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Ioannis Panagopoulos

Ioannis Panagopoulos

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Molecular Biology

D-Index
65
Citations
11870
World Ranking
1687
National Ranking
7

Overview

Ioannis Panagopoulos is affiliated with Oslo University Hospital in Norway and has a research focus primarily in Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. They have contributed extensively to the fields of Molecular Biology, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Rheumatology, Hematology, and Surgery.

Their research topics cover several specialized areas:

  • Sarcoma Diagnosis and Treatment
  • Acute Myeloid Leukemia Research
  • Bone Tumor Diagnosis and Treatments
  • Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics
  • Cancer and Skin Lesions
  • RNA Research and Splicing
  • Soft tissue tumor case studies

Among Panagopoulos's recent papers are:

  • NDRG1-PLAG1 and TRPS1-PLAG1 Fusion Genes in Chondroid Syringoma, 2020, Cancer Genomics & Proteomics
  • Molecular pathogenesis and prognostication of "low-grade" and "high-grade" endometrial stromal sarcoma, 2020, Genes Chromosomes and Cancer
  • Recurrent Fusion of the Genes for High-mobility Group AT-hook 2 (HMGA2) and Nuclear Receptor Co-repressor 2 (NCOR2) in Osteoclastic Giant Cell-rich Tumors of Bone, 2022, Cancer Genomics & Proteomics
  • A Small-Molecule Tankyrase Inhibitor Reduces Glioma Stem Cell Proliferation and Sphere Formation, 2020, Cancers
  • Fusion of the Lumican (LUM) Gene With the Ubiquitin Specific Peptidase 6 (USP6) Gene in an Aneurysmal Bone Cyst Carrying a t(12;17)(q21;p13) Chromosome Translocation, 2020, Cancer Genomics & Proteomics

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Panagopoulos include:

  • Sverre Heim
  • Kristin Andersen
  • Francesca Micci
  • Ludmila Gorunova
  • Ingvild Lobmaier

Panagopoulos has published extensively in several scientific journals, with the most frequent venues including:

  • Cancer Genomics & Proteomics
  • Anticancer Research
  • In Vivo
  • Genes Chromosomes and Cancer
  • Cancers

Best Publications

  • Fusion of the EWS and CHOP genes in myxoid liposarcoma.

    Ioannis Panagopoulos;M Höglund;Fredrik Mertens;Nils Mandahl

  • Clinicopathologic and molecular genetic characterization of low-grade fibromyxoid sarcoma, and cloning of a novel FUS/CREB3L1 fusion gene.

    Fredrik Mertens;Christopher D M Fletcher;Cristina R Antonescu;Jean-Michel Coindre

  • Fusion of the MORF and CBP genes in acute myeloid leukemia with the t(10;16)(q22;p13)

    Ioannis Panagopoulos;Thoas Fioretos;Margareth Isaksson;Ulf Samuelsson

  • Confirmation of the high frequency of the TMPRSS2/ERG fusion gene in prostate cancer

    Maria Johansson Soller;Margareth Isaksson;Peter Elfving;Wolfgang Soller

  • The chimeric FUS/CREB3l2 gene is specific for low‐grade fibromyxoid sarcoma

    Ioannis Panagopoulos;Clelia Tiziana Storlazzi;Clelia Tiziana Storlazzi;Christopher D.M. Fletcher;Jonathan A. Fletcher

  • Consistent rearrangement of chromosomal band 6p21 with generation of fusion genes JAZF1/PHF1 and EPC1/PHF1 in endometrial stromal sarcoma.

    Francesca Micci;Ioannis Panagopoulos;Bodil Bjerkehagen;Sverre Heim

  • Genetic Characterization of Angiomatoid Fibrous Histiocytoma Identifies Fusion of the FUS and ATF-1 Genes Induced by a Chromosomal Translocation Involving Bands 12q13 and 16p11

    Brenda L Waters;Ioannis Panagopoulos;Elizabeth F Allen

  • Expression patterns of the human sarcoma-associated genes FUS and EWS and the genomic structure of FUS

    Pierre Åman;Ioannis Panagopoulos;Carin Lassen;Thoas Fioretos

  • Fusion of the FUS and BBF2H7 genes in low grade fibromyxoid sarcoma.

    Clelia Tiziana Storlazzi;Fredrik Mertens;Antonio Nascimento;Margareth Isaksson

  • Activation of the GLI Oncogene through Fusion with the beta-Actin Gene (ACTB) in a Group of Distinctive Pericytic Neoplasms: Pericytoma with t(7;12).

    Anna Dahlén;Christopher D M Fletcher;Fredrik Mertens;Jonathan A Fletcher

  • Fusion of the EWSR1 and ATF1 genes without expression of the MITF-M transcript in angiomatoid fibrous histiocytoma

    Karolin Hansén Hallor;Fredrik Mertens;Yuesheng Jin;Jeanne M. Meis-Kindblom

  • Fusion of the SEC31L1 and ALK genes in an inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor.

    Ioannis Panagopoulos;Therese Nilsson;Henryk A. Domanski;Margareth Isaksson

  • ZC3H7B-BCOR high-grade endometrial stromal sarcomas: a report of 17 cases of a newly defined entity.

    Natasha Lewis;Robert A Soslow;Deborah F Delair;Kay J Park

  • Molecular genetic characterization of the EWS/ATF1 fusion gene in clear cell sarcoma of tendons and aponeuroses

    Ioannis Panagopoulos;Fredrik Mertens;Maria Debiec-Rychter;Margareth Isaksson

  • Two genetic pathways, t(1;10) and amplification of 3p11–12, in myxoinflammatory fibroblastic sarcoma, haemosiderotic fibrolipomatous tumour, and morphologically similar lesions

    Karolin H Hallor;Raphael Sciot;Johan Staaf;Markus Heidenblad

  • Fusion of the FUS gene with ERG in acute myeloid leukemia with t(16;21)(p11;q22)

    Ioannis Panagopoulos;Pierre Åman;Thoas Fioretos;Mattias Höglund

  • Lentivirus Vector Gene Expression during ES Cell-Derived Hematopoietic Development In Vitro

    Isao Hamaguchi;Niels-Bjarne Woods;Ioannis Panagopoulos;Elisabet Andersson

  • Additional evidence of a variant translocation t(12;22) with EWS/CHOP fusion in myxoid liposarcoma: clinicopathological features.

    Paola Dal Cin;Raf Sciot;Ioannis Panagopoulos;Pierre Åman

  • Vascular endothelial growth factor gene polymorphisms and pre‐eclampsia

    Dimitrios Papazoglou;Georgios Galazios;Michael I. Koukourakis;Ioannis Panagopoulos

  • Atlas of Genetics and Cytogenetics in Oncology and Haematology

    Anna Dahlén;Fredrik Mertens;Nils Mandahl;Ioannis Panagopoulos

Frequent Co-Authors

Sverre Heim
Sverre Heim Oslo University Hospital
Fredrik Mertens
Fredrik Mertens Lund University
Nils Mandahl
Nils Mandahl Lund University
Ben Davidson
Ben Davidson Oslo University Hospital
Felix Mitelman
Felix Mitelman Lund University
Bertil Johansson
Bertil Johansson Lund University
Thoas Fioretos
Thoas Fioretos Lund University
Mattias Höglund
Mattias Höglund Lund University
Claes G. Tropé
Claes G. Tropé University of Oslo
Mariano Rocchi
Mariano Rocchi University of Bari Aldo Moro

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