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The coisolation of high-quality nucleotides from affected tissues is paramount for the parallel analysis of transcriptomic, genomic, and epigenomic data sets. Although nucleotides extracted from postmortem central nervous system (CNS) tissue are widely used in the study of neurodegenerative disease, assessment of methods for the simultaneous isolation of DNA and RNA is limited. Herein, we describe a strategy for the isolation of high-quality DNA and RNA from postmortem human tissue from 7 CNS regions. Motor cortex, frontal cortex, hippocampus, occipital cortex, anterior cingulate cortex, cerebellum, and spinal cord tissues were obtained from 22 individuals diagnosed with motor neuron disease (MND) and 13 neurologically normal controls (n\u2009=\u2009245 tissues). We demonstrated that the Qiagen AllPrep DNA\/RNA kit consistently isolated DNA and RNA of high yield and quality from all 6 brain regions. 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