Alberto M. Rivera
National Institutes of Health
4 Papers
5 Citations
Alberto M. Rivera is an academic researcher from National Institutes of Health. The author has contributed to research in topics: Amyloid beta & Melatonin. The author has an hindex of 2, co-authored 4 publications. Previous affiliations of Alberto M. Rivera include University of Washington & Government of the United States of America.
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Melatonin receptor type 1A gene linked to Alzheimer's disease in old age.
Sonja Sulkava,Sonja Sulkava,Pranuthi Muggalla,Raimo Sulkava,Hanna Ollila,Hanna Ollila,Hanna Ollila,Terhi Peuralinna,Liisa Myllykangas,Karri Kaivola,David J. Stone,Bryan J. Traynor,Alan E. Renton,Alberto M. Rivera,Seppo Helisalmi,Hilkka Soininen,Tuomo Polvikoski,Mikko Hiltunen,Pentti J. Tienari,Henri J. Huttunen,Tiina Paunio,Tiina Paunio +21 more
TL;DR: Variation close to MTNR1A is suggested as a shared genetic risk factor for intolerance to shift work and Alzheimer’s disease in old age.
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Genome-Wide Analyses Identify KIF5A as a Novel ALS Gene
Aude Nicolas,Kevin P. Kenna,Alan E. Renton,Nicola Ticozzi,Faraz Faghri,Ruth Chia,Janice A. Dominov,Brendan J. Kenna,Mike A. Nalls,Pamela Keagle,Alberto M. Rivera,Wouter van Rheenen,Natalie A. Murphy,Joke J.F.A. van Vugt,Joshua T. Geiger,Rick A.A. van der Spek,Hannah A. Pliner,Bradley N. Smith,Giuseppe Marangi,Simon Topp,Yevgeniya Abramzon,Athina Soragia Gkazi,John D. Eicher,Aoife Kenna,Gabriele Mora,Andrea Calvo,Letizia Mazzini,Nilo Riva,Jessica Mandrioli,Claudia Caponnetto,Stefania Battistini,Paolo Volanti,Vincenzo La Bella,Francesca Luisa Conforti,Giuseppe Borghero,Sonia Messina,Isabella Laura Simone,Francesca Trojsi,Fabrizio Salvi,Francesco Logullo,Sandra D'Alfonso,Lucia Corrado,Margherita Capasso,Luigi Ferrucci,Cristiane de Araújo Martins Moreno,Sitharthan Kamalakaran,David Goldstein,Aaron D. Gitler,Timothy F. Harris,Richard M. Myers,Hemali Phatnani,Rajeeva Musunuri,Uday S. Evani,Avinash Abhyankar,Michael C. Zody,Julia A. Kaye,Steven Finkbeiner,Stacia K. Wyman,Alexander LeNail,Leandro Lima,Ernest Fraenkel,Clive N. Svendsen,Leslie M. Thompson,Jennifer E. Van Eyk,James D. Berry,Timothy M. Miller,Stephen J. Kolb,Merit Cudkowicz,Emily G. Baxi,Related Disorders for Therapeutic,Michael Benatar,J. Paul Taylor,Evadnie Rampersaud,Gang Wu,Joanne Wuu,Giuseppe Lauria,Federico Verde,Isabella Fogh,Cinzia Tiloca,Giacomo P. Comi,Gianni Sorarù,Cristina Cereda,Philippe Corcia,Hannu Laaksovirta,Liisa Myllykangas,Lilja Jansson,Miko Valori,John Ealing,Hesham Hamdallah,Sara Rollinson,Stuart Pickering-Brown,Richard W. Orrell,Katie Sidle,Andrea Malaspina,John Hardy,Andrew Singleton,Janel O. Johnson,Sampath Arepalli,Peter C. Sapp,Diane McKenna-Yasek,Meraida Polak,Seneshaw Asress,Safa Al-Sarraj,Andrew T. King,Claire Troakes,Caroline Vance,Jacqueline de Belleroche,Frank Baas,Anneloor ten Asbroek,José Luis Muñoz-Blanco,Dena G. Hernandez,Jinhui Ding,J. Raphael Gibbs,Sonja W. Scholz,Mary Kay Floeter,Roy H. Campbell,Francesco Landi,Stefan M. Pulst,John Ravits,Daniel MacGowan,J. Kirby,Erik P. Pioro,Roger Pamphlett,James R. Broach,Glenn S. Gerhard,Travis L. Dunckley,Christopher B. Brady,Neil W. Kowall,Juan C. Troncoso,Isabelle Le Ber,Kevin Mouzat,Serge Lumbroso,Terry Heiman-Patterson,Freya Kamel,Ludo Van Den Bosch,Robert H. Baloh,Tim M. Strom,Thomas Meitinger,Aleksey Shatunov,Kristel R van Eijk,Mamede de Carvalho,Maarten Kooyman,Bas Middelkoop,Matthieu Moisse,Russell L. McLaughlin,Michael A van Es,Markus Weber,Kevin B. Boylan,Marka van Blitterswijk,Rosa Rademakers,Karen E. Morrison,A. Nazli Basak,Jesus S. Mora,Vivian E. Drory,Pamela J. Shaw,Martin R Turner,Kevin Talbot,Orla Hardiman,Kelly L. Williams,Jennifer A. Fifita,Garth A. Nicholson,Ian P. Blair,Guy A. Rouleau,Jesús Esteban-Pérez,Alberto García-Redondo,Ammar Al-Chalabi,Ekaterina Rogaeva,Lorne Zinman,Lyle W. Ostrow,Nicholas J. Maragakis,Jeffrey D. Rothstein,Zachary Simmons,Johnathan Cooper-Knock,Alexis Brice,Stephen A. Goutman,Eva L. Feldman,Summer Gibson,Franco Taroni,Antonia Ratti,C. Gellera,Philip Van Damme,Wim Robberecht,Pietro Fratta,Mario Sabatelli,Christian Lunetta,Albert C. Ludolph,Peter M. Andersen,Jochen H Weishaupt,William Camu,John Q. Trojanowski,Vivianna M. Van Deerlin,Robert H. Brown,Leonard H. van den Berg,Jan H. Veldink,Matthew B. Harms,Jonathan D. Glass,David J. Stone,Pentti J. Tienari,Vincenzo Silani,Adriano Chiò,Christopher Shaw,Bryan J. Traynor,John Landers +202 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors carried out a genome-wide association study comparing 20,806 ALS cases and 59,804 controls and found that mutations predominantly in the N-terminal motor domain of KIF5A are causative for hereditary spastic paraplegia (SPG10) and Charcot-Marie-Tooth Type 2 (CMT2).
C9orf72 hexanucleotide repeat expansions are not a common cause of obsessive-compulsive disorder
Karissa C. Arthur,Karissa C. Arthur,Alberto M. Rivera,Jack Samuels,Ying Wang,M. A. Grados,Fernando S. Goes,Brion S. Maher,Gerald Nestadt,Bryan J. Traynor +9 more
TL;DR: The results show that patients with OCD do not commonly carry the pathogenic repeat expansion and therefore should not be routinely screened, and OCD and psychotic patients who do test positive for the C9orf72, however, should be closely observed for the later development of FTD and ALS.
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Melatonin receptor type 1A gene linked to Alzheimer's disease in old age
Sonja Sulkava,Sonja Sulkava,Pranuthi Muggalla,Raimo Sulkava,Hanna Ollila,Hanna Ollila,Hanna Ollila,Terhi Peuralinna,Liisa Myllykangas,Karri Kaivola,David J. Stone,Bryan J. Traynor,Alan E. Renton,Alberto M. Rivera,Seppo Helisalmi,Hilkka Soininen,Tuomo Polvikoski,Mikko Hiltunen,Pentti J. Tienari,Henri J. Huttunen,Tiina Paunio,Tiina Paunio +21 more
- 01 Jan 2018
TL;DR: In this article, a variant rs12506228A was associated with clinical Alzheimer's disease (p = 0.000073) and post-mortem brain tissues showed association with higher amount of neurofibrillary tangles and amyloid beta plaques.