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Carina Wallgren-Pettersson

Carina Wallgren-Pettersson

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
62
Citations
12311
World Ranking
10913
National Ranking
77

Overview

Carina Wallgren-Pettersson is affiliated with the University of Helsinki in Finland. Their research spans multiple fields related to medicine, biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Within these domains, they have contributed extensively to areas such as cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, molecular biology, genetics, cell biology, and cellular and molecular neuroscience.

The scientist's work has focused on several key topics, including:

  • Cardiomyopathy and myosin studies
  • Muscle physiology and disorders
  • Neurogenetic and muscular disorders research
  • Genomics and rare diseases
  • Cellular transport and secretion
  • Genetic neurodegenerative diseases
  • Glycogen storage diseases and myoclonus

Frequent publication venues for Wallgren-Pettersson include Neuromuscular Disorders, where they have published 23 papers. Other notable venues are Acta Neuropathologica Communications, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Journal of Neuromuscular Diseases, and Genetics in Medicine.

Among their recent papers are:

  • Sequential targeted exome sequencing of 1001 patients affected by unexplained limb-girdle weakness, 2020, Genetics in Medicine
  • Recent advances in nemaline myopathy, 2021, Neuromuscular Disorders
  • NEB mutations disrupt the super-relaxed state of myosin and remodel the muscle metabolic proteome in nemaline myopathy, 2022, Acta Neuropathologica Communications
  • Respiratory muscle function in patients with nemaline myopathy, 2022, Neuromuscular Disorders
  • Congenital asymmetric distal myopathy with hemifacial weakness caused by a heterozygous large de novo mosaic deletion in nebulin, 2021, Neuromuscular Disorders

Wallgren-Pettersson has collaborated frequently with several researchers including Vilma-Lotta Lehtokari, Katarina Pelin, Lydia Sagath, K. Kiiski, and Jenni Laitila, working together on multiple projects addressing genetic and muscular disorders.

Best Publications

  • Mirror extreme BMI phenotypes associated with gene dosage at the chromosome 16p11.2 locus

    Sébastien Jacquemont;Alexandre Reymond;Flore Zufferey;Louise Harewood

  • Mutations in the skeletal muscle α-actin gene in patients with actin myopathy and nemaline myopathy

    Kristen J. Nowak;Kristen J. Nowak;Duangrurdee Wattanasirichaigoon;Hans H. Goebel;Matthew Wilce

  • Mutations in amphiphysin 2 ( BIN1 ) disrupt interaction with dynamin 2 and cause autosomal recessive centronuclear myopathy

    Anne-Sophie Nicot;Anne Toussaint;Valérie Tosch;Christine Kretz

  • Mutations in the nebulin gene associated with autosomal recessive nemaline myopathy

    Katarina Pelin;Pirta Hilpelä;Kati Donner;Caroline Sewry

  • Centronuclear (myotubular) myopathy

    Heinz Jungbluth;Heinz Jungbluth;Carina Wallgren-Pettersson;Jocelyn Laporte

  • Mutations in the β-tropomyosin (TPM2) gene – a rare cause of nemaline myopathy

    Kati Donner;Miina Ollikainen;Maaret Ridanpää;Hans-Jürgen Christen

  • Approach to the diagnosis of congenital myopathies

    Kathryn N. North;Kathryn N. North;Ching H. Wang;Nigel Clarke;Heinz Jungbluth;Heinz Jungbluth

  • Nemaline myopathy with minicores caused by mutation of the CFL2 gene encoding the skeletal muscle actin-binding protein, cofilin-2.

    Pankaj B. Agrawal;Rebecca S. Greenleaf;Kinga K. Tomczak;Vilma-Lotta Lehtokari

  • Mutations and polymorphisms of the skeletal muscle alpha-actin gene (ACTA1).

    Nigel G Laing;Danielle E Dye;Carina Wallgren-Pettersson;Gabriele Richard

  • MTM1 mutations in X-linked myotubular myopathy

    Jocelyn Laporte;Valérie Biancalana;Stephan M. Tanner;Wolfram Kress

  • Nemaline myopathy: Current concepts

    K.N. North;Nigel Laing;C. Wallgren-Pettersson

  • Muscle disease caused by mutations in the skeletal muscle alpha-actin gene (ACTA1)

    John C. Sparrow;Kristen J. Nowak;Kristen J. Nowak;Hayley J. Durling;Alan H. Beggs

  • Mutations in KLHL40 Are a Frequent Cause of Severe Autosomal-Recessive Nemaline Myopathy

    Gianina Ravenscroft;Satoko Miyatake;Vilma Lotta Lehtokari;Emily J. Todd

  • Leiomodin-3 dysfunction results in thin filament disorganization and nemaline myopathy

    Michaela Yuen;Sarah A. Sandaradura;James J. Dowling;James J. Dowling;Alla S. Kostyukova

  • 117th ENMC Workshop: Ventilatory Support in Congenital Neuromuscular Disorders — Congenital Myopathies, Congenital Muscular Dystrophies, Congenital Myotonic Dystrophy and SMA (II) 4–6 April 2003, Naarden, The Netherlands

    Carina Wallgren-Pettersson;Kate Bushby;Uwe Mellies;Anita Simonds

  • Identification of KLHL41 Mutations Implicates BTB-Kelch-Mediated Ubiquitination as an Alternate Pathway to Myofibrillar Disruption in Nemaline Myopathy

    Vandana A. Gupta;Gianina Ravenscroft;Ranad Shaheen;Emily J. Todd

  • Distal myopathy caused by homozygous missense mutations in the nebulin gene.

    Carina Wallgren-Pettersson;Vilma-Lotta Lehtokari;Hannu Kalimo;Anders Paetau

  • Nemaline myopathies: a current view

    Caroline A. Sewry;Jenni M. Laitila;Carina Wallgren-Pettersson

  • Identification of 45 novel mutations in the nebulin gene associated with autosomal recessive Nemaline myopathy

    Vilma Lotta Lehtokari;Katarina Pelin;Maria Sandbacka;Salla Ranta

  • The myotubular myopathies: differential diagnosis of the X linked recessive, autosomal dominant, and autosomal recessive forms and present state of DNA studies.

    C. Wallgren-Pettersson;Angus John Clarke;F. Samson;M. Fardeau

Frequent Co-Authors

Nigel G. Laing
Nigel G. Laing University of Western Australia
Alan H. Beggs
Alan H. Beggs Harvard Medical School
Kathryn N. North
Kathryn N. North University of Melbourne
Francesco Muntoni
Francesco Muntoni University College London
Caroline Sewry
Caroline Sewry Great Ormond Street Hospital
Caroline Sewry
Caroline Sewry University College London
Bjarne Udd
Bjarne Udd University of Helsinki
Enrico Bertini
Enrico Bertini Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital
Jean-Louis Mandel
Jean-Louis Mandel Institute of Genetics and Molecular and Cellular Biology
Daniel G. MacArthur
Daniel G. MacArthur Garvan Institute of Medical Research

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