Claudio Soto

Dr. Claudio Soto

Department of Neurology, McGovern Medical School, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, TX, USA

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Academic Career Length

24Years (2003-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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24 September 2018 in Nature Neuroscience
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Claudio Soto
SPSandra Pritzkow
Sandra Pritzkow

5 February 2020 in Nature
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MSMohammad Shahnawaz
Mohammad Shahnawaz
AMAbhisek Mukherjee
Abhisek Mukherjee
SPSandra Pritzkow
Sandra Pritzkow
NMNicolas Mendez
Nicolas Mendez
PRPrakruti Rabadia
Prakruti Rabadia
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Claudio Soto

31 August 2018 in Molecular Psychiatry
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CGCesar Gonzalez
Cesar Gonzalez
EAEnrique Armijo
Enrique Armijo
JBJaviera Bravo-Alegria
Javiera Bravo-Alegria
ABAndrea Becerra-Calixto
Andrea Becerra-Calixto
CMCharles E. Mays
Charles E. Mays
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Claudio Soto

1 July 2015 in Trends in Molecular Medicine
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AMAbhisek Mukherjee
Abhisek Mukherjee
DMDiego Morales-Scheihing
Diego Morales-Scheihing
PBPeter C. Butler
Peter C. Butler
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Claudio Soto

18 January 2023 in Nature Protocols
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LCLuis Concha-Marambio
Luis Concha-Marambio
SPSandra Pritzkow
Sandra Pritzkow
MSMohammad Shahnawaz
Mohammad Shahnawaz
CFCarly M. Farris
Carly M. Farris
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Claudio Soto

6 November 2021 in Acta Neuropathologica Communications
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MRMarco J. Russo
Marco J. Russo
COChristina D. Orru
Christina D. Orru
LCLuis Concha-Marambio
Luis Concha-Marambio
SGSimone Giaisi
Simone Giaisi
BGBradley R. Groveman
Bradley R. Groveman
UKUn Jung Kang
Un Jung Kang
Alpha-synuclein seed amplification assays (αSyn-SAAs) are promising diagnostic tools for Parkinson’s disease (PD) and related synucleinopathies. They enable detection of seeding-competent alpha-synuclein aggregates in living patients and have shown high diagnostic accuracy in several PD and other synucleinopathy patient cohorts. However, there has been confusion about αSyn-SAAs for their methodology, nomenclature, and relative accuracies when performed by various laboratories. We compared αSyn-SAA results obtained from three independent laboratories to evaluate reproducibility across methodological variations. We utilized the Parkinson’s Progression Markers Initiative (PPMI) cohort, with DATSCAN data available for comparison, since clinical diagnosis of early de novo PD is critical for neuroprotective trials, which often use dopamine transporter imaging to enrich their cohorts. Blinded cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) samples for a randomly selected subset of PPMI subjects (30 PD, 30 HC, and 20 SWEDD), from both baseline and year 3 collections for the PD and HC groups (140 total CSF samples) were analyzed in parallel by each lab according to their own established and optimized αSyn-SAA protocols. The αSyn-SAA results were remarkably similar across laboratories, displaying high diagnostic performance (sensitivity ranging from 86 to 96% and specificity from 93 to 100%). The assays were also concordant for samples with results that differed from clinical diagnosis, including 2 PD patients determined to be clinically inconsistent with PD at later time points. All three assays also detected 2 SWEDD subjects as αSyn-SAA positive who later developed PD with abnormal DAT-SPECT. These multi-laboratory results confirm the reproducibility and value of αSyn-SAA as diagnostic tools, illustrate reproducibility of the assay in expert hands, and suggest that αSyn-SAA has potential to provide earlier diagnosis with comparable or superior accuracy to existing methods.