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Alan E. Renton

Researcher at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Publications -  82
Citations -  10301

Alan E. Renton is an academic researcher from Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medicine & C9orf72. The author has an hindex of 28, co-authored 65 publications receiving 8484 citations. Previous affiliations of Alan E. Renton include Imperial College London & UCL Institute of Neurology.

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A hexanucleotide repeat expansion in C9ORF72 is the cause of chromosome 9p21-linked ALS-FTD

Alan E. Renton, +85 more
- 20 Oct 2011 - 
TL;DR: The chromosome 9p21 amyotrophic lateral sclerosis-frontotemporal dementia (ALS-FTD) locus contains one of the last major unidentified autosomal-dominant genes underlying these common neurodegenerative diseases, and a large hexanucleotide repeat expansion in the first intron of C9ORF72 is shown.
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State of play in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis genetics.

TL;DR: Current literature of the major genes underlying ALS, SOD1, TARDBP, FUS, OPTN, VCP, UBQLN2, C9ORF72 and PFN1 are summarized and how each new genetic discovery is broadening the phenotype associated with the clinical entity the authors know as ALS is outlined.
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Frequency of the C9orf72 hexanucleotide repeat expansion in patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and frontotemporal dementia: a cross-sectional study

Elisa Majounie, +71 more
- 01 Apr 2012 - 
TL;DR: A common Mendelian genetic lesion in C9orf72 is implicated in many cases of sporadic and familial ALS and FTD, suggesting a one-off expansion occurring about 1500 years ago.
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Genome-wide Analyses Identify KIF5A as a Novel ALS Gene.

Aude Nicolas, +435 more
- 21 Mar 2018 - 
TL;DR: Interestingly, mutations predominantly in the N-terminal motor domain of KIF5A are causative for two neurodegenerative diseases: hereditary spastic paraplegia and Charcot-Marie-Tooth type 2.
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PINK1 cleavage at position A103 by the mitochondrial protease PARL

TL;DR: It is suggested that PINK1 cleavage is important for basal mitochondrial health and that PARL cleaves Pink1 to produce the ΔN-PINK1 fragment, and that loss of PARL results in aberrant PINK 1 cleavage in mammalian cells.