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The evidence for a role of somatic mutations, including copy-number variants (CNVs), in neurodegeneration has increased in the last decade. However, the understanding of the types and origins of these mutations, and their exact contributions to disease onset and progression, is still in its infancy. The use of single-cell (or nuclear) whole-genome sequencing (scWGS) has emerged as a powerful tool to answer these questions. In the present chapter, we provide laboratory and bioinformatic protocols used successfully in our lab to detect megabase-scale CNVs in single cells from multiple system atrophy (MSA) human postmortem brains, using immunolabeling prior to selection of nuclei for whole-genome amplification (WGA). We also present an unpublished comparison of scWGS generated from the same control substantia nigra (SN) sample, using the latest versions of popular WGA chemistries, MDA and PicoPLEX. We have used this protocol to focus on brain cell types most relevant to synucleinopathies (dopaminergic [DA] neurons in Parkinson's disease [PD] and oligodendrocytes in MSA), but it can be applied to any tissue and/or cell type with appropriate markers.
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