Advancing genomic technologies and clinical awareness accelerates discovery of disease-associated tandem repeat sequences

T Gall-Duncan, N Sato, RKC Yuen… - Genome …, 2022 - genome.cshlp.org
Expansions of gene-specific DNA tandem repeats (TRs), first described in 1991 as a
disease-causing mutation in humans, are now known to cause> 60 phenotypes, not just …

[HTML][HTML] Advancing personalized medicine in neurodegenerative diseases: The role of epigenetics and pharmacoepigenomics in pharmacotherapy

C Griñán-Ferré, A Bellver-Sanchis, A Guerrero… - Pharmacological …, 2024 - Elsevier
About 80% of brain disorders have a genetic basis. The pathogenesis of most
neurodegenerative diseases is associated with a myriad of genetic defects, epigenetic …

Straglr: discovering and genotyping tandem repeat expansions using whole genome long-read sequences

R Chiu, IS Rajan-Babu, JM Friedman, I Birol - Genome Biology, 2021 - Springer
Tandem repeat (TR) expansion is the underlying cause of over 40 neurological disorders.
Long-read sequencing offers an exciting avenue over conventional technologies for …

Pulse-chase proteomics of the App knockin mouse models of Alzheimer's disease reveals that synaptic dysfunction originates in presynaptic terminals

TJ Hark, NR Rao, C Castillon, T Basta, S Smukowski… - Cell systems, 2021 - cell.com
Compromised protein homeostasis underlies accumulation of plaques and tangles in
Alzheimer's disease (AD). To observe protein turnover at early stages of amyloid beta (Aβ) …

Primary Thyroid NUT Carcinoma With High PD-L1 Expression and Novel Massive IGKV Gene Fusions: A Case Report With Treatment Implications and Literature …

J Zhou, M Duan, Q Jiao, C Chen, A Xing, P Su… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Background Nuclear protein in testis (NUT) carcinoma (NC) is a rare and aggressive
undifferentiated carcinoma that typically arises from midline supradiaphragmatic structures …

In severe ADNC, hippocampi with comorbid LATE-NC and hippocampal sclerosis have substantially more astrocytosis than those with LATE-NC or hippocampal …

DM Niedowicz, Y Katsumata… - … of Neuropathology & …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Limbic-predominant age-related TDP-43 encephalopathy neuropathologic change (LATE-
NC) and hippocampal sclerosis of aging (HS-A) pathologies are found together at autopsy …

Genotyping common, large structural variations in 5,202 genomes using pangenomes, the Giraffe mapper, and the vg toolkit

J Sirén, J Monlong, X Chang, AM Novak, JM Eizenga… - BioRxiv, 2020 - biorxiv.org
We introduce Giraffe, a pangenome short read mapper that can efficiently map to a
collection of haplotypes threaded through a sequence graph. Giraffe, part of the variation …

Role of adaptin protein complexes in intracellular trafficking and their impact on diseases

J Shin, A Nile, JW Oh - Bioengineered, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Adaptin proteins (APs) play a crucial role in intracellular cell trafficking. The 'classical'role of
APs is carried out by AP1‒3, which bind to clathrin, cargo, and accessory proteins …

The MUC6/AP2A2 Locus and Its Relevance to Alzheimer's Disease: A Review

PT Nelson, DW Fardo… - Journal of Neuropathology …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
We recently reported evidence of Alzheimer's disease (AD)-linked genetic variation within
the mucin 6 (MUC6) gene on chromosome 11p, nearby the adaptor-related protein complex …

Alpha adaptins show isoform‐specific association with neurofibrillary tangles in Alzheimer's disease

S Srinivasan, J Gal, A Bachstetter… - Neuropathology and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Aims The heterotetrameric assembly protein complex 2 (AP‐2) is a central hub for clathrin‐
dependent endocytosis. The AP‐2 α‐adaptin subunit has two major isoforms, encoded by …