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Anne C. Ferguson-Smith

Anne C. Ferguson-Smith

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Genetics

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94
Citations
35314
World Ranking
929
National Ranking
134

Medicine

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95
Citations
35594
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10008
National Ranking
968

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2021 - Buchanan Medal, Royal Society (UK) for her pioneering work in epigenetics, her interdisciplinary work on genomic imprinting, the interplay between the genome and epigenome, and how genetic and environmental influences affect development and human diseases.
  • 2017 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
  • Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
  • Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)

Overview

Anne C. Ferguson-Smith is a researcher affiliated with the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. Their primary area of research is within Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with a strong focus on Molecular Biology and Genetics. Additional subfields include Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Plant Science, and Physiology.

Their research encompasses several main topics, such as:

  • Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
  • Genetic Syndromes and Imprinting
  • Chromosomal and Genetic Variations
  • Prenatal Screening and Diagnostics
  • Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics
  • RNA modifications and cancer
  • CRISPR and Genetic Engineering

Ferguson-Smith frequently publishes in venues including:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Communications
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Genome Biology
  • Nature Genetics

Recent papers include:

  • "Obstacles to detecting isoforms using full-length scRNA-seq data" (2020), published in Genome Biology
  • "Variably methylated retrotransposons are refractory to a range of environmental perturbations" (2021), published in Nature Genetics
  • "KRAB zinc finger protein diversification drives mammalian interindividual methylation variability" (2020), published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Dlk1 dosage regulates hippocampal neurogenesis and cognition" (2021), published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Epigenetic changes induced by in utero dietary challenge result in phenotypic variability in successive generations of mice" (2022), published in Nature Communications

The researcher collaborates frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Nozomi Takahashi
  • Carol A. Edwards
  • Kevin R Costello
  • Geula Hanin
  • Tessa M. Bertozzi

Anne C. Ferguson-Smith has received recognition through multiple awards and honors such as:

  • Buchanan Medal from the Royal Society (UK) in 2021, acknowledging work in epigenetics, genomic imprinting, and gene-environment interplay affecting development and disease
  • Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom (2017)
  • Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)

Best Publications

  • Placental-specific IGF-II is a major modulator of placental and fetal growth

    Miguel Constância;Myriam Hemberger;Jennifer Hughes;Wendy Dean

  • Distinct fibroblast lineages determine dermal architecture in skin development and repair

    Ryan R. Driskell;Ryan R. Driskell;Beate M. Lichtenberger;Beate M. Lichtenberger;Esther Hoste;Kai Kretzschmar;Kai Kretzschmar

  • The Air Noncoding RNA Epigenetically Silences Transcription by Targeting G9a to Chromatin

    Takashi Nagano;Jennifer A. Mitchell;Lionel A. Sanz;Florian M. Pauler

  • Genomic imprinting: The emergence of an epigenetic paradigm

    Anne C. Ferguson-Smith

  • A Large Imprinted microRNA Gene Cluster at the Mouse Dlk1-Gtl2 Domain

    Hervé Seitz;Hélène Royo;Marie-Line Bortolin;Shau-Ping Lin

  • Comparative Developmental Anatomy of the Murine and Human Definitive Placentae

    P. Georgiades;A.C. Ferguson-Smith;G.J. Burton

  • Mammalian Genomic Imprinting

    Marisa S. Bartolomei;Anne C. Ferguson-Smith

  • A maternal-zygotic effect gene, Zfp57, maintains both maternal and paternal imprints.

    Xiajun Li;Mitsuteru Ito;Fen Zhou;Neil Youngson

  • In utero undernourishment perturbs the adult sperm methylome and intergenerational metabolism

    Elizabeth J. Radford;Mitsuteru Ito;Hui Shi;Jennifer A. Corish

  • Parental origin of sequence variants associated with complex diseases

    Augustine Kong;Valgerdur Steinthorsdottir;Gisli Masson;Gudmar Thorleifsson

  • Parental-origin-specific epigenetic modification of the mouse H19 gene.

    Anne C. Ferguson-Smith;Anne C. Ferguson-Smith;Hiroyuki Sasaki;Hiroyuki Sasaki;Bruce M. Cattanach;Bruce M. Cattanach;M. Azim Surani;M. Azim Surani

  • Imprinting and the epigenetic asymmetry between parental genomes.

    Anne C. Ferguson-Smith;M. Azim Surani

  • Mechanisms regulating imprinted genes in clusters.

    Carol A Edwards;Anne C Ferguson-Smith

  • The International Human Epigenome Consortium: A Blueprint for Scientific Collaboration and Discovery

    Hendrik G. Stunnenberg;Martin Hirst

  • Asymmetric regulation of imprinting on the maternal and paternal chromosomes at the Dlk1-Gtl2 imprinted cluster on mouse chromosome 12

    Shau-Ping Lin;Neil Youngson;Shuji Takada;Shuji Takada;Hervé Seitz

  • Genomic Imprinting and Physiological Processes in Mammals.

    Valter Tucci;Anthony R. Isles;Gavin Kelsey;Gavin Kelsey;Anne C. Ferguson-Smith

  • Regulation of supply and demand for maternal nutrients in mammals by imprinted genes

    Wolf Reik;Miguel Constância;Abigail Fowden;Neil Anderson

  • Cohort Profile: Growing Up in Singapore Towards healthy Outcomes (GUSTO) birth cohort study

    Shu-E Soh;Mya Thway Tint;Peter D Gluckman;Keith M Godfrey

  • Genomic imprinting at the mammalian Dlk1-Dio3 domain

    Simao Teixeira da Rocha;Carol A. Edwards;Mitsuteru Ito;Tsutomu Ogata

  • Imprinted microRNA genes transcribed antisense to a reciprocally imprinted retrotransposon-like gene.

    Hervé Seitz;Neil Youngson;Shau-Ping Lin;Simone Dalbert

Frequent Co-Authors

Wolf Reik
Wolf Reik Babraham Institute
Graham J. Burton
Graham J. Burton University of Cambridge
Frank H. Ruddle
Frank H. Ruddle Yale University
Hiroyuki Sasaki
Hiroyuki Sasaki Kyushu University
Myriam Hemberger
Myriam Hemberger University of Calgary
M. Azim Surani
M. Azim Surani University of Cambridge
Gavin Kelsey
Gavin Kelsey Babraham Institute
Paul Flicek
Paul Flicek The Jackson Laboratory
David J. Adams
David J. Adams Wellcome Sanger Institute
Sheila C. Barton
Sheila C. Barton University of Cambridge

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