Hugues Blanc

2.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
12 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Hugues Blanc is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Clinical Biochemistry and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Hugues Blanc has authored 12 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Molecular Biology, 3 papers in Clinical Biochemistry and 2 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Hugues Blanc's work include Mitochondrial Function and Pathology (8 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (5 papers) and Metabolism and Genetic Disorders (3 papers). Hugues Blanc is often cited by papers focused on Mitochondrial Function and Pathology (8 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (5 papers) and Metabolism and Genetic Disorders (3 papers). Hugues Blanc collaborates with scholars based in France, United States and Sweden. Hugues Blanc's co-authors include Howard M. Cann, Richard E. Giles, Bernard Dujon, Douglas C. Wallace, Douglas C. Wallace, Camellia Adams, David A. Clayton, Mervyn J. Bibb, Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza and Maurizio Denaro and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nucleic Acids Research and Gene.

In The Last Decade

Hugues Blanc

12 papers receiving 1.4k citations

Hit Papers

Maternal inheritance of human mitochondrial DNA. 1980 2026 1995 2010 1980 250 500 750
What are hit papers?

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.

  1. Maternal inheritance of human mitochondrial DNA.
    1980 978 citations Richard E. Giles, Hugues Blanc et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

Peers

Hugues Blanc
Corinna Herrnstadt United States
Karen Oliver Australia
Ulf Gyllensten Sweden
Venita F. Allison United States
Raymond J. Peterson United States
Etsuko T. Matsuura Japan
Xiaohui Xie China
Moacyr Antônio Mestriner Brazil
Michael Wittig Germany
Janet Ziegle United States
Corinna Herrnstadt United States
Hugues Blanc
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Countries citing papers authored by Hugues Blanc

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Fields of papers citing papers by Hugues Blanc

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Hugues Blanc

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Hugues Blanc. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Hugues Blanc based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Hugues Blanc. Hugues Blanc is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

12 of 12 papers shown
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Lutfalla, Georges, Hugues Blanc, & Roger Bertolotti. (1985). Shuttling of integrated vectors from mammalian cells toE. coli is mediated by head-to-tail multimeric inserts. Somatic Cell and Molecular Genetics. 11(3). 223–238. 28 indexed citations
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Blanc, Hugues, et al.. (1983). Amino acid change associated with the major polymorphic Hinc II site of Oriental and Caucasian mitochondrial DNAs.. PubMed. 35(2). 167–76. 60 indexed citations
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Blanc, Hugues & Bernard Dujon. (1982). Replicator Regions of the Yeast Mitochondrial DNA Active In Vivo and in Yeast Transformants. Cold Spring Harbor Monograph Archive. 12. 279–294. 23 indexed citations
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Wallace, Douglas C., Noëlynn Oliver, Hugues Blanc, & Camellia Adams. (1982). A System to Study Human Mitochondrial Genes: Application to Chloramphenicol Resistance. Cold Spring Harbor Monograph Archive. 12. 105–116. 3 indexed citations
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Denaro, Maurizio, et al.. (1981). Ethnic variation in Hpa 1 endonuclease cleavage patterns of human mitochondrial DNA.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 78(9). 5768–5772. 118 indexed citations
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Blanc, Hugues, Camellia Adams, & Douglas C. Wallace. (1981). Different nucleotide changes in the large rRNA gene of the mitochondrial DNA confer chloramphenicol resistance on two human cell lines. Nucleic Acids Research. 9(21). 5785–5796. 64 indexed citations
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Blanc, Hugues, et al.. (1981). Mitochondrial DNA of chloramphenicol-resistant mouse cells contains a single nucleotide change in the region encoding the 3' end of the large ribosomal RNA.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 78(6). 3789–3793. 89 indexed citations
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Giles, Richard E., et al.. (1980). Maternal inheritance of human mitochondrial DNA.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 77(11). 6715–6719. 978 indexed citations breakdown →
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Blanc, Hugues & Bernard Dujon. (1980). Replicator regions of the yeast mitochondrial DNA responsible for suppressiveness.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 77(7). 3942–3946. 123 indexed citations
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Blanc, Hugues, Claude Gerbaud, Piotr P. Słonimski, & Michel Guérineau. (1979). Stable yeast transformation with chimeric plasmids using a 2 μm-circular DNA-less strain as a recipient. Molecular and General Genetics MGG. 176(3). 335–342. 30 indexed citations
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Blanc, Hugues, Bernard Dujon, Michel Guérineau, & Piotr P. Słonimski. (1978). Detection of specific DNA sequences in yeast by colony hybridization. Molecular and General Genetics MGG. 161(3). 311–315. 8 indexed citations

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