Extracellular miRNA biomarkers in neurologic disease: is cerebrospinal fluid helpful?

Biomark Med. 2021 Sep 13. doi: 10.2217/bmm-2021-0092. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTAim: The aim of our work is to aggregate data from publications of cerebrospinal fluid extracellular miRNA to identify candidate diagnostic biomarkers, and those warranting further study. Materials & methods: Data were pooled from nine studies, encompassing 864 patients across 16 diseases. Unsupervised clustering grouped patients by a broad category of diseases. Results & conclusion: Compared with healthy controls, in patients with Alzheimer's disease, hsa-miR-767-5p was overexpressed (p < 0.001) and in patients with Huntington's disease, hsa-miR-361-3p was underexpressed (p < 10-4). We also define a subset of extracellular miRNA as candidate biomarkers that are robustly detected across patients, studies and diseases; thereby, warranting further study.PMID:34514843 | DOI:10.2217/bmm-2021-0092
Source: Future Medicine: Biomarkers in Medicine - Category: Internal Medicine Authors: Source Type: research