Gary C. Hon

27.2k total citations · 5 hit papers
22 papers, 13.0k citations indexed

About

Gary C. Hon is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Plant Science and Cancer Research. According to data from OpenAlex, Gary C. Hon has authored 22 papers receiving a total of 13.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Molecular Biology, 2 papers in Plant Science and 2 papers in Cancer Research. Recurrent topics in Gary C. Hon's work include Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (12 papers), Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (11 papers) and RNA modifications and cancer (7 papers). Gary C. Hon is often cited by papers focused on Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (12 papers), Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (11 papers) and RNA modifications and cancer (7 papers). Gary C. Hon collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Canada. Gary C. Hon's co-authors include Bing Ren, R. David Hawkins, Chuan He, Qing Dai, Dali Han, Xiao Wang, Zhike Lu, Marc Parisien, Adrian Gomez-Nguyen and Tao Pan and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Gary C. Hon

21 papers receiving 12.9k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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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.

Human DNA methylomes at base resolution show widespread epigenomic differences

2009 3.4k citations Ryan Lister, Mattia Pelizzola et al. Nature profile →
N6-methyladenosine-dependent regulation of messenger RNA stability

2013 3.3k citations Xiao Wang, Zhike Lu et al. Nature profile →
Distinct and predictive chromatin signatures of transcriptional promoters and enhancers in the human genome

2007 2.5k citations Nathaniel D. Heintzman, Rhona Stuart et al. Nature Genetics profile →
Base-Resolution Analysis of 5-Hydroxymethylcytosine in the Mammalian Genome

2012 798 citations Miao Yu, Gary C. Hon et al. Cell profile →
Temporal transcriptional response to ethylene gas drives growth hormone cross-regulation in Arabidopsis

2013 334 citations Gary C. Hon, Mattia Pelizzola et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Gary C. Hon United States	20	11.9k	2.4k	1.9k	1.0k	582	22	13.0k
Yujiang Geno Shi United States	43	11.1k 0.9×	1.9k 0.8×	1.8k 1.0×	486 0.5×	250 0.4×	73	12.4k
Naomi Habib United States	20	15.6k 1.3×	1.3k 0.6×	3.2k 1.7×	1.6k 1.6×	254 0.4×	34	18.0k
Neville E. Sanjana United States	35	10.3k 0.9×	1.6k 0.7×	1.7k 0.9×	470 0.5×	281 0.5×	74	12.5k
Riza M. Daza United States	26	6.6k 0.6×	2.2k 0.9×	1.1k 0.6×	733 0.7×	89 0.2×	35	8.6k
Fuchou Tang China	69	12.6k 1.1×	3.8k 1.6×	2.0k 1.1×	580 0.6×	104 0.2×	156	15.8k
Michiel Vermeulen Netherlands	53	10.5k 0.9×	1.0k 0.4×	1.3k 0.7×	583 0.6×	111 0.2×	182	12.2k
David S. Johnson United States	26	13.9k 1.2×	1.9k 0.8×	2.4k 1.3×	2.4k 2.4×	81 0.1×	48	17.0k
Andrew J. Bannister United Kingdom	52	20.1k 1.7×	2.3k 1.0×	2.8k 1.5×	2.1k 2.1×	162 0.3×	84	23.5k
Michael J. Hendzel Canada	64	11.8k 1.0×	1.0k 0.4×	1.2k 0.7×	937 0.9×	386 0.7×	160	14.2k
Andrew C. Adey United States	28	5.5k 0.5×	1.3k 0.5×	1000 0.5×	906 0.9×	97 0.2×	53	7.0k

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Wang, Yihan, et al.. (2025). Enhancer regulatory networks globally connect non-coding breast cancer loci to cancer genes. Genome biology. 26(1). 10–10.

Xie, Shiqi & Gary C. Hon. (2019). Experimental and Computational Approaches for Single-Cell Enhancer Perturbation Assay. Methods in molecular biology. 1935. 203–221. 5 indexed citations

Xie, Shiqi, et al.. (2018). Frequent sgRNA-barcode recombination in single-cell perturbation assays. PLoS ONE. 13(6). e0198635–e0198635. 36 indexed citations

Liu, Xin, Yuannyu Zhang, Yong Chen, et al.. (2017). In Situ Capture of Chromatin Interactions by Biotinylated dCas9. Cell. 170(5). 1028–1043.e19. 208 indexed citations

Yu, Miao, Dali Han, Gary C. Hon, & Chuan He. (2017). Tet-Assisted Bisulfite Sequencing (TAB-seq). Methods in molecular biology. 1708. 645–663. 22 indexed citations

Hon, Gary C., Chun‐Xiao Song, Tingting Du, et al.. (2014). 5mC Oxidation by Tet2 Modulates Enhancer Activity and Timing of Transcriptome Reprogramming during Differentiation. Molecular Cell. 56(2). 286–297. 254 indexed citations

Zhang, Liang, Keith E. Szulwach, Gary C. Hon, et al.. (2013). Tet-mediated covalent labelling of 5-methylcytosine for its genome-wide detection and sequencing. Nature Communications. 4(1). 1517–1517. 47 indexed citations

Hon, Gary C., Nisha Rajagopal, Yin Shen, et al.. (2013). Epigenetic memory at embryonic enhancers identified in DNA methylation maps from adult mouse tissues. Nature Genetics. 45(10). 1198–1206. 352 indexed citations

Wang, Xiao, Zhike Lu, Adrian Gomez-Nguyen, et al.. (2013). N6-methyladenosine-dependent regulation of messenger RNA stability. Nature. 505(7481). 117–120. 3320 indexed citations breakdown →

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Yu, Miao, Gary C. Hon, Keith E. Szulwach, et al.. (2012). Tet-assisted bisulfite sequencing of 5-hydroxymethylcytosine. Nature Protocols. 7(12). 2159–2170. 173 indexed citations

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Yu, Miao, Gary C. Hon, Keith E. Szulwach, et al.. (2012). Base-Resolution Analysis of 5-Hydroxymethylcytosine in the Mammalian Genome. Cell. 149(6). 1368–1380. 798 indexed citations breakdown →

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Smallwood, Andrea, Gary C. Hon, Fulai Jin, et al.. (2012). CBX3 regulates efficient RNA processing genome-wide. Genome Research. 22(8). 1426–1436. 82 indexed citations

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Hon, Gary C., R. David Hawkins, Otávia L. Caballero, et al.. (2011). Global DNA hypomethylation coupled to repressive chromatin domain formation and gene silencing in breast cancer. Genome Research. 22(2). 246–258. 410 indexed citations

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Hawkins, R. David, Gary C. Hon, Chuhu Yang, et al.. (2011). Dynamic chromatin states in human ES cells reveal potential regulatory sequences and genes involved in pluripotency. Cell Research. 21(10). 1393–1409. 72 indexed citations

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Hawkins, R. David, Gary C. Hon, & Bing Ren. (2010). Next-generation genomics: an integrative approach. Nature Reviews Genetics. 11(7). 476–486. 425 indexed citations

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Hon, Gary C., R. David Hawkins, & Bin Ren. (2009). Predictive chromatin signatures in the mammalian genome. Human Molecular Genetics. 18(R2). R195–R201. 158 indexed citations

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Lister, Ryan, Mattia Pelizzola, Robert H. Dowen, et al.. (2009). Human DNA methylomes at base resolution show widespread epigenomic differences. Nature. 462(7271). 315–322. 3371 indexed citations breakdown →

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Hon, Gary C., Bing Ren, & Wei Wang. (2008). ChromaSig: A Probabilistic Approach to Finding Common Chromatin Signatures in the Human Genome. PLoS Computational Biology. 4(10). e1000201–e1000201. 112 indexed citations

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Heintzman, Nathaniel D., Rhona Stuart, Gary C. Hon, et al.. (2007). Distinct and predictive chromatin signatures of transcriptional promoters and enhancers in the human genome. Nature Genetics. 39(3). 311–318. 2463 indexed citations breakdown →

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Reguly, Teresa, Ashton Breitkreutz, Lorrie Boucher, et al.. (2006). Comprehensive curation and analysis of global interaction networks in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Journal of Biology. 5(4). 11–11. 235 indexed citations

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