Danny Leung

12.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
25 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

About

Danny Leung is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Danny Leung has authored 25 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 24 papers in Molecular Biology, 7 papers in Genetics and 7 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Danny Leung's work include Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (11 papers), Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (9 papers) and CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (8 papers). Danny Leung is often cited by papers focused on Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (11 papers), Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (9 papers) and CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (8 papers). Danny Leung collaborates with scholars based in Hong Kong, United States and Canada. Danny Leung's co-authors include Matthew C. Lorincz, Irina A. Maksakova, Yoichi Shinkai, Bing Ren, David U. Gorkin, Makoto Tachibana, Hiroshi Kimurâ, Hiroki Miyashita, Hitoshi Miyachi and Toshiyuki Matsui and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Danny Leung

24 papers receiving 2.5k 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.

Proviral silencing in embryonic stem cells requires the histone methyltransferase ESET

2010 587 citations Toshiyuki Matsui, Danny Leung et al. Nature profile →
Human body epigenome maps reveal noncanonical DNA methylation variation

2015 424 citations Matthew D. Schultz, Yupeng He et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Danny Leung Hong Kong	14	2.3k	647	505	143	126	25	2.5k
Irina A. Maksakova Canada	12	2.0k 0.9×	793 1.2×	445 0.9×	91 0.6×	138 1.1×	15	2.2k
Tuncay Baubec Switzerland	21	2.1k 0.9×	707 1.1×	411 0.8×	192 1.3×	84 0.7×	36	2.6k
Michael R. Rountree United States	15	2.0k 0.9×	321 0.5×	432 0.9×	131 0.9×	69 0.5×	21	2.3k
Francisco Antequera Spain	24	3.0k 1.3×	517 0.8×	740 1.5×	224 1.6×	107 0.8×	48	3.4k
Henriette O’Geen United States	28	2.4k 1.0×	275 0.4×	527 1.0×	202 1.4×	139 1.1×	43	2.7k
Paul A. Ginno United States	10	2.5k 1.1×	269 0.4×	454 0.9×	259 1.8×	107 0.8×	12	2.8k
Sonia Verp Switzerland	15	1.6k 0.7×	402 0.6×	266 0.5×	205 1.4×	145 1.2×	19	1.8k
Eric F. Joyce United States	26	1.9k 0.8×	689 1.1×	342 0.7×	90 0.6×	104 0.8×	52	2.2k
Adam G. West United Kingdom	24	3.5k 1.5×	624 1.0×	1.3k 2.5×	132 0.9×	178 1.4×	32	3.8k
Jacqueline E. Mermoud United Kingdom	14	2.3k 1.0×	241 0.4×	677 1.3×	134 0.9×	90 0.7×	17	2.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Danny Leung

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Danny Leung

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Danny Leung. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Danny Leung 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 Danny Leung. Danny Leung is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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20 of 20 papers shown

Leung, Danny, et al.. (2025). Epigenetic Dysregulation of Retrotransposons in Cancer. Molecular Cancer Research. 23(5). 369–378. 1 indexed citations

Cao, Qin, Chiara Nicoletti, Prem Puri, et al.. (2025). Regulatory roles of three-dimensional structures of chromatin domains. Genome biology. 26(1). 184–184.

Leung, Danny, et al.. (2024). Cell-type differential targeting of SETDB1 prevents aberrant CTCF binding, chromatin looping, and cis-regulatory interactions. Nature Communications. 15(1). 15–15. 20 indexed citations

Nakagawa, Reiko, Xinyue Hu, Priyanshu Bhargava, et al.. (2023). Differential second messenger signaling via dopamine neurons bidirectionally regulates memory retention. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(36). e2304851120–e2304851120. 5 indexed citations

Leung, Danny, et al.. (2023). The Molecular Impacts of Retrotransposons in Development and Diseases. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 24(22). 16418–16418. 4 indexed citations

Estrada‐Gutiérrez, Guadalupe, et al.. (2023). Single-cell analysis reveals transcriptomic and epigenomic impacts on the maternal–fetal interface following SARS-CoV-2 infection. Nature Cell Biology. 25(7). 1047–1060. 12 indexed citations

Zhao, Yongqian, Vincy Wing Sze Ho, Remo Rohs, et al.. (2021). Humanizing the yeast origin recognition complex. Nature Communications. 12(1). 33–33. 33 indexed citations

Lee, Ah Young, et al.. (2021). Mouse strain-specific polymorphic provirus functions as cis-regulatory element leading to epigenomic and transcriptomic variations. Nature Communications. 12(1). 6462–6462. 7 indexed citations

Leung, Danny, et al.. (2021). Epigenomic and transcriptomic analysis of chronic inflammatory diseases. Genes & Genomics. 43(3). 227–236. 4 indexed citations

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Klein, Kyle N., Peiyao A Zhao, Xiaowen Lyu, et al.. (2021). Replication timing maintains the global epigenetic state in human cells. Science. 372(6540). 371–378. 101 indexed citations

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Lee, Ah Young, et al.. (2020). G9a Plays Distinct Roles in Maintaining DNA Methylation, Retrotransposon Silencing, and Chromatin Looping. Cell Reports. 33(4). 108315–108315. 40 indexed citations

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Cao, Qin, Xi Fu, Qiong Wu, et al.. (2020). A unified framework for integrative study of heterogeneous gene regulatory mechanisms. Nature Machine Intelligence. 2(8). 447–456. 8 indexed citations

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Zhang, Wenhao, Weikun Xia, Q. Wang, et al.. (2016). Isoform Switch of TET1 Regulates DNA Demethylation and Mouse Development. Molecular Cell. 64(6). 1062–1073. 78 indexed citations

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Schultz, Matthew D., Yupeng He, John W. Whitaker, et al.. (2015). Human body epigenome maps reveal noncanonical DNA methylation variation. Nature. 523(7559). 212–216. 424 indexed citations breakdown →

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Yang, Christine, et al.. (2015). Impact of flanking chromosomal sequences on localization and silencing by the human non-coding RNA XIST. Genome biology. 16(1). 208–208. 37 indexed citations

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Gorkin, David U., Danny Leung, & Bing Ren. (2014). The 3D Genome in Transcriptional Regulation and Pluripotency. Cell stem cell. 14(6). 762–775. 272 indexed citations

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Leung, Danny, Tingting Du, Ulrich Wagner, et al.. (2014). Regulation of DNA methylation turnover at LTR retrotransposons and imprinted loci by the histone methyltransferase Setdb1. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 111(18). 6690–6695. 83 indexed citations

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Leung, Danny & Matthew C. Lorincz. (2011). Silencing of endogenous retroviruses: when and why do histone marks predominate?. Trends in Biochemical Sciences. 37(4). 127–133. 100 indexed citations

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Matsui, Toshiyuki, Danny Leung, Hiroki Miyashita, et al.. (2010). Proviral silencing in embryonic stem cells requires the histone methyltransferase ESET. Nature. 464(7290). 927–931. 587 indexed citations breakdown →

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Dong, Kevin, Irina A. Maksakova, Fabio Mohn, et al.. (2008). DNA methylation in ES cells requires the lysine methyltransferase G9a but not its catalytic activity. The EMBO Journal. 27(20). 2691–2701. 183 indexed citations

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