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1. Association of Variants in the SPTLC1 Gene with Juvenile Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

Author: Johnson, JO, Chia, R, Miller, DE, Li, R, Kumaran, R, Abramzon, Y, Alahmady, N, Renton, AE, Topp, SD, Gibbs, JR, Cookson, MR, Sabir, MS, Dalgard, CL, Troakes, C, Jones, AR, Shatunov, A, Iacoangeli, A, Al Khleifat, A, Ticozzi, N, Silani, V, Gellera, C, Blair, IP, Dobson-Stone, C, Kwok, JB, Bonkowski, ES, Palvadeau, R, Tienari, PJ, Morrison, KE, Shaw, PJ, Al-Chalabi, A, Brown, RH, Calvo, A, Mora, G, Al-Saif, H, Gotkine, M, Leigh, F, Chang, IJ, Perlman, SJ, Glass, I, Scott, AI, Shaw, CE, Basak, AN, Landers, JE, Chiò, A, Crawford, TO, Smith, BN, Traynor, BJ, Fallini, C, Gkazi, AS, Scotter, EL, Kenna, KP, Keagle, P, Tiloca, C, Vance, C, Colombrita, C, King, A, Pensato, V, Castellotti, B, Baas, F, ten Asbroek, ALMA, McKenna-Yasek, D, McLaughlin, RL, Polak, M, Asress, S, Esteban-Pérez, J, Stevic, Z, D’Alfonso, S, Mazzini, L, Comi, GP, Del Bo, R, Ceroni, M, Gagliardi, S, Querin, G, Bertolin, C, van Rheenen, W, Rademakers, R, van Blitterswijk, M, Lauria, G, Duga, S, Corti, S, Cereda, C, Corrado, L, Sorarù, G, Williams, KL, Nicholson, GA, Leblond-Manry, C, Rouleau, GA, Hardiman, O, Veldink, JH, van den Berg, LH, Pall, H, Turner, MR, Talbot, K, Taroni, F, García-Redondo, A, Wu, Z, Glass, JD, Ratti, A, Adeleye, A, Soltis, AR, Alba, C, Viollet, C, Bacikova, D, Hupalo, DN, Sukumar, G, Pollard, HB, Wilkerson, MD, Martinez, EM, Ahmed, S, Arepalli, S, Baloh, RH, Bowser, R, Brady, CB, Brice, A, Broach, J, Campbell, RH, Camu, W, Cooper-Knock, J, Ding, J, Drepper, C, Drory, VE, Dunckley, TL, Eicher, JD, England, BK, Faghri, F, Feldman, E, Floeter, MK, Fratta, P, Geiger, JT, Gerhard, G, Gibson, SB, Hardy, J, Harms, MB, Heiman-Patterson, TD, Hernandez, DG, Jansson, L, Kirby, J, Kowall, NW, Laaksovirta, H, Landeck, N, Landi, F, Le Ber, I, Lumbroso, S, MacGowan, DJL, Maragakis, NJ, Mouzat, K, Murphy, NA, Myllykangas, L, Nalls, MA, Orrell, RW, Ostrow, LW, Pamphlett, R, Pickering-Brown, S, Pioro, EP, Pletnikova, O, Pliner, HA, Pulst, SM, Ravits, JM, Rivera, A, Robberecht, W, Rogaeva, E, Rollinson, S, Rothstein, JD, Scholz, SW, Sendtner, M, Sidle, KC, Simmons, Z, Singleton, AB, Smith, N, Stone, DJ, Troncoso, JC, Valori, M, Van Damme, P, Van Deerlin, VM, Van Den Bosch, L, Zinman, L, Angelocola, SM, Ausiello, FP, Barberis, M, Bartolomei, I, Battistini, S, Bersano, E, Bisogni, G, Borghero, G, Brunetti, M, Cabona, C, Canale, F, Canosa, A, Cantisani, TA, Capasso, M, Caponnetto, C, Cardinali, P, Carrera, P, Casale, F, Colletti, T, Conforti, FL, Conte, A, Conti, E, Corbo, M, Cuccu, S, Dalla Bella, E, D’Errico, E, DeMarco, G, Dubbioso, R, Ferrarese, C, Ferraro, PM, Filippi, M, Fini, N, Floris, G, Fuda, G, Gallone, S, Gianferrari, G, Giannini, F, Grassano, M, Greco, L, Iazzolino, B, Introna, A, La Bella, V, Lattante, S, Liguori, R, Logroscino, G, Logullo, FO, Lunetta, C, Mandich, P, Mandrioli, J, Manera, U, Manganelli, F, Marangi, G, Marinou, K, Marrosu, MG, Martinelli, I, Messina, S, Moglia, C, Mosca, L, Murru, MR, Origone, P, Passaniti, C, Petrelli, C, Petrucci, A, Pozzi, S, Pugliatti, M, Quattrini, A, Ricci, C, Riolo, G, Riva, N, Russo, M, Sabatelli, M, Salamone, P, Salivetto, M, Salvi, F, Santarelli, M, Sbaiz, L, Sideri, R, Simone, I, Simonini, C, Spataro, R, Tanel, R, Tedeschi, G, Ticca, A, Torriello, A, Tranquilli, S, Tremolizzo, L, Trojsi, F, Vasta, R, Vacchiano, V, Vita, G, Volanti, P, Zollino, M, Zucchi, E, Johnson J.O., Chia R., Miller D.E., Li R., Kumaran R., Abramzon Y., Alahmady N., Renton A.E., Topp S.D., Gibbs J.R., Cookson M.R., Sabir M.S., Dalgard C.L., Troakes C., Jones A.R., Shatunov A., Iacoangeli A., Al Khleifat A., Ticozzi N., Silani V., Gellera C., Blair I.P., Dobson-Stone C., Kwok J.B., Bonkowski E.S., Palvadeau R., Tienari P.J., Morrison K.E., Shaw P.J., Al-Chalabi A., Brown R.H., Calvo A., Mora G., Al-Saif H., Gotkine M., Leigh F., Chang I.J., Perlman S.J., Glass I., Scott A.I., Shaw C.E., Basak A.N., Landers J.E., Chio A., Crawford T.O., Smith B.N., Traynor B.J., Fallini C., Gkazi A.S., Scotter E.L., Kenna K.P., Keagle P., Tiloca C., Vance C., Colombrita C., King A., Pensato V., Castellotti B., Baas F., Ten Asbroek A.L.M.A., McKenna-Yasek D., McLaughlin R.L., Polak M., Asress S., Esteban-Perez J., Stevic Z., D'Alfonso S., Mazzini L., Comi G.P., Del Bo R., Ceroni M., Gagliardi S., Querin G., Bertolin C., Van Rheenen W., Rademakers R., Van Blitterswijk M., Lauria G., Duga S., Corti S., Cereda C., Corrado L., Soraru G., Williams K.L., Nicholson G.A., Leblond-Manry C., Rouleau G.A., Hardiman O., Veldink J.H., Van Den Berg L.H., Pall H., Turner M.R., Talbot K., Taroni F., Garcia-Redondo A., Wu Z., Glass J.D., Ratti A., Adeleye A., Soltis A.R., Alba C., Viollet C., Bacikova D., Hupalo D.N., Sukumar G., Pollard H.B., Wilkerson M.D., Martinez E.M., Ahmed S., Arepalli S., Baloh R.H., Bowser R., Brady C.B., Brice A., Broach J., Campbell R.H., Camu W., Cooper-Knock J., Ding J., Drepper C., Drory V.E., Dunckley T.L., Eicher J.D., England B.K., Faghri F., Feldman E., Floeter M.K., Fratta P., Geiger J.T., Gerhard G., Gibson S.B., Hardy J., Harms M.B., Heiman-Patterson T.D., Hernandez D.G., Jansson L., Kirby J., Kowall N.W., Laaksovirta H., Landeck N., Landi F., Le Ber I., Lumbroso S., Macgowan D.J.L., Maragakis N.J., Mouzat K., Murphy N.A., Myllykangas L., Nalls M.A., Orrell R.W., Ostrow L.W., Pamphlett R., Pickering-Brown S., Pioro E.P., Pletnikova O., Pliner H.A., Pulst S.M., Ravits J.M., Rivera A., Robberecht W., Rogaeva E., Rollinson S., Rothstein J.D., Scholz S.W., Sendtner M., Sidle K.C., Simmons Z., Singleton A.B., Smith N., Stone D.J., Troncoso J.C., Valori M., Van Damme P., Van Deerlin V.M., Van Den Bosch L., Zinman L., Angelocola S.M., Ausiello F.P., Barberis M., Bartolomei I., Battistini S., Bersano E., Bisogni G., Borghero G., Brunetti M., Cabona C., Canale F., Canosa A., Cantisani T.A., Capasso M., Caponnetto C., Cardinali P., Carrera P., Casale F., Colletti T., Conforti F.L., Conte A., Conti E., Corbo M., Cuccu S., Dalla Bella E., D'Errico E., Demarco G., Dubbioso R., Ferrarese C., Ferraro P.M., Filippi M., Fini N., Floris G., Fuda G., Gallone S., Gianferrari G., Giannini F., Grassano M., Greco L., Iazzolino B., Introna A., La Bella V., Lattante S., Liguori R., Logroscino G., Logullo F.O., Lunetta C., Mandich P., Mandrioli J., Manera U., Manganelli F., Marangi G., Marinou K., Marrosu M.G., Martinelli I., Messina S., Moglia C., Mosca L., Murru M.R., Origone P., Passaniti C., Petrelli C., Petrucci A., Pozzi S., Pugliatti M., Quattrini A., Ricci C., Riolo G., Riva N., Russo M., Sabatelli M., Salamone P., Salivetto M., Salvi F., Santarelli M., Sbaiz L., Sideri R., Simone I., Simonini C., Spataro R., Tanel R., Tedeschi G., Ticca A., Torriello A., Tranquilli S., Tremolizzo L., Trojsi F., Vasta R., Vacchiano V., Vita G., Volanti P., Zollino M., Zucchi E., Johnson, J. O., Chia, R., Miller, D. E., Li, R., Kumaran, R., Abramzon, Y., Alahmady, N., Renton, A. E., Topp, S. D., Gibbs, J. R., Cookson, M. R., Sabir, M. S., Dalgard, C. L., Troakes, C., Jones, A. R., Shatunov, A., Iacoangeli, A., Al Khleifat, A., Ticozzi, N., Silani, V., Gellera, C., Blair, I. P., Dobson-Stone, C., Kwok, J. B., Bonkowski, E. S., Palvadeau, R., Tienari, P. J., Morrison, K. E., Shaw, P. J., Al-Chalabi, A., Brown, R. H., Calvo, A., Mora, G., Al-Saif, H., Gotkine, M., Leigh, F., Chang, I. J., Perlman, S. J., Glass, I., Scott, A. I., Shaw, C. E., Basak, A. N., Landers, J. E., Chio, A., Crawford, T. O., Smith, B. N., Traynor, B. J., Fallini, C., Gkazi, A. S., Scotter, E. L., Kenna, K. P., Keagle, P., Tiloca, C., Vance, C., Colombrita, C., King, A., Pensato, V., Castellotti, B., Baas, F., Ten Asbroek, A. L. M. A., McKenna-Yasek, D., Mclaughlin, R. L., Polak, M., Asress, S., Esteban-Perez, J., Stevic, Z., D'Alfonso, S., Mazzini, L., Comi, G. P., Del Bo, R., Ceroni, M., Gagliardi, S., Querin, G., Bertolin, C., Van Rheenen, W., Rademakers, R., Van Blitterswijk, M., Lauria, G., Duga, S., Corti, S., Cereda, C., Corrado, L., Soraru, G., Williams, K. L., Nicholson, G. A., Leblond-Manry, C., Rouleau, G. A., Hardiman, O., Veldink, J. H., Van Den Berg, L. H., Pall, H., Turner, M. R., Talbot, K., Taroni, F., Garcia-Redondo, A., Wu, Z., Glass, J. D., Ratti, A., Adeleye, A., Soltis, A. R., Alba, C., Viollet, C., Bacikova, D., Hupalo, D. N., Sukumar, G., Pollard, H. B., Wilkerson, M. D., Martinez, E. M., Ahmed, S., Arepalli, S., Baloh, R. H., Bowser, R., Brady, C. B., Brice, A., Broach, J., Campbell, R. H., Camu, W., Cooper-Knock, J., Ding, J., Drepper, C., Drory, V. E., Dunckley, T. L., Eicher, J. D., England, B. K., Faghri, F., Feldman, E., Floeter, M. K., Fratta, P., Geiger, J. T., Gerhard, G., Gibson, S. B., Hardy, J., Harms, M. B., Heiman-Patterson, T. D., Hernandez, D. G., Jansson, L., Kirby, J., Kowall, N. W., Laaksovirta, H., Landeck, N., Landi, F., Le Ber, I., Lumbroso, S., Macgowan, D. J. L., Maragakis, N. J., Mouzat, K., Murphy, N. A., Myllykangas, L., Nalls, M. A., Orrell, R. W., Ostrow, L. W., Pamphlett, R., Pickering-Brown, S., Pioro, E. P., Pletnikova, O., Pliner, H. A., Pulst, S. M., Ravits, J. M., Rivera, A., Robberecht, W., Rogaeva, E., Rollinson, S., Rothstein, J. D., Scholz, S. W., Sendtner, M., Sidle, K. C., Simmons, Z., Singleton, A. B., Smith, N., Stone, D. J., Troncoso, J. C., Valori, M., Van Damme, P., Van Deerlin, V. M., Van Den Bosch, L., Zinman, L., Angelocola, S. M., Ausiello, F. P., Barberis, M., Bartolomei, I., Battistini, S., Bersano, E., Bisogni, G., Borghero, G., Brunetti, M., Cabona, C., Canale, F., Canosa, A., Cantisani, T. A., Capasso, M., Caponnetto, C., Cardinali, P., Carrera, P., Casale, F., Colletti, T., Conforti, F. L., Conte, A., Conti, E., Corbo, M., Cuccu, S., Dalla Bella, E., D'Errico, E., Demarco, G., Dubbioso, R., Ferrarese, C., Ferraro, P. M., Filippi, M., Fini, N., Floris, G., Fuda, G., Gallone, S., Gianferrari, G., Giannini, F., Grassano, M., Greco, L., Iazzolino, B., Introna, A., La Bella, V., Lattante, S., Liguori, R., Logroscino, G., Logullo, F. O., Lunetta, C., Mandich, P., Mandrioli, J., Manera, U., Manganelli, F., Marangi, G., Marinou, K., Marrosu, M. G., Martinelli, I., Messina, S., Moglia, C., Mosca, L., Murru, M. R., Origone, P., Passaniti, C., Petrelli, C., Petrucci, A., Pozzi, S., Pugliatti, M., Quattrini, A., Ricci, C., Riolo, G., Riva, N., Russo, M., Sabatelli, M., Salamone, P., Salivetto, M., Salvi, F., Santarelli, M., Sbaiz, L., Sideri, R., Simone, I., Simonini, C., Spataro, R., Tanel, R., Tedeschi, G., Ticca, A., Torriello, A., Tranquilli, S., Tremolizzo, L., Trojsi, F., Vasta, R., Vacchiano, V., Vita, G., Volanti, P., Zollino, M., Zucchi, E., Başak, Ayşe Nazlı (ORCID 0000-0001-9257-3540 & YÖK ID 1512), Palvadeau, Robin, Johnson, Janel O., Chia, Ruth, Miller, Danny E., Li, Rachel, Kumaran, Ravindran, Abramzon, Yevgeniya, Alahmady, Nada, Renton, Alan E., Topp, Simon D., Gibbs, J. Raphael, Cookson, Mark R., Sabir, Marya S., Dalgard, Clifton L., Troakes, Claire, Jones, Ashley R., Shatunov, Aleksey, Lacoangeli, Alfredo, Al Khleifat, Ahmad, Ticozzi, Nicola, Silani, Vincenzo, Gellera, Cinzia, Blair, Ian P., Dobson-Stone, Carol, Kwok, John B., Bonkowski, Emily S., Tienari, Pentti J., Morrison, Karen E., Shaw, Pamela J., Al-Chalabi, Ammar, Jr, Robert H. Brown, Calvo, Andrea, Mora, Gabriele, Al-Saif, Hind, Gotkine, Marc, Leigh, Fawn, Chang, Irene J., Perlman, Seth J., Glass, Ian, Scott, Anna, I., Landers, John E., Chio, Adriano, Crawford, Thomas O., Smith, Bradley N., Traynor, Bryan J., Koç University Research Center for Translational Medicine (KUTTAM) / Koç Üniversitesi Translasyonel Tıp Araştırma Merkezi (KUTTAM), School of Medicine, Johnson, J, Chia, R, Miller, D, Li, R, Kumaran, R, Abramzon, Y, Alahmady, N, Renton, A, Topp, S, Gibbs, J, Cookson, M, Sabir, M, Dalgard, C, Troakes, C, Jones, A, Shatunov, A, Iacoangeli, A, Al Khleifat, A, Ticozzi, N, Silani, V, Gellera, C, Blair, I, Dobson-Stone, C, Kwok, J, Bonkowski, E, Palvadeau, R, Tienari, P, Morrison, K, Shaw, P, Al-Chalabi, A, Brown, R, Calvo, A, Mora, G, Al-Saif, H, Gotkine, M, Leigh, F, Chang, I, Perlman, S, Glass, I, Scott, A, Shaw, C, Basak, A, Landers, J, Chiò, A, Crawford, T, Smith, B, Traynor, B, Fallini, C, Gkazi, A, Scotter, E, Kenna, K, Keagle, P, Tiloca, C, Vance, C, Colombrita, C, King, A, Pensato, V, Castellotti, B, Baas, F, Ten Asbroek, A, McKenna-Yasek, D, Mclaughlin, R, Polak, M, Asress, S, Esteban-Pérez, J, Stevic, Z, D'Alfonso, S, Mazzini, L, Comi, G, Del Bo, R, Ceroni, M, Gagliardi, S, Querin, G, Bertolin, C, van Rheenen, W, Rademakers, R, van Blitterswijk, M, Lauria, G, Duga, S, Corti, S, Cereda, C, Corrado, L, Sorarù, G, Williams, K, Nicholson, G, Leblond-Manry, C, Rouleau, G, Hardiman, O, Veldink, J, van den Berg, L, Pall, H, Turner, M, Talbot, K, Taroni, F, García-Redondo, A, Wu, Z, Glass, J, Ratti, A, Adeleye, A, Soltis, A, Alba, C, Viollet, C, Bacikova, D, Hupalo, D, Sukumar, G, Pollard, H, Wilkerson, M, Martinez, E, Ahmed, S, Arepalli, S, Baloh, R, Bowser, R, Brady, C, Brice, A, Broach, J, Campbell, R, Camu, W, Cooper-Knock, J, Ding, J, Drepper, C, Drory, V, Dunckley, T, Eicher, J, England, B, Faghri, F, Feldman, E, Floeter, M, Fratta, P, Geiger, J, Gerhard, G, Gibson, S, Hardy, J, Harms, M, Heiman-Patterson, T, Hernandez, D, Jansson, L, Kirby, J, Kowall, N, Laaksovirta, H, Landeck, N, Landi, F, Le Ber, I, Lumbroso, S, Macgowan, D, Maragakis, N, Mouzat, K, Murphy, N, Myllykangas, L, Nalls, M, Orrell, R, Ostrow, L, Pamphlett, R, Pickering-Brown, S, Pioro, E, Pletnikova, O, Pliner, H, Pulst, S, Ravits, J, Rivera, A, Robberecht, W, Rogaeva, E, Rollinson, S, Rothstein, J, Scholz, S, Sendtner, M, Sidle, K, Simmons, Z, Singleton, A, Smith, N, Stone, D, Troncoso, J, Valori, M, Van Damme, P, Van Deerlin, V, Van Den Bosch, L, Zinman, L, Angelocola, S, Ausiello, F, Barberis, M, Bartolomei, I, Battistini, S, Bersano, E, Bisogni, G, Borghero, G, Brunetti, M, Cabona, C, Canale, F, Canosa, A, Cantisani, T, Capasso, M, Caponnetto, C, Cardinali, P, Carrera, P, Casale, F, Colletti, T, Conforti, F, Conte, A, Conti, E, Corbo, M, Cuccu, S, Dalla Bella, E, D'Errico, E, Demarco, G, Dubbioso, R, Ferrarese, C, Ferraro, P, Filippi, M, Fini, N, Floris, G, Fuda, G, Gallone, S, Gianferrari, G, Giannini, F, Grassano, M, Greco, L, Iazzolino, B, Introna, A, La Bella, V, Lattante, S, Liguori, R, Logroscino, G, Logullo, F, Lunetta, C, Mandich, P, Mandrioli, J, Manera, U, Manganelli, F, Marangi, G, Marinou, K, Marrosu, M, Martinelli, I, Messina, S, Moglia, C, Mosca, L, Murru, M, Origone, P, Passaniti, C, Petrelli, C, Petrucci, A, Pozzi, S, Pugliatti, M, Quattrini, A, Ricci, C, Riolo, G, Riva, N, Russo, M, Sabatelli, M, Salamone, P, Salivetto, M, Salvi, F, Santarelli, M, Sbaiz, L, Sideri, R, Simone, I, Simonini, C, Spataro, R, Tanel, R, Tedeschi, G, Ticca, A, Torriello, A, Tranquilli, S, Tremolizzo, L, Trojsi, F, Vasta, R, Vacchiano, V, Vita, G, Volanti, P, Zollino, M, Zucchi, E, HUS Neurocenter, Department of Neurosciences, Clinicum, Neurologian yksikkö, TRIMM - Translational Immunology Research Program, Pentti Tienari / Principal Investigator, Human Genetics, ARD - Amsterdam Reproduction and Development, ANS - Complex Trait Genetics, Johnson, Janel O, Miller, Danny E, Renton, Alan E, Topp, Simon D, Gibbs, J Raphael, Cookson, Mark R, Sabir, Marya S, Dalgard, Clifton L, Jones, Ashley R, Iacoangeli, Alfredo, Blair, Ian P, Kwok, John B, Bonkowski, Emily S, Tienari, Pentti J, Morrison, Karen E, Shaw, Pamela J, Brown, Robert H, Chang, Irene J, Perlman, Seth J, Scott, Anna I, Shaw, Christopher E, Basak, A Nazli, Landers, John E, Chiò, Adriano, Crawford, Thomas O, Smith, Bradley N, Traynor, Bryan J, Fallini, Claudia, Gkazi, Athina Soragia, Scotter, Emma L, Kenna, Kevin P, Keagle, Pamela, Tiloca, Cinzia, Vance, Caroline, Colombrita, Claudia, King, Andrew, Pensato, Viviana, Castellotti, Barbara, Baas, Frank, Ten Asbroek, Anneloor L M A, McKenna-Yasek, Diane, Mclaughlin, Russell L, Polak, Meraida, Asress, Seneshaw, Esteban-Pérez, Jesú, Stevic, Zorica, D'Alfonso, Sandra, Mazzini, Letizia, Comi, Giacomo P, Del Bo, Roberto, Ceroni, Mauro, Gagliardi, Stella, Querin, Giorgia, Bertolin, Cinzia, van Rheenen, Wouter, Rademakers, Rosa, van Blitterswijk, Marka, Lauria, Giuseppe, Duga, Stefano, Corti, Stefania, Cereda, Cristina, Corrado, Lucia, Sorarù, Gianni, Williams, Kelly L, Nicholson, Garth A, Leblond-Manry, Claire, Rouleau, Guy A, Hardiman, Orla, Veldink, Jan H, van den Berg, Leonard H, Pall, Hardev, Turner, Martin R, Talbot, Kevin, Taroni, Franco, García-Redondo, Alberto, Wu, Zheyang, Glass, Jonathan D, Ratti, Antonia, Adeleye, Adelani, Soltis, Anthony R, Alba, Camille, Viollet, Coralie, Bacikova, Dagmar, Hupalo, Daniel N, Sukumar, Gauthaman, Pollard, Harvey B, Wilkerson, Matthew D, Martinez, Elisa McGrath, Ahmed, Sarah, Arepalli, Sampath, Baloh, Robert H, Bowser, Robert, Brady, Christopher B, Brice, Alexi, Broach, Jame, Campbell, Roy H, Camu, William, Cooper-Knock, John, Ding, Jinhui, Drepper, Carsten, Drory, Vivian E, Dunckley, Travis L, Eicher, John D, England, Bryce K, Faghri, Faraz, Feldman, Eva, Floeter, Mary Kay, Fratta, Pietro, Geiger, Joshua T, Gerhard, Glenn, Gibson, Summer B, Hardy, John, Harms, Matthew B, Heiman-Patterson, Terry D, Hernandez, Dena G, Jansson, Lilja, Kirby, Janine, Kowall, Neil W, Laaksovirta, Hannu, Landeck, Natalie, Landi, Francesco, Le Ber, Isabelle, Lumbroso, Serge, Macgowan, Daniel J L, Maragakis, Nicholas J, Mouzat, Kevin, Murphy, Natalie A, Myllykangas, Liisa, Nalls, Mike A, Orrell, Richard W, Ostrow, Lyle W, Pamphlett, Roger, Pickering-Brown, Stuart, Pioro, Erik P, Pletnikova, Olga, Pliner, Hannah A, Pulst, Stefan M, Ravits, John M, Rivera, Alberto, Robberecht, Wim, Rogaeva, Ekaterina, Rollinson, Sara, Rothstein, Jeffrey D, Scholz, Sonja W, Sendtner, Michael, Sidle, Katie C, Simmons, Zachary, Singleton, Andrew B, Smith, Nathan, Stone, David J, Troncoso, Juan C, Valori, Miko, Van Damme, Philip, Van Deerlin, Vivianna M, Van Den Bosch, Ludo, Zinman, Lorne, Angelocola, Stefania M, Ausiello, Francesco P, Barberis, Marco, Bartolomei, Ilaria, Battistini, Stefania, Bersano, Enrica, Bisogni, Giulia, Borghero, Giuseppe, Brunetti, Maura, Cabona, Corrado, Canale, Fabrizio, Canosa, Antonio, Cantisani, Teresa A, Capasso, Margherita, Caponnetto, Claudia, Cardinali, Patrizio, Carrera, Paola, Casale, Federico, Colletti, Tiziana, Conforti, Francesca L, Conte, Amelia, Conti, Elisa, Corbo, Massimo, Cuccu, Stefania, Dalla Bella, Eleonora, D'Errico, Eustachio, Demarco, Giovanni, Dubbioso, Raffaele, Ferrarese, Carlo, Ferraro, Pilar M, Filippi, Massimo, Fini, Nicola, Floris, Gianluca, Fuda, Giuseppe, Gallone, Salvatore, Gianferrari, Giulia, Giannini, Fabio, Grassano, Maurizio, Greco, Lucia, Iazzolino, Barbara, Introna, Alessandro, La Bella, Vincenzo, Lattante, Serena, Liguori, Rocco, Logroscino, Giancarlo, Logullo, Francesco O, Lunetta, Christian, Mandich, Paola, Mandrioli, Jessica, Manera, Umberto, Manganelli, Fiore, Marangi, Giuseppe, Marinou, Kalliopi, Marrosu, Maria Giovanna, Martinelli, Ilaria, Messina, Sonia, Moglia, Cristina, Mosca, Lorena, Murru, Maria R, Origone, Paola, Passaniti, Carla, Petrelli, Cristina, Petrucci, Antonio, Pozzi, Susanna, Pugliatti, Maura, Quattrini, Angelo, Ricci, Claudia, Riolo, Giulia, Riva, Nilo, Russo, Massimo, Sabatelli, Mario, Salamone, Paolina, Salivetto, Marco, Salvi, Fabrizio, Santarelli, Marialuisa, Sbaiz, Luca, Sideri, Riccardo, Simone, Isabella, Simonini, Cecilia, Spataro, Rossella, Tanel, Raffaella, Tedeschi, Gioacchino, Ticca, Anna, Torriello, Antonella, Tranquilli, Stefania, Tremolizzo, Lucio, Trojsi, Francesca, Vasta, Rosario, Vacchiano, Veria, Vita, Giuseppe, Volanti, Paolo, Zollino, Marcella, and Zucchi, Elisabetta
Subjects: Hereditary sensory neuropathy, L-serine, Mutations, Deoxysphingolipids, Accumulation, Enzyme complex, Juvenile amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Serine C-Palmitoyltransferase, Whole Exome Sequencing, 0302 clinical medicine, Medicine, Family history, Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Child, Index case, Exome sequencing, Original Investigation, 0303 health sciences, Neurosciences and neurology, 3. Good health, Child, Preschool, Failure to thrive, Female, medicine.symptom, Life Sciences & Biomedicine, L-SERINE, Comments, Human, Adult, medicine.medical_specialty, Adolescent, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Humans, Mutation, Young Adult, Clinical Neurology, NO, 03 medical and health sciences, DEOXYSPHINGOLIPIDS, Internal medicine, Exome Sequencing, Online First, Juvenile, Preschool, 030304 developmental biology, ACCUMULATION, Science & Technology, SPTLC1, business.industry, MUTATIONS, Research, 3112 Neurosciences, medicine.disease, HEREDITARY SENSORY NEUROPATHY, juvenile, 3111 Biomedicine, Neurology (clinical), Neurosciences & Neurology, ALS, genetic, business, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosi
Abstract: Key Points Question What genetic variants are associated with juvenile amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)? Findings In this family-based genetic study, exome sequencing was performed in 3 patients diagnosed with juvenile ALS and failure to thrive; this identified de novo variants in SPTLC1 (p.Ala20Ser in 2 patients and p.Ser331Tyr in 1 patient). Variants in SPTLC1 are a known cause of hereditary sensory and autonomic neuropathy, type 1A, and these data extend the phenotype associated with this gene. Meaning De novo variants in the SPTLC1 gene are associated with juvenile ALS, a fatal neurological disorder., This genetic association study identifies genetic variants associated with juvenile amyotrophic lateral sclerosis., Importance Juvenile amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a rare form of ALS characterized by age of symptom onset less than 25 years and a variable presentation. Objective To identify the genetic variants associated with juvenile ALS. Design, Setting, and Participants In this multicenter family-based genetic study, trio whole-exome sequencing was performed to identify the disease-associated gene in a case series of unrelated patients diagnosed with juvenile ALS and severe growth retardation. The patients and their family members were enrolled at academic hospitals and a government research facility between March 1, 2016, and March 13, 2020, and were observed until October 1, 2020. Whole-exome sequencing was also performed in a series of patients with juvenile ALS. A total of 66 patients with juvenile ALS and 6258 adult patients with ALS participated in the study. Patients were selected for the study based on their diagnosis, and all eligible participants were enrolled in the study. None of the participants had a family history of neurological disorders, suggesting de novo variants as the underlying genetic mechanism. Main Outcomes and Measures De novo variants present only in the index case and not in unaffected family members. Results Trio whole-exome sequencing was performed in 3 patients diagnosed with juvenile ALS and their parents. An additional 63 patients with juvenile ALS and 6258 adult patients with ALS were subsequently screened for variants in the SPTLC1 gene. De novo variants in SPTLC1 (p.Ala20Ser in 2 patients and p.Ser331Tyr in 1 patient) were identified in 3 unrelated patients diagnosed with juvenile ALS and failure to thrive. A fourth variant (p.Leu39del) was identified in a patient with juvenile ALS where parental DNA was unavailable. Variants in this gene have been previously shown to be associated with autosomal-dominant hereditary sensory autonomic neuropathy, type 1A, by disrupting an essential enzyme complex in the sphingolipid synthesis pathway. Conclusions and Relevance These data broaden the phenotype associated with SPTLC1 and suggest that patients presenting with juvenile ALS should be screened for variants in this gene.
Published: 2021
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2. Production of CSSi013-A (9360) iPSC line from an asymptomatic subject carrying an heterozygous mutation in TDP-43 protein

Author: D'Anzi, A, Perciballi, E, Ruotolo, G, Ferrari, D, Notaro, A, Lombardi, I, Gelati, M, Frezza, K, Bernardini, L, Torrente, I, De Luca, A, La Bella, V, Luigi Vescovi, A, Rosati, J, D'Anzi, Angela, Perciballi, Elisa, Ruotolo, Giorgia, Ferrari, Daniela, Notaro, Antonietta, Lombardi, Ivan, Gelati, Maurizio, Frezza, Katia, Bernardini, Laura, Torrente, Isabella, De Luca, Alessandro, La Bella, Vincenzo, Luigi Vescovi, Angelo, Rosati, Jessica, D'Anzi, A, Perciballi, E, Ruotolo, G, Ferrari, D, Notaro, A, Lombardi, I, Gelati, M, Frezza, K, Bernardini, L, Torrente, I, De Luca, A, La Bella, V, Luigi Vescovi, A, Rosati, J, D'Anzi, Angela, Perciballi, Elisa, Ruotolo, Giorgia, Ferrari, Daniela, Notaro, Antonietta, Lombardi, Ivan, Gelati, Maurizio, Frezza, Katia, Bernardini, Laura, Torrente, Isabella, De Luca, Alessandro, La Bella, Vincenzo, Luigi Vescovi, Angelo, and Rosati, Jessica
Abstract: Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) is a fatal disease affecting both upper and lower motoneurons. The transactive response DNA binding protein (TARDBP) gene, encoding for TDP-43, is one of the most commonly mutated gene associated with familial cases of ALS (10%). We generated a human induced pluripotent stem cell (hiPSC) line from the fibroblasts of an asymptomatic subject carrying the TARDBP p.G376D mutation. This mutation is very rare and was described in a large Apulian family, in which all ALS affected members are carriers of the mutation. The subject here described is the first identified asymptomatic carrier of the mutation.
Published: 2022

3. Allele-specific silencing as therapy for familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis caused by the p.G376D TARDBP mutation

Author: Romano, R., De Luca, M., Del Fiore, V. S., Pecoraro, M., Lattante, Serena, Sabatelli, Mario, La Bella, V., Bucci, C., Lattante S. (ORCID:0000-0003-2891-0340), Sabatelli M. (ORCID:0000-0001-6635-4985), Romano, R., De Luca, M., Del Fiore, V. S., Pecoraro, M., Lattante, Serena, Sabatelli, Mario, La Bella, V., Bucci, C., Lattante S. (ORCID:0000-0003-2891-0340), and Sabatelli M. (ORCID:0000-0001-6635-4985)
Abstract: Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis is a neurodegenerative disease characterized by the degeneration of motor neurons. There is no treatment for this disease that affects the ability to move, eat, speak and finally breathe, causing death. In an Italian family, a heterozygous pathogenic missense variant has been previously discovered in Exon 6 of the gene TARDBP encoding the TAR DNA-binding protein 43 protein. Here, we developed a potential therapeutic tool based on allele-specific small interfering RNAs for familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis with the heterozygous missense mutation c.1127G > A. We designed a small interfering RNA that was able to diminish specifically the expression of the exogenous Green Fluorescent Protein (TAR DNA-binding protein 43(G376D) mutant protein) in HEK-293T cells but not that of the Green Fluorescent Protein (TAR DNA-binding protein 43 wild-type). Similarly, this small interfering RNA silenced the mutated allele in fibroblasts derived from patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis but did not silence the wild-type gene in control fibroblasts. In addition, we established that silencing the mutated allele was able to strongly reduce the pathological cellular phenotypes induced by TAR DNA-binding protein 43(G376D) expression, such as the presence of cytoplasmic aggregates. Thus, we have identified a small interfering RNA that could be used to silence specifically the mutated allele to try a targeted therapy for patients carrying the p.G376D TAR DNA-binding protein 43 mutation.
Published: 2022

4. Marital status is a prognostic factor in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

Author: Spataro, R., Volanti, P., Lo Coco, D., and La Bella, V.
Published: 2017
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5. REM sleep behavior disorder and periodic leg movements during sleep in ALS

Author: Lo Coco, D., Puligheddu, M., Mattaliano, P., Congiu, P., Borghero, G., Fantini, M. L., La Bella, V., and Ferri, R.
Published: 2017
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6. ALS-linked FUS mutations confer loss and gain of function in the nucleus by promoting excessive formation of dysfunctional paraspeckles

Author: An, H., Skelt, L., Notaro, A., Highley, J.R., Fox, A.H., La Bella, V., Buchman, V.L., Shelkovnikova, T.A., An H., Skelt L., Notaro A., Highley J.R., Fox A.H., La Bella V., Buchman V.L., and Shelkovnikova T.A.
Subjects: Cell Nucleus, Research, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, Intranuclear Inclusion Bodies, NEAT1, lcsh:RC346-429, Cell Line, Loss of Function Mutation, Cell Line, Tumor, Fused in sarcoma (FUS), Paraspeckle, Humans, Protein Isoforms, RNA-Binding Protein FUS, RNA, Long Noncoding, Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), CRISPR-Cas Systems, lcsh:Neurology. Diseases of the nervous system
Abstract: Mutations in the FUS gene cause amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS-FUS). Mutant FUS is known to confer cytoplasmic gain of function but its effects in the nucleus are less understood. FUS is an essential component of paraspeckles, subnuclear bodies assembled on a lncRNA NEAT1. Paraspeckles may play a protective role specifically in degenerating spinal motor neurons. However it is still unknown how endogenous levels of mutant FUS would affect NEAT1/paraspeckles. Using novel cell lines with the FUS gene modified by CRISPR/Cas9 and human patient fibroblasts, we found that endogenous levels of mutant FUS cause accumulation of NEAT1 isoforms and paraspeckles. However, despite only mild cytoplasmic mislocalisation of FUS, paraspeckle integrity is compromised in these cells, as confirmed by reduced interaction of mutant FUS with core paraspeckle proteins NONO and SFPQ and increased NEAT1 extractability. This results in NEAT1 localisation outside paraspeckles, especially prominent under conditions of paraspeckle-inducing stress. Consistently, paraspeckle-dependent microRNA production, a readout for functionality of paraspeckles, is impaired in cells expressing mutant FUS. In line with the cellular data, we observed paraspeckle hyper-assembly in spinal neurons of ALS-FUS patients. Therefore, despite largely preserving its nuclear localisation, mutant FUS leads to loss (dysfunctional paraspeckles) and gain (excess of free NEAT1) of function in the nucleus. Perturbed fine structure and functionality of paraspeckles accompanied by accumulation of non-paraspeckle NEAT1 may contribute to the disease severity in ALS-FUS. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (10.1186/s40478-019-0658-x) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
Published: 2019
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7. Tauroursodeoxycholic acid in the treatment of patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

Author: Elia, A. E., Lalli, S., Monsurrò, M. R., Sagnelli, A., Taiello, A. C., Reggiori, B., La Bella, V., Tedeschi, G., and Albanese, A.
Published: 2016
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8. A rapidly progressive motor neuron disease associated to a natural killer cells leukaemia

Author: La Bella, V, Iannitto, E, Cuffaro, L, Spataro, R, La Bella V., Iannitto E., Cuffaro L., Spataro R., La Bella, V, Iannitto, E, Cuffaro, L, Spataro, R, La Bella V., Iannitto E., Cuffaro L., and Spataro R.
Published: 2019

9. Reply to Dr Michaud et al.

Author: Elia, A. E., Viscomi, C., La Bella, V., Tedeschi, G., and Albanese, A.
Published: 2015
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10. Association of Variants in the SPTLC1 Gene With Juvenile Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

Author: Johnson, J, Chia, R, Miller, D, Li, R, Kumaran, R, Abramzon, Y, Alahmady, N, Renton, A, Topp, S, Gibbs, J, Cookson, M, Sabir, M, Dalgard, C, Troakes, C, Jones, A, Shatunov, A, Iacoangeli, A, Al Khleifat, A, Ticozzi, N, Silani, V, Gellera, C, Blair, I, Dobson-Stone, C, Kwok, J, Bonkowski, E, Palvadeau, R, Tienari, P, Morrison, K, Shaw, P, Al-Chalabi, A, Brown, R, Calvo, A, Mora, G, Al-Saif, H, Gotkine, M, Leigh, F, Chang, I, Perlman, S, Glass, I, Scott, A, Shaw, C, Basak, A, Landers, J, Chiò, A, Crawford, T, Smith, B, Traynor, B, Fallini, C, Gkazi, A, Scotter, E, Kenna, K, Keagle, P, Tiloca, C, Vance, C, Colombrita, C, King, A, Pensato, V, Castellotti, B, Baas, F, Ten Asbroek, A, McKenna-Yasek, D, Mclaughlin, R, Polak, M, Asress, S, Esteban-Pérez, J, Stevic, Z, D'Alfonso, S, Mazzini, L, Comi, G, Del Bo, R, Ceroni, M, Gagliardi, S, Querin, G, Bertolin, C, van Rheenen, W, Rademakers, R, van Blitterswijk, M, Lauria, G, Duga, S, Corti, S, Cereda, C, Corrado, L, Sorarù, G, Williams, K, Nicholson, G, Leblond-Manry, C, Rouleau, G, Hardiman, O, Veldink, J, van den Berg, L, Pall, H, Turner, M, Talbot, K, Taroni, F, García-Redondo, A, Wu, Z, Glass, J, Ratti, A, Adeleye, A, Soltis, A, Alba, C, Viollet, C, Bacikova, D, Hupalo, D, Sukumar, G, Pollard, H, Wilkerson, M, Martinez, E, Ahmed, S, Arepalli, S, Baloh, R, Bowser, R, Brady, C, Brice, A, Broach, J, Campbell, R, Camu, W, Cooper-Knock, J, Ding, J, Drepper, C, Drory, V, Dunckley, T, Eicher, J, England, B, Faghri, F, Feldman, E, Floeter, M, Fratta, P, Geiger, J, Gerhard, G, Gibson, S, Hardy, J, Harms, M, Heiman-Patterson, T, Hernandez, D, Jansson, L, Kirby, J, Kowall, N, Laaksovirta, H, Landeck, N, Landi, F, Le Ber, I, Lumbroso, S, Macgowan, D, Maragakis, N, Mouzat, K, Murphy, N, Myllykangas, L, Nalls, M, Orrell, R, Ostrow, L, Pamphlett, R, Pickering-Brown, S, Pioro, E, Pletnikova, O, Pliner, H, Pulst, S, Ravits, J, Rivera, A, Robberecht, W, Rogaeva, E, Rollinson, S, Rothstein, J, Scholz, S, Sendtner, M, Sidle, K, Simmons, Z, Singleton, A, Smith, N, Stone, D, Troncoso, J, Valori, M, Van Damme, P, Van Deerlin, V, Van Den Bosch, L, Zinman, L, Angelocola, S, Ausiello, F, Barberis, M, Bartolomei, I, Battistini, S, Bersano, E, Bisogni, G, Borghero, G, Brunetti, M, Cabona, C, Canale, F, Canosa, A, Cantisani, T, Capasso, M, Caponnetto, C, Cardinali, P, Carrera, P, Casale, F, Colletti, T, Conforti, F, Conte, A, Conti, E, Corbo, M, Cuccu, S, Dalla Bella, E, D'Errico, E, Demarco, G, Dubbioso, R, Ferrarese, C, Ferraro, P, Filippi, M, Fini, N, Floris, G, Fuda, G, Gallone, S, Gianferrari, G, Giannini, F, Grassano, M, Greco, L, Iazzolino, B, Introna, A, La Bella, V, Lattante, S, Liguori, R, Logroscino, G, Logullo, F, Lunetta, C, Mandich, P, Mandrioli, J, Manera, U, Manganelli, F, Marangi, G, Marinou, K, Marrosu, M, Martinelli, I, Messina, S, Moglia, C, Mosca, L, Murru, M, Origone, P, Passaniti, C, Petrelli, C, Petrucci, A, Pozzi, S, Pugliatti, M, Quattrini, A, Ricci, C, Riolo, G, Riva, N, Russo, M, 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Abstract: Importance: Juvenile amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a rare form of ALS characterized by age of symptom onset less than 25 years and a variable presentation. Objective: To identify the genetic variants associated with juvenile ALS. Design, setting, and participants: In this multicenter family-based genetic study, trio whole-exome sequencing was performed to identify the disease-associated gene in a case series of unrelated patients diagnosed with juvenile ALS and severe growth retardation. The patients and their family members were enrolled at academic hospitals and a government research facility between March 1, 2016, and March 13, 2020, and were observed until October 1, 2020. Whole-exome sequencing was also performed in a series of patients with juvenile ALS. A total of 66 patients with juvenile ALS and 6258 adult patients with ALS participated in the study. Patients were selected for the study based on their diagnosis, and all eligible participants were enrolled in the study. None of the participants had a family history of neurological disorders, suggesting de novo variants as the underlying genetic mechanism. Main outcomes and measures: De novo variants present only in the index case and not in unaffected family members. Results: Trio whole-exome sequencing was performed in 3 patients diagnosed with juvenile ALS and their parents. An additional 63 patients with juvenile ALS and 6258 adult patients with ALS were subsequently screened for variants in the SPTLC1 gene. De novo variants in SPTLC1 (p.Ala20Ser in 2 patients and p.Ser331Tyr in 1 patient) were identified in 3 unrelated patients diagnosed with juvenile ALS and failure to thrive. A fourth variant (p.Leu39del) was identified in a patient with juvenile ALS where parental DNA was unavailable. Variants in this gene have been previously shown to be associated with autosomal-dominant hereditary sensory autonomic neuropathy, type 1A, by disrupting an essential enzyme complex in the sphingolipid synthesis
Published: 2021

11. The eye-tracking computer device for communication in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

Author: Spataro, R., Ciriacono, M., Manno, C., and La Bella, V.
Published: 2014
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12. Expression of vesicle-associated membrane-protein-associated protein B cleavage products in peripheral blood leukocytes and cerebrospinal fluid of patients with sporadic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

Author: Deidda, I., Galizzi, G., Passantino, R., Cascio, C., Russo, D., Colletti, T., La Bella, V., and Guarneri, P.
Published: 2014
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13. Paraneoplastic motor neuron disease associated with breast cancer

Author: Spataro, R. and La Bella, V.
Published: 2014
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14. Long-term interferon-β treatment for multiple sclerosis

Author: Ruggieri, R. M., Settipani, N., Viviano, L., Attanasio, M., Giglia, L., Almasio, P., La Bella, V., and Piccoli, F.
Published: 2003
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15. Fatigue, sleep, and nocturnal complaints in patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

Author: Lo Coco, D. and La Bella, V.
Published: 2012
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16. TARDBP gene mutations in south Italian patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

Author: Conforti, F L, Sproviero, W, Simone, I L, Mazzei, R, Valentino, P, Ungaro, C, Magariello, A, Patitucci, A, La Bella, V, Sprovieri, T, Tedeschi, G, Citrigno, L, Gabriele, A L, Bono, F, Monsurrò, M R, Muglia, M, Gambardella, A, and Quattrone, A
Published: 2011
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17. Causes and place of death in Italian patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

Author: Spataro, R., Lo Re, M., Piccoli, T., Piccoli, F., and La Bella, V.
Published: 2010
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18. Elevated cerebrospinal fluid and plasma homocysteine levels in ALS

Author: Valentino, F., Bivona, G., Butera, D., Paladino, P., Fazzari, M., Piccoli, T., Ciaccio, M., and La Bella, V.
Published: 2010
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19. Cerebrospinal fluid tau protein is not a biological marker in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

Author: Paladino, P., Valentino, F., Piccoli, T., Piccoli, F., and La Bella, V.
Published: 2009
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20. Carcinoma of the tongue and bulbar-onset amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: unusual differential diagnosis

Author: Volanti, P., Mannino, M., Piccoli, T., and La Bella, V.
Published: 2007
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21. Shared polygenic risk and causal inferences in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

Author: Bandres‐Ciga, S, Noyce, AJ, Hemani, G, Nicolas, A, Calvo, A, Mora, G, Arosio, A, Barberis, M, Bartolomei, I, Battistini, S, Benigni, M, Borghero, G, Brunetti, M, Cammarosano, S, Cannas, A, Canosa, A, Capasso, M, Caponnetto, C, Caredda, C, Carrera, P, Casale, F, Cavallaro, S, Chiò, A, Colletti, T, Conforti, FL, Conte, A, Corrado, L, Costantino, E, D'Alfonso, S, Fasano, A, Femiano, C, Ferrarese, C, Fini, N, Floris, G, Fuda, G, Giannini, F, Grassano, M, Ilardi, A, La Bella, V, Lattante, S, Logroscino, G, Logullo, FO, Loi, D, Lunetta, C, Mancardi, G, Mandich, P, Mandrioli, J, Manera, U, Marangi, G, Marinou, K, Marrali, G, Marrosu, MG, Mazzini, L, Melis, M, Messina, S, Moglia, C, Monsurro, MR, Mosca, L, Occhineri, P, Origone, P, Pani, C, Penco, S, Petrucci, A, Piccirillo, G, Pirisi, A, Pisano, F, Pugliatti, M, Restagno, G, Ricci, C, Rita Murru, M, Riva, N, Sabatelli, M, Salvi, F, Santarelli, M, Sideri, R, Simone, I, Spataro, R, Tanel, R, Tedeschi, G, Tranquilli, S, Tremolizzo, L, Trojsi, F, Volanti, P, Zollino, M, Abramzon, Y, Arepalli, S, Baloh, RH, Bowser, R, Brady, CB, Brice, A, Broach, J, Campbell, RH, Camu, W, Chia, R, Cooper‐Knock, J, Cusi, D, Ding, J, Drepper, C, Drory, VE, Dunckley, TL, Eicher, JD, Faghri, F, Feldman, E, Kay Floeter, M, Fratta, P, Geiger, JT, Gerhard, G, Gibbs, JR, Gibson, SB, Glass, JD, Hardy, J, Harms, MB, Heiman‐Patterson, TD, Hernandez, DG, Jansson, L, Kamel, F, Kirby, J, Kowall, NW, Laaksovirta, H, Landi, F, Le Ber, I, Lumbroso, S, MacGowan, DJL, Maragakis, NJ, Mouzat, K, Murphy, NA, Myllykangas, L, Nalls, MA, Orrell, RW, Ostrow, LW, Pamphlett, R, Pickering‐Brown, S, Pioro, E, Pliner, HA, Pulst, SM, Ravits, JM, Renton, AE, Rivera, A, Robbrecht, W, Rogaeva, E, Rollinson, S, Rothstein, JD, Salvi, E, Scholz, SW, Sendtner, M, Shaw, PJ, Sidle, KC, Simmons, Z, Singleton, AB, Stone, DC, Sulkava, R, Tienari, PJ, Traynor, BJ, Trojanowski, JQ, Troncoso, JC, Van Damme, P, Van Deerlin, VM, Van Den Bosch, L, Zinman, L, Stone, DJ, Bandres-Ciga, Sara, Noyce, Alastair J., Hemani, Gibran, Nicolas, Aude, Calvo, Andrea, Mora, Gabriele, Arosio, Alessandro, Barberis, Marco, Bartolomei, Ilaria, Battistini, Stefania, Benigni, Michele, Borghero, Giuseppe, Brunetti, Maura, Cammarosano, Stefania, Cannas, Antonino, Canosa, Antonio, Capasso, Margherita, Caponnetto, Claudia, Caredda, Carla, Carrera, Paola, Casale, Federico, Cavallaro, Sebastiano, Chiò, Adriano, Colletti, Tiziana, Conforti, Francesca L., Conte, Amelia, Corrado, Lucia, Costantino, Emanuela, D'Alfonso, Sandra, Fasano, Antonio, Femiano, Cinzia, Ferrarese, Carlo, Fini, Nicola, Floris, Gianluca, Fuda, Giuseppe, Giannini, Fabio, Grassano, Maurizio, Ilardi, Antonio, La Bella, Vincenzo, Lattante, Serena, Logroscino, Giancarlo, Logullo, Francesco O., Loi, Daniela, Lunetta, Christian, Mancardi, Gianluigi, Mandich, Paola, Mandrioli, Jessica, Manera, Umberto, Marangi, Giuseppe, Marinou, Kalliopi, Marrali, Giuseppe, Marrosu, Maria Giovanna, Mazzini, Letizia, Melis, Maurizio, Messina, Sonia, Moglia, Cristina, Monsurro, Maria Rosaria, Mosca, Lorena, Occhineri, Patrizia, Origone, Paola, Pani, Carla, Penco, Silvana, Petrucci, Antonio, Piccirillo, Giovanni, Pirisi, Angelo, Pisano, Fabrizio, Pugliatti, Maura, Restagno, Gabriella, Ricci, Claudia, Rita Murru, Maria, Riva, Nilo, Sabatelli, Mario, Salvi, Fabrizio, Santarelli, Marialuisa, Sideri, Riccardo, Simone, Isabella, Spataro, Rossella, Tanel, Raffaella, Tedeschi, Gioacchino, Tranquilli, Stefania, Tremolizzo, Lucio, Trojsi, Francesca, Volanti, Paolo, Zollino, Marcella, Abramzon, Yevgeniya, Arepalli, Sampath, Baloh, Robert H., Bowser, Robert, Brady, Christopher B., Brice, Alexi, Broach, Jame, Campbell, Roy H., Camu, William, Chia, Ruth, Cooper-Knock, John, Cusi, Daniele, Ding, Jinhui, Drepper, Carsten, Drory, Vivian E., Dunckley, Travis L., Eicher, John D., Faghri, Faraz, Feldman, Eva, Kay Floeter, Mary, Fratta, Pietro, Geiger, Joshua T., Gerhard, Glenn, Gibbs, J. Raphael, Gibson, Summer B., Glass, Jonathan D., Hardy, John, Harms, Matthew B., Heiman-Patterson, Terry D., Hernandez, Dena G., Jansson, Lilja, Kamel, Freya, Kirby, Janine, Kowall, Neil W., Laaksovirta, Hannu, Landi, Francesco, Le Ber, Isabelle, Lumbroso, Serge, Macgowan, Daniel J. L., Maragakis, Nicholas J., Mouzat, Kevin, Murphy, Natalie A., Myllykangas, Liisa, Nalls, Mike A., Orrell, Richard W., Ostrow, Lyle W., Pamphlett, Roger, Pickering-Brown, Stuart, Pioro, Erik, Pliner, Hannah A., Pulst, Stefan M., Ravits, John M., Renton, Alan E., Rivera, Alberto, Robbrecht, Wim, Rogaeva, Ekaterina, Rollinson, Sara, Rothstein, Jeffrey D., Salvi, Erika, Scholz, Sonja W., Sendtner, Michael, Shaw, Pamela J., Sidle, Katie C., Simmons, Zachary, Singleton, Andrew B., Stone, David C., Sulkava, Raimo, Tienari, Pentti J., Traynor, Bryan J., Trojanowski, John Q., Troncoso, Juan C., Van Damme, Philip, Van Deerlin, Vivianna M., Van Den Bosch, Ludo, Zinman, Lorne, Stone, David J., Van Damme, P, Bandres-Ciga, S, Noyce, A, Hemani, G, Nicolas, A, Calvo, A, Mora, G, Tienari, P, Stone, D, Nalls, M, Singleton, A, Chiò, A, Traynor, Bryan, J, Tremolizzo, L, Department of Neurosciences, Neurologian yksikkö, Clinicum, HUS Neurocenter, Translational neuroradiology unit [Bethesda], National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke [Bethesda] (NINDS), National Institutes of Health [Bethesda] (NIH)-National Institutes of Health [Bethesda] (NIH), Univ Granada, Hosp Univ Granada, Inst Invest Biosanitaria Ibs GRANADA, Escuela Andaluza Salud Publ, Granada, Spain, Partenaires INRAE, Queen Mary University of London (QMUL), University College of London [London] (UCL), University of Bristol [Bristol], Département de Physique, Université de Genève, Université de Genève (UNIGE), Università degli studi di Torino (UNITO), University G. d'Annunzio, Chieti, Università degli studi 'G. d'Annunzio' Chieti-Pescara [Chieti-Pescara] (Ud'A), Department of Neurology, A.O.U. Maggiore della Carità, and IRCAD, Novara, Department of Health Sciences, UPO University, UPO University, Dipartimento di Matematica 'Ulisse Dini', Università degli Studi di Firenze = University of Florence [Firenze] (UNIFI), Department of Neurology, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca [Milano] (UNIMIB), Department of Neuroscience, University of Siena, Siena, Università cattolica del Sacro Cuore [Roma] (Unicatt), Università degli studi di Bari Aldo Moro (UNIBA), Istituto di Genetica Medica, Centro Sclerosi Multipla, Ospedale Binaghi, Via Is Guadazzonis 2, Cagliari, Italy, University of Novara, IRCCS-Istituti Clinici Scientifici Maugeri, University of Milan, Milan, Italy, Department of Biomedical and Specialty Surgical Sciences, Università degli Studi di Ferrara (UniFE), S. Anna Hospital, Department of Neuroscience, Catholic University, Roma, Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna [Bologna] (UNIBO), Institute of Medical Genetics, Catholic University, Rome, Italy, Department of Clinical Genetics, Department of Pathology University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Centre de Recherche de l'Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle épinière (CRICM), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Princeton University, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign [Urbana], University of Illinois System, Centre référent Sclérose Latérale Amyotrophique [CHRU Montpellier] (SLA CHRU Montpellier), Université Montpellier 1 (UM1)-Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire [Montpellier] (CHRU Montpellier), Università degli Studi di Milano [Milano] (UNIMI), Laboratory of Neurogenetics, National Institute of Aging, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center [Te Aviv], University of New Haven [Connecticut], Emory University [Atlanta, GA], UCL Institute of neurology, UCL Institute of Neurology, Cardiovascular, Renal and Metabolism, IMED Biotech Unit, AstraZeneca, Genomic Research Laboratory, Service of Infectious Disease, Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève (HUG), Boston University [Boston] (BU), Institut du Cerveau et de la Moëlle Epinière = Brain and Spine Institute (ICM), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière [AP-HP], Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU), Laboratoire de Biochimie [CHRU Nîmes], Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nîmes (CHU Nîmes), Department of Neurology and Center for Neuroscience, University of California at Davis, Sacramento, University of California [Davis] (UC Davis), University of California-University of California, Tanz Center Research in Neurodegenerative Diseases [Toronto], University of Toronto, Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Surgery, and Dentistry, University of Milano, Institute for Clinical Neurobiology, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg [Wurtzbourg, Allemagne] (JMU), Penn State Hershey Medical Center, Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE)-Penn State System-Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE)-Penn State System, Institute of Public Health and Clinical Nutrition, University of Eastern Finland, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania [Philadelphia], Metacohorts Consortium, Catholic University of Leuven - Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven), University of Helsinki, Merck Research Laboratories, National Institutes of Health [Bethesda] (NIH), Center for Neuroscience and Regenerative Medicine [Bethesda] (CNRM), and Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine (HJM)
Subjects: 0301 basic medicine, Linkage disequilibrium, Multifactorial Inheritance, Multivariate analysis, LD SCORE REGRESSION, DYSLIPIDEMIA, Genome-wide association study, 3124 Neurology and psychiatry, 0302 clinical medicine, PROTECTIVE FACTOR, Mendelian Randomization Analysis, 3. Good health, ALZHEIMERS-DISEASE, Settore MED/26 - NEUROLOGIA, risk factor, BIAS, Neurology, CARDIOVASCULAR-DISEASE, MENDELIAN RANDOMIZATION, Amyotrophic lateral Sclerosis, LD score regression, Mendelian randomization, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, public resource, Life Sciences & Biomedicine, Clinical psychology, Human, Clinical Neurology, Biology, NO, 03 medical and health sciences, Humans, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Mendelian Randomization Analysi, MESH: Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, Genetic Predisposition to Disease / genetics, Genome-Wide Association Study / methods, Mendolian Randomization Analysis / methods, Exercise, Genetic association, Science & Technology, [SCCO.NEUR]Cognitive science/Neuroscience, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, 3112 Neurosciences, Neurosciences, 030104 developmental biology, [SDV.GEN.GH]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Genetics/Human genetics, CHOLESTEROL HOMEOSTASIS, Causal inference, [SDV.SPEE]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Santé publique et épidémiologie, Neurosciences & Neurology, Neurology (clinical), Genome-Wide Association Study, ALS, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosi
Abstract: OBJECTIVE: To identify shared polygenic risk and causal associations in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). METHODS: Linkage disequilibrium score regression and Mendelian randomization were applied in a large-scale, data-driven manner to explore genetic correlations and causal relationships between >700 phenotypic traits and ALS. Exposures consisted of publicly available genome-wide association studies (GWASes) summary statistics from MR Base and LD-hub. The outcome data came from the recently published ALS GWAS involving 20,806 cases and 59,804 controls. Multivariate analyses, genetic risk profiling, and Bayesian colocalization analyses were also performed. RESULTS: We have shown, by linkage disequilibrium score regression, that ALS shares polygenic risk genetic factors with a number of traits and conditions, including positive correlations with smoking status and moderate levels of physical activity, and negative correlations with higher cognitive performance, higher educational attainment, and light levels of physical activity. Using Mendelian randomization, we found evidence that hyperlipidemia is a causal risk factor for ALS and localized putative functional signals within loci of interest. INTERPRETATION: Here, we have developed a public resource (https://lng-nia.shinyapps.io/mrshiny) which we hope will become a valuable tool for the ALS community, and that will be expanded and updated as new data become available. Shared polygenic risk exists between ALS and educational attainment, physical activity, smoking, and tenseness/restlessness. We also found evidence that elevated low-desnity lipoprotein cholesterol is a causal risk factor for ALS. Future randomized controlled trials should be considered as a proof of causality. Ann Neurol 2019;85:470-481. ispartof: ANNALS OF NEUROLOGY vol:85 issue:4 pages:470-481 ispartof: location:United States status: published
Published: 2019
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22. Telephone follow-up for patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

Author: Mannino, M., Cellura, E., Grimaldi, G., Volanti, P., Piccoli, F., and La Bella, V.
Published: 2007

23. Shared polygenic risk and causal inferences in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

Author: Bandres-Ciga, S., Noyce, A. J., Hemani, G., Nicolas, A., Calvo, A., Mora, G., Arosio, A., Barberis, M., Bartolomei, I., Battistini, S., Benigni, M., Borghero, G., Brunetti, M., Cammarosano, S., Cannas, A., Canosa, A., Capasso, Monica, Caponnetto, C., Caredda, C., Carrera, P., Casale, F., Cavallaro, S., Chio, A., Colletti, T., Conforti, F. L., Conte, Amelia, Corrado, L., Costantino, E., D'Alfonso, Sandra, Fasano, Alfonso, Femiano, C., Ferrarese, C., Fini, N., Floris, G., Fuda, G., Giannini, F., Grassano, M., Ilardi, A., La Bella, V., Lattante, Serena, Logroscino, Giandomenico, Logullo, F. O., Loi, D., Lunetta, C., Mancardi, G., Mandich, P., Mandrioli, J., Manera, U., Marangi, Giuseppe, Marinou, K., Marrali, G., Marrosu, M. G., Mazzini, L., Melis, M., Messina, S., Moglia, C., Monsurro, M. R., Mosca, Luigi, Occhineri, P., Origone, P., Pani, C., Penco, S., Petrucci, A., Piccirillo, G., Pirisi, A., Pisano, F., Pugliatti, M., Restagno, G., Ricci, C., Rita Murru, M., Riva, N., Sabatelli, Mario, Salvi, F., Santarelli, M., Sideri, R., De Simone, Idor, Spataro, R., Tanel, R., Tedeschi, G., Tranquilli, S., Tremolizzo, L., Trojsi, F., Volanti, P., Zollino, Marcella, Abramzon, Y., Arepalli, S., Baloh, R. H., Bowser, R., Brady, C. B., Brice, A., Broach, J., Campbell, R. H., Camu, W., Chia, R., Cooper-Knock, J., Cusi, D., Ding, J., Drepper, C., Drory, V. E., Dunckley, T. L., Eicher, J. D., Faghri, F., Feldman, E., Kay Floeter, M., Fratta, P., Geiger, J. T., Gerhard, G., Gibbs, J. R., Gibson, S. B., Glass, J. D., Hardy, J., Harms, M. B., Heiman-Patterson, T. D., Hernandez, D. G., Jansson, L., Kamel, F., Kirby, J., Kowall, N. W., Laaksovirta, H., Landi, Francesco, Le Ber, I., Lumbroso, S., Macgowan, D. J. L., Maragakis, N. J., Mouzat, K., Murphy, N. A., Myllykangas, L., Nalls, M. A., Orrell, R. W., Ostrow, L. W., Pamphlett, R., Pickering-Brown, S., Pioro, E., Pliner, H. A., Pulst, S. M., Ravits, J. M., Renton, A. E., Rivera, A., Robbrecht, W., Rogaeva, E., Rollinson, S., Rothstein, J. D., Salvi, E., Scholz, S. W., Sendtner, M., Shaw, P. J., Sidle, K. C., Simmons, Z., Singleton, A. B., Stone, D. C., Sulkava, R., Tienari, P. J., Traynor, B. J., Trojanowski, J. Q., Troncoso, J. C., Van Damme, P., Van Deerlin, V. M., Van Den Bosch, L., Zinman, L., Stone, D. J., Capasso M., Conte A., D'Alfonso S., Fasano A., Lattante S. (ORCID:0000-0003-2891-0340), Logroscino G. (ORCID:0000-0003-1301-5343), Marangi G. (ORCID:0000-0002-6898-8882), Mosca L. (ORCID:0000-0003-4641-0841), Sabatelli M. (ORCID:0000-0001-6635-4985), Zollino M. (ORCID:0000-0003-4871-9519), Landi F. (ORCID:0000-0002-3472-1389), Bandres-Ciga, S., Noyce, A. J., Hemani, G., Nicolas, A., Calvo, A., Mora, G., Arosio, A., Barberis, M., Bartolomei, I., Battistini, S., Benigni, M., Borghero, G., Brunetti, M., Cammarosano, S., Cannas, A., Canosa, A., Capasso, Monica, Caponnetto, C., Caredda, C., Carrera, P., Casale, F., Cavallaro, S., Chio, A., Colletti, T., Conforti, F. L., Conte, Amelia, Corrado, L., Costantino, E., D'Alfonso, Sandra, Fasano, Alfonso, Femiano, C., Ferrarese, C., Fini, N., Floris, G., Fuda, G., Giannini, F., Grassano, M., Ilardi, A., La Bella, V., Lattante, Serena, Logroscino, Giandomenico, Logullo, F. O., Loi, D., Lunetta, C., Mancardi, G., Mandich, P., Mandrioli, J., Manera, U., Marangi, Giuseppe, Marinou, K., Marrali, G., Marrosu, M. G., Mazzini, L., Melis, M., Messina, S., Moglia, C., Monsurro, M. R., Mosca, Luigi, Occhineri, P., Origone, P., Pani, C., Penco, S., Petrucci, A., Piccirillo, G., Pirisi, A., Pisano, F., Pugliatti, M., Restagno, G., Ricci, C., Rita Murru, M., Riva, N., Sabatelli, Mario, Salvi, F., Santarelli, M., Sideri, R., De Simone, Idor, Spataro, R., Tanel, R., Tedeschi, G., Tranquilli, S., Tremolizzo, L., Trojsi, F., Volanti, P., Zollino, Marcella, Abramzon, Y., Arepalli, S., Baloh, R. H., Bowser, R., Brady, C. B., Brice, A., Broach, J., Campbell, R. H., Camu, W., Chia, R., Cooper-Knock, J., Cusi, D., Ding, J., Drepper, C., Drory, V. E., Dunckley, T. L., Eicher, J. D., Faghri, F., Feldman, E., Kay Floeter, M., Fratta, P., Geiger, J. T., Gerhard, G., Gibbs, J. R., Gibson, S. B., Glass, J. D., Hardy, J., Harms, M. B., Heiman-Patterson, T. D., Hernandez, D. G., Jansson, L., Kamel, F., Kirby, J., Kowall, N. W., Laaksovirta, H., Landi, Francesco, Le Ber, I., Lumbroso, S., Macgowan, D. J. L., Maragakis, N. J., Mouzat, K., Murphy, N. A., Myllykangas, L., Nalls, M. A., Orrell, R. W., Ostrow, L. W., Pamphlett, R., Pickering-Brown, S., Pioro, E., Pliner, H. A., Pulst, S. M., Ravits, J. M., Renton, A. E., Rivera, A., Robbrecht, W., Rogaeva, E., Rollinson, S., Rothstein, J. D., Salvi, E., Scholz, S. W., Sendtner, M., Shaw, P. J., Sidle, K. C., Simmons, Z., Singleton, A. B., Stone, D. C., Sulkava, R., Tienari, P. J., Traynor, B. J., Trojanowski, J. Q., Troncoso, J. C., Van Damme, P., Van Deerlin, V. M., Van Den Bosch, L., Zinman, L., Stone, D. J., Capasso M., Conte A., D'Alfonso S., Fasano A., Lattante S. (ORCID:0000-0003-2891-0340), Logroscino G. (ORCID:0000-0003-1301-5343), Marangi G. (ORCID:0000-0002-6898-8882), Mosca L. (ORCID:0000-0003-4641-0841), Sabatelli M. (ORCID:0000-0001-6635-4985), Zollino M. (ORCID:0000-0003-4871-9519), and Landi F. (ORCID:0000-0002-3472-1389)
Abstract: Objective: To identify shared polygenic risk and causal associations in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Methods: Linkage disequilibrium score regression and Mendelian randomization were applied in a large-scale, data-driven manner to explore genetic correlations and causal relationships between >700 phenotypic traits and ALS. Exposures consisted of publicly available genome-wide association studies (GWASes) summary statistics from MR Base and LD-hub. The outcome data came from the recently published ALS GWAS involving 20,806 cases and 59,804 controls. Multivariate analyses, genetic risk profiling, and Bayesian colocalization analyses were also performed. Results: We have shown, by linkage disequilibrium score regression, that ALS shares polygenic risk genetic factors with a number of traits and conditions, including positive correlations with smoking status and moderate levels of physical activity, and negative correlations with higher cognitive performance, higher educational attainment, and light levels of physical activity. Using Mendelian randomization, we found evidence that hyperlipidemia is a causal risk factor for ALS and localized putative functional signals within loci of interest. Interpretation: Here, we have developed a public resource (https://lng-nia.shinyapps.io/mrshiny) which we hope will become a valuable tool for the ALS community, and that will be expanded and updated as new data become available. Shared polygenic risk exists between ALS and educational attainment, physical activity, smoking, and tenseness/restlessness. We also found evidence that elevated low-desnity lipoprotein cholesterol is a causal risk factor for ALS. Future randomized controlled trials should be considered as a proof of causality. Ann Neurol 2019;85:470–481.
Published: 2019

24. A novel mutation (Thr116Ile) in the presenilin 1 gene in a patient with early-onset Alzheimerʼs disease

Author: La Bella, V., Liguori, M., Cittadella, R., Settipani, N., Piccoli, T., Manna, I., Quattrone, A., and Piccoli, F.
Published: 2004

25. Cognitive deficits and disease progression in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

Author: Maimone-Baronello, M., Piccoli, F., and La Bella, V.
Published: 2003

26. How specific are the pontine MRI hyperintensities (the cross sign)?

Author: Lo Coco, D., Lunetta, C., Piccoli, F., and La Bella, V.
Published: 2003

27. ALS-Related Mutant FUS Protein Is Mislocalized to Cytoplasm and Is Recruited into Stress Granules of Fibroblasts from Asymptomatic FUS P525L Mutation Carriers

Author: Lo Bello M., Di Fini F., Notaro A., Spataro R., Conforti F.L., La Bella V., Lo Bello M., Di Fini F., Notaro A., Spataro R., Conforti F.L., and La Bella V.
Subjects: Male, Time Factors, Proline, Time Factor, Neural Conduction, Human fibroblast, Cytoplasmic Granules, Follow-Up Studie, FUS P525L carrier, Cytoplasmic FUS expression, Leucine, Tubulin, Stress granule, Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis · FUS P525L carriers · Cytoplasmic FUS expression · Stress granules · Human fibroblasts, Humans, Cell Nucleu, Amyotrophic lateral sclerosi, Cells, Cultured, Skin, Cell Nucleus, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, Fibroblasts, Protein Transport, Subcellular Fraction, Mutation, Fibroblast, RNA-Binding Protein FUS, Female, Cytoplasmic Granule, Follow-Up Studies, Subcellular Fractions, Human
Abstract: Background: Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) shows a strong genetic basis, with SOD1, FUS, TARDBP, and C9ORF72 being the genes most frequently involved. This has allowed identification of asymptomatic mutation carriers, which may be of help in understanding the molecular changes preceding disease onset. Objectives: We studied the cellular expression of FUS protein and the effect of heat-shock-and dithiothreitol-induced stress in fibroblasts from FUS P525L mutation carriers, healthy controls, and patients with sporadic ALS. Methods: Western blots and immunocytochemistry were performed to study the subcellular localization of FUS protein. Control and stressed cells were double stained with FUS and the stress marker TIA-R. Results: Fibroblasts from healthy controls and sporadic ALS cases showed a prominent nuclear FUS expression. In the 2 FUS P525L mutation carriers, instead, most cells showed a protein localization in both nucleus and cytoplasm, or exclusively in the cytoplasm. Stress prompted the formation of cytoplasmic granules in all subjects and in sporadic ALS FUS mislocalization to the cytoplasm. Cytoplasmic FUS was recruited into stress granules, which showed a time-dependent decrease in all subjects. However, in the FUS P525L fibroblasts, the granules persisted longer, and they were more numerous than those detected in the cells from controls and sporadic ALS patients. Conclusions: We show that in fibroblasts of FUS P525L mutation carriers, FUS mislocalized to the cytoplasm where it redistributed into stress granules with likely a dose effect, i.e. a higher number of cells with granules, which persist longer, than in controls and ALS cases. These data represent an early molecular change occurring before ALS onset, suggesting a transient preaggregative state. (C) 2017 S. Karger AG, Basel
Published: 2017
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28. Bulbar-onset amyotrophic lateral sclerosis in a patient with Chiari I malformation

Author: Lo Coco, D., Militello, A., Piccoli, F., and La Bella, V.
Published: 2001

29. ATNX2 is not a regulatory gene in Italian amyotrophic lateral sclerosis patients with C9ORF72 GGGGCC expansion

Author: Chiò, A, Mora, G, Sabatelli, M, Caponnetto, C, Lunetta, C, Traynor, B. J, Johnson, J. O, Nalls, M. A, Calvo, A, Moglia, C, Borghero, G, Trojsi, F, La Bella, V, Volanti, P, Simone, I, Salvi, F, Logullo, F. O, Riva, N, Carrera, P, Giannini, F, Mandrioli, J, Tanel, R, Capasso, M, Tremolizzo, L, Battistini, S, Murru, M. R, Origone, P, Zollino, M, Penco, S, Mazzini, L, D'Alfonso, S, Restagno, G, Brunetti, M, Barberis, M, Conforti, F. L, Logroscino, G, Bartolomei, I, Mancardi, G, Mandich, P, Marinou, K, Sideri, R, Mosca, L, Lauria Pinter, G, Corbo, M, Fini, N, Fasano, A, Arosio, A, Ferrarese, C, Tedeschi, G, Monsurrò, M. R, Piccirillo, G, Femiano, C, Bersano, A, Corrado, L, Bagarotti, A, Spataro, R, Colletti, T, Conte, A, Luigetti, M, Lattante, S, Marangi, G, Santarelli, M, Petrucci, A, Ricci, C, Benigni, M, Casale, F, Marrali, G, Fuda, G, Ossola, I, Cammarosano, S, Ilardi, A, Manera, U, Bertuzzo, D, Pisano, F, Costantino, E, Pani, C, Puddu, R, Caredda, C, Piras, V, Tranquilli, S, Cuccu, S, Corongiu, D, Melis, M, Milia, A, Marrosu, F, Marrosu, M. G, Floris, G, Cannas, A, Ticca, A, Pugliatti, M, Pirisi, A, Parish, L. D, Occhineri, P, Ortu, E, Cau, T. B, Loi, D, Chiò, A., Mora, G., Sabatelli, M., Caponnetto, C., Lunetta, C., Traynor, B., Johnson, J., Nalls, M., Calvo, A., Moglia, C., Borghero, G., Trojsi, F., LA BELLA, V., Volanti, P., Simone, I., Salvi, F., Logullo, F., Riva, N., Carrera, P., Giannini, F., Mandrioli, J., Tanel, R., Capasso, M., Tremolizzo, L., Battistini, S., Murru, M., Origone, P., Zollino, M., Penco, S., Mazzini, L., D'Alfonso, S., Restagno, G., Brunetti, M., Barberis, M., Conforti, F., Chiò, Adriano, Mora, Gabriele, Sabatelli, Mario, Caponnetto, Claudia, Lunetta, Christian, Traynor, Bryan J, Johnson, Janel O, Nalls, Mike A, Calvo, Andrea, Moglia, Cristina, Borghero, Giuseppe, Trojsi, Francesca, La Bella, Vincenzo, Volanti, Paolo, Simone, Isabella, Salvi, Fabrizio, Logullo, Francesco O, Riva, Nilo, Carrera, Paola, Giannini, Fabio, Mandrioli, Jessica, Tanel, Raffaella, Capasso, Margherita, Tremolizzo, Lucio, Battistini, Stefania, Murru, Maria Rita, Origone, Paola, Zollino, Marcella, Penco, Silvana, Logroscino, G, Bartolomei, I, Mancardi, G, Mandich, P, Marinou, K, Sideri, R, Mosca, L, Pinter, Gl, Corbo, M, Fini, N, Fasano, A, Arosio, A, Ferrarese, C, Tedeschi, Gioacchino, Monsurro', Maria Rosaria, Piccirillo, G, Femiano, C, Bersano, A, Corrado, L, Bagarotti, A, Spataro, R, Colletti, T, Conte, A, Luigetti, M, Lattante, S, Marangi, G, Santarelli, M, Petrucci, A, Ricci, C, Benigni, M, Casale, F, Marrali, G, Fuda, G, Ossola, I, Cammarosano, S, Ilardi, A, Manera, U, Bertuzzo, D, Tanel, R, Pisano, F, Costantino, E, Pani, C, Puddu, R, Caredda, C, Piras, V, Tranquilli, S, Cuccu, S, Corongiu, D, Melis, M, Milia, A, Marrosu, F, Marrosu, Mg, Floris, G, Cannas, A, Ticca, A, Pugliatti, M, Pirisi, A, Parish, Ld, Occhineri, P, Ortu, E, Cau, Tb, Loi, D, Mazzini, Letizia, D'Alfonso, Sandra, Restagno, Gabriella, Brunetti, Maura, Barberis, Marco, Conforti, Francesca L., Chiò, A, Mora, G, Sabatelli, M, Caponnetto, C, Lunetta, C, Traynor, B, Johnson, J, Nalls, M, Calvo, A, Moglia, C, Borghero, G, Trojsi, F, La Bella, V, Volanti, P, Simone, I, Salvi, F, Logullo, F, Riva, N, Carrera, P, Giannini, F, Mandrioli, J, Capasso, M, Tremolizzo, L, Battistini, S, Murru, M, Origone, P, Zollino, M, Penco, S, Mazzini, L, D'Alfonso, S, Restagno, G, Brunetti, M, Barberis, M, Conforti, F, Lauria Pinter, G, Tedeschi, G, Monsurrò, M, Marrosu, M, Parish, L, and Cau, T
Subjects: Male, 0301 basic medicine, Aging, C9ORF72, Genetic Association Studie, 030105 genetics & heredity, Biology, Settore MED/03 - GENETICA MEDICA, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, C9orf72, medicine, Allele, Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Amyotrophic lateral sclerosi, Aged, Ataxin-2, Regulator gene, ATXN2, Phenotype, Neuroscience (all), Medicine (all), Developmental Biology, Geriatrics and Gerontology, Neurology (clinical), Genetics, DNA Repeat Expansion, Protein, General Neuroscience, Middle Aged, medicine.disease, 3. Good health, C9orf72 Protein, Italy, Population study, Female, Settore MED/26 - Neurologia, Trinucleotide repeat expansion, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery, Human
Abstract: There are indications that both familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and sporadic ALS phenotype and prognosis are partly regulated by genetic and environmental factors, supporting the theory that ALS is a multifactorial disease. The aim of this article was to assess the role of ATXN2 intermediate length repeats in a large series of Italian and Sardinian ALS patients and controls carrying a pathogenetic C9ORF72 GGGGCC hexanucleotide repeat. A total of 1972 ALS cases were identified through the database of the Italian ALS Genetic consortium, a collaborative effort including 18 ALS centers throughout Italy. The study population included: (1) 276 Italian and 57 Sardinian ALS cases who carried the C9ORF72 expansion; (2) 1340 Italian and 299 Sardinian ALS cases not carrying the C9ORF72 expansion. A total of healthy 1043 controls were also assessed. Most Italian and Sardinian cases and controls were homozygous for 22/22 or 23/23 repeats or heterozygous for 22/23 repeats of the ATXN2 gene. ATXN2 intermediate length repeats alleles (≥28) were detected in 3 (0.6%) Italian ALS cases carrying the C9ORF72 expansion, in none of the Sardinian ALS cases carrying the expansion, in 60 (4.3%) Italian cases not carrying the expansion, and in 6 (2.0%) Sardinian ALS cases without C9ORF72 expansion. Intermediate length repeat alleles were found in 12 (1.5%) Italian controls and 1 (0.84%) Sardinian controls. Therefore, ALS patients with C9ORF72 expansion showed a lower frequency of ATXN2 polyQ intermediate length repeats than both controls (Italian cases, p = 0.137; Sardinian cases, p = 0.0001) and ALS patients without C9ORF72 expansion (Italian cases, p = 0.005; Sardinian cases, p = 0.178). In our large study on Italian and Sardinian ALS patients with C9ORF72 GGGGCC hexanucleotide repeat expansion, compared to age-, gender- and ethnic-matched controls, ATXN2 polyQ intermediate length does not represent a modifier of ALS risk, differently from non- C9ORF72 mutated patients.
Published: 2015
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30. The MITOS system predicts long-term survival in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

Author: Tramacere, Irene, Dalla Bella, Eleonora, Chiò, Adriano, Mora, Gabriele, Filippini, Graziella, Lauria, Giuseppe, EPOS Trial Study Group, Antonini, G, Borghero, G, Capasso, M, Caponnetto, C, Lunetta, C, Corbo, M, Eleopra, R, Riva, N, Filosto, M, Giannini, Fabio, Granieri, E, La Bella, V, Logroscino, G, Mandrioli, J, Mazzini, L, Monsurrò, Mr, Pietrini, V, Quatrale, R, Rizzi, R, Salvi, F, Siciliano, G, Sorarù, G, Volanti, P., Tramacere I, D., Chiò, A., Mora, G., Filippini, G., Lauria, G, O., Borghero, G., Capasso, M., Caponnetto, C., Lunetta, C., Corbo, M., Eleopra, R., Riva, N., Filosto, M., Giannini, F., Granieri, E., La Bella, V., Logroscino, G., Mandrioli, J., Mazzini, L., Monsurrò, M., Pietrini, V., Quatrale, R., Rizzi, R., Salvi, F., Siciliano, G., Sorarù, G., Tramacere, Irene, Dalla Bella, Eleonora, Chiò, Adriano, Mora, Gabriele, Filippini, Graziella, Lauria, Giuseppe, EPOS Trial study group: Antonini, G, Borghero, Giuseppe, Capasso, M, Caponnetto, C, Lunetta, Christian, Corbo, M, Eleopra, R, Riva, N, Filosto, M, Giannini, F, Granieri, E, La Bella, V, Logroscino, G, Mandrioli, J, Mazzini, L, Monsurro', Maria Rosaria, Pietrini, V, Quatrale, R, Rizzi, R, Salvi, F, Siciliano, G, Sorarù, G, and Volanti, P.
Subjects: Male, Predictive Value of Test, Walking, Logistic regression, ALS, MOTOR NEURON DISEASE, NEUROMUSCULAR, RANDOMISED TRIALS, Adult, Aged, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, Communication, Deglutition, Disability Evaluation, Disease Progression, Double-Blind Method, Female, Humans, Middle Aged, Noninvasive Ventilation, Predictive Value of Tests, ROC Curve, Respiration, Self Care, Survival Analysis, Neurology (clinical), Psychiatry and Mental Health, Surgery, Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous), Medicine (all), law.invention, ALS, long-term survival, ALSFRS-R, Randomized controlled trial, law, Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Area under the curve, als, motor neuron disease, neuromuscular, randomised trials, Predictive value of tests, Settore MED/26 - Neurologia, Survival Analysi, Human, medicine.medical_specialty, NO, Swallowing, Internal medicine, medicine, Survival analysis, Receiver operating characteristic, business.industry, als, motor neuron disease, neuromuscular, randomised trials, adult, aged, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, communication, deglutition, disability evaluation, disease progression, double-blind method, female, humans, male, middle aged, noninvasive ventilation, predictive value of tests, roc curve, respiration, self care, survival analysis, walking, neurology clinical, psychiatry and mental health, surgery, arts and humanities, medicine.disease, business, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosi
Abstract: ObjectiveThe choice of adequate proxy for long-term survival, the ultimate outcome in randomised clinical trials (RCT) assessing disease-modifying treatments for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), is a key issue. The intrinsic limitations of the ALS Functional Rating Scale-Revised (ALSFRS-R), including non-linearity, multidimensionality and floor-effect, have emerged and its usefulness argued. The ALS Milano-Torino staging (ALS-MITOS) system was proposed as a novel tool to measure the progression of ALS and overcome these limitations. This study was performed to validate the ALS-MITOS as a 6-month proxy of survival in 200 ALS patients followed up to 18 months.MethodsAnalyses were performed on data from the recombinant human erythropoietin RCT that failed to demonstrate differences between groups for both primary and secondary outcomes. The ALS-MITOS system is composed of four key domains included in the ALSFRS-R scale (walking/self-care, swallowing, communicating and breathing), each with a threshold reflecting the loss of function in the specific ALSFRS-R subscores. Sensitivity, specificity and the area under the curve of the receiver operating characteristic curves of the ALS-MITOS system stages and ALSFRS-R decline at 6 months were calculated and compared with the primary outcome (survival, tracheotomy or >23-hour non-invasive ventilation) at 12 and 18 months Predicted probabilities of the ALS-MITO system at 6 months for any event at 12 and 18 months were computed through logistic regression models.ResultsDisease progression from baseline to 6 months as defined by the ALS-MITOS system predicted death, tracheotomy or >23-hour non-invasive ventilation at 12 months with 82% sensitivity (95% CI 71% to 93%, n=37/45) and 63% specificity (95% CI 55% to 71%, n=92/146), and at 18 months with 71% sensitivity (95% CI 61% to 82%, n=50/70) and 68% specificity (95% CI 60% to 77%, n=76/111). The analysis of ALS-MITOS and ALSFRS-R progression at 6-month follow-up showed that the best cut-off to predict survival at 12 and 18 months was 1 for the ALS-MITOS (ie, loss of at least one function) and a decline ranging from 6 to 9 points for the ALSFRS-R.ConclusionsThe ALS-MITOS system can reliably predict the course of ALS up to 18 months and can be considered a novel and valid outcome measure in RCTs.
Published: 2015

31. The HFE H63D (p.His63Asp) polymorphism is a modifier of ALS outcome in Italian and French patients with SOD1 mutations

Author: Canosa, A., Calvo, A., Gabriele Mora, Brunetti, M., Barberis, M., Borghero, G., Caponnetto, C., Monsurro, M. R., La Bella, V., Volanti, P., Simone, I., Salvi, F., Riva, N., Tremolizzo, L., Giannini, F., Mandrioli, J., Murru, M. R., Mandich, P., Conforti, F., Sabatelli, M., Lunetta, C., Meininger, V., Clavelou, P., Camu, W., and Chio, A.
Subjects: HFE polymorphism, SOD1, ALS
Published: 2018

32. MUTATIONS OR DELETIONS IN THE SURVIVAL MOTOR NEURON GENE (SMN) IN SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHIES (SMA): WHAT IS THE PHYSIOLOGICAL ROLE OF SMN?

Author: Pettmann, B., Cisterni, C., Kallenbach, S., Salaun, D., and La Bella, V.
Published: 1998

33. Genome-wide Analyses Identify KIF5A as a Novel ALS Gene

Author: Nicolas, A, Kenna, K, Renton, A, Ticozzi, N, Faghri, F, Chia, R, Dominov, J, Kenna, B, Nalls, M, Keagle, P, Rivera, A, van Rheenen, W, Murphy, N, van Vugt, J, Geiger, J, van der Spek, R, Pliner, H, Shankaracharya, N, Smith, B, Marangi, G, Topp, S, Abramzon, Y, Gkazi, A, Eicher, J, Kenna, A, Logullo, F, Simone, I, Logroscino, G, Salvi, F, Bartolomei, I, Borghero, G, Murru, M, Costantino, E, Pani, C, Puddu, R, Caredda, C, Piras, V, Tranquilli, S, Cuccu, S, Corongiu, D, Melis, M, Milia, A, Marrosu, F, Marrosu, M, Floris, G, Cannas, A, Capasso, M, Caponnetto, C, Mancardi, G, Origone, P, Mandich, P, Conforti, F, Cavallaro, S, Mora, G, Marinou, K, Sideri, R, Penco, S, Mosca, L, Lunetta, C, Pinter, G, Corbo, M, Riva, N, Carrera, P, Volanti, P, Mandrioli, J, Fini, N, Fasano, A, Tremolizzo, L, Arosio, A, Ferrarese, C, Trojsi, F, Tedeschi, G, Monsurrò, M, Piccirillo, G, Femiano, C, Ticca, A, Ortu, E, La Bella, V, Spataro, R, Colletti, T, Sabatelli, M, Zollino, M, Conte, A, Luigetti, M, Lattante, S, Santarelli, M, Petrucci, A, Pugliatti, M, Pirisi, A, Parish, L, Occhineri, P, Giannini, F, Battistini, S, Ricci, C, Benigni, M, Cau, T, Loi, D, Calvo, A, Moglia, C, Brunetti, M, Barberis, M, Restagno, G, Casale, F, Marrali, G, Fuda, G, Ossola, I, Cammarosano, S, Canosa, A, Ilardi, A, Manera, U, Grassano, M, Tanel, R, Pisano, F, Mazzini, L, Messina, S, D'Alfonso, S, Corrado, L, Ferrucci, L, Harms, M, Goldstein, D, Shneider, N, Goutman, S, Simmons, Z, Miller, T, Chandran, S, Pal, S, Manousakis, G, Appel, S, Simpson, E, Wang, L, Baloh, R, Gibson, S, Bedlack, R, Lacomis, D, Sareen, D, Sherman, A, Bruijn, L, Penny, M, Moreno, C, Kamalakaran, S, Allen, A, Boone, B, Brown, R, Carulli, J, Chesi, A, Chung, W, Cirulli, E, Cooper, G, Couthouis, J, Day-Williams, A, Dion, P, Gitler, A, Glass, J, Han, Y, Harris, T, Hayes, S, Jones, A, Keebler, J, Krueger, B, Lasseigne, B, Levy, S, Lu, Y, Maniatis, T, McKenna-Yasek, D, Myers, R, Petrovski, S, Pulst, S, Raphael, A, Ravits, J, Ren, Z, Rouleau, G, Sapp, P, Sims, K, Staropoli, J, Waite, L, Wang, Q, Wimbish, J, Xin, W, Phatnani, H, Kwan, J, Broach, J, Arcila-Londono, X, Lee, E, Van Deerlin, V, Fraenkel, E, Ostrow, L, Baas, F, Zaitlen, N, Berry, J, Malaspina, A, Fratta, P, Cox, G, Thompson, L, Finkbeiner, S, Dardiotis, E, Hornstein, E, Macgowan, D, Heiman-Patterson, T, Hammell, M, Patsopoulos, N, Dubnau, J, Nath, A, Musunuri, R, Evani, U, Abhyankar, A, Zody, M, Kaye, J, Wyman, S, Lenail, A, Lima, L, Rothstein, J, Svendsen, C, Van Eyk, J, Maragakis, N, Kolb, S, Cudkowicz, M, Baxi, E, Benatar, M, Taylor, J, Wu, G, Rampersaud, E, Wuu, J, Rademakers, R, Züchner, S, Schule, R, Mccauley, J, Hussain, S, Cooley, A, Wallace, M, Clayman, C, Barohn, R, Statland, J, Swenson, A, Jackson, C, Trivedi, J, Khan, S, Katz, J, Jenkins, L, Burns, T, Gwathmey, K, Caress, J, Mcmillan, C, Elman, L, Pioro, E, Heckmann, J, So, Y, Walk, D, Maiser, S, Zhang, J, Silani, V, Gellera, C, Ratti, A, Taroni, F, Lauria, G, Verde, F, Fogh, I, Tiloca, C, Comi, G, Sorarù, G, Cereda, C, De Marchi, F, Corti, S, Ceroni, M, Siciliano, G, Filosto, M, Inghilleri, M, Peverelli, S, Colombrita, C, Poletti, B, Maderna, L, Del Bo, R, Gagliardi, S, Querin, G, Bertolin, C, Pensato, V, Castellotti, B, Camu, W, Mouzat, K, Lumbroso, S, Corcia, P, Meininger, V, Besson, G, Lagrange, E, Clavelou, P, Guy, N, Couratier, P, Vourch, P, Danel, V, Bernard, E, Lemasson, G, Laaksovirta, H, Myllykangas, L, Jansson, L, Valori, M, Ealing, J, Hamdalla, H, Rollinson, S, Pickering-Brown, S, Orrell, R, Sidle, K, Hardy, J, Singleton, A, Johnson, J, Arepalli, S, Polak, M, Asress, S, Al-Sarraj, S, King, A, Troakes, C, Vance, C, de Belleroche, J, ten Asbroek, A, Muñoz-Blanco, J, Hernandez, D, Ding, J, Gibbs, J, Scholz, S, Floeter, M, Campbell, R, Landi, F, Bowser, R, Kirby, J, Pamphlett, R, Gerhard, G, Dunckley, T, Brady, C, Kowall, N, Troncoso, J, Le Ber, I, Kamel, F, Van Den Bosch, L, Strom, T, Meitinger, T, Shatunov, A, Van Eijk, K, de Carvalho, M, Kooyman, M, Middelkoop, B, Moisse, M, Mclaughlin, R, Van Es, M, Weber, M, Boylan, K, Van Blitterswijk, M, Morrison, K, Basak, A, Mora, J, Drory, V, Shaw, P, Turner, M, Talbot, K, Hardiman, O, Williams, K, Fifita, J, Nicholson, G, Blair, I, Esteban-Pérez, J, García-Redondo, A, Al-Chalabi, A, Al Kheifat, A, Andersen, P, Chio, A, Cooper-Knock, J, Dekker, A, Redondo, A, Gotkine, M, Hide, W, Iacoangeli, A, Kiernan, M, Landers, J, Mill, J, Neto, M, Pardina, J, Newhouse, S, Pinto, S, Pulit, S, Robberecht, W, Shaw, C, Sproviero, W, Tazelaar, G, van Damme, P, van den Berg, L, van Eijk, K, van Es, M, Veldink, J, Zatz, M, Bauer, D, Twine, N, Rogaeva, E, Zinman, L, Brice, A, Feldman, E, Ludolph, A, Weishaupt, J, Trojanowski, J, Stone, D, Tienari, P, Chiò, A, Traynor, B, Nicolas, Aude, Kenna, Kevin P., Renton, Alan E., Ticozzi, Nicola, Faghri, Faraz, Chia, Ruth, Dominov, Janice A., Kenna, Brendan J., Nalls, Mike A., Keagle, Pamela, Rivera, Alberto M., van Rheenen, Wouter, Murphy, Natalie A., van Vugt, Joke J. 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Abstract: To identify novel genes associated with ALS, we undertook two lines of investigation. We carried out a genome-wide association study comparing 20,806 ALS cases and 59,804 controls. Independently, we performed a rare variant burden analysis comparing 1,138 index familial ALS cases and 19,494 controls. Through both approaches, we identified kinesin family member 5A (KIF5A) as a novel gene associated with ALS. Interestingly, mutations predominantly in the N-terminal motor domain of KIF5A are causative for two neurodegenerative diseases: hereditary spastic paraplegia (SPG10) and Charcot-Marie-Tooth type 2 (CMT2). In contrast, ALS-associated mutations are primarily located at the C-terminal cargo-binding tail domain and patients harboring loss-of-function mutations displayed an extended survival relative to typical ALS cases. Taken together, these results broaden the phenotype spectrum resulting from mutations in KIF5A and strengthen the role of cytoskeletal defects in the pathogenesis of ALS. Using a large-scale genome-wide association study and exome sequencing, we identified KIF5A as a novel gene associated with ALS. Our data broaden the phenotype resulting from mutations in KIF5A and highlight the importance of cytoskeletal defects in the pathogenesis of ALS.
Published: 2018

34. Genome-wide Analyses Identify KIF5A as a Novel ALS Gene

Author: Nicolas, A., Kenna, K. P., Renton, A. E., Ticozzi, N., Faghri, F., Chia, R., Dominov, J. A., Kenna, B. J., Nalls, M. A., Keagle, P., Rivera, A. M., van Rheenen, W., Murphy, N. A., van Vugt, J. J. F. A., Geiger, J. T., Van der Spek, R. A., Pliner, H. A., Shankaracharya, Smith, B. N., Marangi, Giuseppe, Topp, S. D., Abramzon, Y., Gkazi, A. S., Eicher, J. D., Kenna, A., Logullo, F. O., Simone, I. L., Logroscino, Giandomenico, Salvi, F., Bartolomei, I., Borghero, G., Murru, M. R., Costantino, E., Pani, C., Puddu, R., Caredda, C., Piras, V., Tranquilli, S., Cuccu, S., Corongiu, D., Melis, M., Milia, A., Marrosu, F., Marrosu, M. G., Floris, G., Cannas, A., Capasso, Monica, Caponnetto, C., Mancardi, G., Origone, P., Mandich, P., Conforti, F. L., Cavallaro, S., Mora, G., Marinou, K., Sideri, R., Penco, S., Mosca, Luigi, Lunetta, C., Pinter, G. L., Corbo, M., Riva, N., Carrera, P., Volanti, P., Mandrioli, J., Fini, N., Fasano, Alfonso, Tremolizzo, L., Arosio, A., Ferrarese, C., Trojsi, F., Tedeschi, G., Monsurro, M. R., Piccirillo, G., Femiano, C., Ticca, A., Ortu, E., La Bella, V., Spataro, R., Colletti, T., Sabatelli, Mario, Zollino, Marcella, Conte, Amelia, Luigetti, Marco, Lattante, Serena, Santarelli, M., Petrucci, A., Pugliatti, M., Pirisi, A., Parish, L. D., Occhineri, P., Giannini, F., Battistini, S., Ricci, C., Benigni, M., Cau, T. B., Loi, D., Calvo, A., Moglia, C., Brunetti, M., Barberis, M., Restagno, G., Casale, F., Marrali, G., Fuda, G., Ossola, I., Cammarosano, S., Canosa, A., Ilardi, A., Manera, U., Grassano, M., Tanel, R., Pisano, F., Mazzini, L., Messina, S., D'Alfonso, Sandra, Corrado, L., Ferrucci, L., Harms, M. B., Goldstein, D. B., Shneider, N. A., Goutman, S. A., Simmons, Z., Miller, T. M., Chandran, S., Pal, S., Manousakis, G., Appel, S. H., Simpson, E., Wang, L., Baloh, R. H., Gibson, S. B., Bedlack, R., Lacomis, D., Sareen, D., Sherman, A., Bruijn, L., Penny, M., Moreno, C. D. A. M., Kamalakaran, S., Allen, A. S., Boone, B. E., Brown, R. H., Carulli, J. P., Chesi, A., Chung, W. K., Cirulli, E. T., Cooper, G. M., Couthouis, J., Day-Williams, A. G., Dion, P. A., Gitler, A. D., Glass, J. D., Han, Y., Harris, T., Hayes, S. D., Jones, A. L., Keebler, J., Krueger, B. J., Lasseigne, B. N., Levy, S. E., Lu, Y. -F., Maniatis, T., McKenna-Yasek, D., Myers, R. M., Petrovski, S., Pulst, S. M., Raphael, A. R., Ravits, J. M., Ren, Z., Rouleau, G. A., Sapp, P. C., Sims, K. B., Staropoli, J. F., Waite, L. L., Wang, Quanquan, Wimbish, J. R., Xin, W. W., Phatnani, H., Kwan, J., Broach, J., Arcila-Londono, X., Lee, E. B., Van Deerlin, V. M., Fraenkel, E., Ostrow, L. W., Baas, F., Zaitlen, N., Berry, J. D., Malaspina, A., Fratta, P., Cox, G. A., Thompson, L. M., Finkbeiner, S., Dardiotis, E., Hornstein, E., Macgowan, D. J. L., Heiman-Patterson, T., Hammell, M. G., Patsopoulos, N. A., Dubnau, J., Nath, A., Musunuri, R. L., Evani, U. S., Abhyankar, A., Zody, M. C., Kaye, J., Wyman, S. K., Lenail, A., Lima, L., Rothstein, J. D., Svendsen, C. N., Van Eyk, J. E., Maragakis, N. J., Kolb, S. J., Cudkowicz, M., Baxi, E., Benatar, M., Taylor, J. P., Wu, G., Rampersaud, E., Wuu, J., Rademakers, R., Zuchner, S., Schule, R., Mccauley, J., Hussain, S., Cooley, A., Wallace, M., Clayman, C., Barohn, R., Statland, J., Swenson, A., Jackson, C., Trivedi, J., Khan, S., Katz, J., Jenkins, L., Burns, T., Gwathmey, K., Caress, J., Mcmillan, C., Elman, L., Pioro, E. P., Heckmann, J., So, Y., Walk, D., Maiser, S., Zhang, J., Silani, V., Gellera, C., Ratti, A., Taroni, F., Lauria, G., Verde, F., Fogh, I., Tiloca, C., Comi, G. P., Soraru, G., Cereda, C., De Marchi, F., Corti, S., Ceroni, M., Siciliano, Giovanni, Filosto, M., Inghilleri, M., Peverelli, S., Colombrita, C., Poletti, B., Maderna, L., Del Bo, R., Gagliardi, S., Querin, G., Bertolin, C., Pensato, V., Castellotti, B., Camu, W., Mouzat, K., Lumbroso, S., Corcia, P., Meininger, V., Besson, G., Lagrange, E., Clavelou, P., Guy, N., Couratier, P., Vourch, P., Danel, V., Bernard, E., Lemasson, G., Laaksovirta, H., Myllykangas, L., Jansson, L., Valori, Vanna Maria, Ealing, J., Hamdalla, H., Rollinson, S., Pickering-Brown, S., Orrell, R. W., Sidle, K. C., Hardy, J., Singleton, A. B., Johnson, J. O., Arepalli, S., Polak, M., Asress, S., Al-Sarraj, S., King, A., Troakes, C., Vance, C., de Belleroche, J., ten Asbroek, A. L. M. A., Munoz-Blanco, J. L., Hernandez, D. G., Ding, J., Gibbs, J. R., Scholz, S. W., Floeter, M. K., Campbell, R. H., Landi, Francesco, Bowser, R., Kirby, J., Pamphlett, R., Gerhard, G., Dunckley, T. L., Brady, C. B., Kowall, N. W., Troncoso, J. C., Le Ber, I., Heiman-Patterson, T. D., Kamel, F., Van Den Bosch, L., Strom, T. M., Meitinger, T., Shatunov, A., Van Eijk, K. R., de Carvalho, M., Kooyman, M., Middelkoop, B., Moisse, M., Mclaughlin, R. L., Van Es, M. A., Weber, M., Boylan, K. B., Van Blitterswijk, M., Morrison, K. E., Basak, A. N., Mora, J. S., Drory, V. E., Shaw, P. J., Turner, M. R., Talbot, K., Hardiman, O., Williams, K. L., Fifita, J. A., Nicholson, G. A., Blair, I. P., Esteban-Perez, J., Garcia-Redondo, A., Al-Chalabi, A., Al Kheifat, A., Andersen, P. M., Chio, A., Cooper-Knock, J., Dekker, A., Redondo, A. G., Gotkine, M., Hide, W., Iacoangeli, A., Kiernan, M., Landers, J. E., Mill, J., Neto, M. M., Pardina, J. M., Newhouse, S., Pinto, S., Pulit, S., Robberecht, W., Shaw, C., Sproviero, W., Tazelaar, G., Van Damme, P., van den Berg, L. H., van Vugt, J., Veldink, J. H., Zatz, M., Bauer, D. C., Twine, N. A., Rogaeva, E., Zinman, L., Brice, A., Feldman, E. L., Ludolph, A. C., Weishaupt, J. H., Trojanowski, J. Q., Stone, D. J., Tienari, P., Shaw, C. E., Traynor, B. J., Marangi G. (ORCID:0000-0002-6898-8882), Logroscino G. (ORCID:0000-0003-1301-5343), Capasso M., Mosca L. (ORCID:0000-0003-4641-0841), Fasano A., Sabatelli M. (ORCID:0000-0001-6635-4985), Zollino M. (ORCID:0000-0003-4871-9519), Conte A., Luigetti M. (ORCID:0000-0001-7539-505X), Lattante S. (ORCID:0000-0003-2891-0340), D'Alfonso S., Siciliano G., Valori M., Landi F. (ORCID:0000-0002-3472-1389), Nicolas, A., Kenna, K. P., Renton, A. E., Ticozzi, N., Faghri, F., Chia, R., Dominov, J. A., Kenna, B. J., Nalls, M. A., Keagle, P., Rivera, A. M., van Rheenen, W., Murphy, N. A., van Vugt, J. J. F. A., Geiger, J. T., Van der Spek, R. A., Pliner, H. A., Shankaracharya, Smith, B. N., Marangi, Giuseppe, Topp, S. D., Abramzon, Y., Gkazi, A. S., Eicher, J. D., Kenna, A., Logullo, F. O., Simone, I. L., Logroscino, Giandomenico, Salvi, F., Bartolomei, I., Borghero, G., Murru, M. R., Costantino, E., Pani, C., Puddu, R., Caredda, C., Piras, V., Tranquilli, S., Cuccu, S., Corongiu, D., Melis, M., Milia, A., Marrosu, F., Marrosu, M. G., Floris, G., Cannas, A., Capasso, Monica, Caponnetto, C., Mancardi, G., Origone, P., Mandich, P., Conforti, F. L., Cavallaro, S., Mora, G., Marinou, K., Sideri, R., Penco, S., Mosca, Luigi, Lunetta, C., Pinter, G. L., Corbo, M., Riva, N., Carrera, P., Volanti, P., Mandrioli, J., Fini, N., Fasano, Alfonso, Tremolizzo, L., Arosio, A., Ferrarese, C., Trojsi, F., Tedeschi, G., Monsurro, M. R., Piccirillo, G., Femiano, C., Ticca, A., Ortu, E., La Bella, V., Spataro, R., Colletti, T., Sabatelli, Mario, Zollino, Marcella, Conte, Amelia, Luigetti, Marco, Lattante, Serena, Santarelli, M., Petrucci, A., Pugliatti, M., Pirisi, A., Parish, L. D., Occhineri, P., Giannini, F., Battistini, S., Ricci, C., Benigni, M., Cau, T. B., Loi, D., Calvo, A., Moglia, C., Brunetti, M., Barberis, M., Restagno, G., Casale, F., Marrali, G., Fuda, G., Ossola, I., Cammarosano, S., Canosa, A., Ilardi, A., Manera, U., Grassano, M., Tanel, R., Pisano, F., Mazzini, L., Messina, S., D'Alfonso, Sandra, Corrado, L., Ferrucci, L., Harms, M. B., Goldstein, D. B., Shneider, N. A., Goutman, S. A., Simmons, Z., Miller, T. M., Chandran, S., Pal, S., Manousakis, G., Appel, S. H., Simpson, E., Wang, L., Baloh, R. H., Gibson, S. B., Bedlack, R., Lacomis, D., Sareen, D., Sherman, A., Bruijn, L., Penny, M., Moreno, C. D. A. M., Kamalakaran, S., Allen, A. S., Boone, B. E., Brown, R. H., Carulli, J. P., Chesi, A., Chung, W. K., Cirulli, E. T., Cooper, G. M., Couthouis, J., Day-Williams, A. G., Dion, P. A., Gitler, A. D., Glass, J. D., Han, Y., Harris, T., Hayes, S. D., Jones, A. L., Keebler, J., Krueger, B. J., Lasseigne, B. N., Levy, S. E., Lu, Y. -F., Maniatis, T., McKenna-Yasek, D., Myers, R. M., Petrovski, S., Pulst, S. M., Raphael, A. R., Ravits, J. M., Ren, Z., Rouleau, G. A., Sapp, P. C., Sims, K. B., Staropoli, J. F., Waite, L. L., Wang, Quanquan, Wimbish, J. R., Xin, W. W., Phatnani, H., Kwan, J., Broach, J., Arcila-Londono, X., Lee, E. B., Van Deerlin, V. M., Fraenkel, E., Ostrow, L. W., Baas, F., Zaitlen, N., Berry, J. D., Malaspina, A., Fratta, P., Cox, G. A., Thompson, L. M., Finkbeiner, S., Dardiotis, E., Hornstein, E., Macgowan, D. J. L., Heiman-Patterson, T., Hammell, M. G., Patsopoulos, N. A., Dubnau, J., Nath, A., Musunuri, R. L., Evani, U. S., Abhyankar, A., Zody, M. C., Kaye, J., Wyman, S. K., Lenail, A., Lima, L., Rothstein, J. D., Svendsen, C. N., Van Eyk, J. E., Maragakis, N. J., Kolb, S. J., Cudkowicz, M., Baxi, E., Benatar, M., Taylor, J. P., Wu, G., Rampersaud, E., Wuu, J., Rademakers, R., Zuchner, S., Schule, R., Mccauley, J., Hussain, S., Cooley, A., Wallace, M., Clayman, C., Barohn, R., Statland, J., Swenson, A., Jackson, C., Trivedi, J., Khan, S., Katz, J., Jenkins, L., Burns, T., Gwathmey, K., Caress, J., Mcmillan, C., Elman, L., Pioro, E. P., Heckmann, J., So, Y., Walk, D., Maiser, S., Zhang, J., Silani, V., Gellera, C., Ratti, A., Taroni, F., Lauria, G., Verde, F., Fogh, I., Tiloca, C., Comi, G. P., Soraru, G., Cereda, C., De Marchi, F., Corti, S., Ceroni, M., Siciliano, Giovanni, Filosto, M., Inghilleri, M., Peverelli, S., Colombrita, C., Poletti, B., Maderna, L., Del Bo, R., Gagliardi, S., Querin, G., Bertolin, C., Pensato, V., Castellotti, B., Camu, W., Mouzat, K., Lumbroso, S., Corcia, P., Meininger, V., Besson, G., Lagrange, E., Clavelou, P., Guy, N., Couratier, P., Vourch, P., Danel, V., Bernard, E., Lemasson, G., Laaksovirta, H., Myllykangas, L., Jansson, L., Valori, Vanna Maria, Ealing, J., Hamdalla, H., Rollinson, S., Pickering-Brown, S., Orrell, R. W., Sidle, K. C., Hardy, J., Singleton, A. B., Johnson, J. O., Arepalli, S., Polak, M., Asress, S., Al-Sarraj, S., King, A., Troakes, C., Vance, C., de Belleroche, J., ten Asbroek, A. L. M. A., Munoz-Blanco, J. L., Hernandez, D. G., Ding, J., Gibbs, J. R., Scholz, S. W., Floeter, M. K., Campbell, R. H., Landi, Francesco, Bowser, R., Kirby, J., Pamphlett, R., Gerhard, G., Dunckley, T. L., Brady, C. B., Kowall, N. W., Troncoso, J. C., Le Ber, I., Heiman-Patterson, T. D., Kamel, F., Van Den Bosch, L., Strom, T. M., Meitinger, T., Shatunov, A., Van Eijk, K. R., de Carvalho, M., Kooyman, M., Middelkoop, B., Moisse, M., Mclaughlin, R. L., Van Es, M. A., Weber, M., Boylan, K. B., Van Blitterswijk, M., Morrison, K. E., Basak, A. N., Mora, J. S., Drory, V. E., Shaw, P. J., Turner, M. R., Talbot, K., Hardiman, O., Williams, K. L., Fifita, J. A., Nicholson, G. A., Blair, I. P., Esteban-Perez, J., Garcia-Redondo, A., Al-Chalabi, A., Al Kheifat, A., Andersen, P. M., Chio, A., Cooper-Knock, J., Dekker, A., Redondo, A. G., Gotkine, M., Hide, W., Iacoangeli, A., Kiernan, M., Landers, J. E., Mill, J., Neto, M. M., Pardina, J. M., Newhouse, S., Pinto, S., Pulit, S., Robberecht, W., Shaw, C., Sproviero, W., Tazelaar, G., Van Damme, P., van den Berg, L. H., van Vugt, J., Veldink, J. H., Zatz, M., Bauer, D. C., Twine, N. A., Rogaeva, E., Zinman, L., Brice, A., Feldman, E. L., Ludolph, A. C., Weishaupt, J. H., Trojanowski, J. Q., Stone, D. J., Tienari, P., Shaw, C. E., Traynor, B. J., Marangi G. (ORCID:0000-0002-6898-8882), Logroscino G. (ORCID:0000-0003-1301-5343), Capasso M., Mosca L. (ORCID:0000-0003-4641-0841), Fasano A., Sabatelli M. (ORCID:0000-0001-6635-4985), Zollino M. (ORCID:0000-0003-4871-9519), Conte A., Luigetti M. (ORCID:0000-0001-7539-505X), Lattante S. (ORCID:0000-0003-2891-0340), D'Alfonso S., Siciliano G., Valori M., and Landi F. (ORCID:0000-0002-3472-1389)
Abstract: To identify novel genes associated with ALS, we undertook two lines of investigation. We carried out a genome-wide association study comparing 20,806 ALS cases and 59,804 controls. Independently, we performed a rare variant burden analysis comparing 1,138 index familial ALS cases and 19,494 controls. Through both approaches, we identified kinesin family member 5A (KIF5A) as a novel gene associated with ALS. Interestingly, mutations predominantly in the N-terminal motor domain of KIF5A are causative for two neurodegenerative diseases: hereditary spastic paraplegia (SPG10) and Charcot-Marie-Tooth type 2 (CMT2). In contrast, ALS-associated mutations are primarily located at the C-terminal cargo-binding tail domain and patients harboring loss-of-function mutations displayed an extended survival relative to typical ALS cases. Taken together, these results broaden the phenotype spectrum resulting from mutations in KIF5A and strengthen the role of cytoskeletal defects in the pathogenesis of ALS. Using a large-scale genome-wide association study and exome sequencing, we identified KIF5A as a novel gene associated with ALS. Our data broaden the phenotype resulting from mutations in KIF5A and highlight the importance of cytoskeletal defects in the pathogenesis of ALS.
Published: 2018

35. HFE p.H63D polymorphism does not influence ALS phenotype and survival

Author: Chio, A, Mora, G, Sabatelli, M, Caponnetto, C, Lunetta, C, Traynor, B, Johnson, J, Nalls, M, Calvo, A, Moglia, C, Borghero, G, Monsurro, M, La Bella, V, Volanti, P, Simone, I, Salvi, F, Logullo, F, Nilo, R, Giannini, F, Mandrioli, J, Tanel, R, Murru, M, Mandich, P, Zollino, M, Conforti, F, Penco, S, Brunetti, M, Barberis, M, Restagno, G, Logroscino, G, Bartolomei, I, Capasso, M, Mancardi, G, Origone, P, Marinou, K, Sideri, R, Mosca, L, Pinter, G, Corbo, M, Fini, N, Georgoulopoulou, E, Tremolizzo, L, Tedeschi, G, Trojsi, F, Piccirillo, G, Cristillo, V, Spataro, R, Colletti, T, Conte, A, Luigetti, M, Lattante, S, Marangi, G, Santarelli, M, Petrucci, A, Battistini, S, Ricci, C, Benigni, M, Casale, F, Marrali, G, Fuda, G, Ossola, I, Cammarosano, S, Ilardi, A, Bertuzzo, D, Pisano, F, Costantino, E, Pani, C, Puddu, R, Caredda, C, Piras, V, Tranquilli, S, Cuccu, S, Corongiu, D, Melis, M, Milia, A, Marrosu, F, Marrosu, M, Floris, G, Cannas, A, Ticca, A, Pugliatti, M, Pirisi, A, Parish, L, Occhineri, P, Ortu, E, Cau, T, Loi, D, Chio A., Mora G., Sabatelli M., Caponnetto C., Lunetta C., Traynor B. J., Johnson J. O., Nalls M. A., Calvo A., Moglia C., Borghero G., Monsurro M. R., La Bella V., Volanti P., Simone I., Salvi F., Logullo F. O., Nilo R., Giannini F., Mandrioli J., Tanel R., Murru M. R., Mandich P., Zollino M., Conforti F. L., Penco S., Brunetti M., Barberis M., Restagno G., Logroscino G., Bartolomei I., Capasso M., Mancardi G., Origone P., Marinou K., Sideri R., Mosca L., Pinter G. L., Corbo M., Fini N., Georgoulopoulou E., Tremolizzo L., Tedeschi G., Trojsi F., Piccirillo G., Cristillo V., Spataro R., Colletti T., Conte A., Luigetti M., Lattante S., Marangi G., Santarelli M., Petrucci A., Battistini S., Ricci C., Benigni M., Casale F., Marrali G., Fuda G., Ossola I., Cammarosano S., Ilardi A., Bertuzzo D., Pisano F., Costantino E., Pani C., Puddu R., Caredda C., Piras V., Tranquilli S., Cuccu S., Corongiu D., Melis M., Milia A., Marrosu F., Marrosu M. G., Floris G., Cannas A., Ticca A., Pugliatti M., Pirisi A., Parish L. D., Occhineri P., Ortu E., Cau T. B., Loi D., Chio, A, Mora, G, Sabatelli, M, Caponnetto, C, Lunetta, C, Traynor, B, Johnson, J, Nalls, M, Calvo, A, Moglia, C, Borghero, G, Monsurro, M, La Bella, V, Volanti, P, Simone, I, Salvi, F, Logullo, F, Nilo, R, Giannini, F, Mandrioli, J, Tanel, R, Murru, M, Mandich, P, Zollino, M, Conforti, F, Penco, S, Brunetti, M, Barberis, M, Restagno, G, Logroscino, G, Bartolomei, I, Capasso, M, Mancardi, G, Origone, P, Marinou, K, Sideri, R, Mosca, L, Pinter, G, Corbo, M, Fini, N, Georgoulopoulou, E, Tremolizzo, L, Tedeschi, G, Trojsi, F, Piccirillo, G, Cristillo, V, Spataro, R, Colletti, T, Conte, A, Luigetti, M, Lattante, S, Marangi, G, Santarelli, M, Petrucci, A, Battistini, S, Ricci, C, Benigni, M, Casale, F, Marrali, G, Fuda, G, Ossola, I, Cammarosano, S, Ilardi, A, Bertuzzo, D, Pisano, F, Costantino, E, Pani, C, Puddu, R, Caredda, C, Piras, V, Tranquilli, S, Cuccu, S, Corongiu, D, Melis, M, Milia, A, Marrosu, F, Marrosu, M, Floris, G, Cannas, A, Ticca, A, Pugliatti, M, Pirisi, A, Parish, L, Occhineri, P, Ortu, E, Cau, T, Loi, D, Chio A., Mora G., Sabatelli M., Caponnetto C., Lunetta C., Traynor B. J., Johnson J. O., Nalls M. A., Calvo A., Moglia C., Borghero G., Monsurro M. R., La Bella V., Volanti P., Simone I., Salvi F., Logullo F. O., Nilo R., Giannini F., Mandrioli J., Tanel R., Murru M. R., Mandich P., Zollino M., Conforti F. L., Penco S., Brunetti M., Barberis M., Restagno G., Logroscino G., Bartolomei I., Capasso M., Mancardi G., Origone P., Marinou K., Sideri R., Mosca L., Pinter G. L., Corbo M., Fini N., Georgoulopoulou E., Tremolizzo L., Tedeschi G., Trojsi F., Piccirillo G., Cristillo V., Spataro R., Colletti T., Conte A., Luigetti M., Lattante S., Marangi G., Santarelli M., Petrucci A., Battistini S., Ricci C., Benigni M., Casale F., Marrali G., Fuda G., Ossola I., Cammarosano S., Ilardi A., Bertuzzo D., Pisano F., Costantino E., Pani C., Puddu R., Caredda C., Piras V., Tranquilli S., Cuccu S., Corongiu D., Melis M., Milia A., Marrosu F., Marrosu M. G., Floris G., Cannas A., Ticca A., Pugliatti M., Pirisi A., Parish L. D., Occhineri P., Ortu E., Cau T. B., and Loi D.
Abstract: It has been recently reported that the p.His63Asp polymorphism of the HFE gene accelerates disease progression both in the SOD1 transgenic mouse and in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) patients. We have evaluated the effect of HFE p.His63Asp polymorphism on the phenotype in 1351 Italian ALS patients (232 of Sardinian ancestry). Patients were genotyped for the HFE p.His63Asp polymorphism (CC, GC, and GG). All patients were also assessed for C9ORF72, TARDBP, SOD1, and FUS mutations. Of the 1351 ALS patients, 363 (29.2%) were heterozygous (GC) for the p.His63Asp polymorphism and 30 (2.2%) were homozygous for the minor allele (GG). Patients with CC, GC, and GG polymorphisms did not significantly differ by age at onset, site of onset of symptoms, and survival; however, in SOD1 patients with CG or GG polymorphism had a significantly longer survival than those with a CC polymorphism. Differently from what observed in the mouse model of ALS, the HFE p.His63Asp polymorphism has no effect on ALS phenotype in this large series of Italian ALS patients.
Published: 2015

36. Genetic counselling in ALS: facts, uncertainties and clinical suggestions

Author: Chio, A., Battistini, Stefania, Calvo, A., Caponnetto, C., Conforti, F. L., Corbo, M., Giannini, Fabio, Mandrioli, J., Mora, G., Sabatelli, M., Ajmone, C., Mastro, E., Pain, D., Mandich, P., Penco, S., Restagno, G., Zollino, M., Surbone, A., Monsurro, M. R., Tedeschi, G., Conte, A., Luigetti, M., Lattante, S., Marangi, G., Volanti, P., Marinou, K., Papetti, L., Lunetta, C., Pintor, G. L., Salvi, F., Bartolomei, I., Quattrone, A., Gambardella, A., Logroscino, G., Simone, I., Pisano, F., Spataro, R., La Bella, V., Colletti, T., Mancardi, G., Origone, P., Sola, P., Borghero, G., Marrosu, F., Marrosu, M. G., Murru, M. R., Floris, G., Cannas, A., Piras, V., Costantino, E., Pani, C., Sotgiu, M. A., Pugliatti, M., Parish, L. D., Cossu, P., Ticca, A., Rodolico, C., Portaro, S., Ricci, Claudia, Moglia, C., Ossola, I., Brunetti, M., Barberis, M., Canosa, A., Cammarosano, S., Bertuzzo, D., Fuda, G., Ilardi, A., Manera, U., Pastore, I., Sproviero, W., Logullo, F., Tanel, R., Chiò, A, Battistini, S, Calvo, A, Caponnetto, C, Conforti, FL, Corbo, M, Giannini, F, Mandrioli, J, Mora, G, Sabatelli, M, Cammarosano, S, Canosa, A, Moglia, C, Ajmone, C, Mastro, E, Pain, D, Mandich, P, Penco, S, Restagno, G, Zollino, M, Surbone, A, Conforti, Fl, Italsgen, Consortium, Among, Collaborator, Tedeschi, Gioacchino, and Surbone, A.
Subjects: medicine.medical_specialty, Genotype, GENETICS, Genetic counseling, Genetic Counseling, Gene mutation, Settore MED/03 - GENETICA MEDICA, medicine, Humans, Genetic Testing, Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Genetic discrimination, Psychiatry, Genetic testing, medicine.diagnostic_test, business.industry, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, medicine.disease, Penetrance, ALS, 3. Good health, Psychiatry and Mental health, Phenotype, Frontotemporal Dementia, Mutation, Surgery, Settore MED/26 - Neurologia, Neurology (clinical), business, Motor neurone disease, Frontotemporal dementia
Abstract: The clinical approach to patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) has been largely modified by the identification of novel genes, the detection of gene mutations in apparently sporadic patients, and the discovery of the strict genetic and clinical relation between ALS and frontotemporal dementia (FTD). As a consequence, clinicians are increasingly facing the dilemma on how to handle genetic counselling and testing both for ALS patients and their relatives. On the basis of existing literature on genetics of ALS and of other late-onset life-threatening disorders, we propose clinical suggestions to enable neurologists to provide optimal clinical and genetic counselling to patients and families. Genetic testing should be offered to ALS patients who have a first-degree or second-degree relative with ALS, FTD or both, and should be discussed with, but not offered to, all other ALS patients, with special emphasis on its major uncertainties. Presently, genetic testing should not be proposed to asymptomatic at-risk subjects, unless they request it or are enrolled in research programmes. Genetic counselling in ALS should take into account the uncertainties about the pathogenicity and penetrance of some genetic mutations; the possible presence of mutations of different genes in the same individual; the poor genotypic/phenotypic correlation in most ALS genes; and the phenotypic pleiotropy of some genes. Though psychological, social and ethical implications of genetic testing are still relatively unexplored in ALS, we recommend multidisciplinary counselling that addresses all relevant issues, including disclosure of tests results to family members and the risk for genetic discrimination.
Published: 2014
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37. Response to the letter to the Editor: Comments on marital status is a prognostic factor in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Safiri S et al

Author: Spataro, R., primary, Volanti, P., additional, Lo Coco, D., additional, and La Bella, V., additional
Published: 2018
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38. Clinical characteristics of patients with familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis carrying the pathogenic GGGGCC hexanucleotide repeat expansion of C9ORF72

Author: Chiò, A1, Borghero, G, Restagno, G, Mora, G, Drepper, C, Traynor, Bj, Sendtner, M, Brunetti, M, Ossola, I, Calvo, A, Pugliatti, M, Sotgiu, Ma, Murru, Mr, Marrosu, Mg, Marrosu, F, Marinou, K, Mandrioli, J, Sola, P, Caponnetto, C, Mancardi, G, Mandich, P, La Bella, V, Spataro, R, Conte, A, Monsurrò, Mr, Tedeschi, G, Pisano, F, Bartolomei, I, Salvi, F, Lauria Pinter, G, Simone, I, Logroscino, G, Gambardella, A, Quattrone, A, Lunetta, C, Volanti, P, Zollino, M, Penco, S, Battistini, S, Renton, Ae, Majounie, E, Abramzon, Y, Conforti, Fl, Giannini, F, Corbo, M, Sabatelli, M, Moglia, C, Cammarosano, S, Fuda, G, Canosa, A, Gallo, S, Papetti, L, Luigetti, M, Lattante, S, Marangi, G, Colletti, T, Ricci, C, Origone, P, Floris, G, Cannas, A, Piras, V, Parish, Ld, Solinas, G, Ulgheri, L, Ticca, A, Izzo, F, Laiola, A, Trojsi, F., Chiò, A, Borghero, G, Restagno, G, Mora, G, Drepper, C, Traynor, Bj, Sendtner, M, Brunetti, M, Ossola, I, Calvo, A, Pugliatti, M, Sotgiu, Ma, Murru, Mr, Marrosu, Mg, Marrosu, F, Marinou, K, Mandrioli, J, Sola, P, Caponnetto, C, Mancardi, G, Mandich, P, La Bella, V, Spataro, R, Conte, A, Monsurro', Maria Rosaria, Tedeschi, Gioacchino, Pisano, F, Bartolomei, I, Salvi, F, Lauria Pinter, G, Simone, I, Logroscino, G, Gambardella, A, Quattrone, A, Lunetta, C, Volanti, P, Zollino, M, Penco, S, Battistini, S, the ITALSGEN consortium: Moglia, Cristina, Cammarosano, Stefania, Fuda, Giuseppe, Canosa, Antonio, Gallo, Sara, Papetti, Laura, Luigetti, Marco, Lattante, Serena, Marangi, Giuseppe, Colletti, Tiziana, Ricci, Claudia, Origone, Paola, Floris, Gianluca, Cannas, Antonino, Piras, Valeria, Parish, Leslie D, Solinas, Giuliana, Ulgheri, Lucia, Ticca, Anna, Izzo, Francesco, Laiola, Anna, Trojsi, Francesca, Renton, Ae, Majounie, E, Abramzon, Y, Conforti, Fl, Giannini, F, Corbo, M, Sabatelli, M., Chiò, A., Borghero, G., Restagno, G., Mora, G., Drepper, C., Traynor, B., Sendtner, M., Brunetti, M., Ossola, I., Calvo, A., Pugliatti, M., Sotgiu, M., Murru, M., Marrosu, G., Marrosu, F., Marinou, K., Mandrioli, J., Sola, P., Caponnetto, C., Mancardi, G., Mandich, P., LA BELLA, V., Spataro, R., Conte, A., Monsurrò, M., Tedeschi, G., Pisano, F., Bartolomei, I., Salvi, F., Lauria, G., Simone, I., Logroscino, G., Gambardella, A., Quattrone, A., Lunetta, C., Volanti, P., Zollino, M., Penco, S., Battistini, S., the ITALSGEN, C., Renton, A., Majounie, E., Abramzon, Y., Conforti, F., Giannini, F., and Corbo, M.
Subjects: Male, Parents, Pathology, phenotype-genotype correlation, Cohort Studies, 0302 clinical medicine, C9orf72, amyotrophic lateral sclerosi, genetics, Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Age of Onset, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, familial als, C9Orf72, 0303 health sciences, Sex Characteristics, DNA Repeat Expansion, Adult, Age of Onset, Aged, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, genetics/pathology, Cohort Studies, DNA Repeat Expansion, DNA, genetics, Female, Humans, Italy, Male, Middle Aged, Mutation, genetics, Parents, Pedigree, Phenotype, Proteins, genetics, Sex Characteristics, Survival Analysis, Middle Aged, 3. Good health, Pedigree, Settore MED/26 - NEUROLOGIA, Phenotype, Italy, Settore MED/26 - Neurologia, Female, Frontotemporal dementia, Adult, medicine.medical_specialty, SOD1, Biology, TARDBP, 03 medical and health sciences, Internal medicine, medicine, Humans, 030304 developmental biology, Aged, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, familial ALS, C9ORF72 gene, phenotype–genotype correlation, C9orf72 Protein, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, genetics/pathology, Proteins, Original Articles, DNA, medicine.disease, Survival Analysis, Settore BIO/18 - Genetica, familial ALS, C9ORF72 gene, Mutation, Neurology (clinical), Age of onset, Trinucleotide repeat expansion, familial al, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Abstract: A large hexanucleotide (GGGGCC) repeat expansion in the first intron of C9ORF72, a gene located on chromosome 9p21, has been recently reported to be responsible for 40% of familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis cases of European ancestry. The aim of the current article was to describe the phenotype of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis cases carrying the expansion by providing a detailed clinical description of affected cases from representative multi-generational kindreds, and by analysing the age of onset, gender ratio and survival in a large cohort of patients with familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. We collected DNA and analysed phenotype data for 141 index Italian familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis cases (21 of Sardinian ancestry) and 41 German index familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis cases. Pathogenic repeat expansions were detected in 45 (37.5%) patients from mainland Italy, 12 (57.1%) patients of Sardinian ancestry and nine (22.0%) of the 41 German index familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis cases. The disease was maternally transmitted in 27 (49.1%) pedigrees and paternally transmitted in 28 (50.9%) pedigrees (P = non-significant). On average, children developed disease 7.0 years earlier than their parents [children: 55.8 years (standard deviation 7.9), parents: 62.8 (standard deviation 10.9); P = 0.003]. Parental phenotype influenced the type of clinical symptoms manifested by the child: of the 13 cases where the affected parent had an amyotrophic lateral sclerosis–frontotemporal dementia or frontotemporal dementia, the affected child also developed amyotrophic lateral sclerosis–frontotemporal dementia in nine cases. When compared with patients carrying mutations of other amyotrophic lateral sclerosis-related genes, those with C9ORF72 expansion had commonly a bulbar onset (42.2% compared with 25.0% among non-C9ORF72 expansion cases, P = 0.03) and cognitive impairment (46.7% compared with 9.1% among non-C9ORF72 expansion cases, P = 0.0001). Median survival from symptom onset among cases carrying C9ORF72 repeat expansion was 3.2 years lower than that of patients carrying TARDBP mutations (5.0 years; 95% confidence interval: 3.6–7.2) and longer than those with FUS mutations (1.9 years; 95% confidence interval: 1.7–2.1). We conclude that C9ORF72 hexanucleotide repeat expansions were the most frequent mutation in our large cohort of patients with familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis of Italian, Sardinian and German ancestry. Together with mutation of SOD1, TARDBP and FUS, mutations of C9ORF72 account for 60% of familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis in Italy. Patients with C9ORF72 hexanucleotide repeat expansions present some phenotypic differences compared with patients with mutations of other genes or with unknown mutations, namely a high incidence of bulbar-onset disease and comorbidity with frontotemporal dementia. Their pedigrees typically display a high frequency of cases with pure frontotemporal dementia, widening the concept of familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Keywords
Published: 2012

39. Two Italian kindreds with familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis due to FUS mutation

Author: Chio', Adriano, Restagno, G, Brunetti, Maura, Ossola, I, Calvo, Andrea, Mora, G, Sabatelli, M, Monsurrò, Mr, Battistini, S, Mandrioli, J, Salvi, F, Spataro, R, Schymick, J, Traynor, Bj, La Bella, V, Giannini, F, Ricci, C, Moglia, Cristina, Lombardo, F, Sbaiz, L, Cammarosano, Stefania, Tedeschi, G, Sola, P, Bartolomei, I, Marinou, K, Papetti, L, Conte, A, Luigetti, M, Paladino, P, Caponnetto, C, Siciliano, G., Chiò A, Restagno G, Brunetti M, Ossola I, Calvo, A, Mora, G, Sabatelli, M, Monsurrò, MR, Battistini, S, Mandrioli, J, Salvi, F, Spataro, R, Schymick, J, Traynor, BJ, La Bella, V, Chiò, A, Restagno, G, Brunetti, M, Ossola, I, Monsurro', Maria Rosaria, Traynor, Bj, LA BELLA, V, ITALSGEN CONSORTIUM: Giannini, F, Ricci, C, Moglia, C, Lombardo, F, Sbaiz, L, Cammarosano, S, Tedeschi, Gioacchino, Sola, P, Bartolomei, I, Marinou, K, Papetti, L, Conte, A, Luigetti, M, Paladino, P, Caponnetto, C, and Siciliano, G.
Subjects: Adult, Male, Aging, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Adolescent, DNA Mutational Analysis, Mutation, Missense, Biology, Article, Cohort Studies, Exon, Young Adult, Degenerative disease, medicine, Missense mutation, Humans, Family, genetics, Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Age of Onset, Gene, Aged, Genetics, General Neuroscience, Middle Aged, medicine.disease, Phenotype, Pedigree, SLA - FUS mutation - genetics, Italy, Mutation, Disease Progression, RNA-Binding Protein FUS, Female, Settore MED/26 - Neurologia, Neurology (clinical), Geriatrics and Gerontology, Age of onset, Missense, Family pedigrees, FUS gene, Developmental Biology
Abstract: Recently, fused in sarcoma/translated in liposarcoma (FUS/TLS) gene, located on chromosome 16p11.2, has been identified as a disease gene in familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (FALS). We have analyzed FUS/TLS in a cohort of 52 index cases from seven Italian regions with non-SOD1 and non-TARDBP FALS. We identified a heterozygous c.G1542C missense mutation in a family of northern Italian origin, and a heterozygous c.C1574T missense mutation in a family of Sicilian origin. Both variants are located in exon 15 encoding the RNA-recognition motif, and result in a substitution of an arginine with a serine in position 514 (p.R514S) and substitution of a proline with a leucine at position 525 (p.P525L), respectively. Overall, the two mutations accounted for 3.8% of 52 non-SOD1 and non-TDP43 index cases of FALS. The clinical phenotype was similar within each of the families, with a predominantly upper limb onset in the family carrying the p.R514S mutation and bulbar onset, with very young age and a rapid course in the family carrying the p.P525L mutation.
Published: 2009

40. Frequency of the C9orf72 hexanucleotide repeat expansion in patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and frontotemporal dementia: a cross-sectional study

Author: Majounie, E1, Renton, Ae, Mok, K, Dopper, Eg, Waite, A, Rollinson, S, Chiò, A, Restagno, G, Nicolaou, N, Simon-Sanchez, J, van Swieten JC, Abramzon, Y, Johnson, Jo, Sendtner, M, Pamphlett, R, Orrell, Rw, Mead, S, Sidle, Kc, Houlden, H, Rohrer, Jd, Morrison, Ke, Pall, H, Talbot, K, Ansorge, O, Hernandez, Dg, Arepalli, S, Sabatelli, M, Mora, G, Corbo, M, Giannini, F, Calvo, A, Englund, E, Borghero, G, Floris, Gl, Remes, Am, Laaksovirta, H, Mccluskey, L, Trojanowski, Jq, Van Deerlin VM, Schellenberg, Gd, Nalls, Ma, Drory, Ve, Lu, Cs, Yeh, Th, Ishiura, H, Takahashi, Y, Tsuji, S, Le Ber, I, Brice, A, Drepper, C, Williams, N, Kirby, J, Shaw, P, Hardy, J, Tienari, Pj, Heutink, P, Morris, Hr, Pickering-Brown, S, Traynor, Bj, Adamson, G, Bayer, Aj, Beck, J, Callister, Jb, Blake, Dj, Blumen, Sc, Collinge, J, Dunckley, T, Ealing, J, East, S, Elman, L, Gerhard, A, Guerreiro, Rj, Gwinn, K, Halliwell, N, Hamdalla, Hh, Hewitt, C, Ince, P, Jablonka, S, James, C, Kent, L, Knock, Jc, Lynch, T, Mahoney, C, Mann, D, Neal, J, Norris, D, O'Dowd, S, Richardson, A, Rossor, M, Rothstein, J, Scholz, Sw, Snowden, J, Stephan, Da, Toulson, G, Turner, Mr, Warren, Jd, Young, K, Weng, Yh, Kuo, Hc, Lai, Sc, Huang, Cl, Camuzat, A, Entraingues, L, Guillot-Noël, Verpillat, P, Blanc, F, Camu, W, Clerget-Darpoux, F, Corcia, P, Couratier, P, Didic, M, Dubois, B, Duyckaerts, C, Guedj, E, Golfier, V, Habert, Mo, Hannequin, D, Lacomblez, L, Meininger, V, Salachas, F, Levy, R, Michel, Bf, Pasquier, F, Puel, M, Thomas-Anterion, C, Sellal, F, Vercelletto, M, Moglia, C, Cammarosano, S, Canosa, A, Gallo, S, Brunetti, M, Ossola, I, Marinou, K, Papetti, L, Pisano, F, Pinter, Gl, Conte, A, Luigetti, M, Zollino, M, Lattante, S, Marangi, G, la Bella, V, Spataro, R, Colletti, T, Battistini, S, Ricci, C, Caponnetto, C, Mancardi, G, Mandich, P, Salvi, F, Bartolomei, I, Mandrioli, J, Sola, P, Lunetta, C, Penco, S, Monsurrò, Mr, Tedeschi, G, Conforti, Fl, Gambardella, A, Quattrone, A, Volanti, P, Floris, G, Cannas, A, Piras, V, Marrosu, F, Marrosu, Mg, Murru, Mr, Pugliatti, M, Parish, Ld, Sotgiu, A, Solinas, G, Ulgheri, L, Ticca, A, Simone, I, Logroscino, G., Neurology, Erasmus MC other, The Chromosome 9-ALS/FTD Consortium, Human genetics, NCA - Neurodegeneration, Università degli studi di Torino (UNITO), Department of Clinical Genetics, Institute for Clinical Neurobiology, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg [Wurtzbourg, Allemagne] (JMU), MRC Prion Unit, UCL Institute of neurology, UCL Institute of Neurology, UCL Institute of Neurology, Queen Square, London, Department of Neuroscience, Catholic University, Roma, Fondazione Maugeri, Department of Neuroscience, University of Siena, Siena, Department of Neurology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital [Taipei] (CGMH), Centre de Recherche de l'Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle épinière (CRICM), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Service de Génétique Cytogénétique et Embryologie [CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière], CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière [AP-HP], Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU), Institute of Psychological Medicine and Clinical Neurosciences, Cardiff University, MRC Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics, Medical Research Council (MRC)-School of Medicine [Cardiff], Cardiff University-Institute of Medical Genetics [Cardiff]-Cardiff University-Institute of Medical Genetics [Cardiff], Neuroépidémiologie Tropicale (NET), CHU Limoges-Institut d'Epidémiologie Neurologique et de Neurologie Tropicale-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Institut Génomique, Environnement, Immunité, Santé, Thérapeutique (GEIST), Université de Limoges (UNILIM)-Université de Limoges (UNILIM), Università degli studi di Torino = University of Turin (UNITO), Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (JMU), UCL Institute of Neurology, Queen Square [London], Università degli Studi di Siena = University of Siena (UNISI), and Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU)
Subjects: MESH: Signal Transduction, Male, MESH: Vesicular Transport Proteins, MESH: Membrane Glycoproteins, MESH: DNA Repeat Expansion, MESH: Genotype, Cohort Studies, MESH: Protein Structure, Tertiary, MESH: Aged, 80 and over, MESH: Interferon Regulatory Factor-3, 0302 clinical medicine, C9orf72, MESH: Child, MESH: RNA, Small Interfering, 80 and over, genetics, Age of Onset, Child, MESH: Cohort Studies, MESH: Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, MESH: Aged, Genetics, Aged, 80 and over, 0303 health sciences, MESH: Middle Aged, DNA Repeat Expansion, MESH: Toll-Like Receptor 4, Middle Aged, Penetrance, 3. Good health, Settore MED/26 - NEUROLOGIA, Neurology, MESH: Young Adult, MESH: HEK293 Cells, Child, Preschool, Frontotemporal Dementia, Female, Sample collection, Chromosomes, Human, Pair 9, MESH: Myeloid Differentiation Factor 88, Frontotemporal dementia, Human, Pair 9, Adult, MESH: Protein Transport, medicine.medical_specialty, Adolescent, Genotype, MESH: Age of Onset, MESH: RNA Interference, Clinical Neurology, MESH: Frontotemporal Dementia, MESH: Genetic Loci, TARDBP, Chromosomes, 03 medical and health sciences, Open Reading Frames, Young Adult, MESH: Cross-Sectional Studies, Internal medicine, medicine, MESH: Chemokine CCL5, Humans, ddc:610, Preschool, MESH: Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing, 030304 developmental biology, Aged, MESH: Adolescent, MESH: Humans, business.industry, MESH: Transfection, MESH: Child, Preschool, Haplotype, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, MESH: Adult, MESH: Adaptor Proteins, Vesicular Transport, MESH: Open Reading Frames, medicine.disease, MESH: Male, MESH: Cell Line, C9orf72 Protein, Cross-Sectional Studies, MESH: Endosomes, Genetic Loci, [SDV.SPEE]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Santé publique et épidémiologie, Neurology (clinical), MESH: Lipopolysaccharides, MESH: Chromosomes, Human, Pair 9, business, Trinucleotide repeat expansion, MESH: Female, Adolescent, Adult, Age of Onset, Aged, Aged, 80 and over, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, genetics, Child, Child, Preschool, Chromosomes, genetics, Cohort Studies, Cross-Sectional Studies, DNA Repeat Expansion, genetics, Female, Frontotemporal Dementia, genetics, Genetic Loci, Genotype, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Open Reading Frames, genetics, Young Adult, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Abstract: International audience; BACKGROUND: We aimed to accurately estimate the frequency of a hexanucleotide repeat expansion in C9orf72 that has been associated with a large proportion of cases of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD). METHODS: We screened 4448 patients diagnosed with ALS (El Escorial criteria) and 1425 patients with FTD (Lund-Manchester criteria) from 17 regions worldwide for the GGGGCC hexanucleotide expansion using a repeat-primed PCR assay. We assessed familial disease status on the basis of self-reported family history of similar neurodegenerative diseases at the time of sample collection. We compared haplotype data for 262 patients carrying the expansion with the known Finnish founder risk haplotype across the chromosomal locus. We calculated age-related penetrance using the Kaplan-Meier method with data for 603 individuals with the expansion. FINDINGS: In patients with sporadic ALS, we identified the repeat expansion in 236 (7*0%) of 3377 white individuals from the USA, Europe, and Australia, two (4*1%) of 49 black individuals from the USA, and six (8*3%) of 72 Hispanic individuals from the USA. The mutation was present in 217 (39*3%) of 552 white individuals with familial ALS from Europe and the USA. 59 (6*0%) of 981 white Europeans with sporadic FTD had the mutation, as did 99 (24*8%) of 400 white Europeans with familial FTD. Data for other ethnic groups were sparse, but we identified one Asian patient with familial ALS (from 20 assessed) and two with familial FTD (from three assessed) who carried the mutation. The mutation was not carried by the three Native Americans or 360 patients from Asia or the Pacific Islands with sporadic ALS who were tested, or by 41 Asian patients with sporadic FTD. All patients with the repeat expansion had (partly or fully) the founder haplotype, suggesting a one-off expansion occurring about 1500 years ago. The pathogenic expansion was non-penetrant in individuals younger than 35 years, 50% penetrant by 58 years, and almost fully penetrant by 80 years. INTERPRETATION: A common Mendelian genetic lesion in C9orf72 is implicated in many cases of sporadic and familial ALS and FTD. Testing for this pathogenic expansion should be considered in the management and genetic counselling of patients with these fatal neurodegenerative diseases. FUNDING: Full funding sources listed at end of paper (see Acknowledgments).
Published: 2012
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41. CHCH10 mutations in an Italian cohort of familial and sporadic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis patients

Author: Chiò, A, Mora, G, Sabatelli, M, Caponnetto, C, Traynor, B. J, Johnson, J. O, Nalls, M. A, Calvo, A, Moglia, C, Borghero, G, Monsurrò, M. R, La Bella, V, Volanti, P, Simone, I, Salvi, F, Logullo, F. O, Nilo, R, Battistini, S, Mandrioli, J, Tanel, R, Murru, M. R, Mandich, P, Zollino, M, Conforti, F. L, Brunetti, M, Barberis, M, Restagno, G, Penco, S, Lunetta, C, Giannini, F, Ricci, C, Mancardi, G, Bartolomei, I, Corbo, M, Conte, A, Luigetti, M, Lattante, S, Marangi, G, Ossola, I, Logroscino, G, Tedeschi, G, Pugliatti, M, Pinter, G. L, Glynn, S, Gibbs, J. R, Cammarosano, S, Canosa, A, Manera, U, Bertuzzo, D, Ilardi, A, Marinou, K, Sideri, R, Pisano, F, Spataro, R, Colletti, T, Floris, G, Cannas, A, Piras, V, Marrosu, F, Marrosu, M. G, Parish, L. D, Ticca, A, Pirisi, A, Ortu, E, Cau, T. B, Loi, D, Traccis, S, Fini, N, Georgoulopoulou, E, Casale, F, Marrali, G, Fuda, G, Solamone, P, Maestri, E, Mazzei, R, Cristillo, V, Puddu, R, Costantino, E, Pani, C, Caredda, C, Origone, P, Mosca, L, Capasso, M, Turri, M, Petrucci, A, Tremolizzo, L, Santarelli, M., Chiò, A, Mora, G, Sabatelli, M, Caponnetto, C, Traynor, B, Johnson, J, Nalls, M, Calvo, A, Moglia, C, Borghero, G, Monsurrò, M, La Bella, V, Volanti, P, Simone, I, Salvi, F, Logullo, F, Nilo, R, Battistini, S, Mandrioli, J, Tanel, R, Murru, M, Mandich, P, Zollino, M, Conforti, F, Brunetti, M, Barberis, M, Restagno, G, Penco, S, Lunetta, C, Giannini, F, Ricci, C, Mancardi, G, Bartolomei, I, Corbo, M, Conte, A, Luigetti, M, Lattante, S, Marangi, G, Ossola, I, Logroscino, G, Tedeschi, G, Pugliatti, M, Pinter, G, Glynn, S, Gibbs, J, Cammarosano, S, Canosa, A, Manera, U, Bertuzzo, D, Ilardi, A, Marinou, K, Sideri, R, Pisano, F, Spataro, R, Colletti, T, Floris, G, Cannas, A, Piras, V, Marrosu, F, Marrosu, M, Parish, L, Ticca, A, Pirisi, A, Ortu, E, Cau, T, Loi, D, Traccis, S, Fini, N, Georgoulopoulou, E, Casale, F, Marrali, G, Fuda, G, Solamone, P, Maestri, E, Mazzei, R, Cristillo, V, Puddu, R, Costantino, E, Pani, C, Caredda, C, Origone, P, Mosca, L, Capasso, M, Turri, M, Petrucci, A, Tremolizzo, L, Santarelli, M, Chiò, Adriano, Mora, Gabriele, Sabatelli, Mario, Caponnetto, Claudia, Traynor, Bryan J., Johnson, Janel O., Nalls, Mike A., Calvo, Andrea, Moglia, Cristina, Borghero, Giuseppe, Monsurro', Maria Rosaria, La Bella, Vincenzo, Volanti, Paolo, Simone, Isabella, Salvi, Fabrizio, Logullo, Francesco O., Nilo, Riva, Battistini, Stefania, Mandrioli, Jessica, Tanel, Raffaella, Murru, Maria Rita, Mandich, Paola, Zollino, Marcella, Conforti, Francesca L., Brunetti, Maura, Barberis, Marco, Restagno, Gabriella, Penco, Silvana, Lunetta, Christian, Giannini, Fabio, Ricci, Claudia, Mancardi, Gianluigi, Bartolomei, Ilaria, Corbo, Massimo, Conte, Amelia, Luigetti, Marco, Lattante, Serena, Marangi, Giuseppe, Ossola, Irene, Logroscino, Giancarlo, Tedeschi, Gioacchino, Pugliatti, Maura, Pinter, Giuseppe Lauria, Glynn, Shannon, Gibbs, J. Raphael, Cammarosano, Stefania, Canosa, Antonio, Manera, Umberto, Bertuzzo, Davide, Ilardi, Altonio, Marinou, Kalliopi, Sideri, Riccardo, Pisano, Fabrizio, Spataro, Rossella, Colletti, Tiziana, Floris, Gianluca, Cannas, Antonino, Piras, Valeria, Marrosu, Francesco, Marrosu, Maria Giovanna, Parish, Leslie D., Ticca, Anna, Pirisi, Angelo, Ortu, Enzo, Cau, Tea B., Loi, Daniela, Traccis, Sebastiano, Fini, Nicola, Georgoulopoulou, Eleni, Casale, Federico, Marrali, Giuseppe, Fuda, Giuseppe, Solamone, Paolina, Maestri, Eleonora, Mazzei, Rosalucia, Cristillo, Viviana, Puddu, Roberta, Costantino, Emanuela, Pani, Carla, Caredda, Carla, Origone, Paola, Mosca, Lorena, Capasso, Margherita, Turri, Mara, Petrucci, Antonio, Tremolizzo, Luico, Santarelli, Marialaura, Chiò, A., Mora, G., Sabatelli, M., Caponnetto, C., Traynor, B., Johnson, J., Nalls, M., Calvo, A., Moglia, C., Borghero, G., Monsurrò, M., LA BELLA, V., Volanti, P., Simone, I., Salvi, F., Logullo, F., Nilo, R., Battistini, S., Mandrioli, J., Tanel, R., Murru, M., Mandich, P., Zollino, M., Conforti, F., Brunetti, M., Barberis, M., Restagno, G., Penco, S., Lunetta, C., Giannini, F., Ricci, C., Mancardi, G., Bartolomei, I., Corbo, M., Conte, A., Luigetti, M., Lattante, S., Marangi, G., Ossola, I., Logroscino, G., Tedeschi, G., Pugliatti, M., Pinter, G., Glynn, S., Gibbs, J., Cammarosano, S., Canosa, A., Manera, U., Bertuzzo, D., Ilardi, A., Marinou, K., Sideri, R., Pisano, F., Spataro, R., Colletti, T., Floris, G., Cannas, A., Piras, V., Marrosu, F., Marrosu, M., Parish, L., Ticca, A., Pirisi, A., Ortu, E., Cau, T., Loi, D., Traccis, S., Fini, N., Georgoulopoulou, E., Casale, F., Marrali, G., Fuda, G., Solamone, P., Maestri, E., Mazzei, R., Cristillo, V., Puddu, R., Costantino, E., Pani, C., Caredda, C., Origone, P., Mosca, L., Capasso, M., Turri, M., Petrucci, A., Tremolizzo, L., and Santarelli, M.
Subjects: Male, Aging, Pediatrics, medicine.medical_specialty, Pathology, Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, CHCHD10, Familial, Sporadic, Aged, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, Cohort Studies, Female, Frontotemporal Dementia, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Humans, Italy, Middle Aged, Mitochondrial Proteins, Genetic Association Studies, Mutation, Genetic Association Studie, Disease, Settore MED/03 - GENETICA MEDICA, medicine.disease_cause, Exon, mental disorders, medicine, Mitochondrial Protein, Dementia, Neurology (clinical), Neuroscience (all), Developmental Biology, Geriatrics and Gerontology, Amyotrophic lateral sclerosi, business.industry, General Neuroscience, medicine.disease, 3. Good health, Cohort, Cohort Studie, business, Human, Frontotemporal dementia, Cohort study
Abstract: Mutations in CHCHD10 have recently been described as a cause of frontotemporal dementia (FTD) comorbid with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). The aim of this study was to assess the frequency and clinical characteristics of CHCHD10 mutations in Italian patients diagnosed with familial (n= 64) and apparently sporadic ALS (n= 224). Three apparently sporadic patients were found to carry c.100C>T (p.Pro34Ser) heterozygous variant in the exon 2 of CHCHD10. This mutation had been previously described in 2 unrelated French patients with FTD-ALS. However, our patients had a typical ALS, without evidence of FTD, cerebellar or extrapyramidal signs, or sensorineural deficits. We confirm that CHCHD10 mutations account for ~1% of Italian ALS patients and are a cause of disease in subjects without dementia or other atypical clinical signs.
Published: 2015
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42. SPORADIC PARKINSON DISEASE AND AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS COMPLEX (BRAIT-FAHN-SCHWARTZ DISEASE)

Author: Manno, C., Lipari, A., Bono, V., Taiello, A., La Bella, V., Manno, C, Lipari, A, Bono, V, Taiello, AC, and La Bella, V
Subjects: parkinson disease, als, Settore MED/26 - Neurologia
Published: 2013

43. Frequency of the C9orf72 hexanucleotide repeat expansion in patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and frontotemporal dementia: a cross-sectional study

Author: Majounie E, Renton AE, Mok K, Dopper EG, Waite A, Rollinson S, Chiò A, Restagno G, Nicolaou N, Simon Sanchez J, van Swieten JC, Abramzon Y, Johnson JO, Sendtner M, Pamphlett R, Orrell RW, Mead S, Sidle KC, Houlden H, Rohrer JD, Morrison KE, Pall H, Talbot K, Ansorge O, Chromosome 9 ALS/FTD Consortium, French research network on FTLD/FTLD/ALS, ITALSGEN Consortium, Adamson G, Bayer AJ, Beck J, Callister JB, Blake DJ, Blumen SC, Collinge J, Dunckley T, Ealing J, East S, Elman L, Gerhard A, Guerreiro RJ, Gwinn K, Halliwell N, Hamdalla HH, Hewitt C, Ince P, Jablonka S, James C, Kent L, Knock JC, Lynch T, Mahoney C, Mann D, Neal J, Norris D, O'Dowd S, Richardson A, Rossor M, Rothstein J, Scholz SW, Snowden J, Stephan DA, Toulson G, Turner MR, Warren JD, Young K, Weng YH, Kuo HC, Lai SC, Huang CL, Camuzat A, Entraingues L, Guillot Noël, Verpillat P, Blanc F, Camu W, Clerget Darpoux F, Corcia P, Couratier P, Didic M, Dubois B, Duyckaerts C, Guedj E, Golfier V, Habert MO, Hannequin D, Lacomblez L, Meininger V, Salachas F, Levy R, Michel BF, Pasquier F, Puel M, Thomas Anterion C, Sellal F, Vercelletto M, Moglia C, Cammarosano S, Canosa A, Gallo S, Brunetti M, Ossola I, Marinou K, Papetti L, Pisano F, Pinter GL, Conte A, Luigetti M, Zollino M, Lattante S, Marangi G, la Bella V, Spataro R, Colletti T, Battistini S, Ricci C, Caponnetto C, Mancardi G, Mandich P, Salvi F, Bartolomei I, Mandrioli J, Sola P, Lunetta C, Penco S, Conforti FL, Gambardella A, Quattrone A, Volanti P, Floris G, Cannas A, Piras V, Marrosu F, Marrosu MG, Murru MR, Pugliatti M, Parish LD, Sotgiu A, Solinas G, Ulgheri L, Ticca A, Simone I, Logroscino G, Hernandez DG, Arepalli S, Sabatelli M, Mora G, Corbo M, Giannini F, Calvo A, Englund E, Borghero G, Floris GL, Remes AM, Laaksovirta H, McCluskey L, Trojanowski JQ, Van Deerlin VM, Schellenberg GD, Nalls MA, Drory VE, Lu CS, Yeh TH, Ishiura H, Takahashi Y, Tsuji S, Le Ber I, Brice A, Drepper C, Williams N, Kirby J, Shaw P, Hardy J, Tienari PJ, Heutink P, Morris HR, Pickering Brown S, Traynor BJ, MONSURRO', Maria Rosaria, TEDESCHI, Gioacchino, Majounie, E, Renton, Ae, Mok, K, Dopper, Eg, Waite, A, Rollinson, S, Chiò, A, Restagno, G, Nicolaou, N, Simon Sanchez, J, van Swieten, Jc, Abramzon, Y, Johnson, Jo, Sendtner, M, Pamphlett, R, Orrell, Rw, Mead, S, Sidle, Kc, Houlden, H, Rohrer, Jd, Morrison, Ke, Pall, H, Talbot, K, Ansorge, O, Chromosome, 9 ALS/FTD Consortium, French research network on, Ftld/ftld/al, Italsgen, Consortium, Adamson, G, Bayer, Aj, Beck, J, Callister, Jb, Blake, Dj, Blumen, Sc, Collinge, J, Dunckley, T, Ealing, J, East, S, Elman, L, Gerhard, A, Guerreiro, Rj, Gwinn, K, Halliwell, N, Hamdalla, Hh, Hewitt, C, Ince, P, Jablonka, S, James, C, Kent, L, Knock, Jc, Lynch, T, Mahoney, C, Mann, D, Neal, J, Norris, D, O'Dowd, S, Richardson, A, Rossor, M, Rothstein, J, Scholz, Sw, Snowden, J, Stephan, Da, Toulson, G, Turner, Mr, Warren, Jd, Young, K, Weng, Yh, Kuo, Hc, Lai, Sc, Huang, Cl, Camuzat, A, Entraingues, L, Guillot, Noël, Verpillat, P, Blanc, F, Camu, W, Clerget Darpoux, F, Corcia, P, Couratier, P, Didic, M, Dubois, B, Duyckaerts, C, Guedj, E, Golfier, V, Habert, Mo, Hannequin, D, Lacomblez, L, Meininger, V, Salachas, F, Levy, R, Michel, Bf, Pasquier, F, Puel, M, Thomas Anterion, C, Sellal, F, Vercelletto, M, Moglia, C, Cammarosano, S, Canosa, A, Gallo, S, Brunetti, M, Ossola, I, Marinou, K, Papetti, L, Pisano, F, Pinter, Gl, Conte, A, Luigetti, M, Zollino, M, Lattante, S, Marangi, G, la Bella, V, Spataro, R, Colletti, T, Battistini, S, Ricci, C, Caponnetto, C, Mancardi, G, Mandich, P, Salvi, F, Bartolomei, I, Mandrioli, J, Sola, P, Lunetta, C, Penco, S, Monsurro', Maria Rosaria, Tedeschi, Gioacchino, Conforti, Fl, Gambardella, A, Quattrone, A, Volanti, P, Floris, G, Cannas, A, Piras, V, Marrosu, F, Marrosu, Mg, Murru, Mr, Pugliatti, M, Parish, Ld, Sotgiu, A, Solinas, G, Ulgheri, L, Ticca, A, Simone, I, Logroscino, G, Hernandez, Dg, Arepalli, S, Sabatelli, M, Mora, G, Corbo, M, Giannini, F, Calvo, A, Englund, E, Borghero, G, Floris, Gl, Remes, Am, Laaksovirta, H, Mccluskey, L, Trojanowski, Jq, Van Deerlin, Vm, Schellenberg, Gd, Nalls, Ma, Drory, Ve, Lu, C, Yeh, Th, Ishiura, H, Takahashi, Y, Tsuji, S, Le Ber, I, Brice, A, Drepper, C, Williams, N, Kirby, J, Shaw, P, Hardy, J, Tienari, Pj, Heutink, P, Morris, Hr, Pickering Brown, S, and Traynor, Bj
Published: 2012

44. Intraspinal stem cell transplantation for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: Ready for efficacy clinical trials?

Author: Atassi, N, Beghi, E, Blanquer, M, Boulis, N, Cantello, R, Caponnetto, C, Chiò, A, Dunnett, S, Feldman, E, Vescovi, A, Mazzini, L, Bendotti, C, Bersano, E, Brajkovic, S, Car, P, De Marchi, F, Fantozzi, R, Follenzi, A, Gelati, M, Giorgi, C, Grilli, M, Guenzi, P, La Bella, V, Mancardi, G, Panzarasa, G, Poloni, M, Profico, D, Silani, V, Sorarù, G, Spataro, R, Stecco, A, Vercelli, A, Boulis, NM, Dunnett, SB, Feldman, EL, Mancardi, GL, Atassi, N, Beghi, E, Blanquer, M, Boulis, N, Cantello, R, Caponnetto, C, Chiò, A, Dunnett, S, Feldman, E, Vescovi, A, Mazzini, L, Bendotti, C, Bersano, E, Brajkovic, S, Car, P, De Marchi, F, Fantozzi, R, Follenzi, A, Gelati, M, Giorgi, C, Grilli, M, Guenzi, P, La Bella, V, Mancardi, G, Panzarasa, G, Poloni, M, Profico, D, Silani, V, Sorarù, G, Spataro, R, Stecco, A, Vercelli, A, Boulis, NM, Dunnett, SB, Feldman, EL, and Mancardi, GL
Abstract: Intraspinal stem cell (SC) transplantation represents a new therapeutic approach for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) clinical trials. There are considerable difficulties in designing future efficacy trials, some related to the field of ALS and some that are specific to SCs or the mode of delivery. In October 2015, the most controversial points on SC transplantation were addressed during an international workshop intended to bring together international SC and ALS researchers in a public discussion on a topic for which expertise is limited. During the meeting, a discussion was started on the basic structure of the ideal clinical trial testing the efficacy and safety of SC transplantation. The current document includes a number of consensus points reflecting the design of phase II/III clinical trials.
Published: 2016

45. ATNX2 is not a regulatory gene in Italian amyotrophic lateral sclerosis patients with C9ORF72 GGGGCC expansion

Author: Chiò, A, Mora, G, Sabatelli, M, Caponnetto, C, Lunetta, C, Traynor, B, Johnson, J, Nalls, M, Calvo, A, Moglia, C, Borghero, G, Trojsi, F, La Bella, V, Volanti, P, Simone, I, Salvi, F, Logullo, F, Riva, N, Carrera, P, Giannini, F, Mandrioli, J, Tanel, R, Capasso, M, Tremolizzo, L, Battistini, S, Murru, M, Origone, P, Zollino, M, Penco, S, Mazzini, L, D'Alfonso, S, Restagno, G, Brunetti, M, Barberis, M, Conforti, F, Logroscino, G, Bartolomei, I, Mancardi, G, Mandich, P, Marinou, K, Sideri, R, Mosca, L, Lauria Pinter, G, Corbo, M, Fini, N, Fasano, A, Arosio, A, Ferrarese, C, Tedeschi, G, Monsurrò, M, Piccirillo, G, Femiano, C, Bersano, A, Corrado, L, Bagarotti, A, Spataro, R, Colletti, T, Conte, A, Luigetti, M, Lattante, S, Marangi, G, Santarelli, M, Petrucci, A, Ricci, C, Benigni, M, Casale, F, Marrali, G, Fuda, G, Ossola, I, Cammarosano, S, Ilardi, A, Manera, U, Bertuzzo, D, Pisano, F, Costantino, E, Pani, C, Puddu, R, Caredda, C, Piras, V, Tranquilli, S, Cuccu, S, Corongiu, D, Melis, M, Milia, A, Marrosu, F, Marrosu, M, Floris, G, Cannas, A, Ticca, A, Pugliatti, M, Pirisi, A, Parish, L, Occhineri, P, Ortu, E, Cau, T, Loi, D, TREMOLIZZO, LUCIO, AROSIO, ALESSANDRO, FERRARESE, CARLO, Loi, D., Chiò, A, Mora, G, Sabatelli, M, Caponnetto, C, Lunetta, C, Traynor, B, Johnson, J, Nalls, M, Calvo, A, Moglia, C, Borghero, G, Trojsi, F, La Bella, V, Volanti, P, Simone, I, Salvi, F, Logullo, F, Riva, N, Carrera, P, Giannini, F, Mandrioli, J, Tanel, R, Capasso, M, Tremolizzo, L, Battistini, S, Murru, M, Origone, P, Zollino, M, Penco, S, Mazzini, L, D'Alfonso, S, Restagno, G, Brunetti, M, Barberis, M, Conforti, F, Logroscino, G, Bartolomei, I, Mancardi, G, Mandich, P, Marinou, K, Sideri, R, Mosca, L, Lauria Pinter, G, Corbo, M, Fini, N, Fasano, A, Arosio, A, Ferrarese, C, Tedeschi, G, Monsurrò, M, Piccirillo, G, Femiano, C, Bersano, A, Corrado, L, Bagarotti, A, Spataro, R, Colletti, T, Conte, A, Luigetti, M, Lattante, S, Marangi, G, Santarelli, M, Petrucci, A, Ricci, C, Benigni, M, Casale, F, Marrali, G, Fuda, G, Ossola, I, Cammarosano, S, Ilardi, A, Manera, U, Bertuzzo, D, Pisano, F, Costantino, E, Pani, C, Puddu, R, Caredda, C, Piras, V, Tranquilli, S, Cuccu, S, Corongiu, D, Melis, M, Milia, A, Marrosu, F, Marrosu, M, Floris, G, Cannas, A, Ticca, A, Pugliatti, M, Pirisi, A, Parish, L, Occhineri, P, Ortu, E, Cau, T, Loi, D, TREMOLIZZO, LUCIO, AROSIO, ALESSANDRO, FERRARESE, CARLO, and Loi, D.
Abstract: There are indications that both familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and sporadic ALS phenotype and prognosis are partly regulated by genetic and environmental factors, supporting the theory that ALS is a multifactorial disease. The aim of this article was to assess the role of ATXN2 intermediate length repeats in a large series of Italian and Sardinian ALS patients and controls carrying a pathogenetic C9ORF72 GGGGCC hexanucleotide repeat. A total of 1972 ALS cases were identified through the database of the Italian ALS Genetic consortium, a collaborative effort including 18 ALS centers throughout Italy. The study population included: (1) 276 Italian and 57 Sardinian ALS cases who carried the C9ORF72 expansion; (2) 1340 Italian and 299 Sardinian ALS cases not carrying the C9ORF72 expansion. A total of healthy 1043 controls were also assessed. Most Italian and Sardinian cases and controls were homozygous for 22/22 or 23/23 repeats or heterozygous for 22/23 repeats of the ATXN2 gene. ATXN2 intermediate length repeats alleles (≥28) were detected in 3 (0.6%) Italian ALS cases carrying the C9ORF72 expansion, in none of the Sardinian ALS cases carrying the expansion, in 60 (4.3%) Italian cases not carrying the expansion, and in 6 (2.0%) Sardinian ALS cases without C9ORF72 expansion. Intermediate length repeat alleles were found in 12 (1.5%) Italian controls and 1 (0.84%) Sardinian controls. Therefore, ALS patients with C9ORF72 expansion showed a lower frequency of ATXN2 polyQ intermediate length repeats than both controls (Italian cases, p = 0.137; Sardinian cases, p = 0.0001) and ALS patients without C9ORF72 expansion (Italian cases, p = 0.005; Sardinian cases, p = 0.178). In our large study on Italian and Sardinian ALS patients with C9ORF72 GGGGCC hexanucleotide repeat expansion, compared to age-, gender- and ethnic-matched controls, ATXN2 polyQ intermediate length does not represent a modifier of ALS risk, differently from non-C9ORF72 mutated patients.
Published: 2016

46. Tauroursodeoxycholic acid in the treatment of patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

Author: Elia, Antonio Emanuele, Lalli, Stefania, Monsurrò, M. R., Sagnelli, A., Taiello, A. C., Reggiori, B., La Bella, V., Tedeschi, G., Albanese, Alberto, Albanese, Alberto (ORCID:0000-0002-5864-0006), Elia, Antonio Emanuele, Lalli, Stefania, Monsurrò, M. R., Sagnelli, A., Taiello, A. C., Reggiori, B., La Bella, V., Tedeschi, G., Albanese, Alberto, and Albanese, Alberto (ORCID:0000-0002-5864-0006)
Abstract: Background and purpose: Tauroursodeoxycholic acid (TUDCA) is a hydrophilic bile acid that is produced in the liver and used for treatment of chronic cholestatic liver diseases. Experimental studies suggest that TUDCA may have cytoprotective and anti-apoptotic action, with potential neuroprotective activity. A proof of principle approach was adopted to provide preliminary data regarding the efficacy and tolerability of TUDCA in a series of patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Methods: As a proof of principle, using a double-blind placebo controlled design, 34 ALS patients under treatment with riluzole who were randomized to placebo or TUDCA (1 g twice daily for 54 weeks) were evaluated after a lead-in period of 3 months. The patients were examined every 6 weeks. The primary outcome was the proportion of responders [those subjects with improvement of at least 15% in the Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Functional Rating Scale Revised (ALSFRS-R) slope during the treatment period compared to the lead-in phase]. Secondary outcomes included between-treatment comparison of ALSFRS-R at study end, comparison of the linear regression slopes for ALSFFRS-R mean scores and the occurrence of adverse events. Results: Tauroursodeoxycholic acid was well tolerated; there were no between-group differences for adverse events. The proportion of responders was higher under TUDCA (87%) than under placebo (P = 0.021; 43%). At study end baseline-adjusted ALSFRS-R was significantly higher (P = 0.007) in TUDCA than in placebo groups. Comparison of the slopes of regression analysis showed slower progression in the TUDCA than in the placebo group (P < 0.01). Conclusions: This pilot study provides preliminary clinical data indicating that TUDCA is safe and may be effective in ALS.
Published: 2016

47. Large proportion of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis cases in Sardinia due to a single founder mutation of the TARDBP gene

Author: Chiò A, Borghero G, Pugliatti M, Ticca A, Calvo A, Moglia C, Mutani R, Brunetti M, Ossola I, Marrosu MG, Murru MR, Floris G, Cannas A, Parish LD, Cossu P, Abramzon Y, Johnson JO, Nalls MA, Arepalli S, Chong S, Hernandez DG, Traynor BJ, Restagno G, Battistini S, Giannini F, Ricci C, Canosa A, Gallo S, Mandrioli J, Sola P, Salvi F, Bartolomei I, Mora G, Marinou K, Papetti L, Conte A, Sabatelli M, Luigetti M, Spataro R, La Bella V, Paladino P, Caponnetto C, Volanti P., MONSURRO', Maria Rosaria, TEDESCHI, Gioacchino, Chiò, A, Borghero, G, Pugliatti, M, Ticca, A, Calvo, A, Moglia, C, Mutani, R, Brunetti, M, Ossola, I, Marrosu, Mg, Murru, Mr, Floris, G, Cannas, A, Parish, Ld, Cossu, P, Abramzon, Y, Johnson, Jo, Nalls, Ma, Arepalli, S, Chong, S, Hernandez, Dg, Traynor, Bj, Restagno, G, Battistini, S, Giannini, F, Ricci, C, Canosa, A, Gallo, S, Monsurro', Maria Rosaria, Tedeschi, Gioacchino, Mandrioli, J, Sola, P, Salvi, F, Bartolomei, I, Mora, G, Marinou, K, Papetti, L, Conte, A, Sabatelli, M, Luigetti, M, Spataro, R, La Bella, V, Paladino, P, Caponnetto, C, and Volanti, P.
Subjects: Male, Threonine, Genotype, DNA Mutational Analysis, Mutation, Missense, Biology, medicine.disease_cause, Article, Degenerative disease, Superoxide Dismutase-1, Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous), medicine, Humans, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Prospective Studies, Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Gene, Aged, Genetics, Mutation, Alanine, Superoxide Dismutase, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, Case-control study, Middle Aged, medicine.disease, Founder Effect, DNA-Binding Proteins, Phenotype, Amino Acid Substitution, Italy, Case-Control Studies, RNA-Binding Protein FUS, Female, Neurology (clinical), Genetic isolate, Founder effect
Abstract: To perform an extensive screening for mutations of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)-related genes in a consecutive cohort of Sardinian patients, a genetic isolate phylogenically distinct from other European populations.Population-based, prospective cohort study.A total of 135 Sardinian patients with ALS and 156 healthy control subjects of Sardinian origin who were age- and sex-matched to patients.Patients underwent mutational analysis for SOD1, FUS, and TARDBP.Mutational screening of the entire cohort found that 39 patients (28.7%) carried the c.1144GA (p.A382T) missense mutation of the TARDBP gene. Of these, 15 had familial ALS (belonging to 10 distinct pedigrees) and 24 had apparently sporadic ALS. None of the 156 age-, sex-, and ethnicity-matched controls carried the pathogenic variant. Genotype data obtained for 5 ALS cases carrying the p.A382T mutation found that they shared a 94-single-nucleotide polymorphism risk haplotype that spanned 663 Kb across the TARDBP locus on chromosome 1p36.22. Three patients with ALS who carry the p.A382T mutation developed extrapyramidal symptoms several years after their initial presentation with motor weakness.The TARDBP p.A382T missense mutation accounts for approximately one-third of all ALS cases in this island population. These patients share a large risk haplotype across the TARDBP locus, indicating that they have a common ancestor.
Published: 2011

48. A Hexanucleotide Repeat Expansion in C9ORF72 Is the Cause of Chromosome 9p21-Linked ALS-FTD

Author: Renton, Ae, Majounie, E, Waite, A, Simón Sánchez, J, Rollinson, S, Gibbs, Jr, Schymick, Jc, Laaksovirta, H, van Swieten, Jc, Myllykangas, L, Kalimo, H, Paetau, A, Abramzon, Y, Remes, Am, Kaganovich, A, Scholz, Sw, Duckworth, J, Ding, J, Harmer, Dw, Hernandez, Dg, Johnson, Jo, Mok, K, Ryten, M, Trabzuni, D, Guerreiro, Rj, Orrell, Rw, Neal, J, Murray, A, Pearson, J, Jansen, Ie, Sondervan, D, Seelaar, H, Blake, D, Young, K, Halliwell, N, Callister, Jb, Toulson, G, Richardson, A, Gerhard, A, Snowden, J, Mann, D, Neary, D, Nalls, Ma, Peuralinna, T, Jansson, L, Isoviita, Vm, Kaivorinne, Al, Hölttä Vuori, M, Ikonen, E, Sulkava, R, Benatar, M, Wuu, J, Chiò, A, Restagno, G, Borghero, G, Sabatelli, M, Italsgen, Consortium, Heckerman, D, Rogaeva, E, Zinman, L, Rothstein, Jd, Sendtner, M, Drepper, C, Eichler, Ee, Alkan, C, Abdullaev, Z, Pack, Sd, Dutra, A, Pak, E, Hardy, J, Singleton, A, Williams, Nm, Heutink, P, Pickering Brown, S, Morris, Hr, Tienari, Pj, Traynor, Bj, Calvo, A, Cammarosano, S, Moglia, C, Canosa, A, Gallo, S, Brunetti, M, Ossola, I, Mora, G, Marinou, K, Papetti, L, Conte, A, Luigetti, M, La Bella, V, Spataro, R, Colletti, T, Battistini, S, Giannini, Fabio, Ricci, C, Caponnetto, C, Mancardi, G, Mandich, P, Salvi, F, Bartolomei, I, Mandrioli, J, Sola, P, Corbo, M, Lunetta, C, Penco, S, Monsurrò, Mr, Tedeschi, G, Conforti, Fl, Volanti, P, Floris, G, Cannas, A, Piras, V, Murru, Mr, Marrosu, Mg, Pugliatti, M, Ticca, A, Simone, I, Logroscino, G, Neuroscience Campus Amsterdam - Systems Biology of the Synapse, Neuroscience Campus Amsterdam - Neurodegeneration, Renton, Ae, Majounie, E, Waite, A, Simón Sánchez, J, Rollinson, S, Gibbs, Jr, Schymick, Jc, Laaksovirta, H, van Swieten, Jc, Myllykangas, L, Kalimo, H, Paetau, A, Abramzon, Y, Remes, Am, Kaganovich, A, Scholz, Sw, Duckworth, J, Ding, J, Harmer, Dw, Hernandez, Dg, Johnson, Jo, Mok, K, Ryten, M, Trabzuni, D, Guerreiro, Rj, Orrell, Rw, Neal, J, Murray, A, Pearson, J, Jansen, Ie, Sondervan, D, Seelaar, H, Blake, D, Young, K, Halliwell, N, Callister, Jb, Toulson, G, Richardson, A, Gerhard, A, Snowden, J, Mann, D, Neary, D, Nalls, Ma, Peuralinna, T, Jansson, L, Isoviita, Vm, Kaivorinne, Al, Hölttä Vuori, M, Ikonen, E, Sulkava, R, Benatar, M, Wuu, J, Chiò, A, Restagno, G, Borghero, G, Sabatelli, M, Italsgen, Consortium, Heckerman, D, Rogaeva, E, Zinman, L, Rothstein, Jd, Sendtner, M, Drepper, C, Eichler, Ee, Alkan, C, Abdullaev, Z, Pack, Sd, Dutra, A, Pak, E, Hardy, J, Singleton, A, Williams, Nm, Heutink, P, Pickering Brown, S, Morris, Hr, Tienari, Pj, COLLABORATORS: Calvo A, Traynor B. J., Cammarosano, S, Moglia, C, Canosa, A, Gallo, S, Brunetti, M, Ossola, I, Mora, G, Marinou, K, Papetti, L, Conte, A, Luigetti, M, La Bella, V, Spataro, R, Colletti, T, Battistini, S, Giannini, F, Ricci, C, Caponnetto, C, Mancardi, G, Mandich, P, Salvi, F, Bartolomei, I, Mandrioli, J, Sola, P, Corbo, M, Lunetta, C, Penco, S, Monsurro', Maria Rosaria, Tedeschi, Gioacchino, Conforti, Fl, Volanti, P, Floris, G, Cannas, A, Piras, V, Murru, Mr, Marrosu, Mg, Pugliatti, M, Ticca, A, Simone, I, Logroscino, G., Neurology, Human genetics, NCA - Systems Biology of the Synapse, and NCA - Neurodegeneration
Subjects: Male, Genotype, Neuroscience(all), Population, Biology, TARDBP, Chromosomes, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Alleles, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, genetics, Chromosomes, Human, Pair 9, Female, Finland, Frontotemporal Dementia, genetics, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Genotype, Haplotypes, Humans, Male, Microsatellite Repeats, Pedigree, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being, C9orf72, Humans, genetics, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Polymorphism, education, Alleles, Finland, 030304 developmental biology, Genetics, 0303 health sciences, education.field_of_study, General Neuroscience, Haplotype, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, Charged multivesicular body protein 2B, DNA Repeat Expansion, 3. Good health, Pedigree, C9orf72 Protein, Haplotypes, Frontotemporal Dementia, Female, Trinucleotide repeat expansion, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery, Pair 9, Microsatellite Repeats
Abstract: The chromosome 9p21 amyotrophic lateral sclerosis-frontotemporal dementia (ALS-FTD) locus contains one of the last major unidentified autosomal-dominant genes underlying these common neurodegenerative diseases. We have previously shown that a founder haplotype, covering the MOBKL2b, IFNK, and C9ORF72 genes, is present in the majority of cases linked to this region. Here we show that there is a large hexanucleotide (GGGGCC) repeat expansion in the first intron of C9ORF72 on the affected haplotype. This repeat expansion segregates perfectly with disease in the Finnish population, underlying 46.0% of familial ALS and 21.1% of sporadic ALS in that population. Taken together with the D90A SOD1 mutation, 87% of familial ALS in Finland is now explained by a simple monogenic cause. The repeat expansion is also present in one-third of familial ALS cases of outbred European descent, making it the most common genetic cause of these fatal neurodegenerative diseases identified to date. © 2011 Elsevier Inc.
Published: 2011
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49. Mutations in the Matrin 3 gene cause familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

Author: Johnson, J. O., Pioro, E. P., Boehringer, A., Chia, R., Feit, H., Renton, A. E., Pliner, H. A., Abramzon, Y., Marangi, G., Winborn, B. J., Gibbs, J. R., Nalls, M. A., Morgan, S., Shoai, M., Hardy, J., Pittman, A., Orrell, R. W., Malaspina, A., Sidle, K. C., Fratta, P., Harms, M. B., Baloh, R. H., Pestronk, A., Weihl, C. C., Rogaeva, E., Zinman, L., Drory, V. E., Borghero, G., Mora, G., Calvo, A., Rothstein, J. D., Drepper, C., Sendtner, M., Singleton, A. B., Taylor, J. P., Cookson, M. R., Restagno, G., Sabatelli, M., Bowser, R., Chio`, A., Traynor, B. J., Moglia, C., Cammarosano, S., Canosa, A., Gallo, S., Brunetti, M., Ossola, I., Marinou, K., Papetti, L., Pisano, F., Pinter, G. L., Conte, A., Luigetti, M., Zollino, M., Lattante, S., la Bella, V., Spataro, R., Colletti, T., Battistini, S., Ricci, C., Caponnetto, C., Mancardi, G., Mandich, P., Salvi, F., Bartolomei, I., Mandrioli, J., Sola, P., Lunetta, C., Penco, S., Monsurro, M. R., Conforti, F. L., Tedeschi, G., Gambardella, A., Quattrone, A., Volanti, P., Floris, G., Cannas, A., Piras, V., Marrosu, F., Marrosu, M. G., Murru, M. R., Pugliatti, M., Parish, L. D., Sotgiu, A., Solinas, G., Ulgheri, L., Ticca, A., Simone, I., Logroscino, G., Pirisi, A., Johnson, JO, Pioro, EP, Boehringer, A, Chia, R, Feit, H5, Renton, AE, Pliner, HA, Abramzon, Y6, Marangi, G, Winborn, BJ, Gibbs, JR, Nalls, MA, Morgan, S, Shoai, M, Hardy, J, Pittman, A, Orrell, RW, Malaspina, A, Sidle, KC, Fratta, P, Harms, MB, Baloh, RH, Pestronk, A, Weihl, CC, Rogaeva, E, Zinman, L, Drory, VE, Borghero, G, Mora, G, Calvo, A, Rothstein, JD, ITALSGEN Consortium (including Cammarosano,S, Canosa, A, Moglia, C), Drepper, C, Sendtner, M, Singleton, AB, Taylor, JP, Cookson, MR, Restagno, G, Sabatelli, M, Bowser, R, Chiò, A, Traynor, BJ., Moglia, C., Canosa, A., Johnson, Jo, Pioro, Ep, Feit, H, Renton, Ae, Pliner, Ha, Abramzon, Y, Winborn, Bj, Gibbs, Jr, Nalls, Ma, Orrell, Rw, Sidle, Kc, Harms, Mb, Baloh, Rh, Weihl, Cc, Drory, Ve, Rothstein, Jd, Italsgen, Consortium, Among the, Collaborator, Monsurro', Maria Rosaria, Tedeschi, Gioacchino, Singleton, Ab, Taylor, Jp, Cookson, Mr, and Traynor, B. J.
Subjects: Male, Aged, Aged, 80 and over, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, genetics/pathology, Computational Biology, DNA Mutational Analysis, DNA-Binding Proteins, metabolism, Family Health, Female, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, genetics, Genotype, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Muscle, Skeletal, metabolism/pathology, Mutation, genetics, Neurologic Examination, Nuclear Matrix-Associated Proteins, genetics/metabolism, RNA-Binding Proteins, genetics/metabolism, Spinal Cord, metabolism/pathology, DNA Mutational Analysis, genetics/metabolism, RNA-binding protein, Settore MED/03 - GENETICA MEDICA, medicine.disease_cause, 0302 clinical medicine, Nuclear Matrix-Associated Proteins, Genotype, 80 and over, genetics, Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Exome sequencing, Genetics, Aged, 80 and over, Neurologic Examination, 0303 health sciences, Mutation, General Neuroscience, RNA-Binding Proteins, Middle Aged, DNA-Binding Proteins, MATR3, medicine.anatomical_structure, Spinal Cord, familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Muscle, Settore MED/26 - Neurologia, Female, Frontotemporal dementia, Article, 03 medical and health sciences, mental disorders, medicine, Humans, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Muscle, Skeletal, 030304 developmental biology, Aged, Family Health, business.industry, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, genetics/pathology, RNA, Computational Biology, Spinal cord, medicine.disease, genetic, business, Neuroscience, metabolism, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Abstract: MATR3 is an RNA- and DNA-binding protein that interacts with TDP-43, a disease protein linked to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia. Using exome sequencing, we identified mutations in MATR3 in ALS kindreds. We also observed MATR3 pathology in ALS-affected spinal cords with and without MATR3 mutations. Our data provide more evidence supporting the role of aberrant RNA processing in motor neuron degeneration. © 2014 Nature America, Inc. All rights reserved.
Published: 2014
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50. REM sleep behavior disorder and periodic leg movements during sleep in ALS

Author: Lo Coco, D., primary, Puligheddu, M., additional, Mattaliano, P., additional, Congiu, P., additional, Borghero, G., additional, Fantini, M. L., additional, La Bella, V., additional, and Ferri, R., additional
Published: 2016
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