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Christine Petit publication distribution in Genetics in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Genetics in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Christine Petit sits on this spectrum.

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45 publications 703+

This scientist: 337 publications — 82nd percentile

82% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 703 publications or more.

Christine Petit D-index placement in Genetics in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Genetics scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Christine Petit sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 160+

This scientist: 110 D-Index — 88th percentile

88% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 160 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Genetics in France Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Genetics in France Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Genetics in France Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Genetics and Molecular Biology in France Leader Award
  • 2016 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 1999 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Christine Petit is affiliated with Université Paris Cité in France. Their research is primarily situated within the fields of Neuroscience and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a strong focus on Molecular Biology and Sensory Systems. Other subfields include Cognitive Neuroscience, Neurology, and Cell Biology.

Their work covers a range of topics, particularly in hearing and auditory science, including Genetics, Hearing, Cochlea, Tinnitus, Vestibular and Auditory Disorders, and Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation. Additional emphasis is given to RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms, RNA regulation and disease, as well as biochemical analysis and sensing techniques.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Christine Petit include Crystel Bonnet, Nicolas Michalski, Amrit Singh-Estivalet, Fabrice Giraudet, and Paul Avan.

The scholar has published multiple articles in notable venues, including Molecular Biology Reports, L'annuaire du Collège de France, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Scientific Reports, and médecine/sciences.

Recent publications by Christine Petit include:

  • Deafness: from genetic architecture to gene therapy, 2023, Nature Reviews Genetics

Other papers related to their field of study, though authored mainly by other researchers, provide context for their research environment and interests:

  • Single-cell transcriptomic profiling of the mouse cochlea: An atlas for targeted therapies, 2023, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Ultrarare heterozygous pathogenic variants of genes causing dominant forms of early-onset deafness underlie severe presbycusis, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • The SNARE protein SNAP-25 is required for normal exocytosis at auditory hair cell ribbon synapses, 2022, iScience
  • Central auditory deficits associated with genetic forms of peripheral deafness, 2021, Human Genetics

Christine Petit's recognitions include memberships in prestigious organizations such as the National Academy of Sciences and Academia Europaea, received in 2016 and 1999 respectively.

Best Publications

  • Defective myosin VIIA gene responsible for Usher syndrome type 1B

    Dominique Well;Stéphane Blanchard;Josseline Kaplan;Parry Guilford

  • KCNQ4, a Novel Potassium Channel Expressed in Sensory Outer Hair Cells, Is Mutated in Dominant Deafness

    Christian Kubisch;Björn C Schroeder;Thomas Friedrich;Björn Lütjohann

  • A novel mutation in the potassium channel gene KVLQT1 causes the Jervell and Lange-Nielsen cardioauditory syndrome

    Nathalie Neyroud;Frédérique Tesson;Isabelle Denjoy;Michel Leibovici

  • Loss-of-function mutations in FGFR1 cause autosomal dominant Kallmann syndrome.

    Catherine Dodé;Jacqueline Levilliers;Jean-Michel Dupont;Anne De Paepe

  • Prelingual Deafness: High Prevalence of a 30delG Mutation in the Connexin 26 Gene

    Françoise Denoyelle;Dominique Weil;Marion A. Maw;Stephen A. Wilcox

  • Otoferlin, Defective in a Human Deafness Form, Is Essential for Exocytosis at the Auditory Ribbon Synapse

    Isabelle Roux;Saaid Safieddine;Régis Nouvian;M'hamed Grati;M'hamed Grati

  • The candidate gene for the X-linked Kallmann syndrome encodes a protein related to adhesion molecules

    Renaud Legouis;Jean-Pierre Hardelin;Jacqueline Levilliers;Jean-Michel Claverie

  • A human homologue of the Drosophila eyes absent gene underlies Branchio-Oto-Renal (BOR) syndrome and identifies a novel gene family

    Abdelhak S;Kalatzis;Heilig R;Compain S

  • A mutation in OTOF, encoding otoferlin, a FER-1-like protein, causes DFNB9, a nonsyndromic form of deafness

    Shin'ichiro Yasunaga;M'hamed Grati;Martine Cohen-Salmon;Aziz El-Amraoui

  • Clinical features of the prevalent form of childhood deafness, DFNB1, due to a connexin-26 gene defect: implications for genetic counselling.

    Francoise Denoyelle;Sandrine Marlin;Dominique Weil;Lucien Moatti

  • Kallmann syndrome: mutations in the genes encoding prokineticin-2 and prokineticin receptor-2.

    Catherine Dodé;Luis Teixeira;Jacqueline Levilliers;Corinne Fouveaut

  • Targeted ablation of connexin26 in the inner ear epithelial gap junction network causes hearing impairment and cell death.

    Martine Cohen-Salmon;Thomas Ott;Vincent Michel;Jean Pierre Hardelin

  • KCNQ4, a K+ channel mutated in a form of dominant deafness, is expressed in the inner ear and the central auditory pathway

    Tatjana Kharkovets;Jean-Pierre Hardelin;Saaid Safieddine;Michaela Schweizer

  • A defect in harmonin, a PDZ domain-containing protein expressed in the inner ear sensory hair cells, underlies Usher syndrome type 1C.

    Elisabeth Verpy;Michel Leibovici;Ingrid Zwaenepoel;Xue Zhong Liu

  • Myosin VIIa, harmonin and cadherin 23, three Usher I gene products that cooperate to shape the sensory hair cell bundle

    Batiste Boëda;Aziz El‐Amraoui;Amel Bahloul;Richard Goodyear

  • The autosomal recessive isolated deafness, DFNB2, and the Usher 1B syndrome are allelic defects of the myosin-VIIA gene.

    Dominique Weil;Polonca Küssel;Stéphane Blanchard;Gallia Lévy

  • SIX1 mutations cause branchio-oto-renal syndrome by disruption of EYA1-SIX1-DNA complexes.

    Rainer G. Ruf;Pin-Xian Xu;Derek Silvius;Edgar A. Otto

  • A novel deletion involving the connexin-30 gene, del(GJB6-d13s1854), found in trans with mutations in the GJB2 gene (connexin-26) in subjects with DFNB1 non-syndromic hearing impairment

    F. J. Del Castillo;M. Rodriguez-Ballesteros;A. Alvarez;T. Hutchin

  • Molecular Genetics of Hearing Loss

    Christine Petit;Jacqueline Levilliers;Jean-Pierre Hardelin

  • Connexin30 (Gjb6)-deficiency causes severe hearing impairment and lack of endocochlear potential

    Barbara Teubner;Vincent Michel;Jörg Pesch;Jürgen Lautermann

Frequent Co-Authors

Dominique Weil
Dominique Weil Institut Pasteur
Paul Avan
Paul Avan University of Clermont Auvergne
Jean Weissenbach
Jean Weissenbach Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
José-Alain Sahel
José-Alain Sahel University of Pittsburgh
Guy P. Richardson
Guy P. Richardson University of Sussex
Albert David
Albert David University of Nantes
Hélène Dollfus
Hélène Dollfus University of Strasbourg
Didier Lacombe
Didier Lacombe University of Bordeaux
Parry Guilford
Parry Guilford University of Otago

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