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Carsten Drepper

Researcher at University of Würzburg

Publications -  27
Citations -  6709

Carsten Drepper is an academic researcher from University of Würzburg. The author has contributed to research in topics: Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis & Trinucleotide repeat expansion. The author has an hindex of 13, co-authored 25 publications receiving 5765 citations. Previous affiliations of Carsten Drepper include United States Military Academy.

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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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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 association analyses identify new risk variants and the genetic architecture of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

Wouter van Rheenen, +187 more
- 01 Sep 2016 - 
TL;DR: Evidence of ALS being a complex genetic trait with a polygenic architecture is established and the SNP-based heritability is estimated at 8.5%, with a distinct and important role for low-frequency variants (frequency 1–10%).
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Mutations in the Matrin 3 gene cause familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

TL;DR: Exome sequencing data provide more evidence supporting the role of aberrant RNA processing in motor neuron degeneration in ALS kindreds and observed MATR3 pathology in ALS-affected spinal cords with and withoutMATR3 mutations.
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NEK1 variants confer susceptibility to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

Kevin P. Kenna, +82 more
- 25 Jul 2016 - 
TL;DR: In a new screening strategy, gene-burden analyses trained with established ALS genes are performed and a significant association between loss-of-function (LOF) NEK1 variants and FALS risk is identified.