Leon French

3.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
46 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

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Leon French is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cognitive Neuroscience and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Leon French has authored 46 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Molecular Biology, 10 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience and 8 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Leon French's work include Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks (7 papers), Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies (6 papers) and Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics (5 papers). Leon French is often cited by papers focused on Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks (7 papers), Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies (6 papers) and Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics (5 papers). Leon French collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and Germany. Leon French's co-authors include Paul Pavlidis, Tomáš Paus, Derek Howard, Jie Yu, Zhong Chen, Chengping Wen, Rongrong Chen, Zhenghao Xu, Keer Wang and Etienne Sibille and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Bioinformatics and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Leon French

46 papers receiving 1.7k citations

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The Spatial and Cell-Type Distribution of SARS-CoV-2 Receptor ACE2 in the Human and Mouse Brains

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	The transcriptional legacy of developmental stochasticity 2023 ·Nature Communications ·Sara Ballouz, Risa Karakida Kawaguchi, Maria T. Peña, Stephan Fischer, Megan Crow, Leon French, (unknown), Linda B. Adams, Jesse Gillis	4
2	Providing Care Beyond Therapy Sessions With a Natural Language Processing–Based Recommender System That Identifies Cancer Patients Who Experience Psychosocial Challenges and Provides Self-care Support: Pilot Study 2022 ·JMIR Cancer ·Yvonne Leung, (unknown), (unknown), Achini Adikari, (unknown), Jiahui Wong, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Graeme Hirst, Daswin De Silva, Leon French, Jacqueline L. Bender, Faye Mishna, David Gratzer, Damminda Alahakoon, Mary Jane Esplen	11
3	Evaluation of deep convolutional neural networks for in situ hybridization gene expression image representation 2022 ·PLoS ONE ·(unknown), (unknown), Derek Howard, (unknown), Ethan Kim, Jason P. Lerch, Leon French	2
4	The Caribbean-Hispanic Alzheimer's disease brain transcriptome reveals ancestry-specific disease mechanisms 2022 ·Neurobiology of Disease ·Daniel Felsky, Ismael Santa‐María, Mehmet İlyas Coşacak, Leon French, Julie A. Schneider, David A. Bennett, Philip L. De Jager, Çağhan Kızıl, Giuseppe Tosto	7
5	Characterization of Human Genes Modulated by Porphyromonas gingivalis Highlights the Ribosome, Hypothalamus, and Cholinergic Neurons 2021 ·Frontiers in Immunology ·Sejal Patel, Derek Howard, Nityananda Chowdhury, (unknown), (unknown), Özlem Yilmaz, Leon French	16
6	A pH-eQTL Interaction at the RIT2–SYT4 Parkinson’s Disease Risk Locus in the Substantia Nigra 2021 ·Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience ·Sejal Patel, Derek Howard, Leon French	1
7	Donor-Specific Transcriptomic Analysis of Alzheimer's Disease-Associated Hypometabolism Highlights a Unique Donor, Ribosomal Proteins and Microglia 2020 ·eNeuro ·Sejal Patel, Derek Howard, (unknown), Deborah Schwartz, (unknown), Daniel Felsky, Zdenka Pausová, Tomáš Paus, Leon French	8
8	White matter microstructure in women with acute and remitted anorexia nervosa: an exploratory neuroimaging study 2019 ·Brain Imaging and Behavior ·(unknown), Allan S. Kaplan, Leon French, Aristotle N. Voineskos	10
9	Transfer Learning for Depression: Early Detection and Severity Prediction from Social Media Postings. 2019 ·CLEF (Working Notes) ·(unknown), Derek Howard, Marta M. Maslej, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Leon French	12
10	DNA METHYLATION AND 5-HTTLPR GENOTYPE OF THE SEROTONIN TRANSPORTER GENE (SLC6A4) IN ANTIDEPRESSANT TREATMENT RESPONSE OF MAJOR DEPRESSIVE DISORDER 2019 ·European Neuropsychopharmacology ·Amanda Lisoway, Clement C. Zai, Arun K. Tiwari, Ricardo Harripaul, Natalie Freeman, Leon French, Zachary Kaminsky, James L. Kennedy	2
11	Transcriptomic Characterization of the Human Insular Cortex and Claustrum 2019 ·Frontiers in Neuroanatomy ·Christine Ibrahim, Bernard Le Foll, Leon French	12
12	Opposite Molecular Signatures of Depression in Men and Women 2018 ·Biological Psychiatry ·Marianne L. Seney, Zhiguang Huo, Kelly Cahill, Leon French, Rachel Puralewski, Joyce Zhang, Ryan W. Logan, George C. Tseng, David A. Lewis, Etienne Sibille	203
13	Transcriptomic characterization of MRI contrast with focus on the T1-w/T2-w ratio in the cerebral cortex 2018 ·NeuroImage ·Jacob Ritchie, Spiro P. Pantazatos, Leon French	40
14	Transcriptomic Characterization of the Human Habenula Highlights Drug Metabolism and the Neuroimmune System 2018 ·Frontiers in Neuroscience ·Bernard Le Foll, Leon French	16
15	Structural covariance of brain region volumes is associated with both structural connectivity and transcriptomic similarity 2018 ·NeuroImage ·Yohan Yee, Darren Fernandes, Leon French, Jacob Ellegood, Lindsay S. Cahill, Dulcie A. Vousden, (unknown), Jan Scholz, Matthijs C. van Eede, Brian J. Nieman, John G. Sled, Jason P. Lerch	49
16	Microarray analysis of transcripts with elevated expressions in the rat medial or lateral habenula suggest fast GABAergic excitation in the medial habenula and habenular involvement in the regulation of feeding and energy balance 2016 ·Brain Structure and Function ·Franziska Wagner, René Bernard, Christian Derst, Leon French, Rüdiger W. Veh	52
17	Text mining for neuroanatomy using WhiteText with an updated corpus and a new web application 2015 ·Frontiers in Neuroinformatics ·Leon French, Po Liu, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Paul Pavlidis	15
18	Large-Scale Analysis of Gene Expression and Connectivity in the Rodent Brain: Insights through Data Integration 2011 ·Frontiers in Neuroinformatics ·Leon French, (unknown), Paul Pavlidis	30
19	Using text mining to link journal articles to neuroanatomical databases 2011 ·The Journal of Comparative Neurology ·Leon French, Paul Pavlidis	11
20	Relationships between Gene Expression and Brain Wiring in the Adult Rodent Brain 2011 ·PLoS Computational Biology ·Leon French, Paul Pavlidis	101

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