Alan Attie

19.6k total citations · 4 hit papers
175 papers, 13.4k citations indexed

About

Alan Attie is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Surgery and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Alan Attie has authored 175 papers receiving a total of 13.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 114 papers in Molecular Biology, 72 papers in Surgery and 46 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Alan Attie's work include Pancreatic function and diabetes (37 papers), Adipose Tissue and Metabolism (32 papers) and Metabolism, Diabetes, and Cancer (28 papers). Alan Attie is often cited by papers focused on Pancreatic function and diabetes (37 papers), Adipose Tissue and Metabolism (32 papers) and Metabolism, Diabetes, and Cancer (28 papers). Alan Attie collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Netherlands. Alan Attie's co-authors include Mark P. Keller, Brian S. Yandell, Jonathan P. Stoehr, James M. Ntambi, Kathryn L. Schueler, Mary E. Rabaglia, Makoto Miyazaki, Lan Hong, Daniel Steinberg and Christina Kendziorski and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Alan Attie

170 papers receiving 13.0k 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.

Loss of stearoyl–CoA desaturase-1 function protects mice against adiposity

2002 911 citations James M. Ntambi, Makoto Miyazaki et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Hypoxia-Inducible Factor 1α Induces Fibrosis and Insulin Resistance in White Adipose Tissue

2009 686 citations Alan Attie, Philipp E. Scherer et al. profile →
NARC-1/PCSK9 and Its Natural Mutants

2004 532 citations Alan Attie et al. profile →
Diet-Microbiota Interactions Mediate Global Epigenetic Programming in Multiple Host Tissues

2016 397 citations Mary E. Rabaglia, Mark P. Keller et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Alan Attie	6.4k	4.2k	3.1k	2.1k	1.9k	175	13.4k
Mark J. Graham	6.4k 1.0×	3.7k 0.9×	2.2k 0.7×	2.1k 1.0×	2.6k 1.3×	154	13.7k
Jae Bum Kim	10.1k 1.6×	4.1k 1.0×	5.8k 1.9×	5.2k 2.5×	2.0k 1.0×	255	20.6k
John S. Parks	6.8k 1.1×	6.9k 1.7×	1.6k 0.5×	2.0k 1.0×	5.8k 3.0×	330	17.9k
Annette Schürmann	5.4k 0.8×	2.0k 0.5×	3.1k 1.0×	1.5k 0.7×	1.7k 0.9×	242	11.4k
Godfrey S. Getz	5.1k 0.8×	3.1k 0.7×	2.5k 0.8×	1.4k 0.7×	1.9k 1.0×	221	11.6k
Wen Xie	6.5k 1.0×	2.6k 0.6×	1.4k 0.5×	2.4k 1.2×	2.8k 1.5×	276	16.8k
Thomas Illig	7.3k 1.1×	1.0k 0.2×	4.0k 1.3×	2.1k 1.0×	1.2k 0.6×	287	15.1k
J L Goldstein	6.3k 1.0×	5.4k 1.3×	986 0.3×	1.2k 0.6×	1.9k 1.0×	57	11.9k
David D. Moore	11.8k 1.8×	5.3k 1.3×	2.9k 0.9×	4.3k 2.1×	5.0k 2.6×	286	27.8k
Emily Y. Chew	7.2k 1.1×	1.4k 0.3×	926 0.3×	2.0k 1.0×	1.2k 0.6×	463	26.5k

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Lomont, Justin P., et al.. (2026). Mammals that can develop type 2 diabetes have a similarly structured β-sheet amyloid oligomer. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 123(5). e2530570123–e2530570123.

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Pan, Calvin, et al.. (2025). Systems genetics uncovers associations among host amylase locus, gut microbiome, and metabolic traits in mice. Microbiome. 13(1). 101–101.

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Stapleton, Donnie S., Kathryn L. Schueler, Brian W. Parks, et al.. (2023). Lipidomic QTL in Diversity Outbred mice identifies a novel function for α/β hydrolase domain 2 (Abhd2) as an enzyme that metabolizes phosphatidylcholine and cardiolipin. PLoS Genetics. 19(7). e1010713–e1010713. 4 indexed citations

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Marino, Giacomo B., Zhuorui Xie, Kathleen M. Jagodnik, et al.. (2023). D2H2: diabetes data and hypothesis hub. Bioinformatics Advances. 3(1). vbad178–vbad178. 2 indexed citations

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Emfinger, Christopher H., Kathryn L. Schueler, Sarah M. King, et al.. (2023). Identification of genetic drivers of plasma lipoprotein size in the Diversity Outbred mouse population. Journal of Lipid Research. 64(12). 100471–100471. 2 indexed citations

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Yu, Qing, Xinyue Liu, Mark P. Keller, et al.. (2023). Sample multiplexing-based targeted pathway proteomics with real-time analytics reveals the impact of genetic variation on protein expression. Nature Communications. 14(1). 555–555. 20 indexed citations

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Keller, Mark P., Kathryn L. Schueler, Donnie S. Stapleton, et al.. (2023). An Enhancer Within Abcb11 Regulates G6pc2 in C57BL/6 Mouse Pancreatic Islets. Diabetes. 72(11). 1621–1628.

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Emfinger, Christopher H., Brian S. Yandell, Kathryn L. Schueler, et al.. (2023). Novel regulators of islet function identified from genetic variation in mouse islet Ca2+ oscillations. eLife. 12. 4 indexed citations

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Emfinger, Christopher H., Brian S. Yandell, Kathryn L. Schueler, et al.. (2023). Novel regulators of islet function identified from genetic variation in mouse islet Ca2+ oscillations. eLife. 12. 4 indexed citations

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Traeger, Lindsay L., et al.. (2021). Identification of sample mix-ups and mixtures in microbiome data in Diversity Outbred mice. G3 Genes Genomes Genetics. 11(11). 1 indexed citations

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Linke, Vanessa, Katherine A. Overmyer, Ian Miller, et al.. (2020). A large-scale genome–lipid association map guides lipid identification. Nature Metabolism. 2(10). 1149–1162. 34 indexed citations

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Xie, Haibo, Ka Yang, Gabrielle Winston‐McPherson, et al.. (2020). From methylene bridged diindole to carbonyl linked benzimidazoleindole: Development of potent and metabolically stable PCSK9 modulators. European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. 206. 112678–112678. 6 indexed citations

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Niemi, Natalie M., Gary M. Wilson, Katherine A. Overmyer, et al.. (2019). Pptc7 is an essential phosphatase for promoting mammalian mitochondrial metabolism and biogenesis. Nature Communications. 10(1). 3197–3197. 42 indexed citations

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Linke, Vanessa, Kelsey L. Barrett, Frederick J. Boehm, et al.. (2019). Genetic determinants of gut microbiota composition and bile acid profiles in mice. PLoS Genetics. 15(8). e1008073–e1008073. 81 indexed citations

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Keller, Mark P., Angie T. Oler, Mary E. Rabaglia, et al.. (2015). Identification of the Bile Acid Transporter Slco1a6 as a Candidate Gene That Broadly Affects Gene Expression in Mouse Pancreatic Islets. Genetics. 201(3). 1253–1262. 16 indexed citations

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Stapleton, Donald S., Kathryn L. Schueler, Mary E. Rabaglia, et al.. (2012). Tsc2, a positional candidate gene underlying a quantitative trait locus for hepatic steatosis. Journal of Lipid Research. 53(8). 1493–1501. 10 indexed citations

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Ferrara, Christine T., Ping Wang, Elias Chaibub Neto, et al.. (2008). Correction: Genetic Networks of Liver Metabolism Revealed by Integration of Metabolic and Transcriptional Profiling. PLoS Genetics. 4(7). 14 indexed citations

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Attie, Alan & Philipp E. Scherer. (2008). Adipocyte metabolism and obesity. Journal of Lipid Research. 50. S395–S399. 181 indexed citations

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Blasiole, Daniel A., Roger J. Davis, & Alan Attie. (2007). The physiological and molecular regulation of lipoprotein assembly and secretion. Molecular BioSystems. 3(9). 608–619. 90 indexed citations

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Attie, Alan, Ronald M. Krauss, Mark P. Gray-Keller, et al.. (2002). Relationship between stearoyl-CoA desaturase activity and plasma triglycerides in human and mouse hypertriglyceridemia. Journal of Lipid Research. 43(11). 1899–1907. 309 indexed citations

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