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ReviewThe Lancet. Neurology2021

Biomarkers and diagnostic guidelines for sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.

Peter Hermann, Brian Appleby, Jean-Philippe Brandel, Byron Caughey, Steven Collins, Michael D Geschwind, Alison Green, Stephane Haïk, Gabor G Kovacs, Anna Ladogana and 9 more

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In one paragraph

Review in The Lancet. Neurology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 207 papers, 5 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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207citing papers in PubMed, 5 pooled it
20.4field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
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

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

207 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 323 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Genetic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease associated with 5-octapeptide repeat insertion in the PRNP gene: case and pedigree report and literature review.Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2026
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  10. Sporadic Creutzfeldt-jakob disease: a case report.Journal of medical case reports · 2026
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147 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

19 authors at 14 institutions in 9 countries.

Peter HermannNational Reference Center for Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies, Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany. Electronic address: peter.hermann@med.uni-goettingen.de.
Brian ApplebyNational Prion Disease Pathology Surveillance Center, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA; Departments of Neurology, Psychiatry, and Pathology, University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA.
Jean-Philippe BrandelCellule Nationale de Référence des Maladies de Creutzfeldt-Jakob, Groupe Hospitalier Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France; Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle épinière, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France.
Byron CaugheyLaboratory of Persistent Viral Diseases, Rocky Mountain Laboratories, National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Hamilton, MT, USA.
Steven CollinsAustralian National Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease Registry, Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health and Department of Medicine, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia.
Michael D GeschwindDepartment of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA.
Alison GreenNational CJD Research & Surveillance Unit, Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
Stephane HaïkCellule Nationale de Référence des Maladies de Creutzfeldt-Jakob, Groupe Hospitalier Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France; Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle épinière, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France.
Gabor G KovacsTanz Centre for Research in Neurodegenerative Disease and Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; Laboratory Medicine Program, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Anna LadoganaDepartment of Neuroscience, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy.
Franc LlorensNational Reference Center for Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies, Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany; Network Center For Biomedical Research Of Neurodegenerative Diseases, Institute Carlos III, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain; Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute, Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain.
Simon MeadNational Prion Clinic, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK; Medical Research Council Prion Unit at University College London, Institute of Prion Diseases, London, UK.
Noriyuki NishidaDepartment of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan.
Suvankar PalNational CJD Research & Surveillance Unit, Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
Piero ParchiIstituto di Ricovero e Cura e Carattere Scientifico, Istituto delle Scienze Neurologiche di Bologna, Bologna, Italy; Department of Experimental, Diagnostic and Specialty Medicine, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.
Maurizio PocchiariDepartment of Neuroscience, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy.
Katsuya SatohDepartment of Locomotive Rehabilitation Science, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan.
Gianluigi ZanussoDepartment of Neurosciences, Biomedicine and Movement Sciences, University of Verona, Verona, Italy.
Inga ZerrNational Reference Center for Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies, Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany; German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases, Göttingen, Germany.
Istituto Superiore di Sanità · ITNagasaki University · JPSorbonne Université · FRUniversitätsmedizin Göttingen · DEUniversity of Edinburgh · GBBiomedical Research Networking Center on Neurodegenerative Diseases · ESCase Western Reserve University · USIstituto delle Scienze Neurologiche di Bologna · ITMedical Research Council · GBNational Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases · USUniversity of California, San Francisco · USUniversity of Melbourne · AUUniversity of Toronto · CAUniversity of Verona · IT

Funding

Detection of PrionsZIAAI001086 · NIAID · NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES · PI CAUGHEY, BYRON · 2009 to 2025
$18.1M
Predicting progression of human prion diseaseR01AG031189 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI GESCHWIND, MICHAEL D · 2008 to 2017
$5.7M
Tracking longitudinal change in presymptomatic genetic prion disease (TLC-Pre-gPrD)R01AG062562 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI GESCHWIND, MICHAEL D · 2019 to 2023
$5.4M
TLC-Pre-gPrD: Tracking Longitudinal Change in Presymptomatic genetic Prion DiseaseR56AG055619 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI GESCHWIND, MICHAEL D · 2018 to 2018
$800k
Chief Scientist Office ETM/58Medical Research Council MC_UU_00024/1Medical Research Council MR/J016071/1NIA NIH HHS R01 AG031189NIA NIH HHS R01 AG062562NIA NIH HHS R01-AG AG031189NIA NIH HHS R56 AG055619
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is a fatal neurodegenerative disease caused by misfolded prion proteins (PrP

Indexed as

BiomarkersCreutzfeldt-Jakob SyndromeGenetic MarkersGuidelines as TopicHumansNeuroimagingSensitivity and SpecificityBiomarkersGenetic Markers

Identifiers

PMID33609480
PMCPMC8285036
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