Understandingnormal and diseased human basal ganglia using combinatory indexing single nuclei RNA sequencing

With the advent of single cell technology and its rapid applications in the biomedical field,it becomes possible to identify,categorize and characterize each single cell in the brain.Shanghai Brain Bank is accumulating donorbrains very fast(estimately 80 brains till now)from people with normal aging or various neurodegenerative diseases.The basal ganglia is critical for movement control,behavior,cognition,emotion and reward.Many neurodegenerative diseases are related to the abnormality or aging of human basal ganglia.Single nuclei transcriptomic profiles of both normal and diseased human basal ganglia are still sparse.In our study,we systematically examined different nuclei(caudate,putamen,globus pallidus,and substantia nigra)in human basal ganglia from 6 control and 5 diseased donors(2 psychiatric diseases,2 PD and 1 AD)using combinatory indexing single nuclei RNA sequencing.Gene expression was measured on a total of 22309 control and 42590 diseased single cells.