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Overview

J. Lee Nelson is affiliated with the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields within medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a focus on pediatrics, perinatology and child health, hematology, cancer research, oncology, and molecular biology.

The scientist's recent publications cover various topics related to immunology, hematopoietic transplantation, and pregnancy-related conditions. Notable recent papers include:

  • "Factors influencing maternal microchimerism throughout infancy and its impact on infant T cell immunity" (2022), published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation
  • "At Preeclampsia Diagnosis, Total Cell-Free DNA Concentration is Elevated and Correlates With Disease Severity" (2021), published in the Journal of the American Heart Association
  • "Cord blood maternal microchimerism following unrelated cord blood transplantation" (2020), published in Bone Marrow Transplantation
  • "Pregnancy-associated systemic gene expression compared to a pre-pregnancy baseline, among healthy women with term pregnancies" (2023), published in Frontiers in Immunology
  • "Ultrasensitive chimerism enhances measurable residual disease testing after allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation" (2023), published in Blood Advances

J. Lee Nelson frequently publishes in venues such as Arthritis Research & Therapy, Journal of Clinical Investigation, Journal of the American Heart Association, Bone Marrow Transplantation, and Frontiers in Immunology.

Their research contributions involve main topics including prenatal screening and diagnostics, studies on pregnancy and preeclampsia, cancer genomics and diagnostics, hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, rheumatoid arthritis research and therapies, cytokine signaling pathways and interactions, as well as cytomegalovirus and herpesvirus research.

Frequent co-authors in their research include:

  • Sami B. Kanaan
  • Matthew Wright
  • Mette Kiel Smed
  • Merete Lund Hetland
  • Vibeke Zoffmann

J. Lee Nelson's work reflects extensive interdisciplinary involvement, focusing on immunological and molecular mechanisms in both prenatal and clinical contexts, especially related to hematology, transplantation, and autoimmune conditions.

Best Publications

  • Stimulation of T cell autoreactivity by anomalous expression of NKG2D and its MIC ligands in rheumatoid arthritis.

    Veronika Groh;Anja Brühl;Hani El-Gabalawy;J. Lee Nelson

  • Microchimerism and HLA-compatible relationships of pregnancy in scleroderma

    J Lee Nelson;J Lee Nelson;Daniel E Furst;Sean Maloney;Ted Gooley

  • Microchimerism of maternal origin persists into adult life

    Sean Maloney;Anajane Smith;Daniel E. Furst;David Myerson

  • Long-Term Fetal Microchimerism in Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cell Subsets in Healthy Women and Women With Scleroderma

    Paul C. Evans;Nathalie Lambert;Sean Maloney;Dan E. Furst

  • Genome-wide association study of systemic sclerosis identifies CD247 as a new susceptibility locus

    Timothy R.D.J. Radstake;Olga Y Gorlova;Blanca Rueda;Jose Ezequiel Martin

  • A genomewide screen in multiplex rheumatoid arthritis families suggests genetic overlap with other autoimmune diseases.

    Damini Jawaheer;Michael F. Seldin;Christopher I. Amos;Wei V. Chen

  • PREGNANCY AND RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS

    J. Lee Nelson;Monika Østensen

  • Maternal–fetal immunology and autoimmune disease. Is some autoimmune disease auto‐alloimmune or allo‐autoimmune?

    J. Lee Nelson

  • High-dose immunosuppressive therapy and autologous hematopoietic cell transplantation for severe systemic sclerosis: long-term follow-up of the US multicenter pilot study.

    Richard A. Nash;Richard A. Nash;Peter A. McSweeney;Leslie J Crofford;Muneer Abidi

  • Microchimerism: An Investigative Frontier in Autoimmunity and Transplantation

    Kristina M. Adams;J. Lee Nelson

  • Screening the genome for rheumatoid arthritis susceptibility genes: A replication study and combined analysis of 512 multicase families

    Damini Jawaheer;Michael F. Seldin;Christopher I. Amos;Wei V. Chen

  • Identification of novel genetic markers associated with clinical phenotypes of systemic sclerosis through a genome-wide association strategy

    Olga Gorlova;Jose Ezequiel Martin;Blanca Rueda;Bobby P C Koeleman

  • Quantification of maternal microchimerism by HLA-specific real-time polymerase chain reaction: studies of healthy women and women with scleroderma.

    Nathalie C. Lambert;Timothy D. Erickson;Zhen Yan;Jennifer M. Pang

  • Male microchimerism in healthy women and women with scleroderma: cells or circulating DNA? A quantitative answer

    Nathalie C. Lambert;Y. M. Dennis Lo;Timothy D. Erickson;Tracy S. Tylee

  • Autoimmune disease during pregnancy and the microchimerism legacy of pregnancy.

    Kristina M. Adams Waldorf;J. Lee Nelson

  • High-dose immunosuppressive therapy for severe systemic sclerosis: initial outcomes.

    Peter A. McSweeney;Richard A. Nash;Keith M. Sullivan;Jan Storek

  • Positive selection in autoimmunity: Abnormal immune responses to a bacterial dnaJ antigenic determinant in patients with early rheumatoid arthritis

    S. Albani;E. C. Keystone;J. L. Nelson;W. E R Ollier

  • Myocardial-tissue-specific phenotype of maternal microchimerism in neonatal lupus congenital heart block.

    Anne M Stevens;Anne M Stevens;Anne M Stevens;Heidi M Hermes;Joe C Rutledge;Joe C Rutledge;Jill P Buyon

  • Maternal microchimerism in peripheral blood in type 1 diabetes and pancreatic islet β cell microchimerism

    J. Lee Nelson;Kathleen M. Gillespie;Nathalie C. Lambert;Anne M. Stevens

  • The otherness of self: microchimerism in health and disease

    J. Lee Nelson;J. Lee Nelson

  • Fetal cell microchimerism in tissue from multiple sites in women with systemic sclerosis.

    Kirby L. Johnson;J. Lee Nelson;Daniel E. Furst;Peter A. McSweeney

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniel E. Furst
Daniel E. Furst University of California, Los Angeles
Thomas D. Koepsell
Thomas D. Koepsell University of Washington
Jørn Olsen
Jørn Olsen Aarhus University
Maureen D. Mayes
Maureen D. Mayes The University of Texas at Austin
Janet R. Daling
Janet R. Daling Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Ted Gooley
Ted Gooley Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Christopher I. Amos
Christopher I. Amos Baylor College of Medicine
Wendy Leisenring
Wendy Leisenring Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Lior Pachter
Lior Pachter California Institute of Technology
Peter K. Gregersen
Peter K. Gregersen Feinstein Institute for Medical Research

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