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Overview

Janine M. LaSalle is affiliated with the University of California, Davis in the United States and has contributed extensively to the fields of biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine. Their research primarily focuses on molecular biology, genetics, cognitive neuroscience, pediatrics, perinatology, child health, and health, toxicology, and mutagenesis.

The scientist has a significant publication record across multiple topics, including epigenetics and DNA methylation, autism spectrum disorder research, genetics and neurodevelopmental disorders, birth, development, and health, folate and B vitamins research, health, environment, cognitive aging, and RNA modifications and cancer.

Janine M. LaSalle's recent papers include:

  • Epigenomic signatures reveal mechanistic clues and predictive markers for autism spectrum disorder, 2023, Molecular Psychiatry
  • Placenta and fetal brain share a neurodevelopmental disorder DNA methylation profile in a mouse model of prenatal PCB exposure, 2022, Cell Reports
  • Placental methylome reveals a 22q13.33 brain regulatory gene locus associated with autism, 2022, Genome Biology
  • Exploring the evidence for epigenetic regulation of environmental influences on child health across generations, 2021, Communications Biology
  • Cord blood DNA methylome in newborns later diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder reflects early dysregulation of neurodevelopmental and X-linked genes, 2020, Genome Medicine

The scientist frequently publishes in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Communications Biology, Frontiers in Genetics, Molecular Psychiatry, and Human Molecular Genetics. Janine M. LaSalle has coauthored numerous works with researchers including Rebecca J. Schmidt, Benjamin I. Laufer, Kari Neier, Dag H. Yasui, and Charles E. Mordaunt.

Best Publications

  • Epigenetic overlap in autism-spectrum neurodevelopmental disorders: MECP2 deficiency causes reduced expression of UBE3A and GABRB3

    Rodney C. Samaco;Amber Hogart;Janine M. LaSalle

  • Integrated epigenomic analyses of neuronal MeCP2 reveal a role for long-range interaction with active genes

    Dag H. Yasui;Sailaja Peddada;Mark C. Bieda;Roxanne O. Vallero

  • Reduced MeCP2 expression is frequent in autism frontal cortex and correlates with aberrant MECP2 promoter methylation.

    Raman P Nagarajan;Amber R Hogart;Ynnez Gwye;Michelle R Martin

  • The human placenta methylome

    Diane I. Schroeder;John D. Blair;Paul Lott;Hung On Ken Yu

  • The comorbidity of autism with the genomic disorders of chromosome 15q11.2-q13

    Amber Hogart;David Wu;Janine M. LaSalle;N. Carolyn Schanen;N. Carolyn Schanen;N. Carolyn Schanen

  • Rett Syndrome Astrocytes Are Abnormal and Spread MeCP2 Deficiency through Gap Junctions

    Izumi Maezawa;Susan Swanberg;Danielle J Harvey;Janine M LaSalle

  • Small-Magnitude Effect Sizes in Epigenetic End Points are Important in Children's Environmental Health Studies: The Children's Environmental Health and Disease Prevention Research Center's Epigenetics Working Group.

    Carrie V. Breton;Carmen J. Marsit;Elaine Faustman;Kari Nadeau;Kari Nadeau

  • Homologous Association of Oppositely Imprinted Chromosomal Domains

    Janine M. LaSalle;Marc Lalande

  • RAB22 and RAB163/mouse BRCA2: Proteins that specifically interact with the RAD51 protein

    Ryushin Mizuta;Janine M. LaSalle;Hwei Ling Cheng;Akira Shinohara

  • 15q11-13 GABAA receptor genes are normally biallelically expressed in brain yet are subject to epigenetic dysregulation in autism-spectrum disorders

    Amber Hogart;Raman P. Nagarajan;Katherine A. Patzel;Dag H. Yasui

  • The role of MeCP2 in brain development and neurodevelopmental disorders.

    Michael L. Gonzales;Janine M. LaSalle

  • Multiple pathways regulate MeCP2 expression in normal brain development and exhibit defects in autism-spectrum disorders

    Rodney C. Samaco;Raman P. Nagarajan;Daniel Braunschweig;Janine M. LaSalle

  • A Prader–Willi locus lncRNA cloud modulates diurnal genes and energy expenditure

    Weston T. Powell;Rochelle L. Coulson;Florence K. Crary;Spencer S. Wong

  • Does HER2/neu expression provide prognostic information in patients with advanced urothelial carcinoma?

    Regina Gandour-Edwards;Primo N. Lara;K B S Ann Folkins;Janine M. LaSalle

  • R-loop formation at Snord116 mediates topotecan inhibition of Ube3a-antisense and allele-specific chromatin decondensation

    Weston T. Powell;Rochelle L. Coulson;Michael L. Gonzales;Florence K. Crary

  • The landscape of DNA methylation amid a perfect storm of autism aetiologies

    Annie Vogel Ciernia;Janine M LaSalle

  • Levels of select PCB and PBDE congeners in human postmortem brain reveal possible environmental involvement in 15q11-q13 duplication autism spectrum disorder.

    Michelle M. Mitchell;Rima Woods;Lai Har Chi;Rebecca Jean Schmidt

  • Quantitative localization of heterogeneous methyl-CpG-binding protein 2 (MeCP2) expression phenotypes in normal and Rett syndrome brain by laser scanning cytometry

    Janine M. LaSalle;Jared Goldstine;Damina Balmer;Claudia M. Greco

  • Elevated methyl-CpG-binding protein 2 expression is acquired during postnatal human brain development and is correlated with alternative polyadenylation.

    Damina Balmer;Jared Goldstine;Y. Manjula Rao;Janine M. LaSalle

  • Early signaling defects in human T cells anergized by T cell presentation of autoantigen.

    Janine M. LaSalle;Paul J. Tolentino;Gordon J. Freeman;Lee M. Nadler

Frequent Co-Authors

Irva Hertz-Picciotto
Irva Hertz-Picciotto University of California, Davis
Sally J Ozonoff
Sally J Ozonoff University of California, Davis
Marc Lalande
Marc Lalande University of Connecticut Health Center
Lisa A. Croen
Lisa A. Croen Kaiser Permanente
Orrin Devinsky
Orrin Devinsky New York University
Ian F Korf
Ian F Korf University of California, Davis
Isaac N. Pessah
Isaac N. Pessah University of California, Davis
David A. Hafler
David A. Hafler Yale University
Paul Ashwood
Paul Ashwood University of California, Davis
Ana Lleo
Ana Lleo Humanitas University

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