Aimée M. Deaton

7.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
20 papers, 4.0k citations indexed

About

Aimée M. Deaton is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Epidemiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Aimée M. Deaton has authored 20 papers receiving a total of 4.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Molecular Biology, 6 papers in Genetics and 2 papers in Epidemiology. Recurrent topics in Aimée M. Deaton's work include Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (8 papers), Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (6 papers) and CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (4 papers). Aimée M. Deaton is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (8 papers), Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (6 papers) and CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (4 papers). Aimée M. Deaton collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Switzerland. Aimée M. Deaton's co-authors include Adrian Bird, Jeannie T. Lee, Bryan K. Sun, Jacky Guy, Shaun Webb, Robert Andrews, Robert S. Illingworth, Alastair Kerr, Robert E. Kingston and Michael Tolstorukov and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nature Communications and Genes & Development.

In The Last Decade

Aimée M. Deaton

20 papers receiving 3.9k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

CpG islands and the regulation of transcription

2011 2.2k citations Aimée M. Deaton, Adrian Bird Genes & Development profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Aimée M. Deaton United States	15	3.4k	868	505	275	269	20	4.0k
Altuna Akalin Germany	30	3.4k 1.0×	746 0.9×	583 1.2×	438 1.6×	201 0.7×	61	4.4k
Marnie E. Blewitt Australia	30	2.7k 0.8×	1.1k 1.2×	333 0.7×	290 1.1×	307 1.1×	68	3.6k
Bernard Ramsahoye United Kingdom	26	3.6k 1.1×	1.2k 1.3×	328 0.6×	298 1.1×	261 1.0×	38	4.3k
Lee Edsall United States	12	4.8k 1.4×	1.2k 1.4×	532 1.1×	470 1.7×	337 1.3×	19	5.4k
Leonard Lee United States	8	4.0k 1.2×	1.1k 1.2×	387 0.8×	430 1.6×	308 1.1×	31	4.5k
Matthieu Defrance Belgium	26	2.6k 0.8×	614 0.7×	406 0.8×	314 1.1×	170 0.6×	45	3.3k
Richard Shen United States	15	2.4k 0.7×	1.4k 1.6×	442 0.9×	363 1.3×	300 1.1×	22	3.5k
Laura P. O’Neill United Kingdom	33	3.4k 1.0×	1.1k 1.3×	408 0.8×	344 1.3×	320 1.2×	53	4.2k
Robert Andrews United Kingdom	29	3.3k 1.0×	1.1k 1.3×	545 1.1×	205 0.7×	162 0.6×	59	4.4k
Matthew N. Bainbridge United States	30	2.4k 0.7×	1.3k 1.5×	595 1.2×	222 0.8×	180 0.7×	62	3.8k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Deaton, Aimée M., Lynne Krohn, Paul Nioi, et al.. (2025). Rare predicted loss-of-function and damaging missense variants in CFHR5 associate with protection from age-related macular degeneration. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 112(5). 1062–1080. 1 indexed citations

Kattamuri, Chandramohan, Luisina Ongaro, J. A. Howard, et al.. (2024). Activin E is a transforming growth factor β ligand that signals specifically through activin receptor-like kinase 7. Biochemical Journal. 481(7). 547–564. 5 indexed citations

Hakim, Aaron, Aimée M. Deaton, Lucas D. Ward, et al.. (2023). Advancing diagnosis and management of liver disease in adults through exome sequencing. EBioMedicine. 95. 104747–104747. 12 indexed citations

Deaton, Aimée M., Aditi Dubey, Lucas D. Ward, et al.. (2022). Rare loss of function variants in the hepatokine gene INHBE protect from abdominal obesity. Nature Communications. 13(1). 4319–4319. 28 indexed citations

Carss, Keren, Aimée M. Deaton, Alberto Del Río-Espínola, et al.. (2022). Using human genetics to improve safety assessment of therapeutics. Nature Reviews Drug Discovery. 22(2). 145–162. 42 indexed citations

Ward, Lucas D., Margaret M. Parker, Aimée M. Deaton, et al.. (2021). Rare coding variants in DNA damage repair genes associated with timing of natural menopause. Human Genetics and Genomics Advances. 3(2). 100079–100079. 11 indexed citations

Born, David A., et al.. (2019). Phenotypes associated with genes encoding drug targets are predictive of clinical trial side effects. Nature Communications. 10(1). 1579–1579. 58 indexed citations

Deaton, Aimée M., et al.. (2018). Rationalizing Secondary Pharmacology Screening Using Human Genetic and Pharmacological Evidence. Toxicological Sciences. 167(2). 593–603. 14 indexed citations

Mieczkowski, Jakub, April Cook, Sarah Bowman, et al.. (2016). MNase titration reveals differences between nucleosome occupancy and chromatin accessibility. Nature Communications. 7(1). 11485–11485. 171 indexed citations

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Deaton, Aimée M., Mariluz Gómez Rodríguez, Jakub Mieczkowski, et al.. (2016). Enhancer regions show high histone H3.3 turnover that changes during differentiation. eLife. 5. 73 indexed citations

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West, Jason A., April Cook, B. Alver, et al.. (2014). Nucleosomal occupancy changes locally over key regulatory regions during cell differentiation and reprogramming. Nature Communications. 5(1). 4719–4719. 66 indexed citations

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Bowman, Sarah, Aimée M. Deaton, Peggy I. Wang, et al.. (2014). H3K27 modifications define segmental regulatory domains in the Drosophila bithorax complex. eLife. 3. e02833–e02833. 95 indexed citations

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Deaton, Aimée M., Peter C. Cook, Dina De Sousa, et al.. (2014). A unique DNA methylation signature defines a population of IFN‐γ/IL‐4 double‐positive T cells during helminth infection. European Journal of Immunology. 44(6). 1835–1841. 23 indexed citations

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Bowman, Sarah, Matthew D. Simon, Aimée M. Deaton, et al.. (2013). Multiplexed Illumina sequencing libraries from picogram quantities of DNA. BMC Genomics. 14(1). 466–466. 65 indexed citations

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Deaton, Aimée M. & Adrian Bird. (2011). CpG islands and the regulation of transcription. Genes & Development. 25(10). 1010–1022. 2240 indexed citations breakdown →

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Deaton, Aimée M., Shaun Webb, Alastair Kerr, et al.. (2011). Cell type–specific DNA methylation at intragenic CpG islands in the immune system. Genome Research. 21(7). 1074–1086. 216 indexed citations

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Thomson, John P., Peter J. Skene, Jim Selfridge, et al.. (2010). CpG islands influence chromatin structure via the CpG-binding protein Cfp1. Nature. 464(7291). 1082–1086. 463 indexed citations

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Schmiedeberg, Lars, et al.. (2009). A Temporal Threshold for Formaldehyde Crosslinking and Fixation. PLoS ONE. 4(2). e4636–e4636. 107 indexed citations

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Powell, Lynn M., Aimée M. Deaton, Martin A. Wear, & Andrew P. Jarman. (2008). Specificity of Atonal and Scute bHLH factors: analysis of cognate E box binding sites and the influence of Senseless. Genes to Cells. 13(9). 915–929. 24 indexed citations

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Sun, Bryan K., Aimée M. Deaton, & Jeannie T. Lee. (2006). A Transient Heterochromatic State in Xist Preempts X Inactivation Choice without RNA Stabilization. Molecular Cell. 21(5). 617–628. 244 indexed citations

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