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Patrizia Rizzu

Researcher at German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases

Publications -  101
Citations -  17635

Patrizia Rizzu is an academic researcher from German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases. The author has contributed to research in topics: Frontotemporal dementia & Gene. The author has an hindex of 44, co-authored 92 publications receiving 15304 citations. Previous affiliations of Patrizia Rizzu include Erasmus University Medical Center & VU University Amsterdam.

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The DJ-1L166P mutant protein associated with early onset Parkinson's disease is unstable and forms higher-order protein complexes

TL;DR: Pulse-chase experiments in transfected COS-1 cells and cycloheximide treatment in control and patient lymphoblasts indicated that the mutant protein was rapidly degraded, suggesting that this rapid turnover and the structural changes of DJ-1L166P mutant protein might be crucial in the disease pathogenesis.
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Exonic Deletions in AUTS2 Cause a Syndromic Form of Intellectual Disability and Suggest a Critical Role for the C Terminus

Gea Beunders, +83 more
TL;DR: The observations demonstrate a causal role of AUTS2 in neurocognitive disorders, establish a hitherto unappreciated syndromic phenotype at this locus, and show how transcriptional complexity can underpin human pathology.