Fernando Setién

9.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
57 papers, 3.4k citations indexed

About

Fernando Setién is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Immunology and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Fernando Setién has authored 57 papers receiving a total of 3.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 43 papers in Molecular Biology, 14 papers in Immunology and 9 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Fernando Setién's work include Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (19 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (12 papers) and Cancer-related gene regulation (11 papers). Fernando Setién is often cited by papers focused on Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (19 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (12 papers) and Cancer-related gene regulation (11 papers). Fernando Setién collaborates with scholars based in Spain, United States and Netherlands. Fernando Setién's co-authors include Manel Esteller, Mario F. Fraga, Santiago Ropero, Esteban Ballestar, Miguel Alaminos, Montse Sánchez‐Céspedes, Alberto Villanueva, Celia Cerrato, Carlos Caldas and Amaia Lujambio and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nucleic Acids Research and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Fernando Setién

57 papers receiving 3.4k 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.

Genetic Unmasking of an Epigenetically Silenced microRNA in Human Cancer Cells

2007 729 citations Amaia Lujambio, Santiago Ropero et al. Cancer Research profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Fernando Setién Spain	30	2.7k	1.1k	403	337	324	57	3.4k
Stefan J. Erkeland Netherlands	25	3.2k 1.2×	2.5k 2.3×	496 1.2×	374 1.1×	325 1.0×	57	4.1k
Marian E. Durkin United States	31	2.1k 0.8×	944 0.9×	168 0.4×	455 1.4×	289 0.9×	55	3.0k
Steven Goossens Belgium	26	1.9k 0.7×	649 0.6×	409 1.0×	805 2.4×	242 0.7×	71	3.0k
Matteo Cesaroni United States	23	2.2k 0.8×	606 0.6×	297 0.7×	314 0.9×	186 0.6×	45	2.7k
Ann Kuo United States	13	2.9k 1.1×	357 0.3×	360 0.9×	397 1.2×	705 2.2×	14	3.4k
Mira Jeong United States	28	2.8k 1.0×	593 0.5×	763 1.9×	264 0.8×	416 1.3×	47	4.1k
Diana Bellavia Italy	30	1.9k 0.7×	564 0.5×	850 2.1×	636 1.9×	168 0.5×	57	3.0k
Thomas Mikeska Australia	22	2.0k 0.8×	543 0.5×	314 0.8×	508 1.5×	443 1.4×	45	2.7k
Rachel Deplus Belgium	14	3.1k 1.2×	522 0.5×	268 0.7×	256 0.8×	571 1.8×	18	3.6k
Lluís Morey United States	26	4.1k 1.5×	684 0.6×	234 0.6×	436 1.3×	595 1.8×	41	4.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Fernando Setién

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Fernando Setién

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Fernando Setién. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Fernando Setién based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Fernando Setién. Fernando Setién is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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20 of 20 papers shown

Soares, Edilene Siqueira, Marta Soler, Fernando Setién, et al.. (2025). NEAT1-mediated regulation of proteostasis and mRNA localization impacts autophagy dysregulation in Rett syndrome. Nucleic Acids Research. 53(4). 2 indexed citations

García‐Prieto, Carlos A., Gerardo Ferrer, Verónica Dávalos, et al.. (2024). A DNA methylation database of human and mouse hematological malignancy cell lines. Leukemia. 39(2). 512–515. 1 indexed citations

Romero, Octavio A., Juan J. Alburquerque-Béjar, Antonio Gómez, et al.. (2021). SMARCA4 deficient tumours are vulnerable to KDM6A/UTX and KDM6B/JMJD3 blockade. Nature Communications. 12(1). 4319–4319. 36 indexed citations

Hernández, Rosa Elena Huerta, Cristina Jiménez‐Luna, Raúl Ortíz, et al.. (2021). Impact of the Epigenetically Regulated Hoxa-5 Gene in Neural Differentiation from Human Adipose-Derived Stem Cells. Biology. 10(8). 802–802. 2 indexed citations

Soler, Marta, Verónica Dávalos, Fernando Setién, et al.. (2021). The transcribed ultraconserved region uc.160+ enhances processing and A‐to‐I editing of the miR‐376 cluster: hypermethylation improves glioma prognosis. Molecular Oncology. 16(3). 648–664. 4 indexed citations

Solanich, Xavier, Gardenia Vargas‐Parra, Caspar I. van der Made, et al.. (2021). Genetic Screening for TLR7 Variants in Young and Previously Healthy Men With Severe COVID-19. Frontiers in Immunology. 12. 719115–719115. 74 indexed citations

Palomeras, Sònia, Ángel Díaz‐Lagares, Gemma Viñas, et al.. (2019). Epigenetic silencing of TGFBI confers resistance to trastuzumab in human breast cancer. Breast Cancer Research. 21(1). 79–79. 50 indexed citations

Paz, Alexia Martínez de, David Piñeyro, Anna Martínez‐Cardús, et al.. (2019). Epigenetic inactivation of the splicing RNA-binding protein CELF2 in human breast cancer. Oncogene. 38(45). 7106–7112. 49 indexed citations

Vaclová, Tereza, Gonzalo Goméz-López, Fernando Setién, et al.. (2015). DNA repair capacity is impaired in healthy BRCA1 heterozygous mutation carriers. Breast Cancer Research and Treatment. 152(2). 271–282. 24 indexed citations

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Anadon, Carmen M., Sònia Guil, Laia Simó‐Riudalbas, et al.. (2015). Gene amplification-associated overexpression of the RNA editing enzyme ADAR1 enhances human lung tumorigenesis. Oncogene. 35(33). 4407–4413. 95 indexed citations

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Martínez, Manuela, et al.. (2010). The Δ4-desaturation pathway for DHA biosynthesis is operative in the human species: Differences between normal controls and children with the Zellweger syndrome. Lipids in Health and Disease. 9(1). 98–98. 15 indexed citations

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Taniguchi, Hiroaki, Agustín F. Fernández, Fernando Setién, et al.. (2009). Epigenetic Inactivation of the Circadian Clock Gene BMAL1 in Hematologic Malignancies. Cancer Research. 69(21). 8447–8454. 146 indexed citations

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Lopez‐Serra, Lidia, Esteban Ballestar, Santiago Ropero, et al.. (2008). Unmasking of epigenetically silenced candidate tumor suppressor genes by removal of methyl-CpG-binding domain proteins. Oncogene. 27(25). 3556–3566. 47 indexed citations

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Lujambio, Amaia, Santiago Ropero, Esteban Ballestar, et al.. (2007). Genetic Unmasking of an Epigenetically Silenced microRNA in Human Cancer Cells. Cancer Research. 67(4). 1424–1429. 729 indexed citations breakdown →

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Martínez, Ramón, et al.. (2007). CpG island promoter hypermethylation of the pro-apoptotic gene caspase-8 is a common hallmark of relapsed glioblastoma multiforme. Carcinogenesis. 28(6). 1264–1268. 78 indexed citations

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Lopez‐Serra, Lidia, Esteban Ballestar, Mario F. Fraga, et al.. (2006). A Profile of Methyl-CpG Binding Domain Protein Occupancy of Hypermethylated Promoter CpG Islands of Tumor Suppressor Genes in Human Cancer. Cancer Research. 66(17). 8342–8346. 102 indexed citations

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Zamorano, José Luís, et al.. (2005). Proteolytic Regulation of Activated STAT6 by Calpains. The Journal of Immunology. 174(5). 2843–2848. 21 indexed citations

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Oteo, Marta, et al.. (2001). Structural characterization of two CD1A allelic variants. Human Immunology. 62(10). 1137–1141. 11 indexed citations

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Álvarez, Victoria, et al.. (1996). Molecular evolution of the N-formyl peptide and C5a receptors in non-human primates. Immunogenetics. 44(6). 446–452. 31 indexed citations

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Álvarez, Victoria, et al.. (1995). Genetic detection of the silent allele (*Q0) in hereditary deficiencies of the human complement C6, C7, and C9 components. American Journal of Medical Genetics. 55(4). 408–413. 2 indexed citations

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