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RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences Laboratory for Cardiovascular Genomics and Informatics

Team Leader: Kaoru Ito (M.D., Ph.D)

Research Summary

Kaoru  Ito(M.D., Ph.D)

Because heart diseases represent more than 15% of the cause of death in Japanese population and more than 20% of total medical expenses in Japan, it is socially important to reveal mechanismof these disorders. This laboratory focuses on cardiovascular diseases including myocardial infarction, atrial fibrillation, Kawasaki disease, to obtain useful information in clinical fields by genomic analyses. In addition, we work on developing new approaches to tackle with those diseases using machine learning techniques and high-throughput multi-omics technologies that are growing enormously in recent years.

Main Research Fields

  • Medicine, Dentistry & Pharmacy

Related Research Fields

  • Informatics
  • Biological Sciences
  • Biology

Keywords

  • Cardiovascular Disease
  • Bioinfomatics
  • Omics
  • Molecular Biology

Selected Publications

Papers with an asterisk(*) are based on research conducted outside of RIKEN.

  • 1.*Ito K, Patel PN, Gorham JM, McDonough B, DePalma SR, Adler EE, Lam L, MacRae CA, Mohiuddin SM, Fatkin D, Seidman CE, Seidman JG.:
    "Identification of pathogenic gene mutations in LMNA and MYBPC3 that alter RNA splicing."
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2017 114:7689-7694
  • 2.Nomura A, Won HH, Khera AV, Takeuchi F, Ito K, McCarthy S, Emdin CA, Klarin D, Natarajan P, Zekavat SM, Gupta N, Peloso GM, Borecki IB, Teslovich TM, Asselta R, Duga S, Merlini PA, Correa A, Kessler T, Wilson JG, Bown MJ, Hall AS, Braund PS, Carey DJ, Murray MF, Kirchner HL, Leader JB, Lavage DR, Manus JN, Hartze DN, Samani NJ, Schunkert H, Marrugat J, Elosua R, McPherson R, Farrall M, Watkins H, Juang JJ, Hsiung CA, Lin SY, Wang JS, Tada H, Kawashiri MA, Inazu A, Yamagishi M, Katsuya T, Nakashima E, Nakatochi M, Yamamoto K, Yokota M, Momozawa Y, Rotter JI, Lander ES, Rader DJ, Danesh J, Ardissino D, Gabriel S, Willer CJ, Abecasis GR, Saleheen D, Kubo M, Kato N, Ida Chen YD, Dewey FE, Kathiresan S.:
    "Protein-Truncating Variants at the Cholesteryl Ester Transfer Protein Gene and Risk for Coronary Heart Disease."
    Circ Res. 2017 121:81-88
  • 3.Low SK, Takahashi A, Ebana Y, Ozaki K, Christophersen IE, Ellinor PT; AFGen Consortium, Ogishima S, Yamamoto M, Satoh M, Sasaki M, Yamaji T, Iwasaki M, Tsugane S, Tanaka K, Naito M, Wakai K, Tanaka H, Furukawa T, Kubo M, Ito K, Kamatani Y, Tanaka T.:
    "Identification of six new genetic loci associated with atrial fibrillation in the Japanese population."
    Nat Genet. 2017 49:953-958
  • 4.Konta A, Ozaki K, Sakata Y, Takahashi A, Morizono T, Suna S, Onouchi Y, Tsunoda T, Kubo M, Komuro I, Eishi Y, Tanaka T.:
    "A functional SNP in FLT1 increases risk of coronary artery disease in a Japanese population."
    J Hum Genet. 2016 61:435-441
  • 5.Onouchi Y, Fukazawa R, Yamamura K, Suzuki H, Kakimoto N, Suenaga T, Takeuchi T, Hamada H, Honda T, Yasukawa K, Terai M, Ebata R, Higashi K, Saji T, Kemmotsu Y, Takatsuki S, Ouchi K, Kishi F, Yoshikawa T, Nagai T, Hamamoto K, Sato Y, Honda A, Kobayashi H, Sato J, Shibuta S, Miyawaki M, Oishi K, Yamaga H, Aoyagi N, Yoshiyama M, Miyashita R, Murata Y, Fujino A, Ozaki K, Kawasaki T, Abe J, Seki M, Kobayashi T, Arakawa H, Ogawa S, Hara T, Hata A, Tanaka T.:
    "Variations in ORAI1 Gene Associated with Kawasaki Disease."
    PLoS One. 2016 20;e0145486.
  • 6.Matsukura M, Ozaki K, Takahashi A, Onouchi Y, Morizono T, Komai H, Shigematsu H, Kudo T, Inoue Y, Kimura H, Hosaka A, Shigematsu K, Miyata T, Watanabe T, Tsunoda T, Kubo M, Tanaka T.:
    "Genome-Wide Association Study of Peripheral Arterial Disease in a Japanese Population."
    PLoS One. 2015 21;:e0139262.
  • 7.* Glessner JT, Bick AG, Ito K, Homsy JG, Rodriguez-Murillo L, Fromer M, Mazaika E, Vardarajan B, Italia M, Leipzig J, DePalma SR, Golhar R, Sanders SJ, Yamrom B, Ronemus M, Iossifov I, Willsey AJ, State MW, Kaltman JR, White PS, Shen Y, Warburton D, Brueckner M, Seidman C, Goldmuntz E, Gelb BD, Lifton R, Seidman J, Hakonarson H, Chung WK.:
    "Increased frequency of de novo copy number variants in congenital heart disease by integrative analysis of single nucleotide polymorphism array and exome sequence data."
    Circ Res. 2014 24;884-896.
  • 8.*Ito K, Bick AG, Flannick J, Friedman DJ, Genovese G, Parfenov MG, Depalma SR, Gupta N, Gabriel SB, Taylor HA Jr, Fox ER, Newton-Cheh C, Kathiresan S, Hirschhorn JN, Altshuler DM, Pollak MR, Wilson JG, Seidman JG, Seidman C.:
    "Increased burden of cardiovascular disease in carriers of APOL1 genetic variants."
    Circ Res. 2014 28;845-850.
  • 9.Onouchi, Y., Ozaki, K., Burns, JC., Shimizu, C., Terai, M., Hamada, H., Honda, T., Suzuki, H., Suenaga, T., Takeuchi, T., Yoshikawa, N., Suzuki, Y., Yasukawa, K., Ebata, R., Higashi, K., Saji, T., Kemmotsu, Y., Takatsuki, S., Ouchi, K., Kishi, F., Yoshikawa, T., Nagai, T., Hamamoto, K., Sato, Y., Honda, A., Kobayashi, H., Sato, J., Shibuta, S., Miyawaki, M., Oishi, K., Yamaga, H., Aoyagi, N., Iwahashi, S., Miyashita, R., Murata, Y., Sasago, K., Takahashi, A., Kamatani, N., Kubo, M., Tsunoda, T., Hata, A., Nakamura, Y., Tanaka, T., Japan Kawasaki Disease Genome Consortium., Abe, J., Kobayashi, T., Arakawa, H., Ichida, F., Nomura, Y., Miura, M., Ikeda, K., Hara, T., Fukazawa, R., Ogawa, S., Hamaoka, K., US Kawasaki Disease Genetics Consortium., Newburger, JW., Baker, AL., Rowley, AH., Shulman, ST., Melish, ME., Mason, WH., Takahashi, M. & Tremoulet, AH.:
    "A genome-wide association study identifies three new risk loci for Kawasaki disease."
    Nature Genetics 44, 517-521 (2012).
  • 10.Onouchi, Y., Ozaki, K., Buns, JC., Shimizu, C., Hamada, H., Honda, T., Terai, M., Honda, A., Takeuchi, T., Shibuta, S., Suenaga, T., Suzuki, H., Higashi, K., Yasukawa, K., Suzuki, Y., Sasago, K., Kemmotsu, Y., Takatsuki, S., Saji, T., Yoshikawa, T., Nagai, T., Hamamoto, K., Kishi, F., Ouchi, K., Sato, Y., Newburger, JW., Baker, AL., Shulman, ST., Rowley, AH., Yashiro, M., Nakamura, Y., Wakui, K., Fukushima, Y., Fujino, A., Tsunoda, T., Kawasaki, T., Hata, A., Nakamura, Y. & Tanaka, T.:
    "Common variants in CASP3 confer susceptibility to Kawasaki disease."
    Human Molecular Genetics 19, 2898-2906 (2010).

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Principal investigator

Kaoru Ito
Team Leader

Core members

Satoshi Koyama
Postdoctoral Researcher
Yoshie Nakashima
Technical Staff II
Izumi Noda
Technical Staff II

Contact Information

East Research Building,
1-7-22 Suehiro-cho, Tsurumi-ku,
Yokohama City, Kanagawa,
230-0045, Japan
Email: kaoru.ito [at] riken.jp

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