Search Results - "Van Der Brug, Marcel"
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A meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies identifies 17 new Parkinson's disease risk loci
Published in Nature genetics (01-10-2017)“…Robert Graham and colleagues carried out a GWAS meta-analysis for Parkinson's disease (PD) and report 17 new risk loci. Their analyses support a key role for…”
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Abundant quantitative trait loci exist for DNA methylation and gene expression in human brain
Published in PLoS genetics (13-05-2010)“…A fundamental challenge in the post-genome era is to understand and annotate the consequences of genetic variation, particularly within the context of human…”
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Multi-ancestry GWAS analysis identifies two novel loci associated with diabetic eye disease and highlights APOL1 as a high risk locus in patients with diabetic macular edema
Published in PLoS genetics (16-08-2023)“…Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is a common complication of diabetes. Approximately 20% of DR patients have diabetic macular edema (DME) characterized by fluid…”
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Calpain-mediated tau fragmentation is altered in Alzheimer’s disease progression
Published in Scientific reports (13-11-2018)“…The aggregation of intracellular tau protein is a major hallmark of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). The extent and the stereotypical spread of tau pathology in the…”
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RNA binding activity of the recessive parkinsonism protein DJ-1 supports involvement in multiple cellular pathways
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (22-07-2008)“…Parkinson's disease (PD) is a major neurodegenerative condition with several rare Mendelian forms. Oxidative stress and mitochondrial function have been…”
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Lack of Widespread BBB Disruption in Alzheimer’s Disease Models: Focus on Therapeutic Antibodies
Published in Neuron (Cambridge, Mass.) (21-10-2015)“…The blood-brain barrier (BBB) limits brain uptake of therapeutic antibodies. It is believed that the BBB is disrupted in Alzheimer’s disease (AD), potentially…”
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Diverse Brain Myeloid Expression Profiles Reveal Distinct Microglial Activation States and Aspects of Alzheimer’s Disease Not Evident in Mouse Models
Published in Cell reports (Cambridge) (16-01-2018)“…Microglia, the CNS-resident immune cells, play important roles in disease, but the spectrum of their possible activation states is not well understood. We…”
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Alzheimer’s Patient Microglia Exhibit Enhanced Aging and Unique Transcriptional Activation
Published in Cell reports (Cambridge) (30-06-2020)“…Damage-associated microglia (DAM) profiles observed in Alzheimer’s disease (AD)-related mouse models reflect an activation state that could modulate AD risk or…”
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Inhibition of natural antisense transcripts in vivo results in gene-specific transcriptional upregulation
Published in Nature biotechnology (01-05-2012)“…Methods for specific gene silencing have advanced as far as clinical trials, but a similar set of tools does not exist for increasing gene expression…”
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Untangling the brain’s neuroinflammatory and neurodegenerative transcriptional responses
Published in Nature communications (21-04-2016)“…A common approach to understanding neurodegenerative disease is comparing gene expression in diseased versus healthy tissues. We illustrate that expression…”
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Kinase activity is required for the toxic effects of mutant LRRK2/dardarin
Published in Neurobiology of disease (01-08-2006)“…Mutations in the LRRK2 gene, coding for dardarin, cause dominantly inherited Parkinson's disease (PD). Dardarin is a large protein, and mutations are found…”
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Identification of Stk25 as a genetic modifier of Tau phosphorylation in Dab1-mutant mice
Published in PloS one (15-02-2012)“…Hyperphosphorylation of the microtubule binding protein Tau is a feature of a number of neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's disease. Tau is…”
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Mutations in LRRK2/dardarin associated with Parkinson disease are more toxic than equivalent mutations in the homologous kinase LRRK1
Published in Journal of neurochemistry (01-07-2007)“…Several mutations have been found in the leucine-rich repeat kinase 2 gene (LRRK2), encoding the protein dardarin, which are associated with autosomal dominant…”
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Neurodegenerative Mutation in Cytoplasmic Dynein Alters Its Organization and Dynein-Dynactin and Dynein-Kinesin Interactions
Published in The Journal of biological chemistry (17-12-2010)“…A single amino acid change, F580Y (Legs at odd angles (Loa), Dync1h1Loa), in the highly conserved and overlapping homodimerization, intermediate chain, and…”
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Evidence for natural antisense transcript-mediated inhibition of microRNA function
Published in Genome biology (27-05-2010)“…MicroRNAs (miRNAs) have the potential to regulate diverse sets of mRNA targets. In addition, mammalian genomes contain numerous natural antisense transcripts,…”
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Parkinson's disease: From human genetics to clinical trials
Published in Science translational medicine (16-09-2015)“…Combining genetic insights into the pathogenesis of Parkinson's disease (PD) with findings from animal and cellular models of this disorder has advanced our…”
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Molecular Mechanisms of Alzheimer Disease Protection by the A673T Allele of Amyloid Precursor Protein
Published in The Journal of biological chemistry (07-11-2014)“…Pathogenic mutations in the amyloid precursor protein (APP) gene have been described as causing early onset familial Alzheimer disease (AD). We recently…”
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Kinesin-associated protein 3 (KIFAP3) has no effect on survival in a population-based cohort of ALS patients
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (06-07-2010)“…It was recently reported that rs1541160 on chromosome 1q24.2 has a marked effect on survival of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) patients by influencing…”
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Pathogenic LRRK2 mutations do not alter gene expression in cell model systems or human brain tissue
Published in PloS one (22-07-2011)“…Point mutations in LRRK2 cause autosomal dominant Parkinson's disease. Despite extensive efforts to determine the mechanism of cell death in patients with…”
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Ser1292 autophosphorylation is an indicator of LRRK2 kinase activity and contributes to the cellular effects of PD mutations
Published in Science translational medicine (12-12-2012)“…Mutations in the leucine-rich repeat kinase 2 (LRRK2) gene are the most common cause of familial Parkinson's disease (PD). Although biochemical studies have…”
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