Alain Laederach

5.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
92 papers, 3.7k citations indexed

About

Alain Laederach is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cancer Research and Infectious Diseases. According to data from OpenAlex, Alain Laederach has authored 92 papers receiving a total of 3.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 80 papers in Molecular Biology, 8 papers in Cancer Research and 6 papers in Infectious Diseases. Recurrent topics in Alain Laederach's work include RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (60 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (48 papers) and RNA Research and Splicing (44 papers). Alain Laederach is often cited by papers focused on RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (60 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (48 papers) and RNA Research and Splicing (44 papers). Alain Laederach collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Switzerland. Alain Laederach's co-authors include Russ B. Altman, Rhiju Das, Daniel Herschlag, Joshua S. Martin, Matthew Halvorsen, D. Bruce Fulton, Peter J. Reilly, Michael Brenowitz, Magdalena Jonikas and Amy H. Andreotti and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

Alain Laederach

88 papers receiving 3.7k 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.

Common genetic variation in the HLA region is associated with late-onset sporadic Parkinson's disease

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alain Laederach United States	35	2.7k	405	298	284	250	92	3.7k
David Shin United States	26	2.6k 1.0×	155 0.4×	178 0.6×	250 0.9×	547 2.2×	49	4.3k
Zhen‐Ge Luo China	30	2.4k 0.9×	189 0.5×	171 0.6×	134 0.5×	361 1.4×	77	4.1k
Gustavo Egea Spain	37	2.1k 0.8×	141 0.3×	101 0.3×	140 0.5×	305 1.2×	105	3.7k
Robi D. Mitra United States	37	4.0k 1.5×	202 0.5×	164 0.6×	455 1.6×	1.1k 4.3×	97	5.6k
Lois E. Greene United States	48	4.5k 1.7×	377 0.9×	242 0.8×	64 0.2×	160 0.6×	116	6.4k
Kenichi Yoshino Japan	31	2.3k 0.8×	217 0.5×	63 0.2×	174 0.6×	288 1.2×	131	4.2k
Emma Sierecki Australia	28	1.9k 0.7×	214 0.5×	65 0.2×	211 0.7×	140 0.6×	68	3.1k
Masaaki Matsushima Japan	27	2.1k 0.8×	311 0.8×	93 0.3×	87 0.3×	226 0.9×	139	3.4k
Marc Moniatte Switzerland	31	1.2k 0.4×	377 0.9×	86 0.3×	86 0.3×	159 0.6×	54	2.7k
Evan P. Ferrell United States	13	1.6k 0.6×	273 0.7×	124 0.4×	72 0.3×	146 0.6×	14	2.8k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alain Laederach

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Schlick, Tamar, et al.. (2025). RNA Structural Ensemble Determinants of −1 Programmed Ribosomal Frameshifting Efficiency Across Coronavirus Evolution. Journal of Molecular Biology. 437(24). 169512–169512.

Backofen, Rolf, et al.. (2025). Structural determinants of inverted Alu-mediated backsplicing revealed by -MaP and -JuMP. Nucleic Acids Research. 53(9).

Nguyen, P, et al.. (2024). Orb2 enables rare-codon-enriched mRNA expression during Drosophila neuron differentiation. Nature Communications. 15(1). 5270–5270. 2 indexed citations

Laederach, Alain, et al.. (2024). Visualizing RNA structure ensembles by single-molecule correlated chemical probing. Current Opinion in Structural Biology. 88. 102877–102877. 2 indexed citations

Knight, Michael L., et al.. (2022). Rotavirus RNA chaperone mediates global transcriptome-wide increase in RNA backbone flexibility. Nucleic Acids Research. 50(17). 10078–10092. 6 indexed citations

Lackey, Lela, et al.. (2022). Quantitative prediction of variant effects on alternative splicing in MAPT using endogenous pre-messenger RNA structure probing. eLife. 11. 12 indexed citations

Li, Bibo, et al.. (2021). In vivo architecture of the telomerase RNA catalytic core in Trypanosoma brucei. Nucleic Acids Research. 49(21). 12445–12466. 9 indexed citations

Dadonaite, Bernadeta, Brad Gilbertson, Michael L. Knight, et al.. (2019). The structure of the influenza A virus genome. Nature Microbiology. 4(11). 1781–1789. 157 indexed citations

Laederach, Alain, et al.. (2017). Classification of RNA structure change by ‘gazing’ at experimental data. Bioinformatics. 33(11). 1647–1655. 16 indexed citations

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Ball, Christopher B., Amanda Solem, Rita M. Meganck, Alain Laederach, & Silvia B. V. Ramos. (2017). Impact of RNA structure on ZFP36L2 interaction with luteinizing hormone receptor mRNA. RNA. 23(8). 1209–1223. 7 indexed citations

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Mucaki, Eliseos J., Natasha Caminsky, Ami M. Perri, et al.. (2016). A unified analytic framework for prioritization of non-coding variants of uncertain significance in heritable breast and ovarian cancer. BMC Medical Genomics. 9(1). 19–19. 14 indexed citations

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Kutchko, Katrina M., Wes Sanders, Gabriela Phillips, et al.. (2015). Multiple conformations are a conserved and regulatory feature of the RB1 5′ UTR. RNA. 21(7). 1274–1285. 51 indexed citations

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Rogler, Leslie E., David M. Moskowitz, Katrina M. Kutchko, et al.. (2013). Small RNAs derived from lncRNA RNase MRP have gene-silencing activity relevant to human cartilage–hair hypoplasia. Human Molecular Genetics. 23(2). 368–382. 69 indexed citations

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Martin, Joshua S., et al.. (2011). Structural effects of linkage disequilibrium on the transcriptome. RNA. 18(1). 77–87. 34 indexed citations

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Jonikas, Magdalena, Randall J. Radmer, Alain Laederach, et al.. (2009). Coarse-grained modeling of large RNA molecules with knowledge-based potentials and structural filters. RNA. 15(2). 189–199. 262 indexed citations

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Das, Rhiju, Magdalena Jonikas, Alain Laederach, et al.. (2008). Structural inference of native and partially folded RNA by high-throughput contact mapping. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 105(11). 4144–4149. 72 indexed citations

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Laederach, Alain, Inna Shcherbakova, Magdalena Jonikas, Russ B. Altman, & Michael Brenowitz. (2007). Distinct contribution of electrostatics, initial conformational ensemble, and macromolecular stability in RNA folding. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 104(17). 7045–7050. 47 indexed citations

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Vicens, Quentin, Anne R. Gooding, Alain Laederach, & Thomas R. Cech. (2007). Local RNA structural changes induced by crystallization are revealed by SHAPE. RNA. 13(4). 536–548. 45 indexed citations

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Laederach, Alain, et al.. (2006). Local Kinetic Measures of Macromolecular Structure Reveal Partitioning among Multiple Parallel Pathways from the Earliest Steps in the Folding of a Large RNA Molecule. Journal of Molecular Biology. 358(4). 1179–1190. 38 indexed citations

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Laederach, Alain & Peter J. Reilly. (2005). Modeling protein recognition of carbohydrates. Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics. 60(4). 591–597. 46 indexed citations

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