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Stéphanie Baulac

Stéphanie Baulac

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Overview

Stéphanie Baulac is affiliated with Sorbonne University in France. Their research primarily spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Medicine. Within these broader areas, their focus includes Genetics, Molecular Biology, Psychiatry and Mental Health, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, as well as Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience.

Baulac's work covers several main topics, notably Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders, Genomics and Rare Diseases, and Epilepsy Research and Treatment. Additional subjects of interest include Glioma Diagnosis and Treatment, Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research, Renal and Related Cancers, and Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics.

The scientist has published in various respected venues, with the most frequent being:

  • Epilepsia
  • Brain
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Neurobiology of Disease
  • Annals of Neurology

Some of their recent papers include:

  • "The ILAE consensus classification of focal cortical dysplasia: An update proposed by an ad hoc task force of the ILAE diagnostic methods commission," 2022, Epilepsia
  • "Frequent SLC35A2 brain mosaicism in mild malformation of cortical development with oligodendroglial hyperplasia in epilepsy (MOGHE)," 2021, Acta Neuropathologica Communications
  • "Distinctive binding properties of human monoclonal LGI1 autoantibodies determine pathogenic mechanisms," 2020, Brain
  • "Toward a better definition of focal cortical dysplasia: An iterative histopathological and genetic agreement trial," 2021, Epilepsia
  • "Comprehensive multi-omic profiling of somatic mutations in malformations of cortical development," 2023, Nature Genetics

Baulac collaborates frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Sara Baldassari
  • Ingmar Blümcke
  • Mathilde Chipaux
  • Katja Kobow
  • Jeong Ho Lee

Best Publications

  • Mutations of SCN1A, encoding a neuronal sodium channel, in two families with GEFS+2.

    Andrew Escayg;Bryan T. MacDonald;Miriam H. Meisler;Stéphanie Baulac

  • First genetic evidence of GABA(A) receptor dysfunction in epilepsy: a mutation in the gamma2-subunit gene.

    Stéphanie Baulac;Gilles Huberfeld;Isabelle Gourfinkel-An;Georgia Mitropoulou

  • Spectrum of SCN1A gene mutations associated with Dravet syndrome: analysis of 333 patients

    C Depienne;O Trouillard;C Saint-Martin;I Gourfinkel-An

  • The ILAE consensus classification of focal cortical dysplasia: An update proposed by an ad hoc task force of the ILAE diagnostic methods commission

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  • De novo loss-or gain-of-function mutations in KCNA2 cause epileptic encephalopathy

    Steffen Syrbe;Ulrike B.S. Hedrich;Erik Riesch;Tania Djémié

  • Dissecting the genetic basis of focal cortical dysplasia: a large cohort study

    Sara Baldassari;Théo Ribierre;Elise Marsan;Homa Adle-Biassette

  • A Second Locus for Familial Generalized Epilepsy with Febrile Seizures Plus Maps to Chromosome 2q21-q33

    Stéphanie Baulac;Isabelle Gourfinkel-An;Fabienne Picard;Fabienne Picard;Myriam Rosenberg-Bourgin

  • Familial focal epilepsy with focal cortical dysplasia due to DEPDC5 mutations

    Stéphanie Baulac;Saeko Ishida;Elise Marsan;Catherine Miquel

  • Mutations of DEPDC5 cause autosomal dominant focal epilepsies

    Saeko Ishida;Fabienne Picard;Gabrielle Rudolf;Eric Noé;Eric Noé

  • Fever, genes, and epilepsy

    Stéphanie Baulac;Isabelle Gourfinkel-An;Rima Nabbout;Gilles Huberfeld

  • De Novo Loss-of-Function Mutations in CHD2 Cause a Fever-Sensitive Myoclonic Epileptic Encephalopathy Sharing Features with Dravet Syndrome

    Arvid Suls;Johanna A. Jaehn;Angela Kecskés;Yvonne Weber

  • De novo mutations in HCN1 cause early infantile epileptic encephalopathy

    Caroline Nava;Carine Dalle;Agnès Rastetter;Pasquale Striano

  • Second-hit mosaic mutation in mTORC1 repressor DEPDC5 causes focal cortical dysplasia-associated epilepsy.

    Théo Ribierre;Charlotte Deleuze;Alexandre Bacq;Sara Baldassari

  • The landscape of epilepsy-related GATOR1 variants

    Sara Baldassari;Fabienne Picard;Nienke E. Verbeek;Marjan van Kempen

  • Mutations in STX1B, encoding a presynaptic protein, cause fever-associated epilepsy syndromes.

    Julian Schubert;Aleksandra Siekierska;Mélanie Langlois;Patrick May

  • Review: Mechanistic target of rapamycin (mTOR) pathway, focal cortical dysplasia and epilepsy.

    E. Marsan;S. Baulac

  • Involvement of GATOR complex genes in familial focal epilepsies and focal cortical dysplasia.

    Sarah Weckhuysen;Elise Marsan;Virginie Lambrecq;Cécile Marchal

  • Zebrafish lacking Alzheimer presenilin enhancer 2 (Pen-2) demonstrate excessive p53-dependent apoptosis and neuronal loss.

    William A. Campbell;Hongwei Yang;Henrik Zetterberg;Stéphanie Baulac

  • Mechanisms for variable expressivity of inherited SCN1A mutations causing Dravet syndrome

    Christel Depienne;Oriane Trouillard;Isabelle Gourfinkel-An;Cécile Saint-Martin

  • DEPDC5 mutations in families presenting as autosomal dominant nocturnal frontal lobe epilepsy

    Fabienne Picard;Periklis Makrythanasis;Vincent Navarro;Saeko Ishida

  • Genome-wide association analysis of genetic generalized epilepsies implicates susceptibility loci at 1q43, 2p16.1, 2q22.3 and 17q21.32

    Michael Steffens;Costin Leu

  • Erratum: De Novo Mutations in Synaptic Transmission Genes Including DNM1 Cause Epileptic Encephalopathies (American Journal of Human Genetics (2014) 95(4) (360–370)(S0002929714003838)(10.1016/j.ajhg.2014.08.013))

    Silke Appenzeller;Rudi Balling;Nina Barisic;Stéphanie Baulac

Frequent Co-Authors

Eric LeGuern
Eric LeGuern Institut du Cerveau
Sarah Weckhuysen
Sarah Weckhuysen University of Antwerp
Christel Depienne
Christel Depienne Essen University Hospital
Michel Baulac
Michel Baulac Sorbonne University
Rikke S. Møller
Rikke S. Møller University of Southern Denmark
Pasquale Striano
Pasquale Striano University of Genoa
Renzo Guerrini
Renzo Guerrini University of Florence
Rima Nabbout
Rima Nabbout Université Paris Cité
Alexis Brice
Alexis Brice Institut du Cerveau
Ingo Helbig
Ingo Helbig Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

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