Chris Kay

4.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
66 papers, 2.8k citations indexed

About

Chris Kay is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Neurology. According to data from OpenAlex, Chris Kay has authored 66 papers receiving a total of 2.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 35 papers in Molecular Biology, 25 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 9 papers in Neurology. Recurrent topics in Chris Kay's work include Genetic Neurodegenerative Diseases (23 papers), Mitochondrial Function and Pathology (17 papers) and Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (10 papers). Chris Kay is often cited by papers focused on Genetic Neurodegenerative Diseases (23 papers), Mitochondrial Function and Pathology (17 papers) and Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (10 papers). Chris Kay collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Canada. Chris Kay's co-authors include Michael R. Hayden, Blair R. Leavitt, Christopher A. Ross, Gillian P. Bates, James F. Gusella, Sarah J. Tabrizi, Edward J. Wild, Martha Nance, Rachael I. Scahill and Ronald Wetzel and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Journal of Biological Chemistry and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Chris Kay

63 papers receiving 2.7k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

Huntington disease

2015 1.1k citations Gillian P. Bates, James F. Gusella et al. Nature Reviews Disease Primers profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Chris Kay United States	24	1.8k	1.4k	591	233	191	66	2.8k
Francisca Díaz United States	34	2.9k 1.6×	713 0.5×	243 0.4×	239 1.0×	699 3.7×	63	4.4k
Rosalba Carrozzo Italy	38	4.0k 2.3×	627 0.4×	209 0.4×	484 2.1×	418 2.2×	143	5.3k
Makoto Yanagisawa Japan	31	3.2k 1.8×	586 0.4×	249 0.4×	411 1.8×	485 2.5×	57	4.8k
Lars Eide Norway	25	2.4k 1.4×	1.1k 0.8×	101 0.2×	99 0.4×	300 1.6×	65	3.5k
Johan Lundkvist Sweden	29	1.6k 0.9×	463 0.3×	396 0.7×	228 1.0×	830 4.3×	51	3.4k
Kathryn J. Hill United States	19	1.6k 0.9×	549 0.4×	1.1k 1.9×	845 3.6×	613 3.2×	26	3.0k
Paul J. Lockhart Australia	34	2.3k 1.3×	1.2k 0.8×	1.2k 2.0×	477 2.0×	585 3.1×	126	5.2k
Martin Fuhrmann Germany	33	1.4k 0.8×	1.1k 0.8×	124 0.2×	349 1.5×	1.2k 6.3×	58	4.3k
Yoshihiro Matsuda Japan	25	1.2k 0.7×	673 0.5×	115 0.2×	171 0.7×	299 1.6×	99	1.9k
Lawrence J. Hayward United States	36	2.4k 1.4×	777 0.5×	2.4k 4.1×	356 1.5×	733 3.8×	52	4.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Chris Kay

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Fields of papers citing papers by Chris Kay

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Chris Kay

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Chris Kay. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Chris Kay based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Chris Kay. Chris Kay is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Kay, Chris, Anja Spang, Gergely J. Szöllősi, et al.. (2025). Dated gene duplications elucidate the evolutionary assembly of eukaryotes. Nature. 650(8100). 129–140.

Kay, Chris, et al.. (2024). Ascertainment of uninterrupted CAG repeat length and disease-modifying variants in fragment-based genetic testing for Huntington Disease. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2. 101882–101882.

Donoghue, Philip C. J., Chris Kay, Anja Spang, et al.. (2023). Defining eukaryotes to dissect eukaryogenesis. Current Biology. 33(17). R919–R929. 15 indexed citations

Kay, Chris, Lori Peacock, Tom A. Williams, & Wendy Gibson. (2022). Signatures of hybridization in Trypanosoma brucei. PLoS Pathogens. 18(2). e1010300–e1010300. 6 indexed citations

Peacock, Lori, et al.. (2021). Sequential production of gametes during meiosis in trypanosomes. Communications Biology. 4(1). 555–555. 17 indexed citations

Xu, Xiaohong, Bernice Sim, Carola I. Radulescu, et al.. (2020). pS421 huntingtin modulates mitochondrial phenotypes and confers neuroprotection in an HD hiPSC model. Cell Death and Disease. 11(9). 809–809. 11 indexed citations

Kay, Chris, Tom A. Williams, & Wendy Gibson. (2020). Mitochondrial DNAs provide insight into trypanosome phylogeny and molecular evolution. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 20(1). 161–161. 13 indexed citations

Squitieri, Ferdinando, Tommaso Mazza, Alessandro De Luca, et al.. (2020). Tracing the mutated HTT and haplotype of the African ancestor who spread Huntington disease into the Middle East. Genetics in Medicine. 22(11). 1903–1908. 8 indexed citations

Wright, Galen E.B., Jennifer A. Collins, Chris Kay, et al.. (2019). Length of Uninterrupted CAG, Independent of Polyglutamine Size, Results in Increased Somatic Instability, Hastening Onset of Huntington Disease. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 104(6). 1116–1126. 120 indexed citations

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Peacock, Lori, Chris Kay, Mick Bailey, & Wendy Gibson. (2018). Shape-shifting trypanosomes: Flagellar shortening followed by asymmetric division in Trypanosoma congolense from the tsetse proventriculus. PLoS Pathogens. 14(5). e1007043–e1007043. 17 indexed citations

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Gibson, Wendy, Chris Kay, & Lori Peacock. (2017). Trypanosoma congolense. Advances in Parasitology. 98. 283–309. 10 indexed citations

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Kay, Chris, Jennifer A. Collins, Niels H. Skotte, et al.. (2015). Huntingtin Haplotypes Provide Prioritized Target Panels for Allele-specific Silencing in Huntington Disease Patients of European Ancestry. Molecular Therapy. 23(11). 1759–1771. 64 indexed citations

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Bates, Gillian P., James F. Gusella, Michael R. Hayden, et al.. (2015). Huntington disease. Nature Reviews Disease Primers. 1(1). 15005–15005. 1082 indexed citations breakdown →

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Semaka, Alicia, et al.. (2013). High frequency of intermediate alleles on huntington disease‐associated haplotypes in British Columbia's general population. American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B Neuropsychiatric Genetics. 162(8). 864–871. 34 indexed citations

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Kay, Chris, et al.. (2012). The ATP-Binding Cassette Proteins of the Deep-Branching Protozoan Parasite Trichomonas vaginalis. PLoS neglected tropical diseases. 6(6). e1693–e1693. 7 indexed citations

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Kay, Chris, Karen Lawler, Tim Self, Sabrina D. Dyall, & Ian D. Kerr. (2012). Localisation of a family of complex‐forming β‐barrels in the T. vaginalis hydrogenosomal membrane. FEBS Letters. 586(22). 4038–4045. 4 indexed citations

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Kay, Chris. (1997). Mechanochemical mechanism for peptidyl free radical generation by amyloid fibrils. FEBS Letters. 403(3). 230–235. 25 indexed citations

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Kay, Chris, et al.. (1996). Superoxide Production during Reduction of Molecular Oxygen by Assimilatory Nitrate Reductase. Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics. 326(2). 227–232. 22 indexed citations

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Kay, Chris & Michael Barber. (1990). Measurement of oxidation-reduction midpoint potentials by room temperature electron paramagnetic resonance potentiometry. Analytical Biochemistry. 184(1). 11–15. 9 indexed citations

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Kay, Chris, Michael Barber, & Larry P. Solomonson. (1988). CD and potentiometry of FAD, heme and molybdenum-pterin prosthetic groups of assimilatory nitrate reductase. Biochemistry. 27(16). 6142–6149. 34 indexed citations

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