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Vincenzo Nigro is affiliated with the University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli" in Italy. Their research primarily spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Medicine, with substantial contributions in subfields such as Molecular Biology, Genetics, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Cell Biology, and Neurology.

The scientist's work covers several main topics including:

  • Genomics and Rare Diseases
  • Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders
  • Muscle Physiology and Disorders
  • Cardiomyopathy and Myosin Studies
  • Neurogenetic and Muscular Disorders Research
  • RNA modifications and cancer
  • Genomic variations and chromosomal abnormalities

Frequent co-authors in their research include:

  • Annalaura Torella
  • Giulio Piluso
  • Marcello Scala
  • Nicola Brunetti-Pierri
  • Valeria Capra

Vincenzo Nigro has published extensively in various scientific journals. The most common venues for their publications are:

  • American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A
  • Genetics in Medicine
  • Genes
  • Neuromuscular Disorders
  • International Journal of Molecular Sciences

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Vincenzo Nigro include:

  • "ACE2 gene variants may underlie interindividual variability and susceptibility to COVID-19 in the Italian population" (2020), published in European Journal of Human Genetics
  • "The Genetic Landscape of Dystrophin Mutations in Italy: A Nationwide Study" (2020), published in Frontiers in Genetics
  • "Genetic epidemiology of inherited retinal diseases in a large patient cohort followed at a single center in Italy" (2022), published in Scientific Reports
  • "Genotype-phenotype correlations in recessive titinopathies" (2020), published in Genetics in Medicine
  • "The position of nonsense mutations can predict the phenotype severity: A survey on the DMD gene" (2020), published in PLoS ONE

Best Publications

  • A vertebrate gene related to orthodenticle contains a homeodomain of the bicoid class and demarcates anterior neuroectoderm in the gastrulating mouse embryo.

    Antonio Simeone;Dario Acampora;Antonio Mallamaci;Anna Stornaiuolo

  • Autosomal recessive limb-girdle muscular dystrophy, LGMD2F, is caused by a mutation in the delta-sarcoglycan gene.

    V. Nigro;E. De Sa Moreira;G. Piluso;M. Vainzof

  • The human HOX gene family

    Dario Acampora;Maurizio D'Esposito;Antonio Faiella;Maria Pannese

  • Germline mutations in the homeobox gene EMX2 in patients with severe schizencephaly

    Silvia Brunelli;Antonio Faiella;Valeria Capra;Vincenzo Nigro

  • Differential regulation by retinoic acid of the homeobox genes of the four HOX loci in human embryonal carcinoma cells

    Antonio Simeone;Dario Acampora;Vincenzo Nigro;Antonio Faiella

  • 229th ENMC international workshop: Limb girdle muscular dystrophies - Nomenclature and reformed classification Naarden, the Netherlands, 17-19 March 2017.

    Volker Straub;Alexander Murphy;Bjarne Udd;Angelini Corrado

  • Identification of the Syrian Hamster Cardiomyopathy Gene

    Vincenzo Nigro;Yasushi Okazaki;Angela Belsito;Giulio Piluso

  • Genetic basis of limb-girdle muscular dystrophies: the 2014 update.

    Vincenzo Nigro;Marco Savarese

  • ACE2 gene variants may underlie interindividual variability and susceptibility to COVID-19 in the Italian population.

    Elisa Benetti;Rossella Tita;Ottavia Spiga;Andrea Ciolfi

  • Identification of a Novel Sarcoglycan Gene at 5q33 Encoding a Sarcolemmal 35 kDa Glycoprotein

    Vincenzo Nigro;Giulio Piluso;Angela Belsito;Luisa Politano

  • The Sarcoglycan Complex in the Six Autosomal Recessive Limb-Girdle Muscular Dystrophies

    M. Vainzof;M. R. Passos-Bueno;M. Canovas;E. S. Moreira

  • Orthopedia, a novel homeobox-containing gene expressed in the developing CNS of both mouse and drosophila

    Antonio Simeone;Maria Rosaria D'Apice;Vincenzo Nigro;Jordi Casanova

  • Muscle MRI findings in patients with limb girdle muscular dystrophy with calpain 3 deficiency (LGMD2A) and early contractures.

    Eugenio Mercuri;Eugenio Mercuri;Kate Bushby;Enzo Ricci;Daniel Birchall

  • Diagnostic value of muscle MRI in differentiating LGMD2I from other LGMDs.

    Dirk Fischer;Maggie C Walter;Kristina Kesper;Jens A Petersen

  • Retinoic acid induces stage-specific antero-posterior transformation of rostral central nervous system

    Antonio Simeone;Virginia Avantaggiato;Maria Cristina Moroni;Fulvio Mavilio

  • γ1- and γ2-Syntrophins, Two Novel Dystrophin-binding Proteins Localized in Neuronal Cells

    Giulio Piluso;Massimiliano Mirabella;Enzo Ricci;Angela Belsito

  • Mutation of dystrophin gene and cardiomyopathy

    Giovanni Nigro;Luisa Politano;Vincenzo Nigro;Vito R. Petretta

  • Interaction of vault particles with estrogen receptor in the MCF-7 breast cancer cell.

    Ciro Abbondanza;Valentina Rossi;Annarita Roscigno;Luigi Gallo

  • A defect in the RNA-processing protein HNRPDL causes limb-girdle muscular dystrophy 1G (LGMD1G)

    Natássia M. Vieira;Michel S. Naslavsky;Luciana Licinio;Fernando Kok

  • Low frequency of melanocortin-4 receptor (MC4R) mutations in a Mediterranean population with early-onset obesity.

    E Miraglia del Giudice;G Cirillo;V Nigro;N Santoro

Frequent Co-Authors

Corrado Angelini
Corrado Angelini University of Padua
Claudio Bruno
Claudio Bruno Istituto Giannina Gaslini
Carlo Minetti
Carlo Minetti University of Genoa
Filippo M. Santorelli
Filippo M. Santorelli Fondazione Stella Maris
Nicola Brunetti-Pierri
Nicola Brunetti-Pierri University of Naples Federico II
Marina Mora
Marina Mora Istituto Neurologico Carlo Besta
Giacomo P. Comi
Giacomo P. Comi University of Milan
Sandro Banfi
Sandro Banfi University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli"
Enrico Bertini
Enrico Bertini Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital
Eugenio Mercuri
Eugenio Mercuri Catholic University of the Sacred Heart

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