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ReviewInternational journal of molecular sciences2017

Pathogenesis of Lafora Disease: Transition of Soluble Glycogen to Insoluble Polyglucosan.

Mitchell A Sullivan, Silvia Nitschke, Martin Steup, Berge A Minassian, Felix Nitschke

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In one paragraph

Review in International journal of molecular sciences, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 43 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
43citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
6.0field-weighted citation impact, top 3% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

43 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 68 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
  2. FDG-PET assessment and metabolic patterns in Lafora disease.European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging · 2020
    Pooled it
  3. When gene replacement becomes a double-edged sword: Guardrails for precision neurotherapeutics in Lafora disease.Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics · 2026
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  5. Adeno-Associated Virus-Based Gene Therapy for Lafora Disease inInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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  8. Gene therapy for Lafora disease in the Epm2aMolecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy · 2024
    Article
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  10. Gys1 Antisense Therapy Prevents Disease-Driving Aggregates and Epileptiform Discharges in a Lafora Disease Mouse Model.Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics · 2023
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  15. Lafora Disease and Alpha-Synucleinopathy in Two Adult Free-Ranging Moose (Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2022
    Article
  16. Trehalose Treatment in Zebrafish Model of Lafora Disease.International journal of molecular sciences · 2022
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  17. Novel mutation of EPM2A causes progressive myoclonic epilepsy: a case report.Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 3 institutions in 4 countries.

Mitchell A SullivanProgram in Genetics and Genome Biology, The Hospital for Sick Children Research Institute, 686 Bay Street, Toronto, ON M5G 0A4, Canada. mitchsullo@gmail.com.
Silvia NitschkeProgram in Genetics and Genome Biology, The Hospital for Sick Children Research Institute, 686 Bay Street, Toronto, ON M5G 0A4, Canada. silvia.nitschke@sickkids.ca.
Martin SteupProgram in Genetics and Genome Biology, The Hospital for Sick Children Research Institute, 686 Bay Street, Toronto, ON M5G 0A4, Canada. msteup@uni-potsdam.de.
Berge A MinassianProgram in Genetics and Genome Biology, The Hospital for Sick Children Research Institute, 686 Bay Street, Toronto, ON M5G 0A4, Canada. Berge.Minassian@UTSouthwestern.edu.
Felix NitschkeProgram in Genetics and Genome Biology, The Hospital for Sick Children Research Institute, 686 Bay Street, Toronto, ON M5G 0A4, Canada. felix.nitschke@sickkids.ca.
Hospital for Sick Children · CAImpact · CAUniversity of Queensland · AU

Funding

Suppressing glycogen storage with small molecule inhibitors as a therapeutic approach to Lafora DiseaseP01NS097197 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY · PI GAO, TIANYAN · 2016 to 2021
$9.0M
NINDS NIH HHS P01 NS097197
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Lafora disease (LD, OMIM #254780) is a rare, recessively inherited neurodegenerative disease with adolescent onset, resulting in progressive myoclonus epilepsy which is fatal usually within ten years of symptom onset. The disease is caused by loss-of-function mutations in either of the two genes

Indexed as

AnimalsCarrier ProteinsGlucansGlycogenHumansLafora DiseaseProtein Tyrosine Phosphatases, Non-ReceptorUbiquitin-Protein LigasesCarrier ProteinsEPM2A protein, humanGlucansGlycogenNHLRC1 protein, humanpolyglucosanProtein Tyrosine Phosphatases, Non-ReceptorUbiquitin-Protein Ligaseschain length distributionglycogen phosphorylationlafora diseaselaforinmalinpolyglucosan body

Identifiers

PMID28800070
PMCPMC5578133
OpenAlexW2744877759

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