Daniel Rochefort

5.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
45 papers, 2.4k citations indexed

About

Daniel Rochefort is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Neurology and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Daniel Rochefort has authored 45 papers receiving a total of 2.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 26 papers in Molecular Biology, 17 papers in Neurology and 12 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Daniel Rochefort's work include Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments (9 papers), Genetic Neurodegenerative Diseases (8 papers) and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Research (7 papers). Daniel Rochefort is often cited by papers focused on Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments (9 papers), Genetic Neurodegenerative Diseases (8 papers) and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Research (7 papers). Daniel Rochefort collaborates with scholars based in Canada, France and United States. Daniel Rochefort's co-authors include Guy A. Rouleau, Patrick A. Dion, Bernard Brais, Jean‐Pierre Bouchard, Pierre Drapeau, Johanna M. Rommens, Ya‐Gang Xie, Peter Heutink, F.M.S. Tomé and Nathalie Chrétien and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Journal of Biological Chemistry and Journal of Clinical Investigation.

In The Last Decade

Daniel Rochefort

44 papers receiving 2.3k 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. Nature Genetics profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Daniel Rochefort Canada	24	1.4k	759	724	449	419	45	2.4k
G. Ralph United Kingdom	19	1.3k 0.9×	831 1.1×	585 0.8×	488 1.1×	437 1.0×	28	2.2k
Rebecca S. Devon United Kingdom	17	1.1k 0.8×	588 0.8×	611 0.8×	360 0.8×	297 0.7×	27	1.8k
Christopher Grunseich United States	24	2.0k 1.4×	639 0.8×	321 0.4×	430 1.0×	601 1.4×	52	2.7k
Hussein Daoud Canada	24	1.1k 0.8×	351 0.5×	971 1.3×	631 1.4×	627 1.5×	58	2.4k
Klaus Wagner Austria	23	1.5k 1.1×	856 1.1×	601 0.8×	464 1.0×	563 1.3×	61	2.9k
Seiji Hitoshi Japan	28	2.0k 1.5×	1.0k 1.3×	528 0.7×	218 0.5×	283 0.7×	61	3.4k
Lluı́s Samaranch United States	28	1.0k 0.7×	768 1.0×	648 0.9×	214 0.5×	700 1.7×	49	2.2k
Lucien J. Houenou United States	25	1.3k 1.0×	1.7k 2.2×	368 0.5×	439 1.0×	177 0.4×	41	3.0k
Carmen Cifuentes-Díaz France	27	1.6k 1.2×	742 1.0×	371 0.5×	716 1.6×	195 0.5×	64	2.6k
Gert‐Jan B. van Ommen Netherlands	14	1.9k 1.4×	851 1.1×	360 0.5×	146 0.3×	679 1.6×	16	3.5k

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Rochefort, Daniel, et al.. (2023). Cerebellar oligodendrocytes as key initial players in essential tremor pathophysiology. Journal of the Neurological Sciences. 455. 121142–121142. 1 indexed citations

Dionne‐Laporte, Alexandre, Hélène Catoire, Daniel Rochefort, et al.. (2019). Mineral absorption is an enriched pathway in a brain region of restless legs syndrome patients with reduced MEIS1 expression. PLoS ONE. 14(11). e0225186–e0225186. 9 indexed citations

Akçimen, Fulya, Jay P. Ross, Cynthia V. Bourassa, et al.. (2019). Investigation of the RFC1 Repeat Expansion in a Canadian and a Brazilian Ataxia Cohort: Identification of Novel Conformations. Frontiers in Genetics. 10. 1219–1219. 45 indexed citations

Zhou, Sirui, Amirthagowri Ambalavanan, Daniel Rochefort, et al.. (2016). RNF213 Is Associated with Intracranial Aneurysms in the French-Canadian Population. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 99(5). 1072–1085. 41 indexed citations

Kaneb, Hannah, Andrew W. Folkmann, Véronique Belzil, et al.. (2014). Deleterious mutations in the essential mRNA metabolism factor, hGle1, in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Human Molecular Genetics. 24(5). 1363–1373. 101 indexed citations

Daoud, Hussein, Ronald B. Postuma, Cynthia V. Bourassa, et al.. (2014). C9orf72 Repeat Expansions in Rapid Eye Movement Sleep Behaviour Disorder. Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences / Journal Canadien des Sciences Neurologiques. 41(6). 759–762. 15 indexed citations

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

Shekarabi, Masoud, Randal X. Moldrich, Janet Laganière, et al.. (2012). Loss of Neuronal Potassium/Chloride Cotransporter 3 (KCC3) Is Responsible for the Degenerative Phenotype in a Conditional Mouse Model of Hereditary Motor and Sensory Neuropathy Associated with Agenesis of the Corpus Callosum. Journal of Neuroscience. 32(11). 3865–3876. 27 indexed citations

Daoud, Hussein, Anne Noreau, Daniel Rochefort, et al.. (2012). Investigation of C9orf72 repeat expansions in Parkinson's disease. Neurobiology of Aging. 34(6). 1710.e7–1710.e9. 18 indexed citations

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Rivière, Jean‐Baptiste, Masoud Shekarabi, Janet Laganière, et al.. (2011). Transit Defect of Potassium-Chloride Co-transporter 3 Is a Major Pathogenic Mechanism in Hereditary Motor and Sensory Neuropathy with Agenesis of the Corpus Callosum. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 286(32). 28456–28465. 20 indexed citations

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Srour, Myriam, Jean‐Baptiste Rivière, Marie‐Pierre Dubé, et al.. (2010). Mutations in DCC Cause Congenital Mirror Movements. Science. 328(5978). 592–592. 128 indexed citations

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Hamdan, Fadi F., Hussein Daoud, Daniel Rochefort, et al.. (2010). De Novo Mutations in FOXP1 in Cases with Intellectual Disability, Autism, and Language Impairment. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 87(5). 671–678. 170 indexed citations

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Shekarabi, Masoud, Sébastien Holbert, Patrick A. Dion, et al.. (2008). HMSN/ACC truncation mutations disrupt brain-type creatine kinase-dependant activation of K+/Cl− co-transporter 3. Human Molecular Genetics. 17(17). 2703–2711. 23 indexed citations

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Dion, Patrick A., et al.. (2007). Soluble expanded PABPN1 promotes cell death in oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy. Neurobiology of Disease. 26(3). 546–557. 32 indexed citations

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Dion, Patrick A., Vijayalakshmi Shanmugam, Cláudia Gaspar, et al.. (2005). Transgenic expression of an expanded (GCG)13 repeat PABPN1 leads to weakness and coordination defects in mice. Neurobiology of Disease. 18(3). 528–536. 41 indexed citations

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Cossette, Patrick, Ronald G. Lafrenière, Daniel Rochefort, et al.. (2003). Functional characterization of the D188V mutation in neuronal voltage-gated sodium channel causing generalized epilepsy with febrile seizures plus (GEFS). Epilepsy Research. 53(1-2). 107–117. 39 indexed citations

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Szijan, Irene, Daniel Rochefort, Carl E.G. Bruder, et al.. (2003). NF2 Tumor Suppressor Gene: A Comprehensive and Efficient Detection of Somatic Mutations by Denaturing HPLC and Microarray-CGH. NeuroMolecular Medicine. 3(1). 41–52. 14 indexed citations

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Brais, Bernard, Jean‐Pierre Bouchard, Ya‐Gang Xie, et al.. (1998). Short GCG expansions in the PABP2 gene cause oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy. Nature Genetics. 18(2). 164–167. 583 indexed citations breakdown →

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Xie, Ya‐Gang, Daniel Rochefort, Bernard Brais, et al.. (1998). Restriction Map of a YAC and Cosmid Contig Encompassing the Oculopharyngeal Muscular Dystrophy Candidate Region on Chromosome 14q11.2–q13. Genomics. 52(2). 201–204. 7 indexed citations

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Lafrenière, Ronald G., Zoha Kibar, Daniel Rochefort, et al.. (1997). Genomic structure of the human GT334 (EHOC-1) gene mapping to 21q22.3. Gene. 198(1-2). 313–321. 5 indexed citations

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