Potential disease-modifying therapies for Huntington's disease: lessons learned and future opportunities

SJ Tabrizi, C Estevez-Fraga… - The Lancet …, 2022 - thelancet.com
Huntington's disease is the most frequent autosomal dominant neurodegenerative disorder;
however, no disease-modifying interventions are available for patients with this disease. The …

[HTML][HTML] Meta-analysis and multidisciplinary consensus statement: exome sequencing is a first-tier clinical diagnostic test for individuals with neurodevelopmental …

S Srivastava, JA Love-Nichols, KA Dies… - Genetics in …, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract Purpose For neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs), etiological evaluation can be a
diagnostic odyssey involving numerous genetic tests, underscoring the need to develop a …

High rate of recurrent de novo mutations in developmental and epileptic encephalopathies

FF Hamdan, CT Myers, P Cossette, P Lemay… - The American Journal of …, 2017 - cell.com
Developmental and epileptic encephalopathy (DEE) is a group of conditions characterized
by the co-occurrence of epilepsy and intellectual disability (ID), typically with developmental …

Evaluating the clinical validity of gene-disease associations: an evidence-based framework developed by the clinical genome resource

NT Strande, ER Riggs, AH Buchanan… - The American Journal of …, 2017 - cell.com
With advances in genomic sequencing technology, the number of reported gene-disease
relationships has rapidly expanded. However, the evidence supporting these claims varies …

Identification of neural oscillations and epileptiform changes in human brain organoids

RA Samarasinghe, OA Miranda, JE Buth… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Brain organoids represent a powerful tool for studying human neurological diseases,
particularly those that affect brain growth and structure. However, many diseases manifest …

CRISPR/Cas9-mediated heterozygous knockout of the autism gene CHD8 and characterization of its transcriptional networks in cerebral organoids derived from iPS …

P Wang, R Mokhtari, E Pedrosa, M Kirschenbaum… - Molecular autism, 2017 - Springer
Background CHD8 (chromodomain helicase DNA-binding protein 8), which codes for a
member of the CHD family of ATP-dependent chromatin-remodeling factors, is one of the …

Allele-selective transcriptional repression of mutant HTT for the treatment of Huntington's disease

B Zeitler, S Froelich, K Marlen, DA Shivak, Q Yu, D Li… - Nature medicine, 2019 - nature.com
Huntington's disease (HD) is a dominantly inherited neurodegenerative disorder caused by
a CAG trinucleotide expansion in the huntingtin gene (HTT), which codes for the pathologic …

Assessing the landscape of STXBP1-related disorders in 534 individuals

J Xian, S Parthasarathy, SM Ruggiero, G Balagura… - Brain, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Disease-causing variants in STXBP1 are among the most common genetic causes of
neurodevelopmental disorders. However, the phenotypic spectrum in STXBP1-related …

Regulation of mRNA translation in neurons—a matter of life and death

M Kapur, CE Monaghan, SL Ackerman - Neuron, 2017 - cell.com
Dynamic regulation of mRNA translation initiation and elongation is essential for the survival
and function of neural cells. Global reductions in translation initiation resulting from …

[HTML][HTML] Galactose in human metabolism, glycosylation and congenital metabolic diseases: Time for a closer look

F Conte, N van Buuringen, NC Voermans… - Biochimica et Biophysica …, 2021 - Elsevier
Galactose is an essential carbohydrate for cellular metabolism, as it contributes to energy
production and storage in several human tissues while also being a precursor for …