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Overview

Hirofumi Ohashi is affiliated with Saitama Children's Medical Center in Japan. Their research primarily spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology as well as Medicine. Within these domains, notable subfields of focus include Molecular Biology, Genetics, Surgery, Epidemiology, and Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health.

Their work addresses a variety of topics, which encompass:

  • Genomic variations and chromosomal abnormalities
  • RNA modifications and cancer
  • Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
  • Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders
  • Genomics and Rare Diseases
  • Connective tissue disorders research
  • Protein Tyrosine Phosphatases

Hirofumi Ohashi has published in multiple scientific venues, with frequent contributions to:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Antiviral Research
  • Journal of Human Genetics
  • Scientific Reports
  • Human Mutation

Selected recent publications by Hirofumi Ohashi include:

  • "Different efficacies of neutralizing antibodies and antiviral drugs on SARS-CoV-2 Omicron subvariants, BA.1 and BA.2," 2022, Antiviral Research

Hirofumi Ohashi has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Koichi Watashi
  • Daiju Oba
  • Gen Nishimura
  • Kenji Shimizu
  • Daisuke Akazawa

Ohashi's research encompasses a range of methodologies and investigative approaches relevant to genomic and molecular biology research, notably involving the study of genetic variations, epigenetic mechanisms, and viral infections. The involvement in pediatric and surgical subfields indicates a clinical as well as molecular perspective, aligning with the affiliation to a children's medical center.

Best Publications

  • Germline mutations in HRAS proto-oncogene cause Costello syndrome

    Yoko Aoki;Tetsuya Niihori;Hiroshi Kawame;Kenji Kurosawa

  • Haploinsufficiency of NSD1 causes Sotos syndrome

    Naohiro Kurotaki;Kiyoshi Imaizumi;Naoki Harada;Mitsuo Masuno

  • Germline KRAS and BRAF mutations in cardio-facio-cutaneous syndrome

    Tetsuya Niihori;Yoko Aoki;Yoko Narumi;Giovanni Neri

  • Mutations affecting components of the SWI/SNF complex cause Coffin-Siris syndrome.

    Yoshinori Tsurusaki;Nobuhiko Okamoto;Hirofumi Ohashi;Tomoki Kosho

  • An imprinted gene p57KIP2 is mutated in Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome.

    Izuho Hatada;Hirofumi Ohashi;Yoshimitsu Fukushima;Yasuhiko Kaneko

  • Olfactory Receptor–Gene Clusters, Genomic-Inversion Polymorphisms, and Common Chromosome Rearrangements

    Sabrina Giglio;Karl W. Broman;Naomichi Matsumoto;Vladimiro Calvari

  • Gain-of-Function Mutations in RIT1 Cause Noonan Syndrome, a RAS/MAPK Pathway Syndrome

    Yoko Aoki;Tetsuya Niihori;Toshihiro Banjo;Nobuhiko Okamoto

  • Deletions and epimutations affecting the human 14q32.2 imprinted region in individuals with paternal and maternal upd(14)-like phenotypes

    Masayo Kagami;Yoichi Sekita;Gen Nishimura;Masahito Irie

  • Mutations in FGFR1 and FGFR2 cause familial and sporadic Pfeiffer syndrome

    Ute Schell;Andreas Hehr;George J. Feldman;Nathaniel H. Robin

  • KDM6A point mutations cause Kabuki syndrome.

    Noriko Miyake;Seiji Mizuno;Nobuhiko Okamoto;Hirofumi Ohashi

  • Spectrum of MLL2 (ALR) mutations in 110 cases of Kabuki syndrome

    Mark C. Hannibal;Kati J. Buckingham;Sarah B. Ng;Jeffrey E. Ming

  • Skeletal features and growth patterns in 14 patients with haploinsufficiency of SHOX: Implications for the development of Turner syndrome

    Tomoki Kosho;Koji Muroya;Toshiro Nagai;Masatoshi Fujimoto

  • Defect of histone acetyltransferase activity of the nuclear transcriptional coactivator CBP in Rubinstein–Taybi syndrome

    Takashi Murata;Riki Kurokawa;Anna Krones;Ken Tatsumi

  • The phenotypic spectrum of COL2A1 mutations.

    Gen Nishimura;Nobuhiko Haga;Hiroshi Kitoh;Yoko Tanaka

  • MLL2 and KDM6A mutations in patients with Kabuki syndrome.

    Noriko Miyake;Eriko Koshimizu;Nobuhiko Okamoto;Seiji Mizuno

  • Genomic Imprinting of Human p57KIP2 and Its Reduced Expression in Wilms' Tumors

    Izuho Hatada;Johji Inazawa;Tatsuo Abe;Masahiro Nakayama

  • Loss-of-function mutations of CHST14 in a new type of Ehlers-Danlos syndrome.

    Noriko Miyake;Tomoki Kosho;Shuji Mizumoto;Tatsuya Furuichi

  • Fifty microdeletions among 112 cases of Sotos syndrome: low copy repeats possibly mediate the common deletion

    Naohiro Kurotaki;Naoki Harada;Osamu Shimokawa;Noriko Miyake

  • Functional analysis of PTPN11/SHP-2 mutants identified in Noonan syndrome and childhood leukemia

    Tetsuya Niihori;Yoko Aoki;Hirofumi Ohashi;Kenji Kurosawa

  • De novo SOX11 mutations cause Coffin–Siris syndrome

    Yoshinori Tsurusaki;Eriko Koshimizu;Hirofumi Ohashi;Shubha Phadke

Frequent Co-Authors

Yoshimitsu Fukushima
Yoshimitsu Fukushima Shinshu University
Naomichi Matsumoto
Naomichi Matsumoto Yokohama City University
Norio Niikawa
Norio Niikawa Health Sciences University of Hokkaido
Nobuhiko Okamoto
Nobuhiko Okamoto Osaka University
Noriko Miyake
Noriko Miyake Yokohama City University
Tsutomu Ogata
Tsutomu Ogata Hamamatsu University
Yoko Aoki
Yoko Aoki Tohoku University
Yoichi Matsubara
Yoichi Matsubara Tohoku University
Koh-ichiro Yoshiura
Koh-ichiro Yoshiura Nagasaki University

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