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Irene Roberts is affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple fields primarily focused on Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Within these broader disciplines, Roberts has contributed extensively to subfields such as Molecular Biology, Hematology, Immunology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, and Genetics.

Their scholarly output reflects a strong emphasis on hematological disorders and molecular mechanisms underlying blood cell development and malignancies. Key topics in Roberts's research include Acute Myeloid Leukemia Research, Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia research, Immune Cell Function and Interaction, Epigenetics and DNA Methylation, Protein Degradation and Inhibitors, Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics, and CAR-T cell therapy research.

Roberts has published in a variety of scientific venues, with frequent contributions to:

  • Blood
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Experimental Hematology
  • Nature Communications
  • Blood Advances

Notable recent papers by Roberts include:

  • The 5th edition of the World Health Organization Classification of Haematolymphoid Tumours: Myeloid and Histiocytic/Dendritic Neoplasms (2022, Leukemia)
  • Whole-genome sequencing of patients with rare diseases in a national health system (2020, Nature)
  • Single-Cell Analyses Reveal Megakaryocyte-Biased Hematopoiesis in Myelofibrosis and Identify Mutant Clone-Specific Targets (2020, Molecular Cell)
  • Blood and immune development in human fetal bone marrow and Down syndrome (2021, Nature)
  • Transitions in lineage specification and gene regulatory networks in hematopoietic stem/progenitor cells over human development (2021, Cell Reports)

Frequent collaborators in Roberts's research include:

  • Anindita Roy
  • Natalina Elliott
  • Thomas A. Milne
  • Deena Iskander
  • Anastasios Karadimitris

Best Publications

  • Identification of mesenchymal stem/progenitor cells in human first-trimester fetal blood, liver, and bone marrow

    Cesare Campagnoli;Irene A. G. Roberts;Sailesh Kumar;Phillip R. Bennett

  • Mutations in Fas associated with human lymphoproliferative syndrome and autoimmunity

    F. Rieux-Laucat;F. Le Deist;C. Hivroz;I. A. G. Roberts

  • Decoding human fetal liver haematopoiesis

    Dorin-Mirel Popescu;Rachel A. Botting;Emily Stephenson;Kile Green

  • Whole-genome sequencing of patients with rare diseases in a national health system.

    E Turro;W J Astle;W J Astle;K Megy;S Gräf

  • The role of mesenchymal stem cells in haemopoiesis.

    Francesco Dazzi;Rajesh Ramasamy;Sarah Glennie;Simon P. Jones

  • Related umbilical cord blood transplantation in patients with thalassemia and sickle cell disease

    Franco Locatelli;Vanderson Rocha;William Reed;Françoise Bernaudin

  • Bone involvement in sickle cell disease.

    Antonio Almeida;Irene Roberts

  • Impact of bone marrow transplantation for symptomatic sickle cell disease: an interim report

    Mark C. Walters;Rainer Storb;Melinda Patience;Wendy Leisenring

  • Transfusion guidelines for neonates and older children.

    Brenda E S Gibson;Audrey Todd;Irene Roberts;Derwood Pamphilon

  • Whole-genome sequencing of patients with rare diseases in a national health system

    Ernest Turro;William J Astle;Karyn Megy;Stefan Graf

  • Stable mixed hematopoietic chimerism after bone marrow transplantation for sickle cell anemia

    M.C Walters;M Patience;W Leisenring;Z.R Rogers

  • Microchimerism in female bone marrow and bone decades after fetal mesenchymal stem-cell trafficking in pregnancy

    Keelin O'Donoghue;Jerry Chan;Josu de la Fuente;Nigel Kennea

  • Intrauterine T-cell activation and increased proinflammatory cytokine concentrations in preterm infants with cerebral lesions

    PJ Duggan;EF Maalouf;TL Watts;Mhf Sullivan

  • Somatic mosaicism in Fanconi anemia: molecular basis and clinical significance.

    J.R. Lo Ten Foe;M.L. <b Kwee;M.A. Rooimans;A.B. Oostra

  • Natural history of GATA1 mutations in Down syndrome

    Momin Ahmed;Alexander Sternberg;Georgina Hall;Angela Thomas

  • Hypomorphic promoter mutation in PIGM causes inherited glycosylphosphatidylinositol deficiency.

    A M Almeida;Y Murakami;D M Layton;P Hillmen

  • Clinical, immunological, and pathological consequences of Fas-deficient conditions

    Françoise Le Deist;Jean-François Emile;Fredéric Rieux-Laucat;Malika Benkerrou

  • Outcome of patients with hemoglobinopathies given either cord blood or bone marrow transplantation from an HLA-identical sibling

    Franco Locatelli;Nabil Kabbara;Annalisa Ruggeri;Ardeshir Ghavamzadeh

  • Human CD1d-glycolipid tetramers generated by in vitro oxidative refolding chromatography.

    Anastasios Karadimitris;Stephan Gadola;Myriam Altamirano;Dave Brown

  • Neonatal thrombocytopenia: causes and management.

    I Roberts;N A Murray

Frequent Co-Authors

Paresh Vyas
Paresh Vyas University of Oxford
Nicholas M. Fisk
Nicholas M. Fisk University of Queensland
Inderjeet Dokal
Inderjeet Dokal Queen Mary University of London
Phillip R. Bennett
Phillip R. Bennett Imperial College London
Richard Szydlo
Richard Szydlo Imperial College London
Keith M. Sullivan
Keith M. Sullivan Duke University
Thomas A. Milne
Thomas A. Milne University of Oxford
Suzanne M. Watt
Suzanne M. Watt University of Oxford
David M. Bodine
David M. Bodine National Institutes of Health
Lucio Luzzatto
Lucio Luzzatto University of Florence

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