Juha Peltonen
MD, PhD
juhpel@utu.fi +358 29 450 4613 +358 50 476 5790 Kiinamyllynkatu 10 Turku Office: C340 ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5732-4167 |
Areas of expertise
Neurofibromatosis, Cancer, Skin, Bone, Cell and Developmental Biology
Neurofibromatosis, Cancer, Skin, Bone, Cell and Developmental Biology
Biography
EDUCATION
MD, University of Turku, Finland 1981;
PhD, University of Turku 1985;
Docentships:
•Medical Biochemistry, University of Turku 1990
•Anatomy, University of Oulu, Finland 1993
•Cell and developmental biology, University of Oulu 2009
Postdoc & foreign visits
Jefferson Institute of Molecular Medicine, Department of Dermatology, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, USA, 1987-1990
Research
http://www.researcherid.com/rid/C-2817-2008
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Juha_Peltonen2/
http://www.vsshp.fi/en/toimipaikat/tyks/osastot-ja-poliklinikat/Pages/Turku-Neurofibromatosis-Centre.aspx
FULL LIST OF PUBLICATIONS
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5732-4167
Rekisteritutkimuksen tietosuojailmoitushttps://www.utu.fi/sites/default/files/public%3A//media/file/Tietosuojailmoitus_neurofibromatoosi_Suomessa.pdf
Teaching
Cell Biology, Histology, Developmental biology, Gross anatomy, Epidemiology
Publications 
1 of 5
- Dentofacial Malocclusion in Neurofibromatosis 1 in Finland (2025)
- American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Hospital Visits Associated With Oral Infections in Patients With Neurofibromatosis Type 1: A Register-Based Analysis (2025)
- American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Mass spectrometric insights into the protein composition of human cutaneous neurofibromas: comparison of neurofibromas with the overlying skin. (2025)
- British Journal of Cancer
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Pregnancy and the Risk for Cancer in Neurofibromatosis 1 (2025)
- Genes, Chromosomes and Cancer
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Characterization of Immune Cell Populations of Cutaneous Neurofibromas in Neurofibromatosis 1 (2024)
- Laboratory Investigation
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Hypertension in NF1: A closer look at the primacy of essential hypertension versus secondary causes (2024)
- Molecular Genetics and Genomic Medicine
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - The contribution of morbidity and unemployment for the reduced labor market participation of individuals with neurofibromatosis 1 in Finland (2023)
- European Journal of Human Genetics
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Mast Cells in Human Cutaneous Neurofibromas: Density, Subtypes, and Association with Clinical Features in Neurofibromatosis 1 (2022)
- Dermatology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - The rare disease neurofibromatosis 1 as a source of hereditary economic inequality: evidence from Finland (2022)
- Genetics in Medicine
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - A rare disease and education: Neurofibromatosis type 1 decreases educational attainment (2021)
- Clinical Genetics
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Circulating free DNA in the plasma of individuals with neurofibromatosis type 1 (2021)
- American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Haploinsufficiency of the NF1 gene is associated with protection against diabetes (2021)
- Journal of Medical Genetics
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Increased risk for dementia in neurofibromatosis type 1 (2021)
- Genetics in Medicine
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Signaling pathways in human osteoclasts differentiation: ERK1/2 as a key player (2021)
- Molecular Biology Reports
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Breast cancer in neurofibromatosis 1: survival and risk of contralateral breast cancer in a five country cohort study (2020)
- Genetics in Medicine
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Density and function of actin-microdomains in healthy and NF1 deficient osteoclasts revealed by the combined use of atomic force and stimulated emission depletion microscopy (2020)
- Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - p53-Regulated Long Noncoding RNA PRECSIT Promotes Progression of Cutaneous Squamous Cell Carcinoma via STAT3 Signaling (2020)
- American Journal of Pathology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Association Between Invasive Lobular Breast Cancer and Mutations in the Mismatch Repair Gene MSH6 (2019)
- JAMA Oncology
(B1 Non-refereed article in a scientific journal) - Breast cancer risk in Neurofibromatosis type 1 is a function of the type of NF1 gene mutation: a new genotype-phenotype correlation (2019)
- Journal of Medical Genetics
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Intestinal tumors in neurofibromatosis 1 with special reference to fatal gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GIST) (2019)
- Molecular Genetics and Genomic Medicine
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
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