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Overview

Jeanne B. Lawrence is affiliated with the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School in the United States. Their work is primarily situated within the field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with significant contributions to Molecular Biology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Plant Science, Cancer Research, and Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health.

Their research topics notably include RNA Research and Splicing, Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics, RNA modifications and cancer, Down syndrome and intellectual disability research, CRISPR and Genetic Engineering, Chromosomal and Genetic Variations, and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms.

Jeanne B. Lawrence has published frequently in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Cell Reports, Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, Molecular Cell, and Translational Science of Rare Diseases. Among these, bioRxiv features the highest number of their publications, with a total of seven papers.

Notable recent papers include:

  • Long non-coding RNAs: definitions, functions, challenges and recommendations, 2023, Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology
  • Nascent RNA scaffolds contribute to chromosome territory architecture and counter chromatin compaction, 2021, Molecular Cell
  • Opportunities, barriers, and recommendations in Down syndrome research, 2021, Translational Science of Rare Diseases
  • Silencing Trisomy 21 with XIST in Neural Stem Cells Promotes Neuronal Differentiation, 2020, Developmental Cell
  • Nuclear hubs built on RNAs and clustered organization of the genome, 2020, Current Opinion in Cell Biology

Frequent collaborators in their research include Lisa L. Hall, Kevin M. Creamer, Jan T. Czerminski, Kelly P. Smith, and Meg Byron.

Best Publications

  • Human polymorphism at microRNAs and microRNA target sites.

    Liuqing Yang;Chunru Lin;Chunyu Jin;Joy C. Yang

  • The human XIST gene: analysis of a 17 kb inactive X-specific RNA that contains conserved repeats and is highly localized within the nucleus.

    Carolyn J. Brown;Brian D. Hendrich;Jim L. Rupert;Ronald G. Lafreniere

  • An Architectural role for a nuclear noncoding RNA : NEAT1 RNA is essential for the structure of paraspeckles

    Christine Moulton Clemson;John N. Hutchinson;Sergio A. Sara;Alexander W. Ensminger;Alexander W. Ensminger

  • Molecular cloning and functional analysis of the adenovirus E1A-associated 300-kD protein (p300) reveals a protein with properties of a transcriptional adaptor.

    R Eckner;M E Ewen;D Newsome;M Gerdes

  • A screen for nuclear transcripts identifies two linked noncoding RNAs associated with SC35 splicing domains

    John N. Hutchinson;Alexander W. Ensminger;Alexander W. Ensminger;Christine Moulton Clemson;Christopher R. Lynch

  • A long noncoding RNA mediates both activation and repression of immune response genes.

    Susan Carpenter;Daniel Aiello;Maninjay K. Atianand;Emiliano P. Ricci

  • XIST RNA paints the inactive X chromosome at interphase: evidence for a novel RNA involved in nuclear/chromosome structure.

    Christine Moulton Clemson;John A. McNeil;Huntington F. Willard;Jeanne B. Lawrence

  • Intracellular localization of messenger RNAs for cytoskeletal proteins

    Jeanne Bentley Lawrence;Robert H. Singer

  • Sensitive, high-resolution chromatin and chromosome mapping in situ: presence and orientation of two closely integrated copies of EBV in a lymphoma line.

    Jeanne Bentley Lawrence;Carol A. Villnave;Robert H. Singer

  • Molecular cloning, chromosomal mapping, and expression of the cDNA for p107, a retinoblastoma gene product-related protein.

    Mark E. Ewen;Yigong Xing;Jeanne Bentley Lawrence;David M. Livingston

  • Highly localized tracks of specific transcripts within interphase nuclei visualized by in situ hybridization

    Jeanne Bentley Lawrence;Robert H. Singer;Lisa M. Marselle

  • Higher level organization of individual gene transcription and RNA splicing

    Yigong Xing;Carol V. Johnson;Paul R. Dobner;Jeanne Bentley Lawrence

  • Quantitative analysis of in situ hybridization methods for the detection of actin gene expression.

    Jeanne Bentley Lawrence;Robert H. Singer

  • Homologous ribosomal protein genes on the human X and Y chromosomes: escape from X inactivation and possible implications for Turner syndrome.

    Elizabeth M.C. Fisher;Peggy Beer-Romero;Laura G. Brown;Anne Ridley

  • A three-dimensional view of precursor messenger RNA metabolism within the mammalian nucleus

    Kenneth C. Carter;Douglas Bowman;Walter Carrington;Kevin Fogarty

  • E2F-4, a new member of the E2F transcription factor family, interacts with p107.

    D Ginsberg;G Vairo;T Chittenden;Z X Xiao

  • Translating dosage compensation to trisomy 21

    Jun Jiang;Yuanchun Jing;Gregory J. Cost;Jen Chieh Chiang

  • Discrete nuclear domains of poly(A) RNA and their relationship to the functional organization of the nucleus

    Kenneth C. Carter;Krishan L. Taneja;Jeanne B. Lawrence

  • Identification of a nuclear matrix targeting signal in the leukemia and bone-related AML/CBF-alpha transcription factors

    Congmei Zeng;Andre J. Van Wijnen;Janet L. Stein;Shari Meyers

  • Interphase and metaphase resolution of different distances within the human dystrophin gene

    Jeanne Bentley Lawrence;Robert H. Singer;John A. McNeil

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert H. Singer
Robert H. Singer Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Gary S. Stein
Gary S. Stein University of Vermont
Janet L. Stein
Janet L. Stein University of Vermont
Carolyn J. Brown
Carolyn J. Brown University of British Columbia
Jane B. Lian
Jane B. Lian University of Vermont
David M. Livingston
David M. Livingston Harvard University
Andre J. Van Wijnen
Andre J. Van Wijnen University of Connecticut Health Center
Stephen N. Jones
Stephen N. Jones University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
Aviv Regev
Aviv Regev Genentech

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