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ReviewFrontiers in neurology2021

Volumetric MRI-Based Biomarkers in Huntington's Disease: An Evidentiary Review.

Kirsi M Kinnunen, Adam J Schwarz, Emily C Turner, Dorian Pustina, Emily C Gantman, Mark F Gordon, Richard Joules, Ariana P Mullin, Rachael I Scahill, Nellie Georgiou-Karistianis and 1 more

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In one paragraph

Review in Frontiers in neurology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 26 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
26citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
2.9field-weighted citation impact, top 8% 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

26 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 43 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Systematic Review of the Huntington's Disease Drug Development Pipeline, 2014 to 2025.Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society · 2026
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  18. Transforming Drug Development for Neurological Disorders: Proceedings from a Multidisease Area Workshop.Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics · 2023
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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

11 authors at 7 institutions in 3 countries.

Kirsi M KinnunenIXICO, London, United Kingdom.
Adam J SchwarzTakeda Pharmaceuticals, Ltd., Cambridge, MA, United States.
Emily C TurnerCritical Path Institute, Tucson, AZ, United States.
Dorian PustinaCHDI Management/CHDI Foundation, Princeton, NJ, United States.
Emily C GantmanCHDI Management/CHDI Foundation, Princeton, NJ, United States.
Mark F GordonTeva Pharmaceuticals, West Chester, PA, United States.
Richard JoulesIXICO, London, United Kingdom.
Ariana P MullinCritical Path Institute, Tucson, AZ, United States.
Rachael I ScahillHuntington's Disease Research Centre, UCL Institute of Neurology, London, United Kingdom.
Nellie Georgiou-KaristianisSchool of Psychological Sciences and Turner Institute for Brain and Mental Health, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
Huntington's Disease Regulatory Science Consortium (HD-RSC)
CHDI Foundation · USCritical Path Institute · USIxico (United Kingdom) · GBMonash University · AUTakeda (United States) · USTeva Pharmaceuticals (United States) · USUniversity College London · GB

Funding

FDA HHS U18 FD005320
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Huntington's disease (HD) is an autosomal-dominant inherited neurodegenerative disorder that is caused by expansion of a CAG-repeat tract in the huntingtin gene and characterized by motor impairment, cognitive decline, and neuropsychiatric disturbances. Neuropathological studies show that disease progression follows a characteristic pattern of brain atrophy, beginning in the basal ganglia structures. The HD Regulatory Science Consortium (HD-RSC) brings together diverse stakeholders in the HD community-biopharmaceutical industry, academia, nonprofit, and patient advocacy organizations-to define and address regulatory needs to accelerate HD therapeutic development. Here, the Biomarker Working Group of the HD-RSC summarizes the cross-sectional evidence indicating that regional brain volumes, as measured by volumetric magnetic resonance imaging, are reduced in HD and are correlated with disease characteristics. We also evaluate the relationship between imaging measures and clinical change, their longitudinal change characteristics, and within-individual longitudinal associations of imaging with disease progression. This analysis will be valuable in assessing pharmacodynamics in clinical trials and supporting clinical outcome assessments to evaluate treatment effects on neurodegeneration.

Indexed as

biomarkersC-PathHuntington's diseaseneurodegenerativeneuroimagingvolumetric MRI

Identifiers

PMID34621236
PMCPMC8490802
OpenAlexW3204822561

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