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Frank L. Mastaglia is affiliated with the University of Western Australia in Australia and has made substantial contributions to the fields of medicine, biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their research spans multiple subfields, particularly neurology, molecular biology, epidemiology, genetics, and cellular and molecular neuroscience.

The scientist's main research topics include:

  • Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments
  • Inflammatory Myopathies and Dermatomyositis
  • Neurogenetic and Muscular Disorders Research
  • Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Research
  • Neurological Disorders and Treatments
  • Parkinson's Disease and Spinal Disorders
  • RNA Interference and Gene Delivery

They have published extensively in leading scientific journals and venues. The most frequent publication venues where their work appears are:

  • Translational Neurodegeneration
  • Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience
  • Nature Reviews Rheumatology
  • Frontiers in Neuroscience
  • Scientific Reports

Recent notable papers include:

  • International Guideline for Idiopathic Inflammatory Myopathy-Associated Cancer Screening: an International Myositis Assessment and Clinical Studies Group (IMACS) initiative, 2023, Nature Reviews Rheumatology
  • Neurodegenerative diseases: a hotbed for splicing defects and the potential therapies, 2021, Translational Neurodegeneration
  • Cationic Arginine-Rich Peptides (CARPs): A Novel Class of Neuroprotective Agents With a Multimodal Mechanism of Action, 2020, Frontiers in Neurology
  • Structural Variants May Be a Source of Missing Heritability in sALS, 2020, Frontiers in Neuroscience
  • Progress in the molecular pathogenesis and nucleic acid therapeutics for Parkinson's disease in the precision medicine era, 2020, Medicinal Research Reviews

The scientist collaborates frequently with other researchers, including:

  • Ryan S. Anderton
  • Merrilee Needham
  • Megan C. Bakeberg
  • P. Anthony Akkari
  • Frances Theunissen

Best Publications

  • Mitochondrial Polymorphisms Significantly Reduce the Risk of Parkinson Disease

    Joelle M. van der Walt;Kristin K. Nicodemus;Eden R. Martin;William K. Scott

  • Age at onset in two common neurodegenerative diseases is genetically controlled

    Yi Ju Li;William K. Scott;Dale J. Hedges;Fengyu Zhang

  • Complete genomic screen in Parkinson disease: evidence for multiple genes.

    William K. Scott;Martha A. Nance;Ray L. Watts;Jean P. Hubble

  • Idiopathic inflammatory myopathies: epidemiology, classification, and diagnostic criteria

    Frank L Mastaglia;Beverley A Phillips

  • Inclusion body myositis: current pathogenetic concepts and diagnostic and therapeutic approaches

    Merrilee Needham;Frank L Mastaglia

  • Functional reorganisation of the corticomotor projection to the hand in skilled racquet players

    Alan J Pearce;Gary W Thickbroom;Michelle L Byrnes;Frank L Mastaglia

  • Progressive myopathy with up-regulation of MHC-I associated with statin therapy.

    Merrilee Needham;Victoria Fabian;Wally Knezevic;Peter Panegyres

  • Glutathione S-transferase omega-1 modifies age-at-onset of Alzheimer disease and Parkinson disease

    Yi Ju Li;Sofia A. Oliveira;Puting Xu;Eden R. Martin

  • Parkin mutations and susceptibility alleles in late-onset Parkinson's disease.

    Sofia A. Oliveira;William K. Scott;Eden R. Martin;Martha A. Nance

  • Skeletal Muscle Pathology

    Frank L. Mastaglia;John Nicholas Walton

  • Inflammatory myopathies: Clinical, diagnostic and therapeutic aspects

    Frank L. Mastaglia;Frank L. Mastaglia;Michael J. Garlepp;Beverley A. Phillips;Paul J. Zilko

  • Association of Single-Nucleotide Polymorphisms of the Tau Gene With Late-Onset Parkinson Disease

    Eden R. Martin;William K. Scott;Martha A. Nance;Ray L. Watts

  • Brain Atrophy and Intellectual Impairment in Heavy Drinkers—A Clinical, Psychometric and Computerized Tomography Study

    L. A. Cala;B. Jones;F. L. Mastaglia;B. Wiley

  • Drug therapy: Disorders of neuromuscular transmission caused by drugs.

    Zohar Argov;Frank L. Mastaglia

  • Mutations in the Slow Skeletal Muscle Fiber Myosin Heavy Chain Gene (MYH7) Cause Laing Early-Onset Distal Myopathy (MPD1)

    Christopher Meredith;Ralf Herrmann;Cheryl Parry;Khema Liyanage

  • Cell-Mediated Cytotoxicity to Muscle in Polymyositis

    R. L. Dawkins;F. L. Mastaglia

  • Bone mineral density, adiposity, and cognitive functions

    Hamid R. Sohrabi;Hamid R. Sohrabi;Kristyn A. Bates;Michael Weinborn;Romola S. Bucks

  • Isometric force-related activity in sensorimotor cortex measured with functional MRI

    G.W. Thickbroom;B.A. Phillips;I. Morris;M.L. Byrnes

  • Autosomal dominant distal myopathy: linkage to chromosome 14.

    N G Laing;B A Laing;C Meredith;S D Wilton

  • Neuroleptic malignant syndrome.

    Wally Knezevic;Frank L. Mastaglia;Richard B. Lefroy;Anthony Fisher

Frequent Co-Authors

Gary Thickbroom
Gary Thickbroom Cornell University
Ian James
Ian James Perron Institute for Neurological and Translational Science
Frank T. Christiansen
Frank T. Christiansen University of Western Australia
Steve D. Wilton
Steve D. Wilton University of Western Australia
Nigel G. Laing
Nigel G. Laing University of Western Australia
Sue Fletcher
Sue Fletcher Murdoch University
Dylan J. Edwards
Dylan J. Edwards Edith Cowan University
William K. Scott
William K. Scott University of Miami
Christopher G. Goetz
Christopher G. Goetz Rush University Medical Center
William C. Koller
William C. Koller University of Miami

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