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J. Nicholas (Nick) Cochran, Ph.D.

Faculty Investigator, HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology
Verified email at hudsonalpha.org
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[HTML][HTML] Genomic diagnosis for children with intellectual disability and/or developmental delay

…, CR Finnila, SM Hiatt, KL Engel, JN Cochran… - Genome medicine, 2017 - Springer
Background Developmental disabilities have diverse genetic causes that must be identified
to facilitate precise diagnoses. We describe genomic data from 371 affected individuals, 309 …

Amyloid-β signals through tau to drive ectopic neuronal cell cycle re-entry in Alzheimer's disease

…, A Reimann, JN Cochran… - Journal of cell …, 2013 - journals.biologists.com
Normally post-mitotic neurons that aberrantly re-enter the cell cycle without dividing account
for a substantial fraction of the neurons that die in Alzheimer's disease (AD). We now report …

The dendritic hypothesis for Alzheimer's disease pathophysiology

JN Cochran, AM Hall, ED Roberson - Brain research bulletin, 2014 - Elsevier
Converging evidence indicates that processes occurring in and around neuronal dendrites
are central to the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease. These data support the concept of a “…

[PDF][PDF] Single nucleus multiomics identifies ZEB1 and MAFB as candidate regulators of Alzheimer's disease-specific cis-regulatory elements

…, WE Bunney, BG Bunney, SJ Watson, JN Cochran… - Cell Genomics, 2023 - cell.com
Cell type-specific transcriptional differences between brain tissues from donors with Alzheimer's
disease (AD) and unaffected controls have been well documented, but few studies have …

[PDF][PDF] Aberrant inclusion of a poison exon causes Dravet syndrome and related SCN1A-associated genetic epilepsies

…, A Ramamurthy, JN Cochran, J Roovers… - The American Journal of …, 2018 - cell.com
Developmental and epileptic encephalopathies (DEEs) are a group of severe epilepsies
characterized by refractory seizures and developmental impairment. Sequencing approaches …

[HTML][HTML] The multi-partner consortium to expand dementia research in Latin America (ReDLat): driving multicentric research and implementation science

…, A Slachevsky, RM Myers, JN Cochran… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Dementia is becoming increasingly prevalent in Latin America, contrasting with stable or
declining rates in North America and Europe. This scenario places unprecedented clinical, …

[HTML][HTML] Exome sequencing identifies rare damaging variants in ATP8B4 and ABCA1 as risk factors for Alzheimer's disease

…, F Bouwman, J Bras, D Campion, JN Cochran… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Alzheimer’s disease (AD), the leading cause of dementia, has an estimated heritability of
approximately 70% 1 . The genetic component of AD has been mainly assessed using genome-…

[HTML][HTML] Therapeutic response in feline sandhoff disease despite immunity to intracranial gene therapy

AM Bradbury, JN Cochran, VJ McCurdy, AK Johnson… - Molecular Therapy, 2013 - cell.com
Salutary responses to adeno-associated viral (AAV) gene therapy have been reported in the
mouse model of Sandhoff disease (SD), a neurodegenerative lysosomal storage disease …

[PDF][PDF] Non-coding and loss-of-function coding variants in TET2 are associated with multiple neurodegenerative diseases

JN Cochran, EG Geier, LW Bonham… - The American Journal of …, 2020 - cell.com
We conducted genome sequencing to search for rare variation contributing to early-onset
Alzheimer's disease (EOAD) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD). Discovery analysis was …

[HTML][HTML] De novo mutations in MED13, a component of the Mediator complex, are associated with a novel neurodevelopmental disorder

…, KM Bowling, JW Prokop, KL Engel, JN Cochran… - Human genetics, 2018 - Springer
Many genetic causes of developmental delay and/or intellectual disability (DD/ID) are extremely
rare, and robust discovery of these requires both large-scale DNA sequencing and data …