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ReviewScience advances2025

Alpha-synuclein seed amplification assays: Data sharing, standardization needed for clinical use.

Hilal A Lashuel, D James Surmeier, Tanya Simuni, Kalpana Merchant, Byron Caughey, Claudio Soto, Mohamed-Bilal Fares, Roland G Heym, Ronald Melki

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Review in Science advances, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.

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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

15 citing papers in PubMed.

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  8. Where do PDD and DLB SYNdromes fit in neuronal alpha-SYNuclein biological frameworks?Journal of neural transmission (Vienna, Austria : 1996) · 2026
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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

9 authors.

Hilal A LashuelInstitute of Bioengineering, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0001-7682-8320
D James SurmeierDeputy Editor, Science Advances, Department of Neuroscience, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL 60611, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-6376-5225
Tanya SimuniDepartment of Neurology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University Chicago, IL, 60611, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-2347-1644
Kalpana MerchantDepartment of Neurology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University Chicago, IL, 60611, USA.
Byron CaugheyLaboratory of Neurological Infections and Immunity (LNII), Rocky Mountain Laboratories, Division of Intramural Research, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Hamilton, MT, 59840, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-3928-6101
Claudio SotoMitchell Center for Alzheimer's Disease and Related Brain Disorders, Department of Neurology, University of Texas McGovern Medical School, Houston, TX 77030, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-3412-0524
Mohamed-Bilal FaresND BioSciences, Epalinges, Switzerland.
Roland G HeymAbbVie Deutschland GmbH & Co. KG, Ludwigshafen, Germany.ORCID 0009-0003-4682-3061
Ronald MelkiInstitute Francois Jacob (MIRCen), CEA, and Laboratory of Neurodegenerative Diseases, CNRS, Fontenay-Aux-Roses, France.ORCID 0000-0003-0000-7096

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Alpha-synuclein seed amplification assays can improve neurodegenerative disease diagnosis and care, but widespread use depends on a framework that standardizes protocols and encourages data sharing.

Indexed as

alpha-SynucleinInformation DisseminationNeurodegenerative DiseasesNucleic Acid Amplification TechniquesHumansalpha-Synuclein

Identifiers

PMID40173225
PMCPMC11963999

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