Douglas J. Winton

9.3k total citations · 3 hit papers
78 papers, 6.6k citations indexed

About

Douglas J. Winton is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Oncology and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Douglas J. Winton has authored 78 papers receiving a total of 6.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 47 papers in Molecular Biology, 34 papers in Oncology and 24 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Douglas J. Winton's work include Cancer Cells and Metastasis (25 papers), Genetic factors in colorectal cancer (17 papers) and Digestive system and related health (16 papers). Douglas J. Winton is often cited by papers focused on Cancer Cells and Metastasis (25 papers), Genetic factors in colorectal cancer (17 papers) and Digestive system and related health (16 papers). Douglas J. Winton collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Netherlands. Douglas J. Winton's co-authors include Benjamin D. Simons, Allon M. Klein, Richard Kemp, Alan R. Clarke, Owen J. Sansom, Bruce A.J. Ponder, Louis Vermeulen, Simon J. A. Buczacki, Anna M. Nicholson and Carlos López‐García and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Douglas J. Winton

76 papers receiving 6.5k 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.

A single type of progenitor cell maintains normal epidermis

2007 649 citations Douglas J. Winton et al. Nature profile →
Loss of Apc in vivo immediately perturbs Wnt signaling, differentiation, and migration

2004 636 citations Owen J. Sansom, Eduard Batlle et al. profile →
Intestinal label-retaining cells are secretory precursors expressing Lgr5

2013 568 citations Simon J. A. Buczacki, Anna M. Nicholson 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
Douglas J. Winton United Kingdom	40	4.0k	3.0k	1.4k	1.3k	954	78	6.6k
Luís Teixeira da Costa Portugal	17	4.7k 1.2×	3.1k 1.0×	1.5k 1.0×	1.3k 1.0×	1.0k 1.1×	45	7.3k
Hein te Riele Netherlands	44	6.0k 1.5×	2.3k 0.8×	1.5k 1.0×	1.3k 1.1×	1.6k 1.7×	108	8.2k
Susanne M. Gollin United States	48	4.4k 1.1×	2.0k 0.7×	1.3k 0.9×	1.6k 1.3×	580 0.6×	141	7.2k
Ron Smits Netherlands	41	4.1k 1.0×	1.9k 0.6×	807 0.6×	961 0.8×	1.5k 1.6×	95	6.5k
Pradip Raychaudhuri United States	45	4.5k 1.1×	2.0k 0.7×	1.1k 0.7×	749 0.6×	470 0.5×	92	5.6k
Tan A. Ince United States	42	6.2k 1.5×	2.3k 0.8×	761 0.5×	1.3k 1.0×	391 0.4×	73	9.1k
Laurens G. van der Flier Netherlands	11	3.1k 0.8×	2.1k 0.7×	1.2k 0.8×	619 0.5×	412 0.4×	12	5.3k
Jean Feunteun France	46	5.2k 1.3×	2.2k 0.7×	2.6k 1.8×	1.3k 1.0×	566 0.6×	128	7.6k
Charles Spruck United States	36	4.0k 1.0×	2.4k 0.8×	444 0.3×	937 0.7×	650 0.7×	58	5.9k
Nelly Auersperg Canada	50	4.5k 1.1×	1.9k 0.6×	1.5k 1.0×	1.3k 1.0×	480 0.5×	195	8.8k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Douglas J. Winton

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Lourenço, Filipe C., Kim Wong, Ashley Sawle, et al.. (2025). Decay of driver mutations shapes the landscape of intestinal transformation. Nature. 649(8097). 729–738.

Morrissey, Edward, Richard Kemp, Chandra Sekhar Reddy Chilamakuri, et al.. (2025). Haploinsufficient phenotypes promote selection of PTEN and ARID1A-deficient clones in human colon. EMBO Reports. 26(5). 1269–1289. 1 indexed citations

Sawle, Ashley, Dominique‐Laurent Couturier, Matthew Eldridge, et al.. (2024). Polyclonality overcomes fitness barriers in Apc-driven tumorigenesis. Nature. 634(8036). 1196–1203. 10 indexed citations

Bons, Joanna, Filipe C. Lourenço, Samah Shah, et al.. (2024). Extracellular Matrix Orchestration of Tissue Remodeling in the Chronically Inflamed Mouse Colon. Cellular and Molecular Gastroenterology and Hepatology. 17(4). 639–656. 3 indexed citations

Rahrmann, Eric P., David Shorthouse, Mariaestela Ortiz, et al.. (2022). The NALCN channel regulates metastasis and nonmalignant cell dissemination. Nature Genetics. 54(12). 1827–1838. 38 indexed citations

Buczacki, Simon J. A., Emma K. Biggs, Chrysa Koukorava, et al.. (2018). Itraconazole targets cell cycle heterogeneity in colorectal cancer. The Journal of Experimental Medicine. 215(7). 1891–1912. 53 indexed citations

Tomić, Goran, Edward Morrissey, Shani Ben‐Moshe, et al.. (2018). Phospho-regulation of ATOH1 Is Required for Plasticity of Secretory Progenitors and Tissue Regeneration. Cell stem cell. 23(3). 436–443.e7. 69 indexed citations

Nicholson, Anna M., Richard Kemp, Philip Quirke, et al.. (2018). Fixation and Spread of Somatic Mutations in Adult Human Colonic Epithelium. Cell stem cell. 22(6). 909–918.e8. 72 indexed citations

Barriga, Francisco M., Miyeko Mana, María Méndez-Lago, et al.. (2017). Mex3a Marks a Slowly Dividing Subpopulation of Lgr5+ Intestinal Stem Cells. Cell stem cell. 20(6). 801–816.e7. 132 indexed citations

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Heijden, Maartje van der, Cheryl Zimberlin, Anna M. Nicholson, et al.. (2016). Bcl-2 is a critical mediator of intestinal transformation. Nature Communications. 7(1). 10916–10916. 53 indexed citations

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Davis, Felicity M., Bethan Lloyd‐Lewis, Olivia B. Harris, et al.. (2016). Single-cell lineage tracing in the mammary gland reveals stochastic clonal dispersion of stem/progenitor cell progeny. Nature Communications. 7(1). 13053–13053. 98 indexed citations

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Vermeulen, Louis, Edward Morrissey, Maartje van der Heijden, et al.. (2013). Defining Stem Cell Dynamics in Models of Intestinal Tumor Initiation. Science. 342(6161). 995–998. 295 indexed citations

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Furstenberg, Richard J. von, et al.. (2013). Side population sorting separates subfractions of cycling and non-cycling intestinal stem cells. Stem Cell Research. 12(2). 364–375. 15 indexed citations

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Wilson, Catherine H., Catriona Crombie, Louise van der Weyden, et al.. (2012). Nuclear receptor binding protein 1 regulates intestinal progenitor cell homeostasis and tumour formation. The EMBO Journal. 31(11). 2486–2497. 40 indexed citations

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Metcalfe, Ciara, Ashraf E.K. Ibrahim, Marc de la Roche, et al.. (2010). Dvl2 Promotes Intestinal Length and Neoplasia in the Apc Min Mouse Model for Colorectal Cancer. Cancer Research. 70(16). 6629–6638. 46 indexed citations

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Dop, Willemijn A. van, Jarom Heijmans, Nikè V.J.A. Büller, et al.. (2010). Loss of Indian Hedgehog Activates Multiple Aspects of a Wound Healing Response in the Mouse Intestine. Gastroenterology. 139(5). 1665–1676.e10. 65 indexed citations

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Ashton, G H S, Jennifer P. Morton, Kevin Myant, et al.. (2010). Focal Adhesion Kinase Is Required for Intestinal Regeneration and Tumorigenesis Downstream of Wnt/c-Myc Signaling. Developmental Cell. 19(2). 259–269. 153 indexed citations

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Houghton, Carol, et al.. (2005). Cellular inheritance of a Cre‐activated reporter gene to determine paneth cell longevity in the murine small intestine. Developmental Dynamics. 233(4). 1332–1336. 108 indexed citations

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Winton, Douglas J.. (2001). 22 Stem Cells in the Epithelium of the Small Intestine and Colon. Cold Spring Harbor Monograph Archive. 40. 515–536. 9 indexed citations

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Winton, Douglas J., J.H. Peacock, & Bruce A.J. Ponder. (1989). Effect of gamma radiation at high- and low-dose rate on a novel in vivo mutation assay in mouse intestine. Mutagenesis. 4(5). 404–406. 28 indexed citations

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