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Alan Michael Pittman

Lecturer in Genomics/Bioinformatics, St. Georges, University of London
Verified email at sgul.ac.uk
Cited by 12474

Untangling the tau gene association with neurodegenerative disorders

AM Pittman, HC Fung, R de Silva - Human molecular genetics, 2006 - academic.oup.com
Pathological tau protein inclusions have long been recognized to define the diverse range of
neurodegenerative disorders called the tauopathies, which include Alzheimer's disease …

Characteristics of two distinct clinical phenotypes in pathologically proven progressive supranuclear palsy: Richardson's syndrome and PSP-parkinsonism

DR Williams, R de Silva, DC Paviour, A Pittman… - Brain, 2005 - academic.oup.com
The clinical diagnosis of progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) relies on the identification of
characteristic signs and symptoms. A proportion of pathologically diagnosed cases do not …

Mutations in the Matrin 3 gene cause familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

JO Johnson, EP Pioro, A Boehringer, R Chia… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
MATR3 is an RNA-and DNA-binding protein that interacts with TDP-43, a disease protein
linked to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia. Using exome …

A genome-wide association study identifies colorectal cancer susceptibility loci on chromosomes 10p14 and 8q23. 3

IPM Tomlinson, E Webb, L Carvajal-Carmona… - Nature …, 2008 - nature.com
To identify colorectal cancer (CRC) susceptibility alleles, we conducted a genome-wide
association study. In phase 1, we genotyped 550,163 tagSNPs in 940 familial colorectal …

A genome-wide association study shows that common alleles of SMAD7 influence colorectal cancer risk

P Broderick, L Carvajal-Carmona, AM Pittman… - Nature …, 2007 - nature.com
To identify risk variants for colorectal cancer (CRC), we conducted a genome-wide
association study, genotyping 550,163 tag SNPs in 940 individuals with familial colorectal …

The expression of DJ‐1 (PARK7) in normal human CNS and idiopathic Parkinson's disease

R Bandopadhyay, AE Kingsbury, MR Cookson… - Brain, 2004 - academic.oup.com
Two mutations in the DJ‐1 gene on chromosome1p36 have been identified recently to
cause early‐onset, autosomal recessive Parkinson's disease. As no information is available …

Genome-wide association analyses identify new risk variants and the genetic architecture of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

W Van Rheenen, A Shatunov, AM Dekker… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
To elucidate the genetic architecture of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and find
associated loci, we assembled a custom imputation reference panel from whole-genome …

A genome-wide association study identifies six susceptibility loci for chronic lymphocytic leukemia

MC Di Bernardo, D Crowther-Swanepoel, P Broderick… - Nature …, 2008 - nature.com
We conducted a genome-wide association study of 299,983 tagging SNPs for chronic
lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) and performed validation in two additional series totaling 1,529 …

Meta-analysis of three genome-wide association studies identifies susceptibility loci for colorectal cancer at 1q41, 3q26. 2, 12q13. 13 and 20q13. 33

RS Houlston, J Cheadle, SE Dobbins, A Tenesa… - Nature …, 2010 - nature.com
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified ten loci harboring common
variants that influence risk of developing colorectal cancer (CRC). To enhance the power to …

Pathological tau burden and distribution distinguishes progressive supranuclear palsy-parkinsonism from Richardson's syndrome

DR Williams, JL Holton, C Strand, A Pittman, R de Silva… - Brain, 2007 - academic.oup.com
Clinical syndromes associated with progressive supranuclear palsy-tau pathology now
include progressive supranuclear palsy-parkinsonism (PSP-P), in addition to classic …