Transcriptomic profiling of peripheral blood mononuclear cells from patients with Parkinson's disease and control subjects. Homo sapiens

To get insight into systemic molecular events associated with Parkinson's disease (PD), an age-related neurodegenerative disorder, we compared gene expression patterns of peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) derived from elderly healhy controls and from PD patients. Overall design: Transcriptomic profiling of patients with Parkinson's disease and control subjects. RNA were extracted from peripheral mononuclear blood cells and were hybridized on 4x44k Agilent expression microarrays.