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Ken McElreavey

Ken McElreavey

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Genetics
France
2024

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Genetics

D-Index
73
Citations
20126
World Ranking
2042
National Ranking
91

Ken McElreavey publication distribution in Genetics in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Genetics in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Ken McElreavey sits on this spectrum.

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45 publications 703+

This scientist: 256 publications — 67th percentile

67% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 703 publications or more.

Ken McElreavey D-index placement in Genetics in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Genetics scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Ken McElreavey sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 160+

This scientist: 73 D-Index — 54th percentile

54% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 160 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2024 - Research.com Genetics in France Leader Award

Overview

Ken McElreavey is a researcher affiliated with the Institut Pasteur in France, focusing on the fields of biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with additional work spanning medicine. Their research primarily addresses molecular biology and genetics, alongside subfields such as reproductive medicine, endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism, and urology.

The scientist's main research topics include sexual differentiation and disorders, genetic and clinical aspects of sex determination and chromosomal abnormalities, renal and related cancers, sperm and testicular function, urological disorders and treatments, growth hormone and insulin-like growth factors, and genetic syndromes and imprinting.

McElreavey's research has been published frequently in journals including the Journal of the Endocrine Society, PLoS ONE, Sexual Development, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), and Annales d Endocrinologie.

Recent publications authored or co-authored by McElreavey illustrate the scope of their research interests:

  • Testis formation in XX individuals resulting from novel pathogenic variants in Wilms' tumor 1 (WT1) gene, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Genetics of 46,XY gonadal dysgenesis, 2022, Best Practice & Research Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism
  • Pituitary stalk interruption syndrome is characterized by genetic heterogeneity, 2020, PLoS ONE
  • SRY-negative 46,XX testicular/ovotesticular DSD: Long-term outcomes and early blockade of gonadotropic axis, 2020, Clinical Endocrinology
  • Novel Genomic Variants, Atypical Phenotypes and Evidence of a Digenic/Oligogenic Contribution to Disorders/Differences of Sex Development in a Large North African Cohort, 2022, Frontiers in Genetics

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Anu Bashamboo
  • Joëlle Bignon-Topalovic
  • Raja Brauner
  • Maëva Elzaïat
  • Somboon Wankanit

Best Publications

  • Common loss-of-function variants of the epidermal barrier protein filaggrin are a major predisposing factor for atopic dermatitis

    Colin N A Palmer;Alan D Irvine;Ana Terron-Kwiatkowski;Yiwei Zhao

  • Donor splice-site mutations in WT1 are responsible for Frasier syndrome.

    Sandrine Barbaux;Patrick Niaudet;Marie-Claire Gubler;Jean-Pierre Grünfeld

  • Y-Chromosomal Diversity in Europe Is Clinal and Influenced Primarily by Geography, Rather than by Language

    Zoë H. Rosser;Tatiana Zerjal;Matthew E. Hurles;Maarja Adojaan

  • Genetic evidence of an early exit of Homo sapiens sapiens from Africa through eastern Africa.

    Lluís Quintana-Murci;Lluís Quintana-Murci;Ornella Semino;Hans-J. Bandelt;Giuseppe Passarino;Giuseppe Passarino

  • Where West Meets East: The Complex mtDNA Landscape of the Southwest and Central Asian Corridor

    Lluís Quintana-Murci;Lluís Quintana-Murci;Raphaëlle Chaix;R. Spencer Wells;Doron M. Behar

  • A regulatory cascade hypothesis for mammalian sex determination: SRY represses a negative regulator of male development.

    Ken McElreavey;Eric Vilain;Nacer Abbas;Ira Herskowitz

  • Mutations in NALP12 cause hereditary periodic fever syndromes

    I. Jéru;P. Duquesnoy;T. Fernandes-Alnemri;E. Cochet

  • Prognostic value of Y deletion analysis: what is the clinical prognostic value of Y chromosome microdeletion analysis?

    Csilla Krausz;Lluis Quintana-Murci;Ken McElreavey

  • SRY, SOX9, and DAX1 expression patterns during human sex determination and gonadal development

    N.A Hanley;D.M Hagan;M Clement-Jones;S.G Ball

  • The Y chromosome and male fertility and infertility

    Csilla Gabriella Krausz;Gianni Forti;K. Mcelreavey

  • Promoter Variation in the DC-SIGN–Encoding Gene CD209 Is Associated with Tuberculosis

    Luis B Barreiro;Olivier Neyrolles;Chantal L Babb;Ludovic Tailleux

  • Mutations of the GREAT gene cause cryptorchidism

    Ivan P. Gorlov;Aparna A. Kamat;Natalia V. Bogatcheva;Eric Jones

  • Human Male Infertility Associated with Mutations in NR5A1 Encoding Steroidogenic Factor 1

    Anu Bashamboo;Bruno Ferraz-de-Souza;Diana Lourenço;Lin Lin

  • Sequence family variant loss from the AZFc interval of the human Y chromosome, but not gene copy loss, is strongly associated with male infertility

    N Machev;N Saut;G Longepied;P Terriou

  • Y-Chromosome Lineages Trace Diffusion of People and Languages in Southwestern Asia

    Lluís Quintana-Murci;Csilla Krausz;Tatiana Zerjal;S.Hamid Sayar

  • Sex chromosome mosaicism in males carrying Y chromosome long arm deletions

    Jean Pierre Siffroi;Corine Le Bourhis;Csilla Krausz;Sandrine Barbaux

  • Mutations in PLK4 , encoding a master regulator of centriole biogenesis, cause microcephaly, growth failure and retinopathy

    Carol Anne Martin;Ilyas Ahmad;Ilyas Ahmad;Anna Klingseisen;Muhammad Sajid Hussain

  • Loss-of-function mutation in GATA4 causes anomalies of human testicular development

    Diana Lourenço;Raja Brauner;Magda Rybczyńska;Claire Nihoul-Fékété

  • Recent male-mediated gene flow over a linguistic barrier in Iberia, suggested by analysis of a Y-chromosomal DNA polymorphism.

    Matthew E. Hurles;Reiner Veitia;Eduardo Arroyo;Manuel Armenteros

  • Effects of transmission of Y chromosome AZFc deletions

    Philippos C Patsalis;Carolina Sismani;Lluis Quintana-Murci

Frequent Co-Authors

Marc Fellous
Marc Fellous Bayer Pharmaceuticals
Raja Brauner
Raja Brauner Université Paris Cité
Csilla Krausz
Csilla Krausz University of Florence
Lluis Quintana-Murci
Lluis Quintana-Murci Institut Pasteur
Eric Vilain
Eric Vilain George Washington University
Reiner A. Veitia
Reiner A. Veitia Université Paris Cité
Thomas Bourgeron
Thomas Bourgeron Université Paris Cité
Mark A. Jobling
Mark A. Jobling University of Leicester
Chris Tyler-Smith
Chris Tyler-Smith Wellcome Sanger Institute
Christine Petit
Christine Petit Université Paris Cité

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