Composite
53%
Novelty
50%
Feasibility
60%
Impact
65%
Mechanistic
50%
Druggability
55%
Safety
40%
Confidence
55%

Mechanistic description

Polycomb-to-Trithorax Switch at Synaptic Plasticity Genes

Mechanism / pathway

  1. Polycomb-to-Trithorax Switch at
  2. neurodegeneration

Evidence for (5)

  • Glycinergic transmission.

    PMID:16807723 2006 Cell Tissue Res
  • Transcriptional dynamics orchestrating the development and integration of neurons born in the adult hippocampus.

    PMID:39028813 2024 Sci Adv
  • c-Fos and neuronal plasticity: the aftermath of Kaczmarek's theory.

    PMID:30624427 2018 Acta Neurobiol Exp (Wars)
  • Widespread promoter methylation of synaptic plasticity genes in long-term potentiation in the adult brain in vivo.

    PMID:28335720 2017 BMC Genomics
  • A genetic switch for long-term memory.

    PMID:9759326 1998 C R Acad Sci III

Evidence against (2)

  • Histone bivalency is central to CNS development, but developmental chromatin logic does not directly prove a late-life neurodegenerative plasticity-gene switch failure.

    PMID:39880657 2025 Genes Dev
  • Epigenetic switches in neurodevelopment are pleiotropic and context-dependent, which weakens a narrow Polycomb-to-Trithorax causal model for neurodegeneration.

    PMID:26029068 2015 Front Behav Neurosci

Evidence matrix

5 supporting 2 contradicting
49% posterior support

Supporting

  • Glycinergic transmission. PMID:16807723 · 2006 · Cell Tissue Res
  • Transcriptional dynamics orchestrating the development and integration of neurons born in the adult hippocampus. PMID:39028813 · 2024 · Sci Adv
  • c-Fos and neuronal plasticity: the aftermath of Kaczmarek's theory. PMID:30624427 · 2018 · Acta Neurobiol Exp (Wars)
  • Widespread promoter methylation of synaptic plasticity genes in long-term potentiation in the adult brain in vivo. PMID:28335720 · 2017 · BMC Genomics
  • A genetic switch for long-term memory. PMID:9759326 · 1998 · C R Acad Sci III

Contradicting

  • Histone bivalency is central to CNS development, but developmental chromatin logic does not directly prove a late-life neurodegenerative plasticity-gene switch failure. PMID:39880657 · 2025 · Genes Dev
  • Epigenetic switches in neurodevelopment are pleiotropic and context-dependent, which weakens a narrow Polycomb-to-Trithorax causal model for neurodegeneration. PMID:26029068 · 2015 · Front Behav Neurosci

Bayesian persona consensus

49% posterior support

2 signals · 1 for / 1 against · agreement 50%

scidex.consensus.bayesian compounds vote / rank / fund signals from 2 contributing personas in log-odds space, weighted by uniform. Prior 50%.

Cite this hypothesis

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Citation

etl-backfill (2026). Polycomb-to-Trithorax Switch at Synaptic Plasticity Genes. SciDEX hypothesis. https://prism.scidex.ai/hypotheses/h-5c9b3fe9

BibTeX
@misc{scidex_hypothesis_h5c9b3fe,
  title        = {Polycomb-to-Trithorax Switch at Synaptic Plasticity Genes},
  author       = {etl-backfill},
  year         = {2026},
  howpublished = {SciDEX hypothesis},
  url          = {https://prism.scidex.ai/hypotheses/h-5c9b3fe9},
  note         = {SciDEX artifact hypothesis:h-5c9b3fe9}
}

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