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    The dopamine transporter gene SLC6A3: multidisease risks

    The human dopamine transporter gene SLC6A3 has been consistently implicated in several neuropsychiatric diseases but the disease mechanism remains elusive. In this risk synthesis, we have concluded that SLC6A3 re...

    Maarten E. A. Reith, Sandhya Kortagere, Corinde E. Wiers, Hui Sun in Molecular Psychiatry (2022)

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    Insights into the expanding phenotypic spectrum of inherited disorders of biogenic amines

    Inherited disorders of neurotransmitter metabolism are rare neurodevelopmental diseases presenting with movement disorders and global developmental delay. This study presents the results of the first standardi...

    Oya Kuseyri Hübschmann, Gabriella Horvath in Nature Communications (2021)

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    Correction to: Consensus guideline for the diagnosis and treatment of tetrahydrobiopterin (BH4) deficiencies

    An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via the original article.

    Thomas Opladen, Eduardo López-Laso in Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases (2020)

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    Consensus guideline for the diagnosis and treatment of tetrahydrobiopterin (BH4) deficiencies

    Tetrahydrobiopterin (BH4) deficiencies comprise a group of six rare neurometabolic disorders characterized by insufficient synthesis of the monoamine neurotransmitters dopamine and serotonin due to a disturbance ...

    Thomas Opladen, Eduardo López-Laso in Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases (2020)

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    Correction to: Spectrum of movement disorders and neurotransmitter abnormalities in paediatric POLG disease

    Due to a typesetting error the wrong Table 2 was used. The correct Table 2 is shown here:

    A. Papandreou, S. Rahman, C. Fratter, J. Ng in Journal of Inherited Metabolic Disease (2018)

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    Spectrum of movement disorders and neurotransmitter abnormalities in paediatric POLG disease

    To describe the spectrum of movement disorders and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) neurotransmitter profiles in paediatric patients with POLG disease.

    A. Papandreou, S. Rahman, C. Fratter, J. Ng in Journal of Inherited Metabolic Disease (2018)

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    Postsynaptic movement disorders: clinical phenotypes, genotypes, and disease mechanisms

    Movement disorders comprise a group of heterogeneous diseases with often complex clinical phenotypes. Overlap** symptoms and a lack of diagnostic biomarkers may hamper making a definitive diagnosis. Next-gen...

    Lucia Abela, Manju A. Kurian in Journal of Inherited Metabolic Disease (2018)

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    Correction: Corrigendum: Mutations in the histone methyltransferase gene KMT2B cause complex early-onset dystonia

    Nat. Genet. 49, 223–237 (2017); published online 19 December 2016; corrected after print 20 April 2017 Following publication of this article, the authors were asked to remove a clinical image and some video fo...

    Esther Meyer, Keren J Carss, Julia Rankin, John M E Nichols in Nature Genetics (2017)

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    Mutations in the histone methyltransferase gene KMT2B cause complex early-onset dystonia

    Manju Kurian and colleagues report heterozygous variants in KMT2B in 27 unrelated individuals with a complex progressive childhood-onset dystonia, often associated with a typical facial appearance. Their findings...

    Esther Meyer, Keren J Carss, Julia Rankin, John M E Nichols in Nature Genetics (2017)

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    Consensus guideline for the diagnosis and treatment of aromatic l-amino acid decarboxylase (AADC) deficiency

    Aromatic L-amino acid decarboxylase deficiency (AADCD) is a rare, autosomal recessive neurometabolic disorder that leads to a severe combined deficiency of serotonin, dopamine, norepinephrine and epinephrine. ...

    Tessa Wassenberg, Marta Molero-Luis, Kathrin Jeltsch in Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases (2017)

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    Mutations in SLC39A14 disrupt manganese homeostasis and cause childhood-onset parkinsonism–dystonia

    Although manganese is an essential trace metal, little is known about its transport and homeostatic regulation. Here we have identified a cohort of patients with a novel autosomal recessive manganese transport...

    Karin Tuschl, Esther Meyer, Leonardo E. Valdivia, Ningning Zhao in Nature Communications (2016)

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    Monoamine neurotransmitter disorders—clinical advances and future perspectives

  13. Monoamine neurotransmitter disorders are under-recognized and often misdiagnosed, as many mimic cerebral palsy and other neurological disorders

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  14. Joanne Ng, Apostolos Papandreou, Simon J. Heales in Nature Reviews Neurology (2015)

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    Mutations in SLC12A5 in epilepsy of infancy with migrating focal seizures

    The potassium-chloride co-transporter KCC2, encoded by SLC12A5, plays a fundamental role in fast synaptic inhibition by maintaining a hyperpolarizing gradient for chloride ions. KCC2 dysfunction has been implicat...

    Tommy Stödberg, Amy McTague, Arnaud J. Ruiz, Hiromi Hirata in Nature Communications (2015)

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    SGCE and myoclonus dystonia: motor characteristics, diagnostic criteria and clinical predictors of genotype

    Myoclonus dystonia syndrome (MDS) is a young-onset movement disorder. A proportion of cases are due to mutations in the maternally imprinted SGCE gene. We assembled the largest cohort of MDS patients to date, and...

    Kathryn J. Peall, Manju A. Kurian, Mark Wardle, Adrian J. Waite in Journal of Neurology (2014)

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    What is new for monoamine neurotransmitter disorders?

    The monoamine neurotransmitter disorders are increasingly recognized as an expanding group of inherited neurometabolic syndromes caused by disturbances in the synthesis, transport and metabolism of the biogeni...

    Clara Marecos, Joanne Ng, Manju A. Kurian in Journal of Inherited Metabolic Disease (2014)