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2024
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France
2024

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D-Index
70
Citations
28445
World Ranking
2239
National Ranking
102

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2024 - Research.com Genetics in France Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Genetics and Molecular Biology in France Leader Award

Overview

Robert Feil is affiliated with the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) in France. Their research is primarily situated in the field of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with a substantial focus on Molecular Biology and Genetics. Additional subfields of study include Cancer Research, Cell Biology, and Aging.

The scientist's main topics of research encompass Genetic Syndromes and Imprinting, Epigenetics and DNA Methylation, Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics, Cancer-related molecular mechanisms, DNA Repair Mechanisms, Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques, and RNA modifications related to cancer.

Robert Feil has published extensively in several scientific journals. Frequent publication venues include Biochemical Society Transactions, Nature Genetics, Current Opinion in Genetics & Development, The EMBO Journal, and Nucleic Acids Research.

Some recent representative publications are:

  • "G4access identifies G-quadruplexes and their associations with open chromatin and imprinting control regions" (2023) in Nature Genetics
  • "Differential 3D chromatin organization and gene activity in genomic imprinting" (2020) in Current Opinion in Genetics & Development
  • "Exploring chromatin structural roles of non-coding RNAs at imprinted domains" (2021) in Biochemical Society Transactions
  • "Evidence for low nanocompaction of heterochromatin in living embryonic stem cells" (2023) in The EMBO Journal
  • "The long non-coding RNA Meg3 mediates imprinted gene expression during stem cell differentiation" (2024) in Nucleic Acids Research

Frequent collaborators include David Llères, Yui Imaizumi, Cyril Esnault, Daan Noordermeer, and Caroline Surcis.

Best Publications

  • A Bivalent Chromatin Structure Marks Key Developmental Genes in Embryonic Stem Cells

    Bradley E. Bernstein;Tarjei S. Mikkelsen;Tarjei S. Mikkelsen;Xiaohui Xie;Michael Kamal

  • Epigenetics and the environment: emerging patterns and implications.

    Robert Feil;Mario F. Fraga;Mario F. Fraga

  • Putative X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy gene shares unexpected homology with ABC transporters

    Jean Mosser;Anne-Marie Douar;Claude-Olivier Sarde;Petra Kioschis

  • Regulation of Cre recombinase activity by mutated estrogen receptor ligand-binding domains.

    Robert Feil;Jürgen Wagner;Daniel Metzger;Pierre Chambon

  • LIGAND-ACTIVATED SITE-SPECIFIC RECOMBINATION IN MICE

    R Feil;J Brocard;B Mascrez;M LeMeur

  • The Air Noncoding RNA Epigenetically Silences Transcription by Targeting G9a to Chromatin

    Takashi Nagano;Jennifer A. Mitchell;Lionel A. Sanz;Florian M. Pauler

  • Child health, developmental plasticity, and epigenetic programming.

    Z. Hochberg;Robert Feil;M. Constancia;M. Fraga

  • Culture of Preimplantation Mouse Embryos Affects Fetal Development and the Expression of Imprinted Genes

    Sanjeev Khosla;Wendy Dean;David Brown;Wolf Reik

  • Genomic Imprinting and Physiological Processes in Mammals.

    Valter Tucci;Anthony R. Isles;Gavin Kelsey;Gavin Kelsey;Anne C. Ferguson-Smith

  • Imprinting along the Kcnq1 domain on mouse chromosome 7 involves repressive histone methylation and recruitment of Polycomb group complexes.

    David Umlauf;Yuji Goto;Yuji Goto;Ru Cao;Frédérique Cerqueira

  • Epigenetic regulation of mammalian genomic imprinting.

    Katia Delaval;Robert Feil

  • Imprinting on distal chromosome 7 in the placenta involves repressive histone methylation independent of DNA methylation

    Annabelle Lewis;Kohzoh Mitsuya;Kohzoh Mitsuya;David Umlauf;Paul Smith

  • Altered imprinted gene methylation and expression in completely ES cell-derived mouse fetuses: association with aberrant phenotypes

    Wendy Dean;Lucy Bowden;Alan Aitchison;Joachim Klose

  • Developmental control of allelic methylation in the imprinted mouse Igf2 and H19 genes

    Robert Feil;Jörn Walter;Nicholas D. Allen;Wolf Reik

  • Convergent evolution of genomic imprinting in plants and mammals.

    Robert Feil;Frédéric Berger

  • The cell proliferation antigen Ki-67 organises heterochromatin

    Michal Sobecki;Michal Sobecki;Karim Mrouj;Karim Mrouj;Alain Camasses;Alain Camasses;Nikolaos Parisis;Nikolaos Parisis

  • Multiple imprinted sense and antisense transcripts, differential methylation and tandem repeats in a putative imprinting control region upstream of mouse Igf2

    T. Moore;M. Constancia;M. Zubair;B. Bailleul;B. Bailleul

  • Limited evolutionary conservation of imprinting in the human placenta

    D. Monk;P. Arnaud;S. Apostolidou;F. A. Hills

  • Global hypomethylation of the genome in XX embryonic stem cells

    Ilona Zvetkova;Anwyn Apedaile;Bernard Ramsahoye;Jacqueline E Mermoud

  • Environmental and nutritional effects on the epigenetic regulation of genes.

    Robert Feil

Frequent Co-Authors

Wolf Reik
Wolf Reik Babraham Institute
Gavin Kelsey
Gavin Kelsey Babraham Institute
Wendy Dean
Wendy Dean Babraham Institute
Hiroyuki Sasaki
Hiroyuki Sasaki Kyushu University
Richard I. Gregory
Richard I. Gregory Boston Children's Hospital
Saadi Khochbin
Saadi Khochbin Grenoble Alpes University
Alexandre David
Alexandre David Aalborg University
Patrick Aubourg
Patrick Aubourg University of Paris-Saclay
Kazuhiko Nakabayashi
Kazuhiko Nakabayashi National Center For Child Health and Development
Jean-Louis Mandel
Jean-Louis Mandel Institute of Genetics and Molecular and Cellular Biology

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