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Yuji Yamanashi

Yuji Yamanashi

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Molecular Biology

D-Index
47
Citations
10382
World Ranking
2730
National Ranking
204

Overview

Yuji Yamanashi is affiliated with the University of Tokyo in Japan and conducts research primarily in the fields of Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their work encompasses several subfields including Genetics, Molecular Biology, Immunology, Epidemiology, and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine.

The scientist's research topics cover a range of areas such as Genetic Associations and Epidemiology, Immune Cell Function and Interaction, Muscle Physiology and Disorders, Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment, Epigenetics and DNA Methylation, Prostate Cancer Treatment and Research, and BRCA gene mutations in cancer.

Yuji Yamanashi has published articles in various scientific journals, notably contributing multiple papers in Nature Communications and Nature Genetics, as well as iScience, Scientific Reports, and Nature Medicine. The recent notable papers include:

  • Leveraging fine-mapping and multipopulation training data to improve cross-population polygenic risk scores, 2022, Nature Genetics
  • Hematopoietic mosaic chromosomal alterations increase the risk for diverse types of infection, 2021, Nature Medicine
  • Characterizing prostate cancer risk through multi-ancestry genome-wide discovery of 187 novel risk variants, 2023, Nature Genetics
  • Leveraging supervised learning for functionally informed fine-mapping of cis-eQTLs identifies an additional 20,913 putative causal eQTLs, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Genetic analysis of right heart structure and function in 40,000 people, 2022, Nature Genetics

Frequent collaborators with Yuji Yamanashi include Yoichiro Kamatani, Wataru Obara, Ken Yamaji, Yasuo Takahashi, and Shigeo Murayama. Each of these coauthors has worked extensively with Yamanashi, with coauthorship counts ranging around 18 to 19 publications each.

The scientist's contribution to literature is primarily published in the following venues:

  • Nature Communications (6 publications)
  • Nature Genetics (4 publications)
  • iScience (2 publications)
  • Scientific Reports (2 publications)
  • Nature Medicine (1 publication)

Best Publications

  • CSK: a protein-tyrosine kinase involved in regulation of src family kinases.

    M Okada;S Nada;Y Yamanashi;T Yamamoto

  • Autoantibodies to low-density lipoprotein receptor-related protein 4 in myasthenia gravis.

    Osamu Higuchi;Johko Hamuro;Masakatsu Motomura;Yuji Yamanashi

  • Impaired proliferation of peripheral B cells and indication of autoimmune disease in lyn-deficient mice

    Hirofumi Nishizumi;Ichiro Taniuchi;Yuji Yamanashi;Daisuke Kitamura

  • Association of B cell antigen receptor with protein tyrosine kinase Lyn

    Yuji Yamanashi;Terutaka Kakiuchi;Junichiro Mizuguchi;Tadashi Yamamoto

  • The muscle protein Dok-7 is essential for neuromuscular synaptogenesis.

    Kumiko Okada;Akane Inoue;Momoko Okada;Yoji Murata

  • Identification of the Abl- and rasGAP-Associated 62 kDa Protein as a Docking Protein, Dok

    Yuji Yamanashi;Yuji Yamanashi;David Baltimore

  • Construction of an Excisable Bacterial Artificial Chromosome Containing a Full-Length Infectious Clone of Herpes Simplex Virus Type 1: Viruses Reconstituted from the Clone Exhibit Wild-Type Properties In Vitro and In Vivo

    Michiko Tanaka;Hiroyuki Kagawa;Yuji Yamanashi;Tetsutaro Sata

  • Syk activation by the Src-family tyrosine kinase in the B cell receptor signaling

    T Kurosaki;M Takata;Y Yamanashi;T Inazu

  • The yes-related cellular gene lyn encodes a possible tyrosine kinase similar to p56lck.

    Y. Yamanashi;S. I. Fukushige;K. Semba;J. Sukegawa

  • Identification of two novel members of erbA superfamily by molecular cloning: the gene products of the two are highly related to each other

    Nobuyuki Miyajtma;Yasunori Kandowaki;Shin Ichi Fukushige;Sho Ichi Shimizu

  • Dok-7 Mutations Underlie a Neuromuscular Junction Synaptopathy

    David Beeson;Osamu Higuchi;Jackie Palace;Judy Cossins

  • Activation of Src-like protein-tyrosine kinase Lyn and its association with phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase upon B-cell antigen receptor-mediated signaling

    Yuji Yamanashi;Yasuhisa Fukui;Budsaba Wongsasant;Yumiko Kinoshita

  • yes-related protooncogene, syn, belongs to the protein-tyrosine kinase family

    Kentaro Semba;Makoto Nishizawa;Nobuyuki Miyajima;Michihiro C. Yoshida

  • Nucleotide sequence of the tobacco mosaic virus (tomato strain) genome and comparison with the common strain genome.

    Takeshi Ohno;Takeshi Ohno;Midori Aoyagi;Yuji Yamanashi;Hiraku Saito

  • Role of the rasGAP-associated docking protein p62 dok in negative regulation of B cell receptor-mediated signaling

    Yuji Yamanashi;Toshiki Tamura;Toshihide Kanamori;Hidehiro Yamane

  • Identification of HS1 protein as a major substrate of protein-tyrosine kinase(s) upon B-cell antigen receptor-mediated signaling.

    Yuji Yamanashi;Masato Okada;Toshihiko Semba;Takashi Yamori

  • The roles of Dok family adapters in immunoreceptor signaling

    Ryuichi Mashima;Yukihiro Hishida;Tohru Tezuka;Yuji Yamanashi

  • Selective expression of a protein-tyrosine kinase, p56lyn, in hematopoietic cells and association with production of human T-cell lymphotropic virus type I

    Yuji Yamanashi;Shigeo Mori;Mitsuaki Yoshida;Tadamitsu Kishimoto

  • Characterization of cDNA clones for the human c-yes gene.

    J Sukegawa;K Semba;Y Yamanashi;M Nishizawa

  • Tyrosine phosphorylation of p62(Dok) induced by cell adhesion and insulin: possible role in cell migration.

    Tetsuya Noguchi;Takashi Matozaki;Kenjiro Inagaki;Masahiro Tsuda

Frequent Co-Authors

Tadashi Yamamoto
Tadashi Yamamoto Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology
Kumao Toyoshima
Kumao Toyoshima Osaka University
Yasushi Kawaguchi
Yasushi Kawaguchi University of Tokyo
David Beeson
David Beeson University of Oxford
Yoichiro Iwakura
Yoichiro Iwakura Tokyo University of Science
Masaki Noda
Masaki Noda Tokyo Medical and Dental University
Daisuke Kitamura
Daisuke Kitamura Tokyo University of Science
Shigeo Mori
Shigeo Mori University of Tokyo
Tomohiro Kurosaki
Tomohiro Kurosaki Osaka University
Shun-ichiro Iemura
Shun-ichiro Iemura Fukushima Medical University

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