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John A. McGrath

Researcher at King's College London

Publications -  674
Citations -  26684

John A. McGrath is an academic researcher from King's College London. The author has contributed to research in topics: Epidermolysis bullosa & Mutation. The author has an hindex of 75, co-authored 631 publications receiving 24078 citations. Previous affiliations of John A. McGrath include Ninewells Hospital & Southampton General Hospital.

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Oral and gastrointestinal manifestations of epidermolysis bullosa.

TL;DR: Lingual adhesions or microstomia occurred in dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa only, but were eight times more common in recessive than in dominant subtypes.
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Transformation-specific matrix metalloproteinases (MMP)-7 and MMP-13 are expressed by tumour cells in epidermolysis bullosa-associated squamous cell carcinomas

TL;DR: Patients with recessive dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa (RDEB) have an increased risk of developing rapidly progressive and metastatic cutaneous squamous cell carcinomas (SCC), and Matrix metalloproteinases (MMP) are a family of endopeptidases that contribute to growth, invasion and metastasis of SCC.
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Detection of sequence variants in the gene encoding the β3 chain of laminin 5 (LAMB3)

TL;DR: Primer pairs for the amplification of the complete cDNA as well as 22 exons of the LAMB3 gene encoding the entire β3 chain of laminin 5 are established, demonstrating that this method is useful in the detection of JEB mutations, aswell as polymorphisms in the Lamington3 gene.
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Ultrastructural Clues to Genetic Disorders of Skin: The Dermal-Epidermal Junction

TL;DR: Electron microscopy has had a unique role in identifying morphologic abnormalities of various fibers, fibrils, and filaments, and helping to localize biochemical constituents to these structures in epidermolysis bullosa.
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Development of antigen-specific ELISA for circulating autoantibodies to extracellular matrix protein 1 in lichen sclerosus

TL;DR: High anti-ECM1 titers correlated with more longstanding and refractory disease and cases complicated by squamous cell carcinoma, and passive transfer of affinity-purified patient IgG reproduced some histologic and immunopathologic features of lichen sclerosus skin.