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Table 1 Summary of public gene expression data sets used in the discovery, validation, and secondary validation data set meta-analyses

From: Integrated multi-cohort transcriptional meta-analysis of neurodegenerative diseases

Disease

Accession #

Study first author

Year

Citation

Cases

Controls

Total samples

Tissue source

Discovery

ALS

GSE4595

Lederer

2007

[22]

11

9

20

Motor cortex

ALS

GSE26927

Durrenberger

2012

[23]

10

10

20

Cervical spinal cord

HD

GSE3790

Hodges

2006

[24]

19

16

35

Motor cortex

HD

GSE26927

Durrenberger

2012

[23]

10

10

20

Ventral head of caudate nucleus

PD

GSE7621

Lesnick

2007

[25]

16

9

25

Substantia nigra

PD

E-MTAB812

Dumitriu

2012

[26]

27

26

53

Dorsolateral prefrontal cortex

PD

GSE20291

Zhang

2005

[27]

15

20

35

Putamen

AD

GSE29378

Miller

2013

[28]

16

16

32

Hippocampus (CA1)

AD

GSE36980

Hokama

2013

[29]

15

12

27

Frontal cortex

AD

GSE26927

Durrenberger

2012

[23]

11

7

18

Entorhinal cortex

TOTAL

150

135

285

 

Validation

HD

GSE33000

Zhu

2013

a

157

155

312

Dorsolateral prefrontal cortex

AD

GSE33000

Zhu

2013

b

310

c

310

Dorsolateral prefrontal cortex

AD

GSE15222

Webster

2009

[30]

176

187

363

Various cortical regions

TOTAL

643

342

985

 

Secondary validation

PD

GSE26927

Durrenberger

2012

[23]

12

8

20

Substantia nigra

PD

GSE20333

Grunblatt

2004

[31]

6

6

12

Substantia nigra

PD

GSE20164

Hauser

2005

[32]

6

5

11

Substantia nigra

PD

GSE20163

Zheng

2010

[16]

8

9

17

Substantia nigra

PD

GSE8397

Moran

2006

[33]

9

7

16

Lateral substantia nigra

PD

GSE7307

Roth

2008

a

5

13

18

Putamen

PD

GSE19587

Lewandowski

2010

[34]

6

5

11

Dorsal motor nucleus of Vagus nerve

PD

GSE20146

Zheng

2010

[16]

10

10

20

Globus pallidus interna

AD

GSE1297

Blalock

2004

[35]

22

9

31

Hippocampus

AD

E-MEXP2280

Bronner

2009

[36]

5

5

10

Medial temporal lobe

PiD

E-MEXP2280

Bronner

2009

[36]

5

d

5

Medial temporal lobe

PSP

E-MEXP2280

Bronner

2009

[36]

5

d

5

Medial temporal lobe

FTLD (C)

E-MEXP2280

Bronner

2009

[36]

5

d

5

Medial temporal lobe

FTLD-U (GRN+)

GSE13162

Chen-Plotkin

2008

[37]

6

8

14

Frontal cortex

FTLD-U (GRN-)

GSE13162

Chen-Plotkin

2008

[37]

10

e

10

Frontal cortex

TOTAL

120

85

205

 
  1. See Additional file 1: Table S1 for individual sample accession numbers. ALS, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; HD, Huntington’s disease; PD, Parkinson’s disease; AD, Alzheimer’s disease; PiD, classical Pick’s disease; PSP, progressive supranuclear palsy; FTLD, frontotemporal lobar dementia; FTLD (C), FTLD Constantinidis type C; FTLD-U, FTLD with ubiquitin- and TDP-43-positive inclusions; GRN+/–, progranulin mutation positive/negative. anot published yet; bpublished in part in [38]; csame control samples as the GSE33000 HD data; dsame control samples as the E-MEXP-2280 PiD data; esame control samples as the GSE13162 FTLD-U (GRN+) data.