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James J. Lee

James J. Lee

D-Index & Metrics

Immunology

D-Index
95
Citations
41565
World Ranking
882
National Ranking
490

Medicine

D-Index
97
Citations
42214
World Ranking
9151
National Ranking
4722

Overview

James J. Lee was affiliated with the Mayo Clinic in the United States. Their research spanned several fields of study, primarily focusing on Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Medicine, and Social Sciences. Subfields addressed in their publications included Genetics, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Sociology and Political Science, Molecular Biology, and Clinical Psychology.

Their scholarly work covered a range of topics including Genetic Associations and Epidemiology, Cognitive Abilities and Testing, Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies, Personality Traits and Psychology, Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks, Health Disparities and Outcomes, and Child Welfare and Adoption.

Lee's recent publications featured the following papers:

  • Genomic analysis of diet composition finds novel loci and associations with health and lifestyle (2020, Molecular Psychiatry)
  • The Contribution of Cognitive and Noncognitive Skills to Intergenerational Social Mobility (2020, Psychological Science)
  • Family-GWAS reveals effects of environment and mating on genetic associations (2024, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory))
  • Genetic and environmental contributions to IQ in adoptive and biological families with 30-year-old offspring (2021, Intelligence)
  • Parent Contributions to the Development of Political Attitudes in Adoptive and Biological Families (2021, Psychological Science)

Their frequent co-authors included:

  • Emily A. Willoughby
  • Alexandros Giannelis
  • Matt McGue
  • William G. Iacono
  • Harold Snieder

Lee published extensively in several venues, with multiple works appearing in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Intelligence, Molecular Psychiatry, Psychological Science, and Nature Human Behaviour.

Best Publications

  • Exosome-mediated transfer of mRNAs and microRNAs is a novel mechanism of genetic exchange between cells

    Hadi Valadi;Karin Ekström;Apostolos Bossios;Margareta Sjöstrand

  • Catapult-like release of mitochondrial DNA by eosinophils contributes to antibacterial defense

    Shida Yousefi;Jeffrey A. Gold;Nicola Andina;James J. Lee

  • Primary structure, gene organization and polypeptide expression of poliovirus RNA

    Naomi Kitamura;Bert L. Semler;Paul G. Rothberg;Glenn R. Larsen

  • Defining a link with asthma in mice congenitally deficient in eosinophils.

    James J. Lee;Dawn Dimina;Mi Mi P. Macias;Sergei I. Ochkur

  • Eosinophils are required for the maintenance of plasma cells in the bone marrow

    Van Trung Chu;Anja Fröhlich;Gudrun Steinhauser;Tobias Scheel

  • Interleukin-5 expression in the lung epithelium of transgenic mice leads to pulmonary changes pathognomonic of asthma.

    James J. Lee;Michael P. McGarry;Steven C. Farmer;Karen L. Denzler

  • A tale of two controversies: defining both the role of peroxidases in nitrotyrosine formation in vivo using eosinophil peroxidase and myeloperoxidase-deficient mice, and the nature of peroxidase-generated reactive nitrogen species.

    Marie Luise Brennan;Weijia Wu;Xiaoming Fu;Zhongzhu Shen

  • Fundamental signals that regulate eosinophil homing to the gastrointestinal tract

    Anil Mishra;Simon P. Hogan;James J. Lee;Paul S. Foster

  • Eosinophils in health and disease: The LIAR hypothesis

    James J. Lee;Elizabeth A. Jacobsen;Michael P. McGarry;Robert P. Schleimer

  • Adenomatous Polyps Are Driven by Microbe-Instigated Focal Inflammation and Are Controlled by IL-10–Producing T Cells

    Kristen L. Dennis;Yunwei Wang;Nichole R. Blatner;Shuya Wang

  • Symptoms Have Modest Accuracy in Detecting Endoscopic and Histologic Remission in Adults With Eosinophilic Esophagitis

    Ekaterina Safroneeva;Alex Straumann;Alex Straumann;Michael Coslovsky;Marcel Zwahlen

  • Antiinterleukin-5 antibody prevents airway hyperresponsiveness in a murine model of airway sensitization.

    E Hamelmann;A Oshiba;J Loader;G L Larsen

  • Allergic pulmonary inflammation in mice is dependent on eosinophil-induced recruitment of effector T cells

    Elizabeth A. Jacobsen;Sergei I. Ochkur;Ralph S. Pero;Anna G. Taranova

  • Expression of IL-5 in thymocytes/T cells leads to the development of a massive eosinophilia, extramedullary eosinophilopoiesis, and unique histopathologies.

    Nancy A. Lee;Michael P. McGarry;Kirsten A. Larson;Margaret A. Horton

  • The oesophageal string test: a novel, minimally invasive method measures mucosal inflammation in eosinophilic oesophagitis

    Glenn T. Furuta;Amir F. Kagalwalla;James J. Lee;Preeth Alumkal

  • The expanding role(s) of eosinophils in health and disease

    Elizabeth A. Jacobsen;Richard A. Helmers;James J. Lee;Nancy A. Lee

  • Metabolic Consequences of Adenosine Deaminase Deficiency in Mice Are Associated with Defects in Alveogenesis, Pulmonary Inflammation, and Airway Obstruction

    Michael R. Blackburn;Jonathan B. Volmer;Janci L. Thrasher;Hongyan Zhong

  • The Construction of Transgenic and Gene Knockout/Knockin Mouse Models of Human Disease

    Alfred Doyle;Michael P. McGarry;Nancy A. Lee;James J. Lee

  • Eosinophils: singularly destructive effector cells or purveyors of immunoregulation?

    Elizabeth A. Jacobsen;Anna G. Taranova;Nancy A. Lee;James J. Lee

  • The late, but not early, asthmatic response is dependent on IL-5 and correlates with eosinophil infiltration

    Grzegorz Cieslewicz;Adrian Tomkinson;Andy Adler;Catherine Duez

  • Interleukin-5 expression in the lung epithelium of transgenic mice leads to pulmonary changes pathognomonic of asthma

    J. J. Lee;M. P. McGarry;S. C. Farmer;K. L. Denzler

Frequent Co-Authors

Nancy A. Lee
Nancy A. Lee Mayo Clinic
Glenn T. Furuta
Glenn T. Furuta University of Colorado Denver
Steven J. Ackerman
Steven J. Ackerman University of Illinois at Chicago
Parameswaran Nair
Parameswaran Nair McMaster University
David Abraham
David Abraham University College London
Redwan Moqbel
Redwan Moqbel University of Manitoba
Erwin W. Gelfand
Erwin W. Gelfand University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Thomas J. Nolan
Thomas J. Nolan University of Pennsylvania
Jan Lötvall
Jan Lötvall University of Gothenburg
Gerhard A. Schad
Gerhard A. Schad University of Pennsylvania

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