Search Results - "MACDONALD, Marcy E"
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Integrated Systems Approach Identifies Genetic Nodes and Networks in Late-Onset Alzheimer’s Disease
Published in Cell (25-04-2013)“…The genetics of complex disease produce alterations in the molecular interactions of cellular pathways whose collective effect may become clear through the…”
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The HTT CAG-Expansion Mutation Determines Age at Death but Not Disease Duration in Huntington Disease
Published in American journal of human genetics (04-02-2016)“…Huntington disease (HD) is caused by an expanded HTT CAG repeat that leads in a length-dependent, completely dominant manner to onset of a characteristic…”
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Genetic modifiers of Huntington's disease
Published in Movement disorders (15-09-2014)“…Huntington's disease (HD) is a devastating neurodegenerative disorder that directly affects more than 1 in 10,000 persons in Western societies but, as a family…”
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RNA Sequence Analysis of Human Huntington Disease Brain Reveals an Extensive Increase in Inflammatory and Developmental Gene Expression
Published in PloS one (04-12-2015)“…Huntington's Disease (HD) is a devastating neurodegenerative disorder that is caused by an expanded CAG trinucleotide repeat in the Huntingtin (HTT) gene…”
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A modifier of Huntington's disease onset at the MLH1 locus
Published in Human molecular genetics (01-10-2017)“…Huntington's disease (HD) is a dominantly inherited neurodegenerative disease caused by an expanded CAG repeat in HTT. Many clinical characteristics of HD such…”
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Disruption of Neurexin 1 Associated with Autism Spectrum Disorder
Published in American journal of human genetics (01-01-2008)“…Autism is a neurodevelopmental disorder of complex etiology in which genetic factors play a major role. We have implicated the neurexin 1 ( NRXN1) gene in two…”
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Promotion of somatic CAG repeat expansion by Fan1 knock-out in Huntington’s disease knock-in mice is blocked by Mlh1 knock-out
Published in Human molecular genetics (04-11-2020)“…Abstract Recent genome-wide association studies of age-at-onset in Huntington’s disease (HD) point to distinct modes of potential disease modification:…”
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Complex reorganization and predominant non-homologous repair following chromosomal breakage in karyotypically balanced germline rearrangements and transgenic integration
Published in Nature genetics (01-04-2012)“…Michael Talkowski and colleagues examine karyotypically balanced genomic rearrangement landscapes in the germline at single-nucleotide resolution. They find…”
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MicroRNAs located in the Hox gene clusters are implicated in huntington's disease pathogenesis
Published in PLoS genetics (01-02-2014)“…Transcriptional dysregulation has long been recognized as central to the pathogenesis of Huntington's disease (HD). MicroRNAs (miRNAs) represent a major system…”
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Splice modulators target PMS1 to reduce somatic expansion of the Huntington’s disease-associated CAG repeat
Published in Nature communications (12-04-2024)“…Huntington’s disease (HD) is a dominant neurological disorder caused by an expanded HTT exon 1 CAG repeat that lengthens huntingtin’s polyglutamine tract…”
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Population-specific genetic modification of Huntington's disease in Venezuela
Published in PLoS genetics (11-05-2018)“…Modifiers of Mendelian disorders can provide insights into disease mechanisms and guide therapeutic strategies. A recent genome-wide association (GWA) study…”
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Genetic Modification of Huntington Disease Acts Early in the Prediagnosis Phase
Published in American journal of human genetics (06-09-2018)“…Age at onset of Huntington disease, an inherited neurodegenerative disorder, is influenced by the size of the disease-causing CAG trinucleotide repeat…”
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Rrs1 Is Involved in Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress Response in Huntington Disease
Published in The Journal of biological chemistry (03-07-2009)“…The induction of Rrs1 expression is one of the earliest events detected in a presymptomatic knock-in mouse model of Huntington disease (HD). Rrs1 up-regulation…”
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Transcriptional regulatory networks underlying gene expression changes in Huntington's disease
Published in Molecular systems biology (01-03-2018)“…Transcriptional changes occur presymptomatically and throughout Huntington's disease (HD), motivating the study of transcriptional regulatory networks (TRNs)…”
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A Homozygous Mutation in KCTD7 Links Neuronal Ceroid Lipofuscinosis to the Ubiquitin-Proteasome System
Published in American journal of human genetics (13-07-2012)“…Neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis (NCL) is a genetically heterogeneous group of lysosomal diseases that collectively compose the most common Mendelian form of…”
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Huntingtin Controls Neurotrophic Support and Survival of Neurons by Enhancing BDNF Vesicular Transport along Microtubules
Published in Cell (09-07-2004)“…Polyglutamine expansion (polyQ) in the protein huntingtin is pathogenic and responsible for the neuronal toxicity associated with Huntington's disease (HD)…”
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Autophagy Is Disrupted in a Knock-in Mouse Model of Juvenile Neuronal Ceroid Lipofuscinosis
Published in The Journal of biological chemistry (21-07-2006)“…Juvenile neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis is caused by mutation of a novel, endosomal/lysosomal membrane protein encoded by CLN3. The observation that the…”
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Intergenerational and striatal CAG repeat instability in Huntington's disease knock-in mice involve different DNA repair genes
Published in Neurobiology of disease (01-01-2009)“…Abstract Modifying the length of the Huntington's disease (HD) CAG repeat, the major determinant of age of disease onset, is an attractive therapeutic…”
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Huntingtin facilitates polycomb repressive complex 2
Published in Human molecular genetics (15-02-2010)“…Huntington's disease (HD) is caused by expansion of the polymorphic polyglutamine segment in the huntingtin protein. Full-length huntingtin is thought to be a…”
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Functionally defective germline variants of sialic acid acetylesterase in autoimmunity
Published in Nature (London) (08-07-2010)“…Sialic acid acetylesterase (SIAE) is an enzyme that negatively regulates B lymphocyte antigen receptor signalling and is required for the maintenance of…”
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