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Sylvie Mazoyer

Sylvie Mazoyer

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Genetics

D-Index
60
Citations
13350
World Ranking
3153
National Ranking
152

Overview

Sylvie Mazoyer is affiliated with Claude Bernard University Lyon 1 in France, specializing in biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their research encompasses molecular biology, genetics, cancer research, oncology, and cognitive neuroscience fields.

The scientist's work notably covers topics such as BRCA gene mutations in cancer, RNA modifications and cancer, RNA research and splicing, RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms, nutrition, genetics and disease, genetic associations and epidemiology, and genetic and kidney cyst diseases.

Recent publications include the following papers:

  • The predictive ability of the 313 variant-based polygenic risk score for contralateral breast cancer risk prediction in women of European ancestry with a heterozygous BRCA1 or BRCA2 pathogenic variant (2021, Genetics in Medicine)
  • Deficiency of the minor spliceosome component U4atac snRNA secondarily results in ciliary defects in human and zebrafish (2023, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • Clinical interpretation of variants identified in RNU4ATAC, a non-coding spliceosomal gene (2020, PLoS ONE)
  • 5' Region Large Genomic Rearrangements in the BRCA1 Gene in French Families: Identification of a Tandem Triplication and Nine Distinct Deletions with Five Recurrent Breakpoints (2021, Cancers)
  • Altered regulation of BRCA1 exon 11 splicing is associated with breast cancer risk in carriers of BRCA1 pathogenic variants (2021, Human Mutation)

Frequent co-authors in their publications include:

  • Patrick Edery
  • Audrey Putoux
  • Marion Delous
  • Olivier Caron
  • Alicia Besson

Sylvie Mazoyer has frequently published in venues such as UNC Libraries, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Genetics in Medicine, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and PLoS ONE.

Best Publications

  • Multiple independent variants at the TERT locus are associated with telomere length and risks of breast and ovarian cancer

    Stig E. Bojesen;Stig E. Bojesen;Karen A. Pooley;Sharon E. Johnatty;Jonathan Beesley

  • Germline mutations of the BRCA1 gene in breast and ovarian cancer families provide evidence for a genotype-phenotype correlation.

    S. A. Gayther;W. Warren;S. Mazoyer;P. A. Russell

  • Association of type and location of BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations with risk of breast and ovarian cancer.

    Timothy R. Rebbeck;Nandita Mitra;Fei Wan;Olga M. Sinilnikova

  • Identification of 12 new susceptibility loci for different histotypes of epithelial ovarian cancer

    Catherine M Phelan;Karoline B Kuchenbaecker;Karoline B Kuchenbaecker;Jonathan P Tyrer;Siddhartha P Kar

  • A locus on 19p13 modifies risk of breast cancer in BRCA1 mutation carriers and is associated with hormone receptor-negative breast cancer in the general population

    Antonis C. Antoniou;Xianshu Wang;Zachary S. Fredericksen;Lesley McGuffog

  • Identification of ten variants associated with risk of estrogen-receptor-negative breast cancer.

    Roger L Milne;Roger L Milne;Karoline B Kuchenbaecker;Karoline B Kuchenbaecker;Kyriaki Michailidou;Kyriaki Michailidou;Jonathan Beesley

  • Common breast cancer-predisposition alleles are associated with breast cancer risk in BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carriers

    Antonis C. Antoniou;Antonis C. Antoniou;Amanda B. Spurdle;Amanda B. Spurdle;Olga M. Sinilnikova;Olga M. Sinilnikova;Sue Healey;Sue Healey

  • Genome-wide association study in BRCA1 mutation carriers identifies novel loci associated with breast and ovarian cancer risk

    Fergus J. Couch;Xianshu Wang;Lesley McGuffog;Andrew Lee

  • Down-regulation of BRCA1 Expression by miR-146a and miR-146b-5p in Triple Negative Sporadic Breast Cancers

    Amandine I Garcia;Monique Buisson;Pascale Bertrand;Ruth Rimokh

  • Haplotype and phenotype analysis of nine recurrent BRCA2 mutations in 111 families: results of an international study

    Susan L. Neuhausen;Sylvie Mazoyer;Lori Friedman;Michael Stratton

  • Evaluation of polygenic risk scores for breast and ovarian cancer risk prediction in BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carriers

    Karoline B Kuchenbaecker;Karoline B Kuchenbaecker;Lesley McGuffog;Daniel Barrowdale;Andrew Lee

  • The nonsense-mediated mRNA decay pathway triggers degradation of most BRCA1 mRNAs bearing premature termination codons

    Laure Perrin-Vidoz;Olga M. Sinilnikova;Dominique Stoppa-Lyonnet;Gilbert M. Lenoir

  • Guidelines for splicing analysis in molecular diagnosis derived from a set of 327 combined in silico/in vitro studies on BRCA1 and BRCA2 variants.

    Claude Houdayer;Virginie Caux-Moncoutier;Sophie Krieger;Michel Barrois

  • Mutations in BRCA1 and BRCA2 in breast cancer families: are there more breast cancer-susceptibility genes?

    Olga M. Serova;Sylvie Mazoyer;Nadine Puget;Valérie Dubois

  • Common Breast Cancer Susceptibility Alleles and the Risk of Breast Cancer for BRCA1 and BRCA2 Mutation Carriers: Implications for Risk Prediction

    Antonis C. Antoniou;Jonathan Beesley;Lesley McGuffog;Olga M. Sinilnikova

  • A polymorphic stop codon in BRCA2

    Sylvie Mazoyer;Sylvie Mazoyer;Alison M. Dunning;Olga Serova;Olga Serova;Joanna Dearden

  • Screening for Germ-Line Rearrangements and Regulatory Mutations in BRCA1 Led to the Identification of Four New Deletions

    Nadine Puget;Nadine Puget;Dominique Stoppa-Lyonnet;Olga M. Sinilnikova;Olga M. Sinilnikova;Sabine Pagès

  • Screening for Genomic Rearrangements in Families with Breast and Ovarian Cancer Identifies BRCA1 Mutations Previously Missed by Conformation-Sensitive Gel Electrophoresis or Sequencing

    Meredith A. Unger;Katherine L. Nathanson;Kathleen Calzone;Danielle Antin-Ozerkis

  • Genomic rearrangements in the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes.

    Sylvie Mazoyer

  • Association of type and location of BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations with risk of breast and ovarian cancer.

    Mitra N Rebbeck Tr;F Wan;Maurizio Genuardi

Frequent Co-Authors

Olga M. Sinilnikova
Olga M. Sinilnikova University of Lyon System
Georgia Chenevix-Trench
Georgia Chenevix-Trench QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute
Irene L. Andrulis
Irene L. Andrulis University of Toronto
Douglas F. Easton
Douglas F. Easton University of Cambridge
Katherine L. Nathanson
Katherine L. Nathanson University of Pennsylvania
Fergus J. Couch
Fergus J. Couch Mayo Clinic
Susan M. Domchek
Susan M. Domchek University of Pennsylvania
Lesley McGuffog
Lesley McGuffog University of Cambridge
David E. Goldgar
David E. Goldgar University of Utah

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