Genetic pain loss disorders

A Lischka, P Lassuthova, A Çakar, CJ Record… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Genetic pain loss includes congenital insensitivity to pain (CIP), hereditary sensory
neuropathies and, if autonomic nerves are involved, hereditary sensory and autonomic …

Pathophysiology of nociception and rare genetic disorders with increased pain threshold or pain insensitivity

M Cascella, MR Muzio, F Monaco, D Nocerino… - Pathophysiology, 2022 - mdpi.com
Pain and nociception are different phenomena. Nociception is the result of complex activity
in sensory pathways. On the other hand, pain is the effect of interactions between …

The clinical and molecular spectrum of ZFYVE26-associated hereditary spastic paraplegia: SPG15

A Saffari, M Kellner, C Jordan, H Rosengarten, A Mo… - Brain, 2023 - academic.oup.com
In the field of hereditary spastic paraplegia (HSP), progress in molecular diagnostics needs
to be translated into robust phenotyping studies to understand genetic and phenotypic …

The clinical and genetic spectrum of autosomal-recessive TOR1A-related disorders

A Saffari, T Lau, H Tajsharghi, EG Karimiani… - Brain, 2023 - academic.oup.com
In the field of rare diseases, progress in molecular diagnostics led to the recognition that
variants linked to autosomal-dominant neurodegenerative diseases of later onset can, in the …

Spatial proteomics reveals secretory pathway disturbances caused by neuropathy-associated TECPR2

K Nalbach, M Schifferer, D Bhattacharya… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Hereditary sensory and autonomic neuropathy 9 (HSAN9) is a rare fatal neurological
disease caused by mis-and nonsense mutations in the gene encoding for Tectonin β …

Systematic analysis of brain MRI findings in adaptor protein complex 4–associated hereditary spastic paraplegia

D Ebrahimi-Fakhari, JE Alecu, M Ziegler, G Geisel… - Neurology, 2021 - AAN Enterprises
Background and Objectives AP-4-associated hereditary spastic paraplegia (AP-4-HSP:
SPG47, SPG50, SPG51, SPG52) is an emerging cause of childhood-onset hereditary …

Childhood-onset hereditary spastic paraplegia and its treatable mimics

D Ebrahimi-Fakhari, A Saffari, PL Pearl - Molecular genetics and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Early-onset forms of hereditary spastic paraplegia and inborn errors of metabolism that
present with spastic diplegia are among the most common “mimics” of cerebral palsy. Early …

A genetic correlation and bivariate genome-wide association study of grip strength and depression

T Zhang, L Ji, J Luo, W Wang, X Tian, H Duan, C Xu… - PLoS …, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Grip strength is an important biomarker reflecting muscle strength, and depression is a
psychiatric disorder all over the world. Several studies found a significant inverse …

Identification and analyses of exonic and copy number variants in spastic paraplegia

A Shafique, A Nadeem, F Aslam, H Manzoor… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Hereditary spastic paraplegias are a diverse group of degenerative disorders that are
clinically categorized as isolated; with involvement of lower limb spasticity, or symptomatic …

Developing antisense oligonucleotides for a TECPR2 mutation-induced, ultra-rare neurological disorder using patient-derived cellular models

LA Williams, DJ Gerber, A Elder, WC Tseng… - … Therapy-Nucleic Acids, 2022 - cell.com
Mutations in the TECPR2 gene are the cause of an ultra-rare neurological disorder
characterized by intellectual disability, impaired speech, motor delay, and hypotonia …