Collin Melton

5.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
18 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

About

Collin Melton is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cancer Research and Oncology. According to data from OpenAlex, Collin Melton has authored 18 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Molecular Biology, 12 papers in Cancer Research and 3 papers in Oncology. Recurrent topics in Collin Melton's work include Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics (6 papers), MicroRNA in disease regulation (6 papers) and Pluripotent Stem Cells Research (5 papers). Collin Melton is often cited by papers focused on Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics (6 papers), MicroRNA in disease regulation (6 papers) and Pluripotent Stem Cells Research (5 papers). Collin Melton collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and United Kingdom. Collin Melton's co-authors include Robert Blelloch, Robert L. Judson, Yangming Wang, Rudolf Jaenisch, Nayoung Suh, Archana Shenoy, Lauren Baehner, Jing Chen, Felix Moltzahn and M Snyder and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nature Genetics and Journal of Clinical Oncology.

In The Last Decade

Collin Melton

16 papers receiving 2.5k 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.

DGCR8 is essential for microRNA biogenesis and silencing of embryonic stem cell self-renewal

2007 781 citations Yangming Wang, Collin Melton et al. Nature Genetics profile →
Opposing microRNA families regulate self-renewal in mouse embryonic stem cells

2010 542 citations Collin Melton, Robert L. Judson et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Collin Melton United States	12	2.1k	1.5k	227	189	130	18	2.5k
Michael Mitchell United Kingdom	9	1.7k 0.8×	468 0.3×	106 0.5×	227 1.2×	402 3.1×	12	2.1k
Praveen Sethupathy United States	13	1.5k 0.7×	1.4k 0.9×	35 0.2×	112 0.6×	80 0.6×	27	1.9k
Madeleine Carreau Canada	18	1.6k 0.7×	487 0.3×	115 0.5×	273 1.4×	214 1.6×	44	1.9k
Eric M. Kallin United States	13	2.0k 1.0×	349 0.2×	51 0.2×	279 1.5×	123 0.9×	16	2.4k
Kirk J. McManus Canada	27	1.9k 0.9×	447 0.3×	49 0.2×	223 1.2×	491 3.8×	77	2.3k
Atsuya Nishiyama Japan	16	1.4k 0.6×	242 0.2×	91 0.4×	242 1.3×	200 1.5×	29	1.6k
Qiu Wu China	16	2.2k 1.0×	714 0.5×	46 0.2×	233 1.2×	363 2.8×	57	2.7k
Christine Dolde United States	11	1.7k 0.8×	791 0.5×	41 0.2×	204 1.1×	452 3.5×	14	2.1k
Irmgard Irminger‐Finger Switzerland	27	1.3k 0.6×	348 0.2×	54 0.2×	456 2.4×	451 3.5×	54	1.9k
Katherine Minter‐Dykhouse United States	14	1.7k 0.8×	348 0.2×	66 0.3×	160 0.8×	707 5.4×	15	2.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Collin Melton

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18 of 18 papers shown

McDonald, Kerry S., Jéssica Nora Drum, J.G.N. Moraes, et al.. (2025). Effect of FGF2, LIF, IGF1 supplementation on pregnancy success following embryo transfer of in vitro derived embryos. Theriogenology. 245. 117533–117533.

Hoang, Tuan, Yahan Yang, Sally C. M. Lau, et al.. (2025). Identification of immunotherapy early treatment failure in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) using a novel cell-free DNA (cfDNA) tissue-agnostic genome-wide methylome enrichment assay.. Journal of Clinical Oncology. 43(16_suppl). 8550–8550.

Bossé, Yohan, Abhijit Dasgupta, Violeta Beleva Guthrie, et al.. (2024). Prognostic implication of methylation-based circulating tumor DNA detection prior to surgery in stage I non-small cell lung cancer. Cancer Letters. 594. 216984–216984. 6 indexed citations

Melton, Collin, Peter Freese, Archana Shenoy, et al.. (2023). A Novel Tissue-Free Method to Estimate Tumor-Derived Cell-Free DNA Quantity Using Tumor Methylation Patterns. Cancers. 16(1). 82–82. 9 indexed citations

Jangi, Mohini, Shoujie Chai, Yifan Zhou, et al.. (2023). Abstract LB297: Analytical validation of a tissue-free, multi-cancer, post-diagnosis cancer research test that uses cell-free DNA methylation profiling. Cancer Research. 83(8_Supplement). LB297–LB297. 2 indexed citations

Chen, Xiaoji, Dong Zhao, Earl Hubbell, et al.. (2021). Prognostic Significance of Blood-Based Multi-cancer Detection in Plasma Cell-Free DNA. Clinical Cancer Research. 27(15). 4221–4229. 79 indexed citations

Zhang, Wei, Ana Bojorquez-Gomez, Daniel Ortiz Velez, et al.. (2018). A global transcriptional network connecting noncoding mutations to changes in tumor gene expression. Nature Genetics. 50(4). 613–620. 85 indexed citations

Melton, Collin, Noelle E. Huskey, Olga Momčilović, et al.. (2015). Fas-Activated Mitochondrial Apoptosis Culls Stalled Embryonic Stem Cells to Promote Differentiation. Current Biology. 25(23). 3110–3118. 16 indexed citations

Melton, Collin, Jason Reuter, Damek V. Spacek, & M Snyder. (2015). Recurrent somatic mutations in regulatory regions of human cancer genomes. Nature Genetics. 47(7). 710–716. 168 indexed citations

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Yan, Yuelong, Yaping Li, Xiaohui Yin, et al.. (2014). Suppression of epithelial–mesenchymal transition and apoptotic pathways by miR-294/302 family synergistically blocks let-7-induced silencing of self-renewal in embryonic stem cells. Cell Death and Differentiation. 22(7). 1158–1169. 34 indexed citations

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Wang, Yangming, Collin Melton, Yapu Li, et al.. (2013). miR-294/miR-302 Promotes Proliferation, Suppresses G1-S Restriction Point, and Inhibits ESC Differentiation through Separable Mechanisms. Cell Reports. 4(1). 99–109. 73 indexed citations

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Chen, Jing, Collin Melton, Nayoung Suh, et al.. (2011). Genome-wide analysis of translation reveals a critical role for deleted in azoospermia-like ( Dazl ) at the oocyte-to-zygote transition. Genes & Development. 25(7). 755–766. 198 indexed citations

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Babiarz, Joshua, Ruby Hsu, Collin Melton, et al.. (2011). A role for noncanonical microRNAs in the mammalian brain revealed by phenotypic differences in Dgcr8 versus Dicer1 knockouts and small RNA sequencing. RNA. 17(8). 1489–1501. 96 indexed citations

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Suh, Nayoung, Lauren Baehner, Felix Moltzahn, et al.. (2010). MicroRNA Function Is Globally Suppressed in Mouse Oocytes and Early Embryos. Current Biology. 20(3). 271–277. 338 indexed citations

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Melton, Collin, Robert L. Judson, & Robert Blelloch. (2010). Opposing microRNA families regulate self-renewal in mouse embryonic stem cells. Nature. 463(7281). 621–626. 542 indexed citations breakdown →

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Melton, Collin & Robert Blelloch. (2010). MicroRNA Regulation of Embryonic Stem Cell Self-Renewal and Differentiation. Advances in experimental medicine and biology. 695. 105–117. 51 indexed citations

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Chaivorapol, Christina, Collin Melton, Grace Wei, et al.. (2008). CompMoby: Comparative MobyDick for detection of cis-regulatory motifs. BMC Bioinformatics. 9(1). 455–455. 5 indexed citations

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Wang, Yangming, et al.. (2007). DGCR8 is essential for microRNA biogenesis and silencing of embryonic stem cell self-renewal. Nature Genetics. 39(3). 380–385. 781 indexed citations breakdown →

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