Neurobiology of Aging, ISSN 0197-4580, 2016, Volume 44, pp. 151 - 158
Abstract We examined associations between APOE major isoforms, rs405509 promoter and rs440446 intron-1 polymorphisms and non-pathological cognitive aging. Men...
Neurology | Internal Medicine | Normal cognitive aging | APOE | longitudinal studies | Longitudinal studies | DEVELOPING ALZHEIMERS-DISEASE | METAANALYSIS | DEPOSITION | APOLIPOPROTEIN-E GENE | TRAJECTORIES | RISK | NEUROSCIENCES | GERIATRICS & GERONTOLOGY | POLYMORPHISMS | GROWTH | NEUROBIOLOGY | ASSOCIATION | Humans | Middle Aged | Aging - psychology | Male | Cognition | Polymorphism, Genetic | Young Adult | Aging - genetics | Apolipoproteins E - genetics | Protein Isoforms | Adolescent | Alleles | Adult | Aged | Longitudinal Studies | Cohort Studies | Chronic diseases | Apolipoproteins | Analysis | Children's hospitals
Neurology | Internal Medicine | Normal cognitive aging | APOE | longitudinal studies | Longitudinal studies | DEVELOPING ALZHEIMERS-DISEASE | METAANALYSIS | DEPOSITION | APOLIPOPROTEIN-E GENE | TRAJECTORIES | RISK | NEUROSCIENCES | GERIATRICS & GERONTOLOGY | POLYMORPHISMS | GROWTH | NEUROBIOLOGY | ASSOCIATION | Humans | Middle Aged | Aging - psychology | Male | Cognition | Polymorphism, Genetic | Young Adult | Aging - genetics | Apolipoproteins E - genetics | Protein Isoforms | Adolescent | Alleles | Adult | Aged | Longitudinal Studies | Cohort Studies | Chronic diseases | Apolipoproteins | Analysis | Children's hospitals
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Lancet Neurology, The, ISSN 1474-4422, 2012, Volume 11, Issue 4, pp. 323 - 330
Summary Background We aimed to accurately estimate the frequency of a hexanucleotide repeat expansion in C9orf72 that has been associated with a large...
Neurology | PREVALENCE | MUTATIONS | LOBAR DEGENERATION | GENETICS | TDP-43 | CLINICAL NEUROLOGY | Frontotemporal Dementia - genetics | Cross-Sectional Studies | DNA Repeat Expansion - genetics | Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis - genetics | Humans | Middle Aged | Child, Preschool | Genotype | Male | Genetic Loci | Open Reading Frames - genetics | Young Adult | Chromosomes, Human, Pair 9 - genetics | Adolescent | Age of Onset | Aged, 80 and over | Adult | Female | Aged | Child | Cohort Studies | Medical research | Medical colleges | Care and treatment | Nervous system diseases | Neurosciences | Molecular genetics | Oncology, Experimental | Questions and answers | Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis | Research | Medicine, Experimental | Agriculture | Physicians (General practice) | Alzheimer's disease | Dementia | Cancer | Biomedical engineering | Haplotypes | Polymerase chain reaction | Neurodegenerative diseases | Ethnic groups | Data processing | Mutation | Frontotemporal dementia | Genetic counselling | Islands | Age | Toll-Like Receptor 4 | Open Reading Frames | Adaptor Proteins, Vesicular Transport | Lipopolysaccharides | Life Sciences | DNA Repeat Expansion | Interferon Regulatory Factor-3 | Transfection | Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis | RNA Interference | HEK293 Cells | Membrane Glycoproteins | Vesicular Transport Proteins | Protein Structure, Tertiary | Cell Line | Chemokine CCL5 | Frontotemporal Dementia | Signal Transduction | Myeloid Differentiation Factor 88 | Chromosomes, Human, Pair 9 | Protein Transport | Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing | Santé publique et épidémiologie | RNA, Small Interfering | Endosomes | Neurologi | Clinical Medicine | Medical and Health Sciences | Klinisk medicin | Medicin och hälsovetenskap
Neurology | PREVALENCE | MUTATIONS | LOBAR DEGENERATION | GENETICS | TDP-43 | CLINICAL NEUROLOGY | Frontotemporal Dementia - genetics | Cross-Sectional Studies | DNA Repeat Expansion - genetics | Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis - genetics | Humans | Middle Aged | Child, Preschool | Genotype | Male | Genetic Loci | Open Reading Frames - genetics | Young Adult | Chromosomes, Human, Pair 9 - genetics | Adolescent | Age of Onset | Aged, 80 and over | Adult | Female | Aged | Child | Cohort Studies | Medical research | Medical colleges | Care and treatment | Nervous system diseases | Neurosciences | Molecular genetics | Oncology, Experimental | Questions and answers | Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis | Research | Medicine, Experimental | Agriculture | Physicians (General practice) | Alzheimer's disease | Dementia | Cancer | Biomedical engineering | Haplotypes | Polymerase chain reaction | Neurodegenerative diseases | Ethnic groups | Data processing | Mutation | Frontotemporal dementia | Genetic counselling | Islands | Age | Toll-Like Receptor 4 | Open Reading Frames | Adaptor Proteins, Vesicular Transport | Lipopolysaccharides | Life Sciences | DNA Repeat Expansion | Interferon Regulatory Factor-3 | Transfection | Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis | RNA Interference | HEK293 Cells | Membrane Glycoproteins | Vesicular Transport Proteins | Protein Structure, Tertiary | Cell Line | Chemokine CCL5 | Frontotemporal Dementia | Signal Transduction | Myeloid Differentiation Factor 88 | Chromosomes, Human, Pair 9 | Protein Transport | Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing | Santé publique et épidémiologie | RNA, Small Interfering | Endosomes | Neurologi | Clinical Medicine | Medical and Health Sciences | Klinisk medicin | Medicin och hälsovetenskap
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Lancet Neurology, The, ISSN 1474-4422, 2010, Volume 9, Issue 10, pp. 978 - 985
Summary Background The genetic cause of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is not well understood. Finland is a well suited location for a genome-wide...
Neurology | POPULATION | DEMENTIA | VARIANTS | FAMILIES | SUSCEPTIBILITY | ALS | MOTOR-NEURON DISEASE | PREVALENCE | FRONTOTEMPORAL LOBAR DEGENERATION | LINKAGE | CLINICAL NEUROLOGY | Genetic Predisposition to Disease - genetics | Superoxide Dismutase - genetics | Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis - genetics | Humans | Middle Aged | Genetic Loci - genetics | Male | Young Adult | Chromosomes, Human, Pair 9 - genetics | Aged, 80 and over | Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide - genetics | Adult | Female | Aged | Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis - enzymology | Superoxide Dismutase-1 | Genetic Predisposition to Disease - epidemiology | Genome-Wide Association Study - methods | Finland - epidemiology | Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis - epidemiology | Cohort Studies | Genetic research | Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis | Genetic aspects | Genomics | Risk factors
Neurology | POPULATION | DEMENTIA | VARIANTS | FAMILIES | SUSCEPTIBILITY | ALS | MOTOR-NEURON DISEASE | PREVALENCE | FRONTOTEMPORAL LOBAR DEGENERATION | LINKAGE | CLINICAL NEUROLOGY | Genetic Predisposition to Disease - genetics | Superoxide Dismutase - genetics | Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis - genetics | Humans | Middle Aged | Genetic Loci - genetics | Male | Young Adult | Chromosomes, Human, Pair 9 - genetics | Aged, 80 and over | Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide - genetics | Adult | Female | Aged | Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis - enzymology | Superoxide Dismutase-1 | Genetic Predisposition to Disease - epidemiology | Genome-Wide Association Study - methods | Finland - epidemiology | Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis - epidemiology | Cohort Studies | Genetic research | Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis | Genetic aspects | Genomics | Risk factors
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Circulation: Cardiovascular Genetics, ISSN 0016-6731, 12/2008, Volume 1, Issue 2, pp. 107 - 116
Interactions of Functional Apolipoprotein E Gene Promoter Polymorphisms With Smoking on Aortic Atherosclerosis Leena E. Viiri, PhD ; Keijo M. Viiri, MSc ;...
apolipoprotein | CARDIAC & CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEMS | genetics | genetic transcription | smoking | GENETICS & HEREDITY | death, sudden | lesion | Haplotypes | Promoter Regions, Genetic | Genetic Predisposition to Disease | Apolipoprotein E4 - genetics | Apolipoprotein E2 - genetics | Atherosclerosis - genetics | Humans | Middle Aged | Genotype | Male | Hep G2 Cells | Polymorphism, Genetic | Aortic Diseases - genetics | Apolipoprotein E3 - genetics | Apolipoproteins E - genetics | Alleles | Adult | Aged | Smoking
apolipoprotein | CARDIAC & CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEMS | genetics | genetic transcription | smoking | GENETICS & HEREDITY | death, sudden | lesion | Haplotypes | Promoter Regions, Genetic | Genetic Predisposition to Disease | Apolipoprotein E4 - genetics | Apolipoprotein E2 - genetics | Atherosclerosis - genetics | Humans | Middle Aged | Genotype | Male | Hep G2 Cells | Polymorphism, Genetic | Aortic Diseases - genetics | Apolipoprotein E3 - genetics | Apolipoproteins E - genetics | Alleles | Adult | Aged | Smoking
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Neuron, ISSN 0896-6273, 10/2013, Volume 80, Issue 2, pp. 415 - 428
A hexanucleotide GGGGCC repeat expansion in the noncoding region of the gene is the most common genetic abnormality in familial and sporadic amyotrophic...
REPEAT EXPANSION | FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA | IN-VIVO | GLUTAMATE TRANSPORTER | MECHANISMS | AMYOTROPHIC-LATERAL-SCLEROSIS | TIME-COURSE | PROTEINS | HEXANUCLEOTIDE REPEAT | NEUROSCIENCES | GGGGCC REPEAT | Neurosciences | RNA | Stem cells | Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis | Gene expression | Dementia | Protein binding
REPEAT EXPANSION | FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA | IN-VIVO | GLUTAMATE TRANSPORTER | MECHANISMS | AMYOTROPHIC-LATERAL-SCLEROSIS | TIME-COURSE | PROTEINS | HEXANUCLEOTIDE REPEAT | NEUROSCIENCES | GGGGCC REPEAT | Neurosciences | RNA | Stem cells | Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis | Gene expression | Dementia | Protein binding
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Neuron, ISSN 0896-6273, 10/2011, Volume 72, Issue 2, pp. 257 - 268
The chromosome 9p21 amyotrophic lateral sclerosis-frontotemporal dementia (ALS-FTD) locus contains one of the last major unidentified autosomal-dominant genes...
POPULATION | HUMAN GENOME | DEMENTIA | TDP-43 | SUSCEPTIBILITY | COMMON | AMYOTROPHIC-LATERAL-SCLEROSIS | MUTATIONS | FRONTOTEMPORAL LOBAR DEGENERATION | ASSOCIATION | NEUROSCIENCES | Frontotemporal Dementia - genetics | Haplotypes | Genetic Predisposition to Disease | Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis - genetics | Humans | Genotype | Male | Chromosomes, Human, Pair 9 | Pedigree | Alleles | Finland | Female | Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide | Microsatellite Repeats | Medical colleges | Neurosciences | Molecular genetics | Neurons | Genes | Oncology, Experimental | Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis | Research | Gene expression | Genetic research | Cytogenetics | Genetic aspects | Alzheimer's disease | Public health | Cancer
POPULATION | HUMAN GENOME | DEMENTIA | TDP-43 | SUSCEPTIBILITY | COMMON | AMYOTROPHIC-LATERAL-SCLEROSIS | MUTATIONS | FRONTOTEMPORAL LOBAR DEGENERATION | ASSOCIATION | NEUROSCIENCES | Frontotemporal Dementia - genetics | Haplotypes | Genetic Predisposition to Disease | Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis - genetics | Humans | Genotype | Male | Chromosomes, Human, Pair 9 | Pedigree | Alleles | Finland | Female | Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide | Microsatellite Repeats | Medical colleges | Neurosciences | Molecular genetics | Neurons | Genes | Oncology, Experimental | Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis | Research | Gene expression | Genetic research | Cytogenetics | Genetic aspects | Alzheimer's disease | Public health | Cancer
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Neuron, ISSN 0896-6273, 03/2018, Volume 97, Issue 6, pp. 1268 - 1283.e6
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...
WGS | GWAS | WES | KIF5A | ALS | axonal transport | cargo | MOTOR-NEURONS | TARGETED DISRUPTION | GENOTYPE IMPUTATION | DNA-DAMAGE | AXONAL-TRANSPORT | AMYOTROPHIC-LATERAL-SCLEROSIS | MUTATIONS | KINESIN HEAVY-CHAIN | HEXANUCLEOTIDE REPEAT | NEUROSCIENCES | FAMILIAL ALS | Genetic research | Genes | Analysis | Genomics | Phenotypes | Disease | Neurodegenerative diseases | Pathogenesis | Homeostasis | Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis | Genomes | Risk factors | Consortia | Hereditary spastic paraplegia | Proteins | Paraplegia | Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease | Cytoskeleton | Mutation | Spastic paraplegia | Life Sciences | Basic Medicine | Neurosciences | Medical and Health Sciences | Medicin och hälsovetenskap | Medicinska och farmaceutiska grundvetenskaper | Neurovetenskaper
WGS | GWAS | WES | KIF5A | ALS | axonal transport | cargo | MOTOR-NEURONS | TARGETED DISRUPTION | GENOTYPE IMPUTATION | DNA-DAMAGE | AXONAL-TRANSPORT | AMYOTROPHIC-LATERAL-SCLEROSIS | MUTATIONS | KINESIN HEAVY-CHAIN | HEXANUCLEOTIDE REPEAT | NEUROSCIENCES | FAMILIAL ALS | Genetic research | Genes | Analysis | Genomics | Phenotypes | Disease | Neurodegenerative diseases | Pathogenesis | Homeostasis | Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis | Genomes | Risk factors | Consortia | Hereditary spastic paraplegia | Proteins | Paraplegia | Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease | Cytoskeleton | Mutation | Spastic paraplegia | Life Sciences | Basic Medicine | Neurosciences | Medical and Health Sciences | Medicin och hälsovetenskap | Medicinska och farmaceutiska grundvetenskaper | Neurovetenskaper
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Glia, ISSN 0894-1491, 01/2016, Volume 64, Issue 1, pp. 63 - 75
Astrocytes are instrumental to major brain functions, including metabolic support, extracellular ion regulation, the shaping of excitatory signaling events and...
zinc finger nuclease | induced pluripotent stem cells | astrocyte | iPSC | GFAP | Astrocyte | Zinc finger nuclease | Induced pluripotent stem cells | IPSC | MOTOR-NEURONS | SPINAL-CORD | NEUROSCIENCES | PLURIPOTENT STEM-CELLS | GLUTAMATE TRANSPORTERS | MUTANT SOD1 | DIFFERENTIATION | ASTROGLIAL SUBTYPES | GLIA | EXPRESSION | DISEASE PROGRESSION | Dependovirus - genetics | Fibroblasts - physiology | Humans | Green Fluorescent Proteins - genetics | Glial Fibrillary Acidic Protein - metabolism | Cell Engineering - methods | Astrocytes - transplantation | Gray Matter - physiology | Spinal Cord - cytology | Cell Survival - physiology | Genes, Reporter | Green Fluorescent Proteins - metabolism
zinc finger nuclease | induced pluripotent stem cells | astrocyte | iPSC | GFAP | Astrocyte | Zinc finger nuclease | Induced pluripotent stem cells | IPSC | MOTOR-NEURONS | SPINAL-CORD | NEUROSCIENCES | PLURIPOTENT STEM-CELLS | GLUTAMATE TRANSPORTERS | MUTANT SOD1 | DIFFERENTIATION | ASTROGLIAL SUBTYPES | GLIA | EXPRESSION | DISEASE PROGRESSION | Dependovirus - genetics | Fibroblasts - physiology | Humans | Green Fluorescent Proteins - genetics | Glial Fibrillary Acidic Protein - metabolism | Cell Engineering - methods | Astrocytes - transplantation | Gray Matter - physiology | Spinal Cord - cytology | Cell Survival - physiology | Genes, Reporter | Green Fluorescent Proteins - metabolism