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Richard Redon is affiliated with the University of Nantes in France and has contributed extensively to research in biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, as well as medicine. Their academic work spans multiple subfields including molecular biology, genetics, cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, neurology, and pulmonary and respiratory medicine.

The scientist's publication record includes significant contributions to topics such as cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias, ion channel regulation and function, intracranial aneurysms with a focus on treatment and complications, genetics and neurodevelopmental disorders, cerebrovascular and carotid artery diseases, genetic associations and epidemiology, and genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock.

Frequent co-authors in their research include Emmanuelle Génin, Christian Dina, Jean-Jacques Schott, Julien Barc, and Matilde Karakachoff.

Richard Redon has published multiple papers in notable venues, frequently appearing in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Nature Genetics, Nature Communications, European Heart Journal, and Stem Cell Research.

Selected recent papers are as follows:

  • Genome-wide association study of intracranial aneurysms identifies 17 risk loci and genetic overlap with clinical risk factors, 2020, Nature Genetics
  • Exome sequencing identifies rare damaging variants in ATP8B4 and ABCA1 as risk factors for Alzheimer's disease, 2022, Nature Genetics
  • Histone H3.3 beyond cancer: Germline mutations in Histone 3 Family 3A and 3B cause a previously unidentified neurodegenerative disorder in 46 patients, 2020, Science Advances
  • Contribution of rare and predicted pathogenic gene variants to childhood-onset lupus: a large, genetic panel analysis of British and French cohorts, 2020, The Lancet Rheumatology
  • SCN5A Mutation Type and a Genetic Risk Score Associate Variably With Brugada Syndrome Phenotype in SCN5A Families, 2020, Circulation Genomic and Precision Medicine

Best Publications

  • Global variation in copy number in the human genome

    Richard Redon;Shumpei Ishikawa;Karen R. Fitch;Lars Feuk

  • Origins and functional impact of copy number variation in the human genome

    Donald F. Conrad;Dalila Pinto;Richard Redon;Richard Redon;Lars Feuk;Lars Feuk

  • Relative Impact of Nucleotide and Copy Number Variation on Gene Expression Phenotypes

    Barbara E. Stranger;Matthew S. Forrest;Mark Dunning;Catherine E. Ingle

  • Diet and the evolution of human amylase gene copy number variation.

    George H Perry;Nathaniel J. Dominy;Katrina G Claw;Arthur S. Lee

  • Copy number variation: New insights in genome diversity

    Jennifer L. Freeman;George H. Perry;Lars Feuk;Richard Redon

  • Genome-wide association study of CNVs in 16,000 cases of eight common diseases and 3,000 shared controls

    Nick Craddock;Matthew E. Hurles;Niall Cardin;Richard D. Pearson

  • Microarray based comparative genomic hybridisation (array-CGH) detects submicroscopic chromosomal deletions and duplications in patients with learning disability/mental retardation and dysmorphic features

    C Shaw-Smith;R Redon;L Rickman;M Rio

  • Common variants at SCN5A-SCN10A and HEY2 are associated with Brugada syndrome, a rare disease with high risk of sudden cardiac death

    Connie R Bezzina;Julien Barc;Yuka Mizusawa;Carol Ann Remme

  • Mutations in TCF4, Encoding a Class I Basic Helix-Loop-Helix Transcription Factor, Are Responsible for Pitt-Hopkins Syndrome, a Severe Epileptic Encephalopathy Associated with Autonomic Dysfunction

    Jeanne Amiel;Marlène Rio;Loïc de Pontual;Richard Redon

  • Array‐based comparative genomic hybridisation identifies high frequency of cryptic chromosomal rearrangements in patients with syndromic autism spectrum disorders

    M-L Jacquemont;D Sanlaville;R Redon;O Raoul

  • Copy number variation and evolution in humans and chimpanzees.

    George H. Perry;Fengtang Yang;Tomas Marques-Bonet;Carly Murphy

  • Whole exome sequencing study identifies novel rare and common Alzheimer's-Associated variants involved in immune response and transcriptional regulation

    Joshua C Bis;Xueqiu Jian;Brian W Kunkle;Yuning Chen

  • Genome-wide association study of intracranial aneurysms identifies 17 risk loci and genetic overlap with clinical risk factors.

    Mark K Bakker;Rick A A van der Spek;Wouter van Rheenen;Sandrine Morel;Sandrine Morel

  • A robust statistical method for case-control association testing with copy number variation

    Chris Barnes;Vincent Plagnol;Tomas Fitzgerald;Richard Redon

  • Genome assembly comparison identifies structural variants in the human genome.

    Razi Khaja;Junjun Zhang;Jeffrey R MacDonald;Yongshu He

  • Truncating mutations in the last exon of NOTCH2 cause a rare skeletal disorder with osteoporosis

    Bertrand Isidor;Pierre Lindenbaum;Pierre Lindenbaum;Olivier Pichon;Stéphane Bézieau

  • Confirmed rare copy number variants implicate novel genes in schizophrenia

    Gloria W.C. Tam;Louie N. van de Lagemaat;Richard Redon;Karen E. Strathdee

  • HCN4 mutations in multiple families with bradycardia and left ventricular noncompaction cardiomyopathy.

    Annalisa Milano;Alexa M.C. Vermeer;Elisabeth M. Lodder;Julien Barc

  • A Simple Specific Pattern of Chromosomal Aberrations at Early Stages of Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinomas: PIK3CA but not p63 Gene as a Likely Target of 3q26-qter Gains

    Richard Redon;Danièle Muller;Krishna Caulee;Kristell Wanherdrick

  • Whole exome sequencing study identifies novel rare and common Alzheimer's-Associated variants involved in immune response and transcriptional regulation

    Joshua C. Bis;Xueqiu Jian;Brian W. Kunkle;Yuning Chen

Frequent Co-Authors

Christian Dina
Christian Dina University of Nantes
Nigel P. Carter
Nigel P. Carter Wellcome Sanger Institute
Stéphane Bézieau
Stéphane Bézieau University of Nantes
Céline Bellenguez
Céline Bellenguez Institut Pasteur
Jean-François Deleuze
Jean-François Deleuze University of Paris-Saclay
Matthew E. Hurles
Matthew E. Hurles Wellcome Sanger Institute
Connie R. Bezzina
Connie R. Bezzina University of Amsterdam
Jean-François Dartigues
Jean-François Dartigues University of Bordeaux
Pascale Guicheney
Pascale Guicheney Sorbonne University

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