Emma Jones, Elizabeth Hill, Jacqueline Linehan, Tamsin Nazari, Adam Caulder, Gemma F Codner, Marie Hutchison, Matthew Mackenzie, Michael Farmer, Thomas Coysh, Michael Wiggins De Oliveira, Huda Al-Doujaily, Malin Sandberg, Emmanuelle Viré, Thomas J Cunningham, Emmanuel A Asante, Sebastian Brandner, John Collinge, Simon Mead
Sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (sCJD), the most common human prion disease, is thought to occur when the cellular prion protein (PrPC ) spontaneously misfolds and assembles into prion fibrils, culminating in fatal neurodegeneration. In a genome-wide association study of sCJD, we recently identified risk variants in and around the gene STX6, with evidence to suggest a causal increase of STX6 expression in disease-relevant brain regions. STX6 encodes syntaxin-6, a SNARE protein primarily involved in early endosome to trans-Golgi network retrograde transport...
November 21, 2023: Neurobiology of Disease