Diego Villar

3.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
18 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Diego Villar is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cancer Research and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Diego Villar has authored 18 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Molecular Biology, 7 papers in Cancer Research and 4 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Diego Villar's work include Cancer, Hypoxia, and Metabolism (7 papers), RNA Research and Splicing (6 papers) and RNA modifications and cancer (5 papers). Diego Villar is often cited by papers focused on Cancer, Hypoxia, and Metabolism (7 papers), RNA Research and Splicing (6 papers) and RNA modifications and cancer (5 papers). Diego Villar collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Spain and United States. Diego Villar's co-authors include Duncan T. Odom, Paul Flicek, Luis del Peso, Nuria Pescador, Camille Berthelot, Manuel O. Landázuri, Yolanda Cuevas, Jorge Amigo, James M. A. Turner and Margus Lukk and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Nucleic Acids Research and Journal of Clinical Investigation.

In The Last Decade

Diego Villar

17 papers receiving 1.6k 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.

Enhancer Evolution across 20 Mammalian Species

2015 464 citations Diego Villar, Camille Berthelot et al. Cell profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Diego Villar United Kingdom	15	1.2k	550	366	201	103	18	1.6k
Shirley Horn‐Saban Israel	12	1.6k 1.4×	329 0.6×	383 1.0×	201 1.0×	120 1.2×	18	2.1k
Ivan V. Kulakovskiy Russia	25	2.1k 1.8×	330 0.6×	369 1.0×	224 1.1×	72 0.7×	76	2.6k
Rebecca Worsley-Hunt United Kingdom	5	1.4k 1.2×	282 0.5×	295 0.8×	201 1.0×	52 0.5×	5	1.7k
Patrick J. Wijchers Netherlands	15	1.7k 1.5×	441 0.8×	296 0.8×	298 1.5×	71 0.7×	17	2.0k
Halyna R. Shcherbata Germany	27	1.8k 1.5×	800 1.5×	280 0.8×	191 1.0×	84 0.8×	58	2.4k
Michael Lovci United States	12	1.8k 1.5×	702 1.3×	252 0.7×	414 2.1×	42 0.4×	17	2.1k
Orit Shmueli Israel	10	997 0.8×	212 0.4×	346 0.9×	169 0.8×	56 0.5×	15	1.4k
Youichi Matsuda Japan	13	1000 0.8×	725 1.3×	319 0.9×	89 0.4×	177 1.7×	31	1.7k
Florian Heyd Germany	23	1.2k 1.0×	252 0.5×	196 0.5×	93 0.5×	173 1.7×	64	1.8k
Alexander Y. Maslov United States	19	1.2k 1.0×	525 1.0×	264 0.7×	53 0.3×	213 2.1×	45	1.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Diego Villar

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Fields of papers citing papers by Diego Villar

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Diego Villar

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All Works

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18 of 18 papers shown

Wang, Ning, Jilin Zhang, Diego Villar, et al.. (2024). DNA methylation patterns of transcription factor binding regions characterize their functional and evolutionary contexts. Genome biology. 25(1). 146–146. 10 indexed citations

Parey, Elise, Thomas J. Park, Markus Zöttl, et al.. (2023). Phylogenetic modeling of enhancer shifts in African mole-rats reveals regulatory changes associated with tissue-specific traits. Genome Research. 33(9). 1513–1526.

Roller, Maša, Ericca Stamper, Diego Villar, et al.. (2021). LINE retrotransposons characterize mammalian tissue-specific and evolutionarily dynamic regulatory regions. Genome biology. 22(1). 62–62. 39 indexed citations

Villar, Diego, et al.. (2020). The contribution of non-coding regulatory elements to cardiovascular disease. Open Biology. 10(7). 200088–200088. 18 indexed citations

Berthelot, Camille, Diego Villar, Julie E. Horvath, Duncan T. Odom, & Paul Flicek. (2017). Complexity and conservation of regulatory landscapes underlie evolutionary resilience of mammalian gene expression. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 2(1). 152–163. 95 indexed citations

Villar, Diego, et al.. (2016). Mitochondrial heteroplasmy in vertebrates using ChIP-sequencing data. Genome biology. 17(1). 139–139. 17 indexed citations

Rudolph, Konrad L M, Bianca M. Schmitt, Diego Villar, et al.. (2016). Codon-Driven Translational Efficiency Is Stable across Diverse Mammalian Cell States. PLoS Genetics. 12(5). e1006024–e1006024. 58 indexed citations

Naranjo, José R., Hongyu Zhang, Diego Villar, et al.. (2016). Activating transcription factor 6 derepression mediates neuroprotection in Huntington disease. Journal of Clinical Investigation. 126(2). 627–638. 50 indexed citations

Villar, Diego, Camille Berthelot, Sarah Aldridge, et al.. (2015). Enhancer Evolution across 20 Mammalian Species. Cell. 160(3). 554–566. 464 indexed citations breakdown →

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Villar, Diego, Paul Flicek, & Duncan T. Odom. (2014). Evolution of transcription factor binding in metazoans — mechanisms and functional implications. Nature Reviews Genetics. 15(4). 221–233. 146 indexed citations

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Aguilar‐Quesada, Rocío, Eva Siles, María Isabel Rodríguez, et al.. (2013). Interaction between PARP-1 and HIF-2α in the hypoxic response. Oncogene. 33(7). 891–898. 48 indexed citations

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Villar, Diego, Nuria Pescador, Fátima Sánchez‐Cabo, et al.. (2012). Cooperativity of Stress-Responsive Transcription Factors in Core Hypoxia-Inducible Factor Binding Regions. PLoS ONE. 7(9). e45708–e45708. 29 indexed citations

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Tiana, María, Diego Villar, Eva Pérez‐Guijarro, et al.. (2011). A role for insulator elements in the regulation of gene expression response to hypoxia. Nucleic Acids Research. 40(5). 1916–1927. 9 indexed citations

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Rivas, Marcos, et al.. (2011). Building the DREAM interactome. Science China Life Sciences. 54(8). 786–792. 16 indexed citations

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Villar, Diego, et al.. (2010). Genome-wide identification of hypoxia-inducible factor binding sites and target genes by a probabilistic model integrating transcription-profiling data and in silico binding site prediction. Nucleic Acids Research. 38(7). 2332–2345. 160 indexed citations

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Pescador, Nuria, Diego Villar, Daniel Cifuentes, et al.. (2010). Hypoxia Promotes Glycogen Accumulation through Hypoxia Inducible Factor (HIF)-Mediated Induction of Glycogen Synthase 1. PLoS ONE. 5(3). e9644–e9644. 208 indexed citations

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Villar, Diego, et al.. (2007). Identification of a region on hypoxia-inducible-factor prolyl 4-hydroxylases that determines their specificity for the oxygen degradation domains. Biochemical Journal. 408(2). 231–240. 32 indexed citations

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Pescador, Nuria, et al.. (2005). Identification of a functional hypoxia-responsive element that regulates the expression of the egl nine homologue 3 (egln3/phd3) gene. Biochemical Journal. 390(1). 189–197. 181 indexed citations

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