David A. Nix

16.7k total citations · 3 hit papers
54 papers, 5.9k citations indexed

About

David A. Nix is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cancer Research and Oncology. According to data from OpenAlex, David A. Nix has authored 54 papers receiving a total of 5.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 34 papers in Molecular Biology, 10 papers in Cancer Research and 5 papers in Oncology. Recurrent topics in David A. Nix's work include RNA Research and Splicing (10 papers), Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (8 papers) and Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (8 papers). David A. Nix is often cited by papers focused on RNA Research and Splicing (10 papers), Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (8 papers) and Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (8 papers). David A. Nix collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and France. David A. Nix's co-authors include Bradley R. Cairns, Andreas S. Weigend, Douglas T. Carrell, Charles R. Farrar, Scott W. Doebling, Saher Sue Hammoud, Haiying Zhang, Mary C. Beckerle, Mark D. Biggin and Timothy J. Parnell and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

David A. Nix

51 papers receiving 5.8k citations

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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.

Distinctive chromatin in human sperm packages genes for embryo development

2009 938 citations Saher Sue Hammoud, David A. Nix et al. Nature profile →
Vibration–based structural damage identification

2001 632 citations David A. Nix et al. profile →
Conserved roles of mouse DUX and human DUX4 in activating cleavage-stage genes and MERVL/HERVL retrotransposons

2017 503 citations David A. Nix, Douglas T. Carrell et al. Nature Genetics profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
David A. Nix United States	30	3.5k	747	620	576	468	54	5.9k
Chunxu Qu China	33	4.6k 1.3×	683 0.9×	1.1k 1.8×	194 0.3×	384 0.8×	130	7.3k
Marco Ramoni United States	33	1.6k 0.5×	452 0.6×	430 0.7×	110 0.2×	49 0.1×	126	4.2k
Qian Zhu China	34	3.7k 1.1×	758 1.0×	25 0.0×	325 0.6×	760 1.6×	187	6.0k
Kenny Ye United States	34	2.8k 0.8×	3.0k 4.1×	92 0.1×	95 0.2×	847 1.8×	129	6.7k
Ramón Díaz‐Uriarte Spain	30	3.0k 0.9×	969 1.3×	57 0.1×	100 0.2×	339 0.7×	76	6.0k
Douglas A. Gray Australia	36	2.9k 0.8×	488 0.7×	125 0.2×	66 0.1×	105 0.2×	213	6.8k
Zissimos P. Mourelatos United States	52	5.9k 1.7×	397 0.5×	837 1.4×	66 0.1×	957 2.0×	299	10.5k
William Navidi United States	35	1.1k 0.3×	728 1.0×	84 0.1×	175 0.3×	183 0.4×	88	4.9k
Andrzej Maćkiewicz Poland	41	2.8k 0.8×	484 0.6×	56 0.1×	159 0.3×	83 0.2×	196	6.7k
Eric P. Sandgren United States	38	2.5k 0.7×	1.1k 1.5×	314 0.5×	58 0.1×	70 0.1×	125	6.9k

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Marks, Jeffrey R., Lindsay J. Collin, David A. Nix, et al.. (2025). Genomic Characterization of High-Grade Serous Ovarian Carcinoma Reveals Distinct Somatic Features in Black Individuals. Cancer Research. 85(9). 1725–1737. 1 indexed citations

Fadlullah, Muhammad Zaki Hidayatullah, David A. Nix, Cameron Herberts, et al.. (2025). Multi-gene risk score for prediction of clinical outcomes in treatment-naïve metastatic castrate-resistant prostate cancer. JNCI Cancer Spectrum. 9(2).

Verma, Surbhi, Aaron Atkinson, David A. Nix, et al.. (2024). Zinc-alpha-2-glycoprotein Secreted by Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Promotes Peritumoral Fibrosis. Cancer Research Communications. 4(7). 1655–1666. 7 indexed citations

Affolter, Kajsa E., Sabine Hellwig, David A. Nix, et al.. (2021). Detection of circulating tumor DNA without a tumor-informed search using next-generation sequencing is a prognostic biomarker in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma. Neoplasia. 23(9). 859–869. 9 indexed citations

Whipple, Joseph M., P. Joseph Aruscavage, David A. Nix, et al.. (2015). Genome-wide profiling of the C. elegans dsRNAome. RNA. 21(5). 786–800. 40 indexed citations

Hammoud, Saher Sue, David A. Nix, Ahmad Hammoud, et al.. (2011). Genome-wide analysis identifies changes in histone retention and epigenetic modifications at developmental and imprinted gene loci in the sperm of infertile men. Human Reproduction. 26(9). 2558–2569. 211 indexed citations

Delker, Don A., et al.. (2011). ENCODE Tiling Array Analysis Identifies Differentially Expressed Annotated and Novel 5′ Capped RNAs in Hepatitis C Infected Liver. PLoS ONE. 6(2). e14697–e14697. 15 indexed citations

Zhang, Haiying, Saher Sue Hammoud, Magdalena E. Potok, et al.. (2011). DNA Methylation Profiling in Zebrafish. Methods in cell biology. 104. 327–339. 27 indexed citations

Nix, David A., et al.. (2010). Next generation tools for genomic data generation, distribution, and visualization. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 37 indexed citations

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Hammoud, Saher Sue, et al.. (2009). Distinctive chromatin in human sperm packages genes for embryo development. Nature. 460(7254). 473–478. 938 indexed citations breakdown →

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Nix, David A., Derick G. Holt, Brett Milash, et al.. (2008). Dynamic transcriptome of Schizosaccharomyces pombe shown by RNA-DNA hybrid mapping. Nature Genetics. 40(8). 977–986. 79 indexed citations

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Nix, David A., Samir Courdy, & Kenneth M. Boucher. (2008). Empirical methods for controlling false positives and estimating confidence in ChIP-Seq peaks. BMC Bioinformatics. 9(1). 523–523. 169 indexed citations

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Moses, Alan M, Daniel A Pollard, David A. Nix, et al.. (2006). Large-Scale Turnover of Functional Transcription Factor Binding Sites in Drosophila. PLoS Computational Biology. 2(10). e130–e130. 179 indexed citations

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Willingham, Aarron, Sujit Dike, Jill Cheng, et al.. (2006). Transcriptional Landscape of the Human and Fly Genomes: Nonlinear and Multifunctional Modular Model of Transcriptomes. Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology. 71(0). 101–110. 15 indexed citations

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Nix, David A. & Michael B. Eisen. (2005). GATA: a graphic alignment tool for comparative sequence analysis. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 65 indexed citations

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Chakravarty, Eliza F., Iris Colón, Elizabeth Langen, et al.. (2005). Factors that predict prematurity and preeclampsia in pregnancies that are complicated by systemic lupus erythematosus. American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology. 192(6). 1897–1904. 200 indexed citations

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Henry, Kenneth R., Kathleen D'Hondt, Ji Suk Chang, et al.. (2003). The Actin-Regulating Kinase Prk1p Negatively Regulates Scd5p, a Suppressor of Clathrin Deficiency, in Actin Organization and Endocytosis. Current Biology. 13(17). 1564–1569. 30 indexed citations

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Sawyer, Aenor, et al.. (2001). Calcaneus Ultrasound Measurements in a Convenience Sample of Healthy Youth. Journal of Clinical Densitometry. 4(2). 111–120. 39 indexed citations

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Nix, David A. & John Hogden. (1998). Maximum-Likelihood Continuity Mapping (MALCOM): An Alternative to HMMs. University of North Texas Digital Library (University of North Texas). 11. 744–750. 5 indexed citations

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Nix, David A. & Mary C. Beckerle. (1997). Nuclear-cytoplasmic shuttling of the focal contact protein, Zyxin: a potential mechanism for communication between sites of cell adhesion and the nucleus. PubMed Central. 1 indexed citations

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