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Piero Rinaldo

Piero Rinaldo

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Medicine

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78
Citations
18217
World Ranking
18187
National Ranking
9067

Overview

Piero Rinaldo is affiliated with the Mayo Clinic in the United States. Their research spans a broad range of topics primarily within the fields of Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Key subfields contributing to their work include Physiology, Clinical Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, and Genetics.

The scientist's research interests align closely with several main themes, including Metabolism and Genetic Disorders, Lysosomal Storage Disorders Research, Diet and Metabolism Studies, Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies, Neonatal Health and Biochemistry, Tryptophan and Brain Disorders, and Amino Acid Enzymes and Metabolism.

Some recent publications by Piero Rinaldo include:

  • Alterations in acylcarnitines, amines, and lipids inform about the mechanism of action of citalopram/escitalopram in major depression (2021), published in Translational Psychiatry
  • Indoxyl sulfate, a gut microbiome-derived uremic toxin, is associated with psychic anxiety and its functional magnetic resonance imaging-based neurologic signature (2021), published in Scientific Reports
  • The critical role of psychosine in screening, diagnosis, and monitoring of Krabbe disease (2020), published in Genetics in Medicine
  • Performance of Expanded Newborn Screening in Norway Supported by Post-Analytical Bioinformatics Tools and Rapid Second-Tier DNA Analyses (2020), published in International Journal of Neonatal Screening
  • Incorporation of Second-Tier Biomarker Testing Improves the Specificity of Newborn Screening for Mucopolysaccharidosis Type I (2020), published in International Journal of Neonatal Screening

Frequent publication venues for this scientist include:

  • International Journal of Neonatal Screening (6 publications)
  • Molecular Genetics and Metabolism (5 publications)
  • Genetics in Medicine (3 publications)
  • JIMD Reports (3 publications)
  • Metabolic Brain Disease (2 publications)

Piero Rinaldo has collaborated extensively with other researchers. Frequent coauthors include Silvia Tortorelli, Devin Oglesbee, Dietrich Matern, Kimiyo Raymond, and Coleman Turgeon.

Best Publications

  • Newborn screening: toward a uniform screening panel and system

    Michael S. Watson;Marie Y. Mann;Michele A. Lloyd-Puryear;Piero Rinaldo

  • Newborn Screening: Toward a Uniform Screening Panel and System—Executive Summary

    Michael S. Watson;Marie Y. Mann;Michele A. Lloyd-Puryear;Piero Rinaldo

  • Fatty Acid Oxidation Disorders

    Piero Rinaldo;Dietrich Matern;Michael J. Bennett

  • A Fetal Fatty-Acid Oxidation Disorder as a Cause of Liver Disease in Pregnant Women

    Jamal A. Ibdah;Michael J. Bennett;Piero Rinaldo;Yiwen Zhao

  • Adrenoleukodystrophy: Incidence, new mutation rate, and results of extended family screening

    Lena Bezman;Ann B. Moser;Gerald V. Raymond;Piero Rinaldo

  • Clinical validation of cutoff target ranges in newborn screening of metabolic disorders by tandem mass spectrometry: A worldwide collaborative project

    David M.S. McHugh;Cynthia A. Cameron;Jose E. Abdenur;Mahera Abdulrahman

  • Quantitative Determination of Plasma C8–C26 Total Fatty Acids for the Biochemical Diagnosis of Nutritional and Metabolic Disorders

    Susan A. Lagerstedt;Dallas R. Hinrichs;Susan M. Batt;Mark J. Magera

  • Medium-chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiency.

    Piero Rinaldo;John J. O'Shea;Paul M. Coates;Daniel E. Hale

  • Synergistic heterozygosity: disease resulting from multiple partial defects in one or more metabolic pathways.

    Jerry Vockley;Piero Rinaldo;Michael J. Bennett;Dietrich Matern

  • Acylcarnitine profile analysis.

    Piero Rinaldo;Tina M Cowan;Dietrich Matern

  • Retrospective biochemical screening of fatty acid oxidation disorders in postmortem livers of 418 cases of sudden death in the first year of life.

    Richard G. Boles;Elizabeth A. Buck;Miriam G. Blitzer;Marvin S. Platt

  • Targeted disruption of mouse long-chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase gene reveals crucial roles for fatty acid oxidation

    D. M. Kurtz;P. Rinaldo;W. J. Rhead;Liqun Tian

  • Improved specificity of newborn screening for congenital adrenal hyperplasia by second-tier steroid profiling using tandem mass spectrometry.

    Jean M. Lacey;Carla Z. Minutti;Mark J. Magera;Angela L. Tauscher

  • Reduction of the false-positive rate in newborn screening by implementation of MS/MS-based second-tier tests: The Mayo Clinic experience (2004–2007)

    D. Matern;S. Tortorelli;D. Oglesbee;D. Gavrilov

  • Ethylmalonic Encephalopathy Is Caused by Mutations in ETHE1, a Gene Encoding a Mitochondrial Matrix Protein

    Valeria Tiranti;Pio D'Adamo;Egill Briem;Gianfrancesco Ferrari

  • Mice heterozygous for a defect in mitochondrial trifunctional protein develop hepatic steatosis and insulin resistance.

    Jamal A. Ibdah;Peter Perlegas;Yiwen Zhao;Jerry Angdisen

  • Steroid Profiling by Tandem Mass Spectrometry Improves the Positive Predictive Value of Newborn Screening for Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia

    Carla Z. Minutti;Jean M. Lacey;Mark J. Magera;Si Houn Hahn

  • Lack of mitochondrial trifunctional protein in mice causes neonatal hypoglycemia and sudden death

    Jamal A. Ibdah;Hyacinth Paul;Yiwen Zhao;Scott Binford

  • Acute fatty liver of pregnancy and long-chain 3-hydroxyacyl–coenzyme A dehydrogenase deficiency

    William R. Treem;Piero Rinaldo;Daniel E. Hale;Charles A. Stanley

  • Molecular Heterogeneity in Very-Long-Chain Acyl-CoA Dehydrogenase Deficiency Causing Pediatric Cardiomyopathy and Sudden Death

    Amit Mathur;Harold F. Sims;Deepika Gopalakrishnan;Beverly Gibson

Frequent Co-Authors

Dietrich Matern
Dietrich Matern Mayo Clinic
Michael J. Bennett
Michael J. Bennett University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust
Jerry Vockley
Jerry Vockley University of Pittsburgh
Arnold W. Strauss
Arnold W. Strauss Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Kay Tanaka
Kay Tanaka Yale University
David S. Millington
David S. Millington Duke University
John J. O'Shea
John J. O'Shea National Institutes of Health
Brage S. Andresen
Brage S. Andresen University of Southern Denmark
K. Michael Gibson
K. Michael Gibson Washington State University Spokane
Charles A. Stanley
Charles A. Stanley Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

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