Benoit G. Bruneau

26.2k total citations · 7 hit papers
133 papers, 17.0k citations indexed

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Benoit G. Bruneau is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Benoit G. Bruneau has authored 133 papers receiving a total of 17.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 112 papers in Molecular Biology, 18 papers in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine and 18 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Benoit G. Bruneau's work include Congenital heart defects research (67 papers), Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (32 papers) and Developmental Biology and Gene Regulation (19 papers). Benoit G. Bruneau is often cited by papers focused on Congenital heart defects research (67 papers), Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (32 papers) and Developmental Biology and Gene Regulation (19 papers). Benoit G. Bruneau collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and France. Benoit G. Bruneau's co-authors include Deepak Srivastava, Paul Delgado-Olguı́n, Jun Takeuchi, Ji‐Dong Fu, Yohei Hayashi, Joseph F. DeBold, Masaki Ieda, Vasanth Vedantham, Jonathan G. Seidman and Elphège P. Nora and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Benoit G. Bruneau

131 papers receiving 16.7k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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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.

Direct Reprogramming of Fibroblasts into Functional Cardiomyocytes by Defined Factors

2010 1.8k citations Paul Delgado-Olguı́n, Benoit G. Bruneau et al. Cell profile →
miR-126 Regulates Angiogenic Signaling and Vascular Integrity

2008 1.4k citations Jason E. Fish, Sarah U. Morton et al. profile →
Targeted Degradation of CTCF Decouples Local Insulation of Chromosome Domains from Genomic Compartmentalization

2017 1.1k citations Elphège P. Nora, Benoit G. Bruneau et al. Cell profile →
A Murine Model of Holt-Oram Syndrome Defines Roles of the T-Box Transcription Factor Tbx5 in Cardiogenesis and Disease

2001 807 citations Benoit G. Bruneau, David A. Conner et al. Cell profile →
The developmental genetics of congenital heart disease

2008 579 citations Benoit G. Bruneau profile →
Dynamic and Coordinated Epigenetic Regulation of Developmental Transitions in the Cardiac Lineage

2012 462 citations Katherine S. Pollard, Benoit G. Bruneau et al. Cell profile →
Cardiac natriuretic peptides

2020 323 citations Jens P. Goetze, Benoit G. Bruneau et al. Nature Reviews Cardiology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Benoit G. Bruneau United States	62	14.1k	2.5k	2.4k	2.1k	2.0k	133	17.0k
Richard P. Harvey Australia	76	13.8k 1.0×	3.4k 1.4×	3.0k 1.3×	2.6k 1.2×	2.6k 1.3×	240	18.6k
James F. Martin United States	80	15.8k 1.1×	3.1k 1.2×	3.1k 1.3×	3.5k 1.7×	1.5k 0.7×	267	21.8k
Margaret Buckingham France	83	21.7k 1.5×	2.9k 1.2×	4.2k 1.8×	3.6k 1.7×	1.9k 0.9×	201	24.1k
Kenneth D. Poss United States	64	14.1k 1.0×	1.8k 0.7×	2.9k 1.2×	1.4k 0.6×	2.1k 1.0×	139	17.6k
Sylvia Μ. Evans United States	63	11.2k 0.8×	3.5k 1.4×	3.8k 1.6×	1.6k 0.7×	2.0k 1.0×	163	14.4k
Brian L. Black United States	49	8.5k 0.6×	1.1k 0.4×	938 0.4×	1.7k 0.8×	1.3k 0.6×	103	10.0k
John McAnally United States	55	14.0k 1.0×	2.3k 0.9×	1.2k 0.5×	1.8k 0.9×	774 0.4×	82	16.9k
Robert G. Kelly France	57	8.6k 0.6×	1.4k 0.5×	2.2k 0.9×	1.7k 0.8×	2.1k 1.0×	140	10.5k
Andreas Kispert Germany	62	13.4k 1.0×	1.2k 0.5×	1.9k 0.8×	4.0k 1.9×	874 0.4×	178	16.4k
Juan Carlos Izpisúa Belmonte United States	93	22.9k 1.6×	786 0.3×	3.4k 1.5×	4.0k 1.9×	1.3k 0.6×	358	28.2k

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Kathiriya, Irfan S., Kavitha S. Rao, Kevin Hu, et al.. (2025). Reduced TBX5 dosage undermines developmental control of atrial cardiomyocyte identity in a model of human atrial disease. Development. 153(2).

Ward, Tarsha, Sarah U. Morton, Gabriela Venturini, et al.. (2025). Modeling SMAD2 Mutations in Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells Provides Insights Into Cardiovascular Disease Pathogenesis. Journal of the American Heart Association. 14(5). e036860–e036860. 2 indexed citations

Bulger, Emily A., et al.. (2024). TBXT dose sensitivity and the decoupling of nascent mesoderm specification from EMT progression in 2D human gastruloids. Development. 151(6). 7 indexed citations

Yamada, Toshimichi, Coralie Trentesaux, Jonathan M. Brunger, et al.. (2024). Synthetic organizer cells guide development via spatial and biochemical instructions. Cell. 188(3). 778–795.e18. 7 indexed citations

Blair, Andrew P., Elie N. Farah, C. Neil, et al.. (2022). Cell Layers: uncovering clustering structure in unsupervised single-cell transcriptomic analysis. Bioinformatics Advances. 2(1). vbac051–vbac051. 1 indexed citations

Hsu, Austin, Qiming Duan, Daniel S. Day, et al.. (2022). Targeting transcription in heart failure via CDK7/12/13 inhibition. Nature Communications. 13(1). 4345–4345. 8 indexed citations

Bruneau, Benoit G.. (2021). Dissecting CTCF site function in a tense HoxD locus. Genes & Development. 35(21-22). 1401–1402. 3 indexed citations

Goetze, Jens P., Benoit G. Bruneau, Hugo R. Ramos, et al.. (2020). Cardiac natriuretic peptides. Nature Reviews Cardiology. 17(11). 698–717. 323 indexed citations breakdown →

Duan, Qiming, Abigail Nagle, Irfan S. Kathiriya, et al.. (2019). Minimal in vivo requirements for developmentally regulated cardiac long intergenic non-coding RNAs. Development. 146(23). 17 indexed citations

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Herman, Alexander M., et al.. (2018). A novel reporter allele for monitoring Dll4 expression within the embryonic and adult mouse. Biology Open. 7(3). 7 indexed citations

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Sun, Xin, Swetansu K. Hota, Stefanie M. Novak, et al.. (2017). Cardiac-enriched BAF chromatin-remodeling complex subunit Baf60c regulates gene expression programs essential for heart development and function. Biology Open. 7(1). 36 indexed citations

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Morey, Lluís, Enrique Blanco, Luigi Aloia, et al.. (2015). Polycomb Regulates Mesoderm Cell Fate-Specification in Embryonic Stem Cells through Activation and Repression Mechanisms. Cell stem cell. 17(3). 300–315. 112 indexed citations

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Delgado-Olguı́n, Paul, Lan Dang, Daniel He, et al.. (2014). Ezh2-mediated repression of a transcriptional pathway upstream of Mmp9 maintains integrity of the developing vasculature. Development. 141(23). 4610–4617. 50 indexed citations

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Delgado-Olguı́n, Paul, Koroboshka Brand‐Arzamendi, Ian C. Scott, et al.. (2011). CTCF Promotes Muscle Differentiation by Modulating the Activity of Myogenic Regulatory Factors. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 286(14). 12483–12494. 45 indexed citations

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Kuo, Yien–Ming, Zhishan Li, Yun Jiao, et al.. (2010). Extensive enteric nervous system abnormalities in mice transgenic for artificial chromosomes containing Parkinson disease-associated α-synuclein gene mutations precede central nervous system changes. Human Molecular Genetics. 19(9). 1633–1650. 217 indexed citations

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Delgado-Olguı́n, Paul, Jun Takeuchi, & Benoit G. Bruneau. (2006). Chromatin Modification and Remodeling in Heart Development. The Scientific World JOURNAL. 6. 1851–1861. 2 indexed citations

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Zhou, Yuqing, Yonghong Zhu, Jonathan Bishop, et al.. (2005). Abnormal cardiac inflow patterns during postnatal development in a mouse model of Holt-Oram syndrome. American Journal of Physiology-Heart and Circulatory Physiology. 289(3). H992–H1001. 42 indexed citations

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Stennard, Fiona A., Mauro W. Costa, David A. Elliott, et al.. (2003). Cardiac T-box factor Tbx20 directly interacts with Nkx2-5, GATA4, and GATA5 in regulation of gene expression in the developing heart. Developmental Biology. 262(2). 206–224. 219 indexed citations

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Bruneau, Benoit G., Zheng‐Zheng Bao, Diane Fatkin, et al.. (2001). Cardiomyopathy in Irx4-Deficient Mice Is Preceded by Abnormal Ventricular Gene Expression. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 21(5). 1730–1736. 121 indexed citations

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Bruneau, Benoit G., Zheng‐Zheng Bao, Makoto Tanaka, et al.. (2000). Cardiac Expression of the Ventricle-Specific Homeobox Gene Irx4 Is Modulated by Nkx2-5 and dHand. Developmental Biology. 217(2). 266–277. 149 indexed citations

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