Tau kinetics in neurons and the human central nervous system

…, BW Patterson, BA Gordon, J Jockel-Balsarotti… - Neuron, 2018 - cell.com
We developed stable isotope labeling and mass spectrometry approaches to measure the
kinetics of multiple isoforms and fragments of tau in the human central nervous system (CNS) …

Poly(GP) proteins are a useful pharmacodynamic marker for C9ORF72-associated amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

…, F Solca, A Prelle, J Wuu, J Jockel-Balsarotti… - Science translational …, 2017 - science.org
There is no effective treatment for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a devastating motor
neuron disease. However, discovery of a G 4 C 2 repeat expansion in the C9ORF72 gene as …

TREM2 variant p. R47H as a risk factor for sporadic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

…, BA Benitez, C Zaidman, J Jockel-Balsarotti… - JAMA …, 2014 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a fatal neurodegenerative disease in which
microglia play a significant and active role. Recently, a rare missense variant (p.R47H) in …

Answer ALS, a large-scale resource for sporadic and familial ALS combining clinical and multi-omics data from induced pluripotent cell lines

…, A Jamil, S Heintzman, J Jockel-Balsarotti… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Answer ALS is a biological and clinical resource of patient-derived, induced pluripotent
stem (iPS) cell lines, multi-omic data derived from iPS neurons and longitudinal clinical and …

The SOD1-mediated ALS phenotype shows a decoupling between age of symptom onset and disease duration

…, A Al-Khleifat, KL Williams, J Jockel-Balsarotti… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Superoxide dismutase (SOD1) gene variants may cause amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, some
of which are associated with a distinct phenotype. Most studies assess limited variants or …

Defining SOD1 ALS natural history to guide therapeutic clinical trial design

…, B Callaghan, AL McVey, J Jockel-Balsarotti… - Journal of Neurology …, 2017 - jnnp.bmj.com
Importance Understanding the natural history of familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)
caused by SOD1 mutations (ALS SOD1 ) will provide key information for optimising clinical …

Targeted sequencing and identification of genetic variants in sporadic inclusion body myositis

…, G Lopate, P Allred, J Jockel-Balsarotti… - Neuromuscular …, 2015 - Elsevier
Sporadic inclusion body myositis (sIBM) has clinical, pathologic and pathomechanistic overlap
with some inherited muscle and neurodegenerative disorders. In this study, DNA from 79 …

Prospective natural history study of C9orf72 ALS clinical characteristics and biomarkers

…, JD Rothstein, C Drain, J Jockel-Balsarotti… - Neurology, 2019 - neurology.org
Objective To define the natural history of the C9orf72 amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (C9ALS)
patient population, develop disease biomarkers, and characterize patient pathologies. …

In vivo kinetic approach reveals slow SOD1 turnover in the CNS

…, R Chott, WK Self, CC Weihl, J Jockel-Balsarotti… - The Journal of clinical …, 2015 - jci.org
Therapeutic strategies that target disease-associated transcripts are being developed for a
variety of neurodegenerative syndromes. Protein levels change as a function of their half-life, …

Protein kinetics of superoxide dismutase‐1 in familial and sporadic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

…, WK Self, J Bollinger, J JockelBalsarotti… - Annals of Clinical …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Objective Accumulation of misfolded superoxide dismutase‐1 (SOD1) is a pathological
hallmark of SOD1‐related amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and is observed in sporadic ALS …