Meta-analysis and systems biology approaches allowed us a unique view of hippocampal neuron-specific transcriptomic analysis in AD. By using meta-analysis combining data from independent studies, we were able to identify deregulation of genes that participate in transcription, translation, and cell death/apoptosis in CA1 hippocampal neurons from AD patients. Further investigation of these genes and their interactions led to the identification of genes important to the overall mechanism of the deregulated homeostatic processes. The two centrally highest genes, AR and ESR1, and their role in AD pathology are under examination clinically and in experimental models. Use of a final method based on cluster density, reduced our focus to a smaller set of genes. Based on three independent bioinformatics tools, these genes are enriched for processes involved in AD pathophysiology. Taken together with our initial findings these genes play a role in AD through dysregulation of the basic homeostatic processes of transcription, translation, and cell death/apoptosis.