April E. Williams

3.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
21 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

April E. Williams is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Endocrine and Autonomic Systems. According to data from OpenAlex, April E. Williams has authored 21 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Molecular Biology, 5 papers in Genetics and 4 papers in Endocrine and Autonomic Systems. Recurrent topics in April E. Williams's work include Circadian rhythm and melatonin (4 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (4 papers) and Dietary Effects on Health (3 papers). April E. Williams is often cited by papers focused on Circadian rhythm and melatonin (4 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (4 papers) and Dietary Effects on Health (3 papers). April E. Williams collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Australia. April E. Williams's co-authors include Manuel Llinás, Rachel Kaletsky, Björn F.C. Kafsack, Coleen T. Murphy, J. Landis, Núria Rovira‐Graells, Cristina Bancells, David A. Baker, Dominic Kwiatkowski and Valerie M. Crowley and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Nature Biotechnology.

In The Last Decade

April E. Williams

19 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.

A transcriptional switch underlies commitment to sexual development in malaria parasites

2014 338 citations Björn F.C. Kafsack, Núria Rovira‐Graells et al. Nature profile →
Transgenerational inheritance of acquired epigenetic signatures at CpG islands in mice

2023 114 citations Yuta Takahashi, Yang Yu et al. Cell profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
April E. Williams United States	15	742	636	409	298	218	21	1.6k
Derek Sieburth United States	23	1.0k 1.4×	377 0.6×	660 1.6×	879 2.9×	279 1.3×	32	2.7k
Cara M. Coburn United States	13	827 1.1×	927 1.5×	128 0.3×	442 1.5×	125 0.6×	15	2.1k
J. Landis United States	16	604 0.8×	222 0.3×	176 0.4×	782 2.6×	223 1.0×	29	1.5k
Rachel Kaletsky United States	22	920 1.2×	139 0.2×	191 0.5×	1.0k 3.4×	255 1.2×	44	2.3k
Alessandro Puoti Switzerland	21	1.3k 1.8×	195 0.3×	100 0.2×	517 1.7×	179 0.8×	30	1.9k
Tomoko Amano Japan	15	739 1.0×	334 0.5×	129 0.3×	40 0.1×	163 0.7×	56	1.4k
Ni Huang United Kingdom	21	1.3k 1.8×	114 0.2×	114 0.3×	149 0.5×	148 0.7×	33	2.4k
Rebecca I. Clark United Kingdom	13	570 0.8×	86 0.1×	522 1.3×	372 1.2×	224 1.0×	15	1.5k
Sandra Márcia Muxel Brazil	23	707 1.0×	682 1.1×	301 0.7×	14 0.0×	103 0.5×	60	1.9k
Paula Ribeiro Canada	28	758 1.0×	113 0.2×	85 0.2×	116 0.4×	62 0.3×	56	2.2k

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McCarville, Justin L., et al.. (2026). Disease tolerance and infection pathogenesis age-related tradeoffs in mice. Nature. 650(8102). 727–735.

Abraham, Elizabeth, Aleksandra Kostina, Brett Volmert, et al.. (2025). A retinoic acid:YAP1 signaling axis controls atrial lineage commitment. Cell Reports. 44(5). 115687–115687.

Le, Hiep D., April E. Williams, Satchidananda Panda, et al.. (2025). Lateral habenula astroglia modulate the potentiating antidepressant-like effects of bright light stimulation in intractable depression. Frontiers in Pharmacology. 16. 1592909–1592909. 1 indexed citations

Lande, Kathryn & April E. Williams. (2024). PCBS: an R package for fast and accurate analysis of bisulfite sequencing data. Bioinformatics. 40(10). 1 indexed citations

Wang, Meiyan, Lei Zhang, Sammy Weiser Novak, et al.. (2024). Morphological diversification and functional maturation of human astrocytes in glia-enriched cortical organoid transplanted in mouse brain. Nature Biotechnology. 43(1). 52–62. 29 indexed citations

Nassour, Joe, T. Schmidt, Sara Przetocka, et al.. (2023). Telomere-to-mitochondria signalling by ZBP1 mediates replicative crisis. Nature. 614(7949). 767–773. 97 indexed citations

Deota, Shaunak, Terry Lin, Amandine Chaix, et al.. (2023). Diurnal transcriptome landscape of a multi-tissue response to time-restricted feeding in mammals. Cell Metabolism. 35(1). 150–165.e4. 69 indexed citations

Takahashi, Yuta, Yang Yu, Yasuo Ouchi, et al.. (2023). Transgenerational inheritance of acquired epigenetic signatures at CpG islands in mice. Cell. 186(4). 715–731.e19. 114 indexed citations breakdown →

Zhao, Lijun, Amy T. Hutchison, Bo Liu, et al.. (2022). Time–restricted eating alters the 24‐hour profile of adipose tissue transcriptome in men with obesity. Obesity. 31(S1). 63–74. 25 indexed citations

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Saini, Shubham, Danny Antaki, Celine L. St. Pierre, et al.. (2022). SNPs, short tandem repeats, and structural variants are responsible for differential gene expression across C57BL/6 and C57BL/10 substrains. Cell Genomics. 2(3). 100102–100102. 10 indexed citations

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Fitzpatrick, Christopher J., Apurva S. Chitre, Celine L. St. Pierre, et al.. (2022). Genetic characterization of outbred Sprague Dawley rats and utility for genome-wide association studies. PLoS Genetics. 18(5). e1010234–e1010234. 30 indexed citations

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Zhao, Lijun, Amy T. Hutchison, Bo Liu, et al.. (2022). Time-restricted eating improves glycemic control and dampens energy-consuming pathways in human adipose tissue. Nutrition. 96. 111583–111583. 32 indexed citations

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Hollstein, Pablo E., Lillian J. Eichner, Sonja N. Brun, et al.. (2019). The AMPK-Related Kinases SIK1 and SIK3 Mediate Key Tumor-Suppressive Effects of LKB1 in NSCLC. Cancer Discovery. 9(11). 1606–1627. 90 indexed citations

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Kaletsky, Rachel, Vicky Yao, April E. Williams, et al.. (2018). Transcriptome analysis of adult Caenorhabditis elegans cells reveals tissue-specific gene and isoform expression. PLoS Genetics. 14(8). e1007559–e1007559. 142 indexed citations

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Lindblad, Kelsi, John R. Bracht, April E. Williams, & Laura F. Landweber. (2017). Thousands of RNA-cached copies of whole chromosomes are present in the ciliate Oxytricha during development. RNA. 23(8). 1200–1208. 15 indexed citations

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Wang, Juan, Rachel Kaletsky, Malan Silva, et al.. (2015). Cell-Specific Transcriptional Profiling of Ciliated Sensory Neurons Reveals Regulators of Behavior and Extracellular Vesicle Biogenesis. Current Biology. 25(24). 3232–3238. 68 indexed citations

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Kaletsky, Rachel, Vanisha Lakhina, Rachel N. Arey, et al.. (2015). The C. elegans adult neuronal IIS/FOXO transcriptome reveals adult phenotype regulators. Nature. 529(7584). 92–96. 164 indexed citations

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Kafsack, Björn F.C., Núria Rovira‐Graells, Taane G. Clark, et al.. (2014). A transcriptional switch underlies commitment to sexual development in malaria parasites. Nature. 507(7491). 248–252. 338 indexed citations breakdown →

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Sinha, Abhinav, Katie R. Hughes, Katarzyna Modrzynska, et al.. (2014). A cascade of DNA-binding proteins for sexual commitment and development in Plasmodium. Nature. 507(7491). 253–257. 292 indexed citations

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Straimer, Judith, Lee M, Andrew Lee, et al.. (2012). Site-specific genome editing in Plasmodium falciparum using engineered zinc-finger nucleases. Nature Methods. 9(10). 993–998. 128 indexed citations

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