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Maria Teresa Bassi is affiliated with the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple disciplines within biomedical science, focusing particularly on biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, medicine, and neuroscience. The scientist's work engages deeply with cellular and molecular neuroscience, genetics, molecular biology, pediatrics, perinatology, child health, and cell biology.

The principal topics of Maria Teresa Bassi's research include hereditary neurological disorders, genetic neurodegenerative diseases, genetics and neurodevelopmental disorders, mitochondrial function and pathology, genomics and rare diseases, neurogenetic and muscular disorders research, and fetal and pediatric neurological disorders.

Recent notable publications led or co-authored by Maria Teresa Bassi are:

  • Clinical and genetic features of a cohort of patients with MFN2-related neuropathy, 2022, Scientific Reports
  • Extreme phenotypic heterogeneity in non-expansion spinocerebellar ataxias, 2023, The American Journal of Human Genetics
  • Loss of ap4s1 in zebrafish leads to neurodevelopmental defects resembling spastic paraplegia 52, 2020, Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology
  • Monoallelic KIF1A-related disorders: a multicenter cross sectional study and systematic literature review, 2021, Journal of Neurology
  • Refining the mutational spectrum and gene-phenotype correlates in pontocerebellar hypoplasia: results of a multicentric study, 2021, Journal of Medical Genetics

Collaborations are a significant aspect of their work, with frequent co-authors including Elena Panzeri, Filippo M. Santorelli, Romina Romaniello, Andrea Martinuzzi, and Maria Grazia D'Angelo.

Maria Teresa Bassi publishes frequently in several venues, among which are Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, Journal of Neurology, Neurological Sciences, and Journal of Medical Genetics.

Best Publications

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition)

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Kotb Abdelmohsen;Akihisa Abe;Joynal Abedin

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition)

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Kotb Abdelmohsen;Akihisa Abe;Joynal Abedin

  • X-linked situs abnormalities result from mutations in ZIC3

    Marinella Gebbia;Giovanni B. Ferrero;Giuseppe Pilia;Maria T. Bassi

  • De novo mutations in ATP1A3 cause alternating hemiplegia of childhood

    Erin L Heinzen;Kathryn J Swoboda;Yuki Hitomi;Fiorella Gurrieri

  • Non-type I cystinuria caused by mutations in SLC7A9, encoding a subunit (bo,+AT) of rBAT.

    Lídia Feliubadaló;Mariona Font;Jesús Purroy;Ferran Rousaud

  • Characterization and mutation analysis of human LEFTY A and LEFTY B, homologues of murine genes implicated in left-right axis development.

    K. Kosaki;M. T. Bassi;R. Kosaki;M. Lewin

  • Erratum to: Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition) (Autophagy, 12, 1, 1-222, 10.1080/15548627.2015.1100356

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Kotb Abdelmohsen;Akihisa Abe;Joynal Abedin

  • Cloning of the Gene Encoding a Novel Integral Membrane Protein, Mucolipidin—and Identification of the Two Major Founder Mutations Causing Mucolipidosis Type IV

    Maria T. Bassi;Marta Manzoni;Eugenio Monti;Maria T. Pizzo

  • SLC7A7, encoding a putative permease-related protein, is mutated in patients with lysinuric protein intolerance.

    Giuseppe Borsani;Maria Teresa Bassi;Maria Pia Sperandeo;Alessandro De Grandi

  • Cloning of the gene for ocular albinism type 1 from the distal short arm of the X chromosome

    M. T. Bassi;M. V. Schiaffino;Alessandra Renieri;F. De Nigris

  • Agenesis of the Corpus Callosum: Clinical and Genetic Study in 63 Young Patients

    Maria Francesca Bedeschi;Maria Clara Bonaglia;Rita Grasso;Alda Pellegri

  • A complex syndrome of left-right axis, central nervous system and axial skeleton defects in Zic3 mutant mice.

    Smita M. Purandare;Stephanie M. Ware;Kin Ming Kwan;Marinella Gebbia

  • Identification and expression of NEU3, a novel human sialidase associated to the plasma membrane.

    Eugenio Monti;Maria T. Bassi;Nadia Papini;Mirko Riboni

  • A novel mutation in KCNQ2 associated with BFNC, drug resistant epilepsy, and mental retardation.

    R Borgatti;C Zucca;A Cavallini;M Ferrario

  • Identification and characterisation of human xCT that co-expresses, with 4F2 heavy chain, the amino acid transport activity system xc-.

    Maria Teresa Bassi;Emma Gasol;Marta Manzoni;Marta Pineda

  • Molecular cloning and characterization of NEU4, the fourth member of the human sialidase gene family.

    E Monti;M.T Bassi;R Bresciani;S Civini

  • A novel mutation in the ATP1A2 gene causes alternating hemiplegia of childhood

    Mt Bassi;N. Bresolin;A. Tonelli;K. Nazos

  • Functional analysis of mutations in SLC7A9, and genotype-phenotype correlation in non-Type I cystinuria.

    Mariona Font;Lídia Feliubadaló;Xavier Estivill;Virginia Nunes

  • X-Linked Late-Onset Sensorineural Deafness Caused by a Deletion Involving OA1 and a Novel Gene Containing WD-40 Repeats

    Maria T. Bassi;Rajkumar S. Ramesar;Barbara Caciotti;Ingrid M. Winship

  • Identification and characterization of AFG3L2, a novel paraplegin-related gene.

    Sandro Banfi;Maria Teresa Bassi;Grazia Andolfi;Anna Marchitiello

Frequent Co-Authors

Nereo Bresolin
Nereo Bresolin University of Milan
Emilio Clementi
Emilio Clementi University of Milan
Andrea Ballabio
Andrea Ballabio Baylor College of Medicine
Giuseppe Borsani
Giuseppe Borsani University of Brescia
Andrea Martinuzzi
Andrea Martinuzzi University of Turin
Enza Maria Valente
Enza Maria Valente University of Pavia
Evelina Gatti
Evelina Gatti Aix-Marseille University
Antonio Zorzano
Antonio Zorzano University of Barcelona
Rocco Liguori
Rocco Liguori University of Bologna
Shazib Pervaiz
Shazib Pervaiz National University of Singapore

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