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ReviewNature neuroscience2018

Converging pathways in neurodegeneration, from genetics to mechanisms.

Li Gan, Mark R Cookson, Leonard Petrucelli, Albert R La Spada

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Review in Nature neuroscience, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 273 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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273citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
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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

273 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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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

4 authors.

Li GanGladstone Institutes, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA. lig2033@med.cornell.edu.
Mark R CooksonCell Biology and Gene Expression Section, Laboratory of Neurogenetics, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA. cookson@mail.nih.gov.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1058-3831
Leonard PetrucelliDepartment of Neuroscience, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL, USA. petrucelli.leonard@mayo.edu.
Albert R La SpadaDepartments of Neurology, Neurobiology, and Cell Biology, and the Duke Center for Neurodegeneration & Neurotherapeutics, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA. al.laspada@duke.edu.

Funding

MODELS OF SBMA MOTOR NEURON DEGENERATIONR01NS041648 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI LA SPADA, ALBERT R · 2001 to 2014
$4.5M
Molecular genetic regulation of autophagy in health and neurodegenerative diseaseR01AG033082 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI LA SPADA, ALBERT R · 2009 to 2019
$4.0M
Intramural NIH HHS Z99 AG999999NIA NIH HHS R01 AG033082NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS041648
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Neurodegenerative diseases cause progressive loss of cognitive and/or motor function and pose major challenges for societies with rapidly aging populations. Human genetics studies have shown that disease-causing rare mutations and risk-associated common alleles overlap in different neurodegenerative disorders. Here we review the intricate genotype-phenotype relationships and common cellular pathways emerging from recent genetic and mechanistic studies. Shared pathological mechanisms include defective protein quality-control and degradation pathways, dysfunctional mitochondrial homeostasis, stress granules, and maladaptive innate immune responses. Research efforts have started to bear fruit, as shown by recent treatment successes and an encouraging therapeutic outlook.

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GeneticsAnimalsGenetic Predisposition to DiseaseHumansNeurodegenerative Diseases

Identifiers

PMID30258237
PMCPMC6278826

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