Sara Terranova, Alessandro Botta, Martina Putzolu, Gaia Bonassi, Carola Cosentino, Susanna Mezzarobba, Elisa Ravizzotti, Giovanna Lagravinese, Elisa Pelosin, Francesca Di Biasio, Roberta Marchese, Laura Avanzino
{"title":"Plastamination: A Rising Concern for Parkinson's Disease.","authors":"Roberto Erro, Cristiano Sorrentino, Paolo Barone","doi":"10.1002/mds.30253","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/mds.30253","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":520713,"journal":{"name":"Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144210749","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Decade-Long Prodrome on Neuroimaging: Unique Insight into Probable Corticobasal Degeneration.","authors":"Xin You Tai, Pieter M Pretorius, George K Tofaris","doi":"10.1002/mds.30245","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/mds.30245","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":520713,"journal":{"name":"Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144210746","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yu Liao, Hao Wu, Junhao Wang, Jean-Christophe Corvol, Jodi Maple-Grødem, Meghan C Campbell, Alexis Elbaz, Alexis Brice, Michael A Schwarzschild, Pille Taba, Sulev Kõks, Thomas G Beach, Guido Alves, Ole-Bjørn Tysnes, Joel S Perlmutter, Baijayanta Maiti, Jacobus J van Hilten, Roger A Barker, Caroline H Williams-Gray, Clemens R Scherzer, Ganqiang Liu
Paula Saffie-Awad, Abraham Moller, Kensuke Daida, Pilar Alvarez Jerez, Zhongbo Chen, Zachary B Anderson, Mariam Isayan, Kimberly Paquette, Sophia B Gibson, Madison Fulcher, Abigail Miano-Burkhardt, Laksh Malik, Breeana Baker, Paige Jarreau, Henry Houlden, Mina Ryten, Bida Gu, Mark J P Chaisson, Danny E Miller, Pedro Chaná-Cuevas, Cornelis Blauwendraat, Andrew B Singleton, Kimberley J Billingsley
{"title":"Identification of GGC Repeat Expansions in ZFHX3 among Chilean Movement Disorder Patients.","authors":"Paula Saffie-Awad, Abraham Moller, Kensuke Daida, Pilar Alvarez Jerez, Zhongbo Chen, Zachary B Anderson, Mariam Isayan, Kimberly Paquette, Sophia B Gibson, Madison Fulcher, Abigail Miano-Burkhardt, Laksh Malik, Breeana Baker, Paige Jarreau, Henry Houlden, Mina Ryten, Bida Gu, Mark J P Chaisson, Danny E Miller, Pedro Chaná-Cuevas, Cornelis Blauwendraat, Andrew B Singleton, Kimberley J Billingsley","doi":"10.1002/mds.30242","DOIUrl":"10.1002/mds.30242","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Hereditary ataxias are genetically diverse, yet up to 75% remain undiagnosed due to technological and financial barriers. The GGC repeat expansion in ZFHX3, responsible for spinocerebellar ataxia type 4 (SCA4), has only been described in individuals of Northern Europeandescent.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>Uncover the genetic etiology of suspected hereditary movement disorders.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We performed Oxford Nanopore long-read genome sequencing on 15 individuals with suspected hereditary movement disorders. Using variant calling and ancestry inference tools.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>We identified ZFHX3 GGC expansions (47-55 repeats) in 4 patients with progressive ataxia, polyneuropathy, and vermis atrophy. One presented with rapidly progressive parkinsonism-ataxia, expanding the known phenotype. Longer expansions correlated with earlier onset and severity. All carriers shared single nucleotide variants (SNVs) associated with the Swedish founder haplotype, and methylation analysis confirmed allele-specific hypermethylation.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>These represent the first SCA4 cases identified outside Northern Europe. Our findings highlight the value of long-read sequencing in resolving undiagnosed movement disorders. Published 2025. This article is a U.S. Government work and is in the public domain in the USA. Movement Disorders published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of International Parkinson and Movement Disorder Society.</p>","PeriodicalId":520713,"journal":{"name":"Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144210748","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Daniel Weintraub, Michael C Brumm, Ryan Kurth, Michele K York
{"title":"Reply to: \"Use of Robust Norming to Create a Sensitive Cognitive Summary Score in De Novo Parkinson's Disease: An Illustrative Example\".","authors":"Daniel Weintraub, Michael C Brumm, Ryan Kurth, Michele K York","doi":"10.1002/mds.30247","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/mds.30247","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":520713,"journal":{"name":"Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144176471","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}