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9 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Folkhälsan Research Center, Helsinki, Finland; Department of Medical Genetics, Medicum, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland; Neuromuscular Research Center, Department of Neurology, Tampere University and University Hospital, Tampere, Finland; Department of Neurology, Vaasa Central Hospital, Vaasa, Finland. Electronic address: marco.savarese@helsinki.fi.
7 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Departments of Neurology and Pathology (Neuropathology), University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA.
6 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Folkhälsan Research Center, Helsinki, Finland; Department of Medical Genetics, Medicum, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.
6 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Folkhälsan Research Center, Helsinki, Finland.
Department of Medical Genetics, Medicum, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.
5 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Folkhälsan Research Center, Helsinki, Finland.
Department of Medical Genetics, Medicum, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.
Neuromuscular Research Center, Department of Genetics, Fimlab Laboratories, Tampere, Finland.
Publications dans "Myopathies distales" :
5 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Folkhälsan Research Center, Helsinki, Finland.
Department of Medical Genetics, Medicum, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.
Publications dans "Myopathies distales" :
5 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Department of Neurology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA.
Publications dans "Myopathies distales" :
4 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Neuromuscular Research Center, Department of Neurology, Tampere University and University Hospital, Tampere, Finland; Division of Clinical Neurosciences, Department of Neurology, Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland.
Publications dans "Myopathies distales" :
4 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Folkhälsan Research Center, Helsinki, Finland.
Department of Medical Genetics, Medicum, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.
Publications dans "Myopathies distales" :
4 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Folkhälsan Research Center, Helsinki, Finland.
Department of Medical Genetics, Medicum, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.
Publications dans "Myopathies distales" :
4 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Department of Neurology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA.
Publications dans "Myopathies distales" :
4 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry (NCNP), Department of Neuromuscular Research, National Institute of Neuroscience, Tokyo, Japan.
Publications dans "Myopathies distales" :
3 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Department of Neurology, Peking University First Hospital, Beijing, 100034, China.
Beijing Key Laboratory of Neurovascular Disease Discovery, Beijing, 100034, China.
Publications dans "Myopathies distales" :
3 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Department of Neurology, National Center Hospital, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry, Tokyo, Japan.
Publications dans "Myopathies distales" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
National Institutes of Health, NINDS, NNDCS, Bethesda, Maryland.
Publications dans "Myopathies distales" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
National Institutes of Health, NINDS, NNDCS, Bethesda, Maryland.
Publications dans "Myopathies distales" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Folkhälsan Research Center (P.H., S.M.R., M.J., A.V., P.H.J., J.S., S.K., H.L., M.S., M.A., M.S., B.U.); University of Helsinki (S.M.R., M.J., A.V., P.H.J., J.S., S.K., H.L., M.S., M.A., M.S.), Helsinki; Finnish Neuromuscular Center, Fimlab Laboratories and Tampere University (A.V.); Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM), University of Helsinki (K.D., P.L.); MRC, University of Oulu, Oulu (I.M.); Pietarsaari Hospital, Pietarsaari, Finland (I.M.); Clinical Neurosciences, Neurology, Helsinki University Hospital (M.A.); Vaasa Central Hospital (B.U.), Vaasa, Finland.
Publications dans "Myopathies distales" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Folkhälsan Research Center (P.H., S.M.R., M.J., A.V., P.H.J., J.S., S.K., H.L., M.S., M.A., M.S., B.U.); University of Helsinki (S.M.R., M.J., A.V., P.H.J., J.S., S.K., H.L., M.S., M.A., M.S.), Helsinki; Finnish Neuromuscular Center, Fimlab Laboratories and Tampere University (A.V.); Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM), University of Helsinki (K.D., P.L.); MRC, University of Oulu, Oulu (I.M.); Pietarsaari Hospital, Pietarsaari, Finland (I.M.); Clinical Neurosciences, Neurology, Helsinki University Hospital (M.A.); Vaasa Central Hospital (B.U.), Vaasa, Finland.
Publications dans "Myopathies distales" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Folkhälsan Research Center (P.H., S.M.R., M.J., A.V., P.H.J., J.S., S.K., H.L., M.S., M.A., M.S., B.U.); University of Helsinki (S.M.R., M.J., A.V., P.H.J., J.S., S.K., H.L., M.S., M.A., M.S.), Helsinki; Finnish Neuromuscular Center, Fimlab Laboratories and Tampere University (A.V.); Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM), University of Helsinki (K.D., P.L.); MRC, University of Oulu, Oulu (I.M.); Pietarsaari Hospital, Pietarsaari, Finland (I.M.); Clinical Neurosciences, Neurology, Helsinki University Hospital (M.A.); Vaasa Central Hospital (B.U.), Vaasa, Finland.
Publications dans "Myopathies distales" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Neuromuscular Research Center, Tampere University Hospital and Tampere University, P.O. box 100, FIN-33014 Tampere, Finland. Electronic address: johanna.palmio@tuni.fi.
Publications dans "Myopathies distales" :
The diagnostic process for myofibrillar myopathies (MFM) and distal myopathies (DM) is particularly complex because of the large number of causative genes, the existence of still molecularly undefined...
Patients with either a myopathological diagnosis of MFM or a clinical diagnosis of DM were included in this retrospective multicentric national study. Demographic, genetic, clinical, and histopatholog...
Data regarding 132 patients with MFM (mean age 57.0 ± 15.8 years, 49% female) and 298 patients with DM (mean age 50.7 ± 15.9 years, 40% female) were gathered from 20 neuromuscular centers. 69 patients...
The Italian cohort of patients with MFM and DM recapitulates the phenotypic heterogeneity and the partial overlap between the 2 groups. However, in relative contrast to the encountered phenotypic vari...
A rare muscle disease, GNE myopathy is caused by mutations in the GNE gene involved in sialic acid biosynthesis. Our recent phase II/III study has indicated that oral administration of aceneuramic aci...
We conducted a phase III, randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind, parallel-group, multicenter study. Participants were assigned to receive an extended-release formulation of aceneuramic acid (SA...
A total of 14 patients were enrolled and given SA-ER (n = 10) or placebo (n = 4) tablets orally. Decrease in least square mean (LSM) change in UEC score at Week 48 with SA-ER (- 0.115 kg) was numerica...
The present study reproducibly showed a trend towards slowing of loss of muscle strength and function with orally administered SA-ER, indicating supplementation with sialic acid might be a promising r...
ClinicalTrials.gov (NCT04671472)....
Miyoshi myopathy/dysferlinopathy (MMD) is a rare muscle disease caused by DYSF gene mutations. Apart from skeletal muscles, DYSF is also expressed in the brain. However, the impact of MMD-causing DYSF...
GNE myopathy, caused by biallelic mutations in the GNE gene, is characterized by initial ankle dorsiflexor weakness and rimmed vacuoles in the muscle histopathology, resulting in reduced sialic acid p...
GNE myopathy is caused by bi allelic recessive mutations in the GNE gene. The largest identified cohort of GNE myopathy patients carries a homozygous mutation- M743T (the "Middle Eastern" mutation). M...
Distal myopathies are a clinically heterogenous group of rare, genetic muscle diseases, that present with weakness in hands and/or feet at onset. Some of these diseases remain accentuated in the dista...
Variants in SMPX, DNAJB2, and HSPB6 have been identified as a novel cause of late-onset distal myopathy and neuromyopathy. In oculopharyngodistal myopathies, repeat expansions were identified in two n...
The identification of novel distal myopathy genes and pathogenic variants contribute to our ability to provide a final molecular diagnosis to a larger number of patients and increase our overall under...
GNE myopathy (GM) is a rare autosomal recessive disorder caused by variants in the...
A 19-year-old male patient from a consanguineous family of Bambara ethnicity was seen for progressive walking difficulty and frequent falls. Neurological examination found distalmuscle weakness and at...
This study reports a novel variant in the...
GNE-myopathy (GNE-M) is a rare autosomal recessive disorder caused by variants in the GNE gene. We report a novel variant in GNE causing GNE-M in a Malian family. A 19-year-old male patient from consa...
Pathogenic variants in mitochondrial calcium uptake 1 (...
Welander distal myopathy typically manifests in late adulthood and is caused by the founder TIA1 c.1150G>A (p.Glu384Lys) variant in families of Swedish and Finnish descent. Recently, a similar phenoty...