Quantifying prion disease penetrance using large population control cohorts

…, A Boyd, RG Will, R Knight, C Ponto… - Science translational …, 2016 - science.org
… Truncating variants reported in prion disease cases in the literature (table S2) and in our
cohorts (table S1) cluster exclusively in the C-terminal region (residue ≥145), whereas …

R47H TREM2 variant increases risk of typical early‐onset Alzheimer's disease but not of prion or frontotemporal dementia

…, RJ Guerreiro, JB Rowe, C Ponto… - Alzheimer's & …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Background Rare TREM2 variants are significant risk factors for Alzheimer's disease (AD).
Methods We used next generation sequencing of the whole gene (n = 700), exon 2 Sanger …

[HTML][HTML] Detection of infectivity in blood of persons with variant and sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

…, S Lugan, N Aron, H Cassard, C Ponto… - Emerging infectious …, 2014 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
We report the presence of infectivity in erythrocytes, leukocytes, and plasma of 1 person
with variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and in the plasma of 2 in 4 persons whose tests were …

Age at onset in genetic prion disease and the design of preventive clinical trials

…, C Ponto, P Hermann, T Knipper, C Stehmann… - Neurology, 2019 - AAN Enterprises
Objective To determine whether preventive trials in genetic prion disease could be designed
to follow presymptomatic mutation carriers to onset of disease. Methods We assembled age …

Doxycycline in early CJD: a double-blinded randomised phase II and observational study

…, H Manthey, U Heinemann, C Ponto… - Journal of Neurology …, 2017 - jnnp.bmj.com
Objectives The main objective of the present study is to study the therapeutic efficiency of
doxycycline in a double-blinded randomised phase II study in a cohort of patients with sporadic …

A proposal of new diagnostic pathway for fatal familial insomnia

A Krasnianski, PS Juan, C Ponto, M Bartl… - Journal of Neurology …, 2014 - jnnp.bmj.com
… symptoms).12 ,30 The third category (C) comprises symptoms and signs which are typical for
FFI… according to their frequency and chronological occurrence (category C). Our aims were: …

Clinical findings and diagnosis in genetic prion diseases in Germany

A Krasnianski, U Heinemann, C Ponto, J Kortt… - European journal of …, 2016 - Springer
… Two types of mutations are found: point mutations leading to amino acid exchanges in the
central and the C-terminal part of the PrP and repeats of a 24-bp unit increasing the number of …

[PDF][PDF] Ascertainment bias causes false signal of anticipation in genetic prion disease

EV Minikel, I Zerr, SJ Collins, C Ponto, A Boyd… - The American Journal of …, 2014 - cell.com
Anticipation is the phenomenon whereby age of onset in genetic disease decreases in
successive generations. Three independent reports have claimed anticipation in Creutzfeldt-…

[HTML][HTML] Prática da enfermagem na conservação de vacinas

…, IA Guimarães, LH Januário, IC Ponto - Acta Paulista de …, 2009 - SciELO Brasil
… A temperatura de conservação dos imunobiológicos no nível local deve permanecer
entre +2º C e +8º C. Apesar do número de respostas corretas ser significativamente alto, é …

[HTML][HTML] A genome wide association study links glutamate receptor pathway to sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease risk

…, A Ladogana, A Boyd, V Lewis, C Ponto… - PloS one, 2015 - journals.plos.org
… at 96C for 3 min followed by 30 cycles of 96C for 30 s, annealing temperature (see S5 Table)
for 30 s and extension temperature of 72C for 1 min with a final extension at 72C for 10 min. …