Miss Maria Tsaousidou

I am a PhD student investigating the genetic basis of motor neuron diseases, in particular two forms of hereditary spastic paraplegia. My studies to date have involved the refinement of one locus and the identification of disease-associated mutations in SPG5.

Publication

Tsaousidou MK, Ouahchi K, Warner TT, Yang Y, Simpson MA, Laing NG, Wilkinson PA, Madrid RE, Patel H, Hentati F, Patton MA, Hentati A, Lamont PJ, Siddique T, Crosby AH (2007) Sequence alterations within CYP7B1 implicate defective cholesterol homeostasis in motor-neuron degeneration. Am J Hum Genet 82(2):510-515 PubMed