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30826
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5212
National Ranking
2478

Overview

Sergio E. Baranzini is affiliated with the University of California, San Francisco in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with significant focus areas including molecular biology, pathology and forensic medicine, immunology, genetics, and neurology.

The scientist's work concentrates substantially on multiple sclerosis and related neurological conditions. Key research topics include multiple sclerosis research studies, gut microbiota and health, biomedical text mining and ontologies, spaceflight effects on biology, bioinformatics and genomic networks, genetic associations and epidemiology, and systemic lupus erythematosus research.

Notable recent publications by Sergio E. Baranzini include:

  • Gut microbiome of multiple sclerosis patients and paired household healthy controls reveal associations with disease risk and course (2022, Cell)
  • Gut microbiota-specific IgA + B cells traffic to the CNS in active multiple sclerosis (2020, Science Immunology)
  • A pathogenic and clonally expanded B cell transcriptome in active multiple sclerosis (2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • The role of the gut microbiota in multiple sclerosis (2022, Nature Reviews Neurology)
  • microRNA and exosome profiling in multiple sclerosis (2020, Multiple Sclerosis Journal)

Frequent co-authors in Sergio E. Baranzini's publications include:

  • Stephen L. Hauser
  • Karthik Soman
  • Bruce Cree
  • Charlotte Nelson
  • Jorge R. Oksenberg

The scientist's research is often published in journals such as Multiple Sclerosis Journal, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, arXiv (Cornell University), and Neurology. These venues have hosted multiple contributions reflecting their specialization and ongoing investigations.

Best Publications

  • Genetic risk and a primary role for cell-mediated immune mechanisms in multiple sclerosis

    Stephen Sawcer;Garrett Hellenthal;Matti Pirinen;Chris C. A. Spencer

  • Analysis of immune-related loci identifies 48 new susceptibility variants for multiple sclerosis

    Ashley H. Beecham;Nikolaos A. Patsopoulos;Nikolaos A. Patsopoulos;Dionysia K. Xifara;Mary F. Davis

  • The influence of the proinflammatory cytokine, osteopontin, on autoimmune demyelinating disease.

    Dorothée Chabas;Sergio E. Baranzini;Dennis Mitchell;Claude C. A. Bernard

  • Gut bacteria from multiple sclerosis patients modulate human T cells and exacerbate symptoms in mouse models.

    Egle Cekanaviciute;Bryan B. Yoo;Tessel F. Runia;Justine W. Debelius

  • Meta-analysis of genome scans and replication identify CD6, IRF8 and TNFRSF1A as new multiple sclerosis susceptibility loci

    Philip L De Jager;Philip L De Jager;Xiaoming Jia;Joanne Wang;Paul I W de Bakker

  • Gut microbiota from multiple sclerosis patients enables spontaneous autoimmune encephalomyelitis in mice.

    Kerstin Berer;Lisa Ann Gerdes;Egle Cekanaviciute;Xiaoming Jia

  • Dysregulation of the Wnt pathway inhibits timely myelination and remyelination in the mammalian CNS

    Stephen P.J. Fancy;Sergio E. Baranzini;Chao Zhao;Dong-In Yuk

  • Proteomic analysis of active multiple sclerosis lesions reveals therapeutic targets

    May H. Han;Sun-Il Hwang;Dolly B. Roy;Deborah H. Lundgren

  • Genome-wide association analysis of susceptibility and clinical phenotype in multiple sclerosis

    Sergio E. Baranzini;Joanne Wang;Rachel A. Gibson;Nicholas Galwey

  • Genome, epigenome and RNA sequences of monozygotic twins discordant for multiple sclerosis.

    Sergio E. Baranzini;Joann Mudge;Jennifer C. Van Velkinburgh;Pouya Khankhanian

  • Pathway and network-based analysis of genome-wide association studies in multiple sclerosis

    Sergio E. Baranzini;Nicholas W. Galwey;Joanne Wang;Pouya Khankhanian

  • Systematic integration of biomedical knowledge prioritizes drugs for repurposing.

    Daniel Scott Himmelstein;Antoine Lizee;Christine Hessler;Leo Brueggeman;Leo Brueggeman

  • The genetics of multiple sclerosis: SNPs to pathways to pathogenesis

    Jorge R. Oksenberg;Sergio E. Baranzini;Stephen Sawcer;Stephen L. Hauser

  • Class II HLA interactions modulate genetic risk for multiple sclerosis

    L Moutsianas;L Jostins;A H Beecham;A T Dilthey

  • Mapping Multiple Sclerosis Susceptibility to the HLA-DR Locus in African Americans

    Jorge R. Oksenberg;Lisa F. Barcellos;Bruce A.C. Cree;Sergio E. Baranzini

  • Astrocyte-encoded positional cues maintain sensorimotor circuit integrity

    Anna V. Molofsky;Kevin W. Kelley;Hui-Hsin Tsai;Stephanie A. Redmond

  • Heterogeneity at the HLA-DRB1 locus and risk for multiple sclerosis

    Lisa F. Barcellos;Lisa F. Barcellos;Lisa F. Barcellos;Stephen Sawcer;Patricia P. Ramsay;Sergio E. Baranzini

  • The genetics of multiple sclerosis: an up-to-date review.

    Pierre-Antoine Gourraud;Hanne F. Harbo;Hanne F. Harbo;Stephen L. Hauser;Sergio E. Baranzini

  • Axin2 as regulatory and therapeutic target in newborn brain injury and remyelination

    Stephen P J Fancy;Emily P Harrington;Tracy J Yuen;John C Silbereis

  • B cell repertoire diversity and clonal expansion in multiple sclerosis brain lesions.

    Sergio E. Baranzini;Matthew C. Jeong;Catalin Butunoi;Ronald S. Murray

Frequent Co-Authors

Jorge R. Oksenberg
Jorge R. Oksenberg University of California, San Francisco
Stephen L. Hauser
Stephen L. Hauser University of California, San Francisco
Bruce A. C. Cree
Bruce A. C. Cree University of California, San Francisco
Lisa F. Barcellos
Lisa F. Barcellos University of California, Berkeley
David A. Hafler
David A. Hafler Yale University
Pierre-Antoine Gourraud
Pierre-Antoine Gourraud University of Nantes
Nikolaos A. Patsopoulos
Nikolaos A. Patsopoulos Brigham and Women's Hospital
Hanne F. Harbo
Hanne F. Harbo Oslo University Hospital
Graeme J. Stewart
Graeme J. Stewart University of Sydney
Stephen Sawcer
Stephen Sawcer University of Cambridge

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