Haploinsufficiency leads to neurodegeneration in C9ORF72 ALS/FTD human induced motor neurons

Y Shi, S Lin, KA Staats, Y Li, WH Chang, ST Hung… - Nature medicine, 2018 - nature.com
An intronic GGGGCC repeat expansion in C9ORF72 is the most common cause of
amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD), but the pathogenic …

Reduced C9ORF72 function exacerbates gain of toxicity from ALS/FTD-causing repeat expansion in C9orf72

Q Zhu, J Jiang, TF Gendron, M McAlonis-Downes… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Hexanucleotide expansions in C9orf72, which encodes a predicted guanine exchange
factor, are the most frequent genetic cause of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and …

C 9orf72 ablation in mice does not cause motor neuron degeneration or motor deficits

M Koppers, AM Blokhuis, HJ Westeneng… - Annals of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Objective How hexanucleotide (GGGGCC) repeat expansions in C9ORF72 cause
amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) remains poorly understood. Both gain‐and loss‐of …

[HTML][HTML] Gain of toxicity from ALS/FTD-linked repeat expansions in C9ORF72 is alleviated by antisense oligonucleotides targeting GGGGCC-containing RNAs

J Jiang, Q Zhu, TF Gendron, S Saberi… - Neuron, 2016 - cell.com
Hexanucleotide expansions in C9ORF72 are the most frequent genetic cause of
amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and frontotemporal dementia. Disease mechanisms were …

The C9orf72 GGGGCC Repeat Is Translated into Aggregating Dipeptide-Repeat Proteins in FTLD/ALS

K Mori, SM Weng, T Arzberger, S May, K Rentzsch… - Science, 2013 - science.org
Expansion of a GGGGCC hexanucleotide repeat upstream of the C9orf72 coding region is
the most common cause of familial frontotemporal lobar degeneration and amyotrophic …

GGGGCC repeat expansion in C9orf72 compromises nucleocytoplasmic transport

BD Freibaum, Y Lu, R Lopez-Gonzalez, NC Kim… - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
Abstract The GGGGCC (G4C2) repeat expansion in a noncoding region of C9orf72 is the
most common cause of sporadic and familial forms of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and …

[HTML][HTML] C9orf72 loss-of-function: a trivial, stand-alone or additive mechanism in C9 ALS/FTD?

E Braems, B Swinnen, L Van Den Bosch - Acta neuropathologica, 2020 - Springer
A repeat expansion in C9orf72 is responsible for the characteristic neurodegeneration in
amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD) in a still unresolved …

How do C9ORF72 repeat expansions cause amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and frontotemporal dementia: can we learn from other noncoding repeat expansion …

M Van Blitterswijk, M DeJesus-Hernandez… - Current opinion in …, 2012 - journals.lww.com
How do C9ORF72 repeat expansions cause amyotrophic lateral s... : Current Opinion in
Neurology How do C9ORF72 repeat expansions cause amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and …

[HTML][HTML] C9orf72 BAC transgenic mice display typical pathologic features of ALS/FTD

JG O'Rourke, L Bogdanik, A Muhammad, TF Gendron… - Neuron, 2015 - cell.com
Noncoding expansions of a hexanucleotide repeat (GGGGCC) in the C9orf72 gene are the
most common cause of familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and frontotemporal dementia …

[HTML][HTML] There has been an awakening: emerging mechanisms of C9orf72 mutations in FTD/ALS

AD Gitler, H Tsuiji - Brain research, 2016 - Elsevier
The discovery of C9orf72 mutations as the most common genetic cause of amyotrophic
lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD) has awakened a surge of interest …