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Lewis P. Rowland was affiliated with Columbia University Medical Center in the United States. Their research spanned multiple fields including medicine, neuroscience, and physics and astronomy, with particular focus on genetics, astrophysics, and cellular and molecular neuroscience. Their work contributed to several specialized areas such as neuroscience of respiration and sleep, genetics and neurodevelopmental disorders, neurogenetic and muscular disorders, cardiomyopathy and myosin studies, cardiac structural anomalies and repair, and astrophysics and star formation studies.

The scientist's publication record included papers published in venues such as Movement Disorders Clinical Practice, UNC Libraries, and arXiv (Cornell University). Some of the notable papers in their recent work included:

  • "Ondine's Curse in Frontotemporal Dementia with Parkinsonism Linked to Chromosome 17 Caused by MAPT Variants" (2021, Movement Disorders Clinical Practice)
  • "X-Linked Dominant Scapuloperoneal Myopathy Is Due to a Mutation in the Gene Encoding Four-and-a-Half-LIM Protein 1" (2020, UNC Libraries)
  • "Characterizing the contribution of dust-obscured star formation at $z \gtrsim$ 5 using 18 serendipitously identified [CII] emitters" (2024, arXiv (Cornell University))

Throughout their career, Lewis P. Rowland collaborated with several researchers, frequently co-authoring works with Laura Williams, Diana A. Olszewska, Conor Fearon, Brian Magennis, and Allan McCarthy.

Their interdisciplinary approach integrated studies from genetics to cardiology and astrophysics, illustrating a diverse research portfolio. This included investigations of neurodegenerative and neurogenetic disorders, along with research on cardiomyopathy and structural cardiac repair mechanisms, as well as astrophysical phenomena related to star formation in the early universe.

Best Publications

  • Mitochondrial myopathy, encephalopathy, lactic acidosis, and strokelike episodes: a distinctive clinical syndrome.

    Steven G. Pavlakis;Peter C. Phillips;Salvatore DiMauro;Darryl C. De Vivo;Darryl C. De Vivo

  • Mitochondrial DNA Deletions in Progressive External Ophthalmoplegia and Kearns-Sayre Syndrome

    Carlos T. Moraes;Salvatore Dimauro;Massimo Zeviani;Anne Lombes

  • Deletions of mitochondrial DNA in Kearns‐Sayre syndrome

    M. Zeviani;C. T. Moraes;S. DiMauro;H. Nakase

  • Inclusion body myositis and myopathies.

    Robert C. Griggs;Valerie Askanas;Salvatore DiMauro;Andrew Engel

  • Duchenne muscular dystrophy: Deficiency of dystrophin at the muscle cell surface

    Eduardo Bonilla;Craig E. Samitt;Armand F. Miranda;Armand F. Miranda;Arthur P. Hays;Arthur P. Hays

  • Hashimoto encephalopathy: syndrome or myth?

    Ji Y. Chong;Lewis P. Rowland;Robert D. Utiger

  • MELAS: Clinical features, biochemistry, and molecular genetics

    E. Ciafaloni;E. Ricci;S. Shanske;C. T. Moraes

  • Myasthenic crisis Clinical features, mortality, complications, and risk factors for prolonged intubation

    C. E. Thomas;S. A. Mayer;Y. Gungor;R. Swarup

  • Merritt's Neurology

    Elan D. Louis;Stephan A. Mayer;Lewis P. Rowland.

  • MELAS: An original case and clinical criteria for diagnosis

    Michio Hirano;Enzo Ricci;M. Richard Koenigsberger;Richard Defendini

  • Mitochondrial neurogastrointestinal encephalomyopathy (MNGIE): Clinical, biochemical, and genetic features of an autosomal recessive mitochondrial disorder

    Michio Hirano;G. Silvestri;D. M. Blake;A. Lombes

  • The natural history of primary lateral sclerosis

    P. H. Gordon;B. Cheng;I. B. Katz;M. Pinto

  • Mitochondrial neurogastrointestinal encephalomyopathy: An autosomal recessive disorder due to thymidine phosphorylase mutations

    I Nishino;A Spinazzola;A Papadimitriou;S Hammans

  • Clinical characteristics of a family with chromosome 17‐linked disinhibition‐dementia‐ parkinsonism‐amyotrophy complex

    T. Lynch;M. Sano;K. S. Marder;K. L. Bell

  • Plasma-cell dyscrasia and peripheral neuropathy with a monoclonal antibody to peripheral-nerve myelin.

    Norman Latov;William H. Sherman;Raffaello Nemni;Giuliana Galassi

  • Guidelines for the Determination of Death: Report of the Medical Consultants on the Diagnosis of Death to the President's Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine and Biomedical and Behavioral Research

    Lewis P. Rowland

  • Biochemistry of muscle membranes in Duchenne muscular dystrophy.

    Lewis P. Rowland

  • “Maximal” thymectomy for myasthenia gravis: Results

    Alfred Jaretzki;Audrey S. Penn;David S. Younger;Marianne Wolff

  • Muscle Phosphofructokinase Deficiency

    Robert B. Layzer;Lewis P. Rowland;Helen M. Ranney

  • Pathogenesis of muscular dystrophies.

    Lewis P. Rowland

Frequent Co-Authors

Salvatore DiMauro
Salvatore DiMauro Columbia University
Arthur P. Hays
Arthur P. Hays Columbia University
Norman Latov
Norman Latov Cornell University
Eduardo Bonilla
Eduardo Bonilla Columbia University
Michio Hirano
Michio Hirano Columbia University
Robert G. Miller
Robert G. Miller California Pacific Medical Center
Orla Hardiman
Orla Hardiman Trinity College Dublin
Michael J. Strong
Michael J. Strong University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Jeffrey D. Rothstein
Jeffrey D. Rothstein Johns Hopkins University
James A. Russell
James A. Russell Boston College

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