Valter Niemelä
Specialist physician at Department of Medical Sciences; Neurology
- E-mail:
- valter.niemela@neuro.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Akademiska sjukhuset
- Postal address:
- Akademiska sjukhuset, ing 85 plan 2
751 85 UPPSALA
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- Academic merits:
- PhD
- ORCID:
- 0000-0002-2576-9938
Keywords
- inflammation
- neurobiologi
- neuropsykiatriska funktionsnedsättningar
- genetik
- neurologi
Media
On Chorea by George Huntington
A film created by Prof. Sten-Magnus Aquilonius at Uppsala University portraying the original presentation by George Huntington of his essay "On Chorea" in 1872.
http://play.quickchannel.com/Qc/create/mainshow.asp?play=6790

Publications
Recent publications
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Lifetime risk of cancer in carriers of intermediate alleles in the HTT gene
Part of Scientific Reports, 2026
- DOI for Lifetime risk of cancer in carriers of intermediate alleles in the HTT gene
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Novel Clinical Insights From a Swedish RFC1 Spectrum Disorder Cohort
Part of European Journal of Neurology, 2026
- DOI for Novel Clinical Insights From a Swedish RFC1 Spectrum Disorder Cohort
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Part of Journal of the Neurological Sciences, 2024
- DOI for Cerebrospinal fluid glial fibrillary acidic protein, in contrast to amyloid beta protein, is associated with disease symptoms in Huntington's disease
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Part of Frontiers in Genetics, 2023
- DOI for Case report: a novel deep intronic splice-altering variant in DMD as a cause of Becker muscular dystrophy
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Part of Fluids and Barriers of the CNS, 2023
- DOI for Levels of inflammatory cytokines MCP-1, CCL4, and PD-L1 in CSF differentiate idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus from neurodegenerative diseases
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All publications
Articles in journal
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Lifetime risk of cancer in carriers of intermediate alleles in the HTT gene
Part of Scientific Reports, 2026
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Novel Clinical Insights From a Swedish RFC1 Spectrum Disorder Cohort
Part of European Journal of Neurology, 2026
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Part of Journal of the Neurological Sciences, 2024
- DOI for Cerebrospinal fluid glial fibrillary acidic protein, in contrast to amyloid beta protein, is associated with disease symptoms in Huntington's disease
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Part of Frontiers in Genetics, 2023
- DOI for Case report: a novel deep intronic splice-altering variant in DMD as a cause of Becker muscular dystrophy
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Part of Fluids and Barriers of the CNS, 2023
- DOI for Levels of inflammatory cytokines MCP-1, CCL4, and PD-L1 in CSF differentiate idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus from neurodegenerative diseases
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Part of Journal of the Neurological Sciences, 2023
- DOI for Genetic screening for Huntington disease phenocopies in Sweden: A tertiary center case series focused on short tandem repeat (STR) disorders
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Part of Fluids and Barriers of the CNS, 2022
- DOI for Higher levels of neurofilament light chain and total tau in CSF are associated with negative outcome after shunt surgery in patients with normal pressure hydrocephalus
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Proenkephalin Decreases in Cerebrospinal Fluid with Symptom Progression of Huntington's Disease
Part of Movement Disorders, p. 481-491, 2021
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Sjukdomsmarkörer för Huntingtons sjukdom
Part of Neurologi i Sverige, p. 52-55, 2021
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Phenotypic variability in chorea-acanthocytosis associated with novel VPS13A mutations
Part of Neurology Genetics, 2020
- DOI for Phenotypic variability in chorea-acanthocytosis associated with novel VPS13A mutations
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Aniridia with PAX6 mutations and narcolepsy
Part of Journal of Sleep Research, 2020
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Part of Scientific Reports, 2020
- DOI for High frequency of intermediary alleles in the HTT gene in Northern Sweden: The Swedish Huntingtin Alleles and Phenotype (SHAPE) study
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Part of Scientific Reports, 2019
- DOI for Alterations in the tyrosine and phenylalanine pathways revealed by biochemical profiling in cerebrospinal fluid of Huntington's disease subjects
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Measurement of sCD27 in the cerebrospinal fluid identifies patients with neuroinflammatory disease
Part of Journal of Neuroimmunology, p. 31-36, 2019
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Part of PLOS ONE, 2018
- DOI for Cerebrospinal fluid sCD27 levels indicate active T cell-mediated inflammation in premanifest Huntington's disease
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Tau or neurofilament light - Which is the more suitable biomarker for Huntington’s disease?
Part of PLOS ONE, 2017
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Cognitive decline in Huntington’s disease expansion gene carriers
Part of Cortex, p. 51-62, 2017
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Narcolepsy as a side effect of swine flu vaccination
Part of Journal of the Neurological Sciences, p. 189-189, 2017
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Psychosis in patients with narcolepsy as an adverse effect of sodium oxybate
Part of Frontiers in Neurology, 2014
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Articles, review/survey
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Huntingtons sjukdom – kliniska prövningar inger nu optimism
Part of Läkartidningen, 2020