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SynthesisJournal of neuromuscular diseases2025

Ultra-Orphan drug development for GNE Myopathy: A synthetic literature review and meta-analysis.

Naoki Suzuki, Madoka Mori-Yoshimura, Ichizo Nishino, Masashi Aoki

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Synthesis in Journal of neuromuscular diseases, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 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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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

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

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Naoki SuzukiDepartment of Neurology, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan.ORCID 0000-0001-8880-8554
Madoka Mori-YoshimuraDepartment of Neurology, National Center Hospital, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry (NCNP), Tokyo, Japan.
Ichizo NishinoDepartment of Neuromuscular Research, National Institute of Neuroscience, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry (NCNP), Tokyo, Japan.
Masashi AokiDepartment of Neurology, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

GNE myopathy is an autosomal recessive hereditary muscle disorder that has the following clinical characteristics: develops in early adulthood, gradually progresses from the distal muscles, and is relatively sparing of quadriceps until the advanced stages of the disease. With further progression, patients become non-ambulatory and need a wheelchair. There is growing concern about extra-muscular presentations such as thrombocytopenia, respiratory dysfunction, and sleep apnea syndrome. Pathologically, rimmed vacuoles and tubulofilamentous inclusions are observed in affected muscles. The cause of the disease is thought to be a sialic acid deficiency due to mutations of the

Indexed as

Distal MyopathiesDrug DevelopmentN-Acetylneuraminic AcidAnimalsHumansMultienzyme ComplexesMultienzyme ComplexesN-Acetylneuraminic AcidUDP-N-acetylglucosamine 2-epimerase - N-acetylmannosamine kinaseaceneuramic aciddistal myopathydrug developmentGNE myopathyultra-orphan disease

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PMID39973407
PMCPMC13142860

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