Édith Heard

34.3k total citations · 8 hit papers
181 papers, 23.3k citations indexed

About

Édith Heard is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Édith Heard has authored 181 papers receiving a total of 23.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 142 papers in Molecular Biology, 103 papers in Genetics and 30 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Édith Heard's work include Genetic and Clinical Aspects of Sex Determination and Chromosomal Abnormalities (87 papers), Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (74 papers) and Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (39 papers). Édith Heard is often cited by papers focused on Genetic and Clinical Aspects of Sex Determination and Chromosomal Abnormalities (87 papers), Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (74 papers) and Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (39 papers). Édith Heard collaborates with scholars based in France, United States and Germany. Édith Heard's co-authors include Robert A. Martienssen, Job Dekker, Philip Avner, Ikuhiro Okamoto, Giacomo Cavalli, Nicolas Servant, Emmanuel Barillot, Elphège P. Nora, Bryan R. Lajoie and C. David Allis and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Édith Heard

175 papers receiving 23.0k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Spatial partitioning of the regulatory landscape of the X-inactivation centre

2012 2.1k citations Elphège P. Nora, Edda G. Schulz et al. Nature profile →
Rb-Mediated Heterochromatin Formation and Silencing of E2F Target Genes during Cellular Senescence

2003 1.7k citations Édith Heard et al. Cell profile →
HiC-Pro: an optimized and flexible pipeline for Hi-C data processing

2015 1.4k citations Nicolas Servant, Édith Heard et al. profile →
Transgenerational Epigenetic Inheritance: Myths and Mechanisms

2014 1.2k citations Édith Heard et al. Cell profile →
Advances in epigenetics link genetics to the environment and disease

2019 940 citations Édith Heard et al. Nature profile →
Systematic Discovery of Xist RNA Binding Proteins

2015 777 citations Édith Heard, Howard Y. Chang et al. Cell profile →
Epigenetic Dynamics of Imprinted X Inactivation During Early Mouse Development

2003 630 citations Ikuhiro Okamoto, Arie P. Otte et al. Science profile →
Gene regulation in time and space during X-chromosome inactivation

2022 145 citations Agnese Loda, Samuel Collombet et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Édith Heard France	74	19.6k	7.7k	3.8k	3.5k	1.3k	181	23.3k
J Stamatoyannopoulos United States	67	18.9k 1.0×	4.8k 0.6×	3.4k 0.9×	2.5k 0.7×	554 0.4×	137	22.8k
Tarjei S. Mikkelsen United States	44	26.3k 1.3×	5.4k 0.7×	1.8k 0.5×	6.1k 1.7×	969 0.8×	65	31.8k
W. James Kent United States	24	16.9k 0.9×	5.8k 0.8×	4.3k 1.1×	3.0k 0.8×	444 0.4×	32	21.5k
Thomas Jenuwein Austria	84	36.9k 1.9×	5.9k 0.8×	5.6k 1.5×	3.2k 0.9×	2.2k 1.8×	124	41.3k
Dirk Schübeler Switzerland	70	17.8k 0.9×	4.3k 0.6×	1.6k 0.4×	1.8k 0.5×	488 0.4×	113	19.9k
Nigel P. Carter United Kingdom	50	8.1k 0.4×	6.9k 0.9×	2.9k 0.8×	1.7k 0.5×	1.9k 1.5×	98	14.1k
Paul Flicek United Kingdom	59	14.2k 0.7×	8.2k 1.1×	2.3k 0.6×	2.8k 0.8×	672 0.5×	125	23.7k
Alan P. Wolffe United States	87	23.3k 1.2×	6.6k 0.9×	2.4k 0.6×	1.3k 0.4×	626 0.5×	221	26.5k
Chris P. Ponting United Kingdom	100	29.7k 1.5×	5.4k 0.7×	4.1k 1.1×	9.4k 2.7×	1.4k 1.1×	304	38.6k
Deborah A. Nickerson United States	72	11.0k 0.6×	12.8k 1.7×	1.6k 0.4×	2.2k 0.6×	1.1k 0.9×	290	25.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Édith Heard

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Panten, Jasper, Emma Kneuss, Christel Picard, et al.. (2025). Escape from X inactivation is directly modulated by Xist noncoding RNA. Nature Cell Biology. 28(1). 166–181.

Marion‐Poll, Lucile, Dina Zielinski, Mikaël Attia, et al.. (2021). Locus specific epigenetic modalities of random allelic expression imbalance. Nature Communications. 12(1). 5330–5330. 11 indexed citations

Dossin, François, Inês Pinheiro, Jan J Żylicz, et al.. (2020). SPEN integrates transcriptional and epigenetic control of X-inactivation. Nature. 578(7795). 455–460. 140 indexed citations

Collombet, Samuel, Yuvia A. Pérez-Rico, Katia Ancelin, Nicolas Servant, & Édith Heard. (2020). Bioinformatic Analysis of Single-Cell Hi-C Data from Early Mouse Embryo. Methods in molecular biology. 2214. 295–316. 2 indexed citations

Collombet, Samuel, Noémie Ranisavljevic, Takashi Nagano, et al.. (2020). Parental-to-embryo switch of chromosome organization in early embryogenesis. Nature. 580(7801). 142–146. 121 indexed citations

Galupa, Rafael, Elphège P. Nora, Rebecca Worsley-Hunt, et al.. (2019). A Conserved Noncoding Locus Regulates Random Monoallelic Xist Expression across a Topological Boundary. Molecular Cell. 77(2). 352–367.e8. 45 indexed citations

Bousard, Aurélie, Ana Cláudia Raposo, Jan J Żylicz, et al.. (2019). The role of Xist ‐mediated Polycomb recruitment in the initiation of X‐chromosome inactivation. EMBO Reports. 20(10). e48019–e48019. 83 indexed citations

Żylicz, Jan J, Aurélie Bousard, Kristina Žumer, et al.. (2018). The Implication of Early Chromatin Changes in X Chromosome Inactivation. Cell. 176(1-2). 182–197.e23. 183 indexed citations

Borensztein, Maud, Ikuhiro Okamoto, Laurène Syx, et al.. (2017). Contribution of epigenetic landscapes and transcription factors to X-chromosome reactivation in the inner cell mass. Nature Communications. 8(1). 1297–1297. 47 indexed citations

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Borensztein, Maud, Laurène Syx, Katia Ancelin, et al.. (2017). Xist-dependent imprinted X inactivation and the early developmental consequences of its failure. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 24(3). 226–233. 116 indexed citations

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Gendrel, Anne-Valérie, et al.. (2016). Random monoallelic expression of genes on autosomes: Parallels with X-chromosome inactivation. Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology. 56. 100–110. 45 indexed citations

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Chaligné, Ronan, Tatiana Popova, Marco Antonio Mendoza-Parra, et al.. (2015). The inactive X chromosome is epigenetically unstable and transcriptionally labile in breast cancer. Genome Research. 25(4). 488–503. 91 indexed citations

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Schulz, Edda G., Johannes Meisig, Tomonori Nakamura, et al.. (2014). The Two Active X Chromosomes in Female ESCs Block Exit from the Pluripotent State by Modulating the ESC Signaling Network. Cell stem cell. 14(2). 203–216. 129 indexed citations

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Gendrel, Anne-Valérie, Mikaël Attia, Patricia Diabangouaya, et al.. (2014). Developmental Dynamics and Disease Potential of Random Monoallelic Gene Expression. Developmental Cell. 28(4). 366–380. 101 indexed citations

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Nora, Elphège P., Job Dekker, & Édith Heard. (2013). Segmental folding of chromosomes: A basis for structural and regulatory chromosomal neighborhoods?. BioEssays. 35(9). 818–828. 139 indexed citations

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Chen, Chongjian & Édith Heard. (2013). Small RNAs derived from structural non-coding RNAs. Methods. 63(1). 76–84. 36 indexed citations

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Okamoto, Ikuhiro, Catherine Patrat, Dominique Thépot, et al.. (2011). Eutherian mammals use diverse strategies to initiate X-chromosome inactivation during development. Nature. 472(7343). 370–374. 344 indexed citations

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Augui, Sandrine, Guillaume J. Filion, Elphège P. Nora, et al.. (2007). Sensing X Chromosome Pairs Before X Inactivation via a Novel X-Pairing Region of the Xic. Science. 318(5856). 1632–1636. 139 indexed citations

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Okamoto, Ikuhiro, Danielle Arnaud, Patricia Le Baccon, et al.. (2005). Evidence for de novo imprinted X-chromosome inactivation independent of meiotic inactivation in mice. Nature. 438(7066). 369–373. 145 indexed citations

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Okamoto, Ikuhiro, Arie P. Otte, C. David Allis, Danny Reinberg, & Édith Heard. (2003). Epigenetic Dynamics of Imprinted X Inactivation During Early Mouse Development. Science. 303(5658). 644–649. 630 indexed citations breakdown →

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