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Overview

Stefano Duga was affiliated with Humanitas University in Italy and contributed extensively to medical and biomedical research throughout their career. Their work spanned multiple fields within Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with notable focus on Molecular Biology, Neurology, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Cancer Research, and Infectious Diseases.

Their publication record included a range of research topics. Among the main subjects were:

  • Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments
  • Lysosomal Storage Disorders Research
  • COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies
  • Prostate Cancer Treatment and Research
  • Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics
  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
  • Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging

Stefano Duga's most cited papers included the following:

  • "ACE2 and TMPRSS2 variants and expression as candidates to sex and country differences in COVID-19 severity in Italy," published in 2020 in Aging
  • "Recognition and inhibition of SARS-CoV-2 by humoral innate immunity pattern recognition molecules," published in 2022 in Nature Immunology
  • "Tumor-Derived Prostaglandin E2 Promotes p50 NF-κB-Dependent Differentiation of Monocytic MDSCs," published in 2020 in Cancer Research
  • "Radiomics and gene expression profile to characterise the disease and predict outcome in patients with lung cancer," published in 2021 in European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging
  • "Pathogenic Huntingtin Repeat Expansions in Patients with Frontotemporal Dementia and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis," published in 2020 in Neuron

Their frequent collaborators included Rosanna Asselta, Giulia Soldà, Elvezia Maria Paraboschi, Chiara Chiereghin, and Letizia Straniero.

Stefano Duga published prolifically in venues such as:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Parkinsonism & Related Disorders
  • Movement Disorders
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Best Publications

  • Genomewide Association Study of Severe Covid-19 with Respiratory Failure.

    David Ellinghaus;Frauke Degenhardt;Luis Bujanda;Maria Buti

  • Genome-wide association of early-onset myocardial infarction with single nucleotide polymorphisms and copy number variants.

    Sekar Kathiresan;Benjamin F Voight;Shaun Purcell;Kiran Musunuru

  • Diagnostic Yield and Clinical Utility of Sequencing Familial Hypercholesterolemia Genes in Patients With Severe Hypercholesterolemia

    Amit V. Khera;Amit V. Khera;Hong Hee Won;Gina M. Peloso;Gina M. Peloso;Kim S. Lawson

  • Loss-of-function mutations in APOC3, triglycerides, and coronary disease

    Jacy Crosby;Gina M. Peloso;Gina M. Peloso;Paul L. Auer;David R. Crosslin

  • Exome sequencing identifies rare LDLR and APOA5 alleles conferring risk for myocardial infarction

    Ron Do;Ron Do;Nathan O. Stitziel;Hong Hee Won;Hong Hee Won;Anders Berg Jørgensen

  • Inactivating mutations in NPC1L1 and protection from coronary heart disease

    Nathan O. Stitziel;Hong Hee Won;Alanna C. Morrison;Gina M. Peloso

  • Coding Variation in ANGPTL4, LPL, and SVEP1 and the Risk of Coronary Disease

    Nathan O. Stitziel;Kathleen E. Stirrups;Nicholas G. D. Masca;Jeanette Erdmann

  • Exome-wide rare variant analysis identifies TUBA4A mutations associated with familial ALS.

    B N Smith;N Ticozzi;C Fallini;A S Gkazi

  • Association of low-frequency and rare coding-sequence variants with blood lipids and coronary heart disease in 56,000 whites and blacks.

    Gina M. Peloso;Paul L. Auer;Joshua C. Bis;Arend Voorman

  • Survival and dementia in GBA-associated Parkinson's disease: The mutation matters.

    Roberto Cilia;Sara Tunesi;Giorgio Marotta;Emanuele Cereda

  • Systematic Evaluation of Pleiotropy Identifies 6 Further Loci Associated With Coronary Artery Disease

    Thomas R. Webb;Jeanette Erdmann;Kathleen E. Stirrups;Nathan O. Stitziel

  • Phenotypic Characterization of Genetically Lowered Human Lipoprotein(a) Levels.

    Connor A. Emdin;Amit V. Khera;Pradeep Natarajan;Derek Klarin

  • Mutations in the vesicular trafficking protein annexin A11 are associated with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

    Bradley N Smith;Simon D Topp;Claudia Fallini;Hideki Shibata

  • The molecular basis of quantitative fibrinogen disorders.

    R. Asselta;S. Duga;Maria Luisa Tenchini

  • Genetic diagnosis of haemophilia and other inherited bleeding disorders.

    Flora Peyvandi;G. Jayandharan;M. Chandy;A. Srivastava

  • Congenital factor XI deficiency: an update.

    Stefano Duga;Ophira Salomon

  • Association of rare and common variation in the lipoprotein lipase gene with coronary artery disease.

    Amit V. Khera;Amit V. Khera;Hong Hee Won;Gina M. Peloso;Gina M. Peloso;Colm O'Dushlaine

  • cDNA cloning of turtle prion protein.

    Tatjana Simonic;Stefano Duga;Bice Strumbo;Rosanna Asselta

  • A frequent oligogenic involvement in congenital hypothyroidism

    Tiziana de Filippis;Giulia Gelmini;Elvezia Paraboschi;Maria Cristina Vigone

  • Genetic Association and Altered Gene Expression of Mir-155 in Multiple Sclerosis Patients

    Elvezia Maria Paraboschi;Giulia Soldà;Donato Gemmati;Elisa Orioli

Frequent Co-Authors

Rosanna Asselta
Rosanna Asselta Humanitas University
Flora Peyvandi
Flora Peyvandi University of Milan
Sekar Kathiresan
Sekar Kathiresan Harvard University
Diego Ardissino
Diego Ardissino University of Parma
Gina M. Peloso
Gina M. Peloso Boston University
Pier Mannuccio Mannucci
Pier Mannuccio Mannucci Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico
Gianni Pezzoli
Gianni Pezzoli University of Milan
Daniel J. Rader
Daniel J. Rader University of Pennsylvania
Martin Farrall
Martin Farrall University of Oxford
Nilesh J. Samani
Nilesh J. Samani University of Leicester

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