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Giuseppe Matullo

Giuseppe Matullo

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Genetics

D-Index
82
Citations
31814
World Ranking
1461
National Ranking
22

Overview

Giuseppe Matullo is affiliated with the University of Turin in Italy and works primarily in the fields of biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a significant focus on medicine. Their research spans several specialized subfields, including molecular biology, cancer research, pulmonary and respiratory medicine, genetics, and oncology.

The main research topics covered by Matullo include microRNA in disease regulation, epigenetics and DNA methylation, genetic associations and epidemiology, occupational and environmental lung diseases, extracellular vesicles in disease, cancer-related molecular mechanisms, and circular RNAs in diseases.

Matullo has contributed to several scientific publications, some of the recent notable papers are:

  • "Genomic and phenotypic insights from an atlas of genetic effects on DNA methylation" (2021, Nature Genetics)
  • "ACE2 gene variants may underlie interindividual variability and susceptibility to COVID-19 in the Italian population" (2020, European Journal of Human Genetics)
  • "Genome-wide Association Analysis in Humans Links Nucleotide Metabolism to Leukocyte Telomere Length" (2020, The American Journal of Human Genetics)
  • "DNA methylation signature of chronic low-grade inflammation and its role in cardio-respiratory diseases" (2022, Nature Communications)
  • "Adipocyte-derived extracellular vesicles regulate survival and function of pancreatic β cells" (2021, JCI Insight)

The venues where Matullo frequently publishes include:

  • Cancers
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • European Journal of Human Genetics
  • Nature Communications

Collaborations are a significant part of Matullo's scientific work. Frequent co-authors include Alessandra Allione, Elisabetta Casalone, Giovanni Birolo, Carlotta Sacerdote, and Simonetta Guarrera.

Best Publications

  • Genetic variants in novel pathways influence blood pressure and cardiovascular disease risk

    Georg B. Ehret;Georg B. Ehret;Georg B. Ehret;Patricia B. Munroe;Kenneth M. Rice;Murielle Bochud

  • Genomewide Association Study of Severe Covid-19 with Respiratory Failure.

    David Ellinghaus;Frauke Degenhardt;Luis Bujanda;Maria Buti

  • Erratum: Genetic variation in the prostate stem cell antigen gene PSCA confers susceptibility to urinary bladder cancer (Nature Genetics (2009) 41 (991-995))

    Xifeng Wu;Yuanqing Ye;Lambertus A. Kiemeney;Patrick Sulem

  • Genome-wide association study identifies eight loci associated with blood pressure

    Christopher Newton-Cheh;Christopher Newton-Cheh;Toby Johnson;Toby Johnson;Vesela Gateva;Martin D. Tobin

  • Epigenome-wide association study of body mass index, and the adverse outcomes of adiposity

    Simone Wahl;Alexander Drong;Benjamin Lehne;Marie Loh;Marie Loh;Marie Loh

  • Sequence variants at the TERT-CLPTM1L locus associate with many cancer types.

    Thorunn Rafnar;Patrick Sulem;Simon N Stacey;Frank Geller

  • XRCC1. XRCC3. XPD gene polymorphisms, smoking and (32)P-DNA adducts in a sample of healthy subjects

    Giuseppe Matullo;Domenico Palli;Marco Peluso;Simonetta Guarrera

  • Genetic associations at 53 loci highlight cell types and biological pathways relevant for kidney function

    Cristian Pattaro;Alexander Teumer;Mathias Gorski;Audrey Y. Chu

  • Sequence Variant on 8q24 Confers Susceptibility to Urinary Bladder Cancer

    Lambertus A Kiemeney;Steinunn Thorlacius;Patrick Sulem;Frank Geller

  • A multi-stage genome-wide association study of bladder cancer identifies multiple susceptibility loci

    Nathaniel Rothman;Montserrat Garcia-Closas;Nilanjan Chatterjee;Nuria Malats

  • Genomic and phenotypic insights from an atlas of genetic effects on DNA methylation

    J.L. Min;G. Hemani;E. Hannon;K.F. Dekkers

  • Environmental tobacco smoke and risk of respiratory cancer and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in former smokers and never smokers in the EPIC prospective study.

    P Vineis;L Airoldi;F Veglia;L Olgiati

  • PCSK9 genetic variants and risk of type 2 diabetes: a mendelian randomisation study

    Amand F Schmidt;Daniel I Swerdlow;Daniel I Swerdlow;Michael V Holmes;Michael V Holmes;Riyaz S Patel;Riyaz S Patel

  • DNA repair gene polymorphisms, bulky DNA adducts in white blood cells and bladder cancer in a case-control study.

    Giuseppe Matullo;Simonetta Guarrera;Sonia Carturan;Marco Peluso

  • STrengthening the Reporting of OBservational studies in Epidemiology: Molecular Epidemiology STROBE-ME. An extension of the STROBE statement

    Valentina Gallo;Matthias Egger;Valerie McCormack;Peter B Farmer

  • Genome-wide association and genetic functional studies identify autism susceptibility candidate 2 gene (AUTS2) in the regulation of alcohol consumption

    Gunter Schumann;Lachlan J. Coin;Anbarasu Lourdusamy;Pimphen Charoen;Pimphen Charoen

  • DNA repair polymorphisms and cancer risk in non-smokers in a cohort study.

    G Matullo;AM Dunning;S Guarrera;C Baynes

  • DNA methylation signatures of chronic low-grade inflammation are associated with complex diseases

    Symen Ligthart;Carola Marzi;Stella Aslibekyan;Michael M. Mendelson;Michael M. Mendelson;Michael M. Mendelson

  • Separate and combined associations of obesity and metabolic health with coronary heart disease: a pan-European case-cohort analysis.

    Camille Lassale;Camille Lassale;Ioanna Tzoulaki;Ioanna Tzoulaki;Karel G.M. Moons;Michael Sweeting

  • Genetic variation in the prostate stem cell antigen gene PSCA confers susceptibility to urinary bladder cancer

    Xifeng Wu;Yuanqing Ye;Lambertus A. Kiemeney;Patrick Sulem

Frequent Co-Authors

Paolo Vineis
Paolo Vineis Imperial College London
Simonetta Guarrera
Simonetta Guarrera Italian institute for Genomic Medicine
Carlotta Sacerdote
Carlotta Sacerdote University of Eastern Piedmont Amadeo Avogadro
Salvatore Panico
Salvatore Panico University of Naples Federico II
Rosario Tumino
Rosario Tumino Provincial Health Authority of Syracuse
Silvia Polidoro
Silvia Polidoro Italian institute for Genomic Medicine
Domenico Palli
Domenico Palli Institute for the Study and Prevention of Cancer (Istituto per lo Studio, la Prevenzione e la Rete Oncologica)
Vittorio Krogh
Vittorio Krogh Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori
Kim Overvad
Kim Overvad Aarhus University
Elio Riboli
Elio Riboli Imperial College London

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