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Volker Straub is affiliated with Newcastle University in the United Kingdom. The research work covers a range of topics primarily focused on muscle physiology, neurogenetics, and related disorders.

The main fields of study associated with their work include:

  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
  • Medicine

Within these broader areas, Straub's subfields of study comprise:

  • Molecular Biology
  • Genetics
  • Physiology
  • Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
  • Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience

Key research topics addressed in their publications are:

  • Muscle Physiology and Disorders
  • Neurogenetic and Muscular Disorders Research
  • Cardiomyopathy and Myosin Studies
  • Genetic Neurodegenerative Diseases
  • Genomics and Rare Diseases
  • Lysosomal Storage Disorders Research
  • Muscle activation and electromyography studies

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Straub include:

  • Jordi Díaz-Manera
  • Ana Töpf
  • Michela Guglieri
  • M. James
  • Giorgio Tasca

The most common publication venues for Straub's work are:

  • Neuromuscular Disorders
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Neurology
  • European Journal of Human Genetics
  • Molecular Genetics and Metabolism

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Straub include:

  • "Increased dystrophin production with golodirsen in patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy," 2020, Neurology
  • "Onasemnogene abeparvovec gene therapy for symptomatic infantile-onset spinal muscular atrophy type 1 (STR1VE-EU): an open-label, single-arm, multicentre, phase 3 trial," 2021, The Lancet Neurology
  • "Safety and efficacy of avalglucosidase alfa versus alglucosidase alfa in patients with late-onset Pompe disease (COMET): a phase 3, randomised, multicentre trial," 2021, The Lancet Neurology
  • "Childhood amyotrophic lateral sclerosis caused by excess sphingolipid synthesis," 2021, Nature Medicine
  • "Genome Sequencing for Diagnosing Rare Diseases," 2024, New England Journal of Medicine

Best Publications

  • Nusinersen versus Sham Control in Infantile-Onset Spinal Muscular Atrophy

    Richard S. Finkel;Eugenio Mercuri;Basil T. Darras;Anne M. Connolly

  • Exon skipping and dystrophin restoration in patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy after systemic phosphorodiamidate morpholino oligomer treatment: an open-label, phase 2, dose-escalation study.

    Sebahattin Cirak;Virginia Arechavala-Gomeza;Michela Guglieri;Lucy Feng

  • Local restoration of dystrophin expression with the morpholino oligomer AVI-4658 in Duchenne muscular dystrophy: a single-blind, placebo-controlled, dose-escalation, proof-of-concept study

    Maria Kinali;Maria Kinali;Virginia Arechavala-Gomeza;Lucy Feng;Sebahattin Cirak

  • Post-translational disruption of dystroglycan-ligand interactions in congenital muscular dystrophies

    Daniel E. Michele;Rita Barresi;Motoi Kanagawa;Fumiaki Saito

  • Muscular dystrophy and neuronal migration disorder caused by mutations in a glycosyltransferase, POMGnT1.

    Aruto Yoshida;Kazuhiro Kobayashi;Hiroshi Manya;Kiyomi Taniguchi

  • The Human Phenotype Ontology in 2017

    Sebastian Köhler;Nicole A. Vasilevsky;Mark Engelstad;Erin D. Foster

  • The TREAT-NMD DMD Global Database: Analysis of More than 7,000 Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Mutations

    Catherine L. Bladen;David Salgado;Soledad Monges;Maria E. Foncuberta

  • Improving genetic diagnosis in Mendelian disease with transcriptome sequencing

    Beryl B. Cummings;Beryl B. Cummings;Jamie L. Marshall;Jamie L. Marshall;Taru Tukiainen;Taru Tukiainen;Monkol Lek

  • A Phase I/II trial of MYO-029 in Adult Subjects with Muscular Dystrophy

    Kathryn R. Wagner;James L. Fleckenstein;Anthony A. Amato;Richard J. Barohn

  • Animal models for muscular dystrophy show different patterns of sarcolemmal disruption

    Volker Straub;Jill A. Rafael;Jeffrey S. Chamberlain;Kevin P. Campbell

  • Prevalence of genetic muscle disease in Northern England: in-depth analysis of a muscle clinic population

    Fiona L. M. Norwood;Chris Harling;Patrick F. Chinnery;Michelle Eagle

  • Mutations in the fukutin-related protein gene (FKRP) identify limb girdle muscular dystrophy 2I as a milder allelic variant of congenital muscular dystrophy MDC1C

    Martin Brockington;Yeliz Yuva;Paola Prandini;Susan C. Brown

  • Muscular dystrophies and the dystrophin–glycoprotein complex

    Volker Straub;Kevin P. Campbell

  • Disruption of the Sarcoglycan–Sarcospan Complex in Vascular Smooth Muscle: A Novel Mechanism for Cardiomyopathy and Muscular Dystrophy

    Ramon Coral-Vazquez;Ronald D Cohn;Steven A Moore;Joseph A Hill

  • Refining genotype phenotype correlations in muscular dystrophies with defective glycosylation of dystroglycan.

    Caroline Godfrey;Emma Clement;Rachael Mein;Martin Brockington

  • Mutations of the Selenoprotein N Gene, Which Is Implicated in Rigid Spine Muscular Dystrophy, Cause the Classical Phenotype of Multiminicore Disease: Reassessing the Nosology of Early-Onset Myopathies

    Ana Ferreiro;Susana Quijano-Roy;Claire Pichereau;Behzad Moghadaszadeh

  • Progressive Muscular Dystrophy in α-Sarcoglycan–deficient Mice

    Franck Duclos;Volker Straub;Steven A. Moore;David P. Venzke

  • Managing Duchenne muscular dystrophy--the additive effect of spinal surgery and home nocturnal ventilation in improving survival.

    Michelle Eagle;John Bourke;Robert Bullock;Mike Gibson

  • Safety and efficacy of drisapersen for the treatment of Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DEMAND II): an exploratory, randomised, placebo-controlled phase 2 study.

    Thomas Voit;Haluk Topaloglu;Volker Straub;Francesco F. Muntoni

  • 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

Frequent Co-Authors

Hanns Lochmüller
Hanns Lochmüller University of Freiburg
Kate Bushby
Kate Bushby Newcastle University
Francesco Muntoni
Francesco Muntoni University College London
Daniel G. MacArthur
Daniel G. MacArthur Garvan Institute of Medical Research
Caroline Sewry
Caroline Sewry University College London
Thomas Voit
Thomas Voit University College London
Eugenio Mercuri
Eugenio Mercuri Catholic University of the Sacred Heart
Andrew M. Blamire
Andrew M. Blamire Newcastle University
Jennifer E. Morgan
Jennifer E. Morgan University College London
Alan Pestronk
Alan Pestronk Washington University in St. Louis

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