Carmen Sapienza

8.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
102 papers, 6.6k citations indexed

About

Carmen Sapienza is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Carmen Sapienza has authored 102 papers receiving a total of 6.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 66 papers in Molecular Biology, 62 papers in Genetics and 28 papers in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health. Recurrent topics in Carmen Sapienza's work include Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (43 papers), Genetic Syndromes and Imprinting (39 papers) and Prenatal Screening and Diagnostics (24 papers). Carmen Sapienza is often cited by papers focused on Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (43 papers), Genetic Syndromes and Imprinting (39 papers) and Prenatal Screening and Diagnostics (24 papers). Carmen Sapienza collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Belgium. Carmen Sapienza's co-authors include W. Ford Doolittle, Fernando Pardo‐Manuel de Villena, Christos Coutifaris, Alan C. Peterson, Anna K. Naumova, Fernando Pardo-Manuel de Villena, Nahid Turan, Elena de la Casa‐Esperón, Rudi Balling and Janet Rossant and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Genetics.

In The Last Decade

Carmen Sapienza

100 papers receiving 6.3k citations

Hit Papers

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Carmen Sapienza United States	43	4.2k	2.9k	1.4k	1.4k	470	102	6.6k
Emma Whitelaw Australia	44	6.5k 1.6×	3.3k 1.1×	985 0.7×	1.7k 1.3×	354 0.8×	100	8.9k
Verne M. Chapman United States	49	5.7k 1.3×	4.1k 1.4×	996 0.7×	659 0.5×	523 1.1×	165	8.3k
Felix Krueger United Kingdom	38	10.7k 2.5×	2.8k 1.0×	1.3k 0.9×	1.3k 0.9×	564 1.2×	61	12.3k
J.L. Hamerton Canada	33	2.0k 0.5×	2.8k 0.9×	1.3k 0.9×	1.0k 0.8×	260 0.6×	134	5.3k
Déborah Bourc’his France	39	8.7k 2.1×	3.4k 1.2×	2.3k 1.6×	1.6k 1.2×	834 1.8×	73	9.9k
Nabeel A. Affara United Kingdom	49	4.2k 1.0×	3.2k 1.1×	863 0.6×	800 0.6×	432 0.9×	167	7.1k
Colum P. Walsh United Kingdom	31	3.9k 0.9×	1.6k 0.5×	735 0.5×	913 0.7×	360 0.8×	79	4.8k
Nicholas D. Hastie United Kingdom	54	9.7k 2.3×	3.0k 1.0×	560 0.4×	845 0.6×	645 1.4×	128	12.1k
S. Steven Potter United States	60	9.2k 2.2×	3.0k 1.0×	741 0.5×	637 0.5×	494 1.1×	166	12.4k
Kenichiro Hata Japan	42	6.8k 1.6×	3.3k 1.1×	956 0.7×	1.9k 1.4×	916 1.9×	228	8.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Carmen Sapienza

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Carmen Sapienza

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Chang, Wen‐Chi, Jayashri Ghosh, Harry S. Cooper, et al.. (2023). Folic Acid Supplementation Promotes Hypomethylation in Both the Inflamed Colonic Mucosa and Colitis-Associated Dysplasia. Cancers. 15(11). 2949–2949. 2 indexed citations

Ghosh, Jayashri, Claudia Wultsch, Imad Shureiqi, et al.. (2022). Epigenome-Wide Study Identifies Epigenetic Outliers in Normal Mucosa of Patients with Colorectal Cancer. Cancer Prevention Research. 15(11). 755–766. 5 indexed citations

Ghosh, Jayashri, Monica Mainigi, Christos Coutifaris, & Carmen Sapienza. (2015). Outlier DNA methylation levels as an indicator of environmental exposure and risk of undesirable birth outcome. Human Molecular Genetics. 25(1). 123–129. 22 indexed citations

Cesaroni, Matteo, et al.. (2014). Validation of Methylation Biomarkers that Distinguish Normal Colon Mucosa of Cancer Patients from Normal Colon Mucosa of Patients without Cancer. Cancer Prevention Research. 7(7). 717–726. 12 indexed citations

Giorgio, Marina Di, et al.. (2014). General guidelines for safe and expeditious international transport of samples subjected to biological dosimetry assessment. Radiation Protection Dosimetry. 159(1-4). 3–9. 3 indexed citations

Leclerc, Daniel, Nancy Lévesque, Liyuan Deng, et al.. (2013). Genes with Aberrant Expression in Murine Preneoplastic Intestine Show Epigenetic and Expression Changes in Normal Mucosa of Colon Cancer Patients. Cancer Prevention Research. 6(11). 1171–1181. 28 indexed citations

Silviera, Matthew L., et al.. (2012). Epigenetic Differences in Normal Colon Mucosa of Cancer Patients Suggest Altered Dietary Metabolic Pathways. Cancer Prevention Research. 5(3). 374–384. 36 indexed citations

Sapienza, Carmen, et al.. (2011). DNA methylation profiling identifies epigenetic differences between diabetes patients with ESRD and diabetes patients without nephropathy. Epigenetics. 6(1). 20–28. 171 indexed citations

Turan, Nahid, Sunita Katari, Christos Coutifaris, & Carmen Sapienza. (2010). Explaining inter-individual variability in phenotype: Is epigenetics up to the challenge?. Epigenetics. 5(1). 16–19. 40 indexed citations

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Han, Zhiming, Namdori R. Mtango, Bela Patel, Carmen Sapienza, & Keith E. Latham. (2008). Hybrid Vigor and Transgenerational Epigenetic Effects on Early Mouse Embryo Phenotype1. Biology of Reproduction. 79(4). 638–648. 18 indexed citations

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Sandovici, Ionel, et al.. (2005). Interindividual variability and parent of origin DNA methylation differences at specific human Alu elements. Human Molecular Genetics. 14(15). 2135–2143. 62 indexed citations

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Villena, Fernando Pardo‐Manuel de & Carmen Sapienza. (2001). Nonrandom segregation during meiosis: the unfairness of females. Mammalian Genome. 12(5). 331–339. 166 indexed citations

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Villena, Fernando Pardo‐Manuel de, et al.. (2000). A Genetic Test to Determine the Origin of Maternal Transmission Ratio Distortion: Meiotic Drive at the Mouse Om Locus. Genetics. 154(1). 333–342. 50 indexed citations

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Naumova, Anna K., Lynne M. Bird, Mark A. Smith, et al.. (1998). Genetic mapping of X-linked loci involved in skewing of X chromosome inactivation in the human. European Journal of Human Genetics. 6(6). 552–562. 60 indexed citations

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Sapienza, Carmen, et al.. (1998). Localization of genes encoding egg modifiers of paternal genome function to mouse chromosomes one and two. Development. 125(5). 929–935. 39 indexed citations

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Ohlsson, Rolf, Benjamin Tycko, & Carmen Sapienza. (1998). Monoallelic expression: `there can only be one'. Trends in Genetics. 14(11). 435–438. 54 indexed citations

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Sapienza, Carmen, et al.. (1992). The polar-lethal Ovum mutant gene maps to the distal portion of mouse chromosome 11.. Genetics. 132(1). 241–246. 50 indexed citations

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Sapienza, Carmen. (1992). Genome imprinting and cancer genetics.. PubMed. 3(3). 151–8. 11 indexed citations

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Sapienza, Carmen. (1990). Genome imprinting, cellular mosaicism and carcinogenesis M.. Carcinogenesis. 3. 118–121.

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Scrable, Heidi, Carmen Sapienza, & Webster K. Cavenee. (1990). Genetic and Epigenetic Losses of Heterozygosity in Cancer Predisposition and Progression. Advances in cancer research. 54. 25–62. 64 indexed citations

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