[HTML][HTML] Genetics of the neuronal ceroid lipofuscinoses (Batten disease)

SE Mole, SL Cotman - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Molecular …, 2015 - Elsevier
The neuronal ceroid lipofuscinoses (NCLs) are a group of inherited neurodegenerative
disorders that affect children and adults and are grouped together by similar clinical features …

The genetic basis of phenotypic heterogeneity in the neuronal ceroid lipofuscinoses

E Gardner, SE Mole - Frontiers in Neurology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The neuronal ceroid lipofuscinoses (NCLs) are a group of inherited neurodegenerative
disorders that affect children and adults. They share some similar clinical features and the …

Web-accessible application for identifying pathogenic transcripts with RNA-seq: Increased sensitivity in diagnosis of neurodevelopmental disorders

J Dekker, R Schot, M Bongaerts, WG de Valk… - The American Journal of …, 2023 - cell.com
For neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs), a molecular diagnosis is key for management,
predicting outcome, and counseling. Often, routine DNA-based tests fail to establish a …

Diagnostic exome sequencing in 266 Dutch patients with visual impairment

L Haer-Wigman, WAG van Zelst-Stams… - European Journal of …, 2017 - nature.com
Inherited eye disorders have a large clinical and genetic heterogeneity, which makes
genetic diagnosis cumbersome. An exome-sequencing approach was developed in which …

Next-generation sequencing identifies unexpected genotype-phenotype correlations in patients with retinitis pigmentosa

J Birtel, M Gliem, E Mangold, PL Müller, FG Holz… - PloS one, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Retinitis pigmentosa (RP) is an inherited degenerative disease causing severe retinal
dystrophy and visual impairment mainly with onset in infancy or adolescence. Targeted next …

Unravelling the genetics of inherited retinal dystrophies: Past, present and future

S Broadgate, J Yu, SM Downes, S Halford - Progress in retinal and eye …, 2017 - Elsevier
The identification of the genes underlying monogenic diseases has been of interest to
clinicians and scientists for many years. Using inherited retinal dystrophies as an example of …

AAV9/MFSD8 gene therapy is effective in preclinical models of neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis type 7 disease

X Chen, T Dong, Y Hu, FC Shaffo… - The Journal of …, 2022 - Am Soc Clin Investig
Neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis type 7 (CLN7) disease is a lysosomal storage disease
caused by mutations in the facilitator superfamily domain containing 8 (MFSD8) gene, which …

[HTML][HTML] Moving towards a new era of genomics in the neuronal ceroid lipofuscinoses

ES Butz, U Chandrachud, SE Mole… - Biochimica et Biophysica …, 2020 - Elsevier
The neuronal ceroid lipofuscinoses (NCL) are a group of disorders defined by shared
clinical and pathological features, including seizures and progressive decline in vision …

Lysosomal dysfunction and impaired autophagy in a novel mouse model deficient for the lysosomal membrane protein Cln7

L Brandenstein, M Schweizer, J Sedlacik… - Human molecular …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
CLN7 disease is an autosomal recessive, childhood-onset neurodegenerative lysosomal
storage disorder caused by the defective lysosomal membrane protein CLN7. We have …

Detailed clinical phenotype and molecular genetic findings in CLN3-associated isolated retinal degeneration

CA Ku, S Hull, G Arno, A Vincent, K Carss… - JAMA …, 2017 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Mutations in genes traditionally associated with syndromic retinal disease are
increasingly found to cause nonsyndromic inherited retinal degenerations. Mutations …