IMR Press / JIN / Volume 21 / Issue 3 / DOI: 10.31083/j.jin2103076
Open Access Review
What we have learned to date from the omics approach to non-Alzheimer's dementias
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1 Department of Medical Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Kirklareli University, 39100 Merkez, Kırklareli, Turkey
2 Department of Neurology, Faculty of Medicine, Kirklareli University, 39100 Merkez, Kırklareli, Turkey
*Correspondence: mdemirci1979@gmail.com (Mehmet Demirci)
Academic Editor: Rafael Franco
J. Integr. Neurosci. 2022, 21(3), 76; https://doi.org/10.31083/j.jin2103076
Submitted: 7 December 2021 | Revised: 14 January 2022 | Accepted: 14 January 2022 | Published: 6 April 2022
Copyright: © 2022 The Author(s). Published by IMR Press.
This is an open access article under the CC BY 4.0 license.
Abstract

Worldwide, more than 50 million people live with dementia, and due to the rapidly aging population, dementia cases are expected to increase at least five times in 2050. 30%–40% of dementia cases are diagnosed as non-Alzheimer’s dementia. Common subtypes of non-Alzheimer’s dementia are known as vascular, Lewy body, and frontotemporal dementia. Despite advances in modern medicine, the mechanism of dementia is still not fully understood. The term “omics” is a general term and is used to comprehensively characterize molecules by functional and biological similarities, focusing on the basic biological processes of a living organism and these techniques have enabled us to examine the unknown areas of biology, such as the genome, transcriptome, proteome, microbiome, and metabolome. This review highlights the progress that has been made in omics research while noting the gaps in our knowledge.

Keywords
Omics
Non-Alzheimer's dementia
Host
Microorganism
Cognitive impairment
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