Drug repositioning as a therapeutic strategy for neurodegenerations associated with OPA1 mutations.

abstract：:Friedreich ataxia is commonly caused by large expansions of a GAA triplet-repeat (GAA-TR) sequence in the first intron of the FRDA gene. We used small-pool PCR to analyze somatic variability among 7190 individual FRDA molecules from peripheral blood DNA of subjects carrying 12 different expanded alleles, ranging in si...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Sharma R,Bhatti S,Gomez M,Clark RM,Murray C,Ashizawa T,Bidichandani SI

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gelsolin amyloidosis is a dominantly inherited, incurable type of amyloidosis. A single point mutation in the gelsolin gene (G654A is most common) results in the loss of a Ca2+  binding site in the second gelsolin domain. Consequently, this domain partly unfolds and exposes an otherwise buried furin cleavage site at t...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Verhelle A,Nair N,Everaert I,Van Overbeke W,Supply L,Zwaenepoel O,Peleman C,Van Dorpe J,Lahoutte T,Devoogdt N,Derave W,Chuah MK,VandenDriessche T,Gettemans J

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The tumour suppressor gene PTEN, localized to 10q23.3, is the susceptibility gene for Cowden syndrome (CS) and Bannayan-Riley-Ruvalcaba (BRR) syndrome, two hamartoma syndromes with an increased risk of breast and thyroid tumours. Somatic mutations have been found in a variety of human tumours. Functional studies have ...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Gimm O,Attié-Bitach T,Lees JA,Vekemans M,Eng C

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Convergent extension (CE) is a fundamental morphogenetic mechanism that underlies numerous processes in vertebrate development, and its disruption can lead to human congenital disorders such as neural tube closure defects. The dynamic, oriented cell intercalation during CE is regulated by a group of core proteins iden...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Seo HS,Habas R,Chang C,Wang J

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy (X-ALD) is an inherited disorder characterized by axonopathy and demyelination in the central nervous system and adrenal insufficiency. Main X-ALD phenotypes are: (i) an adult adrenomyeloneuropathy (AMN) with axonopathy in spinal cords, (ii) cerebral AMN with brain demyelination (cAMN) an...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Schlüter A,Espinosa L,Fourcade S,Galino J,López E,Ilieva E,Morató L,Asheuer M,Cook T,McLaren A,Reid J,Kelly F,Bates S,Aubourg P,Galea E,Pujol A

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rett syndrome (RTT), an X-linked postnatal disorder, results from mutations in Methyl CpG-binding protein 2 (MECP2). Survival and breathing in Mecp2(NULL/Y) animals are improved by an N-terminal tripeptide of insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-I) treatment. We determined that Mecp2(NULL/Y) animals also have a metabolic...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Pitcher MR,Ward CS,Arvide EM,Chapleau CA,Pozzo-Miller L,Hoeflich A,Sivaramakrishnan M,Saenger S,Metzger F,Neul JL

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Obesity is a major public health problem with strong genetic determination; however, the genetic factors underlying obesity are largely unknown. In this study, we performed a genome-wide association scan for obesity by examining approximately 500 000 single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in a sample of 1000 unrelated...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Liu YJ,Liu XG,Wang L,Dina C,Yan H,Liu JF,Levy S,Papasian CJ,Drees BM,Hamilton JJ,Meyre D,Delplanque J,Pei YF,Zhang L,Recker RR,Froguel P,Deng HW

更新日期：2008-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Ciliary trafficking defects underlie the pathogenesis of severe human ciliopathies, including Joubert Syndrome (JBTS), Bardet-Biedl Syndrome, and some forms of retinitis pigmentosa (RP). Mutations in the ciliary protein RPGR (retinitis pigmentosa GTPase regulator) are common causes of RP-associated photoreceptor degen...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Rao KN,Zhang W,Li L,Anand M,Khanna H

更新日期：2016-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite extensive progress in Huntington's disease (HD) research, very little is known about the association of epigenetic variation and HD pathogenesis in human brain tissues. Moreover, its contribution to the tissue-specific transcriptional regulation of the huntingtin gene (HTT), in which HTT expression levels are ...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： De Souza RA,Islam SA,McEwen LM,Mathelier A,Hill A,Mah SM,Wasserman WW,Kobor MS,Leavitt BR

更新日期：2016-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy (SBMA, also known as Kennedy's disease) is one of nine neurodegenerative disorders that are caused by expansion of polyglutamine-encoding CAG repeats. Intracellular accumulation of abnormal proteins in these diseases, a pathological hallmark, is associated with defects in protein hom...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Bott LC,Badders NM,Chen KL,Harmison GG,Bautista E,Shih CC,Katsuno M,Sobue G,Taylor JP,Dantuma NP,Fischbeck KH,Rinaldi C

更新日期：2016-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Parkinson's disease (PD) is associated with olfactory defects in addition to dopaminergic degeneration. Dopaminergic signalling is necessary for subventricular zone (SVZ) proliferation and olfactory bulb (OB) neurogenesis. Alpha-synuclein (α-syn or Snca) modulates dopaminergic neurotransmission, and SNCA mutations cau...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Zhang XM,Anwar S,Kim Y,Brown J,Comte I,Cai H,Cai NN,Wade-Martins R,Szele FG

更新日期：2019-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A strong association between ERAP1 and ankylosing spondylitis (AS) was recently identified by the Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium and the Australo-Anglo-American Spondylitis Consortium (WTCCC-TASC) study. ERAP1 is highly polymorphic with strong linkage disequilibrium evident across the gene. We therefore conduc...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Harvey D,Pointon JJ,Evans DM,Karaderi T,Farrar C,Appleton LH,Sturrock RD,Stone MA,Oppermann U,Brown MA,Wordsworth BP

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetics of Holoprosencephaly (HPE), a congenital malformation of the developing human forebrain, is due to multiple genetic defects. Most genes that have been implicated in HPE belong to the sonic hedgehog signaling pathway. Here we describe a new candidate gene isolated from array comparative genomic hybridization r...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Dupé V,Rochard L,Mercier S,Le Pétillon Y,Gicquel I,Bendavid C,Bourrouillou G,Kini U,Thauvin-Robinet C,Bohan TP,Odent S,Dubourg C,David V

更新日期：2011-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:FMR1 protein expression was studied in different tissues. In human, monkey and murine tissues, high molecular mass FMR1 proteins (67-80 kDa) are found, as shown in lymphoblastoid cells lines. The identity of these proteins was confirmed by their absence in tissues from patients with the fragile X syndrome and a FMR1 k...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Verheij C,de Graaff E,Bakker CE,Willemsen R,Willems PJ,Meijer N,Galjaard H,Reuser AJ,Oostra BA,Hoogeveen AT

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Menkes disease is an X-linked recessive copper deficiency disorder caused by mutations in the ATP7A (MNK) gene. The MNK gene encodes a copper-transporting P-type ATPase, MNK, which is localized predominantly in the trans-Golgi network (TGN). The MNK protein relocates to the plasma membrane in cells exposed to elevated...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Petris MJ,Strausak D,Mercer JF

更新日期：2000-11-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Maintenance of an intact mitochondrial genome is essential for oxidative phosphorylation in all eukaryotes. Depletion of mitochondrial genome copy number can have severe pathological consequences due to loss of respiratory capacity. In Saccharomyces cerevisiae, several bifunctional metabolic enzymes have been shown to...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Iacovino M,Granycome C,Sembongi H,Bokori-Brown M,Butow RA,Holt IJ,Bateman JM

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Potocki-Lupski syndrome (PTLS; MIM #610883), characterized by neurobehavioral abnormalities, intellectual disability and congenital anomalies, is caused by a 3.7-Mb duplication in 17p11.2. Neurobehavioral studies determined that ∼70-90% of PTLS subjects tested positive for autism or autism spectrum disorder (ASD). We ...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Lacaria M,Spencer C,Gu W,Paylor R,Lupski JR

更新日期：2012-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:An important class of genetic variants that affect disease susceptibility may lie within regulatory elements that influence gene expression. Regulatory sequences are difficult to identify and may be distant from the genes they regulate, but many lie within evolutionarily conserved regions (ECRs). We used comparative g...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Palles C,Johnson N,Coupland B,Taylor C,Carvajal J,Holly J,Fentiman IS,Silva Idos S,Ashworth A,Peto J,Fletcher O

更新日期：2008-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies with tiling arrays have revealed more genomic transcription than previously anticipated. Whole new groups of non-coding transcripts (NCTs) have been detected. Some of these NCTs, including miRNAs, can regulate gene expression. To date, most known NCTs studied have been relatively short, but several impo...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Perez DS,Hoage TR,Pritchett JR,Ducharme-Smith AL,Halling ML,Ganapathiraju SC,Streng PS,Smith DI

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The clearest example of genomic imprinting in humans comes from studies of the Angelman (AS) and Prader-Willi (PWS) syndromes. Although these are clinically distinct disorders, both typically result from a loss of the same chromosomal region, 15q11-q13. AS usually results from either a maternal deletion of this region...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Glenn CC,Nicholls RD,Robinson WP,Saitoh S,Niikawa N,Schinzel A,Horsthemke B,Driscoll DJ

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Limb girdle muscular dystrophy 2A is due to loss-of-function mutations in the Calpain 3 (CAPN3) gene. Our previous data suggest that CAPN3 helps to maintain the integrity of the triad complex in skeletal muscle. In Capn3 knock-out mice (C3KO), Ca2+ release and Ca2+/calmodulin kinase II (CaMKII) signaling are attenuate...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Kramerova I,Ermolova N,Eskin A,Hevener A,Quehenberger O,Armando AM,Haller R,Romain N,Nelson SF,Spencer MJ

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proximal spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a neuromuscular disorder for which there is no available therapy. SMA is caused by loss or mutation of the survival motor neuron 1 gene, SMN1, with retention of a nearly identical copy gene, SMN2. In contrast to SMN1, most SMN2 transcripts lack exon 7. This alternatively splic...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Heier CR,DiDonato CJ

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Elevated blood pressure (BP) is a major global risk factor for cardiovascular disease. Genome-wide association studies have identified several genetic variants at the NPR3 locus associated with BP, but the functional impact of these variants remains to be determined. Here we confirmed, by a genome-wide association stu...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Ren M,Ng FL,Warren HR,Witkowska K,Baron M,Jia Z,Cabrera C,Zhang R,Mifsud B,Munroe PB,Xiao Q,Townsend-Nicholson A,Hobbs AJ,Ye S,Caulfield MJ

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome (WHS) is a complex congenital syndrome caused by a monoallelic deletion of the short arm of chromosome 4. Seizures in WHS have been associated with deletion of LETM1 gene. LETM1 encodes for the human homologue of yeast Mdm38p, a mitochondria-shaping protein of unclear function. Here we show th...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Dimmer KS,Navoni F,Casarin A,Trevisson E,Endele S,Winterpacht A,Salviati L,Scorrano L

更新日期：2008-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) is a major cause of sudden death in the elderly. While AAA has some overlapping genetic and environmental risk factors with atherosclerosis, there are substantial differences, and AAA-specific medication is lacking. A recent meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies has identifie...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Marsman J,Gimenez G,Day RC,Horsfield JA,Jones GT

更新日期：2020-03-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The autosomal-recessive mutation hydrocephalus3 (hy3) results in lethal communicating hydrocephalus with perinatal onset. We recently described a hydrocephalus-inducing transgenic insertional mutation, OVE459, which represents a new allele of hy3. Direct cDNA selection performed on a wild-type mouse BAC clone spanning...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Davy BE,Robinson ML

更新日期：2003-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Successful human development is dependent upon a cascade of events following fertilization. Unfortunately, knowledge of these critical events in humans is remarkably incomplete. Although hundreds of thousands of human embryos are cultured yearly at infertility centers worldwide, the vast majority fail to develop in cu...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Dobson AT,Raja R,Abeyta MJ,Taylor T,Shen S,Haqq C,Pera RA

更新日期：2004-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease, which affects quality of life for millions of elderly individuals worldwide. AMD is associated with a diverse spectrum of clinical phenotypes, all of which include the death of photoreceptors in the central part of the human retina (cal...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Swaroop A,Branham KE,Chen W,Abecasis G

更新日期：2007-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Giant axonal neuropathy (GAN) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease caused by autosomal recessive mutations in the GAN gene resulting in a loss of a ubiquitously expressed protein, gigaxonin. Gene replacement therapy is a promising strategy for treatment of the disease; however, the effectiveness and safety of gi...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Johnson-Kerner BL,Ahmad FS,Diaz AG,Greene JP,Gray SJ,Samulski RJ,Chung WK,Van Coster R,Maertens P,Noggle SA,Henderson CE,Wichterle H

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Autosomal dominant familial spastic paraplegia (FSP) is a genetically heterogeneous neurodegenerative disorder displaying anticipation for which three loci have been mapped to the chromosomal positions 14q11.2-q24.3 (SPG3), 2p21-p24 (SPG4) and 15q11.1 (SPG6). The repeat expansion detection (RED) method has been used t...

journal_title：Human molecular genetics

authors： Benson KF,Horwitz M,Wolff J,Friend K,Thompson E,White S,Richards RI,Raskind WH,Bird TD

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00