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Genetics and Molecular Biology
Finland
2024

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Genetics

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85
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28341
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1306
National Ranking
8

Medicine

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85
Citations
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World Ranking
14540
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Genetics in Finland Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Genetics in Finland Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Genetics in Finland Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Genetics and Molecular Biology in Finland Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Genetics and Molecular Biology in Finland Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Genetics and Molecular Biology in Finland Leader Award

Overview

Anu Suomalainen is affiliated with the University of Helsinki in Finland and has contributed extensively to the field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a total of 117 publications. Their research primarily focuses on Molecular Biology, Clinical Biochemistry, Genetics, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, and Physiology.

The main topics covered in their work include:

  • Mitochondrial Function and Pathology
  • Metabolism and Genetic Disorders
  • ATP Synthase and ATPases Research
  • Genetic Neurodegenerative Diseases
  • RNA modifications and cancer
  • Genomics and Rare Diseases
  • RNA Research and Splicing

Suomalainen has published several recent papers, some of which include:

  • Mitochondria at the crossroads of health and disease, 2024, Cell
  • Mitochondrial disease in adults: recent advances and future promise, 2021, The Lancet Neurology
  • Vegan diet in young children remodels metabolism and challenges the statuses of essential nutrients, 2021, EMBO Molecular Medicine
  • Mosaic dysfunction of mitophagy in mitochondrial muscle disease, 2022, Cell Metabolism
  • Niacin Cures Systemic NAD+ Deficiency and Improves Muscle Performance in Adult-Onset Mitochondrial Myopathy, 2020, Cell Metabolism

Frequent collaborators in Suomalainen's research include:

  • Pirjo Isohanni
  • Mari Auranen
  • Nahid Khan
  • Juan C. Landoni
  • Virginia Brilhante

The scientist's work has been disseminated in multiple venues, including:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Communications
  • Cell Metabolism
  • The Journal of Cell Biology
  • Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology

Best Publications

  • Mitochondria: In Sickness and in Health

    Jodi Nunnari;Anu Suomalainen;Anu Suomalainen

  • Human mitochondrial DNA deletions associated with mutations in the gene encoding Twinkle, a phage T7 gene 4-like protein localized in mitochondria.

    Johannes N. Spelbrink;Fang Yuan Li;Valeria Tiranti;Kaisu Nikali

  • Role of Adenine Nucleotide Translocator 1 in mtDNA Maintenance

    Jyrki Kaukonen;Jukka K. Juselius;Valeria Tiranti;Aija Kyttälä

  • Parkinsonism, premature menopause, and mitochondrial DNA polymerase gamma mutations: clinical and molecular genetic study.

    Petri Luoma;Atle Melberg;Juha O Rinne;Jyrki A Kaukonen

  • Mutation of OPA1 causes dominant optic atrophy with external ophthalmoplegia, ataxia, deafness and multiple mitochondrial DNA deletions: a novel disorder of mtDNA maintenance.

    Gavin Hudson;Patrizia Amati-Bonneau;Emma L. Blakely;Joanna D. Stewart

  • Mitochondrial diseases: the contribution of organelle stress responses to pathology

    Anu Suomalainen;Brendan J Battersby

  • FGF-21 as a biomarker for muscle-manifesting mitochondrial respiratory chain deficiencies: a diagnostic study.

    Anu Suomalainen;Anu Suomalainen;Jenni M Elo;Kirsi H Pietiläinen;Anna H Hakonen

  • Phenotypic spectrum associated with mutations of the mitochondrial polymerase γ gene

    R Horvath;G Hudson;G Ferrari;N Futterer

  • Effective treatment of mitochondrial myopathy by nicotinamide riboside, a vitamin B3

    Nahid A Khan;Mari Auranen;Mari Auranen;Ilse Paetau;Eija Pirinen;Eija Pirinen

  • Mutant mitochondrial helicase Twinkle causes multiple mtDNA deletions and a late-onset mitochondrial disease in mice

    Henna Tyynismaa;Katja Peltola Mjosund;Sjoerd Wanrooij;Ilse Lappalainen

  • Mitochondrial DNA polymerase W748S mutation: a common cause of autosomal recessive ataxia with ancient European origin

    Anna H. Hakonen;Silja Heiskanen;Vesa Juvonen;Ilse Lappalainen

  • mTORC1 Regulates Mitochondrial Integrated Stress Response and Mitochondrial Myopathy Progression

    Nahid A. Khan;Joni Nikkanen;Shuichi Yatsuga;Shuichi Yatsuga;Christopher Jackson

  • Mitochondrial myopathy induces a starvation-like response

    Henna Tyynismaa;Christopher J. Carroll;Nuno Raimundo;Sofia Tuulikki Ahola-Erkkilä

  • Global Transcript Profiles of Fat in Monozygotic Twins Discordant for BMI: Pathways behind Acquired Obesity

    Kirsi H Pietiläinen;Jussi Naukkarinen;Aila Rissanen;Juha Saharinen

  • Multiple deletions of mitochondrial DNA in several tissues of a patient with severe retarded depression and familial progressive external ophthalmoplegia.

    A Suomalainen;A Majander;M Haltia;H Somer

  • Comparison of solution-based exome capture methods for next generation sequencing.

    Anna-Maija Sulonen;Pekka Ellonen;Henrikki Almusa;Maija Lepistö

  • GRACILE Syndrome, a Lethal Metabolic Disorder with Iron Overload, Is Caused by a Point Mutation in BCS1L

    Ilona Visapää;Ilona Visapää;Vineta Fellman;Jouni Vesa;Ayan Dasvarma

  • An autosomal locus predisposing to deletions of mitochondrial DNA

    Anu Suomalainen;Jyrki Kaukonen;Patrizia Amati;Ritva Timonen

  • Twinkle helicase is essential for mtDNA maintenance and regulates mtDNA copy number

    Henna Tyynismaa;Hiroshi Sembongi;Monika Bokori-Brown;Caroline Granycome

  • Phenotypic spectrum associated with mutations of the mitochondrial polymerase γ gene. Commentary

    Salvatore Dimauro;Guido Davidzon;Michio Hirano;Rita Horvath

Frequent Co-Authors

Anders Paetau
Anders Paetau University of Helsinki
Kirsi H. Pietiläinen
Kirsi H. Pietiläinen University of Helsinki
Leena Peltonen
Leena Peltonen University of Helsinki
Jaakko Kaprio
Jaakko Kaprio University of Helsinki
Massimo Zeviani
Massimo Zeviani University of Padua
Laurence A. Bindoff
Laurence A. Bindoff Haukeland University Hospital
Robert W. Taylor
Robert W. Taylor Newcastle University
Johannes N. Spelbrink
Johannes N. Spelbrink Radboud University
Aila Rissanen
Aila Rissanen University of Helsinki
Ann-Christine Syvänen
Ann-Christine Syvänen Uppsala University

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