Alejandro Sifrim

7.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
28 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Alejandro Sifrim is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Oncology. According to data from OpenAlex, Alejandro Sifrim has authored 28 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Molecular Biology, 12 papers in Genetics and 7 papers in Oncology. Recurrent topics in Alejandro Sifrim's work include Genomics and Rare Diseases (9 papers), Genomic variations and chromosomal abnormalities (6 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (6 papers). Alejandro Sifrim is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Rare Diseases (9 papers), Genomic variations and chromosomal abnormalities (6 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (6 papers). Alejandro Sifrim collaborates with scholars based in Belgium, United Kingdom and United States. Alejandro Sifrim's co-authors include Thierry Voet, Bernard Thienpont, Katy Vandereyken, Yves Moreau, Cédric Blanpain, Matthew E. Hurles, Jan Aerts, Christine Dubois, Giuseppe Gallone and Helen V. Firth and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

Alejandro Sifrim

27 papers receiving 1.8k citations

Hit Papers

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Methods and applications for single-cell and spatial multi-omics

2023 580 citations Katy Vandereyken, Alejandro Sifrim et al. Nature Reviews Genetics profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alejandro Sifrim Belgium	16	1.1k	510	268	262	170	28	1.8k
Ingo Burtscher Germany	23	1.3k 1.2×	570 1.1×	115 0.4×	152 0.6×	189 1.1×	53	1.8k
Pernette J. Verschure Netherlands	27	2.4k 2.2×	405 0.8×	208 0.8×	193 0.7×	144 0.8×	61	2.9k
Yufang Zheng China	24	989 0.9×	255 0.5×	180 0.7×	289 1.1×	156 0.9×	64	1.7k
Bernhard Schmierer United Kingdom	19	2.5k 2.3×	454 0.9×	323 1.2×	482 1.8×	227 1.3×	28	3.1k
Kristina Vintersten Germany	19	1.8k 1.7×	444 0.9×	137 0.5×	190 0.7×	204 1.2×	84	2.3k
Zia Khan United States	23	1.3k 1.3×	271 0.5×	513 1.9×	476 1.8×	312 1.8×	33	2.2k
Fengping Xu China	16	861 0.8×	207 0.4×	191 0.7×	137 0.5×	142 0.8×	30	1.6k
Semin Lee South Korea	25	1.2k 1.1×	316 0.6×	551 2.1×	229 0.9×	105 0.6×	69	1.7k
Beth Martin United States	22	2.7k 2.6×	1.1k 2.2×	455 1.7×	244 0.9×	126 0.7×	35	3.5k
Vivek Iyer United Kingdom	17	2.1k 2.0×	651 1.3×	270 1.0×	241 0.9×	209 1.2×	31	2.9k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alejandro Sifrim

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Fung, Candice, Marlene M. Hao, Yuuki Obata, et al.. (2025). Nutrients activate distinct patterns of small-intestinal enteric neurons. Nature. 644(8078). 1069–1077. 2 indexed citations

Theunis, Koen, Sebastiaan Vanuytven, Florian Rambow, et al.. (2025). Single-cell genome and transcriptome sequencing without upfront whole-genome amplification reveals cell state plasticity of melanoma subclones. Nucleic Acids Research. 53(6). 1 indexed citations

Chen, Chunying, Alessia Centonze, Yura Song, et al.. (2024). Collagen signaling and matrix stiffness regulate multipotency in glandular epithelial stem cells in mice. Nature Communications. 15(1). 10482–10482. 9 indexed citations

Vandereyken, Katy, Alejandro Sifrim, Bernard Thienpont, & Thierry Voet. (2023). Methods and applications for single-cell and spatial multi-omics. Nature Reviews Genetics. 24(8). 494–515. 580 indexed citations breakdown →

Vieugué, Pauline, Yura Song, Esmeralda Minguijón, et al.. (2023). The extracellular matrix dictates regional competence for tumour initiation. Nature. 623(7988). 828–835. 43 indexed citations

Gardner, Eugene J., Alejandro Sifrim, Sarah Lindsay, et al.. (2021). Detecting cryptic clinically relevant structural variation in exome-sequencing data increases diagnostic yield for developmental disorders. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 108(11). 2186–2194. 11 indexed citations

Aragona, Mariaceleste, Alejandro Sifrim, Milan Malfait, et al.. (2020). Mechanisms of stretch-mediated skin expansion at single-cell resolution. Nature. 584(7820). 268–273. 136 indexed citations

Dekoninck, Sophie, Édouard Hannezo, Alejandro Sifrim, et al.. (2020). Defining the Design Principles of Skin Epidermis Postnatal Growth. Cell. 181(3). 604–620.e22. 69 indexed citations

Centonze, Alessia, Alejandro Sifrim, Marco Fioramonti, et al.. (2020). Heterotypic cell–cell communication regulates glandular stem cell multipotency. Nature. 584(7822). 608–613. 83 indexed citations

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Gardner, Eugene J., Elena Prigmore, Giuseppe Gallone, et al.. (2019). Contribution of retrotransposition to developmental disorders. Nature Communications. 10(1). 4630–4630. 39 indexed citations

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Sifrim, Alejandro, Marco Fioramonti, Shigeru Matsumura, et al.. (2018). Publisher Correction: Early lineage segregation of multipotent embryonic mammary gland progenitors. Nature Cell Biology. 20(9). 1099–1099. 3 indexed citations

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Wright, Caroline F., Jeremy F. McRae, Stephen Clayton, et al.. (2018). Making new genetic diagnoses with old data: iterative reanalysis and reporting from genome-wide data in 1,133 families with developmental disorders. Genetics in Medicine. 20(10). 1216–1223. 193 indexed citations

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Short, Patrick, Jeremy F. McRae, Giuseppe Gallone, et al.. (2018). De novo mutations in regulatory elements in neurodevelopmental disorders. Nature. 555(7698). 611–616. 128 indexed citations

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Sifrim, Alejandro, Marco Fioramonti, Shigeru Matsumura, et al.. (2018). Early lineage segregation of multipotent embryonic mammary gland progenitors. Nature Cell Biology. 20(6). 666–676. 109 indexed citations

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King, Daniel A., Alejandro Sifrim, Tomas Fitzgerald, et al.. (2017). Detection of structural mosaicism from targeted and whole-genome sequencing data. Genome Research. 27(10). 1704–1714. 38 indexed citations

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ElShal, Sarah, Léon-Charles Tranchevent, Alejandro Sifrim, et al.. (2015). Beegle:from literature mining to disease-gene discovery. Nucleic Acids Research. 44(2). e18–e18. 47 indexed citations

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Pavlopoulos, Georgios A., Anastasis Oulas, Alejandro Sifrim, et al.. (2013). Unraveling genomic variation from next generation sequencing data. BioData Mining. 6(1). 13–13. 34 indexed citations

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Sifrim, Alejandro, Dušan Popović, Léon-Charles Tranchevent, et al.. (2013). eXtasy: variant prioritization by genomic data fusion. Nature Methods. 10(11). 1083–1084. 125 indexed citations

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Pavlopoulos, Georgios A., Parveen Kumar, Alejandro Sifrim, et al.. (2013). Meander: visually exploring the structural variome using space-filling curves. Nucleic Acids Research. 41(11). e118–e118. 7 indexed citations

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Sifrim, Alejandro, Léon-Charles Tranchevent, Beata Nowakowska, et al.. (2012). Annotate-it: a Swiss-knife approach to annotation, analysis and interpretation of single nucleotide variation in human disease. Genome Medicine. 4(9). 73–73. 26 indexed citations

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