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Patrick Descombes is affiliated with Nestlé (Switzerland) in Switzerland and has contributed extensively to research in medicine, biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, as well as agricultural and biological sciences. Their work spans multiple subfields including molecular biology, pharmacology, physiology, genetics, and plant science.

Their research topics cover a variety of areas, notably:

  • Coffee research and impacts
  • Cocoa and Sweet Potato Agronomy
  • Adipose Tissue and Metabolism
  • Plant Virus Research Studies
  • Infant Nutrition and Health
  • Breastfeeding Practices and Influences
  • Plant tissue culture and regeneration

Among recent publications attributed to or associated with Patrick Descombes are the following:

  • "Linking Human Milk Oligosaccharides, Infant Fecal Community Types, and Later Risk To Require Antibiotics," 2020, published in mBio
  • "The genome and population genomics of allopolyploid Coffea arabica reveal the diversification history of modern coffee cultivars," 2024, published in Nature Genetics
  • "Whole-genome sequencing analysis of semi-supercentenarians," 2021, published in eLife
  • "The absence of the caffeine synthase gene is involved in the naturally decaffeinated status of Coffea humblotiana, a wild species from Comoro archipelago," 2021, published in Scientific Reports
  • "Genomic history of the Italian population recapitulates key evolutionary dynamics of both Continental and Southern Europeans," 2020, published in BMC Biology

Patrick Descombes has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including:

  • Sylviane Métairon
  • Dominique Crouzillat
  • Aline Charpagne
  • Maud Lepelley
  • Grégory Lefebvre

Their publications have appeared most frequently in venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Scientific Reports
  • BMC Genomics
  • mBio
  • Nature Genetics

Best Publications

  • Genetic Variation in IL28B Is Associated With Chronic Hepatitis C and Treatment Failure: A Genome-Wide Association Study

    Andri Rauch;Zoltán Kutalik;Zoltán Kutalik;Patrick Descombes;Tao Cai

  • A Whole-Genome Association Study of Major Determinants for Host Control of HIV-1

    Jacques Fellay;Kevin V. Shianna;Dongliang Ge;Sara Colombo

  • A liver-enriched transcriptional activator protein, LAP, and a transcriptional inhibitory protein, LIP, are translated from the same mRNA.

    Patrick Descombes;Ulrich Schibler

  • Genome-wide gene-based analyses of weight loss interventions identify a potential role for NKX6.3 in metabolism.

    Armand Valsesia;Qiao-Ping Wang;Qiao-Ping Wang;Nele Gheldof;Jerome Carayol

  • LAP, a novel member of the C/EBP gene family, encodes a liver-enriched transcriptional activator protein.

    Patrick Descombes;Mario Chojkier;Serge Patrick Lichtsteiner;Eileen Elisabeth Falvey

  • The circadian PAR-domain basic leucine zipper transcription factors DBP, TEF, and HLF modulate basal and inducible xenobiotic detoxification

    Frédéric Gachon;Fabienne Fleury Olela;Olivier Schaad;Patrick Descombes

  • CCAAT/enhancer-binding protein mRNA is translated into multiple proteins with different transcription activation potentials.

    Vincent Ossipow;Patrick Descombes;Ulrich Schibler

  • Common genetic variation and the control of HIV-1 in humans.

    Jacques Fellay;Dongliang Ge;Kevin V. Shianna;Sara Colombo

  • Decoding NMDA Receptor Signaling: Identification of Genomic Programs Specifying Neuronal Survival and Death

    Sheng Jia Zhang;Marvin N. Steijaert;David Lau;Günther Schütz

  • Comparative transcriptomics of rice reveals an ancient pattern of response to microbial colonization

    Sonia Güimil;Hur-Song Chang;Tong Zhu;Ane Sesma

  • Nuclear calcium signaling controls expression of a large gene pool: identification of a gene program for acquired neuroprotection induced by synaptic activity.

    Sheng-Jia Zhang;Ming Zou;Li Lu;David Lau

  • RefGenes: identification of reliable and condition specific reference genes for RT-qPCR data normalization

    Tomas Hruz;Markus Wyss;Mylene Docquier;Michael W Pfaffl

  • Decreased epigenetic age of PBMCs from Italian semi-supercentenarians and their offspring.

    Steve Horvath;Chiara Pirazzini;Maria Giulia Bacalini;Davide Gentilini

  • Gene expression during sex determination reveals a robust female genetic program at the onset of ovarian development

    Serge Nef;Olivier Schaad;Nancy R. Stallings;Christopher R. Cederroth

  • The polo‐like kinase Plx1 is required for M phase exit and destruction of mitotic regulators in Xenopus egg extracts

    Patrick Descombes;Erich A. Nigg

  • Loss of fibronectin from the aged stem cell niche affects the regenerative capacity of skeletal muscle in mice.

    Laura Lukjanenko;M Juliane Jung;Nagabhooshan Hegde;Claire Perruisseau-Carrier

  • Natural Gene-Expression Variation in Down Syndrome Modulates the Outcome of Gene-Dosage Imbalance

    Paola Prandini;Samuel Deutsch;Robert Lyle;Maryline Gagnebin

  • Aging Disrupts Muscle Stem Cell Function by Impairing Matricellular WISP1 Secretion from Fibro-Adipogenic Progenitors.

    Laura Lukjanenko;Laura Lukjanenko;Sonia Karaz;Pascal Stuelsatz;Uxia Gurriaran-Rodriguez;Uxia Gurriaran-Rodriguez

  • Circadian and feeding rhythms differentially affect rhythmic mRNA transcription and translation in mouse liver

    Florian Atger;Cédric Gobet;Julien Marquis;Eva Martin

  • Common Genetic Variation and the Control of HIV-1 in Humans

    Jacques Fellay;Dongliang Ge;Kevin V. Shianna;Sara Colombo

Frequent Co-Authors

Amalio Telenti
Amalio Telenti VIR Biotechnology (United States)
Stylianos E. Antonarakis
Stylianos E. Antonarakis University of Geneva
Jacques S. Beckmann
Jacques S. Beckmann University of Lausanne
Huldrych F. Günthard
Huldrych F. Günthard University of Zurich
Jacques Fellay
Jacques Fellay École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Serge Nef
Serge Nef University of Geneva
Javier Martinez-Picado
Javier Martinez-Picado University of Vic - Central University of Catalonia
Manuel Battegay
Manuel Battegay University Hospital of Basel
Evgeny M. Zdobnov
Evgeny M. Zdobnov Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
Enos Bernasconi
Enos Bernasconi Universita della Svizzera Italiana

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