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Michel Georges

Michel Georges

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Genetics
Belgium
2025
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Genetics and Molecular Biology
Belgium
2024

D-Index & Metrics

Genetics

D-Index
93
Citations
52942
World Ranking
951
National Ranking
12

Medicine

D-Index
93
Citations
52998
World Ranking
10661
National Ranking
125

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Genetics in Belgium Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Genetics in Belgium Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Genetics and Molecular Biology in Belgium Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Genetics in Belgium Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Genetics and Molecular Biology in Belgium Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Genetics and Molecular Biology in Belgium Leader Award
  • 2013 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences

Overview

Michel Georges is affiliated with the University of Liège in Belgium and has contributed extensively to the field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a focus on Genetics, Molecular Biology, Immunology, Epidemiology, and Cancer Research.

Their research spans multiple key topics including:

  • Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock
  • Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals
  • Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research
  • Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
  • Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
  • Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics
  • Gut microbiota and health

Michel Georges has collaborated frequently with several researchers including Carole Charlier, Wouter Coppieters, Haruko Takeda, Latifa Karim, and Tom Druet, with these coauthors appearing together in multiple publications.

The scientist's research outputs have been published mainly in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), BMC Genomics, Nature Communications, Nature Genetics, and Nature, reflecting a broad engagement with high-profile journals in genetic and molecular biology research.

Recent publications detail a range of significant studies:

  • Large-scale cis- and trans-eQTL analyses identify thousands of genetic loci and polygenic scores that regulate blood gene expression (2021, Nature Genetics)
  • The Polygenic and Monogenic Basis of Blood Traits and Diseases (2020, Cell)
  • ABO genotype alters the gut microbiota by regulating GalNAc levels in pigs (2022, Nature)
  • Large-scale sequencing identifies multiple genes and rare variants associated with Crohn's disease susceptibility (2022, Nature Genetics)
  • A first update on mapping the human genetic architecture of COVID-19 (2022, Nature)

In 2013, Michel Georges was recognized as a Member of the National Academy of Sciences.

Best Publications

  • Host-microbe interactions have shaped the genetic architecture of inflammatory bowel disease

    Luke Jostins;Stephan Ripke;Rinse K Weersma;Richard H Duerr

  • Resistance to HIV-1 infection in caucasian individuals bearing mutant alleles of the CCR-5 chemokine receptor gene.

    Michel Samson;Frédérick Libert;Benjamin J. Doranz;Joseph Rucker

  • Genome-wide association defines more than 30 distinct susceptibility loci for Crohn's disease

    Jeffrey C. Barrett;Sarah Hansoul;Dan L. Nicolae;Judy H. Cho

  • Genome-wide meta-analysis increases to 71 the number of confirmed Crohn's disease susceptibility loci

    Andre Franke;Dermot P B McGovern;Jeffrey C. Barrett;Kai Wang

  • A deletion in the bovine myostatin gene causes the double-muscled phenotype in cattle.

    Luc Grobet;Luis José Royo Martin;Dominique Poncelet;Dimitri Pirottin

  • Large-scale cis- and trans-eQTL analyses identify thousands of genetic loci and polygenic scores that regulate blood gene expression

    Urmo Võsa;Annique Claringbould;Annique Claringbould;Harm-Jan Westra;Marc Jan Bonder

  • Meta-analysis identifies 29 additional ulcerative colitis risk loci, increasing the number of confirmed associations to 47.

    Carl A. Anderson;Gabrielle Boucher;Charlie W. Lees;Andre Franke

  • A mutation creating a potential illegitimate microRNA target site in the myostatin gene affects muscularity in sheep

    Alex Clop;Fabienne Marcq;Haruko Takeda;Dimitri Pirottin

  • Positional candidate cloning of a QTL in dairy cattle: identification of a missense mutation in the bovine DGAT1 gene with major effect on milk yield and composition.

    Bernard Grisart;Wouter Coppieters;Frédéric Farnir;Latifa Karim

  • A regulatory mutation in IGF2 causes a major QTL effect on muscle growth in the pig

    Anne-Sophie Van Laere;Minh Nguyen;Martin Braunschweig;Carine Nezer

  • Mapping Quantitative Trait Loci Controlling Milk Production in Dairy Cattle by Exploiting Progeny Testing

    M Georges;D Nielsen;M Mackinnon;A Mishra

  • A sequence in M13 phage detects hypervariable minisatellites in human and animal DNA

    Gilbert Vassart;Michel Georges;Rita Monsieur;Huguette Brocas

  • A genetic linkage map of the bovine genome

    W. Barendse;S.M. Armitage;L.M. Kossarek;A. Shalom

  • Chromosomal mapping of two genetic loci associated with blood-pressure regulation in hereditary hypertensive rats.

    P. Hilbert;K. Lindpaintner;K. Lindpaintner;J. S. Beckmann;T. Serikawa

  • Domestic-animal genomics: deciphering the genetics of complex traits

    Leif Andersson;Leif Andersson;Michel Georges

  • Novel Crohn Disease Locus Identified by Genome-Wide Association Maps to a Gene Desert on 5p13.1 and Modulates Expression of PTGER4

    Cécile Libioulle;Edouard Louis;Sarah Hansoul;Cynthia Sandor

  • Molecular definition of an allelic series of mutations disrupting the myostatin function and causing double-muscling in cattle

    Luc Grobet;Dominique Poncelet;Luis José Royo;Benoit Brouwers

  • The conservation of dinucleotide microsatellites among mammalian genomes allows the use of heterologous PCR primer pairs in closely related species.

    S.S. Moore;L.L. Sargeant;T.J. King;J.S. Mattick

  • Fine-mapping inflammatory bowel disease loci to single-variant resolution

    Hailiang Huang;Hailiang Huang;Ming Fang;Luke Jostins;Maša Umićević Mirkov

  • An imprinted QTL with major effect on muscle mass and fat deposition maps to the IGF2 locus in pigs

    Carine Nezer;Laurence Moreau;Benoît Brouwers;Wouter Coppieters

Frequent Co-Authors

Carole Charlier
Carole Charlier University of Liège
Wouter Coppieters
Wouter Coppieters University of Liège
Nadine Buys
Nadine Buys KU Leuven
James E. Womack
James E. Womack Texas A&M University
Gilbert Vassart
Gilbert Vassart Université Libre de Bruxelles
Arsène Burny
Arsène Burny Université Libre de Bruxelles
Richard Spelman
Richard Spelman Livestock Improvement Corporation
Philip J. Griebel
Philip J. Griebel University of Saskatchewan
Olivier Hermine
Olivier Hermine Necker-Enfants Malades Hospital

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