Elzo de Wit

15.9k total citations · 6 hit papers
80 papers, 9.6k citations indexed

About

Elzo de Wit is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Plant Science and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Elzo de Wit has authored 80 papers receiving a total of 9.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 78 papers in Molecular Biology, 30 papers in Plant Science and 8 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Elzo de Wit's work include Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (61 papers), RNA Research and Splicing (31 papers) and Chromosomal and Genetic Variations (27 papers). Elzo de Wit is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (61 papers), RNA Research and Splicing (31 papers) and Chromosomal and Genetic Variations (27 papers). Elzo de Wit collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, United States and United Kingdom. Elzo de Wit's co-authors include Wouter de Laat, Bas van Steensel, Erik Splinter, Petra Klous, Hans Teunissen, Wendy Talhout, Harmen J.G. van de Werken, Marieke Simonis, Frauke Greil and Peter H.L. Krijger and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Elzo de Wit

78 papers receiving 9.5k 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.

Nuclear organization of active and inactive chromatin domains uncovered by chromosome conformation capture–on-chip (4C)

2006 1.0k citations Petra Klous, Erik Splinter et al. Nature Genetics profile →
In Vivo Imaging Reveals Extracellular Vesicle-Mediated Phenocopying of Metastatic Behavior

2015 689 citations Elzo de Wit et al. profile →
A decade of 3C technologies: insights into nuclear organization

2012 520 citations Elzo de Wit, Wouter de Laat Genes & Development profile →
The Cohesin Release Factor WAPL Restricts Chromatin Loop Extension

2017 519 citations Judith H.I. Haarhuis, Robin H. van der Weide et al. profile →
CTCF Binding Polarity Determines Chromatin Looping

2015 448 citations Elzo de Wit, Sjoerd J.B. Holwerda et al. profile →
The structural basis for cohesin–CTCF-anchored loops

2020 292 citations Judith H.I. Haarhuis, Hans Teunissen et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Elzo de Wit Netherlands	46	8.6k	2.3k	1.3k	1.3k	555	80	9.6k
Silvana Konermann United States	18	15.2k 1.8×	1.7k 0.7×	2.7k 2.0×	791 0.6×	524 0.9×	26	16.3k
Denes Hnisz United States	24	10.1k 1.2×	993 0.4×	1.2k 0.9×	1.4k 1.1×	943 1.7×	34	11.4k
Friederike Dündar United States	10	5.6k 0.6×	1.4k 0.6×	854 0.6×	717 0.6×	773 1.4×	16	7.0k
Tomek Swigut United States	38	7.4k 0.9×	832 0.4×	1.2k 0.9×	720 0.6×	1.0k 1.8×	51	9.1k
Wouter de Laat Netherlands	62	15.1k 1.8×	3.4k 1.5×	2.7k 2.0×	1.6k 1.3×	931 1.7×	105	16.6k
Kami Ahmad United States	39	7.3k 0.8×	2.6k 1.1×	1.1k 0.8×	412 0.3×	500 0.9×	71	8.4k
Jesse R. Dixon United States	21	9.8k 1.1×	2.4k 1.1×	1.9k 1.4×	942 0.7×	649 1.2×	29	10.7k
Alberto R. Kornblihtt Argentina	50	9.1k 1.1×	911 0.4×	765 0.6×	1.5k 1.2×	581 1.0×	133	11.1k
Laurie A. Boyer United States	32	12.6k 1.5×	831 0.4×	1.6k 1.2×	2.2k 1.7×	774 1.4×	48	14.1k
Victor V. Lobanenkov United States	53	9.9k 1.2×	1.2k 0.5×	3.4k 2.6×	836 0.7×	855 1.5×	107	11.0k

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Blotenburg, Marloes, Daniel V. Bax, Jan Visser, et al.. (2025). Stem cell culture conditions affect in vitro differentiation potential and mouse gastruloid formation. PLoS ONE. 20(3). e0317309–e0317309. 3 indexed citations

Braccioli, Luca, et al.. (2025). Identifying cross-lineage dependencies of cell-type-specific regulators in mouse gastruloids. Developmental Cell. 60(14). 2007–2022.e7. 1 indexed citations

Aslam, Muhammad Assad, Teun van den Brand, Bram van den Broek, et al.. (2025). Histone methyltransferase DOT1L maintains cell state and restricts cytotoxic potential of CD8 T cells. Science Advances. 11(50). eadw1289–eadw1289.

Garner, Hannah, Ning Qing Liu, Noor A. M. Bakker, et al.. (2025). Understanding and reversing mammary tumor-driven reprogramming of myelopoiesis to reduce metastatic spread. Cancer Cell. 43(7). 1279–1295.e9. 9 indexed citations

Eder, M, Mikhail Magnitov, Marcel de Haas, et al.. (2025). Functional maps of a genomic locus reveal confinement of an enhancer by its target gene. Science. 389(6766). eads6552–eads6552. 2 indexed citations

Han, Ruiqi, Yike Huang, Mikhail Magnitov, et al.. (2025). Characterization of induced cohesin loop extrusion trajectories in living cells. Nature Genetics. 57(11). 2785–2797. 2 indexed citations

Liu, Ning Qing, Mikhail Magnitov, Tom van Schaik, et al.. (2025). Extrusion fountains are restricted by WAPL-dependent cohesin release and CTCF barriers. Nucleic Acids Research. 53(12). 3 indexed citations

Liu, Ning Qing, Lars Custers, Peter Zeller, et al.. (2023). SMARCB1 loss activates patient-specific distal oncogenic enhancers in malignant rhabdoid tumors. Nature Communications. 14(1). 7762–7762. 14 indexed citations

Dimitrova, Emilia, Angelika Feldmann, Robin H. van der Weide, et al.. (2022). Distinct roles for CKM–Mediator in controlling Polycomb-dependent chromosomal interactions and priming genes for induction. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 29(10). 1000–1010. 14 indexed citations

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Schaik, Tom van, Stefano Giustino Manzo, Ning Qing Liu, et al.. (2022). Dynamic chromosomal interactions and control of heterochromatin positioning by Ki‐67. EMBO Reports. 23(12). e55782–e55782. 12 indexed citations

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Weide, Robin H. van der, Teun van den Brand, Judith H.I. Haarhuis, et al.. (2021). Hi-C analyses with GENOVA: a case study with cohesin variants. NAR Genomics and Bioinformatics. 3(2). lqab040–lqab040. 87 indexed citations

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Aslam, Muhammad Assad, Mir Farshid Alemdehy, Teun van den Brand, et al.. (2020). The histone methyltransferase DOT1L prevents antigen-independent differentiation and safeguards epigenetic identity of CD8 ⁺ T cells. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(34). 20706–20716. 32 indexed citations

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Bemmel, Joke G. van, Rafael Galupa, Nicolas Servant, et al.. (2019). The bipartite TAD organization of the X-inactivation center ensures opposing developmental regulation of Tsix and Xist. Nature Genetics. 51(6). 1024–1034. 55 indexed citations

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Li, Li, Pieter C. Van Breugel, Fabricio Loayza‐Puch, et al.. (2018). LncRNA-OIS1 regulates DPP4 activation to modulate senescence induced by RAS. Nucleic Acids Research. 46(8). 4213–4227. 42 indexed citations

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Wit, Elzo de & Wouter de Laat. (2012). A decade of 3C technologies: insights into nuclear organization. Genes & Development. 26(1). 11–24. 520 indexed citations breakdown →

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Werken, Harmen J.G. van de, Erik Splinter, Sjoerd J.B. Holwerda, et al.. (2012). 4C Technology: Protocols and Data Analysis. Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology. 513. 89–112. 162 indexed citations

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Wit, Elzo de, Sam Linsen, Edwin Cuppen, & Eugène Berezikov. (2009). Repertoire and evolution of miRNA genes in four divergent nematode species. Genome Research. 19(11). 2064–2074. 102 indexed citations

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Wit, Elzo de & Bas van Steensel. (2008). Chromatin domains in higher eukaryotes: insights from genome-wide mapping studies. Chromosoma. 118(1). 25–36. 48 indexed citations

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Moorman, Celine, Junbai Wang, Elzo de Wit, et al.. (2006). Hotspots of transcription factor colocalization in the genome of Drosophila melanogaster. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 103(32). 12027–12032. 152 indexed citations

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Choksi, Semil P., Tony D. Southall, Torsten Bossing, et al.. (2006). Prospero Acts as a Binary Switch between Self-Renewal and Differentiation in Drosophila Neural Stem Cells. Developmental Cell. 11(6). 775–789. 298 indexed citations

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