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Richard H. Finnell is affiliated with Baylor College of Medicine in the United States. Their research spans multiple disciplines within medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a focus on molecular biology, pediatrics, perinatology and child health, genetics, surgery, and rheumatology.

The scientist's work explores topics such as folate and B vitamins research, prenatal screening and diagnostics, epigenetics and DNA methylation, pharmacological effects and toxicity studies, fetal and pediatric neurological disorders, congenital heart defects research, and hedgehog signaling pathway studies.

Notable recent publications include:

  • Gene Environment Interactions in the Etiology of Neural Tube Defects, 2021, Frontiers in Genetics
  • Knowledge gaps in understanding the metabolic and clinical effects of excess folates/folic acid: a summary, and perspectives, from an NIH workshop, 2020, American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
  • Antiseizure Medication Concentrations During Pregnancy, 2022, JAMA Neurology
  • Actuation enhances patterning in human neural tube organoids, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Two-Year-Old Cognitive Outcomes in Children of Pregnant Women With Epilepsy in the Maternal Outcomes and Neurodevelopmental Effects of Antiepileptic Drugs Study, 2021, JAMA Neurology

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Richard H. Finnell include Yunping Lei, Gary M. Shaw, Xuanye Cao, Robert M. Cabrera, and Andrew F. Olshan.

Research outputs have appeared in multiple publication venues, particularly bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), UNC Libraries, Birth Defects Research, Genetics in Medicine Open, and JAMA Neurology.

Best Publications

  • Analysis of gene expression in single live neurons.

    James Eberwine;Hermes Yeh;Kevin Miyashiro;Yanxiang Cao

  • Neural tube defects and folate: case far from closed

    Henk J. Blom;Gary M. Shaw;Martin den Heijer;Richard H. Finnell

  • Practice parameter update: management issues for women with epilepsy - focus on pregnancy (an evidence-based review): teratogenesis and perinatal outcomes. Report of the Quality Standards Subcommittee and Therapeutics and Technology Assessment Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology and American Epilepsy Society

    C. L. Harden;K. J. Meador;P. B. Pennell;W. A. Hauser

  • The Continuing Challenge of Understanding, Preventing, and Treating Neural Tube Defects

    John B. Wallingford;Lee A. Niswander;Gary M. Shaw;Richard H. Finnell

  • Mice lacking the folic acid-binding protein Folbp1 are defective in early embryonic development.

    Jorge A. Piedrahita;Betty Oetama;Gregory D. Bennett;Gregory D. Bennett;Janée Van Waes;Janée Van Waes

  • Seizure control and treatment in pregnancy: Observations from the EURAP epilepsy pregnancy registry

    Torbjörn Tomson;D. Battino;E. Bonizzoni;J. Craig

  • Practice Parameter update: Management issues for women with epilepsy—Focus on pregnancy (an evidence-based review): Vitamin K, folic acid, blood levels, and breastfeeding: Report of the Quality Standards Subcommittee and Therapeutics and Technology Assessment Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology and American Epilepsy Society

    C. L. Harden;P. B. Pennell;B. S. Koppel;C. A. Hovinga

  • In utero antiepileptic drug exposure: Fetal death and malformations

    K. J. Meador;G. A. Baker;Richard Finnell;L. A. Kalayjian

  • Practice Parameter update: Management issues for women with epilepsy—Focus on pregnancy (an evidence-based review): Obstetrical complications and change in seizure frequency Report of the Quality Standards Subcommittee and Therapeutics and Technology Assessment Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology and American Epilepsy Society

    C. L. Harden;J. Hopp;T. Y. Ting;P. B. Pennell

  • Association of selected persistent organic pollutants in the placenta with the risk of neural tube defects

    Aiguo Ren;Xinghua Qiu;Lei Jin;Jin Ma

  • The mammalian gene function resource: the international knockout mouse consortium

    Allan Bradley;Konstantinos Anastassiadis;Abdelkader Ayadi;James F. Battey

  • Management issues for women with epilepsy-Focus on pregnancy (an evidence-based review): II. Teratogenesis and perinatal outcomes: Report of the Quality Standards Subcommittee and Therapeutics and Technology Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology and the American Epilepsy Society.

    Cynthia L. Harden;Cynthia L. Harden;Kimford J. Meador;Page B. Pennell;W. Allen Hauser

  • Genes, folate and homocysteine in embryonic development.

    Thomas H. Rosenquist;Richard H. Finnell

  • The planar cell polarity effector Fuz is essential for targeted membrane trafficking, ciliogenesis and mouse embryonic development.

    Ryan S. Gray;Philip B. Abitua;Bogdan J. Wlodarczyk;Heather L. Szabo-Rogers

  • Management issues for women with epilepsy--focus on pregnancy (an evidence-based review): III. Vitamin K, folic acid, blood levels, and breast-feeding: Report of the Quality Standards Subcommittee and Therapeutics and Technology Assessment Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology and the American Epilepsy Society.

    Cynthia L. Harden;Cynthia L. Harden;Page B. Pennell;Barbara S. Koppel;Collin A. Hovinga

  • Teratogenic effects of antiepileptic drugs.

    Denise S Hill;Bogdan J Wlodarczyk;Ana M Palacios;Richard H Finnell

  • 118 SNPs of folate-related genes and risks of spina bifida and conotruncal heart defects

    Gary M. Shaw;Gary M. Shaw;Gary M. Shaw;Wei Lu;Huiping Zhu;Wei Yang

  • Maternal vitamin use, genetic variation of infant methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase, and risk for spina bifida.

    Gary M. Shaw;Rima Rozen;Richard H. Finnell;Cathy R. Wasserman

  • Parental epilepsy, anticonvulsant drugs, and reproductive outcome: epidemiologic and experimental findings spanning three decades; 2: Human studies.

    Linda V. Dansky;Richard H. Finnell;Richard H. Finnell

  • Large-scale gene trapping in C57BL/6N mouse embryonic stem cells

    Gwenn M. Hansen;Diane C. Markesich;Michael B. Burnett;Qichao Zhu

Frequent Co-Authors

Gary M. Shaw
Gary M. Shaw Stanford University
John B. Wallingford
John B. Wallingford The University of Texas at Austin
Page B. Pennell
Page B. Pennell University of Pittsburgh
Kimford J. Meador
Kimford J. Meador Stanford University
James Eberwine
James Eberwine University of Pennsylvania
Jacqueline A. French
Jacqueline A. French New York University
Lewis B. Holmes
Lewis B. Holmes Harvard University
Trent M. Woodruff
Trent M. Woodruff University of Queensland
David J. Thurman
David J. Thurman Emory University
Allan Krumholz
Allan Krumholz University of Maryland, Baltimore

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