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2024
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Genetics and Molecular Biology
France
2024

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Genetics

D-Index
82
Citations
23060
World Ranking
1476
National Ranking
57

Medicine

D-Index
84
Citations
24457
World Ranking
15164
National Ranking
488

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2024 - Research.com Genetics in France Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Genetics and Molecular Biology in France Leader Award

Overview

Claudine Junien is affiliated with INRAE: Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement in France. Their research spans several domains within biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a notable focus on medicine. Junien's work is delineated into key subfields including molecular biology, pediatrics, perinatology and child health, social psychology, behavioral neuroscience, and genetics.

The scientist's research primarily addresses themes related to birth, development, and health, with additional specialization in epigenetics and DNA methylation. Other focal topics encompass RNA modifications and cancer, neuroendocrine regulation and behavior, stress responses and cortisol, as well as genetics and neurodevelopmental disorders, and cancer-related gene regulation.

Among recent publications, notable papers include:

  • "Meta-analysis of genome-wide DNA methylation and integrative omics of age in human skeletal muscle," 2021, Journal of Cachexia Sarcopenia and Muscle
  • "Child health, developmental plasticity, and epigenetic programming," 2023, Yearbook of pediatric endocrinology
  • "Meta-analysis of genome-wide DNA methylation and integrative OMICs in human skeletal muscle," 2020, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • "Strain-specific changes in nucleus accumbens transcriptome and motivation for palatable food reward in mice exposed to maternal separation," 2023, Frontiers in Nutrition
  • "Obésité et perte de poids maternelle chez la souris: effets métaboliques olfactifs et epigénétiques sur la descendance mâle et femelle," 2020, Bulletin de l'Académie Nationale de Médecine

Junien has contributed to prominent publication venues, including:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of Cachexia Sarcopenia and Muscle
  • Yearbook of pediatric endocrinology
  • Frontiers in Nutrition
  • Bulletin de l'Académie Nationale de Médecine

The scientist frequently collaborates with colleagues such as Anne Gabory, Mélanie Jouin, Sarah Voisin, Macsue Jacques, and Shanie Landen, reflecting interdisciplinary interactions across their research fields.

Best Publications

  • Mutations in PCSK9 cause autosomal dominant hypercholesterolemia.

    Marianne Abifadel;Mathilde Varret;Jean-Pierre Rabès;Delphine Allard

  • Germline mutations in the Wilms' tumor suppressor gene are associated with abnormal urogenital development in Denys-Drash syndrome.

    Jerry Pelletier;Jerry Pelletier;Wendy Bruening;Clifford E. Kashtan;S. Michael Mauer

  • Heterozygous TGFBR2 mutations in Marfan syndrome

    Takeshi Mizuguchi;Gwenaëlle Collod-Beroud;Takushi Akiyama;Marianne Abifadel

  • UNIPARENTAL PATERNAL DISOMY IN A GENETIC CANCER-PREDISPOSING SYNDROME

    I. Henry;C. Bonaiti-Pellié;V. Chehensse;C. Beldjord

  • Update of the UMD-FBN1 mutation database and creation of an FBN1 polymorphism database.

    Gwenaëlle Collod-Béroud;Saga Le Bourdelles;Lesley Ades;Lesley Ades;Leena Ala-Kokko;Leena Ala-Kokko

  • Somatic deletion of the imprinted 11p15 region in sporadic persistent hyperinsulinemic hypoglycemia of infancy is specific of focal adenomatous hyperplasia and endorses partial pancreatectomy.

    P de Lonlay;J C Fournet;J Rahier;M S Gross-Morand

  • Clinical features of 52 neonates with hyperinsulinism.

    P de Lonlay-Debeney;F Poggi-Travert;J C Fournet;Christine Sempoux

  • Sexual dimorphism in environmental epigenetic programming.

    Anne Gabory;Linda Attig;Claudine Junien

  • Placental contribution to the origins of sexual dimorphism in health and diseases: sex chromosomes and epigenetics

    Anne Gabory;Tessa J Roseboom;Tom Moore;Lorna G Moore

  • Paternal mutation of the sulfonylurea receptor (SUR1) gene and maternal loss of 11p15 imprinted genes lead to persistent hyperinsulinism in focal adenomatous hyperplasia.

    V Verkarre;J C Fournet;P de Lonlay;M S Gross-Morand

  • Mutations and polymorphisms in the proprotein convertase subtilisin kexin 9 (PCSK9) gene in cholesterol metabolism and disease

    Marianne Abifadel;Jean-Pierre Rabès;Martine Devillers;Martine Devillers;Martine Devillers;Arnold Munnich;Arnold Munnich;Arnold Munnich

  • Identification of constitutional WT1 mutations, in patients with isolated diffuse mesangial sclerosis, and analysis of genotype/phenotype correlations by use of a computerized mutation database

    C. Jeanpierre;E. Denamur;I. Henry;M.-O. Cabanis

  • Myotonic dystrophy: size- and sex-dependent dynamics of CTG meiotic instability, and somatic mosaicism.

    Lavedan C;Hofmann-Radvanyi H;Shelbourne P;Rabes Jp

  • C57BL/6J and A/J mice fed a high-fat diet delineate components of metabolic syndrome.

    Catherine Gallou-Kabani;Alexandre Vigé;Marie-Sylvie Gross;Jean-Pierre Rabès

  • New nomenclature and DNA testing guidelines for myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM1)

    T. Ashizawa;I. Gonzales;N. Ohsawa;R. H. Singer

  • Genetics of neonatal hyperinsulinism

    Benjamin Glaser;Paul Thornton;Timo Otonkoski;Claudine Junien

  • CTG repeat instability and size variation timing in DNA repair-deficient mice

    Cédric Savouret;Edith Brisson;Jeroen Essers;Roland Kanaar

  • Mice transgenic for the human myotonic dystrophy region with expanded CTG repeats display muscular and brain abnormalities

    Hervé Seznec;Onnik Agbulut;Nicolas Sergeant;Cédric Savouret

  • Novel mutations of the PCSK9 gene cause variable phenotype of autosomal dominant hypercholesterolemia.

    Delphine Allard;Sabine Amsellem;Marianne Abifadel;Marianne Abifadel;Mélanie Trillard

  • UMD (Universal mutation database): a generic software to build and analyze locus-specific databases.

    Christophe Béroud;Gwenaëlle Collod-Béroud;Catherine Boileau;Thierry Soussi

Frequent Co-Authors

Catherine Boileau
Catherine Boileau Université Paris Cité
Christophe Béroud
Christophe Béroud Aix-Marseille University
Jean-Claude Kaplan
Jean-Claude Kaplan Université Paris Cité
Dominique Weil
Dominique Weil Institut Pasteur
Veronica van Heyningen
Veronica van Heyningen University College London
Corinne Antignac
Corinne Antignac Institut Imagine
Arnold Munnich
Arnold Munnich Necker-Enfants Malades Hospital
Robert Williamson
Robert Williamson University of Melbourne
Marcel M.A.M. Mannens
Marcel M.A.M. Mannens University of Amsterdam
Jean Weissenbach
Jean Weissenbach Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS

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