Publications

Our scientific output and findings

From groundbreaking discoveries in basic science to innovative clinical insights, our publications showcase the breadth and depth of research taking place at the UK DRI. 

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A balancing act: preventing an overactive immune system

Research into an immune kill switch holds potential for controlling infections or preventing autoimmunity. The study, led by Prof Jernej Ule (UK DRI at King's)...

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BMJ open
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Digital App for Speech and Health Monitoring Study (DASH): protocol for a prospective longitudinal case-control observational study for developing speech datasets in neurodegenerative disorders and dementia
Authors
Johnny Tam, Christine Weaver, Amarachi Ihenacho, Judith Newton, Bruce Virgo, Steven Barrett, Jonathan Neale, David Perry, Alice Smith, Siddharthan Chandran, Oliver Watts, Suvankar Pal, DASH Consortium
Digital App for Speech and Health Monitoring Study (DASH): protocol for a prospective longitudinal case-control observational study for developing speech datasets in neurodegenerative disorders and dementia
Pituitary
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Brain injury biomarkers and intraoperative hypotension: associations with pituitary hormone deficiency following transsphenoidal endoscopic surgery for non-functioning pituitary adenomas
Authors
Martin Thorsson, P Trimpou, M Asztély, T Hallén, V Hantelius, K Blennow, H Zetterberg, G Johannsson, J Oras, T Skoglund
Brain injury biomarkers and intraoperative hypotension: associations with pituitary hormone deficiency following transsphenoidal endoscopic surgery for non-functioning pituitary adenomas
EJNMMI physics
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Performance evaluation of the nanoScan<sup>®</sup> P123S total-body PET
Authors
Dániel Réti, Carlos-Alcaide Corral, Islay Cranston, Victoria J M Reid, Kerry M O'Rourke, Timaeus E F Morgan, Axel Montagne, Maurits A Jansen, Valeria K Burianova, Andrew Sutherland, Péter Major, Kálmán Nagy, Gergő Bagaméry, Adriana A S Tavares
Performance evaluation of the nanoScan<sup>®</sup> P123S total-body PET
Alzheimer's research & therapy
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Longitudinal biomarker studies in human neuroimaging: capturing biological change of Alzheimer's pathology
Authors
Larissa Fischer, Dana Parker, Samira Maboudian, Corrina Fonseca, Claudia Tato-Fernández, Lucie Annen, Prithvi Arunachalam, Julia R Bacci, Michelle Barboure, Serena Capelli, Stamatia Karagianni, Lyduine E Collij, Paul Edison, Nick C Fox, Nicolai Franzmeier, Michel J Grothe, William J Jagust, Anne Maass, Maura Malpetti, Ross W Paterson, Aitana Sogorb-Esteve, Michael Schöll
Longitudinal biomarker studies in human neuroimaging: capturing biological change of Alzheimer's pathology
Brain : a journal of neurology
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Distinct proteomic CSF profiles in genetic frontotemporal lobar degeneration
Authors
Julie F H De Houwer, Elise G Dopper, Renee van Buuren, Marijke Stokkel, Liset de Boer, Tine Swartenbroekx, Pam A Boesjes, Ana Rajicic, Aitana Sogorb-Esteve, Arabella Bouzigues, Lucy L Russell, Phoebe H Foster, Eve Ferry-Bolder, John C van Swieten, Lize C Jiskoot, Raquel Sanchez-Valle, Robert Laforce, Caroline Graff, Daniela Galimberti, Rik Vandenberghe, Alexandre de Mendonça, Pietro Tiraboschi, Isabel Santana, Alexander Gerhard, Johannes Levin, Benedetta Nacmias, Markus Otto, Maxime Bertoux, Thibaud Lebouvier, Simon Ducharme, Chris R Butler, Isabelle Le Ber, Elizabeth Finger, Maria Carmela Tartaglia, Mario Masellis, James B Rowe, Matthis Synofzik, Fermin Moreno, Barbara Borroni, Henrik Zetterberg, Jonathan D Rohrer, Betty M Tijms, Yolande A L Pijnenburg, Charlotte Teunissen, Harro Seelaar
Distinct proteomic CSF profiles in genetic frontotemporal lobar degeneration
medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences
Published
Epigenome-Wide Association Study in Asian Cohort Identifies Novel DNA Methylation Markers for Carotid Intima-Media Thickness
Authors
Konstanze Tan, Sarah E Harris, Jane Maddock, Darwin Tay, Pritesh R Jain, HELIOS Study Team, Shi Qi Mok, Maxime Herbrard, Ulf Schminke, Can Can Xue, Liuh Ling Goh, Theresia Mina, Alexander Teumer, Weng Khong Lim, Khai Pang Leong, Khung Keong Yeo, Ching-Yu Cheng, Xueling Sim, Lee Eng Sing, Joanna M Wardlaw, Henry Völzke, Andrew Wong, Simon R Cox, Rinkoo Dalan, Abbas Dehghan, Marie Loh
Epigenome-Wide Association Study in Asian Cohort Identifies Novel DNA Methylation Markers for Carotid Intima-Media Thickness
Brain and neuroscience advances
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The UK National Mouse Genetics Network: Translating genetic findings using preclinical mouse models to better understand neurodevelopmental, neuropsychiatric and neurodegenerative disorders
Authors
Sevda T Boyanova, Nicholas E Clifton, Karolina Dec, Michal M Milczarek, MURIDAE Cluster, Anthony R Isles
The UK National Mouse Genetics Network: Translating genetic findings using preclinical mouse models to better understand neurodevelopmental, neuropsychiatric and neurodegenerative disorders
bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology
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Sensitivity to TDP-43 loss and degradation resistance determine cryptic exon biomarker potential
Authors
Anna-Leigh Brown, Matteo Zanovello, Alla Mikheenko, Dario Dattilo, Flaminia Pellegrini, Sam Bryce-Smith, Francesca Mattedi, Puja R Mehta, Jose Norberto S Vargas, NYGC ALS Consortium, Jack Humphrey, Matthew J Keuss, Pietro Fratta
Sensitivity to TDP-43 loss and degradation resistance determine cryptic exon biomarker potential
medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences
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Genetic drivers of progression in Alzheimer's disease are distinct from disease risk
Authors
Celeste E Cohen, Shane Fernandez, Umran Yaman, Ahmad R Ehyaei, Tenielle Porter, Eleanor O'Brien, Australian Imaging Biomarkers and Lifestyle Study, Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative, Paul Maruff, John A Hardy, Simon M Laws, Dervis Salih, Maryam Shoai
Genetic drivers of progression in Alzheimer's disease are distinct from disease risk
bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology
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Lipid droplets promote the aberrant liquid-liquid phase separation of alpha-synuclein leading to impaired energy homeostasis
Authors
Jose Cevallos, Elena Eubanks, Sunghoo Jung, Yiming Huang, Elyse Guadagno, Neeharika Rao Suvvari, Aryan Doshi, Nitya Ravinutala, Alejandro Mosera, Nagendran Ramalingam, Arati Tripathi, Tim Bartels, Ulf Dettmer, Eleanna Kara
Lipid droplets promote the aberrant liquid-liquid phase separation of alpha-synuclein leading to impaired energy homeostasis
bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology
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<em>APOE</em> E4 Alzheimer's Risk Converges on an Oligodendrocyte Subtype in the Human Entorhinal Cortex
Authors
Louise A Huuki-Myers, Heena R Divecha, Svitlana V Bach, Madeline R Valentine, Nicholas J Eagles, Bernard Mulvey, Rahul A Bharadwaj, Ruth Zhang, James R Evans, Melissa Grant-Peters, Ryan A Miller, Joel E Kleinman, Shizhong Han, Thomas M Hyde, Stephanie C Page, Daniel R Weinberger, Keri Martinowich, Mina Ryten, Kristen R Maynard, Leonardo Collado-Torres
<em>APOE</em> E4 Alzheimer's Risk Converges on an Oligodendrocyte Subtype in the Human Entorhinal Cortex
Neuron
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Resolving the mysteries of brain clearance and immune surveillance.
Authors
Jonathan Kipnis, Helene Benveniste, Anne Eichmann, Jean-Leon Thomas, Daniel S Reich, Laura D Lewis, Li-Huei Tsai, Antoine Drieu, Erik N T P Bakker, Douglas H Kelley, Iben Lundgaard, Humberto Mestre, Benedikt Zott, Per Kristian Eide, Matthias J P van Osch, Susanne J van Veluw, Jeffrey Iliff, Andrew C Yang, Laura Santambrogio, Sandro Da Mesquita, Richard Daneman, Justin Rustenhoven, Steven A Goldman, Maiken Nedergaard
Resolving the mysteries of brain clearance and immune surveillance.
Molecular neurodegeneration
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Domain mapping of disease mutations reveals pathogenic SORL1 variants in Alzheimer's disease
Authors
Olav M Andersen, Matthijs W J de Waal, Giulia Monti, Niccolo Tesi, Anne Mette G Jensen, Christa de Geus, Rosalina van Spaendonk, Maartje Vogel, Shahzad Ahmad, Najaf Amin, Philippe Amouyel, Gary W Beecham, Céline Bellenguez, Claudine Berr, Joshua C Bis, Anne Boland, Paola Bossù, Femke Bouwman, Jose Bras, Camille Charbonnier, Jordi Clarimon, Carlos Cruchaga, Antonio Daniele, Jean-François Dartigues, Stéphanie Debette, Jean-François Deleuze, Nicola Denning, Anita L DeStefano, Oriol Dols-Icardo, Cornelia M van Duijn, Lindsay A Farrer, Maria Victoria Fernández, Wiesje M van der Flier, Nick C Fox, Daniela Galimberti, Emmanuelle Genin, Johan J P Gille, Benjamin Grenier-Boley, Detelina Grozeva, Yann Le Guen, Rita Guerreiro, Jonathan L Haines, Clive Holmes, Holger Hummerich, M Arfan Ikram, M Kamran Ikram, Amit Kawalia, Robert Kraaij, Jean-Charles Lambert, Marc Lathrop, Afina W Lemstra, Alberto Lleó, Richard M Myers, Marcel M A M Mannens, Rachel Marshall, Eden R Martin, Carlo Masullo, Richard Mayeux, Simon Mead, Patrizia Mecocci, Alun Meggy, Merel O Mol, Benedetta Nacmias, Adam C Naj, Valerio Napolioni, J Nicholas Cochran, Gaël Nicolas, Florence Pasquier, Pau Pastor, Margaret A Pericak-Vance, Yolande A L Pijnenburg, Fabrizio Piras, Olivier Quenez, Alfredo Ramirez, Rachel Raybould, Richard Redon, Marcel J T Reinders, Anne-Claire Richard, Steffi G Riedel-Heller, Fernando Rivadeneira, Jeroen G J van Rooij, Stéphane Rousseau, Natalie S Ryan, Pascual Sanchez-Juan, Gerard D Schellenberg, Philip Scheltens, Jonathan M Schott, Sudha Seshadri, Daoud Sie, Rebecca Sims, Erik A Sistermans, Sandro Sorbi, John C van Swieten, Betty Tijms, André G Uitterlinden, Pieter Jelle Visser, Michael Wagner, David Wallon, Li-San Wang, Julie Williams, Jennifer S Yokoyama, Aline Zarea, Sven J van der Lee, Johan G Olsen, Marc Hulsman, Henne Holstege
Domain mapping of disease mutations reveals pathogenic SORL1 variants in Alzheimer's disease