Developmental and epileptic encephalopathies: from genetic heterogeneity to phenotypic continuum

R Guerrini, V Conti, M Mantegazza… - Physiological …, 2023 - journals.physiology.org
Developmental and epileptic encephalopathies (DEEs) are a heterogeneous group of
disorders characterized by early-onset, often severe epileptic seizures and EEG …

Developmental and epileptic encephalopathies

IE Scheffer, S Zuberi, HC Mefford, R Guerrini… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Developmental and epileptic encephalopathies, the most severe group of epilepsies, are
characterized by seizures and frequent epileptiform activity associated with developmental …

Predicting functional effects of missense variants in voltage-gated sodium and calcium channels

HO Heyne, D Baez-Nieto, S Iqbal, DS Palmer… - Science translational …, 2020 - science.org
Malfunctions of voltage-gated sodium and calcium channels (encoded by SCNxA and
CACNA1x family genes, respectively) have been associated with severe neurologic …

Genetics of migraine: complexity, implications, and potential clinical applications

HG Sutherland, B Jenkins, LR Griffiths - The Lancet Neurology, 2024 - thelancet.com
Migraine is a common neurological disorder with large burden in terms of disability for
individuals and costs for society. Accurate diagnosis and effective treatments remain …

Presynaptic dysfunction in neurodevelopmental disorders: Insights from the synaptic vesicle life cycle

K Bonnycastle, EC Davenport… - Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The activity‐dependent fusion, retrieval and recycling of synaptic vesicles is essential for the
maintenance of neurotransmission. Until relatively recently it was believed that most …

Voltage-Gated Ca2+-Channel α1-Subunit de novo Missense Mutations: Gain or Loss of Function – Implications for Potential Therapies

J Striessnig - Frontiers in synaptic neuroscience, 2021 - frontiersin.org
This review summarizes our current knowledge of human disease-relevant genetic variants
within the family of voltage gated Ca2+ channels. Ca2+ channelopathies cover a wide …

PURA-Related Developmental and Epileptic Encephalopathy: Phenotypic and Genotypic Spectrum

KM Johannesen, E Gardella, CE Gjerulfsen… - Neurology …, 2021 - neurology.org
Background and Objectives Purine-rich element-binding protein A (PURA) gene encodes
Pur-α, a conserved protein essential for normal postnatal brain development. Recently, a …

Genetic dystonias: update on classification and new genetic discoveries

IJ Keller Sarmiento, NE Mencacci - Current neurology and neuroscience …, 2021 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review Since the advent of next-generation sequencing, the number of
genes associated with dystonia has been growing exponentially. We provide here a …

Cav2.2-NFAT2-USP43 axis promotes invadopodia formation and breast cancer metastasis through cortactin stabilization

Y Xue, M Li, J Hu, Y Song, W Guo, C Miao, D Ge… - Cell Death & …, 2022 - nature.com
Distant metastasis is the main cause of mortality in breast cancer patients. Using the breast
cancer genomic data from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA), we identified brain specific …

Emerging and converging molecular mechanisms in dystonia

P Gonzalez-Latapi, N Marotta, NE Mencacci - Journal of Neural …, 2021 - Springer
Dystonia is a clinically, genetically, and biologically heterogeneous hyperkinetic movement
disorder caused by the dysfunctional activity of neural circuits involved in motor control. Our …