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Mitsuhiro Kato

Mitsuhiro Kato

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D-Index
64
Citations
13857
World Ranking
2802
National Ranking
112

Overview

Mitsuhiro Kato is affiliated with Showa University in Japan, specializing in research within the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, as well as Medicine. Their work extensively covers Genetics, Molecular Biology, Psychiatry and Mental Health, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, and Cell Biology.

The scientist's research primarily focuses on Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders, Epilepsy research and treatment, Genomics and Rare Diseases, Genomic variations and chromosomal abnormalities, Metabolism and Genetic Disorders, Ion Transport and Channel Regulation, and Pharmacological Effects and Toxicity Studies.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Mitsuhiro Kato include:

  • Naomichi Matsumoto
  • Mitsuko Nakashima
  • Hirotomo Saitsu
  • Satoko Miyatake
  • Takeshi Mizuguchi

Their scholarly contributions have been published in several notable venues, including:

  • Journal of Human Genetics
  • Brain and Development
  • Brain and Development Case Reports
  • The American Journal of Human Genetics
  • American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Mitsuhiro Kato include:

  • AADC deficiency from infancy to adulthood: Symptoms and developmental outcome in an international cohort of 63 patients, 2020, Journal of Inherited Metabolic Disease
  • ATP6V0A1 encoding the a1-subunit of the V0 domain of vacuolar H+-ATPases is essential for brain development in humans and mice, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Mutation-specific pathophysiological mechanisms define different neurodevelopmental disorders associated with SATB1 dysfunction, 2021, The American Journal of Human Genetics
  • Large-scale discovery of novel neurodevelopmental disorder-related genes through a unified analysis of single-nucleotide and copy number variants, 2022, Genome Medicine
  • Prenatal clinical manifestations in individuals with COL4A1/2 variants, 2020, Journal of Medical Genetics

Best Publications

  • Mutation of ARX causes abnormal development of forebrain and testes in mice and X-linked lissencephaly with abnormal genitalia in humans.

    Kunio Kitamura;Masako Yanazawa;Noriyuki Sugiyama;Hirohito Miura

  • De novo mutations in the gene encoding STXBP1 (MUNC18-1) cause early infantile epileptic encephalopathy

    Hirotomo Saitsu;Mitsuhiro Kato;Takeshi Mizuguchi;Keisuke Hamada

  • Mutations affecting components of the SWI/SNF complex cause Coffin-Siris syndrome.

    Yoshinori Tsurusaki;Nobuhiko Okamoto;Hirofumi Ohashi;Tomoki Kosho

  • De novo mutations in the autophagy gene WDR45 cause static encephalopathy of childhood with neurodegeneration in adulthood

    Hirotomo Saitsu;Taki Nishimura;Taki Nishimura;Kazuhiro Muramatsu;Hirofumi Kodera

  • Lissencephaly and the molecular basis of neuronal migration.

    Mitsuhiro Kato;William B. Dobyns

  • Mutations of ARX are associated with striking pleiotropy and consistent genotype–phenotype correlation

    Mitsuhiro Kato;Soma Das;Kristin Petras;Kunio Kitamura

  • Clinical spectrum of early onset epileptic encephalopathies caused by KCNQ2 mutation.

    Mitsuhiro Kato;Takanori Yamagata;Masaya Kubota;Hiroshi Arai

  • De Novo Mutations in GNAO1, Encoding a Gαo Subunit of Heterotrimeric G Proteins, Cause Epileptic Encephalopathy

    Kazuyuki Nakamura;Kazuyuki Nakamura;Hirofumi Kodera;Tenpei Akita;Masaaki Shiina

  • Clinical and biochemical features of aromatic L-amino acid decarboxylase deficiency.

    L. Brun;L. H. Ngu;W. T. Keng;G. S. Ch'ng

  • Somatic Mutations in the MTOR gene cause focal cortical dysplasia type IIb

    Mitsuko Nakashima;Hirotomo Saitsu;Nobuyuki Takei;Jun Tohyama

  • Clinical spectrum of SCN2A mutations expanding to Ohtahara syndrome

    Kazuyuki Nakamura;Mitsuhiro Kato;Hitoshi Osaka;Sumimasa Yamashita

  • MLL2 and KDM6A mutations in patients with Kabuki syndrome.

    Noriko Miyake;Eriko Koshimizu;Nobuhiko Okamoto;Seiji Mizuno

  • A Longer Polyalanine Expansion Mutation in the ARX Gene Causes Early Infantile Epileptic Encephalopathy with Suppression-Burst Pattern (Ohtahara Syndrome)

    Mitsuhiro Kato;Shinji Saitoh;Atsushi Kamei;Hideaki Shiraishi

  • Dominant-Negative Mutations in α-II Spectrin Cause West Syndrome with Severe Cerebral Hypomyelination, Spastic Quadriplegia, and Developmental Delay

    Hirotomo Saitsu;Jun Tohyama;Tatsuro Kumada;Kiyoshi Egawa

  • Phenotypic Spectrum of COL4A1 Mutations: Porencephaly to Schizencephaly

    Yuriko Yoneda;Kazuhiro Haginoya;Mitsuhiro Kato;Hitoshi Osaka

  • Expansion of the first PolyA tract of ARX causes infantile spasms and status dystonicus.

    R. Guerrini;F. Moro;M. Kato;A. J. Barkovich

  • X-linked lissencephaly with abnormal genitalia as a tangential migration disorder causing intractable epilepsy: proposal for a new term, "interneuronopathy".

    Mitsuhiro Kato;William B. Dobyns

  • Integrative Analyses of De Novo Mutations Provide Deeper Biological Insights into Autism Spectrum Disorder.

    Atsushi Takata;Noriko Miyake;Yoshinori Tsurusaki;Ryoko Fukai

  • STXBP1 mutations in early infantile epileptic encephalopathy with suppression‐burst pattern

    Hirotomo Saitsu;Mitsuhiro Kato;Ippei Okada;Kenji E. Orii

  • Early onset epileptic encephalopathy caused by de novo SCN8A mutations.

    Chihiro Ohba;Mitsuhiro Kato;Satoru Takahashi;Tally Lerman-Sagie

Frequent Co-Authors

Naomichi Matsumoto
Naomichi Matsumoto Yokohama City University
Hirotomo Saitsu
Hirotomo Saitsu Hamamatsu University
Noriko Miyake
Noriko Miyake Yokohama City University
Yoshinori Tsurusaki
Yoshinori Tsurusaki Sagami Women's University
Nobuhiko Okamoto
Nobuhiko Okamoto Osaka University
Tatsuhiko Tsunoda
Tatsuhiko Tsunoda University of Tokyo
Sachio Takashima
Sachio Takashima Tottori University
Fumiaki Tanaka
Fumiaki Tanaka Yokohama City University
Norio Niikawa
Norio Niikawa Health Sciences University of Hokkaido
William B. Dobyns
William B. Dobyns University of Minnesota

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