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Florence Demenais

Florence Demenais

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Genetics
France
2024

D-Index & Metrics

Genetics

D-Index
70
Citations
18557
World Ranking
2271
National Ranking
106

Medicine

D-Index
71
Citations
18968
World Ranking
19985
National Ranking
675

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2024 - Research.com Genetics in France Leader Award

Overview

Florence Demenais is affiliated with Université Paris Cité in France. Their research spans several fields including Medicine, and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a particular focus on Molecular Biology, Physiology, Immunology and Allergy, Genetics, and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis.

Their scientific work covers a range of topics largely centered on respiratory and allergic conditions, genetic associations, and bioinformatics. Key topics include:

  • Asthma and respiratory diseases
  • Allergic Rhinitis and Sensitization
  • Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
  • Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks
  • Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
  • Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Research
  • Health, Environment, Cognitive Aging

Frequent publication venues for Demenais include:

  • Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology
  • Nature Communications
  • UNC Libraries
  • JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute
  • Allergy

The researcher has contributed to several recent papers, such as:

  • "Massively parallel reporter assays of melanoma risk variants identify MX2 as a gene promoting melanoma," 2020, Nature Communications
  • "Assessment of polygenic architecture and risk prediction based on common variants across fourteen cancers," 2020, Nature Communications
  • "Genome-wide analyses characterize shared heritability among cancers and identify novel cancer susceptibility regions," 2023, JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute
  • "Segregation analysis of congenital glaucoma: approach by two differential models," 2020, PubMed
  • "Associations between specific IgE sensitization to 26 respiratory allergen molecules and HLA class II alleles in the EGEA cohort," 2021, Allergy

They collaborate frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Emmanuelle Bouzigon
  • Hamida Mohamdi
  • Rachel Nadif
  • Valérie Siroux
  • Raphaël Vernet

Best Publications

  • A large-scale, consortium-based genomewide association study of asthma.

    Miriam F. Moffatt;Ivo G. Gut;Florence Demenais;David P. Strachan

  • Geographical Variation in the Penetrance of CDKN2A Mutations for Melanoma

    D. Timothy Bishop;Florence Demenais;Alisa M. Goldstein;Wilma Bergman

  • A SUMOylation-defective MITF germline mutation predisposes to melanoma and renal carcinoma

    Corine Bertolotto;Fabienne Lesueur;Sandy Giuliano;Thomas Strub

  • Multiancestry association study identifies new asthma risk loci that colocalize with immune-cell enhancer marks

    Florence Demenais;Florence Demenais;Patricia Margaritte-Jeannin;Patricia Margaritte-Jeannin;Kathleen C. Barnes;William O.C. Cookson

  • Genome-wide association study identifies three loci associated with melanoma risk.

    D Timothy Bishop;Florence Demenais;Mark M Iles;Mark Harland

  • Features associated with germline CDKN2A mutations: a GenoMEL study of melanoma‐prone families from three continents

    Alisa M Goldstein;May Chan;Mark Harland;Nicholas K Hayward

  • Effect of 17q21 variants and smoking exposure in early-onset asthma.

    Emmanuelle Bouzigon;Eve Corda;Hugues Aschard;Marie-Hélène Dizier

  • Predisposing Gene for Early-Onset Prostate Cancer, Localized on Chromosome 1q42.2-43

    Philippe Berthon;Antoine Valeri;Annick Cohen-Akenine;Eric Drelon

  • High-risk Melanoma Susceptibility Genes and Pancreatic Cancer, Neural System Tumors, and Uveal Melanoma across GenoMEL

    Alisa M. Goldstein;May Chan;Mark Harland;Elizabeth M. Gillanders

  • Prevalence of p16 and CDK4 Germline Mutations in 48 Melanoma-Prone Families in France

    Nadem Soufir;Marie-Françoise Avril;Agnès Chompret;Florence Demenais

  • Rare missense variants in POT1 predispose to familial cutaneous malignant melanoma.

    Jianxin Shi;Xiaohong R. Yang;Bari Ballew;Melissa Rotunno

  • Genome-wide association study identifies three new melanoma susceptibility loci

    Jennifer H. Barrett;Mark M. Iles;Mark Harland;John C. Taylor

  • Genome Screen for Asthma and Related Phenotypes in the French EGEA Study

    Marie-Hélène Dizier;Céline Besse-Schmittler;Michel Guilloud-Bataille;Isabella Annesi-Maesano

  • Common sequence variants on 20q11.22 confer melanoma susceptibility

    Kevin M. Brown;Stuart MacGregor;Grant W. Montgomery;David W. Craig

  • A Susceptibility Locus for Early-Onset Non-Insulin Dependent (Type 2) Diabetes Mellitus Maps to Chromosome 20q, Proximal to the Phosphoenolpyruvate Carboxykinase Gene

    Habib Zouali;El Habib Hani;Anne Philippi;Nathalie Vionnet

  • Indication for Linkage of the Human OB Gene Region With Extreme Obesity

    Karine Clement;Chad Garner;Jorg Hager;Anne Philippi

  • Genome-wide meta-analysis identifies five new susceptibility loci for cutaneous malignant melanoma

    Matthew H. Law;D. Timothy Bishop;Jeffrey E. Lee;Myriam Brossard

  • A missense mutation in the glucagon receptor gene is associated with non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus.

    Hager J;Hansen L;Vaisse C;Vionnet N

  • Evidence for the segregation of a major gene in human susceptibility/resistance to infection by Schistosoma mansoni.

    L Abel;F Demenais;A Prata;A E Souza

  • Multiancestry association study identifies new asthma risk loci that colocalize with immune-cell enhancer marks

    Florence Demenais;Patricia Margaritte-Jeannin;Kathleen C. Barnes;William O. C. Cookson

Frequent Co-Authors

Francine Kauffmann
Francine Kauffmann University of Paris-Saclay
Valérie Siroux
Valérie Siroux Grenoble Alpes University
Mark Lathrop
Mark Lathrop McGill University
Brigitte Bressac-de Paillerets
Brigitte Bressac-de Paillerets Institut Gustave Roussy
Marie-Françoise Avril
Marie-Françoise Avril Université Paris Cité
Alisa M. Goldstein
Alisa M. Goldstein National Institutes of Health
Susana Puig
Susana Puig University of Barcelona
Nicole Probst-Hensch
Nicole Probst-Hensch Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute
Deborah Jarvis
Deborah Jarvis Imperial College London
William O.C.M. Cookson
William O.C.M. Cookson Imperial College London

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