Éric Leguern

10.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
101 papers, 4.8k citations indexed

About

Éric Leguern is a scholar working on Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Neurology and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Éric Leguern has authored 101 papers receiving a total of 4.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 61 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, 34 papers in Neurology and 30 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Éric Leguern's work include Hereditary Neurological Disorders (47 papers), Neurological diseases and metabolism (25 papers) and Epilepsy research and treatment (20 papers). Éric Leguern is often cited by papers focused on Hereditary Neurological Disorders (47 papers), Neurological diseases and metabolism (25 papers) and Epilepsy research and treatment (20 papers). Éric Leguern collaborates with scholars based in France, United States and Tunisia. Éric Leguern's co-authors include Alexis Brice, Stéphanie Baulac, Michel Baulac, Nazha Birouk, Riadh Gouider, Isabelle Gourfinkel‐An, P. Bouché, Sandrine Tardieu, Roberto Bruzzone and Gilles Huberfeld and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Clinical Investigation, Nature Genetics and Journal of Neuroscience.

In The Last Decade

Éric Leguern

99 papers receiving 4.7k citations

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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.

First genetic evidence of GABAA receptor dysfunction in epilepsy: a mutation in the γ2-subunit gene

2001 574 citations Stéphanie Baulac, Michel Baulac et al. Nature Genetics profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Éric Leguern France	39	2.7k	1.9k	1.4k	936	916	101	4.8k
Albena Jordanova Belgium	32	1.7k 0.6×	1.9k 1.0×	518 0.4×	638 0.7×	479 0.5×	87	3.6k
A E Harding United Kingdom	33	2.5k 0.9×	2.6k 1.4×	1.7k 1.3×	893 1.0×	260 0.3×	72	4.9k
Luís Bataller Spain	33	1.4k 0.5×	1.1k 0.6×	4.8k 3.5×	311 0.3×	1.1k 1.2×	64	5.6k
Benjamin Deneen United States	37	1.3k 0.5×	2.8k 1.5×	246 0.2×	1.6k 1.8×	399 0.4×	86	5.5k
G. Jackson Snipes United States	34	3.4k 1.3×	1.6k 0.8×	1.0k 0.8×	1.1k 1.2×	211 0.2×	47	4.7k
Michael W. Sereda Germany	31	2.7k 1.0×	1.6k 0.9×	854 0.6×	978 1.0×	170 0.2×	48	4.6k
Markus H. Schwab Germany	31	2.3k 0.9×	2.4k 1.3×	381 0.3×	735 0.8×	435 0.5×	48	5.0k
E. R. Brunt Netherlands	35	2.6k 1.0×	2.7k 1.4×	1.2k 0.9×	291 0.3×	209 0.2×	55	3.7k
Alan Pittman United Kingdom	29	749 0.3×	1.2k 0.7×	1.7k 1.2×	735 0.8×	575 0.6×	75	3.5k
Giovanni Stévanin France	55	7.9k 3.0×	6.3k 3.3×	3.0k 2.2×	2.0k 2.1×	790 0.9×	187	9.8k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Éric Leguern

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Patat, Olivier, Sandra Whalen, Lionel Arnaud, et al.. (2021). Patients with KCNH1 -related intellectual disability without distinctive features of Zimmermann-Laband/Temple-Baraitser syndrome. Journal of Medical Genetics. 59(5). 505–510. 8 indexed citations

Valence, Stéphanie, Hélène Maurey, Sarah Weckhuysen, et al.. (2019). Three novel patients with epileptic encephalopathy due to biallelic mutations in the PLCB1 gene. Clinical Genetics. 97(3). 477–482. 11 indexed citations

Calbiac, Hortense de, Elise Marsan, Hervé Tostivint, et al.. (2018). Depdc5 knockdown causes mTOR‐dependent motor hyperactivity in zebrafish. Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology. 5(5). 510–523. 38 indexed citations

Millecamps, Stéphanie, Anne de Septenville, Elisa Teyssou, et al.. (2014). Genetic analysis of matrin 3 gene in French amyotrophic lateral sclerosis patients and frontotemporal lobar degeneration with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis patients. Neurobiology of Aging. 35(12). 2882.e13–2882.e15. 32 indexed citations

Clot, Fabienne, Anne Rovelet‐Lecrux, Foudil Lamari, et al.. (2014). Partial deletions of the GRN gene are a cause of frontotemporal lobar degeneration. Neurogenetics. 15(2). 95–100. 7 indexed citations

Teyssou, Elisa, Takahiro Takeda, Vincent Lebon, et al.. (2013). Mutations in SQSTM1 encoding p62 in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: genetics and neuropathology. Acta Neuropathologica. 125(4). 511–522. 185 indexed citations

Baulac, Stéphanie, Saeko Ishida, Tomoji Mashimo, et al.. (2012). A rat model for LGI1-related epilepsies. Human Molecular Genetics. 21(16). 3546–3557. 31 indexed citations

Zhou, Yudong, Dawei Zhang, Ekim Özkaynak, et al.. (2012). Epilepsy GeneLGI1Regulates Postnatal Developmental Remodeling of Retinogeniculate Synapses. Journal of Neuroscience. 32(3). 903–910. 20 indexed citations

Chabrol, E, Vincent Navarro, Giovanni Provenzano, et al.. (2010). Electroclinical characterization of epileptic seizures in leucine-rich, glioma-inactivated 1-deficient mice. Brain. 133(9). 2749–2762. 95 indexed citations

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Seilhean, Danielle, Cécile Cazeneuve, Stéphanie Millecamps, et al.. (2009). Accumulation of TDP-43 and α-actin in an amyotrophic lateral sclerosis patient with the K17I ANG mutation. Acta Neuropathologica. 118(4). 561–573. 57 indexed citations

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Cazeneuve, Cécile, Salah A. Ibrahim, Maowia M. Mukhtar, et al.. (2009). A new complex homozygous large rearrangement of the PINK1 gene in a Sudanese family with early onset Parkinson’s disease. Neurogenetics. 10(3). 265–270. 20 indexed citations

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Bellescize, Julitta de, E Chabrol, Nathalie André‐Obadia, et al.. (2009). A novel three base-pair LGI1 deletion leading to loss of function in a family with autosomal dominant lateral temporal epilepsy and migraine-like episodes. Epilepsy Research. 85(1). 118–122. 16 indexed citations

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Dubourg, O., Hamid Azzedine, Christophe Verny, et al.. (2006). Autosomal-recessive forms of demyelinating Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease. NeuroMolecular Medicine. 8(1-2). 75–85. 66 indexed citations

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Dawkins, Jennifer L., Sonal Brahmbhatt, Michaela Auer‐Grumbach, et al.. (2002). Exclusion of serine palmitoyltransferase long chain base subunit 2 (SPTLC2) as a common cause for hereditary sensory neuropathy. Neuromuscular Disorders. 12(7-8). 656–658. 19 indexed citations

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Bernard, Rafaëlle, Véronique Labelle, Sandrine Tardieu, et al.. (2000). Prenatal detection of a 17p11.2 duplication resulting from a rare recombination event and novel PCR-based strategy for molecular identification of Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 1A. European Journal of Human Genetics. 8(3). 229–235. 3 indexed citations

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Bouhouche, Ahmed, Ali Benomar, Nazha Birouk, et al.. (1999). A Locus for an Axonal Form of Autosomal Recessive Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease Maps to Chromosome 1q21.2-q21.3. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 65(3). 722–727. 68 indexed citations

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Ring, Huijun Z., et al.. (1999). The human neuregulin-2 ( NRG2 ) gene: cloning, mapping and evaluation as a candidate for the autosomal recessive form of Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease linked to 5q. Human Genetics. 104(4). 326–332. 23 indexed citations

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Leguern, Éric, Riadh Gouider, Dominique Mabin, et al.. (1997). Patients homozygous for the 17p 11.2 duplication in charcot‐marie‐tooth type 1A Disease. Annals of Neurology. 41(1). 104–108. 25 indexed citations

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Benomar, Ali, Giovanni Stévanin, Géraldine Cancel‐Tassin, et al.. (1995). The gene for autosomal dominant cerebellar ataxia with pigmentary macular dystrophy maps to chromosome 3p12–p21.1. Nature Genetics. 10(1). 84–88. 126 indexed citations

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Mornet, Étienne, Brigitte Simon‐Bouy, Michèle Mathieu, et al.. (1993). Molecular analysis of a ring chromosome X in a family with fragile X syndrome. Human Genetics. 92(4). 373–378. 4 indexed citations

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