Beat Thöny

1.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
39 papers, 987 citations indexed

About

Beat Thöny is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Clinical Biochemistry and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Beat Thöny has authored 39 papers receiving a total of 987 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 27 papers in Molecular Biology, 23 papers in Clinical Biochemistry and 11 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Beat Thöny's work include Metabolism and Genetic Disorders (23 papers), Biochemical and Molecular Research (9 papers) and CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (9 papers). Beat Thöny is often cited by papers focused on Metabolism and Genetic Disorders (23 papers), Biochemical and Molecular Research (9 papers) and CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (9 papers). Beat Thöny collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, United States and Germany. Beat Thöny's co-authors include Nenad Blau, Claus W. Heizmann, Hiu Man Grisch‐Chan, P Georgiev, Zhaobing Ding, Gerald Schwank, W. Leimbacher, Dominik Witzigmann, Nastassja Himmelreich and Lukas Villiger and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Biological Chemistry, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Beat Thöny

38 papers receiving 971 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.

In vivo prime editing of a metabolic liver disease in mice

2022 130 citations Desirée Böck, Tanja Rothgangl et al. Science Translational Medicine profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Beat Thöny Switzerland	16	701	329	214	132	111	39	987
Jan Smeitink Netherlands	13	1.1k 1.6×	587 1.8×	116 0.5×	130 1.0×	73 0.7×	13	1.3k
Pilar Rodríguez‐Pombo Spain	22	870 1.2×	730 2.2×	171 0.8×	131 1.0×	156 1.4×	57	1.3k
P. Briones Spain	19	650 0.9×	487 1.5×	113 0.5×	138 1.0×	131 1.2×	50	966
Shigeaki Miyabayashi Japan	20	1.0k 1.4×	708 2.2×	102 0.5×	131 1.0×	111 1.0×	62	1.3k
Rohit Sharma United States	11	753 1.1×	152 0.5×	61 0.3×	192 1.5×	61 0.5×	19	1.1k
Vibeke Winter Denmark	18	977 1.4×	990 3.0×	117 0.5×	204 1.5×	71 0.6×	28	1.3k
Claudia Carducci Italy	21	551 0.8×	732 2.2×	113 0.5×	350 2.7×	138 1.2×	69	1.2k
Russell Hyde United Kingdom	12	742 1.1×	93 0.3×	86 0.4×	184 1.4×	302 2.7×	13	1.1k
Monika Oláhová United Kingdom	16	690 1.0×	222 0.7×	49 0.2×	114 0.9×	33 0.3×	22	927
Riccardo Montioli Italy	20	889 1.3×	395 1.2×	77 0.4×	48 0.4×	317 2.9×	55	1.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Beat Thöny

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Grisch‐Chan, Hiu Man, Nicole Rimann, Tanja Rothgangl, et al.. (2024). Therapeutic liver cell transplantation to treat murine PKU. Journal of Inherited Metabolic Disease. 47(6). 1322–1335. 1 indexed citations

Thöny, Beat, Joanne Ng, Manju A. Kurian, Philippa B. Mills, & Aurora Martı́nez. (2024). Mouse models for inherited monoamine neurotransmitter disorders. Journal of Inherited Metabolic Disease. 47(3). 533–550. 2 indexed citations

Rimann, Nicole, et al.. (2024). A phenylalanine‐free recombinant nutritional protein for the dietary management of phenylketonuria. Journal of Inherited Metabolic Disease. 47(4). 651–663. 1 indexed citations

Martinez, Michael, Cary O. Harding, Gerald Schwank, & Beat Thöny. (2023). State‐of‐the‐art 2023 on gene therapy for phenylketonuria. Journal of Inherited Metabolic Disease. 47(1). 80–92. 19 indexed citations

Böck, Desirée, Tanja Rothgangl, Lukas Villiger, et al.. (2022). In vivo prime editing of a metabolic liver disease in mice. Science Translational Medicine. 14(636). eabl9238–eabl9238. 130 indexed citations breakdown →

Tran, Alan, Pascal Detampel, Hiu Man Grisch‐Chan, et al.. (2022). Core–Shell Structured Chitosan‐Polyethylenimine Nanoparticles for Gene Delivery: Improved Stability, Cellular Uptake, and Transfection Efficiency. Macromolecular Bioscience. 23(1). e2200314–e2200314. 14 indexed citations

Leal, Fátima, Thomas Koed Doktor, Beat Thöny, et al.. (2022). Antisense Oligonucleotide Rescue of Deep-Intronic Variants Activating Pseudoexons in the 6-Pyruvoyl-Tetrahydropterin Synthase Gene. Nucleic Acid Therapeutics. 32(5). 378–390. 11 indexed citations

Song, Zhuolun, Gabriella Allegri, Nicole Rimann, et al.. (2022). Intrabiliary infusion of naked DNA vectors targets periportal hepatocytes in mice. Molecular Therapy — Methods & Clinical Development. 27. 352–367. 2 indexed citations

Grisch‐Chan, Hiu Man, Ulrike Subotic, Nicole Rimann, et al.. (2022). Delivery of non-viral naked DNA vectors to liver in small weaned pigs by hydrodynamic retrograde intrabiliary injection. Molecular Therapy — Methods & Clinical Development. 24. 268–279. 7 indexed citations

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Yazıcı, Havva, Ebru Canda, Sema Kalkan Uçar, et al.. (2021). Tetrahydrobiopterin deficiencies: Lesson from clinical experience. JIMD Reports. 59(1). 42–51. 11 indexed citations

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Shi, Tiejun, Ming Ying, Ann Kari Grindheim, et al.. (2021). The Pah-R261Q mouse reveals oxidative stress associated with amyloid-like hepatic aggregation of mutant phenylalanine hydroxylase. Nature Communications. 12(1). 2073–2073. 19 indexed citations

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Villiger, Lukas, Tanja Rothgangl, Dominik Witzigmann, et al.. (2021). In vivo cytidine base editing of hepatocytes without detectable off-target mutations in RNA and DNA. Nature Biomedical Engineering. 5(2). 179–189. 75 indexed citations

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Kaiser, Robert A., Daniel F. Carlson, Dennis A. Webster, et al.. (2021). Development of a porcine model of phenylketonuria with a humanized R408W mutation for gene editing. PLoS ONE. 16(1). e0245831–e0245831. 8 indexed citations

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Himmelreich, Nastassja, Nenad Blau, & Beat Thöny. (2021). Molecular and metabolic bases of tetrahydrobiopterin (BH4) deficiencies. Molecular Genetics and Metabolism. 133(2). 123–136. 36 indexed citations

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Muniz, J.R.C., Rebecca Frise, Wen‐Hwa Lee, et al.. (2019). Role of protein structure in variant annotation: structural insight of mutations causing 6-pyruvoyl-tetrahydropterin synthase deficiency. Pathology. 51(3). 274–280. 7 indexed citations

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Allegri, Gabriella, Nicole Rimann, Benjamin Causton, et al.. (2019). Comprehensive characterization of ureagenesis in the spf^ash mouse, a model of human ornithine transcarbamylase deficiency, reveals age‐dependency of ammonia detoxification. Journal of Inherited Metabolic Disease. 42(6). 1064–1076. 7 indexed citations

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Lee, Hyung‐Ok, et al.. (2019). Treatment of Cystathionine β-Synthase Deficiency in Mice Using a Minicircle-Based Naked DNA Vector. Human Gene Therapy. 30(9). 1093–1100. 16 indexed citations

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Scherer, Tanja, Gabriella Allegri, Christineh N. Sarkissian, et al.. (2018). Tetrahydrobiopterin treatment reduces brain L‐Phe but only partially improves serotonin in hyperphenylalaninemic ENU1/2 mice. Journal of Inherited Metabolic Disease. 41(4). 709–718. 10 indexed citations

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Köster, Sandra, Beat Thöny, Peter Macheroux, et al.. (1995). Human Pterin-4alpha-Carbinolamine Dehydratase/Dimerization Cofactor of Hepatocyte Nuclear Factor-1alpha. Characterization and Kinetic Analysis of Wild-Type and Mutant Enzymes. European Journal of Biochemistry. 231(2). 414–423. 18 indexed citations

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Thöny, Beat, et al.. (1993). Molecular Cloning and Recombinant Expression of the Human Liver Phenylalanine Hydroxylase Stimulating Factor Revealed Structural and Functional Identity to the Dimerization Cofactor for the Nuclear Transcription Factor HNF-1α. Advances in experimental medicine and biology. 338. 103–106. 12 indexed citations

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