For instance, inhibition of Rb in primary cortical neurons by miR-26b, a microRNA highly expressed in pathological areas in the human brain in AD, leads to aberrant CCE with increased vulnerability to tau hyperphosphorylation (another hallmark of AD pathology) and subsequent cell death mediated by pro-apoptotic downstream targets including E2F genes and cyclin E1 (Absalon et al., 2013). Here, RB1 is linked to Alzheimer disease.