Francesco Cucca

47.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
147 papers, 5.9k citations indexed

About

Francesco Cucca is a scholar working on Genetics, Molecular Biology and Immunology. According to data from OpenAlex, Francesco Cucca has authored 147 papers receiving a total of 5.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 66 papers in Genetics, 38 papers in Molecular Biology and 38 papers in Immunology. Recurrent topics in Francesco Cucca's work include Diabetes and associated disorders (40 papers), T-cell and B-cell Immunology (22 papers) and Pancreatic function and diabetes (22 papers). Francesco Cucca is often cited by papers focused on Diabetes and associated disorders (40 papers), T-cell and B-cell Immunology (22 papers) and Pancreatic function and diabetes (22 papers). Francesco Cucca collaborates with scholars based in Italy, United States and United Kingdom. Francesco Cucca's co-authors include Mauro Congia, John A. Todd, Nunzio Bottini, Torkel Vang, Tomas Mustelin, S. De Virgiliis, David Schlessinger, Valeria Orrù, Stephen C. Bain and Rosanna Lampis and has published in prestigious journals such as Nucleic Acids Research, Nature Communications and Nature Genetics.

In The Last Decade

Francesco Cucca

142 papers receiving 5.7k citations

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Autoimmune-associated lymphoid tyrosine phosphatase is a gain-of-function variant

2005 534 citations Mauro Congia, Maria Doloretta Macis et al. profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Quantile-specific confounding: correction for subtle population stratification via quantile regression 2025 ·Genetics ·Chen Wang, Marco Masala, Edoardo Fiorillo, Marcella Devoto, Francesco Cucca, Iuliana Ionita‐Laza	0
2	Age‐Associated Increase in Growth Differentiation Factor 15 Levels Correlates With Central Arterial Stiffness and Predicts All‐Cause Mortality in a Sardinian Population Cohort 2025 ·Journal of the American Heart Association ·(unknown), Valeria Orrù, Michele Marongiu, Yong Qian, Carlo Sidore, Alessandro Delitala, Marco Orrù, Antonella Mulas, Maria Grazia Piras, Christopher H. Morrell, Sandra Lai, (unknown), Myriam Gorospe, Francesco Cucca, Edoardo Fiorillo, Jun Ding, Edward G. Lakatta, Angelo Scuteri	0
3	Clinical settings in which human leukocyte antigen typing is still useful in the diagnosis of celiac disease 2025 ·World Journal of Gastroenterology ·(unknown), Rossano Rossino, Rita Jores, (unknown), Sandro Muntoni, Francesco Cucca, Mauro Congia	0
4	HLA Genotyping in Children With Celiac Disease Allows to Establish the Risk of Developing Type 1 Diabetes 2024 ·Clinical and Translational Gastroenterology ·(unknown), Rossano Rossino, (unknown), Rita Jores, (unknown), Sandro Muntoni, (unknown), Carlo Ripoli, Maria Rosaria Ricciardi, Francesco Cucca, Mauro Congia	2
5	Vascular density normative data of radial peripapillary capillary plexus in healthy Caucasian subjects 2024 ·Graefe s Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology ·Rita Serra, Antonio Pinna, Andrea Angius, (unknown), Michele Marongiu, Lenore J. Launer, Myriam Gorospe, David Schlessinger, Florence Coscas, Edoardo Fiorillo, Francesco Cucca	1
6	Peripheral blood mononuclear cells reactivity in recent-onset type I diabetes patients is directed against the leader peptide of preproinsulin, GAD65271-285 and GAD65431-450 2023 ·Frontiers in Immunology ·Rita Jores, (unknown), (unknown), Sandro Muntoni, Rossano Rossino, (unknown), Maria Franca Marongiu, (unknown), Carlo Ripoli, Maria Rosaria Ricciardi, Francesco Cucca, Mauro Congia	3
7	Echocardiographic heart ageing patterns predict cardiovascular and non-cardiovascular events and reflect biological age: the SardiNIA study 2023 ·European Journal of Preventive Cardiology ·Antonello Ganau, Marco Orrù, Matteo Floris, Pier Sergio Saba, Federica Loi, Giuseppe D. Sanna, Michele Marongiu, Lenuta Balaci, (unknown), (unknown), Francesco Loi, Marco Masala, (unknown), Alessandro Delitala, David Schlessinger, Edward G. Lakatta, Edoardo Fiorillo, Francesco Cucca	8
8	Patterns of Dietary Blood Markers Are Related to Frailty Status in the FRAILOMIC Validation Phase 2023 ·Nutrients ·(unknown), Bastian Kochlik, Ignacio Ara, Marcela González‐Gross, Edoardo Fiorillo, Michele Marongiu, Francesco Cucca, Fernando Rodríguez‐Artalejo, (unknown), Leocadio Rodríguez‐Mañas, Tilman Grune, Daniela Weber	8
9	Dilated hypertrophic phenotype of the carotid artery is associated with accelerated age-associated central arterial stiffening 2022 ·GeroScience ·Majd AlGhatrif, Edward G. Lakatta, Christopher H. Morrell, Danilo Alunni Fegatelli, Edoardo Fiorillo, Michele Marongiu, David Schlessinger, Francesco Cucca, Angelo Scuteri	12
10	Non‐coding RNAs in malaria infection 2021 ·Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews - RNA ·Valeria Lodde, Matteo Floris, Maria R. Muroni, Francesco Cucca, Maria Laura Idda	12
11	Induction of therapeutic levels of HbF in genome‐edited primary β⁰39‐thalassaemia haematopoietic stem and progenitor cells 2020 ·British Journal of Haematology ·(unknown), (unknown), Lin Ye, Isadora Asunis, Maria Franca Marongiu, (unknown), Maria Carla Sollaino, Jiaming Wang, Annalisa Cabriolu, Ryo Kurita, Yukio Nakamura, Francesco Cucca, Yuet Wai Kan, M. Marini, Paolo Moi	13
12	Exome sequencing in Crisponi/cold‐induced sweating syndrome–like individuals reveals unpredicted alternative diagnoses 2019 ·Clinical Genetics ·Andrea Angius, Paolo Uva, Manuela Oppo, Insa Buers, Ivana Persico, Stefano Onano, Gianmauro Cuccuru, Margot I. Van Allen, (unknown), (unknown), Francesco Muntoni, Andrew E. Fry, Göran Annerén, Eva‐Lena Stattin, María Palomares‐Bralo, Fernando Santos‐Simarro, Francesco Cucca, Giangiorgio Crisponi, Frank Rutsch, Laura Crisponi	9
13	Genetic regulation of gene expression and splicing during a 10-year period of human aging 2019 ·Genome biology ·Brunilda Balliu, Matthew G. Durrant, (unknown), Nathan S. Abell, Xin Li, Boxiang Liu, Michael J. Gloudemans, Naomi Cook, Kevin S. Smith, David A. Knowles, Mauro Pala, Francesco Cucca, David Schlessinger, Siddhartha Jaiswal, Chiara Sabatti, Lars Lind, Erik Ingelsson, Stephen B. Montgomery	47
14	Novel action of FOXL2 as mediator of Col1a2 gene autoregulation 2016 ·Developmental Biology ·Mara Marongiu, Manila Deiana, (unknown), Andrea Sbardellati, Isadora Asunis, Alessandra Meloni, Andrea Angius, Roberto Cusano, Angela Loi, Francesca Crobu, Giorgio Fotia, Francesco Cucca, David Schlessinger, Laura Crisponi	6
15	Prevalence of CKD and Its Relationship to eGFR-Related Genetic Loci and Clinical Risk Factors in the SardiNIA Study Cohort 2014 ·Journal of the American Society of Nephrology ·Antonello Pani, Jennifer L. Bragg‐Gresham, Marco Masala, Doloretta Piras, (unknown), Maria Grazia Pilia, Liana Ferreli, Lenuta Balaci, (unknown), Alessandro Delitala, Francesco Loi, Gonçalo R. Abecasis, David Schlessinger, Francesco Cucca	36
16	Genetic testing improves the diagnosis of adult type hypolactasia in the Mediterranean population of Sardinia 2007 ·European Journal of Clinical Nutrition ·(unknown), (unknown), Paolo Usai–Satta, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Francesco Cucca, S. De Virgiliis, Rossano Rossino, Maria Doloretta Macis, (unknown), Mauro Congia	24
17	Linkage analysis of multiple sclerosis with candidate region markers in Sardinian and Continental Italian families 1999 ·European Journal of Human Genetics ·Sandra D’Alfonso, Lorenza Nisticò, Patrizia Zavattari, Maria Giovanna Marrosu, Raffaele Murru, Marina Lai, Luca Massacesi, Clara Ballerini, (unknown), Marco Salvetti, Giovanni Ristori, Roberto Bomprezzi, María Trojano, Maria Liguori, D. Gambi, Aldo Quattrone, Doriana Fruci, Francesco Cucca, Patricia Richiardi, Roberto Tosi	38
18	Nutritional factors and risk of type 1 diabetes 1998 ·Diabetologia ·Sandro Muntoni, Pier Luigi Cocco, (unknown), Francesco Cucca, Sergio Muntoni	3
19	Hla Class Ii Genes in Chronic Hepatitis C Virus–Infection and Associated Immunological Disorders 1996 ·Hepatology ·Mauro Congia, Maria Grazia Clemente, C. Dessì, Francesco Cucca, Anna Paola Mazzoleni, Franco Frau, R Lampis, Antonio Cao, Maria Eliana Lai, S. De Virgiliis	73
20	LINKAGE MAPPING OF TYPE-1 DIABETES 1995 ·The American Journal of Human Genetics ·June Davies, James Copeman, Heather J. Cordell, Francesco Cucca, (unknown), (unknown), Suzanne Jenkins, Yasushi Kawaguchi, Marilyn E. Merriman, Tony R. Merriman, L E Pritchard, A. F. Wilson, A H Barnett, Steve Baín, John A. Todd	72

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