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Kazuhiko Nakabayashi is affiliated with the National Center For Child Health and Development in Japan. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with significant contributions in Medicine. Their work spans several specific subfields including Molecular Biology, Genetics, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, and Pathology and Forensic Medicine.

Their scientific investigations cover a range of topics such as Epigenetics and DNA Methylation, Genetic Syndromes and Imprinting, Prenatal Screening and Diagnostics, Renal and related cancers, Genetic and Clinical Aspects of Sex Determination and Chromosomal Abnormalities, Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders, and Cancer-related gene regulation.

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Nakabayashi include:

  • Reduced Representation Bisulfite Sequencing (RRBS), 2022, Methods in Molecular Biology
  • Development of Human Gut Organoids With Resident Tissue Macrophages as a Model of Intestinal Immune Responses, 2022, Cellular and Molecular Gastroenterology and Hepatology
  • ZNF445: a homozygous truncating variant in a patient with Temple syndrome and multilocus imprinting disturbance, 2021, Clinical Epigenetics
  • Identification of distinct loci for de novo DNA methylation by DNMT3A and DNMT3B during mammalian development, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Contribution of gene mutations to Silver-Russell syndrome phenotype: multigene sequencing analysis in 92 etiology-unknown patients, 2020, Clinical Epigenetics

Nakabayashi frequently publishes in venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Clinical Epigenetics
  • Scientific Reports
  • The Journal of Dermatology
  • Anticancer Research

They have collaborated often with the following researchers:

  • Kenichiro Hata
  • Maki Fukami
  • Tomoko Kawai
  • Keisuke Ishiwata
  • Hiroko Ogata-Kawata

Best Publications

  • Contribution of Intragenic DNA Methylation in Mouse Gametic DNA Methylomes to Establish Oocyte-Specific Heritable Marks

    Hisato Kobayashi;Takayuki Sakurai;Misaki Imai;Nozomi Takahashi

  • Disruption of a long-range cis-acting regulator for Shh causes preaxial polydactyly.

    Laura A. Lettice;Taizo Horikoshi;Simon J. H. Heaney;Marijke J. van Baren

  • The transcriptional network that controls growth arrest and differentiation in a human myeloid leukemia cell line

    Harukazu Suzuki;Alistair R.R. Forrest;Erik Van Nimwegen;Carsten O. Daub

  • Targeted DNA demethylation in vivo using dCas9-peptide repeat and scFv-TET1 catalytic domain fusions

    Sumiyo Morita;Hirofumi Noguchi;Takuro Horii;Kazuhiko Nakabayashi

  • Genome-wide parent-of-origin DNA methylation analysis reveals the intricacies of human imprinting and suggests a germline methylation-independent mechanism of establishment

    Franck Court;Chiharu Tayama;Valeria Romanelli;Alex Martin-Trujillo

  • Human genetic variation database, a reference database of genetic variations in the Japanese population.

    Koichiro Higasa;Noriko Miyake;Jun Yoshimura;Kohji Okamura

  • Human Chromosome 7: DNA Sequence and Biology

    Stephen W. Scherer;Joseph Cheung;Jeffrey R. MacDonald;Lucy R. Osborne

  • ZNF384-related fusion genes define a subgroup of childhood B-cell precursor acute lymphoblastic leukemia with a characteristic immunotype

    Shinsuke Hirabayashi;Kentaro Ohki;Kazuhiko Nakabayashi;Hitoshi Ichikawa

  • Absence of a Paternally Inherited FOXP2 Gene in Developmental Verbal Dyspraxia

    Lars Feuk;Aino Kalervo;Marita Lipsanen-Nyman;Jennifer Skaug

  • 5-Bromodeoxyuridine induces senescence-like phenomena in mammalian cells regardless of cell type or species.

    Michishita Eriko;Kazuhiko Nakabayashi;Toshikazu Suzuki;Sunil C. Kaul

  • Offspring production with sperm grown in vitro from cryopreserved testis tissues

    Tetsuhiro Yokonishi;Takuya Sato;Mitsuru Komeya;Kumiko Katagiri

  • Post-transcriptional regulation of endothelial nitric-oxide synthase by an overlapping antisense mRNA transcript.

    G. Brett Robb;Andrew R. Carson;Sharon C. Tai;Jason E. Fish

  • Endothelial nitric-oxide synthase antisense (NOS3AS) gene encodes an autophagy-related protein (APG9-like2) highly expressed in trophoblast.

    Takahiro Yamada;Andrew R. Carson;Isabella Caniggia;Kyohei Umebayashi

  • Histone methylation is mechanistically linked to DNA methylation at imprinting control regions in mammals

    Amandine Henckel;Kazuhiko Nakabayashi;Lionel A. Sanz;Lionel A. Sanz;Robert Feil;Robert Feil

  • Mutations in SERPINB7, Encoding a Member of the Serine Protease Inhibitor Superfamily, Cause Nagashima-type Palmoplantar Keratosis

    Akiharu Kubo;Aiko Shiohama;Takashi Sasaki;Kazuhiko Nakabayashi

  • Release of Telomeric DNA from Chromosomes in Immortal Human Cells Lacking Telomerase Activity

    Hideki Ogino;Kazuhiko Nakabayashi;Mikio Suzuki;Ei-ichi Takahashi

  • Identification of the imprinted KLF14 transcription factor undergoing human-specific accelerated evolution.

    Layla Parker-Katiraee;Andrew R Carson;Takahiro Yamada;Takahiro Yamada;Philippe Arnaud;Philippe Arnaud

  • Identification of C7orf11 (TTDN1) gene mutations and genetic heterogeneity in nonphotosensitive trichothiodystrophy.

    Kazuhiko Nakabayashi;Daniela Amann;Yan Ren;Ulpu Saarialho-Kere;Ulpu Saarialho-Kere

  • Genetic analysis of patients with the Saethre-Chotzen phenotype

    Kathy Chun;Ahmad S. Teebi;Jack H. Jung;Shelley Kennedy

  • Chromosomal regions containing high-density and ambiguously mapped putative single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) correlate with segmental duplications in the human genome

    Xavier Estivill;Joseph Cheung;Miguel Angel Pujana;Kazuhiko Nakabayashi

Frequent Co-Authors

Tsutomu Ogata
Tsutomu Ogata Hamamatsu University
Yoichi Matsubara
Yoichi Matsubara Tohoku University
Stephen W. Scherer
Stephen W. Scherer University of Toronto
Akihiro Umezawa
Akihiro Umezawa National Center For Child Health and Development
Senji Shirasawa
Senji Shirasawa Fukuoka University
Masayuki Amagai
Masayuki Amagai Keio University
Kenji Matsumoto
Kenji Matsumoto Izumi Municipal Hospital
Yoshihiro Ogawa
Yoshihiro Ogawa Kyushu University
Manel Esteller
Manel Esteller Josep Carreras Leukaemia Research Institute
Takehiko Sasazuki
Takehiko Sasazuki Kyushu University

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