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ArticleMovement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society2022

Neurofilament Light Protein as a Potential Blood Biomarker for Huntington's Disease in Children.

Lauren M Byrne, Jordan L Schultz, Filipe B Rodrigues, Ellen van der Plas, Douglas Langbehn, Peggy C Nopoulos, Edward J Wild

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Article in Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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12citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

12 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 22 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Systematic Review with Meta-Analysis of Biofluid Markers for Huntington's Disease.Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society · 2025
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  4. Clinical use and reporting of neurofilament quantification in neurological disorders: A global overview.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2025
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  9. Clinical Review of Juvenile Huntington's Disease.Journal of Huntington's disease · 2024
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  12. Peripheral Biomarkers in Manifest and Premanifest Huntington's Disease.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Lauren M ByrneHuntington's Disease Centre, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, University College London, London, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0003-1650-4273
Jordan L SchultzDepartment of Psychiatry, Carver College of Medicine at the University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-0985-7268
Filipe B RodriguesHuntington's Disease Centre, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, University College London, London, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0002-5567-7938
Ellen van der PlasDepartment of Psychiatry, Carver College of Medicine at the University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-7490-6636
Douglas LangbehnDepartment of Psychiatry, Carver College of Medicine at the University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-7803-4679
Peggy C NopoulosDepartment of Psychiatry, Carver College of Medicine at the University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-8810-1903
Edward J WildHuntington's Disease Centre, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, University College London, London, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0002-6921-7887
University of Iowa · USUniversity College London · GB

Funding

Longitudinal Assessment of Brain Structure and Function in Juvenile Onset Huntington's DiseaseU01NS055903 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF IOWA · PI NOPOULOS, PEGGY C · 2019 to 2025
$17.4M
University of Iowa Hawkeye Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center (Hawk-IDDRC)P50HD103556 · NICHD · UNIVERSITY OF IOWA · PI EDWIN TED G. ABEL, Lane Strathearn · 2021 to 2026
$8.5M
Growth and Development of the Striatum in Huntington's DiseaseR01NS055903 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF IOWA · PI PEGGY C NOPOULOS · 2009 to 2026
$5.0M
Longitudinal Assessment of Brain Structure and Function in Myotonic DystrophyR01NS094387 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF IOWA · PI NOPOULOS, PEGGY C · 2015 to 2019
$4.1M
Investigating Autonomic Dysfunction as an Early Pathologic Feature of Huntington’s DiseaseK23NS117736 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF IOWA · PI SCHULTZ, JORDAN · 2021 to 2025
$895k
Medical Research Council MR/M008592/1NICHD NIH HHS P50 HD103556NINDS NIH HHS K23 NS117736NINDS NIH HHS L30 NS118681NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS055903NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS094387NINDS NIH HHS U01 NS055903
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundJuvenile-onset Huntington's disease (JOHD) is a rare and particularly devastating form of Huntington's disease (HD) for which clinical diagnosis is challenging and robust outcome measures are lacking. Neurofilament light protein (NfL) in plasma has emerged as a prognostic biomarker for adult-onset HD.

methodsWe performed a retrospective analysis of samples and data collected between 2009 and 2020 from the Kids-HD and Kids-JHD studies. Plasma samples from children and young adults with JOHD, premanifest HD (preHD) mutation carriers, and age-matched controls were used to quantify plasma NfL concentrations using ultrasensitive immunoassay.

resultsWe report elevated plasma NfL concentrations in JOHD and premanifest HD mutation-carrying children. In pediatric HD mutation carriers who were within 20 years of their predicted onset and patients with JOHD, plasma NfL level was associated with caudate and putamen volumes.

conclusionsQuantifying plasma NfL concentration may assist clinical diagnosis and therapeutic trial design in the pediatric population. © 2022 The Authors. Movement Disorders published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of International Parkinson Movement Disorder Society.

Indexed as

Huntington DiseaseBiomarkersChildDisease ProgressionHumansIntermediate FilamentsNeurofilament ProteinsRetrospective StudiesTumor Necrosis Factor Ligand Superfamily Member 14Young AdultBiomarkersNeurofilament ProteinsTumor Necrosis Factor Ligand Superfamily Member 14biomarkers; children; Huntington's disease

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PMID35437792
PMCPMC9308659
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