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Newest in this topic

  1. SQSTM1 splice site mutation in distal myopathy with rimmed vacuoles 2015-07-24
  2. Enhanced ATPase activities as a primary defect of mutant valosin-containing proteins that cause inclusion body myopathy associated with Paget disease of bone and frontotemporal dementia 2010-07-05

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Date range

2010 to 2015

Top journals

  • Genes to cells : devoted to molecular & cellular mechanisms 1
  • Neurology 1

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  1. SQSTM1 splice site mutation in distal myopathy with rimmed vacuoles

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Neurology 2015-07-24 Genetics

    SQSTM1 is an autophagic adaptor that shuttles aggregated and ubiquitinated proteins to the autophagosome for degradation via its C-terminal UBA domain.

  2. Enhanced ATPase activities as a primary defect of mutant valosin-containing proteins that cause inclusion body myopathy associated with Paget disease of bone and frontotemporal dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Genes to cells : devoted to molecular & cellular mechanisms 2010-07-05 Brain scans and imaging

    Valosin-containing protein (VCP) has been shown to colocalize with abnormal protein aggregates, such as nuclear inclusions of Huntington disease and Machado-Joseph disease, Lewy bodies in Parkinson disease.

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