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About Bryan J. Traynor
- Bryan J.
- Traynor (born August 12, 1969) is a neurologist and geneticist.
- He is a senior investigator at the National Institute on Aging and adjunct faculty at Johns Hopkins University.
- Traynor studies the genetics of human neurological conditions such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, frontotemporal dementia, and myasthenia gravis.
- He led the international consortium that identified pathogenic repeat expansions in the C9orf72 gene as a common cause of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and frontotemporal dementia.
- Traynor also led efforts that identified Mendelian genes responsible for familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and dementias including VCP, MATR3, and KIF5A, and he identified the CTLA4 locus as a potentially druggable target in patients diagnosed with myasthenia gravis.
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