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Published in final edited form as: Prog Neurobiol. 2015 Jun 11;131:21–64. doi: 10.1016/j.pneurobio.2015.05.002

Table 10.

Epigenetic dysregulation in Alzheimer’s disease: non-coding RNAs.

Regulation ncRNA Observed in Sample size Approach Methods Reference

miR-124 AD patients 11 Targeted WB, RT-PCR Smith et al., 2011a
miR-195 AD mouse model (SAMP8) N.S. Targeted
(5 miRNAs)
RT-PCR Zhu et al., 2012
miR-29a/b-1 sAD patients
(anterior temporal cortex)
34 Genome-wide miRNA microarray Hebert et al., 2008
↑↑ miR-29c AD mouse model (APPswe/PSΔE9) 6 Targeted RT-PCR Zong et al., 2011
miR-107 AD patients 7, 10 Genome-wide miRNA microarray,
rna22 algorithm
Wang et al., 2008c, 2011
AD mouse model (Tg19959 mice) 7 Targeted RT-PCR Yao et al., 2000
miR-106b AD patients (anterior temporal cortex) 19 Targeted
(200 miRNAs)
miRNA microarray,
Northern blot
Hebert et al., 2009
miR-9, miR-181c AD patients 15 (Brain)
10 (cSF)
Targeted
(48 miRNAs)
PCR Cogswell et al., 2008
miR-132 AD patients (hippocampus,
cerebellum, medial frontal gyrus)
6 Targeted
(15 miRNAs)
Northern Blot Sethi and Lukiw, 2009
miR-15 Dicer cKO mice 8–10 Targeted
(200 miRNAs)
miRNA microarray Hebert et al., 2010
miR-26a AD patients 15 (Brain)
10 (csf)
Targeted
(48 miRNAs)
PCR Cogswell et al., 2008
miR-101 HeLa, HEK293T, U373, SK-N-SH,
PC12 cells
- Targeted
(1 miRNA)
PCR Long and Lahiri, 2011
miR-125b AD patients (hippocampus,
cerebellum, medial frontal gyrus)
6 Targeted
(15 miRNAs)
Northern Blot Sethi and Lukiw, 2009
BC200 AD patients (hippocampus,
superior frontal gyrus)
12 Targeted
(2 miRNAs)
Northern Blot, ISH Mus et al., 2007
BC200 AD patients (temporal neocortex) 12 Targeted
(2 miRNAs)
Northern Blot, ISH Mus et al., 2007
miR-103 AD mouse model (Tg19959 mice) 7 Targeted
(2 miRNAs)
RT-PCR Yao et al., 2000
BACE1-AS AD patients 2 Targeted
(48 probes)
High-throughput
sequencing, ECA
Faghihi et al., 2010
ncRNA 17a AD patients 11 Targeted
(5 probes)
RT-PCR Massone et al., 2011

indicates increased expression levels,

indicates decreased expression levels, and

indicates altered expression, not further specified.

Abbreviations: AD, Alzheimer’s disease; BACE1-AS, β-secretase 1-antisense; BC200, brain cytoplasmic RNA 200; Dicer cKO mice, conditional Dicer1 knock-out mouse model; HeLa cells, immortalized cell line established from cervical cancer cells of Henrietta Lacks; miR, micro RNA; miR-29c transgenic mice, transgenic mouse model overexpressing miR-29c; ncRNA, non-coding RNA; sAD, sporadic AD; SAMP8 mouse, senescence-accelerated prone mouse 8; Tg19959 mice, transgenic mouse model overexpressing mutant human APP with the double KM670/671NL Swedish and V717F Indiana mutations; N.S., not specified; CSF, cerebrospinal fluid; PCR, polymerase chain reaction; RT-PCR, real time-PCR; WB, Western blot; ISH, in situ hybridization; ECA, enzyme complementation assay.