Lorenza Lombardini

Dr. Lorenza Lombardini


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Academic Career Length

9Years (2018-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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25 May 2018 in Genes
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EMElisa Mariani
Elisa Mariani
LLLorenza Lombardini
Lorenza Lombardini
FEDERICA FACCHINFEDERICA FACCHIN
FEDERICA FACCHIN
FPFABRIZIO PIZZETTI
FABRIZIO PIZZETTI
FFFlavia Frabetti
Flavia Frabetti
RCRaffaella Casadei
Raffaella Casadei
Parkinson’s disease (PD) is one of the most common progressive neurodegenerative diseases. Clinical and epidemiological studies indicate that sex differences, as well as genetic components and ageing, can influence the prevalence, age at onset and symptomatology of PD. This study undertook a systematic meta-analysis of substantia nigra microarray data using the Transcriptome Mapper (TRAM) software to integrate and normalize a total of 10 suitable datasets from multiple sources. Four different analyses were performed according to default parameters, to better define the segments differentially expressed between PD patients and healthy controls, when comparing men and women data sets. The results suggest a possible regulation of specific sex-biased systems in PD susceptibility. TRAM software allowed us to highlight the different activation of some genomic regions and loci involved in molecular pathways related to neurodegeneration and neuroinflammatory mechanisms.