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2024
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Genetics and Molecular Biology
France
2024

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Genetics

D-Index
101
Citations
37805
World Ranking
727
National Ranking
17

Medicine

D-Index
101
Citations
38074
World Ranking
7967
National Ranking
244

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2024 - Research.com Genetics in France Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Genetics and Molecular Biology in France Leader Award
  • 2014 - Grand Prix scientifique de la Fondation NRJ, Institut de France

Overview

Jamel Chelly is affiliated with the Institute of Genetics and Molecular and Cellular Biology in France and focuses their research on various domains within biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine. Their primary fields of study include genetics, molecular biology, psychiatry and mental health, pediatrics, perinatology and child health, and neurology.

The main topics explored in their work cover genetics and neurodevelopmental disorders, epilepsy research and treatment, genomics and rare diseases, genomic variations and chromosomal abnormalities, fetal and pediatric neurological disorders, RNA modifications and cancer, as well as cerebrovascular and genetic disorders.

Recent publications authored or co-authored by Jamel Chelly include:

  • Developmental and epilepsy spectrum of KCNB1 encephalopathy with long-term outcome (2020, Epilepsia)
  • MAST1-related mega-corpus-callosum syndrome with central hypogonadism (2023, European Journal of Medical Genetics)
  • Variants in CUL4B are Associated with Cerebral Malformations (2020, UNC Libraries)

Jamel Chelly has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Sylvie Odent
  • Claire Bar
  • Mathieu Kuchenbuch
  • Giulia Barcia
  • Amy Schneider

Their published work has appeared in journals such as:

  • Epilepsia
  • European Journal of Medical Genetics
  • UNC Libraries

In recognition of their contributions, Jamel Chelly was awarded the Grand Prix scientifique de la Fondation NRJ, Institut de France in 2014.

Best Publications

  • SOMATIC MUTATIONS OF THE BETA -CATENIN GENE ARE FREQUENT IN MOUSE AND HUMAN HEPATOCELLULAR CARCINOMAS

    Alix de La Coste;Béatrice Romagnolo;Pierre Billuart;Claire-Angélique Renard

  • Doublecortin is a developmentally regulated, microtubule-associated protein expressed in migrating and differentiating neurons.

    Fiona Francis;Annette Koulakoff;Dominique Boucher;Philippe Chafey

  • Transcription of the dystrophin gene in human muscle and non-muscle tissues

    Jamel Chelly;Jean-Claude Kaplan;Pascal Maire;Sophie Gautron

  • X-linked mental retardation and autism are associated with a mutation in the NLGN4 gene, a member of the neuroligin family.

    Frédéric Laumonnier;Frédérique Bonnet-Brilhault;Marie Gomot;Romuald Blanc

  • A Novel CNS Gene Required for Neuronal Migration and Involved in X-Linked Subcortical Laminar Heterotopia and Lissencephaly Syndrome

    Vincent des Portes;Jean Marc Pinard;Pierre Billuart;Marie Claude Vinet

  • Isolation of a candidate gene for Menkes disease that encodes a potential heavy metal binding protein

    Jamel Chelly;Zeynep Tümer;Tønne Tønnesen;Anne Petterson

  • Illegitimate transcription: transcription of any gene in any cell type.

    Jamel Chelly;Jean-Paul Concordet;Jean-Claude Kaplan;Axel Kahn

  • A systematic, large-scale resequencing screen of X-chromosome coding exons in mental retardation.

    Patrick S Tarpey;Raffaella Smith;Erin Pleasance;Annabel Whibley

  • Oligophrenin-1 encodes a rhoGAP protein involved in X-linked mental retardation

    P Billuart;T Bienvenu;N Ronce;des Portes

  • Mutations in TUBG1 , DYNC1H1 , KIF5C and KIF2A cause malformations of cortical development and microcephaly

    Karine Poirier;Nicolas Lebrun;Nicolas Lebrun;Loic Broix;Loic Broix;Guoling Tian

  • Mutations in α-Tubulin Cause Abnormal Neuronal Migration in Mice and Lissencephaly in Humans

    David A. Keays;Guoling Tian;Karine Poirier;Guo Jen Huang

  • Mutations in the JARID1C gene, which is involved in transcriptional regulation and chromatin remodeling, cause X-linked mental retardation.

    Lars Riff Jensen;Marion Amende;Ulf Gurok;Bettina Moser

  • A new member of the IL-1 receptor family highly expressed in hippocampus and involved in X-linked mental retardation

    A. Carrie;L. Jun;T. Bienvenu;M.C. Vinet

  • Mutations in GDI1 are responsible for X-linked non-specific mental retardation

    P D'Adamo;A Menegon;C Lo Nigro;M Grasso

  • Mutations in the [beta]-tubulin gene TUBB2B result in asymmetrical polymicrogyria

    Xavier Hubert Jaglin;Karine Poirier;Karine Poirier;Yoann Saillour;Yoann Saillour;Emmanuelle Buhler

  • Differentially Activated Macrophages Orchestrate Myogenic Precursor Cell Fate During Human Skeletal Muscle Regeneration

    Marielle Saclier;Marielle Saclier;Marielle Saclier;Houda Yacoub‐Youssef;Houda Yacoub‐Youssef;Houda Yacoub‐Youssef;Abigail L. Mackey;Abigail L. Mackey;Ludovic Arnold;Ludovic Arnold

  • Mutations in ARHGEF6 , encoding a guanine nucleotide exchange factor for Rho GTPases, in patients with X-linked mental retardation

    K. Kutsche;H.G. Yntema;A. Brandt;I. Jantke

  • Genotype-phenotype analysis in 2,405 patients with a dystrophinopathy using the UMD-DMD database: a model of nationwide knowledgebase.

    Sylvie Tuffery-Giraud;Sylvie Tuffery-Giraud;Christophe Béroud;Christophe Béroud;Rabah Ben Yaou;Rabah Ben Yaou

  • Molecular genetics of Rett syndrome: when DNA methylation goes unrecognized

    Thierry Bienvenu;Jamel Chelly

  • Monogenic causes of X-linked mental retardation

    Jamel Chelly;Jean-Louis Mandel

Frequent Co-Authors

Thierry Bienvenu
Thierry Bienvenu Université Paris Cité
Jozef Gecz
Jozef Gecz University of Adelaide
Hans-Hilger Ropers
Hans-Hilger Ropers Max Planck Society
Vera M. Kalscheuer
Vera M. Kalscheuer Max Planck Society
Nathalie Boddaert
Nathalie Boddaert Université Paris Cité

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