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Overview

Bjarne Udd is affiliated with the University of Helsinki in Finland and conducts research primarily in the intersection of biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology as well as medicine. Their work spans various subfields including molecular biology, cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, genetics, cellular and molecular neuroscience, and neurology.

Their research covers several main topics such as:

  • Cardiomyopathy and Myosin Studies
  • Muscle Physiology and Disorders
  • Genetic Neurodegenerative Diseases
  • Neurogenetic and Muscular Disorders Research
  • RNA Research and Splicing
  • Mitochondrial Function and Pathology
  • Genomics and Rare Diseases

Udd has contributed to numerous publication venues with strong representation in:

  • Neuromuscular Disorders
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Neurology Genetics
  • European Journal of Neurology
  • Journal of Medical Genetics

Frequent co-authors in their publications include:

  • Marco Savarese
  • Peter Hackman
  • Per Harald Jonson
  • Mridul Johari
  • Giorgio Tasca

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Udd include:

  • Genotype-phenotype correlations in valosin-containing protein disease: a retrospective muticentre study, 2022, Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry
  • Mutation update for the ACTN2 gene, 2022, Human Mutation
  • Improved Criteria for the Classification of Titin Variants in Inherited Skeletal Myopathies, 2020, Journal of Neuromuscular Diseases
  • Missense mutations in small muscle protein X-linked (SMPX) cause distal myopathy with protein inclusions, 2021, Acta Neuropathologica
  • Out-of-Frame Mutations in ACTN2 Last Exon Cause a Dominant Distal Myopathy With Facial Weakness, 2021, Neurology Genetics

Best Publications

  • The Kinase Domain of Titin Controls Muscle Gene Expression and Protein Turnover

    Stephan Lange;Fengqing Xiang;Andrey Yakovenko;Anna Vihola

  • Tibial Muscular Dystrophy Is a Titinopathy Caused by Mutations in TTN, the Gene Encoding the Giant Skeletal-Muscle Protein Titin

    Peter Hackman;Anna Vihola;Henna Haravuori;Sylvie Marchand

  • The myotonic dystrophies: molecular, clinical, and therapeutic challenges

    Bjarne Udd;Ralf Krahe

  • Phenotypic spectrum associated with mutations of the mitochondrial polymerase γ gene

    R Horvath;G Hudson;G Ferrari;N Futterer

  • Mitochondrial DNA polymerase W748S mutation: a common cause of autosomal recessive ataxia with ancient European origin

    Anna H. Hakonen;Silja Heiskanen;Vesa Juvonen;Ilse Lappalainen

  • EFNS guidelines for the use of intravenous immunoglobulin in treatment of neurological diseases: EFNS task force on the use of intravenous immunoglobulin in treatment of neurological diseases.

    I. Elovaara;S. Apostolski;P. Van Doorn;N. E. Gilhus

  • Autosomal recessive adult-onset amyotrophic lateral sclerosis associated with homozygosity for Asp90Ala CuZn-superoxide dismutase mutation. A clinical and genealogical study of 36 patients

    P M Andersen;L Forsgren;M Binzer;P Nilsson

  • Misregulated alternative splicing of BIN1 is associated with T tubule alterations and muscle weakness in myotonic dystrophy

    Charlotte Fugier;Arnaud F Klein;Caroline Hammer;Stéphane Vassilopoulos

  • 229th ENMC international workshop: Limb girdle muscular dystrophies - Nomenclature and reformed classification Naarden, the Netherlands, 17-19 March 2017.

    Volker Straub;Alexander Murphy;Bjarne Udd;Angelini Corrado

  • Choline acetyltransferase mutations cause myasthenic syndrome associated with episodic apnea in humans

    Kinji Ohno;Akira Tsujino;Joan M. Brengman;C. Michel Harper

  • POLG mutations in neurodegenerative disorders with ataxia but no muscle involvement

    G Van Goethem;P Luoma;M Rantamaki;A Al Memar

  • Mutations affecting the cytoplasmic functions of the co-chaperone DNAJB6 cause limb-girdle muscular dystrophy

    Jaakko Sarparanta;Per Harald Jonson;Christelle Golzio;Satu Sandell

  • The gene disrupted in Marinesco-Sjögren syndrome encodes SIL1, an HSPA5 cochaperone

    Anna-Kaisa Anttonen;Ibrahim Mahjneh;Riikka H Hämäläinen;Clotilde Lagier-Tourenne

  • Mutations in DNMT3B Modify Epigenetic Repression of the D4Z4 Repeat and the Penetrance of Facioscapulohumeral Dystrophy

    Marlinde L. van den Boogaard;Richard J. L. F. Lemmers;Judit Balog;Marielle Wohlgemuth

  • Distinct muscle imaging patterns in myofibrillar myopathies

    D. Fischer;R. A. Kley;K. Strach;C. Meyer

  • Secondary calpain3 deficiency in 2q-linked muscular dystrophy Titin is the candidate gene

    H. Haravuori;A. Vihola;V. Straub;M. Auranen

  • Histopathological differences of myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM1) and PROMM/DM2.

    A. Vihola;G. Bassez;G. Meola;S. Zhang

  • Interactions with titin and myomesin target obscurin and obscurin-like 1 to the M-band: implications for hereditary myopathies.

    Atsushi Fukuzawa;Stephan Lange;Mark Holt;Anna Vihola

  • Confirmation of the Type 2 Myotonic Dystrophy (CCTG)n Expansion Mutation in Patients with Proximal Myotonic Myopathy/Proximal Myotonic Dystrophy of Different European Origins: A Single Shared Haplotype Indicates an Ancestral Founder Effect

    Linda L. Bachinski;Bjarne Udd;Giovanni Meola;Valeria Sansone

  • Phenotypic spectrum associated with mutations of the mitochondrial polymerase γ gene. Commentary

    Salvatore Dimauro;Guido Davidzon;Michio Hirano;Rita Horvath

Frequent Co-Authors

Ralf Krahe
Ralf Krahe The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Bruno Eymard
Bruno Eymard Université Paris Cité
Isabelle Richard
Isabelle Richard Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Anders Paetau
Anders Paetau University of Helsinki
Hannu Kalimo
Hannu Kalimo University of Helsinki
Volker Straub
Volker Straub Newcastle University
Vincenzo Nigro
Vincenzo Nigro University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli"
Carina Wallgren-Pettersson
Carina Wallgren-Pettersson University of Helsinki
Anders Oldfors
Anders Oldfors University of Gothenburg
Patrick F. Chinnery
Patrick F. Chinnery University of Cambridge

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