Issei Imoto
Professor
Faculty of Medicine
University of Tokushima
Japan
Biography
Issei Imoto has done his Doctor of Medicine from Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine in 1994. Currently he is working as Professor in Faculty of Medicine at Tokushima University. His research interests are Genome Medicine, Molecular Cytogenetics, Human Genetics, Molecular Biology, Clinical Epidemiology, Public Health Nutrition, Identification and functional analysis of disease related gametes by genome analysis of human diseases (cancer, genetic diseases, multifactorial diseases). Several papers of his work were pubished in reputed international journals. He is also the member of The Japanese Cancer Association, The Japanese Society of Internal Medicine, The Japanese Biochemical Society, The Molecular Biology Society of Japan, Japanese Society of Public Health, Japanese Epidemic Society.
Research Interest
Genome Medicine, Molecular Cytogenetics, Human Genetics, Molecular Biology, Clinical Epidemiology, Public Health Nutrition. Identification and functional analysis of disease related gametes by genome analysis of human diseases (cancer, genetic diseases, multifactorial diseases).
Publications
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T Kohmoto, N Okamoto, S Satomura, Takuya Naruto, T Komori and Issei Imoto. A FRMD7 variant in a Japanese family causes congenital nystagmus. Hum Genome Variation.
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K Kohmoto, Takuya Naruto, M Watanabe, Y Fujita, S Ujiro, N Okamoto, H Horikawa, Kiyoshi Masuda and Issei Imoto. A 590 Kb Deletion Caused by Non-allelic Homologous Recombination between Two LINE-1 Elements in a Patient with Mesomelia-synostosis Syndrome. Am J Med Genet A.
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Y Matsudate, Takuya Naruto, Y Hayashi, M Minami, M Tohyama, K Yokota, D Yamada, Issei Imoto and Y Kubo. Targeted exome sequencing and chromosomal microarray for the molecular diagnosis of nevoid basal cell carcinoma syndrome. J Dermatol Sci.
