Ana Paula Abreu

3.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
35 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Ana Paula Abreu is a scholar working on Reproductive Medicine, Molecular Biology and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Ana Paula Abreu has authored 35 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Reproductive Medicine, 15 papers in Molecular Biology and 15 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Ana Paula Abreu's work include Hypothalamic control of reproductive hormones (16 papers), Genetic Syndromes and Imprinting (9 papers) and Genetic and Clinical Aspects of Sex Determination and Chromosomal Abnormalities (6 papers). Ana Paula Abreu is often cited by papers focused on Hypothalamic control of reproductive hormones (16 papers), Genetic Syndromes and Imprinting (9 papers) and Genetic and Clinical Aspects of Sex Determination and Chromosomal Abnormalities (6 papers). Ana Paula Abreu collaborates with scholars based in United States, Brazil and Türkiye. Ana Paula Abreu's co-authors include Ursula B. Kaiser, Ana Cláudia Latronico, Delanie B. Macedo, Berenice B. Mendonça, Vinícius Nahime Brito, Rona S. Carroll, Ericka Barbosa Trarbach, Elaine Maria Frade Costa, Heraldo Mendes Garmes and Maria Tereza Matias Baptista and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Clinical Investigation, Endocrine Reviews and The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism.

In The Last Decade

Ana Paula Abreu

34 papers receiving 1.3k 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.

Pubertal development and regulation

2016 343 citations Ana Paula Abreu, Ursula B. Kaiser The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ana Paula Abreu United States	16	715	502	487	198	141	35	1.3k
Juan Pablo Méndez Mexico	21	433 0.6×	565 1.1×	368 0.8×	281 1.4×	211 1.5×	78	1.2k
Fatih Gürbüz Türkiye	16	552 0.8×	530 1.1×	433 0.9×	194 1.0×	130 0.9×	62	1.1k
Laura L. Burger United States	21	779 1.1×	405 0.8×	264 0.5×	186 0.9×	336 2.4×	39	1.3k
Natalie D. Shaw United States	19	451 0.6×	253 0.5×	239 0.5×	167 0.8×	230 1.6×	51	966
Lynn P. Chorich United States	18	442 0.6×	291 0.6×	427 0.9×	165 0.8×	90 0.6×	37	1.1k
Heike Jung Germany	19	374 0.5×	352 0.7×	298 0.6×	429 2.2×	60 0.4×	57	1.1k
Haruhiko Kanasaki Japan	22	997 1.4×	550 1.1×	389 0.8×	315 1.6×	248 1.8×	122	1.7k
J. Carl Pallais United States	8	575 0.8×	472 0.9×	243 0.5×	464 2.3×	72 0.5×	15	1.2k
Lisa M. Halvorson United States	23	604 0.8×	624 1.2×	499 1.0×	571 2.9×	403 2.9×	53	1.9k
Pierre-Marc Bouloux United Kingdom	15	484 0.7×	364 0.7×	242 0.5×	192 1.0×	65 0.5×	27	866

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Canton, Ana Pinheiro Machado, Delanie B. Macedo, Ana Paula Abreu, & Ana Cláudia Latronico. (2025). Genetics and Epigenetics of Human Pubertal Timing: The Contribution of Genes Associated With Central Precocious Puberty. Journal of the Endocrine Society. 9(2). bvae228–bvae228. 4 indexed citations

Raverot, Gérald, Pia Burman, Ana Paula Abreu, et al.. (2025). Revised European Society of Endocrinology Clinical Practice Guideline for the management of aggressive pituitary tumours and pituitary carcinomas. European Journal of Endocrinology. 192(6). G1–G34. 3 indexed citations

Mohan, Dipika R., David M. Meredith, Beatriz Santana Soares, et al.. (2025). Non-recurrent mutations and copy number changes predominate pituitary adenoma genomes. European Journal of Endocrinology. 192(5). 590–602.

Stamatiades, George Alexiades, Yanan Kuang, Cloud P. Paweletz, et al.. (2024). Somatic Activating ESR1 Mutation in an Aggressive Prolactinoma. The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. 110(4). 1166–1176. 4 indexed citations

Naulé, Lydie, Alessandra Mancini, Sidney Alcântara Pereira, et al.. (2023). MKRN3 inhibits puberty onset via interaction with IGF2BP1 and regulation of hypothalamic plasticity. JCI Insight. 8(8). 14 indexed citations

Pereira, Sidney Alcântara, Lydie Naulé, Carine Royer, et al.. (2023). Mouse Testicular Mkrn3 Expression Is Primarily Interstitial, Increases Peripubertally, and Is Responsive to LH/hCG. Endocrinology. 164(9). 1 indexed citations

Canton, Ana Pinheiro Machado, Carlos Eduardo Seraphim, Ana Paula Abreu, et al.. (2022). The Congenital and Acquired Mechanisms Implicated in the Etiology of Central Precocious Puberty. Endocrine Reviews. 44(2). 193–221. 39 indexed citations

Cromer, Sara J., Emily S. Rosenberg, Kevin J. Scully, et al.. (2022). Report of Prolonged Neonatal Hypoglycemia in Three Infants of Mothers With Variants in HNF1A. AACE Clinical Case Reports. 8(5). 224–230. 4 indexed citations

Mancini, Alessandra, et al.. (2022). Genetics of pubertal timing. Best Practice & Research Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. 36(1). 101618–101618. 17 indexed citations

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Abreu, Ana Paula, Carlos A. Toro, Víctor M. Navarro, et al.. (2020). MKRN3 inhibits the reproductive axis through actions in kisspeptin-expressing neurons. Journal of Clinical Investigation. 130(8). 4486–4500. 71 indexed citations

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Heras, Violeta, Susana Sangiao‐Alvarellos, María Manfredi-Lozano, et al.. (2019). Hypothalamic miR-30 regulates puberty onset via repression of the puberty-suppressing factor, Mkrn3. PLoS Biology. 17(11). e3000532–e3000532. 58 indexed citations

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Toledo, Isabela Porto de, Luiz Cláudio Castro, Ana Paula Abreu, et al.. (2019). MKRN3 Mutations in Central Precocious Puberty: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Journal of the Endocrine Society. 3(5). 979–995. 74 indexed citations

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Abreu, Ana Paula. (2016). Central precocious puberty caused by mutations in the imprinted gene MKRN3. 15 indexed citations

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Abreu, Ana Paula & Ursula B. Kaiser. (2016). Pubertal development and regulation. The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology. 4(3). 254–264. 343 indexed citations breakdown →

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Abreu, Ana Paula, Delanie B. Macedo, Vinícius Nahime Brito, Ursula B. Kaiser, & Ana Cláudia Latronico. (2015). A new pathway in the control of the initiation of puberty: the MKRN3 gene. Journal of Molecular Endocrinology. 54(3). R131–R139. 91 indexed citations

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Correa, Fernanda A., Ericka Barbosa Trarbach, Cíntia Tusset, et al.. (2015). FGFR1 and PROKR2 rare variants found in patients with combined pituitary hormone deficiencies. Endocrine Connections. 4(2). 100–107. 33 indexed citations

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Mininel, Vivian Aline, et al.. (2013). Cargas de trabalho, processos de desgaste e absenteísmo-doença em enfermagem. Redalyc (Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México). 21(6). 1290–1297. 3 indexed citations

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Trarbach, Ericka Barbosa, Ana Paula Abreu, Letícia Ferreira Gontijo Silveira, et al.. (2010). Nonsense Mutations inFGF8Gene Causing Different Degrees of Human Gonadotropin-Releasing Deficiency. The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. 95(7). 3491–3496. 58 indexed citations

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Abreu, Ana Paula, Ursula B. Kaiser, & Ana Cláudia Latronico. (2010). The Role of Prokineticins in the Pathogenesis of Hypogonadotropic Hypogonadism. Neuroendocrinology. 91(4). 283–290. 22 indexed citations

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Trarbach, Ericka Barbosa, Milena Gurgel Teles, Elaine Maria Frade Costa, et al.. (2009). Screening of autosomal gene deletions in patients with hypogonadotropic hypogonadism using multiplex ligation‐dependent probe amplification: detection of a hemizygosis for the fibroblast growth factor receptor 1. Clinical Endocrinology. 72(3). 371–376. 22 indexed citations

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