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D-Index
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34896
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Michel Fardeau publication distribution in Medicine in 2026

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

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101 publications 1,796+

This scientist: 437 publications — 46th percentile

46% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,796 publications or more.

Michel Fardeau D-index placement in Medicine in 2026

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

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70 D-Index 217+

This scientist: 98 D-Index — 57th percentile

57% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 217 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1995 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Michel Fardeau is affiliated with Grenoble Alpes University in France. Their research spans extensively across biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, as well as medicine, with a significant focus on cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, molecular biology, genetics, cell biology, and cellular and molecular neuroscience.

Their research interests cover a range of specialized topics as summarized below:

  • Cardiomyopathy and Myosin Studies
  • Muscle Physiology and Disorders
  • Cardiovascular Effects of Exercise
  • RNA Research and Splicing
  • RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
  • Cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias
  • Genetics and Physical Performance

Recent significant publications include:

  • The molecular basis for sarcomere organization in vertebrate skeletal muscle, 2021, Cell
  • Structure of the native myosin filament in the relaxed cardiac sarcomere, 2023, Nature
  • Structures from intact myofibrils reveal mechanism of thin filament regulation through nebulin, 2022, Science
  • The spectrum of neurodevelopmental, neuromuscular and neurodegenerative disorders due to defective autophagy, 2021, Autophagy
  • Association of Left Ventricular Systolic Dysfunction Among Carriers of Truncating Variants in Filamin C With Frequent Ventricular Arrhythmia and End-stage Heart Failure, 2021, JAMA Cardiology

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Ay Lin Kho
  • Martin Rees
  • Stefan Raunser
  • Heinz Jungbluth
  • Alexander Alexandrovich

Popular venues for their published work are:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Biophysical Journal
  • Science Advances
  • UNC Libraries
  • Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology

Michel Fardeau has been recognized as a Member of Academia Europaea since 1995.

Best Publications

  • Mutations in the gene encoding lamin A/C cause autosomal dominant Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy

    Gisèle Bonne;M R Di Barletta;S Varnous;H M Bécane

  • A missense mutation in the alphaB-crystallin chaperone gene causes a desmin-related myopathy.

    Patrick Vicart;Patrick Vicart;Anne Caron;Pascale Guicheney;Zhenlin Li;Zhenlin Li

  • Mutations in the proteolytic enzyme calpain 3 cause limb-girdle muscular dystrophy type 2A

    Isabelle Richard;Odile Broux;Valéerie Allamand;Françoise Fougerousse

  • Dysferlin, a novel skeletal muscle gene, is mutated in Miyoshi myopathy and limb girdle muscular dystrophy

    Jing Liu;Masashi Aoki;Isabel Illa;Chenyan Wu

  • Short GCG expansions in the PABP2 gene cause oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy

    Brais B;Bouchard Jp;Xie Yg;Rochefort Dl

  • Mutations in the laminin alpha 2-chain gene (LAMA2) cause merosin-deficient congenital muscular dystrophy.

    A Helbling-Leclerc;X Zhang;H Topaloglu;C Cruaud

  • Missense mutations in the adhalin gene linked to autosomal recessive muscular dystrophy

    Steven L. Roberds;Valérie Allamand;Federica Piccolo

  • β–sarcoglycan: characterization and role in limb–girdle muscular dystrophy linked to 4q12

    Leland E. Lim;Franck Duclos;Odile Broux;Nathalie Bourg

  • Mutations in the fukutin-related protein gene (FKRP) identify limb girdle muscular dystrophy 2I as a milder allelic variant of congenital muscular dystrophy MDC1C

    Martin Brockington;Yeliz Yuva;Paola Prandini;Susan C. Brown

  • Clinical and molecular genetic spectrum of autosomal dominant Emery‐Dreifuss muscular dystrophy due to mutations of the lamin A/C gene

    Bonne G;Mercuri E;Muchir A;Urtizberea A

  • Congenital muscular dystrophy with merosin deficiency.

    F. M. S. Tome;T. Evangelista;A. Leclerc;Y. Sunada

  • Gene for Chronic Proximal Spinal Muscular Atrophies Maps To Chromosome-5q

    J. Melki;S. Abdelhak;Peter Sheth;M. F. Bachelot

  • Mutations in dynamin 2 cause dominant centronuclear myopathy.

    Marc Bitoun;Svetlana Maugenre;Pierre-Yves Jeannet;Emmanuelle Lacène

  • Mutations of the Selenoprotein N Gene, Which Is Implicated in Rigid Spine Muscular Dystrophy, Cause the Classical Phenotype of Multiminicore Disease: Reassessing the Nosology of Early-Onset Myopathies

    Ana Ferreiro;Susana Quijano-Roy;Claire Pichereau;Behzad Moghadaszadeh

  • COL4A1 mutations and hereditary angiopathy, nephropathy, aneurysms, and muscle cramps.

    Emmanuelle Plaisier;Olivier Gribouval;Sonia Alamowitch;Béatrice Mougenot

  • Expression of matrix metalloproteinases 2 and 9 in regenerating skeletal muscle: a study in experimentally injured and mdx muscles.

    Sonia Kherif;Chantal Lafuma;Michèle Dehaupas;Sylvie Lachkar

  • Mutations in the nebulin gene associated with autosomal recessive nemaline myopathy

    Katarina Pelin;Pirta Hilpelä;Kati Donner;Caroline Sewry

  • Calpain 3 deficiency is associated with myonuclear apoptosis and profound perturbation of the IκBα/NF-κB pathway in limb-girdle muscular dystrophy type 2A

    S. Baghdiguian;M. Martin;I. Richard;F. Pons

  • Immunolocalization and developmental expression of dystrophin related protein in skeletal muscle.

    Tejvir S. Khurana;Tejvir S. Khurana;Simon C. Watkins;Philippe Chafey;Jamel Chelly

  • Deficiency of the 50K dystrophin-associated glycoprotein in severe childhood autosomal recessive muscular dystrophy

    Kiichiro Matsumura;Fernando M. S. Tomé;Huguette Collin;Kemal Azibi

Frequent Co-Authors

Bruno Eymard
Bruno Eymard Université Paris Cité
Pascale Guicheney
Pascale Guicheney Sorbonne University
Kevin P. Campbell
Kevin P. Campbell University of Iowa
Jacques S. Beckmann
Jacques S. Beckmann University of Lausanne
Luciano Merlini
Luciano Merlini University of Bologna
Francesco Muntoni
Francesco Muntoni University College London
Joël Lunardi
Joël Lunardi Grenoble Alpes University
Jean-Claude Kaplan
Jean-Claude Kaplan Université Paris Cité
Thomas Voit
Thomas Voit University College London

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