neurology, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA.
Lei YuRush Alzheimer Disease Center, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60612, USA.
Robert J DaweRush Alzheimer Disease Center, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60612, USA.
Cristin McCabeBroad Institute, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA.
Konstantinos ArfanakisRush Alzheimer Disease Center, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60612, USA.
Richard MayeuxDepartment of Neurology, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA.
David A BennettRush Alzheimer Disease Center, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60612, USA.
Hans-Ulrich KleinDepartment of Neurology, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA.
Philip L De JagerDepartment of Neurology, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA.

Funding

The Health & Aging Brain Study - Health Disparities (HABS-HD)U19AG078109 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS HLTH SCI CTR · PI Sid E O'Bryant · 2022 to 2026
$181.1M
SUPPLEMENT TO RUSH ALZHEIMERS DISEASE CENTER COREP30AG010161 · NIA · RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER · PI BENNETT, DAVID ALAN · 1991 to 2020
$49.1M
EPIDEMIOLOGY OF NEURAL RESERVE AND NEUROBIOLOGY IN AGINGR01AG017917 · NIA · RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER · PI BENNETT, DAVID ALAN · 2001 to 2023
$43.3M
Research Education CoreP30AG066462 · NIA · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI PHILIP L DE JAGER · 2020 to 2026
$30.1M
RISK FACTORS, PATHOLOGY, AND CLINICAL EXPRESSIONS OF ADR01AG015819 · NIA · RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER · PI BENNETT, DAVID ALAN · 1998 to 2024
$21.4M
Multi-omic network-directed proteoform discovery, dissection and functional validation to prioritize novel AD therapeutic targetsU01AG061356 · NIA · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI BENNETT, DAVID ALAN, DE JAGER, PHILIP L · 2018 to 2022
$13.7M
Pathway discovery, validation and compound identification for Alzheimer's disease - SupplementU01AG046152 · NIA · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI BENNETT, DAVID ALAN, DE JAGER, PHILIP L · 2013 to 2017
$13.6M
Exploring the Role of the Brain Transcriptome in Cognitive DeclineR01AG036836 · NIA · BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL · PI DE JAGER, PHILIP L · 2011 to 2014
$2.9M
Genetic Association Between Alzheimer's Disease and Cardio-Cerebrovascular Risk FactorsK01AG084849 · NIA · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI Annie J Lee · 2024 to 2026
$377k
NIA NIH HHS K01 AG084849NIA NIH HHS P30 AG010161NIA NIH HHS P30 AG066462NIA NIH HHS R01 AG015819NIA NIH HHS R01 AG017917NIA NIH HHS R01 AG036836NIA NIH HHS U01 AG046152NIA NIH HHS U01 AG061356NIA NIH HHS U19 AG078109
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The heterogeneity of the aging population suggests the existence of molecularly distinct subgroups that differ in vulnerability to Alzheimer's disease (AD), yet this population structure remains poorly defined. We performed unsupervised clustering of multi-region brain transcriptomes to assess whether integrating data across regions involved in cognition could uncover such subgroups. Canonical correlation-based analysis in a discovery cohort of 459 participants with RNA-sequencing data from three regions (dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, posterior cingulate cortex, and anterior caudate), followed by replication in 690 additional participants with partial data, identified two meta-clusters (MC-1 and MC-2). These groups differed in cognitive trajectories, with MC-2 showing a three-year delay in dementia onset relative to MC-1. This may reflect, in part, a greater impact of tau pathology on neuronal chromatin architecture, white matter loss, and

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aging brainAlzheimer’s diseasecanonical correlation analysiscognitive declinemolecular vulnerabilitymulti-region transcriptomicsunsupervised clustering

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PMID42620705
PMCPMC13486859

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