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Denise Lavezzari

IRCCS Sacro Cuore - Don Calabria
Verified email at sacrocuore.it
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A molecular signature associated with prolonged survival in glioblastoma patients treated with regorafenib

…, G Lombardi, S Benfatto, D Lavezzari… - Neuro …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Background Patients with glioblastoma (GBM) have a dramatically poor prognosis. The recent
REGOMA trial suggested an overall survival (OS) benefit of regorafenib in recurrent GBM …

[HTML][HTML] Exosomes from plasma of neuroblastoma patients contain doublestranded DNA reflecting the mutational status of parental tumor cells

…, B Iadarola, S Maestri, C Beltrami, D Lavezzari… - International Journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Neuroblastoma (NB) is an aggressive infancy tumor, leading cause of death among preschool
age diseases. Here we focused on characterization of exosomal DNA (exo-DNA) isolated …

[HTML][HTML] Characterization of FMR1 repeat expansion and intragenic variants by indirect sequence capture

…, L Marcolungo, S Maestri, M Alfano, D Lavezzari… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Traditional methods for the analysis of repeat expansions, which underlie genetic disorders,
such as fragile X syndrome (FXS), lack single-nucleotide resolution in repeat analysis and …

[HTML][HTML] ACoRE: Accurate SARS-CoV-2 genome reconstruction for the characterization of intra-host and inter-host viral diversity in clinical samples and for the …

…, V Grosso, E Cosentino, S Maestri, D Lavezzari… - Genomics, 2021 - Elsevier
Sequencing the SARS-CoV-2 genome from clinical samples can be challenging, especially
in specimens with low viral titer. Here we report Accurate SARS-CoV-2 genome …

Comparative analysis of bioinformatics tools to characterize SARS-CoV-2 subgenomic RNAs

D Lavezzari, A Mori, E Pomari, M Deiana… - Life Science …, 2023 - life-science-alliance.org
During the replication of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2),
positive-sense genomic RNA and subgenomic RNAs (sgRNAs) are synthesized by a …

[HTML][HTML] Shedding light on dark genes: enhanced targeted resequencing by optimizing the combination of enrichment technology and DNA fragment length

B Iadarola, L Xumerle, D Lavezzari, M Paterno… - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
The exome contains many obscure regions difficult to explore with current short-read sequencing
methods. Repetitious genomic regions prevent the unique alignment of reads, which is …

[HTML][HTML] Whole-exome sequencing of the mummified remains of Cangrande della Scala (1291–1329 CE) indicates the first known case of late-onset Pompe disease

B Iadarola, D Lavezzari, A Modi, C Degli Esposti… - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
Mummified remains of relevant historical figures are nowadays an important source of
information to retrace data concerning their private life and health, especially when historical …

[HTML][HTML] sgRNAs: A SARS-CoV-2 emerging issue

A Mori, D Lavezzari, E Pomari, M Deiana… - Aspects of Molecular …, 2023 - Elsevier
Like for other coronaviruses, SARS-CoV-2 gene expression strategy is based on the synthesis
of a nested set of subgenomic mRNA species (sgRNAs). These sgRNA are synthesized …

STArS (STrain-Amplicon-Seq), a targeted nanopore sequencing workflow for SARS-CoV-2 diagnostics and genotyping

…, V Grosso, M Alfano, D Lavezzari… - Biology Methods and …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Diagnostic tests based on reverse transcription–quantitative polymerase chain reaction (RT–qPCR)
are the gold standard approach to detect severe acute respiratory syndrome …

[HTML][HTML] Craspedotropis gretathunbergae, a new species of Cyclophoridae (Gastropoda: Caenogastropoda), discovered and described on a field course to Kuala …

…, J Ja, P Koomen, A Krotoski, D Lavezzari… - Biodiversity data …, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background Terrestrial Caenogastropoda form an important but threatened component of the
Borneo tropical rainforest malacofauna, where the group is nearly as rich in species as the …