Specimens
The Adult Changes in Thought (ACT) study is a longitudinal population-based prospective cohort study of brain aging and incident dementia in the Seattle metropolitan area. This cohort includes 5,000+ participants of which more than 700 have agreed to autopsy upon their death. From this smaller population were chosen participants who had experienced at least one mild to moderate traumatic brain injury (TBI) with a loss of consciousness, along with sex-, age- and post mortem interval- (PMI) matched controls. The specimens page lists this cohort sub-group in a sortable matrix which allows for exploration of the donors by various demographic and/or pathological features.
Clicking on the column header will sort alphanumerically, clicking twice will toggle between ascending and descending order.
Specimen Detail Page
Clicking on a link from the Specimens page or clicking on a circle from the t-SNE plot from one of the data snapshots will open a specimen detail page. This page allows access to the data collected from this donor including {#Gene Detail], #Gene Set, #Neuropathology Metric Detail, #Neuropathology Metrics, #Donor Detail and #Image Data.
Gene Detail
Once a data point is selected in the gene set panel, details of that gene will populate this space including the gene symbol, the gene name, the expression value from the RNA-Sequencing data, and a link to other Allen Institute datasets that have measured this gene.
Gene Set
The gene set panel is populated by the genes in the data snapshot (if you linked from a specific snapshot) or by the entire gene set that was used in all the snapshots (if you arrived from the Specimens page). The column headers are the samples from this donor that were sequenced. The gene set is a smaller version of the heatmap from the RNA-Sequencing data limited by the number of genes and the the donor. For more information on the heatmap functionality, click here. The icon in the top right-hand corner of the gene set display will link you to the RNA-Seq data for all donors and samples.
Neuropathology Metric Detail
Once a datapoint in the neuropathology metrics display is selected, metric detail will populate this panel (and if the metrics came from an image, the image will also populate the image data panel) including the short and long names of the metric, the method used to collect the metric, a description of what the metric is and it's significance and the value collected or calculated.