Cure MSA

Country specific patient information

Tübingen

Principal investigator:
Prof. Thomas Gasser

Hertie-Institute for Clinical Brain Research
Department of Neurodegenerative Disorders
University of Tübingen, Center of Neurology
Hoppe-Seyler-Str. 3
D-72076 Tübingen
thomas.gasser(at)med.uni-tuebingen.de
http://www.medizin.uni-tuebingen.de/Presse_Aktuell/
Einrichtungen+A+bis+Z/Kliniken/Neurologie/
Neurodegenerative+Erkrankungen.html

 

Recent publications relevant to the EMSA-SG:

 

Srulijes K, Hauser AK, Guella I, Asselta R, Brockmann K, Schulte C, Solda G, Cilia R, Maetzler W, Schols L, Wenning GK, Poewe W, Barone P, Wullner U, Oertel W, Berg D, Goldwurm S, Gasser T. No association of GBA mutations and multiple system atrophy. Eur J Neurol 2013;20:e61-62.

 

Scholz SW, Houlden H, Schulte C, Sharma M, Li A, Berg D, Melchers A, Paudel R, Gibbs JR, Simon-Sanchez J, Paisan-Ruiz C, Bras J, Ding J, Chen H, Traynor BJ, Arepalli S, Zonozi RR, Revesz T, Holton J, Wood N, Lees A, Oertel W, Wullner U, Goldwurm S, Pellecchia MT, Illig T, Riess O, Fernandez HH, Rodriguez RL, Okun MS, Poewe W, Wenning GK, Hardy JA, Singleton AB, Del Sorbo F, Schneider S, Bhatia KP, Gasser T. SNCA variants are associated with increased risk for multiple system atrophy. Ann Neurol 2009;65:610-614.

 


Bach JP, Sommer N, Moller JC, Oertel WH, Dodel R, Gasser T. Parkinson's syndrome in a young patient with Klinefelter's syndrome--a case report. Mov Disord 2008; 23: 771-2.

 

Gaenslen A, Gasser T, Berg D. Nutrition and the risk for Parkinson's disease: review of the literature. J Neural Transm 2008.

 

Gasser T. Update on the genetics of Parkinson's disease. Mov Disord 2007; 22 Suppl 17: S343-50.
 

Ozawa T, Healy DG, Abou-Sleiman PM, Ahmadi KR, Quinn N, Lees AJ, et al. The alpha-synuclein gene in multiple system atrophy. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2006; 77: 464-7.

 

Gasser T. Genetics of Parkinson's disease. Curr Opin Neurol 2005; 18: 363-9. 

 

Kamm C, Healy DG, Quinn NP, Wullner U, Moller JC, Schols L, et al. The fragile X tremor ataxia syndrome in the differential diagnosis of multiple system atrophy: data from the EMSA Study Group. Brain 2005; 128: 1855-60.

 

Gasser T. Overview of the genetics of parkinsonism. Adv Neurol 2003; 91: 143-52.