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Oncotarget
December 2024
The FDA approval on September 29, 2023, for "class III " blood tests to assess hereditary cancer risk make widely available tests that may be obtained through a Direct to Consumer (DTC) path. There is concern that germ-line predisposition tests may not be reimbursed by insurance adding financial burdens to individuals and families. It is generally agreed in the fields on oncology and genetics that germ-line testing for disease susceptibility including cancer is best performed under care of a healthcare provider with genetic counseling.
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December 2024
The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States.
Significant progress in determining the molecular origins and resistance mechanisms of mantle cell lymphoma (MCL) has improved our understanding of the disease's clinical diversity. These factors greatly impact prognosis in MCL patients. Given the dynamic alterations in MCL clones and disease evolution, it is crucial to recognize high-risk prognostic factors at diagnosis and relapse.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Myelin integrity is central to healthy brains and is increasingly shown to be compromised in neurodegenerative diseases. Diffusion- and susceptibility-based MRI metrics can detect myelin changes. We show advanced diffusion and susceptibility metrics can detect degenerative myelin changes in ex vivo AD and HD mouse models.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWhite matter hyperintensities (WMH) are areas of increased lucency visualized on T2-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), including fluid attenuated inversion recovery (FLAIR) sequences. Over the past 15 years we have been examining WMH in studies of cognitive aging among clinical, community-based, and populations at genetic risk to understand the role of vascular brain injury in Alzheimer's disease (AD) onset, symptom progression, and pathogenesis. Our findings suggest that regional WMH, particularly when distributed in posterior areas, increase risk for clinical AD and contribute to the clinical course of the disease, even among genetic population with relatively low rates of vascular risk factor, like adults with Down syndrome and with autosomal dominant genetic mutations for AD.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Autosomal Dominant Alzheimer's Disease (ADAD) is a rare and early-onset form of Alzheimer's disease with a familial pattern of inheritance. While the pathological features of ADAD, such as amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary tangles, have been extensively studied, the involvement of white matter (WM) neuroinflammation is not well-explored. In sporadic AD, the hindered ratio (HR) derived from diffusion basis spectrum imaging (DBSI) has been used to study neuroinflammation in WM.
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