Bernard Brais

9.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
190 papers, 5.1k citations indexed

About

Bernard Brais is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Neurology. According to data from OpenAlex, Bernard Brais has authored 190 papers receiving a total of 5.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 123 papers in Molecular Biology, 103 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 36 papers in Neurology. Recurrent topics in Bernard Brais's work include Genetic Neurodegenerative Diseases (97 papers), Muscle Physiology and Disorders (45 papers) and Mitochondrial Function and Pathology (39 papers). Bernard Brais is often cited by papers focused on Genetic Neurodegenerative Diseases (97 papers), Muscle Physiology and Disorders (45 papers) and Mitochondrial Function and Pathology (39 papers). Bernard Brais collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and France. Bernard Brais's co-authors include Guy A. Rouleau, Jean Mathieu, Jean‐Pierre Bouchard, Michel Fardeau, Geneviève Bernard, Marie‐Josée Dicaire, Daniel Rochefort, Martine Tétreault, Karine Choquet and Jean-Pierre Bouchard and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Biological Chemistry and Nature Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Bernard Brais

178 papers receiving 5.0k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Short GCG expansions in the PABP2 gene cause oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy

1998 583 citations Bernard Brais, Jean‐Pierre Bouchard et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Bernard Brais Canada	38	3.8k	2.2k	677	601	567	190	5.1k
Gregory A. Cox United States	38	3.3k 0.9×	891 0.4×	577 0.9×	617 1.0×	582 1.0×	82	4.4k
Kerstin Krieglstein Germany	48	3.6k 1.0×	2.6k 1.2×	750 1.1×	283 0.5×	774 1.4×	154	7.6k
Jean Mathieu Canada	38	2.8k 0.7×	3.2k 1.4×	1.8k 2.7×	275 0.5×	319 0.6×	142	4.9k
John Kamholz United States	45	2.8k 0.7×	2.1k 1.0×	862 1.3×	197 0.3×	671 1.2×	138	5.5k
Richard Roxburgh New Zealand	25	1.9k 0.5×	1.3k 0.6×	591 0.9×	412 0.7×	264 0.5×	78	3.0k
Pantelis Tsoulfas United States	38	2.1k 0.5×	2.6k 1.2×	263 0.4×	512 0.9×	212 0.4×	62	4.7k
Bradley J. Molyneaux United States	28	2.4k 0.6×	1.7k 0.7×	627 0.9×	156 0.3×	543 1.0×	64	4.9k
José M. Millán Spain	40	2.8k 0.8×	673 0.3×	386 0.6×	556 0.9×	510 0.9×	155	4.4k
David Prevette United States	42	2.8k 0.7×	3.4k 1.5×	1000 1.5×	837 1.4×	274 0.5×	61	5.9k
Cecilia Lundberg Sweden	36	2.6k 0.7×	2.7k 1.2×	1.5k 2.1×	253 0.4×	1.0k 1.8×	92	5.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Bernard Brais

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Bernard Brais

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20 of 20 papers shown

Pellerin, David, Marcus Vinícius Della Coletta, Mariana Spitz, et al.. (2024). Frequency of GAA-FGF14 ataxia in a large cohort of Brazilian patients with unsolved adult-onset cerebellar ataxia. Parkinsonism & Related Disorders. 122. 106157–106157. 3 indexed citations

Pellerin, David, Matt C. Danzi, Stephan Züchner, et al.. (2024). Assessment of the Clinical Interactions of GAA Repeat Expansions in FGF14 and FXN. Neurology Genetics. 10(6). e200210–e200210. 1 indexed citations

Côté, Isabelle, et al.. (2023). Natural History of Autosomal Recessive Spastic Ataxia of Charlevoix-Saguenay: a 4-Year Longitudinal Study. The Cerebellum. 23(2). 489–501. 5 indexed citations

Warman‐Chardon, Jodi, Taila Hartley, Aren E. Marshall, et al.. (2023). Biallelic SOX8 Variants Associated With Novel Syndrome With Myopathy, Skeletal Deformities, Intellectual Disability, and Ovarian Dysfunction. Neurology Genetics. 9(5). e200088–e200088. 2 indexed citations

Pellerin, David, et al.. (2023). Neuroradiological findings in GAA-FGF14 ataxia: Qualitative retrospective review and volumetric analysis in a series of 26 subjects. Journal of the Neurological Sciences. 455. 121187–121187. 2 indexed citations

Pellerin, David, Pedro José Tomaselli, Mariana Spitz, et al.. (2023). Frequency of GAA- FGF14 Ataxia in a Large Cohort of Brazilian Patients With Unsolved Adult-Onset Cerebellar Ataxia. Neurology Genetics. 9(5). e200094–e200094. 17 indexed citations

Indelicato, Elisabetta, David Pellerin, Matt C. Danzi, et al.. (2023). Spinocerebellar ataxia 27B: episodic symptoms and acetazolamide response in 34 patients. Brain Communications. 5(5). fcad239–fcad239. 12 indexed citations

Brais, Bernard, et al.. (2023). The Development of a New Patient-Reported Outcome Measure in Recessive Ataxias: The Person-Reported Ataxia Impact Scale. The Cerebellum. 23(2). 512–522.

Zhou, Lily, Sarah Furtado, Verónica Bruno, et al.. (2023). Demographics and Clinical Characteristics of Autosomal Dominant Spinocerebellar Ataxia in Canada. Movement Disorders Clinical Practice. 10(3). 440–451. 8 indexed citations

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Francis, Vincent, Walaa Alshafie, Rahul Kumar, et al.. (2022). The ARSACS disease protein sacsin controls lysosomal positioning and reformation by regulating microtubule dynamics. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 298(9). 102320–102320. 12 indexed citations

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Pellerin, David, Benjamin Ellezam, Emily C. Troiano, et al.. (2020). Novel Recessive TNNT1 Congenital Core‐Rod Myopathy in French Canadians. Annals of Neurology. 87(4). 568–583. 15 indexed citations

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Chang, Philip K.‐Y., Jeanette Hui, François Charron, et al.. (2018). Altered synaptic and firing properties of cerebellar Purkinje cells in a mouse model of ARSACS. The Journal of Physiology. 596(17). 4253–4267. 28 indexed citations

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Milot, Emmanuel, Claudia Moreau, Alain Gagnon, et al.. (2017). Mother’s curse neutralizes natural selection against a human genetic disease over three centuries. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 1(9). 1400–1406. 47 indexed citations

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Robinson, Marie‐Eve, et al.. (2014). Vanishing White Matter Disease in French-Canadian Patients From Quebec. Pediatric Neurology. 51(2). 225–232. 6 indexed citations

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Piana, Roberta La, Michel Vanasse, Bernard Brais, & Geneviève Bernard. (2014). Myelination Delay and Allan-Herndon-Dudley Syndrome Caused by a Novel Mutation in the SLC16A2 Gene. Journal of Child Neurology. 30(10). 1371–1374. 20 indexed citations

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AbuBaker, Ayman, Janet Laganière, Rébecca Gaudet, et al.. (2013). Lithium chloride attenuates cell death in oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy by perturbing Wnt/β-catenin pathway. Cell Death and Disease. 4(10). e821–e821. 39 indexed citations

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Blumen, Sergiu C., Anat Kesler, Ron Dabby, et al.. (2013). Oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy among Bulgarian Jews: a new cluster?. PubMed. 15(12). 748–52. 7 indexed citations

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Bayat, Vafa, Isabelle Thiffault, Manish Jaiswal, et al.. (2012). Mutations in the Mitochondrial Methionyl-tRNA Synthetase Cause a Neurodegenerative Phenotype in Flies and a Recessive Ataxia (ARSAL) in Humans. PLoS Biology. 10(3). e1001288–e1001288. 121 indexed citations

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Loggia, Marco L., M. Catherine Bushnell, Martine Tétreault, et al.. (2009). Carriers of RecessiveWNK1/HSN2Mutations for Hereditary Sensory and Autonomic Neuropathy Type 2 (HSAN2) Are More Sensitive to Thermal Stimuli. Journal of Neuroscience. 29(7). 2162–2166. 14 indexed citations

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Dupré, Nicolas, François Gros‐Louis, Nicolas Chrestian, et al.. (2007). G.P.18.08 Clinical and genetic study of autosomal recessive cerebellar ataxia type 1. Neuromuscular Disorders. 17(9-10). 892–892. 3 indexed citations

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