Mutations in prion-like domains in hnRNPA2B1 and hnRNPA1 cause multisystem proteinopathy and ALS (original) (raw)

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We thank the patients whose participation made this work possible. We thank the St Jude Pediatric Cancer Genome Project and J. Zhang in particular for providing access to control sequencing data. We thank C. Gellera, B. Baloh, M. Harms, S. Krause, G. Dreyfuss and T. Cundy for sharing reagents. We thank S. Donkervoort and S. Mumm for coordinating samples, and A. Taylor for editorial assistance. J.P.T. was supported by ALSAC, the Packard Foundation and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) (NS053825); J.P.T. and M.B. were supported by the ALS Association; J.Q.T. was supported by the NIH (AG032953); J.S. was supported by the NIH (DP2OD002177 and NS067354) and the Ellison Medical Foundation; E.D.R. was supported by the National Science Foundation (MCB-1023771). C.C.W. was supported by the NIH (AG031867).

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  1. Hong Joo Kim, Nam Chul Kim, Yong-Dong Wang, Emily A. Scarborough, Jennifer Moore and Zamia Diaz: These authors contributed equally to this work.

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  1. Department of Developmental Neurobiology, St Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, 38120, Tennessee, USA
    Hong Joo Kim, Nam Chul Kim, Jennifer Moore, Brian Freibaum, Songqing Li, Amandine Molliex, Anderson P. Kanagaraj & J. Paul Taylor
  2. Hartwell Center for Bioinformatics and Biotechnology, St Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, 38120, Tennessee, USA
    Yong-Dong Wang
  3. Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 19104, Pennsylvania, USA
    Emily A. Scarborough, Zamia Diaz, Alice Flynn Ford & James Shorter
  4. Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, 80523, Colorado, USA
    Kyle S. MacLea & Eric D. Ross
  5. Department of Computational Biology, St Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, 38120, Tennessee, USA
    Robert Carter
  6. Department of Neuroscience, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, 32224, Florida, USA
    Kevin B. Boylan, Aleksandra M. Wojtas & Rosa Rademakers
  7. Department of Neurology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, 02115, Massachusetts, USA
    Jack L. Pinkus & Steven A. Greenberg
  8. Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Institute on Aging and Center for Neurodegenerative Disease Research, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 19104, Pennsylvania, USA
    John Q. Trojanowski & Bradley N. Smith
  9. Neuromuscular Diseases Research Group, Laboratory of Neurogenetics, Porter Neuroscience Building, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, 20892, Maryland, USA
    Bryan J. Traynor
  10. Department of Clinical Neuroscience, King’s College London Centre for Neurodegeneration Research, Institute of Psychiatry, London SE5 8AF, UK,
    Simon Topp, Athina-Soragia Gkazi, Jack Miller & Christopher E. Shaw
  11. Division of Neuropediatrics and Muscle Disorders, University Children’s Hospital Freiburg, 79106 Freiburg, Germany,
    Michael Kottlors & Janbernd Kirschner
  12. Department of Neurology, Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, 63110, Missouri, USA
    Alan Pestronk & Conrad C. Weihl
  13. Medical Scientist Training Program, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 19104, Pennsylvania, USA
    Yun R. Li
  14. Department of Genetics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, 94305, California, USA
    Aaron D. Gitler
  15. Neurology Department, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, 33136, Florida, USA
    Michael Benatar
  16. Boston Biomedical Research Institute, Watertown, 02472, Massachusetts, USA
    Oliver D. King
  17. Department of Pediatrics, Division of Genetics and Metabolism, University of California-Irvine, 2501 Hewitt Hall, Irvine, California 92696, USA,
    Virginia E. Kimonis

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H.J.K., N.C.K., E.D.R., C.C.W., J.S. and J.P.T. designed experiments. H.J.K., N.C.K., E.A.S., J.Moore, Z.D., K.S.M., B.F., S.L., A.M., A.P.K., Y.R.L. and A.F.F. performed the experiments. K.B.B., A.M.W., R.R., J.L.P., S.A.G., J.Q.T., B.N.S., S.T., A.-S.G., J.Miller, C.E.S., M.K., J.K., A.P., M.B. and V.E.K. provided patient clinical material, clinical evaluation, or evaluation of patient clinical material. H.J.K., N.C.K., Y.-D.W., R.C., B.J.T., A.D.G., O.D.K., E.D.R., J.S. and J.P.T. contributed to data analysis. E.D.R., O.D.K. and C.C.W. contributed to manuscript preparation. H.J.K., J.S. and J.P.T. wrote the manuscript.

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Kim, H., Kim, N., Wang, YD. et al. Mutations in prion-like domains in hnRNPA2B1 and hnRNPA1 cause multisystem proteinopathy and ALS.Nature 495, 467–473 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature11922

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