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Pau Pastor is affiliated with the University of Navarra in Spain and has published extensively in the fields of Medicine as well as Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology. Their research primarily focuses on neurology and molecular biology, with significant contributions to subfields such as genetics, physiology, and cellular and molecular neuroscience.

Their main research topics include:

  • Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments
  • Alzheimer's Disease Research and Treatments
  • Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
  • Neurological Disorders and Treatments
  • Neurological Diseases and Metabolism
  • Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks
  • Restless Legs Syndrome Research

They have coauthored numerous publications with frequent collaborators including Ignacio Álvarez, Merçé Boada, Agustı́n Ruiz, Carlos Cruchaga, and Pablo Mir.

Their work appears regularly in well-known scientific venues, with a high number of publications in:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Alzheimer's & Dementia
  • npj Parkinson's Disease
  • Parkinsonism & Related Disorders
  • Movement Disorders

Pau Pastor's recent notable papers include:

  • Exome sequencing identifies rare damaging variants in ATP8B4 and ABCA1 as risk factors for Alzheimer's disease, 2022, Nature Genetics
  • Genetic Associations Between Modifiable Risk Factors and Alzheimer Disease, 2023, JAMA Network Open
  • Comparative Analysis of Alzheimer's Disease Cerebrospinal Fluid Biomarkers Measurement by Multiplex SOMAscan Platform and Immunoassay-Based Approach, 2022, Journal of Alzheimer's Disease
  • Genome-wide Association and Meta-analysis of Age at Onset in Parkinson Disease, 2022, Neurology
  • Mendelian Randomisation Study of Smoking, Alcohol, and Coffee Drinking in Relation to Parkinson's Disease, 2021, Journal of Parkinson's Disease

Best Publications

  • Meta-analysis of 74,046 individuals identifies 11 new susceptibility loci for Alzheimer's disease

    Jean-Charles Lambert;Jean-Charles Lambert;Jean-Charles Lambert;Carla A Ibrahim-Verbaas;Denise Harold;Adam C Naj

  • Identification of novel risk loci, causal insights, and heritable risk for Parkinson's disease: a meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies

    Mike A Nalls;Cornelis Blauwendraat;Costanza L Vallerga;Karl Heilbron

  • Gene-wide analysis detects two new susceptibility genes for Alzheimer's disease.

    Valentina Escott-Price;Céline Bellenguez;Li-San Wang;Seung-Hoan Choi

  • Rare coding variants in PLCG2, ABI3, and TREM2 implicate microglial-mediated innate immunity in Alzheimer's disease

    Rebecca Sims;Sven J. Van Der Lee;Adam C. Naj;Céline Bellenguez;Céline Bellenguez

  • Identification of common variants influencing risk of the tauopathy progressive supranuclear palsy

    Günter U. Höglinger;Nadine M. Melhem;Dennis W. Dickson;Patrick M A Sleiman

  • Rare coding variants in the phospholipase D3 gene confer risk for Alzheimer’s disease

    C Cruchaga;CM Karch;SC Jin;BA Benitez

  • Genome sequencing analysis identifies new loci associated with Lewy body dementia and provides insights into its genetic architecture

    Ruth Chia;Marya S. Sabir;Sara Bandres-Ciga

  • Frontotemporal dementia and its subtypes: a genome-wide association study

    Raffaele Ferrari;Raffaele Ferrari;Dena G Hernandez;Dena G Hernandez;Michael A Nalls;Jonathan D Rohrer

  • A novel Alzheimer disease locus located near the gene encoding tau protein

    G. Jun;C. A. Ibrahim-Verbaas;M. Vronskaya;J-C Lambert;J-C Lambert;J-C Lambert

  • Common variants in Alzheimer's disease and risk stratification by polygenic risk scores

    Itziar de Rojas;Itziar de Rojas;Sonia Moreno-Grau;Sonia Moreno-Grau;Niccolo Tesi;Benjamin Grenier-Boley

  • Investigating the genetic architecture of dementia with Lewy bodies: a two-stage genome-wide association study

    Rita Guerreiro;Rita Guerreiro;Owen A Ross;Celia Kun-Rodrigues;Dena G Hernandez;Dena G Hernandez

  • Genetic analysis implicates APOE, SNCA and suggests lysosomal dysfunction in the etiology of Dementia with Lewy Bodies.

    Jose Bras;Rita Guerreiro;Lee Darwent;Laura Parkkinen

  • Genetic screening of Alzheimer's disease genes in Iberian and African samples yields novel mutations in presenilins and APP

    Rita Joao Guerreiro;Miquel Baquero;Rafael Blesa;Mercè Boada

  • Apolipoprotein Eε4 Modifies Alzheimer's Disease Onset in an E280A PS1 Kindred

    Pau Pastor;Catherine M. Roe;Andrés Villegas;Gabriel Bedoya

  • HDDD2 is a familial frontotemporal lobar degeneration with ubiquitin‐positive, tau‐negative inclusions caused by a missense mutation in the signal peptide of progranulin

    Odity Mukherjee;Pau Pastor;Pau Pastor;Nigel J. Cairns;Sumi Chakraverty

  • Familial atypical progressive supranuclear palsy associated with homozigosity for the delN296 mutation in the tau gene.

    Pau Pastor;Eliana Pastor;Cristóbal Carnero;Rosario Vela

  • Convergent genetic and expression data implicate immunity in Alzheimer's disease

    Lesley Jones;Jean-Charles Lambert;Jean-Charles Lambert;Jean-Charles Lambert;Li-San Wang;Seung-Hoan Choi

  • TREM2 is associated with the risk of Alzheimer's disease in Spanish population.

    Bruno A. Benitez;Breanna Cooper;Pau Pastor;Sheng-Chih Jin

  • Identification of Candidate Parkinson Disease Genes by Integrating Genome-Wide Association Study, Expression, and Epigenetic Data Sets

    Demis A. Kia;David Zhang;Sebastian Guelfi;Claudia Manzoni

  • Characterization of the repeat expansion size in C9orf72 in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and frontotemporal dementia

    Oriol Dols-Icardo;Alberto García-Redondo;Ricard Rojas-García;Raquel Sánchez-Valle

Frequent Co-Authors

Alberto Lleó
Alberto Lleó Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau
José A. G. Agúndez
José A. G. Agúndez Instituto de Salud Carlos III
Caroline Graff
Caroline Graff Karolinska University Hospital
Peter St George-Hyslop
Peter St George-Hyslop Columbia University
Félix Javier Jiménez-Jiménez
Félix Javier Jiménez-Jiménez Hospital Universitario del Sureste
María José Martí
María José Martí Clínic Barcelona
John Hardy
John Hardy University College London
María J. Bullido
María J. Bullido Spanish National Research Council
Andrew B. Singleton
Andrew B. Singleton National Institutes of Health
Juan Fortea
Juan Fortea Hospital de Sant Pau

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