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Federico Zara

Federico Zara

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Medicine

D-Index
78
Citations
22685
World Ranking
18034
National Ranking
729

Overview

Federico Zara is affiliated with the University of Genoa in Italy. Their research contributions span fields primarily within Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Medicine. The scientist's work is further specialized in subfields including Genetics, Molecular Biology, Neurology, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, and Psychiatry and Mental Health.

The main topics of their work cover significant areas such as Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders, Genomics and Rare Diseases, Epilepsy Research and Treatment, Cystic Fibrosis Research Advances, Mitochondrial Function and Pathology, Ion Channel Regulation and Function, and Cellular Transport and Secretion.

Frequent venues for their publications include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Brain
  • International Journal of Molecular Sciences
  • Epilepsia
  • The American Journal of Human Genetics

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Federico Zara include:

  • Genotype-phenotype correlations in SCN8A -related disorders reveal prognostic and therapeutic implications, 2021, Brain
  • Assessing the landscape of STXBP1-related disorders in 534 individuals, 2021, Brain
  • KCNT1-related epilepsies and epileptic encephalopathies: phenotypic and mutational spectrum, 2021, Brain
  • Climate change and epilepsy: Insights from clinical and basic science studies, 2021, Epilepsy & Behavior
  • Partial Rescue of F508del-CFTR Stability and Trafficking Defects by Double Corrector Treatment, 2021, International Journal of Molecular Sciences

Collaborations form a notable part of Federico Zara's research activities. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Pasquale Striano
  • Marcello Scala
  • Michele Iacomino
  • Valeria Capra
  • Antonella Riva

Best Publications

  • Friedreich's Ataxia: Autosomal Recessive Disease Caused by an Intronic GAA Triplet Repeat Expansion

    Victoria Campuzano;Laura Montermini;Maria Dolores Moltò;Luigi Pianese

  • Mutations in the caveolin-3 gene cause autosomal dominant limb-girdle muscular dystrophy.

    Carlo Minetti;Federica Sotgia;Claudio Bruno;Claudio Bruno;Paolo Scartezzini

  • Genetic and phenotypic heterogeneity suggest therapeutic implications in SCN2A-related disorders.

    Markus Wolff;Katrine M Johannesen;Ulrike B S Hedrich;Silvia Masnada

  • The genetics of Dravet syndrome

    Carla Marini;Ingrid E. Scheffer;Ingrid E. Scheffer;Rima Nabbout;Arvid Suls

  • Benign familial neonatal-infantile seizures: characterization of a new sodium channelopathy.

    Samuel F. Berkovic;Sarah E. Heron;Lucio Giordano;Carla Marini

  • Spectrum of SCN1A mutations in severe myoclonic epilepsy of infancy

    Rima Nabbout;E. Gennaro;B. Dalla Bernardina;O. Dulac

  • The phenotypic spectrum of SCN8A encephalopathy

    Jan Larsen;Gemma L Carvill;Elena Gardella;Gerhard Kluger

  • De Novo Loss-of-Function Mutations in CHD2 Cause a Fever-Sensitive Myoclonic Epileptic Encephalopathy Sharing Features with Dravet Syndrome

    Arvid Suls;Johanna A. Jaehn;Angela Kecskés;Yvonne Weber

  • De novo mutations in HCN1 cause early infantile epileptic encephalopathy

    Caroline Nava;Carine Dalle;Agnès Rastetter;Pasquale Striano

  • Genetic testing in the epilepsies--report of the ILAE Genetics Commission.

    Ruth Ottman;Shinichi Hirose;Satish Jain;Holger Lerche

  • Mutations in the GABA Transporter SLC6A1 Cause Epilepsy with Myoclonic-Atonic Seizures

    Gemma L. Carvill;Jacinta M. McMahon;Amy Schneider;Matthew Zemel

  • Mutation in the CAV3 gene causes partial caveolin-3 deficiency and hyperCKemia.

    I. Carbone;C. Bruno;F. Sotgia;M. Bado

  • SCN1A duplications and deletions detected in Dravet syndrome: Implications for molecular diagnosis

    Carla Marini;Ingrid E. Scheffer;Ingrid E. Scheffer;Rima Nabbout;Davide Mei

  • Epilepsy, hippocampal sclerosis and febrile seizures linked by common genetic variation around SCN1A

    Dalia Kasperavičiūtė;Claudia B. Catarino;Claudia B. Catarino;Mar Matarin;Costin Leu

  • TBC1D24, an ARF6-Interacting Protein, Is Mutated in Familial Infantile Myoclonic Epilepsy

    Antonio Falace;Fabia Filipello;Veronica La Padula;Nicola Vanni

  • Genome-wide association analysis of genetic generalized epilepsies implicates susceptibility loci at 1q43, 2p16.1, 2q22.3 and 17q21.32

    Michael Steffens;Costin Leu

  • Genetic testing in benign familial epilepsies of the first year of life : Clinical and diagnostic significance

    Federico Zara;Nicola Specchio;Pasquale Striano;Angela Robbiano

  • An open-label trial of levetiracetam in severe myoclonic epilepsy of infancy.

    P. Striano;A. Coppola;M. Pezzella;C. Ciampa

  • Mapping of genes predisposing to idiopathic generalized epilepsy

    F Zara;A Bianchi;G Avanzini;S di Donato

  • Erratum: De Novo Mutations in Synaptic Transmission Genes Including DNM1 Cause Epileptic Encephalopathies (American Journal of Human Genetics (2014) 95(4) (360–370)(S0002929714003838)(10.1016/j.ajhg.2014.08.013))

    Silke Appenzeller;Rudi Balling;Nina Barisic;Stéphanie Baulac

Frequent Co-Authors

Gianpiero L. Cavalleri
Gianpiero L. Cavalleri Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
Norman Delanty
Norman Delanty Beaumont Hospital
Pasquale Striano
Pasquale Striano University of Genoa
Anthony G Marson
Anthony G Marson University of Liverpool
Sanjay M. Sisodiya
Sanjay M. Sisodiya University College London
Graeme J. Sills
Graeme J. Sills University of Glasgow
Josemir W. Sander
Josemir W. Sander University College London
Chantal Depondt
Chantal Depondt Université Libre de Bruxelles
Wolfram S. Kunz
Wolfram S. Kunz University of Bonn
Sarah Weckhuysen
Sarah Weckhuysen University of Antwerp

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