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David Sinasac
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Latest papers
A novel therapy for pyridoxine-dependent epilepsy due to biallelic pathogenic variants in ALDH7A1: secondary mitochondrial energy deficiency and improvements of neurodevelopmental outcomes on triheptanoin treatment.
Therapeutic advances in rare disease · 2026
Phenotype and pathology of the dilated cardiomyopathy with ataxia syndrome in children.
Journal of inherited metabolic disease · 2022
SS-31 Peptide Reverses the Mitochondrial Fragmentation Present in Fibroblasts From Patients With DCMA, a Mitochondrial Cardiomyopathy.
Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine · 2019
7 publications.
A novel therapy for pyridoxine-dependent epilepsy due to biallelic pathogenic variants in ALDH7A1: secondary mitochondrial energy deficiency and improvements of neurodevelopmental outcomes on triheptanoin treatment.
Ambrose A, McCabe M, Bahl S, Sinasac D, Snyder T, Mercimek-Andrews S
Phenotype and pathology of the dilated cardiomyopathy with ataxia syndrome in children.
Machiraju P, Degtiarev V, Patel D, Hazari H, Lowry RB, Bedard T, Sinasac D, Brundler MA, Greenway SC, Khan A
SS-31 Peptide Reverses the Mitochondrial Fragmentation Present in Fibroblasts From Patients With DCMA, a Mitochondrial Cardiomyopathy.
Machiraju P, Wang X, Sabouny R, Huang J, Zhao T, Iqbal F, King M, Prasher D, Lodha A, Jimenez-Tellez N, Ravandi A, Argiropoulos B, Sinasac D, Khan A, Shutt TE, Greenway SC
Hybrid gel electrophoresis using skin fibroblasts to aid in diagnosing mitochondrial disease.
Newell C, Khan A, Sinasac D, Shoffner J, Friederich MW, Van Hove JLK, Hume S, Shearer J, Sosova I
PISD is a mitochondrial disease gene causing skeletal dysplasia, cataracts, and white matter changes.
Zhao T, Goedhart CM, Sam PN, Sabouny R, Lingrell S, Cornish AJ, Lamont RE, Bernier FP, Sinasac D, Parboosingh JS, Care4Rare Canada Consortium, Vance JE, Claypool SM, Innes AM, Shutt TE
ALG9-CDG: New clinical case and review of the literature.
Davis K, Webster D, Smith C, Jackson S, Sinasac D, Seargeant L, Wei XC, Ferreira P, Midgley J, Foster Y, Li X, He M, Al-Hertani W
The relationship between d-beta-hydroxybutyrate blood concentrations and seizure control in children treated with the ketogenic diet for medically intractable epilepsy.
Buchhalter JR, D'Alfonso S, Connolly M, Fung E, Michoulas A, Sinasac D, Singer R, Smith J, Singh N, Rho JM
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