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Albena Jordanova

Albena Jordanova

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D-Index
50
Citations
9874
World Ranking
3929
National Ranking
55

Overview

Albena Jordanova is affiliated with the University of Antwerp in Belgium. Their research primarily spans the fields of biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a significant focus on neuroscience. Among the main areas of study within these fields are molecular biology, cellular and molecular neuroscience, neurology, cell biology, and genetics.

The scientist's main research topics include hereditary neurological disorders, neurological diseases and metabolism, cellular transport and secretion, genetic neurodegenerative diseases, RNA research and splicing, RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms, and mitochondrial function and pathology.

Frequent publication venues for Albena Jordanova's work include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases
  • Genes
  • Molecular Genetics & Genomic Medicine
  • International Journal of Molecular Sciences

They have collaborated repeatedly with several coauthors, including:

  • Els De Vriendt
  • Derek Atkinson
  • Silvia Amor-Barris
  • Ayşe Candayan
  • Henry Houlden

Notable recent papers authored by Albena Jordanova include:

  • "Bi-allelic variants in neuronal cell adhesion molecule cause a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by developmental delay, hypotonia, neuropathy/spasticity" (2022, The American Journal of Human Genetics)
  • "Tyrosyl-tRNA synthetase has a noncanonical function in actin bundling" (2023, Nature Communications)
  • "HINT1 neuropathy in Norway: clinical, genetic and functional profiling" (2021, Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases)
  • "LRSAM1 and the RING domain: Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease and beyond" (2021, Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases)
  • "HINT1 founder mutation causing axonal neuropathy with neuromyotonia in South America: A case report" (2021, Molecular Genetics & Genomic Medicine)

Best Publications

  • Glycyl tRNA Synthetase Mutations in Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease Type 2D and Distal Spinal Muscular Atrophy Type V

    Anthony Antonellis;Anthony Antonellis;Rachel E. Ellsworth;Nyamkhishig Sambuughin;Imke Puls

  • Hot-spot residue in small heat-shock protein 22 causes distal motor neuropathy.

    Joy Irobi;Katrien Van Impe;Pavel Seeman;Albena Jordanova

  • MFN2 mutation distribution and genotype/phenotype correlation in Charcot-Marie-Tooth type 2.

    Kristien Verhoeven;Kristl G. Claeys;Stephan Züchner;Stephan Züchner;J. Michael Schröder

  • Disrupted function and axonal distribution of mutant tyrosyl-tRNA synthetase in dominant intermediate Charcot-Marie-Tooth neuropathy.

    Albena Jordanova;Albena Jordanova;Joy Irobi;Florian P Thomas;Patrick Van Dijck

  • Axonal neuropathy with optic atrophy is caused by mutations in mitofusin 2.

    Stephan Züchner;Peter De Jonghe;Albena Jordanova;Albena Jordanova;Kristl G. Claeys

  • Mutations in the neurofilament light chain gene (NEFL) cause early onset severe Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease.

    A. Jordanova;P. De Jonghe;C. F. Boerkoel;H. Takashima

  • A Pan‐European Study of the C9orf72 Repeat Associated with FTLD: Geographic Prevalence, Genomic Instability, and Intermediate Repeats

    Julie van der Zee;Ilse Gijselinck;Lubina Dillen;Tim Van Langenhove

  • Early-onset absence epilepsy caused by mutations in the glucose transporter GLUT1.

    Arvid Suls;Saul A. Mullen;Yvonne G. Weber;Kristien Verhaert

  • Mutations in the GABA Transporter SLC6A1 Cause Epilepsy with Myoclonic-Atonic Seizures

    Gemma L. Carvill;Jacinta M. McMahon;Amy Schneider;Matthew Zemel

  • Genes for hereditary sensory and autonomic neuropathies: a genotype-phenotype correlation.

    Annelies Rotthier;Jonathan Baets;Els De Vriendt;An Jacobs

  • Mutations in the SPTLC2 subunit of serine palmitoyltransferase cause hereditary sensory and autonomic neuropathy type I.

    Annelies Rotthier;Michaela Auer-Grumbach;Katrien Janssens;Jonathan Baets

  • High resolution deletion analysis of constitutional DNA from neurofibromatosis type 2 (NF2) patients using microarray-CGH

    Carl E.G. Bruder;Carina Hirvelä;Isabel Tapia-Paez;Ingegerd Fransson

  • Molecular correlates of age-dependent seizures in an inherited neonatal-infantile epilepsy

    Yunxiang Liao;Liesbet Deprez;Snezana Maljevic;Julika Pitsch

  • Clinical spectrum of early-onset epileptic encephalopathies associated with STXBP1 mutations

    Liesbet Deprez;Sarah Weckhuysen;Philip Holmgren;Arvid Suls

  • Reconstructing the Population History of European Romani from Genome-wide Data

    Isabel Mendizabal;Oscar Lao;Urko M. Marigorta;Andreas Wollstein

  • CMT2D neuropathy is linked to the neomorphic binding activity of glycyl-tRNA synthetase

    Weiwei He;Ge Bai;Huihao Zhou;Na Wei

  • Characterization of a novel 21-kb deletion, CFTRdele2,3(21 kb), in the CFTR gene: a cystic fibrosis mutation of Slavic origin common in Central and East Europe

    T. Dörk;M. Macek;F. Mekus;B. Tümmler

  • Loss-of-function mutations in the ATP13A2/PARK9 gene cause complicated hereditary spastic paraplegia (SPG78)

    Alejandro Estrada-Cuzcano;Shaun Martin;Teodora Chamova;Matthis Synofzik

  • Genome-wide association analysis of genetic generalized epilepsies implicates susceptibility loci at 1q43, 2p16.1, 2q22.3 and 17q21.32

    Michael Steffens;Costin Leu

  • Genetic spectrum of hereditary neuropathies with onset in the first year of life

    Jonathan Baets;Tine Deconinck;Els De Vriendt;Magdalena Zimoń

Frequent Co-Authors

Vincent Timmerman
Vincent Timmerman University of Antwerp
Peter De Jonghe
Peter De Jonghe University of Antwerp
Luba Kalaydjieva
Luba Kalaydjieva University of Western Australia
Ingrid E. Scheffer
Ingrid E. Scheffer University of Melbourne
Stephan Züchner
Stephan Züchner University of Miami
Samuel F. Berkovic
Samuel F. Berkovic University of Melbourne
Mary M. Reilly
Mary M. Reilly University College London
Thomas Sander
Thomas Sander University of Cologne
Caroline Graff
Caroline Graff Karolinska University Hospital
Sarah Weckhuysen
Sarah Weckhuysen University of Antwerp

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