The Mount Sinai Brain Bank (MSBB) RNA-seq study was downloaded from the AMP-AD portal (synapse ID = 3,157,743; accessed January 2017) (Table 1). Single-end reads of 100 nt were generated by Illumina HiSeq 2500 System (Illumina, San Diego, CA, USA) for an average of 38.7 million reads per sample [39].
