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Gaetan Lesca is affiliated with Claude Bernard University Lyon 1 in France and has contributed extensively to the fields of biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine. Their research spans several subfields, notably genetics, molecular biology, psychiatry and mental health, cellular and molecular neuroscience, and neurology.

The scientist's work primarily focuses on topics such as genetics and neurodevelopmental disorders, genomics and rare diseases, epilepsy research and treatment, genomic variations and chromosomal abnormalities, ion channel regulation and function, neuroscience, neuropharmacology research, and congenital heart defects research.

Among Lesca's recent publications are:

  • Evaluation of DNA Methylation Episignatures for Diagnosis and Phenotype Correlations in 42 Mendelian Neurodevelopmental Disorders (2020), published in The American Journal of Human Genetics
  • Early-onset autoimmunity associated with SOCS1 haploinsufficiency (2020), published in Nature Communications
  • The gain of function SCN1A disorder spectrum: novel epilepsy phenotypes and therapeutic implications (2022), published in Brain
  • Opposite Modulation of RAC1 by Mutations in TRIO Is Associated with Distinct, Domain-Specific Neurodevelopmental Disorders (2020), published in The American Journal of Human Genetics
  • KCNT1-related epilepsies and epileptic encephalopathies: phenotypic and mutational spectrum (2021), published in Brain

Gaetan Lesca has frequently published in several scientific venues including:

  • Epilepsia
  • Genetics in Medicine
  • European Journal of Medical Genetics
  • Brain
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

The professional network of Lesca includes collaborations with coauthors such as:

  • Nicolas Chatron
  • Damien Sanlaville
  • Audrey Labalme
  • Audrey Putoux
  • Rikke S. Møller

Best Publications

  • Genetic and phenotypic heterogeneity suggest therapeutic implications in SCN2A-related disorders.

    Markus Wolff;Katrine M Johannesen;Ulrike B S Hedrich;Silvia Masnada

  • GRIN2A mutations in acquired epileptic aphasia and related childhood focal epilepsies and encephalopathies with speech and language dysfunction.

    Gaetan Lesca;Gabrielle Rudolf;Nadine Bruneau;Natalia Lozovaya

  • The adult form of Niemann-Pick disease type C.

    Mathieu Sévin;Gaëtan Lesca;Nicole Baumann;Gilles Millat

  • Efficient strategy for the molecular diagnosis of intellectual disability using targeted high-throughput sequencing

    Claire Redin;Bénédicte Gérard;Julia Lauer;Yvan Herenger

  • Infantile-onset ascending hereditary spastic paralysis is associated with mutations in the alsin gene.

    Eleonore Eymard-Pierre;Gaetan Lesca;Sandra Dollet;Filippo Maria Santorelli

  • GRIN2A-related disorders : genotype and functional consequence predict phenotype

    Vincent Strehlow;Henrike O Heyne;Henrike O Heyne;Henrike O Heyne;Danique R M Vlaskamp;Katie F M Marwick

  • Evaluation of DNA Methylation Episignatures for Diagnosis and Phenotype Correlations in 42 Mendelian Neurodevelopmental Disorders

    Erfan Aref-Eshghi;Jennifer Kerkhof;Victor P. Pedro

  • The landscape of epilepsy-related GATOR1 variants

    Sara Baldassari;Fabienne Picard;Nienke E. Verbeek;Marjan van Kempen

  • Pulmonary vascular manifestations of hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia (rendu-osler disease).

    Vincent Cottin;Sophie Dupuis-Girod;Gaetan Lesca;Jean-François Cordier

  • Genotype-phenotype correlations in hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia: data from the French-Italian HHT network.

    Gaëtan Lesca;Carla Olivieri;Nelly Burnichon;Fabio Pagella

  • Genetic and neurodevelopmental spectrum of SYNGAP1-associated intellectual disability and epilepsy

    Cyril Mignot;Celina von Stülpnagel;Caroline Nava;Dorothée Ville

  • Liver involvement in hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia: consensus recommendations.

    Elisabetta Buscarini;Henry Plauchu;Guadalupe Garcia Tsao;Robert I. White

  • Epileptic encephalopathies of the Landau-Kleffner and continuous spike and waves during slow-wave sleep types: genomic dissection makes the link with autism.

    Gaetan Lesca;Gabrielle Rudolf;Audrey Labalme;Edouard Hirsch

  • De Novo Mutations in Protein Kinase Genes CAMK2A and CAMK2B Cause Intellectual Disability

    Sébastien Küry;Geeske M van Woerden;Thomas Besnard;Martina Proietti Onori

  • FXTAS New insights and the need for revised diagnostic criteria

    Emmanuelle Apartis;Anne Blancher;Wassilios G. Meissner;Lucie Guyant-Maréchal

  • Clinical profile of patients with ATP1A3 mutations in Alternating Hemiplegia of Childhood-a study of 155 patients

    Eleni Panagiotakaki;Elisa De Grandis;Michela Stagnaro;Erin L. Heinzen

  • DEPDC5 mutations in families presenting as autosomal dominant nocturnal frontal lobe epilepsy

    Fabienne Picard;Periklis Makrythanasis;Vincent Navarro;Saeko Ishida

  • Mutations and deletions in PCDH19 account for various familial or isolated epilepsies in females.

    Christel Depienne;Oriane Trouillard;Delphine Bouteiller;Isabelle Gourfinkel-An;Isabelle Gourfinkel-An

  • Molecular screening of ALK1/ACVRL1 and ENG genes in hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia in France.

    Gaëtan Lesca;Henri Plauchu;Florence Coulet;Sylvain Lefebvre

  • Erratum: Evaluation of DNA Methylation Episignatures for Diagnosis and Phenotype Correlations in 42 Mendelian Neurodevelopmental Disorders (The American Journal of Human Genetics (2020) 106(3) (356–370), (S0002929720300197), (10.1016/j.ajhg.2020.01.019))

    Erfan Aref-Eshghi;Jennifer Kerkhof;Victor P. Pedro

Frequent Co-Authors

Damien Sanlaville
Damien Sanlaville Hospices Civils de Lyon
Patrick Edery
Patrick Edery Hospices Civils de Lyon
Rikke S. Møller
Rikke S. Møller University of Southern Denmark
Mathieu Milh
Mathieu Milh Aix-Marseille University
Caroline Nava
Caroline Nava Université Paris Cité
Laurent Villard
Laurent Villard Aix-Marseille University
Sarah Weckhuysen
Sarah Weckhuysen University of Antwerp
Ingo Helbig
Ingo Helbig Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Ingrid E. Scheffer
Ingrid E. Scheffer University of Melbourne
Delphine Héron
Delphine Héron Sorbonne University

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