Disease Mechanisms of C9ORF72 Repeat Expansions

The Genetics of C9orf72 Expansions

(2017) Ilse Gijselinck et al.   Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Medicine

Genetics of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

(2017) Mehdi Ghasemi et al.   Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Medicine

Antisense RNA foci in the motor neurons of C9ORF72-ALS patients are associated with TDP-43 proteinopathy

(2015) Johnathan Cooper-Knock et al.   ACTA NEUROPATHOLOGICA

Cerebellar c9RAN proteins associate with clinical and neuropathological characteristics of C9ORF72 repeat expansion carriers

(2015) Tania F. Gendron et al.   ACTA NEUROPATHOLOGICA

The C9orf72 repeat expansion itself is methylated in ALS and FTLD patients

(2015) Zhengrui Xi et al.   ACTA NEUROPATHOLOGICA

Quantitative analysis and clinico-pathological correlations of different dipeptide repeat protein pathologies in C9ORF72 mutation carriers

(2015) Ian R. A. Mackenzie et al.   ACTA NEUROPATHOLOGICA

Novel clinical associations with specific C9ORF72 transcripts in patients with repeat expansions in C9ORF72

(2015) Marka van Blitterswijk et al.   ACTA NEUROPATHOLOGICA

Semi-automated quantification of C9orf72 expansion size reveals inverse correlation between hexanucleotide repeat number and disease duration in frontotemporal degeneration

(2015) EunRan Suh et al.   ACTA NEUROPATHOLOGICA

Distribution of dipeptide repeat proteins in cellular models and C9orf72 mutation cases suggests link to transcriptional silencing

(2015) Martin H. Schludi et al.   ACTA NEUROPATHOLOGICA

FTD/ALS-associated poly(GR) protein impairs the Notch pathway and is recruited by poly(GA) into cytoplasmic inclusions

(2015) Dejun Yang et al.   ACTA NEUROPATHOLOGICA

Jump from Pre-mutation to Pathologic Expansion in C9orf72

(2015) Zhengrui Xi et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS

Isoform-specific antibodies reveal distinct subcellular localizations of C9orf72 in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

(2015) Shangxi Xiao et al.   ANNALS OF NEUROLOGY

C9orf72 ablation in mice does not cause motor neuron degeneration or motor deficits

(2015) Max Koppers et al.   ANNALS OF NEUROLOGY

Moving towards treatments for spinal muscular atrophy: hopes and limits

(2015) Brunhilde Wirth et al.   EXPERT OPINION ON EMERGING DRUGS

Extensive size variability of the GGGGCC expansion in C9orf72 in both neuronal and non-neuronal tissues in 18 patients with ALS or FTD

(2015) Angelica Nordin et al.   HUMAN MOLECULAR GENETICS

Nucleolar stress and impaired stress granule formation contribute to C9orf72 RAN translation-induced cytotoxicity

(2015) Zhouteng Tao et al.   HUMAN MOLECULAR GENETICS

Nuclear accumulation of mRNAs underlies G4C2-repeat-induced translational repression in a cellular model of C9orf72 ALS

(2015) S. Rossi et al.   JOURNAL OF CELL SCIENCE

The C9orf72 repeat expansion disrupts nucleocytoplasmic transport

(2015) Ke Zhang et al.   NATURE

GGGGCC repeat expansion in C9orf72 compromises nucleocytoplasmic transport

(2015) Brian D. Freibaum et al.   NATURE

Distinct brain transcriptome profiles in C9orf72-associated and sporadic ALS

(2015) Mercedes Prudencio et al.   NATURE NEUROSCIENCE

Modifiers of C9orf72 dipeptide repeat toxicity connect nucleocytoplasmic transport defects to FTD/ALS

(2015) Ana Jovičić et al.   NATURE NEUROSCIENCE

C9orf72 promoter hypermethylation is neuroprotective: Neuroimaging and neuropathologic evidence

(2015) C. T. McMillan et al.   NEUROLOGY

Differential Toxicity of Nuclear RNA Foci versus Dipeptide Repeat Proteins in a Drosophila Model of C9ORF72 FTD/ALS

(2015) Helene Tran et al.   NEURON

Accumulation of dipeptide repeat proteins predates that of TDP-43 in frontotemporal lobar degeneration associated with hexanucleotide repeat expansions inC9ORF72gene

(2015) Atik Baborie et al.   NEUROPATHOLOGY AND APPLIED NEUROBIOLOGY

RNA-targeted Therapeutics for ALS

(2015) Linga V. Reddy et al.   Neurotherapeutics

C9ORF72 repeat expansions in mice cause TDP-43 pathology, neuronal loss, and behavioral deficits

(2015) J. Chew et al.   SCIENCE

Dipeptide repeat protein inclusions are rare in the spinal cord and almost absent from motor neurons in C9ORF72 mutant amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and are unlikely to cause their degeneration

(2015) Jorge Gomez-Deza et al.   Acta Neuropathologica Communications

C9ORF72 expression and cellular localization over mouse development

(2015) Rachel A K Atkinson et al.   Acta Neuropathologica Communications

C9ORF72 GGGGCC Expanded Repeats Produce Splicing Dysregulation which Correlates with Disease Severity in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

(2015) Johnathan Cooper-Knock et al.   PLoS One

Early dipeptide repeat pathology in a frontotemporal dementia kindred with C9ORF72 mutation and intellectual disability

(2014) Malcolm Proudfoot et al.   ACTA NEUROPATHOLOGICA

Aggregation-prone c9FTD/ALS poly(GA) RAN-translated proteins cause neurotoxicity by inducing ER stress

(2014) Yong-Jie Zhang et al.   ACTA NEUROPATHOLOGICA

The widening spectrum of C9ORF72-related disease; genotype/phenotype correlations and potential modifiers of clinical phenotype

(2014) Johnathan Cooper-Knock et al.   ACTA NEUROPATHOLOGICA

Mechanisms of toxicity in C9FTLD/ALS

(2014) Tania F. Gendron et al.   ACTA NEUROPATHOLOGICA

C9orf72 FTLD/ALS-associated Gly-Ala dipeptide repeat proteins cause neuronal toxicity and Unc119 sequestration

(2014) Stephanie May et al.   ACTA NEUROPATHOLOGICA

C9orf72 hypermethylation protects against repeat expansion-associated pathology in ALS/FTD

(2014) Elaine Y. Liu et al.   ACTA NEUROPATHOLOGICA

Sequestration of multiple RNA recognition motif-containing proteins by C9orf72 repeat expansions

(2014) Johnathan Cooper-Knock et al.   BRAIN

Characterization of DNA hypermethylation in the cerebellum of c9FTD/ALS patients

(2014) Veronique V. Belzil et al.   BRAIN RESEARCH

Hypermethylation of the CpG-island near the C9orf72 G4C2-repeat expansion in FTLD patients

(2014) Zhengrui Xi et al.   HUMAN MOLECULAR GENETICS

C9ORF72, implicated in amytrophic lateral sclerosis and frontotemporal dementia, regulates endosomal trafficking

(2014) Manal A. Farg et al.   HUMAN MOLECULAR GENETICS

Characterization of the dipeptide repeat protein in the molecular pathogenesis of c9FTD/ALS

(2014) Mai Yamakawa et al.   HUMAN MOLECULAR GENETICS

C9orf72 nucleotide repeat structures initiate molecular cascades of disease

(2014) Aaron R. Haeusler et al.   NATURE

Reduced C9orf72 protein levels in frontal cortex of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and frontotemporal degeneration brain with the C9ORF72 hexanucleotide repeat expansion

(2014) Adrian J. Waite et al.   NEUROBIOLOGY OF AGING

Discovery of a Biomarker and Lead Small Molecules to Target r(GGGGCC)-Associated Defects in c9FTD/ALS

(2014) Zhaoming Su et al.   NEURON

Antisense Proline-Arginine RAN Dipeptides Linked to C9ORF72-ALS/FTD Form Toxic Nuclear Aggregates that Initiate In Vitro and In Vivo Neuronal Death

(2014) Xinmei Wen et al.   NEURON

C9orf72 repeat expansions cause neurodegeneration in Drosophila through arginine-rich proteins

(2014) S. Mizielinska et al.   SCIENCE

Poly-dipeptides encoded by the C9orf72 repeats bind nucleoli, impede RNA biogenesis, and kill cells

(2014) I. Kwon et al.   SCIENCE

RETRACTED ARTICLE: A new inducible transgenic mouse model for C9orf72-associated GGGGCC repeat expansion supports a gain-of-function mechanism in C9orf72-associated ALS and FTD

(2014) Renate K Hukema et al.   Acta Neuropathologica Communications

Brain distribution of dipeptide repeat proteins in frontotemporal lobar degeneration and motor neurone disease associated with expansions in C9ORF72

(2014) Yvonne S Davidson et al.   Acta Neuropathologica Communications

The neuropathology associated with repeat expansions in the C9ORF72 gene

(2013) Ian R. A. Mackenzie et al.   ACTA NEUROPATHOLOGICA

Dipeptide repeat protein pathology in C9ORF72 mutation cases: clinico-pathological correlations

(2013) Ian R. Mackenzie et al.   ACTA NEUROPATHOLOGICA

Homozygosity for the C9orf72 GGGGCC repeat expansion in frontotemporal dementia

(2013) Pietro Fratta et al.   ACTA NEUROPATHOLOGICA

C9orf72 frontotemporal lobar degeneration is characterised by frequent neuronal sense and antisense RNA foci

(2013) Sarah Mizielinska et al.   ACTA NEUROPATHOLOGICA

Bidirectional transcripts of the expanded C9orf72 hexanucleotide repeat are translated into aggregating dipeptide repeat proteins

(2013) Kohji Mori et al.   ACTA NEUROPATHOLOGICA

Antisense transcripts of the expanded C9ORF72 hexanucleotide repeat form nuclear RNA foci and undergo repeat-associated non-ATG translation in c9FTD/ALS

(2013) Tania F. Gendron et al.   ACTA NEUROPATHOLOGICA

hnRNP A3 binds to GGGGCC repeats and is a constituent of p62-positive/TDP43-negative inclusions in the hippocampus of patients with C9orf72 mutations

(2013) Kohji Mori et al.   ACTA NEUROPATHOLOGICA

Reduced C9orf72 gene expression in c9FTD/ALS is caused by histone trimethylation, an epigenetic event detectable in blood

(2013) Veronique V. Belzil et al.   ACTA NEUROPATHOLOGICA

Modeling key pathological features of frontotemporal dementia with C9ORF72 repeat expansion in iPSC-derived human neurons

(2013) Sandra Almeida et al.   ACTA NEUROPATHOLOGICA

Hypermethylation of the CpG Island Near the G4C2 Repeat in ALS with a C9orf72 Expansion

(2013) Zhengrui Xi et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS

Large C9orf72 Hexanucleotide Repeat Expansions Are Seen in Multiple Neurodegenerative Syndromes and Are More Frequent Than Expected in the UK Population

(2013) Jon Beck et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS

The product of C9orf72, a gene strongly implicated in neurodegeneration, is structurally related to DENN Rab-GEFs

(2013) Timothy P. Levine et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Consensus Paper: The Cerebellum's Role in Movement and Cognition

(2013) Leonard F. Koziol et al.   CEREBELLUM

Characterization of the repeat expansion size in C9orf72 in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and frontotemporal dementia

(2013) O. Dols-Icardo et al.   HUMAN MOLECULAR GENETICS

The Disease-associated r(GGGGCC)nRepeat from theC9orf72Gene Forms Tract Length-dependent Uni- and Multimolecular RNA G-quadruplex Structures

(2013) Kaalak Reddy et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

TMPyP4 Porphyrin Distorts RNA G-quadruplex Structures of the Disease-associated r(GGGGCC)nRepeat of theC9orf72Gene and Blocks Interaction of RNA-binding Proteins

(2013) Bita Zamiri et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

An antisense oligonucleotide against SOD1 delivered intrathecally for patients with SOD1 familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: a phase 1, randomised, first-in-man study

(2013) Timothy M Miller et al.   LANCET NEUROLOGY

Association between repeat sizes and clinical and pathological characteristics in carriers of C9ORF72 repeat expansions (Xpansize-72): a cross-sectional cohort study

(2013) Marka van Blitterswijk et al.   LANCET NEUROLOGY

Simultaneous and independent detection of C9ORF72 alleles with low and high number of GGGGCC repeats using an optimised protocol of Southern blot hybridisation

(2013) Vladimir L Buchman et al.   Molecular Neurodegeneration

The mouse C9ORF72 ortholog is enriched in neurons known to degenerate in ALS and FTD

(2013) Naoki Suzuki et al.   NATURE NEUROSCIENCE

Unconventional Translation of C9ORF72 GGGGCC Expansion Generates Insoluble Polypeptides Specific to c9FTD/ALS

(2013) Peter E.A. Ash et al.   NEURON

RNA Toxicity from the ALS/FTD C9ORF72 Expansion Is Mitigated by Antisense Intervention

(2013) Christopher J. Donnelly et al.   NEURON

Deletion of C9ORF72 Results in Motor Neuron Degeneration and Stress Sensitivity in C. elegans

(2013) Martine Therrien et al.   PLoS One

RAN proteins and RNA foci from antisense transcripts in C9ORF72 ALS and frontotemporal dementia

(2013) T. Zu et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Expanded GGGGCC repeat RNA associated with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and frontotemporal dementia causes neurodegeneration

(2013) Z. Xu et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Targeted degradation of sense and antisense C9orf72 RNA foci as therapy for ALS and frontotemporal degeneration

(2013) C. Lagier-Tourenne et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

(2013) K. Mori et al.   SCIENCE

Targeting RNA Foci in iPSC-Derived Motor Neurons from ALS Patients with a C9ORF72 Repeat Expansion

(2013) D. Sareen et al.   Science Translational Medicine

Current insights into the C9orf72 repeat expansion diseases of the FTLD/ALS spectrum

(2013) Marc Cruts et al.   TRENDS IN NEUROSCIENCES

Hexanucleotide Repeats in ALS/FTD Form Length-Dependent RNA Foci, Sequester RNA Binding Proteins, and Are Neurotoxic

(2013) Youn-Bok Lee et al.   Cell Reports

Dipeptide repeat proteins are present in the p62 positive inclusions in patients with frontotemporal lobar degeneration and motor neurone disease associated with expansions in C9ORF72

(2013) David MA Mann et al.   Acta Neuropathologica Communications

Pattern of ubiquilin pathology in ALS and FTLD indicates presence of C9ORF72 hexanucleotide expansion

(2012) Johannes Brettschneider et al.   ACTA NEUROPATHOLOGICA

Clinical and pathological features of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis caused by mutation in the C9ORF72 gene on chromosome 9p

(2012) Heather Stewart et al.   ACTA NEUROPATHOLOGICA

Clinical characteristics of patients with familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis carrying the pathogenic GGGGCC hexanucleotide repeat expansion of C9ORF72

(2012) A. Chio et al.   BRAIN

Clinical and pathological features of familial frontotemporal dementia caused by C9ORF72 mutation on chromosome 9p

(2012) G.-Y. R. Hsiung et al.   BRAIN

Clinico-pathological features in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis with expansions in C9ORF72

(2012) Johnathan Cooper-Knock et al.   BRAIN

Distinct clinical and pathological characteristics of frontotemporal dementia associated with C9ORF72 mutations

(2012) J. S. Snowden et al.   BRAIN

The clinical and pathological phenotype of C9ORF72 hexanucleotide repeat expansions

(2012) Javier Simón-Sánchez et al.   BRAIN

Characterization of frontotemporal dementia and/or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis associated with the GGGGCC repeat expansion in C9ORF72

(2012) Bradley F. Boeve et al.   BRAIN

Frontotemporal dementia with the C9ORF72 hexanucleotide repeat expansion: clinical, neuroanatomical and neuropathological features

(2012) C. J. Mahoney et al.   BRAIN

Neuroimaging signatures of frontotemporal dementia genetics: C9ORF72, tau, progranulin and sporadics

(2012) J. L. Whitwell et al.   BRAIN

A Pan-European Study of theC9orf72Repeat Associated with FTLD: Geographic Prevalence, Genomic Instability, and Intermediate Repeats

(2012) Julie van der Zee et al.   HUMAN MUTATION

Cognitive and clinical characteristics of patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis carrying a C9orf72 repeat expansion: a population-based cohort study

(2012) Susan Byrne et al.   LANCET NEUROLOGY

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

(2012) Elisa Majounie et al.   LANCET NEUROLOGY

Frontotemporal dementia due to C9ORF72 mutations: Clinical and imaging features

(2012) S. J. Sha et al.   NEUROLOGY

C9orf72 hexanucleotide repeat associated with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and frontotemporal dementia forms RNA G-quadruplexes

(2012) Pietro Fratta et al.   Scientific Reports

Discovery of Novel DENN Proteins: Implications for the Evolution of Eukaryotic Intracellular Membrane Structures and Human Disease

(2012) Dapeng Zhang et al.   Frontiers in Genetics

p62 positive, TDP-43 negative, neuronal cytoplasmic and intranuclear inclusions in the cerebellum and hippocampus define the pathology of C9orf72-linked FTLD and MND/ALS

(2011) Safa Al-Sarraj et al.   ACTA NEUROPATHOLOGICA

Rodent Models of TDP-43 Proteinopathy: Investigating the Mechanisms of TDP-43-Mediated Neurodegeneration

(2011) Tania F. Gendron et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR NEUROSCIENCE

A C9orf72 promoter repeat expansion in a Flanders-Belgian cohort with disorders of the frontotemporal lobar degeneration-amyotrophic lateral sclerosis spectrum: a gene identification study

(2011) Ilse Gijselinck et al.   LANCET NEUROLOGY

Expanded GGGGCC Hexanucleotide Repeat in Noncoding Region of C9ORF72 Causes Chromosome 9p-Linked FTD and ALS

(2011) Mariely DeJesus-Hernandez et al.   NEURON

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

(2011) Alan E. Renton et al.   NEURON

Role of Rab GTPases in Membrane Traffic and Cell Physiology

(2011) Alex H. Hutagalung et al.   PHYSIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Non-ATG-initiated translation directed by microsatellite expansions

(2010) T. Zu et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Histone Deacetylases Suppress CGG Repeat–Induced Neurodegeneration Via Transcriptional Silencing in Models of Fragile X Tremor Ataxia Syndrome

(2010) Peter K. Todd et al.   PLoS Genetics

Mechanisms of cross-talk between the ubiquitin-proteasome and autophagy-lysosome systems

(2009) Viktor I. Korolchuk et al.   FEBS LETTERS

Ubiquitinated p62-positive, TDP-43-negative inclusions in cerebellum in frontotemporal lobar degeneration with TAR DNA binding protein 43

(2009)   NEUROPATHOLOGY