Naomichi Matsumoto
Naomichi Matsumoto | |
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松本 直通 | |
| Born | August 3, 1961 Saga Prefecture, Japan |
| Nationality | Japanese |
| Alma mater | Nagasaki University Kyushu University |
| Known for | Sotos syndrome Marfan syndrome type II Ohtahara syndrome Coffin–Siris syndrome |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Medical genetics |
| Institutions | Yokohama City University University of Chicago Nagasaki University |
| Doctoral advisor | Norio Niikawa |
Naomichi Matsumoto (松本 直通, Matsumoto Naomichi; born August 3, 1961) is a Japanese physician and medical geneticist who identified several causative genes for human diseases, including Sotos syndrome (2002), Marfan syndrome type II (2004), Ohtahara syndrome (2008), West syndrome (2010), Microphthalmia with limb anomalies (2011), Autosomal-recessive cerebellar ataxias (2011), Hypomyelination with cerebellar atrophy and hypoplasia of the corpus callosum (HCAHC) (2011), Porencephaly (2012), and Coffin–Siris syndrome (2012).
Matsumoto has been the editor-in-chief of the scientific journal Journal of Human Genetics since 2014.