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Overview

Jorge R. Oksenberg is affiliated with the University of California, San Francisco in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Medicine and Immunology and Microbiology, with significant contributions to subfields including Immunology, Pathology and Forensic Medicine, Neurology, Molecular Biology, and Oncology.

The scientist's work centers notably on Multiple Sclerosis Research Studies, covering topics such as T-cell and B-cell Immunology, Immune Cell Function and Interaction, Immunotherapy and Immune Responses, Cytokine Signaling Pathways and Interactions, Peripheral Neuropathies and Disorders, and Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms.

Frequent publication venues for Jorge R. Oksenberg include Annals of Neurology, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Frontiers in Immunology, Neurology, and Nature Medicine.

Coauthors often collaborating with this scientist include Stephen L. Hauser, Adam Santaniello, Bruce Cree, Jill A. Hollenbach, and Sergio E. Baranzini.

Some recent papers by Jorge R. Oksenberg are:

  • Fine-mapping, trans-ancestral and genomic analyses identify causal variants, cells, genes and drug targets for type 1 diabetes (2021, Nature Genetics)
  • Gut microbiome of multiple sclerosis patients and paired household healthy controls reveal associations with disease risk and course (2022, Cell)
  • KIR + CD8 + T cells suppress pathogenic T cells and are active in autoimmune diseases and COVID-19 (2022, Science)
  • Locus for severity implicates CNS resilience in progression of multiple sclerosis (2023, Nature)
  • Spinal Cord Atrophy Predicts Progressive Disease in Relapsing Multiple Sclerosis (2021, Annals of Neurology)

Best Publications

  • Genetic risk and a primary role for cell-mediated immune mechanisms in multiple sclerosis

    Stephen Sawcer;Garrett Hellenthal;Matti Pirinen;Chris C. A. Spencer

  • Gene-microarray analysis of multiple sclerosis lesions yields new targets validated in autoimmune encephalomyelitis

    Christopher Lock;Guy Hermans;Rosetta Pedotti;Andrea Brendolan

  • Analysis of immune-related loci identifies 48 new susceptibility variants for multiple sclerosis

    Ashley H. Beecham;Nikolaos A. Patsopoulos;Nikolaos A. Patsopoulos;Dionysia K. Xifara;Mary F. Davis

  • Common variants on chromosome 6p22.1 are associated with schizophrenia

    Jianxin Shi;Douglas F. Levinson;Jubao Duan;Alan R. Sanders

  • The influence of the proinflammatory cytokine, osteopontin, on autoimmune demyelinating disease.

    Dorothée Chabas;Sergio E. Baranzini;Dennis Mitchell;Claude C. A. Bernard

  • The neurobiology of multiple sclerosis: genes, inflammation, and neurodegeneration.

    Stephen L. Hauser;Jorge R. Oksenberg

  • Meta-analysis of genome scans and replication identify CD6, IRF8 and TNFRSF1A as new multiple sclerosis susceptibility loci

    Philip L De Jager;Philip L De Jager;Xiaoming Jia;Joanne Wang;Paul I W de Bakker

  • Interleukin 7 receptor α chain (IL7R) shows allelic and functional association with multiple sclerosis

    Simon G. Gregory;Silke Schmidt;Puneet Seth;Jorge R. Oksenberg

  • Cytokine gene polymorphism in human disease: on-line databases.

    J Bidwell;L Keen;G Gallagher;R Kimberly

  • Genome-wide association analysis of susceptibility and clinical phenotype in multiple sclerosis

    Sergio E. Baranzini;Joanne Wang;Rachel A. Gibson;Nicholas Galwey

  • Methods for high-density admixture mapping of disease genes.

    Nick Patterson;Neil Hattangadi;Barton Lane;Kirk E. Lohmueller

  • Genome, epigenome and RNA sequences of monozygotic twins discordant for multiple sclerosis.

    Sergio E. Baranzini;Joann Mudge;Jennifer C. Van Velkinburgh;Pouya Khankhanian

  • Genome-wide patterns of population structure and admixture in West Africans and African Americans

    Katarzyna Bryc;Adam Auton;Matthew R. Nelson;Jorge R. Oksenberg

  • Limited heterogeneity of rearranged T-cell receptor Vα transcripts in brains of multiple sclerosis patients

    Jorge R. Oksenberg;Simon Stuart;Ann B. Begovich;Robert B. Bell

  • Selection for T-cell receptor Vβ-Dβ-Jβ gene rearrangements with specificity for a myelin basic protein peptide in brain lesions of multiple sclerosis

    Jorge R. Oksenberg;Michael A. Panzara;Ann B. Begovich;Dennis Mitchell

  • Pathway and network-based analysis of genome-wide association studies in multiple sclerosis

    Sergio E. Baranzini;Nicholas W. Galwey;Joanne Wang;Pouya Khankhanian

  • The immunogenetics of multiple sclerosis: A comprehensive review

    Jill A. Hollenbach;Jorge R. Oksenberg

  • Vitamin D status is associated with relapse rate in pediatric-onset multiple sclerosis.

    Ellen M. Mowry;Lauren B. Krupp;Maria Milazzo;Dorothee Chabas

  • The genetics of multiple sclerosis: SNPs to pathways to pathogenesis

    Jorge R. Oksenberg;Sergio E. Baranzini;Stephen Sawcer;Stephen L. Hauser

  • Silent progression in disease activity-free relapsing multiple sclerosis.

    Bruce A C Cree;Jill A Hollenbach;Riley Bove

  • Cytokine gene polymorphism in human disease: on-line databases, Supplement 1

    J Bidwell;L Keen;G Gallagher;R Kimberly

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephen L. Hauser
Stephen L. Hauser University of California, San Francisco
Sergio E. Baranzini
Sergio E. Baranzini University of California, San Francisco
Lisa F. Barcellos
Lisa F. Barcellos University of California, Berkeley
David A. Hafler
David A. Hafler Yale University
Lawrence Steinman
Lawrence Steinman Stanford University
Margaret A. Pericak-Vance
Margaret A. Pericak-Vance University of Miami
Philip L. De Jager
Philip L. De Jager Columbia University
Stephen Sawcer
Stephen Sawcer University of Cambridge
Bruce A. C. Cree
Bruce A. C. Cree University of California, San Francisco
Jonathan L. Haines
Jonathan L. Haines Case Western Reserve University

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