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ReviewFrontiers in neurology2019

Biomarkers and the Development of a Personalized Medicine Approach in Spinal Muscular Atrophy.

Didu S T Kariyawasam, Arlene D'Silva, Cindy Lin, Monique M Ryan, Michelle A Farrar

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Review in Frontiers in neurology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 38 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

38 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. The impact of threeFrontiers in neurology · 2024
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  4. Longitudinal multi-omics profiling of spinal muscular atrophy.Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics · 2026
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  7. Detection of inflammation and glial cell-related biomarkers in adults with spinal muscular atrophy receiving nusinersen therapy.Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2025
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  10. Application of Biomarkers in Spinal Muscular Atrophy.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Didu S T KariyawasamDepartment of Neurology, Sydney Children's Hospital, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
Arlene D'SilvaSchool of Women's and Children's Health, University of New South Wales Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
Cindy LinDepartment of Neurophysiology, Brain and Mind Center, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
Monique M RyanDepartment of Neurology, Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Royal Children's Hospital, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
Michelle A FarrarDepartment of Neurology, Sydney Children's Hospital, Sydney, NSW, Australia.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Recent unprecedented advances in treatment for spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) enabled patients to access the first approved disease modifying therapy for the condition. There are however many uncertainties, regarding timing of treatment initiation, response to intervention, treatment effects and long-term outcomes, which are complicated by the evolving phenotypes seen in the post-treatment era for patients with SMA. Biomarkers of disease, with diagnostic, prognostic, predictive, and pharmacodynamic value are thus urgently required, to facilitate a wider understanding in this dynamic landscape. A spectrum of these candidate biomarkers, will be evaluated in this review, including genetic, epigenetic, proteomic, electrophysiological, and imaging measures. Of these,

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biomarkercompound muscle action potentialmotor unit number estimationneurofilamentSMN2spinal muscular atrophy

Identifiers

PMID31481927
PMCPMC6709682

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