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François Pattou

François Pattou

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Medicine

D-Index
103
Citations
48862
World Ranking
7239
National Ranking
222

Overview

François Pattou is affiliated with the University of Lille in France and has contributed extensively to the field of medicine, with a primary focus on surgery and endocrinology. Their research spans multiple subfields including surgery, endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism, molecular biology, genetics, and epidemiology.

The scientist's work is concentrated around several key topics, such as pancreatic function and diabetes, bariatric surgery and its outcomes, diabetes treatment and management, liver disease diagnosis and treatment, diabetes and associated disorders, diet and metabolism studies, and thyroid and parathyroid surgery.

Notable recent publications include:

  • High Prevalence of Obesity in Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) Requiring Invasive Mechanical Ventilation, 2020, Obesity
  • Definition and diagnostic criteria of clinical obesity, 2025, The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology
  • Bariatric Surgery Provides Long-term Resolution of Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis and Regression of Fibrosis, 2020, Gastroenterology
  • Prevalence of obesity among adult inpatients with COVID-19 in France, 2020, The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology
  • Peroxisomal β-oxidation acts as a sensor for intracellular fatty acids and regulates lipolysis, 2021, Nature Metabolism

Frequent collaborators in their research include Robert Caïazzo, Julie Kerr-Conte, Violeta Raverdy, Mikaël Chetboun, and Marie-Christine Vantyghem. These co-authors have contributed to numerous joint publications, reflecting a sustained collaborative network.

Pattou has published research extensively in several key venues such as Annales d Endocrinologie, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Transplantation, Annals of Surgery, and Diabetes. These journals represent the breadth of their engagement across endocrinology, surgery, and diabetes research communities.

Best Publications

  • New genetic loci implicated in fasting glucose homeostasis and their impact on type 2 diabetes risk

    Josée Dupuis;Josée Dupuis;Claudia Langenberg;Inga Prokopenko;Richa Saxena;Richa Saxena

  • New genetic loci implicated in fasting glucose homeostasis and their impact on type 2 diabetes risk (vol 42, pg 105, 2010)

    J Dupuis;C Langenberg;I Prokopenko;R Saxena

  • High Prevalence of Obesity in Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) Requiring Invasive Mechanical Ventilation.

    Arthur Simonnet;Mikael Chetboun;Julien Poissy;Violeta Raverdy

  • Variation in FTO contributes to childhood obesity and severe adult obesity

    Christian Dina;David Meyre;Sophie Gallina;Emmanuelle Durand

  • A genome-wide association search for type 2 diabetes genes in African Americans.

    N D Palmer;C W McDonough;P J Hicks;B H Roh

  • Improvement in outcomes of clinical islet transplantation: 1999-2010.

    Franca B. Barton;Michael R. Rickels;Rodolfo Alejandro;Bernhard J. Hering

  • Genome-wide association study for early-onset and morbid adult obesity identifies three new risk loci in European populations

    David Meyre;Jérôme Delplanque;Jean-Claude Chèvre;Cécile Lecoeur

  • Bariatric Surgery Reduces Features of Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis in Morbidly Obese Patients

    Guillaume Lassailly;Robert Caiazzo;David Buob;Marie Pigeyre

  • Genetic variation in GIPR influences the glucose and insulin responses to an oral glucose challenge

    Richa Saxena;Richa Saxena;Claudia Langenberg;Toshiko Tanaka;Toshiko Tanaka

  • Hypocalcemia following thyroid surgery: incidence and prediction of outcome

    François Pattou;Frederic Combemale;Sylvain Fabre;Bruno Carnaille

  • Dysfunction of lipid sensor GPR120 leads to obesity in both mouse and human

    Atsuhiko Ichimura;Akira Hirasawa;Odile Poulain-Godefroy;Odile Poulain-Godefroy;Amélie Bonnefond;Amélie Bonnefond

  • Inhibition of the glucose transporter SGLT2 with dapagliflozin in pancreatic alpha cells triggers glucagon secretion

    Caroline Bonner;Julie Kerr-Conte;Valéry Gmyr;Gurvan Queniat

  • A variant near MTNR1B is associated with increased fasting plasma glucose levels and type 2 diabetes risk

    Nabila Bouatia-Naji;Amélie Bonnefond;Amélie Bonnefond;Christine Cavalcanti-Proença;Christine Cavalcanti-Proença;Thomas Sparsø

  • A new highly penetrant form of obesity due to deletions on chromosome 16p11.2

    R. G. Walters;S. Jacquemont;A. Valsesia;A. Valsesia;A. Valsesia;A. J. de Smith

  • Novel Loci for Adiponectin Levels and Their Influence on Type 2 Diabetes and Metabolic Traits: A Multi-Ethnic Meta-Analysis of 45,891 Individuals

    Z Dastani;Hivert M-F.;Hivert M-F.;N Timpson;Perry Jrb.;Perry Jrb.

  • Pancreatic islet enhancer clusters enriched in type 2 diabetes risk-associated variants

    Lorenzo Pasquali;Kyle J Gaulton;Kyle J Gaulton;Kyle J Gaulton;Santiago A Rodríguez-Seguí;Loris Mularoni

  • Prospective Study of the Long-Term Effects of Bariatric Surgery on Liver Injury in Patients Without Advanced Disease

    Philippe Mathurin;Antoine Hollebecque;Laurent Arnalsteen;David Buob

  • Human β Cell Transcriptome Analysis Uncovers lncRNAs That Are Tissue-Specific, Dynamically Regulated, and Abnormally Expressed in Type 2 Diabetes

    Ignasi Morán;İldem Akerman;Martijn van de Bunt;Martijn van de Bunt;Ruiyu Xie

  • Epigenome-wide association of DNA methylation markers in peripheral blood from Indian Asians and Europeans with incident type 2 diabetes: a nested case-control study.

    John C Chambers;Marie Loh;Marie Loh;Marie Loh;Benjamin Lehne;Alexander Drong

  • Erratum: New genetic loci implicated in fasting glucose homeostasis and their impact on type 2 diabetes risk (Nature Genetics (2010) 42 (105-116))

    Josée Dupuis;Claudia Langenberg;Inga Prokopenko;Richa Saxena

Frequent Co-Authors

Philippe Froguel
Philippe Froguel Imperial College London
Bart Staels
Bart Staels University of Lille
David Meyre
David Meyre University of Lorraine
Thierry Berney
Thierry Berney University of Geneva
Loic Yengo
Loic Yengo University of Queensland
Oluf Pedersen
Oluf Pedersen University of Copenhagen
Philippe Mathurin
Philippe Mathurin University of Lille
Torben Hansen
Torben Hansen University of Copenhagen

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