Abstract:
:Although genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have proven remarkably effective at identifying reliably associated genetic variants, the biology underlying these discoveries is rarely immediately apparent and in most cases seems bound to require extensive fine mapping and functional analysis before it is revealed. In this context, it is logical and appropriate to try to interrogate available genetic data for biological insights. However, because such efforts invariably depend upon mathematical modeling, misperceptions can easily arise if the relevant mathematical properties are overlooked or forgotten. In this report, we will examine these mathematical issues, highlight some of the more common misconceptions, and hopefully help to clarify the somewhat blurry distinction between biology and mathematics that can so easily undermine and obscure the value of GWAS discoveries.
journal_name
Ann Neuroljournal_title
Annals of neurologyauthors
Sawcer S,Wason Jdoi
10.1002/ana.23613subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2012-10-01 00:00:00pages
502-9issue
4eissn
0364-5134issn
1531-8249journal_volume
72pub_type
杂志文章,评审abstract::Lead intoxication in rats reliably produces segmental demyelination. Following a single intravenous injection of radioactive lead, localization of tracer was observed sequentially by quantitative electron microscopical autoradiography. The animals injected had been on a lead-containing diet for 70 days; as a result, t...
journal_title:Annals of neurology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1002/ana.410180206
更新日期:1985-08-01 00:00:00
abstract::Unverricht-Lundborg disease is a clinically recognizable form of progressive myoclonus epilepsy. Recently, in several families of both Finnish and Mediterranean extraction segregating Unverricht-Lundborg disease, the gene for this disease was linked to the same region of the long arm of chromosome 21. We performed lin...
journal_title:Annals of neurology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1002/ana.410340519
更新日期:1993-11-01 00:00:00
abstract::The effect of focal ischemia on tissue pH was studied at various times up to 6 hours after permanent middle cerebral artery occlusion in rats. Tissue pH was imaged by using umbelliferone fluorescence and correlated with cerebral blood flow, ATP content, and recordings of the steady potential. Circumscribed foci of all...
journal_title:Annals of neurology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:2000-04-01 00:00:00
abstract::D2 dopamine receptor densities were measured in postmortem samples of the caudate nucleus and putamen from 36 parkinsonian patients. The relationship between the age of the patient, duration of the disease, and duration of L-dopa therapy versus density of brain D2 dopamine receptors was examined using [3H]spiperone. R...
journal_title:Annals of neurology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1002/ana.410190510
更新日期:1986-05-01 00:00:00
abstract::A 30-year-old male drug abuser developed ophthalmoplegia, bulbar paralysis, and limb weakness responsive to edrophonium. However, potentiation of a low-amplitude evoked muscle action potential was produced with repetitive nerve stimulation at 10 Hz, and the clinical and electrophysiological data suggested the diagnosi...
journal_title:Annals of neurology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1002/ana.410160314
更新日期:1984-09-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVE:The full anticonvulsant effect of the ketogenic diet (KD) can require weeks to develop in rats, suggesting that altered gene expression is involved. The KD typically is used in pediatric epilepsies, but is effective also in adolescents and adults. Our goal was to use microarray and complementary technologies ...
journal_title:Annals of neurology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1002/ana.20899
更新日期:2006-08-01 00:00:00
abstract::Three entities--multiple sclerosis, tropical spastic paraparesis, and human T-lymphotropic virus type I (HTLV-I)-associated myelopathy (HAM)--may represent manifestations of the same disease, with HTLV-I-like virus playing a role in their etiology. Tests for the presence of antibodies reacting with either HTLV-I-like ...
journal_title:Annals of neurology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1002/ana.410230737
更新日期:1988-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Annals of neurology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1002/ana.410330519
更新日期:1993-05-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Annals of neurology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1002/ana.24199
更新日期:2014-08-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Annals of neurology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1002/ana.410400410
更新日期:1996-10-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Annals of neurology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1002/ana.410310107
更新日期:1992-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::Several mutations in the amyloid precursor protein (APP) gene have been found to associate with pathologic deposition of the beta-amyloid peptide (Abeta) in neuritic plaques or in the walls of cerebral vessels. We report a mutation at a novel site in APP in a three-generation Iowa family with autosomal dominant dement...
journal_title:Annals of neurology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1002/ana.1009
更新日期:2001-06-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Annals of neurology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1002/ana.410200614
更新日期:1986-12-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVE:Recanalization of arterial obstruction is associated with improved clinical outcomes. There are no controlled data demonstrating whether arterial obstruction status predicts the treatment effect of intravenous (IV) tissue plasminogen activator (tPA). We aimed to determine if the presence of arterial obstructi...
journal_title:Annals of neurology
pub_type: 杂志文章,随机对照试验
doi:10.1002/ana.22444
更新日期:2011-10-01 00:00:00
abstract::Ocular flutter is a rare horizontal eye movement disorder characterized by rapid saccadic oscillations. It has been hypothesized that it is caused by loss of "pause" neuronal inhibition of "burst" neuron function in the paramedian pontine reticular formation (PPRF); however, there have been no imaging studies confirmi...
journal_title:Annals of neurology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1002/ana.1140
更新日期:2001-09-01 00:00:00
abstract::We report increased modification of proteins by 4-hydroxynonenal (HNE), a product of membrane lipid peroxidation, in the lumbar spinal cord of sporadic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) patients versus that of neurologically normal controls. By immunohistochemistry, HNE-protein modification was detected in ventral h...
journal_title:Annals of neurology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1002/ana.410440518
更新日期:1998-11-01 00:00:00
abstract::The developmental sequence of sleep cycles has been found to be a useful index of central nervous system maturation in premature infants. To determine the effects of severe reversible stress on the maturation of sleep cycles, 6- to 8-hour sleep studies were done on 10 premature infants with severe hyaline membrane dis...
journal_title:Annals of neurology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1002/ana.410060610
更新日期:1979-12-01 00:00:00
abstract::A young woman with Kearns-Sayre syndrome and progressive central nervous system deterioration over 15 years had decreased plasma and cerebrospinal fluid folate levels while receiving phenytoin for a seizure disorder. A muscle biopsy showed a "ragged red fiber" myopathy with reduced muscle carnitine and mitochondrial e...
journal_title:Annals of neurology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1002/ana.410130620
更新日期:1983-06-01 00:00:00
abstract::Malignant tumors are known to have a "remote" or nonmetastatic effect on the central and peripheral nervous systems. Eight patients were seen with proximal muscle weakness in association with bronchogenic carcinoma (5), carcinoma of breast (2), and leukemia (1). Electromyography demonstrated small polyphasic motor uni...
journal_title:Annals of neurology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1002/ana.410040314
更新日期:1978-09-01 00:00:00
abstract::Recently, the excitatory amino acid neurotransmitter glutamate was implicated in the pathogenesis of a variety of chronic degenerative neurological diseases in humans and animals. This report describes abnormalities in excitatory amino acids in the central nervous system of 18 patients with amyotrophic lateral scleros...
journal_title:Annals of neurology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1002/ana.410280106
更新日期:1990-07-01 00:00:00
abstract::Two members of a family with a neuropathy resembling Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease were unable to relax their muscles after voluntary contraction. Muscle spasm often outlasted voluntary contraction by 30 seconds or more before subsiding into myokymia and fasciculations. The posture of the hand during muscle spasm resemb...
journal_title:Annals of neurology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1002/ana.410050605
更新日期:1979-06-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVE:The cortex of patients with cortical dysplasia contains several abnormal cell types. Among the dysplastic cells, cytomegalic neurons are known to be electrically hyperactive and may contribute to epileptic activity. In this study, we sought to identify molecular markers of cytomegalic neurons in focal or hemi...
journal_title:Annals of neurology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1002/ana.20949
更新日期:2006-10-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVE:To examine changes in the response properties of meningeal nociceptors that might lead to migraine pain and examine endogenous processes that could play a role in mediating them using a clinically relevant model of migraine triggering, namely infusion of the nitric oxide (NO) donor nitroglycerin (NTG). METHO...
journal_title:Annals of neurology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1002/ana.23873
更新日期:2013-06-01 00:00:00
abstract::The worldwide epidemiology of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) is presented from an analysis of 1,435 patients. In the United States, the average annual mortality rate is at least 0.26 deaths per million. Temporal-spatial clustering of cases was not found in the United States, but reports from other countries indicate ...
journal_title:Annals of neurology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1002/ana.410050212
更新日期:1979-02-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVE:Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) could potentially be used to interact with pathological brain signals to intervene and ameliorate their effects in disease states. Here, we provide proof-of-principle of this approach by using a BCI to interpret pathological brain activity in patients with advanced Parkinson d...
journal_title:Annals of neurology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1002/ana.23951
更新日期:2013-09-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVE:Lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus (LCMV) is a human pathogen and an emerging neuroteratogen. When the infection occurs during pregnancy, the virus can target and damage the fetal brain and retina. We examined the spectrum of clinical presentations, neuroimaging findings, and clinical outcomes of children wit...
journal_title:Annals of neurology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1002/ana.21161
更新日期:2007-10-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Annals of neurology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1002/ana.10598
更新日期:2003-06-01 00:00:00
abstract::Intraneural perineuriomas are benign peripheral nerve sheath tumors that cause progressive debilitating focal extremity weakness. The etiology of perineuriomas is largely unknown. We utilized whole exome sequencing, copy number algorithm evaluation, and high-resolution whole genome microarray to investigate for a gene...
journal_title:Annals of neurology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1002/ana.24854
更新日期:2017-02-01 00:00:00
abstract::Because of the association of D-penicillamine (DP) therapy with myasthenia gravis, we have studied long-term DP treatment in five inbred strains of mice with doses comparable to those used in patients with rheumatoid arthritis. No clinical weakness or anti-acetylcholine receptor (AChR) antibody developed with up to 6 ...
journal_title:Annals of neurology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1002/ana.410160103
更新日期:1984-07-01 00:00:00
abstract::Although the carbonic anhydrase inhibitors have been used in the treatment of the primary periodic paralyses (PPs), their efficacy has not been demonstrated in double-blind, placebo-controlled trials. Therefore, we tested the efficacy of dichlorphenamide (DCP; Daranide), a potent carbonic anhydrase inhibitor, in the t...
journal_title:Annals of neurology
pub_type: 临床试验,杂志文章,多中心研究,随机对照试验
doi:
更新日期:2000-01-01 00:00:00