Christ Leemans

1.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
13 papers, 660 citations indexed

About

Christ Leemans is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Insect Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Christ Leemans has authored 13 papers receiving a total of 660 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Molecular Biology, 1 paper in Genetics and 1 paper in Insect Science. Recurrent topics in Christ Leemans's work include Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (11 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (6 papers) and RNA Research and Splicing (6 papers). Christ Leemans is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (11 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (6 papers) and RNA Research and Splicing (6 papers). Christ Leemans collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, United States and Italy. Christ Leemans's co-authors include Bas van Steensel, Tom van Schaik, Eva K. Brinkman, Laura Brueckner, Jos Jonkers, Tao Chen, Arne Nedergaard Kousholt, Daniel Peric‐Hupkes, M Eder and Josef Redolfi and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Christ Leemans

11 papers receiving 655 citations

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Nonlinear control of transcription through enhancer–promoter interactions

2022 231 citations Jessica Zuin, Grégory Roth et al. Nature profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Christ Leemans Netherlands	7	623	107	78	24	22	13	660
Yonghu Wu China	5	782 1.3×	214 2.0×	140 1.8×	41 1.7×	20 0.9×	8	822
Nicolas Dénervaud Switzerland	6	531 0.9×	72 0.7×	70 0.9×	27 1.1×	23 1.0×	7	602
Bastien Vidal Switzerland	3	378 0.6×	40 0.4×	80 1.0×	16 0.7×	30 1.4×	3	399
Zhenchao Zhang United States	7	397 0.6×	96 0.9×	91 1.2×	49 2.0×	59 2.7×	10	498
Joonsun Lee South Korea	7	496 0.8×	55 0.5×	90 1.2×	15 0.6×	31 1.4×	8	526
Vinothkumar Rajan Canada	6	264 0.4×	83 0.8×	42 0.5×	15 0.6×	13 0.6×	11	323
Yayoi Kunihiro Japan	7	541 0.9×	50 0.5×	225 2.9×	16 0.7×	27 1.2×	8	619
David J Menn United States	4	373 0.6×	23 0.2×	73 0.9×	19 0.8×	22 1.0×	6	407
Daniel Peric‐Hupkes Netherlands	8	599 1.0×	99 0.9×	44 0.6×	26 1.1×	24 1.1×	9	635
Jia Shou China	5	896 1.4×	238 2.2×	166 2.1×	41 1.7×	29 1.3×	7	935

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13 of 13 papers shown

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Eder, M, Mikhail Magnitov, Marcel de Haas, et al.. (2025). Functional maps of a genomic locus reveal confinement of an enhancer by its target gene. Science. 389(6766). eads6552–eads6552. 2 indexed citations

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Leemans, Christ, et al.. (2025). Predicting the DNA binding specificity of transcription factor mutants using family-level biophysically interpretable machine learning. Nucleic Acids Research. 53(16).

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Eder, M, Marcel de Haas, J. Omar Yáñez-Cuna, et al.. (2025). Interactions between the genome and the nuclear lamina are multivalent and cooperative. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 32(11). 2335–2348. 1 indexed citations

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Manzo, Stefano Giustino, Abdelghani Mazouzi, Christ Leemans, et al.. (2024). Chromatin protein complexes involved in gene repression in lamina-associated domains. The EMBO Journal. 43(21). 5260–5287. 3 indexed citations

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Vergara, Xabier, Marcel de Haas, Ben Morris, et al.. (2024). Widespread chromatin context-dependencies of DNA double-strand break repair proteins. Nature Communications. 15(1). 5334–5334. 8 indexed citations

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FitzPatrick, Vincent, et al.. (2023). Defining the fine structure of promoter activity on a genome-wide scale with CISSECTOR. Nucleic Acids Research. 51(11). 5499–5511.

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Zuin, Jessica, Grégory Roth, Yinxiu Zhan, et al.. (2022). Nonlinear control of transcription through enhancer–promoter interactions. Nature. 604(7906). 571–577. 231 indexed citations breakdown →

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Leemans, Christ, et al.. (2022). Protocol: A Multiplexed Reporter Assay to Study Effects of Chromatin Context on DNA Double-Strand Break Repair. Frontiers in Genetics. 12. 785947–785947. 4 indexed citations

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Brinkman, Eva K., Christ Leemans, Xabier Vergara, et al.. (2021). Impact of chromatin context on Cas9-induced DNA double-strand break repair pathway balance. Molecular Cell. 81(10). 2216–2230.e10. 118 indexed citations

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Brueckner, Laura, Peiyao A Zhao, Tom van Schaik, et al.. (2020). Local rewiring of genome–nuclear lamina interactions by transcription. The EMBO Journal. 39(6). e103159–e103159. 52 indexed citations

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Leemans, Christ, Laura Brueckner, Federico Comoglio, et al.. (2019). Promoter-Intrinsic and Local Chromatin Features Determine Gene Repression in LADs. Cell. 177(4). 852–864.e14. 101 indexed citations

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Brinkman, Eva K., Arne Nedergaard Kousholt, Christ Leemans, et al.. (2018). Easy quantification of template-directed CRISPR/Cas9 editing. Nucleic Acids Research. 46(10). e58–e58. 129 indexed citations

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Bohler, Anwesha, Lars Eijssen, Martijn van Iersel, et al.. (2015). Automatically visualise and analyse data on pathways using PathVisioRPC from any programming environment. BMC Bioinformatics. 16(1). 267–267. 11 indexed citations

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