Mitochondrial dynamics in health and disease

NMB Yapa, V Lisnyak, B Reljic, MT Ryan - FEBS letters, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
In animals, mitochondria are mainly organised into an interconnected tubular network
extending across the cell along a cytoskeletal scaffold. Mitochondrial fission and fusion, as …

Spectrins: molecular organizers and targets of neurological disorders

DN Lorenzo, RJ Edwards, AL Slavutsky - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Spectrins are cytoskeletal proteins that are expressed ubiquitously in the mammalian
nervous system. Pathogenic variants in SPTAN1, SPTBN1, SPTBN2 and SPTBN4, four of …

Lessons learned from large-scale, first-tier clinical exome sequencing in a highly consanguineous population

D Monies, M Abouelhoda, M Assoum… - The American Journal of …, 2019 - cell.com
We report the results of clinical exome sequencing (CES) on> 2,200 previously unpublished
Saudi families as a first-tier test. The predominance of autosomal-recessive causes allowed …

Enhancing phenotype recognition in clinical notes using large language models: PhenoBCBERT and PhenoGPT

J Yang, C Liu, W Deng, D Wu, C Weng, Y Zhou… - Patterns, 2024 - cell.com
To enhance phenotype recognition in clinical notes of genetic diseases, we developed two
models—PhenoBCBERT and PhenoGPT—for expanding the vocabularies of Human …

[HTML][HTML] Large-scale exome sequence analysis identifies sex-and age-specific determinants of obesity

LR Kaisinger, KA Kentistou, S Stankovic, EJ Gardner… - Cell genomics, 2023 - cell.com
Obesity contributes substantially to the global burden of disease and has a significant
heritable component. Recent large-scale exome sequencing studies identified several …

Autism and schizophrenia-associated CYFIP1 regulates the balance of synaptic excitation and inhibition

EC Davenport, BR Szulc, J Drew, J Taylor, T Morgan… - Cell reports, 2019 - cell.com
Altered excitatory/inhibitory (E/I) balance is implicated in neuropsychiatric and
neurodevelopmental disorders, but the underlying genetic etiology remains poorly …

NKCC1, an elusive molecular target in brain development: making sense of the existing data

MA Virtanen, P Uvarov, CA Hübner, K Kaila - Cells, 2020 - mdpi.com
Ionotropic GABA transmission is mediated by anion (mainly Cl−)-permeable GABAA
receptors (GABAARs). In immature neurons, GABA exerts depolarizing and sometimes …

Genetic disorders of manganese metabolism

S Anagianni, K Tuschl - Current neurology and neuroscience reports, 2019 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review This article provides an overview of the pathogenesis, clinical
presentation and treatment of inherited manganese transporter defects. Recent Findings …

Nomenclature of genetic movement disorders: recommendations of the International Parkinson and Movement Disorder Society task force–an update

LM Lange, P Gonzalez‐Latapi… - Movement …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract In 2016, the Movement Disorder Society Task Force for the Nomenclature of
Genetic Movement Disorders presented a new system for naming genetically determined …

Biallelic UFM1 and UFC1 mutations expand the essential role of ufmylation in brain development

MS Nahorski, S Maddirevula, R Ishimura, S Alsahli… - Brain, 2018 - academic.oup.com
The post-translational modification of proteins through the addition of UFM1, also known as
ufmylation, plays a critical developmental role as revealed by studies in animal models. The …