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Michel Georges

Boston Children's Hospital(US)University of Liège(BE)Walloon Excellence in Lifesciences and Biotechnology(BE)

Publications by Year

Research Areas

Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock, Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals, Animal Genetics and Reproduction, Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research, Muscle Physiology and Disorders

Most-Cited Works

→ Host–microbe interactions have shaped the genetic architecture of inflammatory bowel disease(2012)4,804 cited
→ Resistance to HIV-1 infection in Caucasian individuals bearing mutant alleles of the CCR-5 chemokine receptor gene(1996)2,890 cited
→ Genome-wide association defines more than 30 distinct susceptibility loci for Crohn's disease(2008)2,619 cited
→ Genome-wide meta-analysis increases to 71 the number of confirmed Crohn's disease susceptibility loci(2010)2,560 cited
→ Large-scale cis- and trans-eQTL analyses identify thousands of genetic loci and polygenic scores that regulate blood gene expression(2021)2,044 cited
→ A deletion in the bovine myostatin gene causes the double–muscled phenotype in cattle(1997)1,560 cited

→ Meta-analysis identifies 29 additional ulcerative colitis risk loci, increasing the number of confirmed associations to 47(2011)

1,348 cited

→ A mutation creating a potential illegitimate microRNA target site in the myostatin gene affects muscularity in sheep(2006)1,243 cited

→ Positional Candidate Cloning of a QTL in Dairy Cattle: Identification of a Missense Mutation in the Bovine DGAT1 Gene with Major Effect on Milk Yield and Composition(2002)967 cited

→ A regulatory mutation in IGF2 causes a major QTL effect on muscle growth in the pig(2003)955 cited