Alona Sosinsky

6.5k total citations · 2 hit papers
23 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Alona Sosinsky is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cancer Research and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Alona Sosinsky has authored 23 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Molecular Biology, 9 papers in Cancer Research and 7 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Alona Sosinsky's work include Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics (9 papers), Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (7 papers) and Genomics and Rare Diseases (4 papers). Alona Sosinsky is often cited by papers focused on Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics (9 papers), Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (7 papers) and Genomics and Rare Diseases (4 papers). Alona Sosinsky collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Israel. Alona Sosinsky's co-authors include Richard S. Mann, Barry Honig, Remo Rohs, Sean M. West, Peng Liu, Doron Lancet, Vinitha Jacob, Rinku Jain, Aneel K. Aggarwal and Rohit Joshi and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Alona Sosinsky

23 papers receiving 1.6k 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.

The role of DNA shape in protein–DNA recognition

2009 830 citations Remo Rohs, Sean M. West et al. Nature profile →
Ongoing chromothripsis underpins osteosarcoma genome complexity and clonal evolution

2025 20 citations Jose Espejo Valle-Inclán, Sonia Zumalave et al. Cell profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Alona Sosinsky	1.3k	291	154	128	125	23	1.6k
Yuliang Wu	2.3k 1.8×	382 1.3×	100 0.6×	97 0.8×	49 0.4×	67	2.7k
Roland Gamsjaeger	1.2k 0.9×	145 0.5×	78 0.5×	28 0.2×	42 0.3×	46	1.4k
A. V. Belyavsky	1.3k 1.0×	212 0.7×	147 1.0×	59 0.5×	14 0.1×	87	1.7k
Benjamin Lewin	1.6k 1.2×	381 1.3×	88 0.6×	82 0.6×	39 0.3×	43	2.1k
Alla S. Kostyukova	967 0.8×	192 0.7×	86 0.6×	193 1.5×	54 0.4×	71	1.6k
Erin D. Jeffery	867 0.7×	131 0.5×	74 0.5×	69 0.5×	16 0.1×	34	1.5k
Abul K. Tarafder	982 0.8×	74 0.3×	46 0.3×	69 0.5×	90 0.7×	25	1.5k
Kyoko Hanawa‐Suetsugu	835 0.7×	230 0.8×	56 0.4×	87 0.7×	18 0.1×	29	1.2k
Kouta Mayanagi	1.2k 0.9×	360 1.2×	33 0.2×	96 0.8×	16 0.1×	43	1.4k
Lutz B. Giebel	1.1k 0.8×	183 0.6×	35 0.2×	52 0.4×	458 3.7×	29	1.9k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alona Sosinsky

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Valle-Inclán, Jose Espejo, Sonia Zumalave, Carolin M. Sauer, et al.. (2025). Ongoing chromothripsis underpins osteosarcoma genome complexity and clonal evolution. Cell. 188(2). 352–370.e22. 20 indexed citations breakdown →

Thu, Nguyễn Thị Hoài, Yoonsu Cho, Alona Sosinsky, et al.. (2025). Equity in cancer genomics in the UK: a cross-sectional analysis of a national cancer cohort. The Lancet Oncology. 26(7). 971–980. 1 indexed citations

Mitchell, Jonathan, Jack Bartram, Susan Walker, et al.. (2024). Clinical application of tumour-in-normal contamination assessment from whole genome sequencing. Nature Communications. 15(1). 323–323. 3 indexed citations

Watkins, James, John A. Tadross, Jennifer Harrington, et al.. (2024). Introduction and impact of routine whole genome sequencing in the diagnosis and management of sarcoma. British Journal of Cancer. 131(5). 860–869. 4 indexed citations

Househam, Jacob, Marc Williams, Fabio Anselmi, et al.. (2024). Computational validation of clonal and subclonal copy number alterations from bulk tumor sequencing using CNAqc. Genome biology. 25(1). 38–38. 4 indexed citations

Cross, William, Nischalan Pillay, Sandra J. Strauss, et al.. (2020). Sarcoma and the 100,000 Genomes Project: our experience and changes to practice. The Journal of Pathology Clinical Research. 6(4). 297–307. 24 indexed citations

Sosinsky, Alona, John C. Ambrose, Magdalena Zarowiecki, et al.. (2019). 100,000 genomes project: Integrating whole genome sequencing (WGS) data into clinical practice. Annals of Oncology. 30. vii1–vii1. 3 indexed citations

Sosinsky, Alona, Nirupa Murugaesu, Angela Hamblin, et al.. (2018). 100,000 Genomes Project: Cancer programme. Annals of Oncology. 29. vi7–vi7. 1 indexed citations

Alikian, Mary, Martin Forbes, Gareth Gerrard, et al.. (2016). Next-Generation Sequencing-Assisted DNA-Based Digital PCR for a Personalized Approach to the Detection and Quantification of Residual Disease in Chronic Myeloid Leukemia Patients. Journal of Molecular Diagnostics. 18(2). 176–189. 26 indexed citations

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Goldstone, Anthony P., Jessica L. Buxton, Anna Zekavati, et al.. (2015). Truncating Homozygous Mutation of Carboxypeptidase E (CPE) in a Morbidly Obese Female with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus, Intellectual Disability and Hypogonadotrophic Hypogonadism. PLoS ONE. 10(6). e0131417–e0131417. 61 indexed citations

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Khan, Mohsin A.F., et al.. (2014). The transcription factor Pitx2 positions the embryonic axis and regulates twinning. eLife. 3. e03743–e03743. 33 indexed citations

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Khan, Mohsin A.F., et al.. (2013). Computational tools and resources for prediction and analysis of gene regulatory regions in the chick genome. genesis. 51(5). 311–324. 10 indexed citations

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Rohs, Remo, Sean M. West, Alona Sosinsky, et al.. (2009). The role of DNA shape in protein–DNA recognition. Nature. 461(7268). 1248–1253. 830 indexed citations breakdown →

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Joshi, Rohit, J.M. Passner, Remo Rohs, et al.. (2007). Functional Specificity of a Hox Protein Mediated by the Recognition of Minor Groove Structure. Cell. 131(3). 530–543. 279 indexed citations

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Sosinsky, Alona, Barry Honig, Richard S. Mann, & Andrea Califano. (2007). Discovering transcriptional regulatory regions in Drosophila by a nonalignment method for phylogenetic footprinting. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 104(15). 6305–6310. 25 indexed citations

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Wildonger, Jill, Alona Sosinsky, Barry Honig, & Richard S. Mann. (2005). Lozenge directly activates argos and klumpfuss to regulate programmed cell death. Genes & Development. 19(9). 1034–1039. 34 indexed citations

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Sosinsky, Alona. (2003). Target Explorer: an automated tool for the identification of new target genes for a specified set of transcription factors. Nucleic Acids Research. 31(13). 3589–3592. 80 indexed citations

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Sosinsky, Alona, Gustavo Glusman, & Doron Lancet. (2000). The Genomic Structure of Human Olfactory Receptor Genes. Genomics. 70(1). 49–61. 61 indexed citations

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Glusman, Gustavo, Alona Sosinsky, Edna Ben‐Asher, et al.. (2000). Sequence, Structure, and Evolution of a Complete Human Olfactory Receptor Gene Cluster. Genomics. 63(2). 227–245. 79 indexed citations

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Pilpel, Yitzhak, Alona Sosinsky, & Doron Lancet. (1998). Molecular biology of olfactory receptors. Essays in Biochemistry. 33. 93–104. 13 indexed citations

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