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John Hardy

Prof Sir John Hardy

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Harnessing genetics to build a better understanding of dementia

Biography

Prof Sir John Hardy is a world-leading neurogeneticist in the field of neurodegenerative diseases, receiving numerous accolades that include the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences, the Brain Prize, election as a Fellow of the Royal Society and, in 2022, a knighthood for his contributions to science and health. In 1991, Hardy's team uncovered the first mutation directly implicated in Alzheimer's disease leading to the formulation of the highly influential 'amyloid-cascade' hypothesis. His extensive body of work in genetics will be built upon in this UK DRI programme, where the team will unravel pathogenic networks in neurodegenerative disease.

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Key publications

Sci Adv
Published
The annotation of GBA1 has been concealed by its protein-coding pseudogene GBAP1.
Authors
Emil K Gustavsson, Siddharth Sethi, Yujing Gao, Jonathan W Brenton, Sonia García-Ruiz, David Zhang, Raquel Garza, Regina H Reynolds, James R Evans, Zhongbo Chen, Melissa Grant-Peters, Hannah Macpherson, Kylie Montgomery, Rhys Dore, Anna I Wernick, Charles Arber, Selina Wray, Sonia Gandhi, Julian Esselborn, Cornelis Blauwendraat, Christopher H Douse, Anita Adami, Diahann A M Atacho, Antonina Kouli, Annelies Quaegebeur, Roger A Barker, Elisabet Englund, Frances Platt, Johan Jakobsson, Nicholas W Wood, Henry Houlden, Harpreet Saini, Carla F Bento, John Hardy, Mina Ryten
The annotation of GBA1 has been concealed by its protein-coding pseudogene GBAP1.
Science advances
Published
The annotation of <em>GBA1</em> has been concealed by its protein-coding pseudogene <em>GBAP1</em>
Authors
Emil K Gustavsson, Siddharth Sethi, Yujing Gao, Jonathan W Brenton, Sonia García-Ruiz, David Zhang, Raquel Garza, Regina H Reynolds, James R Evans, Zhongbo Chen, Melissa Grant-Peters, Hannah Macpherson, Kylie Montgomery, Rhys Dore, Anna I Wernick, Charles Arber, Selina Wray, Sonia Gandhi, Julian Esselborn, Cornelis Blauwendraat, Christopher H Douse, Anita Adami, Diahann A M Atacho, Antonina Kouli, Annelies Quaegebeur, Roger A Barker, Elisabet Englund, Frances Platt, Johan Jakobsson, Nicholas W Wood, Henry Houlden, Harpreet Saini, Carla F Bento, John Hardy, Mina Ryten
The annotation of <em>GBA1</em> has been concealed by its protein-coding pseudogene <em>GBAP1</em>
American journal of human genetics
Published
Genome-wide analyses reveal a potential role for the MAPT, MOBP, and APOE loci in sporadic frontotemporal dementia
Authors
Claudia Manzoni, Demis A Kia, Raffaele Ferrari, Ganna Leonenko, Beatrice Costa, Valentina Saba, Edwin Jabbari, Manuela Mx Tan, Diego Albani, Victoria Alvarez, Ignacio Alvarez, Ole A Andreassen, Antonella Angiolillo, Andrea Arighi, Matt Baker, Luisa Benussi, Valentina Bessi, Giuliano Binetti, Daniel J Blackburn, Merce Boada, Bradley F Boeve, Sergi Borrego-Ecija, Barbara Borroni, Geir Bråthen, William S Brooks, Amalia C Bruni, Paola Caroppo, Sara Bandres-Ciga, Jordi Clarimon, Rosanna Colao, Carlos Cruchaga, Adrian Danek, Sterre Cm de Boer, Itziar de Rojas, Alfonso di Costanzo, Dennis W Dickson, Janine Diehl-Schmid, Carol Dobson-Stone, Oriol Dols-Icardo, Aldo Donizetti, Elise Dopper, Elisabetta Durante, Camilla Ferrari, Gianluigi Forloni, Francesca Frangipane, Laura Fratiglioni, Milica G Kramberger, Daniela Galimberti, Maurizio Gallucci, Pablo García-González, Roberta Ghidoni, Giorgio Giaccone, Caroline Graff, Neill R Graff-Radford, Jordan Grafman, Glenda M Halliday, Dena G Hernandez, Lena E Hjermind, John R Hodges, Guy Holloway, Edward D Huey, Ignacio Illán-Gala, Keith A Josephs, David S Knopman, Mark Kristiansen, John B Kwok, Isabelle Leber, Hampton L Leonard, Ilenia Libri, Alberto Lleo, Ian R Mackenzie, Gaganjit K Madhan, Raffaele Maletta, Marta Marquié, Ales Maver, Manuel Menendez-Gonzalez, Graziella Milan, Bruce L Miller, Christopher M Morris, Huw R Morris, Benedetta Nacmias, Judith Newton, Jørgen E Nielsen, Christer Nilsson, Valeria Novelli, Alessandro Padovani, Suvankar Pal, Florence Pasquier, Pau Pastor, Robert Perneczky, Borut Peterlin, Ronald C Petersen, Olivier Piguet, Yolande Al Pijnenburg, Annibale A Puca, Rosa Rademakers, Innocenzo Rainero, Lianne M Reus, Anna Mt Richardson, Matthias Riemenschneider, Ekaterina Rogaeva, Boris Rogelj, Sara Rollinson, Howard Rosen, Giacomina Rossi, James B Rowe, Elisa Rubino, Agustin Ruiz, Erika Salvi, Raquel Sanchez-Valle, Sigrid Botne Sando, Alexander F Santillo, Jennifer A Saxon, Johannes Cm Schlachetzki, Sonja W Scholz, Harro Seelaar, William W Seeley, Maria Serpente, Sandro Sorbi, Sabrina Sordon, Peter St George-Hyslop, Jennifer C Thompson, Christine Van Broeckhoven, Vivianna M Van Deerlin, Sven J Van der Lee, John Van Swieten, Fabrizio Tagliavini, Julie van der Zee, Arianna Veronesi, Emilia Vitale, Maria Landqvist Waldo, Jennifer S Yokoyama, Mike A Nalls, Parastoo Momeni, Andrew B Singleton, John Hardy, Valentina Escott-Price
Genome-wide analyses reveal a potential role for the MAPT, MOBP, and APOE loci in sporadic frontotemporal dementia
NPJ Parkinson's disease
Published
Genome-wide determinants of mortality and motor progression in Parkinson's disease
Authors
Manuela M X Tan, Michael A Lawton, Miriam I Pollard, Emmeline Brown, Raquel Real, Alejandro Martinez Carrasco, Samir Bekadar, Edwin Jabbari, Regina H Reynolds, Hirotaka Iwaki, Cornelis Blauwendraat, Sofia Kanavou, Leon Hubbard, Naveed Malek, Katherine A Grosset, Nin Bajaj, Roger A Barker, David J Burn, Catherine Bresner, Thomas Foltynie, Nicholas W Wood, Caroline H Williams-Gray, Ole A Andreassen, Mathias Toft, Alexis Elbaz, Fanny Artaud, Alexis Brice, Jean-Christophe Corvol, Jan Aasly, Matthew J Farrer, Michael A Nalls, Andrew B Singleton, Nigel M Williams, Yoav Ben-Shlomo, John Hardy, Michele T M Hu, Donald G Grosset, Maryam Shoai, Lasse Pihlstrøm, Huw R Morris
Genome-wide determinants of mortality and motor progression in Parkinson's disease

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