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Lev G. Goldfarb is affiliated with the National Institutes of Health in the United States. Their research spans multiple disciplines within biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a particular focus on cellular and molecular neuroscience, cell biology, molecular biology, immunology, and global and planetary change.

Their scholarly output covers a range of topics including genetic neurodegenerative diseases, skin and cellular biology research, muscle physiology and disorders, RNA regulation and disease, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, hereditary neurological disorders, and endoplasmic reticulum stress and disease.

Frequent coauthors in their publications include A Pirani, Meritxell Gomis, K Leitzell, E Lonnoy, and André Macedo Serafim da Silva.

Goldfarb's research appears in various publication venues, including Siberian Research, Journal of Neuropathology & Experimental Neurology, Cambridge University Press eBooks, Yakut Medical Journal, and the European Journal of Cancer.

Selected recent papers include:

  • The Location of Disease-Causing DES Variants Determines the Severity of Phenotype and the Morphology of Sarcoplasmic Aggregates, 2022, Journal of Neuropathology & Experimental Neurology
  • Index, 2023, Cambridge University Press eBooks
  • ШЕСТЬ ЛЕКЦИЙ О ПРЕДОТВРАЩЕНИИ ЭНЦЕФАЛИТНЫХ ЭПИДЕМИЙ В СИБИРИ, 2020, Siberian Research
  • SIX LECTURES ON THE PREVENTION OF ENCEPHALITIS EPIDEMICS IN SIBERIA, 2020, Siberian Research
  • Ending the epidemic of Vilyui encephalomyelitis, 2021, Yakut Medical Journal

Goldfarb has also contributed to book publications, including a title published by RAND Corporation eBooks: Accounting for Climate Resilience in Infrastructure Investment Decisionmaking: A Data-Driven Approach for Department of the Air Force Project Prioritization (2023).

Best Publications

  • Fatal familial insomnia and familial Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease: disease phenotype determined by a DNA polymorphism

    Lev G. Goldfarb;Robert B. Petersen;Massimo Tabaton;Paul Brown

  • 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

  • Apolipoprotein E ∈4 allele distributions in late-onset Alzheimer's disease and in other amyloid-forming diseases

    A. M. Saunders;A. D. Roses;M. A. Pericak-Vance;K. C. Dole

  • Missense mutations in desmin associated with familial cardiac and skeletal myopathy

    Lev G. Goldfarb;Kye-Yoon Park;Larisa Cervenáková;Larisa Cervenáková;Svetlana Gorokhova

  • Natural history of Fabry renal disease: influence of alpha-galactosidase A activity and genetic mutations on clinical course.

    Mary H Branton;Raphael Schiffmann;Sharda G Sabnis;Gary J Murray

  • Desmin Myopathy, a Skeletal Myopathy with Cardiomyopathy Caused by Mutations in the Desmin Gene

    Marinos C. Dalakas;Kye-Yoon Park;Cristina Semino-Mora;Hee Suk Lee

  • Transmissible familial Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease associated with five, seven, and eight extra octapeptide coding repeats in the PRNP gene

    L G Goldfarb;P Brown;W R McCombie;D Goldgaber

  • Mutations in familial Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and Gerstmann-Sträussler-Scheinker's syndrome

    Goldgaber D;Goldfarb Lg;Brown P;Asher Dm

  • Tragedy in a heartbeat: malfunctioning desmin causes skeletal and cardiac muscle disease

    Lev G. Goldfarb;Marinos C. Dalakas

  • Mutation in codon 200 of scrapie amyloid protein gene in two clusters of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in Slovakia

    LevG. Goldfarb;Eva Mitrová;Paul Brown;Ban Hock Toh

  • Mutation in codon 200 of scrapie amyloid precursor gene linked to Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in Sephardic Jews of Libyan and non-libyan origin

    LevG. Goldfarb;AmosD. Korczyn;Paul Brown;Joab Chapman

  • New mutation in scrapie amyloid precursor gene (at codon 178) in Finnish Creutzfeldt-Jakob kindred.

    L G Goldfarb;M Haltia;P Brown;A Nieto

  • Distinct muscle imaging patterns in myofibrillar myopathies

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

  • Molecular and Clinical Correlations in Spinocerebellar Ataxia Type I: Evidence for Familial Effects on the Age at Onset

    Laura P.W. Ranum;Ming Yi Chung;Sandro Banfi;Alan Bryer

  • Myotilinopathy : refining the clinical and myopathological phenotype

    Montse Olivé;Lev G Goldfarb;Alexey Shatunov;Dirk Fischer

  • Phenotype-genotype studies in kuru: implications for new variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.

    Cervenáková L;Goldfarb Lg;Garruto R;Lee Hs

  • Iatrogenic Creutzfeldt‐Jakob disease An example of the interplay between ancient genes and modern medicine

    P. Brown;L. Cervenáková;L. G. Goldfarb;W. R. McCombie

  • Screening of the entire ryanodine receptor type 1 coding region for sequence variants associated with malignant hyperthermia susceptibility in the north american population

    Nyamkhishig Sambuughin;Heather Holley;Sheila Muldoon;Barbara W. Brandom

  • Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease associated with the PRNP codon 200LYS mutation: An analysis of 45 families

    L. G. Goldfarb;P. Brown;E. Mitrovà;L. Cervenáková

  • Genomewide scans in North American families reveal genetic linkage of essential tremor to a region on chromosome 6p23.

    Alexey Shatunov;Nyamkhishig Sambuughin;Joseph Jankovic;Rodger Elble

Frequent Co-Authors

D. Carleton Gajdusek
D. Carleton Gajdusek National Institutes of Health
Marinos C. Dalakas
Marinos C. Dalakas Thomas Jefferson University
Paul Brown
Paul Brown National Institutes of Health
D. C. Gajdusek
D. C. Gajdusek National Institutes of Health
Dieter O. Fürst
Dieter O. Fürst University of Bonn
Isidro Ferrer
Isidro Ferrer University of Barcelona
C. J. Gibbs
C. J. Gibbs National Institutes of Health
Benedikt Schoser
Benedikt Schoser Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Martin Tegenthoff
Martin Tegenthoff Ruhr University Bochum
Robert B. Petersen
Robert B. Petersen Case Western Reserve University

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