Dirk A. Kleinjan

3.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
30 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

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Dirk A. Kleinjan is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Surgery. According to data from OpenAlex, Dirk A. Kleinjan has authored 30 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 25 papers in Molecular Biology, 21 papers in Genetics and 3 papers in Surgery. Recurrent topics in Dirk A. Kleinjan's work include Developmental Biology and Gene Regulation (15 papers), Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (13 papers) and Animal Genetics and Reproduction (13 papers). Dirk A. Kleinjan is often cited by papers focused on Developmental Biology and Gene Regulation (15 papers), Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (13 papers) and Animal Genetics and Reproduction (13 papers). Dirk A. Kleinjan collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Singapore and United States. Dirk A. Kleinjan's co-authors include Veronica van Heyningen, Anne Seawright, Shipra Bhatia, Laura A. Lettice, Giuseppe Damante, Sébastien Mella, John O. Mason, David J. Price, Andrew J. Childs and Pedro M. Coutinho and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, PLoS ONE and Development.

In The Last Decade

Dirk A. Kleinjan

30 papers receiving 2.1k 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.

Long-Range Control of Gene Expression: Emerging Mechanisms and Disruption in Disease

2004 651 citations Dirk A. Kleinjan, Veronica van Heyningen The American Journal of Human Genetics profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Dirk A. Kleinjan United Kingdom	21	1.6k	921	262	164	155	30	2.1k
Anne Seawright United Kingdom	18	1.6k 1.0×	580 0.6×	85 0.3×	161 1.0×	107 0.7×	22	1.9k
Kazuko Koshiba‐Takeuchi Japan	19	1.9k 1.1×	423 0.5×	109 0.4×	76 0.5×	108 0.7×	27	2.2k
Giorgio Bernardi France	11	1.3k 0.8×	767 0.8×	173 0.7×	36 0.2×	216 1.4×	11	2.1k
Hajime Ogino Japan	25	1.6k 1.0×	460 0.5×	83 0.3×	136 0.8×	132 0.9×	59	1.9k
Ryohei Sekido United Kingdom	25	3.0k 1.9×	2.9k 3.2×	170 0.6×	62 0.4×	308 2.0×	30	4.2k
Carl C.T. Ton United States	13	1.8k 1.1×	661 0.7×	55 0.2×	223 1.4×	103 0.7×	16	2.2k
Giuseppe Pilia United States	23	2.0k 1.2×	1.5k 1.6×	151 0.6×	48 0.3×	129 0.8×	41	2.9k
Radma Mahmood United Kingdom	19	1.6k 1.0×	356 0.4×	80 0.3×	57 0.3×	191 1.2×	26	2.1k
Thomas Hollemann Germany	23	1.4k 0.9×	474 0.5×	51 0.2×	77 0.5×	94 0.6×	51	1.7k
Lisa I. Jepeal United States	19	1.5k 0.9×	635 0.7×	50 0.2×	142 0.9×	125 0.8×	32	2.1k

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Ravi, Vydianathan, Shipra Bhatia, Prashant Shingate, et al.. (2019). Lampreys, the jawless vertebrates, contain three Pax6 genes with distinct expression in eye, brain and pancreas. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 19559–19559. 11 indexed citations

Bhatia, Shipra, Christopher T. Gordon, Véronique Abadie, et al.. (2015). Functional Assessment of Disease-Associated Regulatory Variants In Vivo Using a Versatile Dual Colour Transgenesis Strategy in Zebrafish. PLoS Genetics. 11(6). e1005193–e1005193. 18 indexed citations

Bhatia, Shipra, Jack Monahan, Vydianathan Ravi, et al.. (2014). A survey of ancient conserved non-coding elements in the PAX6 locus reveals a landscape of interdigitated cis-regulatory archipelagos. Developmental Biology. 387(2). 214–228. 31 indexed citations

Hart, Alan, et al.. (2013). The Developmental Regulator Pax6 Is Essential for Maintenance of Islet Cell Function in the Adult Mouse Pancreas. PLoS ONE. 8(1). e54173–e54173. 60 indexed citations

Bhatia, Shipra, Hemant Bengani, Margaret B. Fish, et al.. (2013). Disruption of Autoregulatory Feedback by a Mutation in a Remote, Ultraconserved PAX6 Enhancer Causes Aniridia. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 93(6). 1126–1134. 135 indexed citations

Mi, Da, Yu-Ting Huang, Dirk A. Kleinjan, John O. Mason, & David J. Price. (2013). Identification of Genomic Regions Regulating Pax6 Expression in Embryonic Forebrain Using YAC Reporter Transgenic Mouse Lines. PLoS ONE. 8(11). e80208–e80208. 7 indexed citations

Ravi, Vydianathan, Shipra Bhatia, Philippe Gautier, et al.. (2013). Sequencing of Pax6 Loci from the Elephant Shark Reveals a Family of Pax6 Genes in Vertebrate Genomes, Forged by Ancient Duplications and Divergences. PLoS Genetics. 9(1). e1003177–e1003177. 36 indexed citations

Coutinho, Pedro M., et al.. (2011). Discovery and assessment of conserved Pax6 target genes and enhancers. Genome Research. 21(8). 1349–1359. 37 indexed citations

McBride, David J., Adam Buckle, Veronica van Heyningen, & Dirk A. Kleinjan. (2011). DNaseI Hypersensitivity and Ultraconservation Reveal Novel, Interdependent Long-Range Enhancers at the Complex Pax6 Cis-Regulatory Region. PLoS ONE. 6(12). e28616–e28616. 45 indexed citations

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Mort, Richard L., Thaya Ramaesh, Dirk A. Kleinjan, Steven D. Morley, & John D. West. (2009). Mosaic analysis of stem cell function and wound healing in the mouse corneal epithelium. BMC Developmental Biology. 9(1). 4–4. 61 indexed citations

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Kleinjan, Dirk A. & Laura A. Lettice. (2008). Chapter 13 Long‐Range Gene Control and Genetic Disease. Advances in genetics. 61. 339–388. 68 indexed citations

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Kleinjan, Dirk A., Philippe Gautier, Ralf Dahm, et al.. (2008). Subfunctionalization of Duplicated Zebrafish pax6 Genes by cis-Regulatory Divergence. PLoS Genetics. 4(2). e29–e29. 128 indexed citations

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Simpson, T. Ian, Catherine B. Carr, Dirk A. Kleinjan, et al.. (2006). Functional conservation of Pax6 regulatory elements in humans and mice demonstrated with a novel transgenic reporter mouse. BMC Developmental Biology. 6(1). 21–21. 25 indexed citations

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Kleinjan, Dirk A., Anne Seawright, Sébastien Mella, et al.. (2006). Long-range downstream enhancers are essential for Pax6 expression. Developmental Biology. 299(2). 563–581. 109 indexed citations

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Kleinjan, Dirk A. & Veronica van Heyningen. (2004). Long-Range Control of Gene Expression: Emerging Mechanisms and Disruption in Disease. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 76(1). 8–32. 651 indexed citations breakdown →

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Kleinjan, Dirk A., Anne Seawright, Andrew J. Childs, & Veronica van Heyningen. (2003). Conserved elements in Pax6 intron 7 involved in (auto)regulation and alternative transcription. Developmental Biology. 265(2). 462–477. 88 indexed citations

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Griffin, Caroline, Dirk A. Kleinjan, Brendan Doe, & Veronica van Heyningen. (2002). New 3′ elements control Pax6 expression in the developing pretectum, neural retina and olfactory region. Mechanisms of Development. 112(1-2). 89–100. 75 indexed citations

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Kleinjan, Dirk A., Anne Seawright, Greg Elgar, & Veronica van Heyningen. (2002). Characterization of a novel gene adjacent to PAX6, revealing synteny conservation with functional significance. Mammalian Genome. 13(2). 102–107. 38 indexed citations

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Kleinjan, Dirk A.. (2001). Aniridia-associated translocations, DNase hypersensitivity, sequence comparison and transgenic analysis redefine the functional domain of PAX6. Human Molecular Genetics. 10(19). 2049–2059. 152 indexed citations

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Kleinjan, Dirk A., Sylvia Dekker, Jacky Guy, & Frank Grosveld. (1998). Cloning and sequencing of the CRABP-I locus from chicken and pufferfish: analysis of the promoter regions in transgenic mice. Transgenic Research. 7(2). 85–94. 7 indexed citations

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