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Janet Chou is affiliated with Boston Children's Hospital in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within medicine, with significant contributions to immunology and microbiology. They have focused on various subfields including immunology, infectious diseases, molecular biology, genetics, and surgery.

Their scientific work covers a range of topics, notably in immunodeficiency and autoimmune disorders, SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 research, COVID-19 clinical research studies, Kawasaki disease and coronary complications, immune cell function and interaction, T-cell and B-cell immunology, and inflammasome and immune disorders.

Janet Chou has published articles in prominent venues such as the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Clinical Immunology, Journal of Clinical Investigation, and UNC Libraries. Their frequent collaborators include Raif S. Geha, Adrienne G. Randolph, Craig D. Platt, Jennifer E. Schuster, and Tanya Novak.

Recent publications by Janet Chou include:

  • Immunology of SARS-CoV-2 infection in children, 2022, Nature Immunology

Other notable papers in the field co-authored by or related to their research environment include:

  • Distinct clinical and immunological features of SARS-CoV-2-induced multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children, 2020, Journal of Clinical Investigation
  • The interferon landscape along the respiratory tract impacts the severity of COVID-19, 2021, Cell
  • Circulating Spike Protein Detected in Post-COVID-19 mRNA Vaccine Myocarditis, 2023, Circulation
  • Genotype and functional correlates of disease phenotype in deficiency of adenosine deaminase 2 (DADA2), 2020, Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology

Best Publications

  • Phenotype, penetrance, and treatment of 133 cytotoxic T-lymphocyte antigen 4–insufficient subjects

    Charlotte Schwab;Annemarie Gabrysch;Peter Olbrich;Virginia Patiño

  • Hematopoietic cell-derived microparticle tissue factor contributes to fibrin formation during thrombus propagation.

    Janet Chou;Nigel Mackman;Glenn Merrill-Skoloff;Brian Pedersen

  • Distinct clinical and immunological features of SARS-CoV-2-induced multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children.

    Pui Y. Lee;Megan Day-Lewis;Lauren A. Henderson;Kevin G. Friedman

  • Regulatory T-cell deficiency and immune dysregulation, polyendocrinopathy, enteropathy, X-linked–like disorder caused by loss-of-function mutations in LRBA

    Louis-Marie Charbonnier;Erin Janssen;Janet Chou;Toshiro K. Ohsumi

  • A missense mutation in TFRC, encoding transferrin receptor 1, causes combined immunodeficiency

    Haifa H. Jabara;Haifa H. Jabara;Steven E. Boyden;Steven E. Boyden;Janet Chou;Janet Chou;Narayanaswamy Ramesh;Narayanaswamy Ramesh

  • The interferon landscape along the respiratory tract impacts the severity of COVID-19.

    Benedetta Sposito;Achille Broggi;Laura Pandolfi;Stefania Crotta

  • Filamin A, the Arp2/3 complex, and the morphology and function of cortical actin filaments in human melanoma cells.

    Lisa A. Flanagan;Janet Chou;Hervé Falet;Ralph Neujahr

  • Spectrum of Phenotypes Associated with Mutations in LRBA

    Omar K. Alkhairy;Hassan Abolhassani;Hassan Abolhassani;Nima Rezaei;Mingyan Fang

  • Circulating Spike Protein Detected in Post–COVID-19 mRNA Vaccine Myocarditis

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  • Broad-spectrum antibodies against self-antigens and cytokines in RAG deficiency

    Jolan E. Walter;Lindsey B. Rosen;Krisztian Csomos;Jacob M. Rosenberg

  • Leukocyte-versus microparticle-mediated tissue factor transfer during arteriolar thrombus development

    Peter L. Gross;Barbara C. Furie;Glenn Merrill-Skoloff;Janet Chou

  • A recessive form of hyper-IgE syndrome by disruption of ZNF341-dependent STAT3 transcription and activity

    Vivien Béziat;Vivien Béziat;Juan Li;Jian-Xin Lin;Cindy S. Ma;Cindy S. Ma

  • Inherited DOCK2 Deficiency in Patients with Early-Onset Invasive Infections

    Kerry Dobbs;Cecilia Domínguez Conde;Shen-Ying Zhang;Silvia Parolini

  • Immunology of SARS-CoV-2 infection in children

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  • Leucine-rich repeat containing 8A (LRRC8A) is essential for T lymphocyte development and function

    Lalit Kumar;Janet Chou;Christina S.K. Yee;Arturo Borzutzky

  • Defective actin accumulation impairs human natural killer cell function in patients with dedicator of cytokinesis 8 deficiency.

    Melissa C. Mizesko;Melissa C. Mizesko;Pinaki P. Banerjee;Pinaki P. Banerjee;Linda Monaco-Shawver;Emily M. Mace;Emily M. Mace

  • An adjuvant strategy enabled by modulation of the physical properties of microbial ligands expands antigen immunogenicity

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  • A homozygous mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue 1 (MALT1) mutation in a family with combined immunodeficiency

    Haifa H. Jabara;Haifa H. Jabara;Toshiro Ohsumi;Janet Chou;Janet Chou;Michel J. Massaad;Michel J. Massaad

  • Genotype and functional correlates of disease phenotype in deficiency of adenosine deaminase 2 (DADA2).

    Pui Y. Lee;Pui Y. Lee;Erinn S. Kellner;Yuelong Huang;Elissa Furutani

  • Long-term outcomes of 176 patients with X-linked hyper-IgM syndrome treated with or without hematopoietic cell transplantation

    M. Teresa de la Morena;David Leonard;Troy R. Torgerson;Otavio Cabral-Marques

  • Immune dysregulation and multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) in individuals with haploinsufficiency of SOCS1.

    Pui Y. Lee;Craig D. Platt;Sabrina Weeks;Rachael F. Grace

  • Mechanisms underlying genetic susceptibility to multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C).

    Janet Chou;Craig D. Platt;Saddiq Habiballah;Alan A. Nguyen

  • Immunoglobulins in the treatment of COVID-19 infection: Proceed with caution!

    Alan A. Nguyen;Saddiq B. Habiballah;Craig D. Platt;Raif S. Geha

  • Activation of the small GTPases, rac and cdc42, after ligation of the platelet PAR-1 receptor.

    A. C. Azim;K. Barkalow;J. Chou;J. H. Hartwig

Frequent Co-Authors

Raif S. Geha
Raif S. Geha Boston Children's Hospital
Waleed Al-Herz
Waleed Al-Herz Kuwait University
Sung-Yun Pai
Sung-Yun Pai National Institutes of Health
Talal A. Chatila
Talal A. Chatila Boston Children's Hospital
Jordan S. Orange
Jordan S. Orange University of Pennsylvania
Luigi D. Notarangelo
Luigi D. Notarangelo National Institutes of Health
Sevgi Keles
Sevgi Keles Necmettin Erbakan University
Troy R. Torgerson
Troy R. Torgerson Allen Institute
Alessandro Plebani
Alessandro Plebani University of Brescia
Andrew R. Gennery
Andrew R. Gennery Newcastle University

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