Integrative Transcriptomic Meta-Analysis Reveals SIRT1-SNCA Correlation in Parkinson's Disease

Resveratrol is recovered across all 33 Parkinson’s disease transcriptomic comparisons, and SIRT1 is recovered in 6 comparisons spanning postmortem brain, iPSC models, and dopaminergic cell lines.

• Why it matters: Candidate targets found in one PD model often fail to replicate across postmortem tissue, iPSC-derived systems, and cell models, limiting clinical translation.
• What they did: The study integrated differential expression and functional enrichment across 33 public datasets, then used STRING protein-protein interaction networks and drug-gene screening against a polyphenol panel.
• The result: Resveratrol was linked to 30 target genes, with SIRT1 connected to SNCA in four directional patterns that were inverse in postmortem brain and positive in acutely toxin-exposed cells.

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