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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