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François Cambien

François Cambien

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Medicine

D-Index
117
Citations
57263
World Ranking
4171
National Ranking
123

Overview

François Cambien is affiliated with the University of Bordeaux in France. Their research predominantly spans the fields of biochemistry, genetics and molecular biology, and medicine, with particular contributions to molecular biology and cardiology and cardiovascular medicine. Additional subfields include surgery, genetics, and epidemiology.

The scientist has focused on topics such as cardiomyopathy and myosin studies, RNA modifications and cancer, cancer-related gene regulation, Trypanosoma species research and implications, galectins and cancer biology, mechanical circulatory support devices, and cardiac structural anomalies and repair.

Recent publications by François Cambien include:

  • Genome-wide association analysis in dilated cardiomyopathy reveals two new players in systolic heart failure on chromosomes 3p25.1 and 22q11.23, 2021, European Heart Journal
  • Risk Scores in ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction Patients with Refractory Cardiogenic Shock and Veno-Arterial Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation, 2021, Journal of Clinical Medicine
  • Correction: Exome-wide association study reveals novel susceptibility genes to sporadic dilated cardiomyopathy, 2020, PLoS ONE
  • Genome wide association analysis in dilated cardiomyopathy reveals two new key players in systolic heart failure on chromosome 3p25.1 and 22q11.23, 2020, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • DNA -pools targeted-sequencing as a robust cost-effective method to detect rare variants: Application to dilated cardiomyopathy genetic diagnosis, 2023, Clinical Genetics

Frequent co-authors who have worked alongside François Cambien include:

  • Eric Villard
  • Philippe Charron
  • Sophie Garnier
  • Richard Isnard
  • David-Alexandre Trégouët

The scientist's work appears in several notable publication venues, including:

  • European Heart Journal
  • Archives of Cardiovascular Diseases Supplements
  • Journal of Clinical Medicine
  • PLoS ONE
  • Clinical Genetics

Best Publications

  • An insertion/deletion polymorphism in the angiotensin I-converting enzyme gene accounting for half the variance of serum enzyme levels.

    B Rigat;C Hubert;F Alhenc-Gelas;F Cambien

  • Deletion polymorphism in the gene for angiotensin-converting enzyme is a potent risk factor for myocardial infarction.

    F Cambien;O Poirier;L Lecerf;A Evans

  • Genomewide association analysis of coronary artery disease.

    Nilesh J. Samani;Jeanette Erdmann;Alistair S. Hall;Christian Hengstenberg

  • Large-scale association analysis identifies 13 new susceptibility loci for coronary artery disease

    Heribert Schunkert;Inke R. König;Sekar Kathiresan;Muredach P. Reilly

  • Evidence, from combined segregation and linkage analysis, that a variant of the angiotensin I-converting enzyme (ACE) gene controls plasma ACE levels.

    L Tiret;B Rigat;S Visvikis;C Breda

  • Large-scale association analysis identifies new risk loci for coronary artery disease

    Panos Deloukas;Stavroula Kanoni;Christina Willenborg;Martin Farrall

  • Genome-wide association of early-onset myocardial infarction with single nucleotide polymorphisms and copy number variants.

    Sekar Kathiresan;Benjamin F Voight;Shaun Purcell;Kiran Musunuru

  • Angiotensin II type 1 receptor gene polymorphisms in human essential hypertension.

    Alain Bonnardeaux;Eleanor Davies;Xavier Jeunemaitre;Isabelle Fery

  • Plasma Concentrations and Genetic Variation of Matrix Metalloproteinase 9 and Prognosis of Patients With Cardiovascular Disease

    Stefan Blankenberg;Hans J. Rupprecht;Odette Poirier;Christoph Bickel

  • Interleukin-6 receptor pathways in coronary heart disease: a collaborative meta-analysis of 82 studies

    Nadeem Sarwar;Adam S. Butterworth;Daniel F. Freitag;John Gregson

  • Hypertriglyceridaemia as a risk factor of coronary heart disease mortality in subjects with impaired glucose tolerance or diabetes. Results from the 11-year follow-up of the Paris Prospective Study.

    A. Fontbonne;E. Eschwège;F. Cambien;J. L. Richard

  • Functional Polymorphism in the Regulatory Region of Gelatinase B Gene in Relation to Severity of Coronary Atherosclerosis

    Baiping Zhang;Shu Ye;S.-M. Herrmann;P. Eriksson

  • DNA methylation and body-mass index: a genome-wide analysis

    Katherine J Dick;Katherine J Dick;Christopher P Nelson;Christopher P Nelson;Loukia Tsaprouni;Johanna K Sandling;Johanna K Sandling

  • Interleukin-18 Is a Strong Predictor of Cardiovascular Death in Stable and Unstable Angina

    Stefan Blankenberg;Laurence Tiret;Christoph Bickel;Dirk Peetz

  • Glutathione peroxidase 1 activity and cardiovascular events in patients with coronary artery disease.

    Stefan Blankenberg;Hans J. Rupprecht;Christoph Bickel;Michael Torzewski

  • Pulsatile versus steady component of blood pressure: a cross-sectional analysis and a prospective analysis on cardiovascular mortality.

    B Darne;X Girerd;M Safar;F Cambien

  • Genetics and Beyond – The Transcriptome of Human Monocytes and Disease Susceptibility

    Tanja Zeller;Philipp Wild;Silke Szymczak;Maxime Rotival

  • New susceptibility locus for coronary artery disease on chromosome 3q22.3

    Jeanette Erdmann;Anika Großhennig;Peter S Braund;Inke R König

  • Asymmetric dimethylarginine and the risk of cardiovascular events and death in patients with coronary artery disease: results from the AtheroGene Study.

    Renate Schnabel;Stefan Blankenberg;Edith Lubos;Karl J. Lackner

  • Polymorphisms of the Transforming Growth Factor-β1 Gene in Relation to Myocardial Infarction and Blood Pressure: The Etude Cas-Témoin de l'Infarctus du Myocarde (ECTIM) Study

    François Cambien;Sylvain Ricard;Alain Troesch;Christine Mallet

Frequent Co-Authors

Laurence Tiret
Laurence Tiret Sorbonne University
Alun Evans
Alun Evans Queen's University Belfast
David-Alexandre Trégouët
David-Alexandre Trégouët University of Bordeaux
Dominique Arveiler
Dominique Arveiler University of Strasbourg
Willem H. Ouwehand
Willem H. Ouwehand University of Cambridge
Nilesh J. Samani
Nilesh J. Samani University of Leicester
Alison H. Goodall
Alison H. Goodall University of Leicester
Christian Hengstenberg
Christian Hengstenberg Medical University of Vienna
Jeanette Erdmann
Jeanette Erdmann University of Lübeck
Heribert Schunkert
Heribert Schunkert Technical University of Munich

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