Alexandre Blais

5.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
57 papers, 4.0k citations indexed

About

Alexandre Blais is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Oncology and Surgery. According to data from OpenAlex, Alexandre Blais has authored 57 papers receiving a total of 4.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 52 papers in Molecular Biology, 6 papers in Oncology and 5 papers in Surgery. Recurrent topics in Alexandre Blais's work include Muscle Physiology and Disorders (16 papers), Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (16 papers) and Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (13 papers). Alexandre Blais is often cited by papers focused on Muscle Physiology and Disorders (16 papers), Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (16 papers) and Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (13 papers). Alexandre Blais collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and France. Alexandre Blais's co-authors include Brian David Dynlacht, Yuval Kluger, Diego Acosta‐Alvear, Mary Tsikitis, Raphaël Margueron, Jiří Zavadil, Danny Reinberg, Guohong Li, Christopher L. Woodcock and Kavitha Sarma and has published in prestigious journals such as Nucleic Acids Research, Journal of Biological Chemistry and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Alexandre Blais

56 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.

XBP1 Controls Diverse Cell Type- and Condition-Specific Transcriptional Regulatory Networks

2007 665 citations Diego Acosta‐Alvear, Alexandre Blais et al. Molecular Cell profile →
Ezh1 and Ezh2 Maintain Repressive Chromatin through Different Mechanisms

2008 664 citations Alexandre Blais, Brian David Dynlacht et al. Molecular Cell profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alexandre Blais Canada	28	3.1k	736	499	413	387	57	4.0k
Eek‐hoon Jho South Korea	38	4.0k 1.3×	1.1k 1.5×	581 1.2×	678 1.6×	275 0.7×	98	5.4k
Athanassia Sotiropoulos France	26	2.3k 0.7×	700 1.0×	306 0.6×	495 1.2×	161 0.4×	42	3.4k
Emmanuel Petroulakis Canada	24	3.6k 1.2×	746 1.0×	370 0.7×	554 1.3×	468 1.2×	27	4.8k
Seiji Torii Japan	28	2.1k 0.7×	1.2k 1.7×	260 0.5×	321 0.8×	288 0.7×	56	3.4k
Gregory A. Wyant United States	14	2.2k 0.7×	698 0.9×	209 0.4×	411 1.0×	704 1.8×	16	3.5k
Takahiro Nobukuni Japan	17	2.2k 0.7×	551 0.7×	237 0.5×	271 0.7×	381 1.0×	26	3.1k
Yasuaki Shirayoshi Japan	26	2.6k 0.8×	493 0.7×	659 1.3×	259 0.6×	181 0.5×	87	3.6k
Younès Achouri Belgium	26	1.8k 0.6×	317 0.4×	375 0.8×	605 1.5×	350 0.9×	53	3.3k
Gareth J. Browne United Kingdom	21	2.6k 0.8×	470 0.6×	208 0.4×	798 1.9×	258 0.7×	29	3.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Alexandre Blais

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alexandre Blais

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Alexandre Blais. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Alexandre Blais based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Alexandre Blais. Alexandre Blais is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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Martin, Franck, Élisa Maillard, Karine Lapouge, et al.. (2025). Structure of the nucleosome-bound human BCL7A. Nucleic Acids Research. 53(7).

Alturki, Norah A., Ardeshir Ariana, Matthias Gaestel, et al.. (2024). Regulation of Zfp36 by ISGF3 and MK2 restricts the expression of inflammatory cytokines during necroptosis stimulation. Cell Death and Disease. 15(8). 574–574. 2 indexed citations

Altosaar, Illimar, Éric Tremblay, David Gagné, et al.. (2023). Gestational age at birth influences protein and RNA content in human milk extracellular vesicles. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(1). e128–e128. 2 indexed citations

Berton, Stefania, Michèle Geoffrion, Mary‐Ellen Harper, et al.. (2023). ATF2 orchestrates macrophage differentiation and activation to promote antibacterial responses. Journal of Leukocyte Biology. 114(3). 280–298. 7 indexed citations

Blais, Alexandre, et al.. (2021). Muscle Enriched Lamin Interacting Protein (Mlip) Binds Chromatin and Is Required for Myoblast Differentiation. Cells. 10(3). 615–615. 9 indexed citations

Liu, Yubing, et al.. (2021). Six1 promotes skeletal muscle thyroid hormone response through regulation of the MCT10 transporter. Skeletal Muscle. 11(1). 26–26. 5 indexed citations

Joseph, Julie, Walid Mottawea, Ardeshir Ariana, et al.. (2021). Foxo3a tempers excessive glutaminolysis in activated T cells to prevent fatal gut inflammation in the murine IL-10−/− model of colitis. Cell Death and Differentiation. 29(3). 585–599. 8 indexed citations

Blais, Alexandre, et al.. (2017). In Vitro Modeling of Congenital Heart Defects Associated with an NKX2-5 Mutation Revealed a Dysregulation in BMP/Notch-Mediated Signaling. Stem Cells. 36(4). 514–526. 11 indexed citations

Joseph, Julie, et al.. (2016). Inhibition of ROS and upregulation of inflammatory cytokines by FoxO3a promotes survival against Salmonella typhimurium. Nature Communications. 7(1). 12748–12748. 51 indexed citations

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Voronova, Anastassia, et al.. (2016). BRG1 interacts with GLI2 and binds Mef2c gene in a hedgehog signalling dependent manner during in vitro cardiomyogenesis. BMC Developmental Biology. 16(1). 27–27. 1 indexed citations

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Blais, Alexandre. (2015). Myogenesis in the Genomics Era. Journal of Molecular Biology. 427(11). 2023–2038. 9 indexed citations

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Julian, Lisa M. & Alexandre Blais. (2015). Transcriptional control of stem cell fate by E2Fs and pocket proteins. Frontiers in Genetics. 6. 161–161. 49 indexed citations

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Hashemi, Seyedeh‐Sara, et al.. (2014). Global MEF2 target gene analysis in cardiac and skeletal muscle reveals novel regulation of DUSP6 by p38MAPK-MEF2 signaling. Nucleic Acids Research. 42(18). 11349–11362. 67 indexed citations

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Liu, Yubing, Arif Aziz, Alphonse Chu, et al.. (2013). Six1 Regulates MyoD Expression in Adult Muscle Progenitor Cells. PLoS ONE. 8(6). e67762–e67762. 37 indexed citations

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Liu, Yubing, et al.. (2012). Discovery, optimization and validation of an optimal DNA-binding sequence for the Six1 homeodomain transcription factor. Nucleic Acids Research. 40(17). 8227–8239. 22 indexed citations

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Dilworth, F. Jeffrey & Alexandre Blais. (2011). Epigenetic regulation of satellite cell activation during muscle regeneration. Stem Cell Research & Therapy. 2(2). 18–18. 57 indexed citations

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Blais, Alexandre & Brian David Dynlacht. (2007). E2F-associated chromatin modifiers and cell cycle control. Current Opinion in Cell Biology. 19(6). 658–662. 113 indexed citations

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Blais, Alexandre & Brian David Dynlacht. (2005). Devising transcriptional regulatory networks operating during the cell cycle and differentiation using ChIP-on-chip. Chromosome Research. 13(3). 275–288. 7 indexed citations

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Blais, Alexandre, Mary Tsikitis, Diego Acosta‐Alvear, et al.. (2005). An initial blueprint for myogenic differentiation. Genes & Development. 19(5). 553–569. 362 indexed citations

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Cam, Hugh P., Egle Balciunaite, Alexandre Blais, et al.. (2004). A Common Set of Gene Regulatory Networks Links Metabolism and Growth Inhibition. Molecular Cell. 16(3). 399–411. 264 indexed citations

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