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Genetics and Molecular Biology
Japan
2024

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Genetics

D-Index
109
Citations
48755
World Ranking
549
National Ranking
16

Medicine

D-Index
116
Citations
54609
World Ranking
4326
National Ranking
89

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  • 2024 - Research.com Genetics and Molecular Biology in Japan Leader Award

Overview

Shoji Tsuji is affiliated with the University of Tokyo in Japan and has a multi-disciplinary research portfolio primarily centered on genetics, neurology, and molecular biology. Their scholarly work spans several intersecting fields including biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, medicine, and neuroscience. Within these domains, Tsuji focuses particularly on neurology, molecular biology, cellular and molecular neuroscience, genetics, and rheumatology.

The scientific contributions by Tsuji address various topics related to neurodegenerative and hereditary neurological diseases. Key areas of research include genetic neurodegenerative diseases, neurological diseases connected to metabolism, hereditary neurological disorders, mechanisms and treatments of Parkinson's disease, RNA regulation in disease contexts, mitochondrial function and pathology, and the genetic basis of neurodevelopmental disorders.

Tsuji has published extensively in several journals with notable frequencies. These venues include:

  • Journal of Human Genetics
  • Neurology and Clinical Neuroscience
  • Internal Medicine
  • The Cerebellum
  • Clinical Neurophysiology

Among the recent published papers associated with or significant to their research area are:

  • The Movement Disorder Society Criteria for the Diagnosis of Multiple System Atrophy, 2022, Movement Disorders
  • Advances in repeat expansion diseases and a new concept of repeat motif-phenotype correlation, 2020, Current Opinion in Genetics & Development
  • Clinicopathologic Features of Oculopharyngodistal Myopathy With LRP12 CGG Repeat Expansions Compared With Other Oculopharyngodistal Myopathy Subtypes, 2021, JAMA Neurology
  • Early detection of cognitive decline in Alzheimer's disease using eye tracking, 2023, Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience
  • Biallelic variants in HPDL cause pure and complicated hereditary spastic paraplegia, 2021, Brain

Tsuji frequently collaborates with multiple co-authors, including Hiroyuki Ishiura, Jun Mitsui, Tatsushi Toda, Takashi Matsukawa, and Hiroshi Takashima, indicating an active engagement in multidisciplinary team research.

Best Publications

  • Multicenter Analysis of Glucocerebrosidase Mutations in Parkinson's Disease

    Ellen Sidransky;Michael A. Nalls;Jan O. Aasly;Judith Aharon-Peretz

  • Unstable expansion of CAG repeat in hereditary dentatorubral–pallidoluysian atrophy (DRPLA)

    R. Koide;T. Ikeuchi;O. Onodera;H. Tanaka

  • Frequency of the C9orf72 hexanucleotide repeat expansion in patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and frontotemporal dementia: a cross-sectional study

    Elisa Majounie;Alan E. Renton;Kin Mok;Elise G. P. Dopper;Elise G. P. Dopper

  • Interference by Huntingtin and Atrophin-1 with CBP-Mediated Transcription Leading to Cellular Toxicity

    Frederick C. Nucifora;Masayuki Sasaki;Matthew F. Peters;Hui Huang

  • Hereditary progressive dystonia with marked diurnal fluctuation caused by mutations in the GTP cyclohydrolase I gene

    Hiroshi Ichinose;Tamae Ohye;Ei ichi Takahashi;Ei ichi Takahashi;Naohiko Seki

  • Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease Type 2A Caused by Mutation in a Microtubule Motor KIF1Bβ

    Chunjie Zhao;Junko Takita;Yosuke Tanaka;Mitsutoshi Setou

  • Identification of the spinocerebellar ataxia type 2 gene using a direct identification of repeat expansion and cloning technique, DIRECT.

    K Sanpei;H Takano;S Igarashi;T Sato

  • A new locus for Parkinson's disease (PARK8) maps to chromosome 12p11.2–q13.1

    Manabu Funayama;Kazuko Hasegawa;Hisayuki Kowa;Masaaki Saito

  • α-Synuclein immunoreactivity in glial cytoplasmic inclusions in multiple system atrophy

    Koichi Wakabayashi;Makoto Yoshimoto;Shoji Tsuji;Hitoshi Takahashi

  • SCA17, a novel autosomal dominant cerebellar ataxia caused by an expanded polyglutamine in TATA-binding protein

    Koichiro Nakamura;Seon-Yong Jeong;Toshiki Uchihara;Midori Anno

  • Safety and efficacy of edaravone in well defined patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial

    Koji Abe;Masashi Aoki;Shoji Tsuji;Yasuto Itoyama

  • A rescue factor abolishing neuronal cell death by a wide spectrum of familial Alzheimer's disease genes and Aβ

    Yuichi Hashimoto;Takako Niikura;Hirohisa Tajima;Takashi Yasukawa

  • Association of HTRA1 mutations and familial ischemic cerebral small-vessel disease

    Shoji Tsuji;Osamu Onodera

  • Localization of a gene for an autosomal recessive form of juvenile Parkinsonism to chromosome 6q25.2-27

    H Matsumine;M Saito;S Shimoda-Matsubayashi;H Tanaka

  • Expanded polyglutamine stretches interact with TAFII130, interfering with CREB-dependent transcription.

    Takayoshi Shimohata;Toshihiro Nakajima;Mitsunori Yamada;Chiharu Uchida

  • A Neurological Disease Caused By an Expanded CAG Trinucleotide Repeat in The TATA-Binding Protein Gene: A New Polyglutamine Disease?

    Reiji Koide;Shigeichi Kobayashi;Takayoshi Shimohata;Takeshi Ikeuchi

  • Mutations in COQ2 in familial and sporadic multiple-system atrophy the multiple-system atrophy research collaboration

    Jun Mitsui;Takashi Matsukawa;Hiroyuki Ishiura;Yoko Fukuda;Yoko Fukuda

  • Early-onset ataxia with ocular motor apraxia and hypoalbuminemia is caused by mutations in a new HIT superfamily gene

    Hidetoshi Date;Osamu Onodera;Hajime Tanaka;Kiyoshi Iwabuchi

  • Familial juvenile parkinsonism: clinical and pathologic study in a family.

    H. Takahashi;E. Ohama;S. Suzuki;Y. Horikawa

  • Suppression of aggregate formation and apoptosis by transglutaminase inhibitors in cells expressing truncated DRPLA protein with an expanded polyglutamine stretch.

    Shuichi Igarashi;Reiji Koide;Takayoshi Shimohata;Mitsunori Yamada

Frequent Co-Authors

Osamu Onodera
Osamu Onodera Niigata University
Hitoshi Takahashi
Hitoshi Takahashi Niigata University
Yasuo Terao
Yasuo Terao Kyorin University
Yoshikazu Ugawa
Yoshikazu Ugawa Fukushima Medical University
Takeshi Ikeuchi
Takeshi Ikeuchi Niigata University
Shinichi Morishita
Shinichi Morishita University of Tokyo
Ritsuko Hanajima
Ritsuko Hanajima Tottori University
Tatsushi Toda
Tatsushi Toda University of Tokyo
Gen Sobue
Gen Sobue Aichi Medical University

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