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ReviewNeuron2023

HD and SCA1: Tales from two 30-year journeys since gene discovery.

Leslie M Thompson, Harry T Orr

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Review in Neuron, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
8citing papers in PubMed
1.9field-weighted citation impact, top 14% 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.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed, 13 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Leslie M ThompsonDepartment of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, Department of Biological Chemistry, Institute of Memory Impairments and Neurological Disorders, Sue and Bill Gross Stem Cell Center, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697, USA.
Harry T OrrDepartment of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Institute for Translational Neuroscience, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis and Saint Paul, MN 55455, USA. Electronic address: orrxx002@umn.edu.
University of California, Irvine · USUniversity of Minnesota · US

Funding

Cell Signaling and NeurodegenerationR01NS045667 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA TWIN CITIES · PI ORR, HARRY T. · 2003 to 2021
$8.8M
Molecular Mechanisms of Pathogenesis in Huntington’s diseaseR35NS116872 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-IRVINE · PI Leslie Michels Thompson · 2020 to 2026
$8.5M
Epigenetic Pathology and Therapy in Huntington's DiseaseR01NS089076 · NINDS · MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI FRAENKEL, ERNEST, HOUSMAN, DAVID · 2015 to 2024
$4.9M
Molecular genetics of neurodegenerative pathogenic and protective pathways: The SCA1 perspectiveR35NS127248 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA · PI Harry T. Orr · 2022 to 2026
$3.9M
MOLECULAR GENETICS OF THE SCA1 LOCUS ON CHROMOSOME 6PR01NS022920 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA TWIN CITIES · PI ORR, HARRY T. · 1986 to 2022
$3.2M
Neuroregulatory Mechanisms of PIAS1 and Implications for Huntington's DiseaseR01NS090390 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-IRVINE · PI DAVIDSON, BEVERLY L., THOMPSON, LESLIE MICHELS · 2015 to 2018
$1.8M
NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS022920NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS045667NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS089076NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS090390NINDS NIH HHS R35 NS116872NINDS NIH HHS R35 NS127248
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

One of the more transformative findings in human genetics was the discovery that the expansion of unstable nucleotide repeats underlies a group of inherited neurological diseases. A subset of these unstable repeat neurodegenerative diseases is due to the expansion of a CAG trinucleotide repeat encoding a stretch of glutamines, i.e., the polyglutamine (polyQ) repeat neurodegenerative diseases. Among the CAG/polyQ repeat diseases are Huntington's disease (HD) and spinocerebellar ataxia type 1 (SCA1), in which the expansions are within widely expressed proteins. Although both HD and SCA1 are autosomal dominantly inherited, and both typically cause mid- to late-life-onset movement disorders with cognitive decline, they each are characterized by distinct clinical characteristics and predominant sites of neuropathology. Importantly, the respective affected proteins, Huntingtin (HTT, HD) and Ataxin 1 (ATXN1, SCA1), have unique functions and biological properties. Here, we review HD and SCA1 with a focus on how their disease-specific and shared features may provide informative insights.

Indexed as

Huntington DiseaseNervous System DiseasesSpinocerebellar AtaxiasAtaxin-1Genetic Association StudiesHumansProteinsTrinucleotide Repeat ExpansionTrinucleotide RepeatsAtaxin-1ProteinsHuntington’s diseasepolyglutamine neurodegenerative diseasespinocerebellar ataxia type 1

Identifiers

PMID37863037
PMCPMC10842341
OpenAlexW4387773342

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