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Tatsushi Toda

Tatsushi Toda

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Genetics

D-Index
73
Citations
23641
World Ranking
2024
National Ranking
77

Overview

Tatsushi Toda is affiliated with the University of Tokyo in Japan and has an extensive publication record primarily within the fields of medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their research contributes significantly to neurology, molecular biology, genetics, cellular and molecular neuroscience, and epidemiology.

The scientist's work encompasses a range of topics addressing neurological and neurogenetic disorders, including:

  • Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments
  • Genetic Neurodegenerative Diseases
  • Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Research
  • Muscle Physiology and Disorders
  • Neurological diseases and metabolism
  • Neurogenetic and Muscular Disorders Research
  • RNA regulation and disease

Tatsushi Toda has contributed to over two hundred seventy publications related to medicine, with a substantial number also published in the subfields mentioned. Their frequent collaborations include researchers such as Hiroyuki Ishiura, Shoji Tsuji, Jun Mitsui, Takashi Matsukawa, and Atsushi Iwata.

The most common publication venues include:

  • Internal Medicine (21 publications)
  • Neurology and Clinical Neuroscience (9 publications)
  • Journal of Human Genetics (8 publications)
  • Journal of the Neurological Sciences (8 publications)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (8 publications)

Key papers authored or co-authored by Tatsushi Toda include:

  • "Identification of Risk Loci for Parkinson Disease in Asians and Comparison of Risk Between Asians and Europeans," 2020, JAMA Neurology
  • "A deep learning method for HLA imputation and trans-ethnic MHC fine-mapping of type 1 diabetes," 2021, Nature Communications
  • "Efficacy and Safety of Ultrahigh-Dose Methylcobalamin in Early-Stage Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis," 2022, JAMA Neurology
  • "Facial nerve palsy following the administration of COVID-19 mRNA vaccines: analysis of a self-reporting database," 2021, International Journal of Infectious Diseases
  • "Neuropsychiatric adverse events of chloroquine: a real-world pharmacovigilance study using the FDA Adverse Event Reporting System (FAERS) database," 2020, BioScience Trends

Best Publications

  • Multicenter Analysis of Glucocerebrosidase Mutations in Parkinson's Disease

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

  • Genome-wide association study identifies common variants at four loci as genetic risk factors for Parkinson's disease

    Wataru Satake;Yuko Nakabayashi;Yuko Nakabayashi;Ikuko Mizuta;Ikuko Mizuta;Yushi Hirota;Yushi Hirota

  • An ancient retrotransposal insertion causes Fukuyama-type congenital muscular dystrophy

    Kazuhiro Kobayashi;Yutaka Nakahori;Masashi Miyake;Kiichiro Matsumura

  • Modeling Alzheimer’s Disease with iPSCs Reveals Stress Phenotypes Associated with Intracellular Aβ and Differential Drug Responsiveness

    Takayuki Kondo;Masashi Asai;Masashi Asai;Kayoko Tsukita;Yumiko Kutoku

  • Muscular dystrophy and neuronal migration disorder caused by mutations in a glycosyltransferase, POMGnT1.

    Aruto Yoshida;Kazuhiro Kobayashi;Hiroshi Manya;Kiyomi Taniguchi

  • Comprehensive research synopsis and systematic meta-analyses in Parkinson's disease genetics: the PDGene database.

    Christina M. Lill;Johannes T. Roehr;Johannes T. Roehr;Matthew B. McQueen;Fotini K. Kavvoura;Fotini K. Kavvoura;Fotini K. Kavvoura

  • Interleukin 6 signaling promotes anti-aquaporin 4 autoantibody production from plasmablasts in neuromyelitis optica

    Norio Chihara;Toshimasa Aranami;Wakiro Sato;Yusei Miyazaki

  • 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

  • Noncoding CGG repeat expansions in neuronal intranuclear inclusion disease, oculopharyngodistal myopathy and an overlapping disease.

    Hiroyuki Ishiura;Shota Shibata;Jun Yoshimura;Yuta Suzuki

  • A toxic monomeric conformer of the polyglutamine protein.

    Yoshitaka Nagai;Takashi Inui;Takashi Inui;Takashi Inui;H Akiko Popiel;Nobuhiro Fujikake

  • Clinical heterogeneity of α‐synuclein gene duplication in Parkinson's disease

    Kenya Nishioka;Shin Hayashi;Matthew J. Farrer;Andrew B. Singleton

  • Novel PINK1 mutations in early-onset parkinsonism.

    Yasuko Hatano;Yuanzhe Li;Kenichi Sato;Shuichi Asakawa

  • CHCHD2 mutations in autosomal dominant late-onset Parkinson's disease: a genome-wide linkage and sequencing study

    Manabu Funayama;Kenji Ohe;Kenji Ohe;Taku Amo;Norihiko Furuya

  • Spinocerebellar Ataxia Type 31 Is Associated with “Inserted” Penta-Nucleotide Repeats Containing (TGGAA)n

    Nozomu Sato;Takeshi Amino;Kazuhiro Kobayashi;Shuichi Asakawa

  • Localization of a gene for Fukuyama type congenital muscular dystrophy to chromosome 9q31-33

    T. Toda;M. Segawa;Y. Nomura;I. Nonaka

  • Pikachurin, a dystroglycan ligand, is essential for photoreceptor ribbon synapse formation

    Shigeru Sato;Yoshihiro Omori;Kimiko Katoh;Mineo Kondo

  • Association studies of multiple candidate genes for Parkinson's disease using single nucleotide polymorphisms.

    Yoshio Momose;Miho Murata;Kazuhiro Kobayashi;Masaji Tachikawa

  • Multiple candidate gene analysis identifies α-synuclein as a susceptibility gene for sporadic Parkinson's disease

    Ikuko Mizuta;Wataru Satake;Yuko Nakabayashi;Chiyomi Ito

  • Heat shock transcription factor 1-activating compounds suppress polyglutamine-induced neurodegeneration through induction of multiple molecular chaperones.

    Nobuhiro Fujikake;Yoshitaka Nagai;H. Akiko Popiel;Yuma Okamoto

  • Mutations for Gaucher Disease Confer High Susceptibility to Parkinson Disease

    Jun Mitsui;Ikuko Mizuta;Atsushi Toyoda;Ryo Ashida

Frequent Co-Authors

Shoji Tsuji
Shoji Tsuji University of Tokyo
Nobutaka Hattori
Nobutaka Hattori Juntendo University
Yoshitaka Nagai
Yoshitaka Nagai Osaka University
Hiroki Kurahashi
Hiroki Kurahashi Fujita Health University
Yusuke Nakamura
Yusuke Nakamura National Institutes of Biomedical Innovation, Health and Nutrition
Ichizo Nishino
Ichizo Nishino Tokyo Medical University
Ichiro Kanazawa
Ichiro Kanazawa University of Tokyo
Alexis Brice
Alexis Brice Institut du Cerveau
Eng-King Tan
Eng-King Tan National University of Singapore
Matthew J. Farrer
Matthew J. Farrer University of Florida

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