Laurent Abel

60.4k total citations · 4 hit papers
293 papers, 16.1k citations indexed

About

Laurent Abel is a scholar working on Epidemiology, Infectious Diseases and Immunology. According to data from OpenAlex, Laurent Abel has authored 293 papers receiving a total of 16.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 120 papers in Epidemiology, 115 papers in Infectious Diseases and 114 papers in Immunology. Recurrent topics in Laurent Abel's work include Immunodeficiency and Autoimmune Disorders (70 papers), Mycobacterium research and diagnosis (66 papers) and Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology (52 papers). Laurent Abel is often cited by papers focused on Immunodeficiency and Autoimmune Disorders (70 papers), Mycobacterium research and diagnosis (66 papers) and Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology (52 papers). Laurent Abel collaborates with scholars based in France, United States and Canada. Laurent Abel's co-authors include Jean‐Laurent Casanova, Alexandre Alcaïs, Erwin Schurr, Stéphanie Boisson‐Dupuis, Capucine Pïcard, Lluís Quintana‐Murci, Jacinta Bustamante, Anne Puel, Shen‐Ying Zhang and Emmanuelle Jouanguy and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Laurent Abel

290 papers receiving 15.7k 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.

Genetic Dissection of Immunity to Mycobacteria: The Human Model

2002 741 citations Jean‐Laurent Casanova, Laurent Abel profile →
Mutations of the RET proto-oncogene in Hirschsprung's disease

1994 540 citations Laurent Abel et al. profile →
Mendelian susceptibility to mycobacterial disease: Genetic, immunological, and clinical features of inborn errors of IFN-γ immunity

2014 436 citations Jacinta Bustamante, Stéphanie Boisson‐Dupuis et al. profile →
Whole-genome sequencing is more powerful than whole-exome sequencing for detecting exome variants

2015 384 citations Aziz Belkadi, Alexandre Bolze et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Laurent Abel France	72	6.7k	5.5k	5.2k	2.9k	2.6k	293	16.1k
Jan M. Orenstein United States	70	6.2k 0.9×	4.8k 0.9×	6.6k 1.3×	1.2k 0.4×	3.7k 1.4×	213	20.7k
Evelyn A. Kurt‐Jones United States	68	9.8k 1.5×	6.2k 1.1×	2.6k 0.5×	2.8k 1.0×	6.5k 2.5×	139	20.4k
Paul Klenerman United Kingdom	88	14.4k 2.2×	10.8k 1.9×	4.4k 0.9×	1.8k 0.6×	3.5k 1.3×	500	27.7k
Carsten J. Kirschning Germany	71	16.3k 2.4×	4.8k 0.9×	3.3k 0.6×	979 0.3×	6.2k 2.4×	170	24.2k
Mark H. Kaplan United States	78	13.9k 2.1×	5.6k 1.0×	4.6k 0.9×	1.4k 0.5×	4.3k 1.6×	408	27.2k
Seppo Meri Finland	75	9.0k 1.3×	2.6k 0.5×	2.0k 0.4×	927 0.3×	3.0k 1.1×	389	17.4k
Robert W. Finberg United States	77	9.7k 1.4×	7.1k 1.3×	5.1k 1.0×	5.6k 1.9×	7.2k 2.7×	260	24.5k
Anthony L. Cunningham Australia	74	6.9k 1.0×	8.8k 1.6×	4.2k 0.8×	1.2k 0.4×	2.5k 0.9×	382	18.1k
Joseph M. McCune United States	79	9.1k 1.4×	4.2k 0.8×	5.8k 1.1×	1.2k 0.4×	3.1k 1.2×	216	19.4k
Stephen E. Straus United States	74	6.0k 0.9×	8.9k 1.6×	2.0k 0.4×	2.1k 0.7×	3.8k 1.5×	241	20.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Laurent Abel

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Fava, Vinicius M., Stephanus T. Malherbe, Marianna Orlova, et al.. (2025). Mycobacterium tuberculosis resisters despite HIV exhibit activated T cells and macrophages in their pulmonary alveoli. Journal of Clinical Investigation. 135(7). 7 indexed citations

Baghdadi, Jamila El, Fatima Ailal, Ibtihal Benhsaien, et al.. (2023). Mendelian Susceptibility to Mycobacterial Disease (MSMD): Clinical, Immunological, and Genetic Features of 22 Patients from 15 Moroccan Kindreds. Journal of Clinical Immunology. 43(4). 728–740. 6 indexed citations

Manry, Jérémy, Alexandre Alcaïs, Laurent Abel, et al.. (2023). Allele-dependent interaction of LRRK2 and NOD2 in leprosy. PLoS Pathogens. 19(3). e1011260–e1011260. 7 indexed citations

Rapaport, Franck, Bertrand Boisson, Anne Gregor, et al.. (2021). Negative selection on human genes underlying inborn errors depends on disease outcome and both the mode and mechanism of inheritance. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(3). 18 indexed citations

Bigio, Benedetta, Yoann Seeleuthner, Gaspard Kerner, et al.. (2021). Detection of homozygous and hemizygous complete or partial exon deletions by whole-exome sequencing. NAR Genomics and Bioinformatics. 3(2). lqab037–lqab037. 5 indexed citations

Rausell, Antonio, Marie Lopez, Yoann Seeleuthner, et al.. (2020). Common homozygosity for predicted loss-of-function variants reveals both redundant and advantageous effects of dispensable human genes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(24). 13626–13636. 17 indexed citations

Kerner, Gaspard, Matthieu Bouaziz, Aurélie Cobat, et al.. (2020). A genome-wide case-only test for the detection of digenic inheritance in human exomes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(32). 19367–19375. 17 indexed citations

Fava, Vinicius M., Marianna Orlova, Nguyen Van Thuc, et al.. (2020). The complex pattern of genetic associations of leprosy with HLA class I and class II alleles can be reduced to four amino acid positions. PLoS Pathogens. 16(8). e1008818–e1008818. 12 indexed citations

Manry, Jérémy, Alexandre Alcaïs, Martine Fanton d’Andon, et al.. (2020). Mycolactone toxin induces an inflammatory response by targeting the IL-1β pathway: Mechanistic insight into Buruli ulcer pathophysiology. PLoS Pathogens. 16(12). e1009107–e1009107. 28 indexed citations

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Fava, Vinicius M., Guillaume Lettre, Nguyen Van Thuc, et al.. (2019). Pleiotropic effects for Parkin and LRRK2 in leprosy type-1 reactions and Parkinson’s disease. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116(31). 15616–15624. 41 indexed citations

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Kerner, Gaspard, Noé Ramirez‐Alejo, Yoann Seeleuthner, et al.. (2019). Homozygosity for TYK2 P1104A underlies tuberculosis in about 1% of patients in a cohort of European ancestry. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116(21). 10430–10434. 71 indexed citations

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Zhang, Peng, Bertrand Boisson, Peter D. Stenson, et al.. (2019). SeqTailor: a user-friendly webserver for the extraction of DNA or protein sequences from next-generation sequencing data. Nucleic Acids Research. 47(W1). W623–W631. 11 indexed citations

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Zhang, Peng, Benedetta Bigio, Franck Rapaport, et al.. (2018). PopViz: a webserver for visualizing minor allele frequencies and damage prediction scores of human genetic variations. Bioinformatics. 34(24). 4307–4309. 35 indexed citations

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Šćepanović, Petar, Cécile Alanio, Christian Hammer, et al.. (2018). Human genetic variants and age are the strongest predictors of humoral immune responses to common pathogens and vaccines. Genome Medicine. 10(1). 59–59. 103 indexed citations

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Abel, Laurent, Jacques Fellay, David W. Haas, et al.. (2017). Genetics of human susceptibility to active and latent tuberculosis: present knowledge and future perspectives. The Lancet Infectious Diseases. 18(3). e64–e75. 83 indexed citations

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Belkadi, Aziz, Alexandre Bolze, Yuval Itan, et al.. (2015). Whole-genome sequencing is more powerful than whole-exome sequencing for detecting exome variants. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 112(17). 5473–5478. 384 indexed citations breakdown →

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Kong, Xiao‐Fei, Guillaume Vogt, Ariane Chapgier, et al.. (2009). A novel form of cell type-specific partial IFN-γR1 deficiency caused by a germ line mutation of the IFNGR1 initiation codon. Human Molecular Genetics. 19(3). 434–444. 27 indexed citations

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Madhi, Fouad, et al.. (2008). Evaluation of a Model for Efficient Screening of Tuberculosis Contact Subjects. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. 177(9). 1041–1047. 52 indexed citations

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Alcaïs, Alexandre, Nguyen Van Thuc, Vu Hong Thai, & Laurent Abel. (2005). La génétique épidémiologique identifie une nouvelle voie de réponse au bacille de la lèpre. Annales de Dermatologie et de Vénéréologie. 132(1). 45–47. 3 indexed citations

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Abel, Laurent, et al.. (1986). Apheresis in the management of loiasis with high microfilariaemia and renal disease.. BMJ. 292(6512). 24.1–24. 9 indexed citations

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