Leonard I. Zon

Also affiliated with Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular BiologyImmunology and Microbiology

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This score is computed over theSindex pilot corpus and does not cover the full scientific literature. Scores are relative to papers we have ingested — papers, authors, and institutions outside the pilot are not represented. Methodology.

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An author's DataRank is the sum of the DataRanks of all 1 indexed paper attributed to them. A prolific author with many moderate-impact papers can outrank one with a single high-impact paper.

Author scores recompute whenever paper DataRanks are refreshed, so this number lags the underlying paper scores by at most one batch run.

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Papers

Driven by 67 papers. Top paper: “Hyperactivation of sympathetic nerves drives depletion of melanocyte stem cells”.

Hyperactivation of sympathetic nerves drives depletion of melanocyte stem cells

Nature(2020)10.1038/s41586-020-1935-3

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7.5DataRank · unranked

295 citations

Sai Ma, Inbal Rachmin, Megan He, Pankaj Baral, Sekyu Choi +12 more

Minimum information specification for in situ hybridization and immunohistochemistry experiments (MISFISHIE)

Nature Biotechnology(2008)10.1038/nbt1391

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6.5DataRank · unranked

114 citations

On behalf of the MGED Society, Jules J. Berman, G. Steven Bova, Ann-Christine Syvanen, Roger E. Bumgarner +40 more

CHD7 and Runx1 interaction provides a braking mechanism for hematopoietic differentiation

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences(2020)10.1073/pnas.2003228117

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1.1DataRank · unranked

25 citations

Hsuan-Ting Huang, Chung-Tsai Lee, Avik Choudhuri, Nicola K. Wilson, Brian J. Abraham +32 more

External signals regulate continuous transcriptional states in hematopoietic stem cells

eLife(2021)10.7554/elife.66512

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1.0DataRank · unranked

28 citations

Audrey Sporrij, Margot E. Manning, Edroaldo Lummertz da Rocha, Song Yang, Yi Zhou +7 more

Melanoma models for the next generation of therapies

Cancer Cell(2021)10.1016/j.ccell.2021.01.011

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0.816DataRank · unranked

230 citations

Kristen L. Mueller, David J. Adams, Niroshana Anandasabapathy, Andrew E. Aplin, Corine Bertolotto +31 more

Blood on the tracks: hematopoietic stem cell-endothelial cell interactions in homing and engraftment

Journal of Molecular Medicine(2017)10.1007/s00109-017-1559-8

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0.596DataRank · unranked

52 citations

Audrey Sporrij, Leonard I. Zon, Julie R. Perlin

Cross-species analyses of thymic mimetic cells reveal evolutionarily ancient origins and both conserved and species-specific elements

Immunity(2024)10.1016/j.immuni.2024.11.025

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0.582DataRank · unranked

20 citations

Daniel A. Michelson, Sara A. Rubin, Katherine Kohlsaat, Wilson Gomarga, Yuan Fang +7 more

PGE 2 alters chromatin through H2A.Z-variant enhancer nucleosome modification to promote hematopoietic stem cell fate

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences(2023)10.1073/pnas.2220613120

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0.521DataRank · unranked

17 citations

Avik Choudhuri, Meera Prasad, Brejnev Muhire, Eva M. Fast, Margot E. Manning +8 more

An evolutionarily ancient mechanism for regulation of hemoglobin expression in vertebrate red cells

Blood(2020)10.1182/blood.2020004826

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0.489DataRank · unranked

25 citations

Nynke Gillemans, Dorit Hockman, Jeroen Demmers, Jan‐Fang Cheng, Jun Hou +12 more

Transcripts of repetitive DNA elements signal to block phagocytosis of hematopoietic stem cells

Science(2024)10.1126/science.adn1629

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0.449DataRank · unranked

19 citations

Joseph M. Collins, Song Yang, Catherine Martinez, Ji Wook Kim, Chhiring Lama +5 more

Microenvironmental control of hematopoietic stem cell fate via CXCL8 and protein kinase C

Cell Reports(2023)10.1016/j.celrep.2023.112528

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0.345DataRank · unranked

9 citations

Wan‐Tong Li, Muhammad Salman Faisal, Konur Oyman, Donn L. Calkins, Jami Shaffer +22 more

Identification of Basp1 as a novel angiogenesis‐regulating gene by multi‐model system studies

The FASEB Journal(2021)10.1096/fj.202001936rrr

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0.345DataRank · unranked

9 citations

Yi Zhou, Alex Schiffer, Lauren Bazinet, Amy E. Birsner, Leonard I. Zon +2 more

A chronic signaling TGFb zebrafish reporter identifies immune response in melanoma

eLife(2024)10.7554/elife.83527

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0.293DataRank · unranked

5 citations

Alexandra Thornock, Julia Barbano, Michael E. Xifaras, Chloé S. Baron, Song Yang +4 more

A uniform format for manuscript submission

Cell(2021)10.1016/j.cell.2021.01.030

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0.290DataRank · unranked

4 citations

J Boisvert, Hadley M. Moreau, Iris Chan, Jodi Weiss, Julia Barbano +18 more

Quality assurance of hematopoietic stem cells by macrophages determines stem cell clonality

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2022)10.1101/2022.03.07.483327

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0.269DataRank · unranked

5 citations

Mackenzie L. Smith, Cecília Pessoa Rodrigues, Elliott J. Hagedorn, Bogdan Budnik, Leonard I. Zon +1 more

Regeneration alters open chromatin andcis-regulatory landscape of erythroid precursors

Genome Research(2025)10.1101/gr.279949.124

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0.241DataRank · unranked

4 citations

Venkatasai Rahul Dogiparthi, Hannah L. Harris, Suhita Ray, Avik Choudhuri, Song Yang +5 more

775 Hyperactivation of sympathetic nerves drives melanocyte stem cell depletion

Journal of Investigative Dermatology(2020)10.1016/j.jid.2020.03.789

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0.186DataRank · unranked

2 citations

I. Rachman, M. He, S. Choi, W.A. Gonçalves, Y. Shwartz +21 more

Specific oncogene activation of the cell of origin in mucosal melanoma

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2024)10.1101/2024.04.22.590595

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0.168DataRank · unranked

2 citations

Jiajia Chen, Emily Robitschek, Chloé S. Baron, Constance Wu, Aikaterini Dedeilia +17 more

Swimming motions evoke Ca 2+ events in vascular endothelial cells of larval zebrafish via mechanical activation of Piezo1

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2025)10.1101/2025.02.05.636757

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0.165DataRank · unranked

2 citations

Xin Tang, Marlies P. Rossmann, Leonard I. Zon, Florian Engert, Adam E. Cohen +1 more

Specific oncogene activation of the cell of origin in mucosal melanoma

Nature Communications(2025)10.1038/s41467-025-61937-1

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0.107DataRank · unranked

1 citations

Jiajia Chen, Chloé S. Baron, Kaiwen Sun, Emily Robitschek, Alicia M. McConnell +18 more

Craters on the melanoma surface facilitate tumor-immune interactions and demonstrate pathologic response to checkpoint blockade in humans

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2024)10.1101/2024.09.18.613595

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0.104DataRank · unranked

1 citations

Georgia L. Stirtz, Asaf Tal, Ajit J. Nirmal, N. Besson, Stephanie M. Jones +34 more

G-CSF–induced hematopoietic stem cell mobilization from the embryonic hematopoietic niche does not require neutrophils and macrophages

Experimental Hematology(2023)10.1016/j.exphem.2023.104147

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0.104DataRank · unranked

1 citations

E. Fedorov, Leonard I. Zon, Ji Wook Kim

Colorimetric Barcoding to Track, Isolate, and Analyze Hematopoietic Stem Cell Clones

Methods in molecular biology(2023)10.1007/978-1-0716-3401-1_18

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0.104DataRank · unranked

1 citations

Brandon Gheller, Leonard I. Zon, Dorothee Bornhorst

Meta-analysis of rare and common exome chip variants identifies S1PR4 and other loci influencing blood cell traits

UNC Libraries(2020)10.17615/aapr-pr41

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0.104DataRank · unranked

1 citations

Niels Grarup, Albert Hofman, Lenore J. Launer, David C. Liewald, Albert V. Smith +76 more

SPRED1 deletion confers resistance to MAPK inhibition in melanoma

The Journal of Experimental Medicine(2020)10.1084/jem.20201097

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0DataRank · unranked

31 citations

Sixue Liu, Gatien Moriceau, Roger S. Lo, Leonard I. Zon, Julien Ablain

Nucleotide stress responses in neural crest cell fate and melanoma

Cell Cycle(2021)10.1080/15384101.2021.1947567

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0DataRank · unranked

9 citations

Leonard I. Zon, Audrey Sporrij

Calmodulin inhibitors improve erythropoiesis in Diamond-Blackfan anemia

Science Translational Medicine(2020)10.1126/scitranslmed.abb5831

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0DataRank · unranked

39 citations

Elizabeth R. Macari, Iris T. Chan, Megan C. Blair, Sergei Doulatov, Linda T. Vo +18 more

Long-Range Optogenetic Control of Axon Guidance Overcomes Developmental Boundaries and Defects

Developmental Cell(2020)10.1016/j.devcel.2020.05.009

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0DataRank · unranked

40 citations

Andy Wang, Jonathan Boulanger-Weill, Cristina Santoriello, Stephan Foianini, Jeff Lichtman +3 more

‘Enhancing’ red cell fate through epigenetic mechanisms

Current Opinion in Hematology(2021)10.1097/moh.0000000000000654

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0DataRank · unranked

1 citations

Leonard I. Zon, Marlies P. Rossmann

Niche signals regulate continuous transcriptional states in hematopoietic stem cells

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2021)10.1101/2021.03.09.430613

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0DataRank · unranked

1 citations

Audrey Sporrij, Margot E. Manning, Edroaldo Lummertz da Rocha, Song Yang, Yi Zhou +7 more

Transcription factor induction of vascular blood stem cell niches in vivo

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2021)10.1101/2021.11.03.467105

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0DataRank · unranked

1 citations

Julie R. Perlin, Rebecca J. Freeman, Samuel J. Wattrus, Tianxiao Han, Clara Mao +28 more

Cellular barcoding to decipher clonal dynamics in disease

Science(2022)10.1126/science.abm5874

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0DataRank · unranked

86 citations

Jonathan S. Weissman, Leonard I. Zon, Vijay G. Sankaran

Quality assurance of hematopoietic stem cells by macrophages determines stem cell clonality

Science(2022)10.1126/science.abo4837

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0DataRank · unranked

81 citations

Mackenzie L. Smith, Cecília Pessoa Rodrigues, Elliott J. Hagedorn, Ji Wook Kim, Bogdan Budnik +2 more

Loss of NECTIN1 triggers melanoma dissemination upon local IGF1 depletion

Nature Genetics(2022)10.1038/s41588-022-01191-z

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0DataRank · unranked

16 citations

Amira Al Mahi, Harriet Rothschild, Meera Prasad, Sophie Aires, Song Yang +7 more

Transcription factors interact with RNA to regulate genes

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2022)10.1101/2022.09.27.509776

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0DataRank · unranked

23 citations

Jonathan E. Henninger, Robert Warneford-Thomson, Ming Zheng, Hailey Erb, Kalon J. Overholt +11 more

A Transgenic System for Rapid Magnetic Enrichment of Rare Embryonic Cells

Zebrafish(2020)10.1089/zeb.2020.1904

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0DataRank · unranked

8 citations

Leonard I. Zon, Samuel J. Wattrus

Limb Specific Failure of Proliferation and Translation in the Mesenchyme Leads to Skeletal Defects in Diamond Blackfan Anemia

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2022)10.1101/2022.01.14.476336

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0DataRank · unranked

1 citations

Theodoros Karnavas, Emily Hartman, Julien Papoin, Yuefeng Tang, Brian M. Dulmovits +23 more

Identification of unique α4 chain structure and conserved anti-angiogenic activity of α3NC1 type IV collagen in zebrafish

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2022)10.1101/2022.08.14.503918

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0DataRank · unranked

0 citations

Jianli Dai, Susan E. Tsutakawa, Brian A. MacDonald, Joseph L. Alge, Malin Sund +6 more

Transcription factors interact with RNA to regulate genes

Molecular Cell(2023)10.1016/j.molcel.2023.06.012

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0DataRank · unranked

266 citations

Jonathan E. Henninger, Robert Warneford-Thomson, Ming Zheng, Hailey Erb, Adrienne Vancura +12 more

Structural basis for inactivation of PRC2 by G-quadruplex RNA

Science(2023)10.1126/science.adh0059

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0DataRank · unranked

68 citations

Anne R. Gooding, Wayne O. Hemphill, Brittney Love, Anne L. Robertson, Liqi Yao +5 more

Oncogenic CDK13 mutations impede nuclear RNA surveillance

Science(2023)10.1126/science.abn7625

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0DataRank · unranked

58 citations

Brian J. Abraham, Sara J. Dubbury, Ines H. Kaltheuner, Sofia Dust, Constance Wu +20 more

Blood in the water: recent uses of zebrafish to study myeloid biology

Current Opinion in Hematology(2020)10.1097/moh.0000000000000627

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0DataRank · unranked

12 citations

Leonard I. Zon, Samuel J. Wattrus

Transcription factor induction of vascular blood stem cell niches in vivo

Developmental Cell(2023)10.1016/j.devcel.2023.04.007

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0DataRank · unranked

20 citations

Julie R. Perlin, Rebecca J. Freeman, Samuel J. Wattrus, Tianxiao Han, Clara Mao +28 more

PRL3-DDX21 Transcriptional Control of Endolysosomal Genes Restricts Melanocyte Stem Cell Differentiation

Developmental Cell(2020)10.1016/j.devcel.2020.06.013

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0DataRank · unranked

47 citations

Kerrie L. Marie, Yuting Lu, Alessandro Brombin, Cristina Santoriello, Zhiqiang Zeng +14 more

Transplantation-based screen identifies inducers of muscle progenitor cell engraftment across vertebrate species

Cell Reports(2023)10.1016/j.celrep.2023.112365

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0DataRank · unranked

3 citations

Vivian Garcia, Eric K. N. Gähwiler, Isaac Adatto, Apoorva Rangan, Kathleen A. Messemer +9 more

Identification of unique α4 chain structure and conserved antiangiogenic activity of α3NC1 type IV collagen in zebrafish

Developmental Dynamics(2023)10.1002/dvdy.590

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0DataRank · unranked

2 citations

Jianli Dai, Susan E. Tsutakawa, Brian A. MacDonald, Joseph L. Alge, Malin Sund +6 more

MITF regulates IDH1 and NNT and drives a transcriptional program protecting cutaneous melanoma from reactive oxygen species

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2023)10.1101/2023.11.10.564582

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0DataRank · unranked

1 citations

Alexandra I.T. Lakatos, Alicia M. McConnell, Poguang Wang, Alina Mueller, Akinori Kawakami +20 more

Transplantation-based screen uncovers inducers of muscle progenitor cell engraftment across vertebrate species

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2023)10.1101/2023.01.13.523942

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0DataRank · unranked

0 citations

Isaac Adatto, Sara Ashrafi Kakhki, Victoria Chan, Haleh Fotowat, Eric K. N. Gähwiler +7 more

Common variants in signaling transcription-factor-binding sites drive phenotypic variability in red blood cell traits

Nature Genetics(2020)10.1038/s41588-020-00738-2

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0DataRank · unranked

49 citations

Eirini Trompouki, Brian J. Abraham, Leandro M. Colli, Kian Hong Kock, William Mallard +28 more

Gain-of-Function Genetic Alterations of G9a Drive Oncogenesis

Cancer Discovery(2020)10.1158/2159-8290.cd-19-0532

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0DataRank · unranked

73 citations

Qing Yu Weng, Megan L. Insco, Kevin Y. Chen, Sathya Muralidhar, Joanna Poźniak +18 more

Maturation and persistence of CAR T cells derived from human pluripotent stem cells via chemical inhibition of G9a/GLP

Cell stem cell(2024)10.1016/j.stem.2024.10.004

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

18 citations

Marcelo Falchetti, Tianxiao Han, Mohamad Najia, Luca Hensch, Eleanor Meader +18 more

MITF regulates IDH1, NNT, and a transcriptional program protecting melanoma from reactive oxygen species

Scientific Reports(2024)10.1038/s41598-024-72031-9

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

14 citations

Alexandra I.T. Lakatos, Alicia M. McConnell, Poguang Wang, Alina Mueller, Akinori Kawakami +20 more

A conserved transcription factor regulatory program promotes tendon fate

Developmental Cell(2024)10.1016/j.devcel.2024.08.006

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

6 citations

Delmy L Melendez, Suyash Raj, Junming Cai, Dulanjalee Senadeera, Joseph Mandelbaum +9 more

Role of RNA modifications in blood development and regeneration

Experimental Hematology(2024)10.1016/j.exphem.2024.104279

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

5 citations

Leonard I. Zon, Rajesh Gunage

Zebrafish patient avatars in cancer biology and precision cancer therapy

Nature reviews. Cancer(2020)10.1038/s41568-020-0252-3

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0DataRank · unranked

264 citations

Julien Ablain, Chuan Yan, David M. Langenau, Leonard I. Zon, Maurizio Fazio

Design of soluble Notch agonists that drive T cell development and boost immunity

Cell(2025)10.1016/j.cell.2025.07.009

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0DataRank · unranked

16 citations

Ran Jing, Mayuri Tanaka-Yano, Emily D. Egan, Helen E. Eisenach, Martin Kononov +19 more

CRATER tumor niches facilitate CD8+ T cell engagement and correspond with immunotherapy success

Cell(2025)10.1016/j.cell.2025.09.021

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

11 citations

Georgia L. Stirtz, Asaf Tal, Ajit J. Nirmal, Kathleen L. Pfaff, Michael P. Manos +39 more

Maturation and persistence of CAR T cells derived from human pluripotent stem cells via chemical inhibition of G9a/GLP

Cell stem cell(2025)10.1016/j.stem.2024.12.008

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0DataRank · unranked

1 citations

Marcelo Falchetti, Tianxiao Han, Mohamad Najia, Luca Hensch, Eleanor Meader +18 more

Massively parallel reporter assays of melanoma risk variants identify MX2 as a gene promoting melanoma

Nature Communications(2020)10.1038/s41467-020-16590-1

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0DataRank · unranked

144 citations

Tongwu Zhang, Andrew Vu, Julien Ablain, Matthew Makowski, Leandro M. Colli +22 more

RPS19 and RPL5 Haploinsufficient Models Reveal Divergent Ribosomal Subunit Controls of Fetal Hematopoiesis

Research Square(2025)10.21203/rs.3.rs-7563799/v1

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0DataRank · unranked

0 citations

Yuefeng Tang, Te Ling, Rashid Mehmood, Alexis Bertrand, Julien Papoin +22 more

Functional characterization of the 9q34.13 locus identifies RAPGEF1 as modulating risk for melanoma and nevi via RAS activation

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2025)10.64898/2025.12.03.691936

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0DataRank · unranked

0 citations

Mai Xu, Alexandra Thornock, Joshuah Yon, Samuel Anyaso‐Samuel, Martin Lauss +28 more

Swimming motions evoke Piezo1-dependent Ca2+ events in vascular endothelial cells of larval zebrafish

Current Biology(2025)10.1016/j.cub.2025.10.053

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0DataRank · unranked

5 citations

Xin Tang, Marlies P. Rossmann, Leonard I. Zon, Florian Engert, Adam E. Cohen +1 more

Ccdc94 Protects Cells from Ionizing Radiation by Inhibiting the Expression of p53

UNC Libraries(2020)10.17615/yg74-6s39

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0DataRank · unranked

0 citations

Brett Milash, Erik Harrington, Cicely A. Jette, Ujwal J. Pyati, Shelly Sorrells +8 more

Zebrafish disease models in drug discovery: from preclinical modelling to clinical trials

Nature Reviews Drug Discovery(2021)10.1038/s41573-021-00210-8

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0DataRank · unranked

565 citations

Leonard I. Zon, David M. Langenau, E. Elizabeth Patton

Difference in biophysical properties of cancer-initiating cells in melanoma mutated zebrafish

Journal of the mechanical behavior of biomedical materials/Journal of mechanical behavior of biomedical materials(2020)10.1016/j.jmbbm.2020.103746

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0DataRank · unranked

7 citations

V. Kalaparthi, Andrew Wang, Chris Williams, Maxim Dokukin, Charles K. Kaufman +3 more

NNT mediates redox-dependent pigmentation via a UVB- and MITF-independent mechanism

Cell(2021)10.1016/j.cell.2021.06.022

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0DataRank · unranked

73 citations

Inbal Rachmin, Kaustubh Adhikari, Luba M. Pardo, Ju Hee Lee, Alicia M. McConnell +48 more

Cell-specific transcriptional control of mitochondrial metabolism by TIF1γ drives erythropoiesis

Science(2021)10.1126/science.aaz2740

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0DataRank · unranked

49 citations

Karen Hoi, Victoria Chan, Brian J. Abraham, Song Yang, James Mullahoo +23 more