2026 Suzanne Lesage: Genetics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Genetics	78	1665	1583	71	66	193	37351

Overview

Suzanne Lesage is affiliated with Université Paris Cité in France and works primarily in the fields of Medicine, Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Neuroscience. Their research focuses notably on subfields such as Neurology, Genetics, Molecular Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, and Physiology.

The main topics addressed in Suzanne Lesage's work include:

Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments
Neurological diseases and metabolism
Nuclear Receptors and Signaling
Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
RNA regulation and disease
Lysosomal Storage Disorders Research
Alzheimer's disease research and treatments

Recent publications by Suzanne Lesage include:

"Finding genetically-supported drug targets for Parkinson's disease using Mendelian randomization of the druggable genome" (2021) published in Nature Communications
"Identification of Candidate Parkinson Disease Genes by Integrating Genome-Wide Association Study, Expression, and Epigenetic Data Sets" (2021) published in JAMA Neurology
"Genome-wide survival study identifies a novel synaptic locus and polygenic score for cognitive progression in Parkinson's disease" (2021) published in Nature Genetics
"RAB32 Ser71Arg in autosomal dominant Parkinson's disease: linkage, association, and functional analyses" (2024) published in The Lancet Neurology
"Identification of sixteen novel candidate genes for late onset Parkinson's disease" (2021) published in Molecular Neurodegeneration

The frequent coauthors collaborating with Suzanne Lesage are:

Alexis Brice (51 publications)
Jean-Christophe Corvol (42 publications)
Christelle Tesson (21 publications)
Graziella Mangone (18 publications)
Huw R. Morris (17 publications)

The most common venues where Suzanne Lesage has published work include:

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) with 11 publications
Movement Disorders with 7 publications
Brain with 7 publications
Frontiers in Neurology with 5 publications
Annals of Neurology with 3 publications

Best Publications

Association of NOD2 leucine-rich repeat variants with susceptibility to Crohn's disease

Jean-Pierre Hugot;Mathias Chamaillard;Mathias Chamaillard;Habib Zouali;Suzanne Lesage

6958
Citations
Multicenter Analysis of Glucocerebrosidase Mutations in Parkinson's Disease

Ellen Sidransky;Michael A. Nalls;Jan O. Aasly;Judith Aharon-Peretz

2380
Citations
Identification of novel risk loci, causal insights, and heritable risk for Parkinson's disease: a meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies

Mike A Nalls;Cornelis Blauwendraat;Costanza L Vallerga;Karl Heilbron

2354
Citations
Parkinson's disease: from monogenic forms to genetic susceptibility factors

Suzanne Lesage;Alexis Brice

1225
Citations
CARD15/NOD2 mutational analysis and genotype-phenotype correlation in 612 patients with inflammatory bowel disease.

Suzanne Lesage;Habib Zouali;Jean-Pierre Cézard;Jean-Frédéric Colombel

1195
Citations
CARD15 mutations in Blau syndrome.

Corinne Miceli-Richard;Suzanne Lesage;Michel Rybojad;Anne-Marie Prieur

1097
Citations
Familial Hyperglycemia Due to Mutations in Glucokinase -- Definition of a Subtype of Diabetes Mellitus

Froguel P;Zouali H;Vionnet N;Velho G

1034
Citations
Imputation of sequence variants for identification of genetic risks for Parkinson's disease: a meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies.

Michael A Nalls;Vincent Plagnol;Dena G Hernandez

999
Citations
Close Linkage of Glucokinase Locus on Chromosome 7p to Early-Onset Non-Insulin-Dependent Diabetes Mellitus

Ph. Froguel;M. Vaxillaire;F. Sun;G. Velho

899
Citations
G51D α-synuclein mutation causes a novel parkinsonian-pyramidal syndrome.

Suzanne Lesage;Mathieu Anheim;Franck Letournel;Luc Bousset

866
Citations
Nonsense mutation in the glucokinase gene causes early-onset non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus

N. Vionnet;M. Stoffel;J. Takeda;K. Yasuda

858
Citations
What Genetics Tells us About the Causes and Mechanisms of Parkinson's Disease

Olga Corti;Suzanne Lesage;Alexis Brice

749
Citations
LRRK2 G2019S as a Cause of Parkinson's Disease in North African Arabs

Suzanne Lesage;Alexandra Dürr;Meriem Tazir;Ebba Lohmann

704
Citations
A Multicenter Study of Glucocerebrosidase Mutations in Dementia With Lewy Bodies

Michael A. Nalls;Raquel Duran;Grisel Lopez;Marzena Kurzawa-Akanbi

499
Citations
Excessive burden of lysosomal storage disorder gene variants in Parkinson's disease

L.A. Robak;L.A. Robak;I.E. Jansen;I.E. Jansen;J van Rooij;A.G. Uitterlinden

458
Citations
Loss of VPS13C Function in Autosomal-Recessive Parkinsonism Causes Mitochondrial Dysfunction and Increases PINK1/Parkin-Dependent Mitophagy.

Suzanne Lesage;Valérie Drouet;Elisa Majounie;Vincent Deramecourt

454
Citations
A Two-Stage Meta-Analysis Identifies Several New Loci for Parkinson's Disease

V. Plagnol;M.A. Nalls;J.M. Bras;D.G. Hernandez;D.G. Hernandez

379
Citations
Infevers: an evolving mutation database for auto-inflammatory syndromes.

Isabelle Touitou;Suzanne Lesage;Michael McDermott;Laurence Cuisset

368
Citations
Gene–environment interaction modulated by allelic heterogeneity in inflammatory diseases

Mathias Chamaillard;Dana Philpott;Stephen E. Girardin;Habib Zouali

357
Citations
A deleterious mutation in DNAJC6 encoding the neuronal-specific clathrin-uncoating co-chaperone auxilin, is associated with juvenile parkinsonism.

Simon Edvardson;Yuval Cinnamon;Asaf Ta-Shma;Avraham Shaag

356
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Alexis Brice Institut du Cerveau

Andrew B. Singleton National Institutes of Health

Peter Heutink German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases

Thomas Gasser University of Tübingen

Dena G. Hernandez National Institutes of Health

Ziv Gan-Or McGill University

Alexandra Durr Sorbonne University

Sonja W. Scholz National Institutes of Health

Jose Bras Van Andel Institute

Mike A. Nalls National Institutes of Health

External Links

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