Déborah Bourc’his

14.7k total citations · 7 hit papers
73 papers, 9.9k citations indexed

About

Déborah Bourc’his is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Déborah Bourc’his has authored 73 papers receiving a total of 9.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 69 papers in Molecular Biology, 46 papers in Genetics and 25 papers in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health. Recurrent topics in Déborah Bourc’his's work include Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (55 papers), Genetic Syndromes and Imprinting (36 papers) and Prenatal Screening and Diagnostics (25 papers). Déborah Bourc’his is often cited by papers focused on Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (55 papers), Genetic Syndromes and Imprinting (36 papers) and Prenatal Screening and Diagnostics (25 papers). Déborah Bourc’his collaborates with scholars based in France, United States and United Kingdom. Déborah Bourc’his's co-authors include Timothy H. Bestor, Max Greenberg, Guoliang Xu, Gregory J. Hannon, Chyuan‐Sheng Lin, E. Viégas-Pèquignot, Aurélie Teissandier, Dirk G. de Rooij, Christopher Schaefer and Michelle A. Carmell and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Déborah Bourc’his

70 papers receiving 9.8k 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.

  1. The diverse roles of DNA methylation in mammalian development and disease
    2019 1.3k citations Max Greenberg, Déborah Bourc’his Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology profile →
  2. Dnmt3L and the Establishment of Maternal Genomic Imprints
    2001 1.0k citations Déborah Bourc’his, Guoliang Xu et al. Science profile →
  3. A piRNA Pathway Primed by Individual Transposons Is Linked to De Novo DNA Methylation in Mice
    2008 905 citations Déborah Bourc’his, Timothy H. Bestor et al. profile →
  4. MIWI2 Is Essential for Spermatogenesis and Repression of Transposons in the Mouse Male Germline
    2007 895 citations Déborah Bourc’his, Timothy H. Bestor et al. profile →
  5. Chromosome instability and immunodeficiency syndrome caused by mutations in a DNA methyltransferase gene
    1999 884 citations Guoliang Xu, Timothy H. Bestor et al. profile →
  6. Meiotic catastrophe and retrotransposon reactivation in male germ cells lacking Dnmt3L
    2004 884 citations Déborah Bourc’his, Timothy H. Bestor profile →
  7. m6A RNA methylation regulates the fate of endogenous retroviruses
    2021 200 citations Aurélie Teissandier, Déborah Bourc’his et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Déborah Bourc’his France 39 8.7k 3.4k 2.3k 1.6k 838 73 9.9k
Felix Krueger United Kingdom 38 10.7k 1.2× 2.8k 0.8× 1.3k 0.5× 1.3k 0.8× 1.3k 1.6× 61 12.3k
Kenichiro Hata Japan 42 6.8k 0.8× 3.3k 1.0× 956 0.4× 1.9k 1.2× 544 0.6× 228 8.8k
Carmen Sapienza United States 43 4.2k 0.5× 2.9k 0.9× 1.4k 0.6× 1.4k 0.8× 369 0.4× 102 6.6k
John C. Schimenti United States 57 7.5k 0.9× 2.6k 0.8× 1.3k 0.6× 435 0.3× 1.0k 1.2× 199 10.0k
Masaki Okano Japan 33 10.4k 1.2× 3.8k 1.1× 601 0.3× 1.8k 1.1× 801 1.0× 88 12.4k
Makoto Tachibana Japan 43 8.5k 1.0× 2.1k 0.6× 837 0.4× 539 0.3× 493 0.6× 98 9.7k
Thomas Liehr Germany 47 5.1k 0.6× 6.8k 2.0× 4.4k 1.9× 2.4k 1.5× 946 1.1× 735 11.8k
Petra Hájková United Kingdom 35 6.0k 0.7× 1.8k 0.5× 555 0.2× 889 0.6× 886 1.1× 58 7.0k
Karl Sperling Germany 44 4.7k 0.5× 1.9k 0.6× 1.0k 0.4× 804 0.5× 1.3k 1.5× 174 6.6k
Fátima Santos United Kingdom 34 8.4k 1.0× 2.6k 0.8× 513 0.2× 1.7k 1.1× 446 0.5× 48 9.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Déborah Bourc’his

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Bender, Ambre, Marion Morel, Michaël Dumas, et al.. (2025). UHRF2 mediates resistance to DNA methylation reprogramming in primordial germ cells. Nature Communications. 16(1). 7350–7350.
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Dubois, Agnès, Max Greenberg, Sandrine Vandormael‐Pournin, et al.. (2022). H3K9 tri-methylation at Nanog times differentiation commitment and enables the acquisition of primitive endoderm fate. Development. 149(17). 8 indexed citations
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Glaser, Juliane, Julian Iranzo, Maud Borensztein, et al.. (2022). The imprinted Zdbf2 gene finely tunes control of feeding and growth in neonates. eLife. 11. 11 indexed citations
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Barberet, Julie, et al.. (2022). Comparison of oocyte vitrification using a semi-automated or a manual closed system in human siblings: survival and transcriptomic analyses. Journal of Ovarian Research. 15(1). 128–128. 11 indexed citations
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Molaro, Antoine, Harmit S. Malik, & Déborah Bourc’his. (2020). Dynamic Evolution of De Novo DNA Methyltransferases in Rodent and Primate Genomes. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 37(7). 1882–1892. 20 indexed citations
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Ragazzini, Roberta, Raquel Pérez-Palacios, Katia Ancelin, et al.. (2019). EZHIP constrains Polycomb Repressive Complex 2 activity in germ cells. Nature Communications. 10(1). 3858–3858. 74 indexed citations
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Greenberg, Max & Déborah Bourc’his. (2019). The diverse roles of DNA methylation in mammalian development and disease. Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology. 20(10). 590–607. 1348 indexed citations breakdown →
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Achour, Mayada, Marius Teletin, Tao Ye, et al.. (2017). Tex19 paralogs are new members of the piRNA pathway controlling retrotransposon suppression. Journal of Cell Science. 130(8). 1463–1474. 9 indexed citations
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Greenberg, Max, Juliane Glaser, Máté Borsos, et al.. (2016). Transient transcription in the early embryo sets an epigenetic state that programs postnatal growth. Nature Genetics. 49(1). 110–118. 59 indexed citations
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Wu, Shinn‐Chih, Kai‐Wei Chang, Chia‐Wei Lu, et al.. (2015). Dnmt3l -knockout donor cells improve somatic cell nuclear transfer reprogramming efficiency. Reproduction. 150(4). 245–256. 9 indexed citations
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Zamudio, Natasha, Joan Barau, Aurélie Teissandier, et al.. (2015). DNA methylation restrains transposons from adopting a chromatin signature permissive for meiotic recombination. Genes & Development. 29(12). 1256–1270. 127 indexed citations
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Bruno, Céline, Virginie Carmignac, Irène Netchine, et al.. (2015). Germline correction of an epimutation related to Silver-Russell syndrome. Human Molecular Genetics. 24(12). 3314–3321. 8 indexed citations
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Duffié, Rachel & Déborah Bourc’his. (2013). Parental Epigenetic Asymmetry in Mammals. Current topics in developmental biology. 104. 293–328. 18 indexed citations
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Schulz, Reiner, Charlotte Proudhon, Timothy H. Bestor, et al.. (2010). The Parental Non-Equivalence of Imprinting Control Regions during Mammalian Development and Evolution. PLoS Genetics. 6(11). e1001214–e1001214. 50 indexed citations
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Wagschal, Alexandre, Philippe Arnaúd, Déborah Bourc’his, et al.. (2008). Comparative analysis of human chromosome 7q21 and mouse proximal chromosome 6 reveals a placental-specific imprinted gene, TFPI2/Tfpi2, which requires EHMT2 and EED for allelic-silencing. Genome Research. 18(8). 1270–1281. 73 indexed citations
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Bourc’his, Déborah & Timothy H. Bestor. (2006). Origins of extreme sexual dimorphism in genomic imprinting. Cytogenetic and Genome Research. 113(1-4). 36–40. 42 indexed citations
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Rigolet, Muriel, Déborah Bourc’his, Fabienne Nigon, et al.. (2004). DNMT3B mutations and DNA methylation defect define two types of ICF syndrome. Human Mutation. 25(1). 56–63. 88 indexed citations
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Bourc’his, Déborah, et al.. (2001). Dnmt3L and the Establishment of Maternal Genomic Imprints. Science. 294(5551). 2536–2539. 1015 indexed citations breakdown →
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Bourc’his, Déborah, Daniel Le Bourhis, Delphine Patin, et al.. (2001). Delayed and incomplete reprogramming of chromosome methylation patterns in bovine cloned embryos. Current Biology. 11(19). 1542–1546. 312 indexed citations
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Bourc’his, Déborah, Pierre Miniou, Marc Jeanpierre, et al.. (1999). Abnormal methylation does not prevent X inactivation in ICF patients. Cytogenetic and Genome Research. 84(3-4). 245–252. 32 indexed citations

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