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Laurent Villard is affiliated with Aix-Marseille University in France and has contributed extensively to research in biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine. Their work spans multiple subfields, including genetics, molecular biology, cellular and molecular neuroscience, psychiatry and mental health, and cell biology.

The scientist's primary research topics include genetics and neurodevelopmental disorders, genomics and rare diseases, neuroscience and neuropharmacology research, ion channel regulation and function, epilepsy research and treatment, RNA regulation and disease, and cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias.

Laurent Villard has published notably in several research venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Faculty Opinions - Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature
  • Epilepsia
  • Journal of Medical Genetics
  • European Journal of Human Genetics
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Villard include:

  • "Molecular and clinical descriptions of patients with GABAA receptor gene variants (GABRA1, GABRB2, GABRB3, GABRG2): A cohort study, review of literature, and genotype-phenotype correlation," 2022, Epilepsia
  • "CACNA1A-associated epilepsy: Electroclinical findings and treatment response on seizures in 18 patients," 2021, European Journal of Paediatric Neurology
  • "Severe offtarget effects following intravenous delivery of AAV9-MECP2 in a female mouse model of Rett syndrome," 2020, Neurobiology of Disease
  • "The M-current works in tandem with the persistent sodium current to set the speed of locomotion," 2020, PLoS Biology
  • "A knock-in mouse model for KCNQ2-related epileptic encephalopathy displays spontaneous generalized seizures and cognitive impairment," 2020, Epilepsia

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Mathieu Milh
  • Gaëtan Lesca
  • Nathalie Villeneuve
  • Cyril Mignot
  • Florence Riccardi

Best Publications

  • Mutations in a Putative Global Transcriptional Regulator Cause X-linked Mental Retardation With Alpha-Thalassemia (ATR-X Syndrome)

    Richard J Gibbons;David J Picketts;Laurent Villard;Douglas R Higgs

  • Mutations in GRIN2A and GRIN2B encoding regulatory subunits of NMDA receptors cause variable neurodevelopmental phenotypes.

    Sabine Endele;Georg Rosenberger;Kirsten Geider;Bernt Popp

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

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

  • MECP2 mutations account for most cases of typical forms of Rett syndrome

    Thierry Bienvenu;Alain Carrié;Nicolas de Roux;Marie-Claude Vinet

  • Mecp2 deficiency disrupts norepinephrine and respiratory systems in mice.

    Jean-Charles Viemari;Jean-Christophe Roux;Andrew K Tryba;Véronique Saywell

  • Two affected boys in a Rett syndrome family: Clinical and molecular findings

    L. Villard;A. Kpebe;C. Cardoso;J. Chelly

  • MECP2 mutations in males

    Laurent Villard

  • Treatment with desipramine improves breathing and survival in a mouse model for Rett syndrome

    Jean-Christophe Roux;Emmanuelle Dura;Emmanuelle Dura;Anne Moncla;Anne Moncla;Josette Mancini

  • Specific Interaction between the XNP ATR-X Gene Product and the SET Domain of the Human EZH2 Protein

    Carlos Cardoso;Serge Timsit;Laurent Villard;Michel Khrestchatisky

  • Epileptic and nonepileptic features in patients with early onset epileptic encephalopathy and STXBP1 mutations.

    Mathieu Milh;Nathalie Villeneuve;Mondher Chouchane;Anna Kaminska

  • Mutations in SLC13A5 cause autosomal-recessive epileptic encephalopathy with seizure onset in the first days of life.

    Julien Thevenon;Mathieu Milh;François Feillet;Judith St-Onge

  • Periventricular heterotopia, mental retardation, and epilepsy associated with 5q14.3-q15 deletion

    Carlos Cardoso;Amber Boys;Ellena Parrini;Cecile Mignon-Ravix

  • GPR56-related bilateral frontoparietal polymicrogyria: further evidence for an overlap with the cobblestone complex

    Nadia Bahi-Buisson;Karine Poirier;Nathalie Boddaert;Catherine Fallet-Bianco

  • Refinement of cortical dysgeneses spectrum associated with TUBA1A mutations

    N Bahi-Buisson;K Poirier;N Boddaert;Y Saillour

  • Mutations in the oligophrenin-1 gene (OPHN1) cause X linked congenital cerebellar hypoplasia

    N. Philip;B. Chabrol;A. M. Lossi;C. Cardoso

  • Novel FOXG1 mutations associated with the congenital variant of Rett syndrome

    M A Mencarelli;A Spanhol-Rosseto;R Artuso;D Rondinella

  • XNP mutation in a large family with Juberg-Marsidi syndrome.

    Laurent Villard;Josef Gecz;Jean François Mattéi;Michel Fontés

  • A locus for bilateral perisylvian polymicrogyria maps to Xq28.

    Laurent Villard;Karine Nguyen;Carlos Cardoso;Carlos Cardoso;Christa Lese Martin

  • Craniofacial expression of human and murine TBX22 correlates with the cleft palate and ankyloglossia phenotype observed in CPX patients

    Claire Braybrook;Steven Lisgo;Kit Doudney;Deborah Henderson

  • Novel compound heterozygous mutations in TBC1D24 cause familial malignant migrating partial seizures of infancy

    Mathieu Milh;Antonio Falace;Nathalie Villeneuve;Nicola Vanni

Frequent Co-Authors

Mathieu Milh
Mathieu Milh Aix-Marseille University
Gaetan Lesca
Gaetan Lesca Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
Nathalie Villeneuve
Nathalie Villeneuve Hôpital Européen
Delphine Héron
Delphine Héron Sorbonne University
Jamel Chelly
Jamel Chelly Institute of Genetics and Molecular and Cellular Biology
Jozef Gecz
Jozef Gecz University of Adelaide
Frédéric Saudou
Frédéric Saudou Grenoble Alpes University
Caroline Nava
Caroline Nava Université Paris Cité
Christel Depienne
Christel Depienne Essen University Hospital
Charles E. Schwartz
Charles E. Schwartz Greenwood Genetic Center

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