Gary H. Karpen

26.4k citations

97 papers · 12.2k indexed · 3 hit papers · h-index 53

Impact in

Plant Science top 0.1%
- Chromosomal and Genetic Variations
Molecular Biology top 0.2%
- Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics
- RNA Research and Splicing
- DNA Repair Mechanisms
- CRISPR and Genetic Engineering
- Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
- Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies

Papers in

Plant Science 62
- Chromosomal and Genetic Variations 60
- Plant Molecular Biology Research 7
Cell Biology 23
- Microtubule and mitosis dynamics 21

Co-authors: Beth A. Sullivan Michael D. Blower Robin C. Allshire Jamy C. Peng Allan C. Spradling Dmitry V. Fyodorov Amy R. Strom Serafin U. Colmenares
Journals: Genetics (11 papers)Cell (8 papers)PLoS Genetics (7 papers)Genes & Development (5 papers)eLife (5 papers)
Partner nations: United States Sweden United Kingdom

In The Last Decade

Gary H. Karpen

96 papers receiving 12.1k citations

Hit Papers

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Heterochromatin: Guardian of the Genome 2018 · 320 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2018 Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology
2017 Nature
2009 Nature

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1	Expanding the HP1a-binding consensus and molecular grammar for heterochromatin assembly Nucleic Acids Research ·Serafin U. Colmenares, Shingo Tsukamoto, Collin Hickmann, Lucy D. Brennan, Mohammad Khavani, Mohammad R. K. Mofrad, Gary H. Karpen	2025	1
2	Affinity hierarchies and amphiphilic proteins underlie the co-assembly of nucleolar and heterochromatin condensates Biophysical Journal ·Varsha Rajshekar, Omar Adame-Arana, Gaurav Bajpai, S. A. Safran, Gary H. Karpen	2024	2
3	Pericentromeric heterochromatin is hierarchically organized and spatially contacts H3K9me2 islands in euchromatin PLoS Genetics ·Yuh Chwen G. Lee, Yuki Ogiyama, Nuno M. C. Martins, Brian J. Beliveau, Daniel Estrada Acevedo, Chao-ting Wu, Giacomo Cavalli, Gary H. Karpen	2020	32
4	FBW7 Loss Promotes Chromosomal Instability and Tumorigenesis via Cyclin E1/CDK2–Mediated Phosphorylation of CENP-A Cancer Research ·Mamoru Takada, Weiguo Zhang, Aussie Suzuki, Taruho S. Kuroda, Zhouliang Yu, Hiroyuki Inuzuka, Daming Gao, Lixin Wan, Ming Zhuang, Lianxin Hu, Bo Zhai, Christopher J. Fry, Kerry Bloom, Guohong Li, Gary H. Karpen, Wenyi Wei, Qing Zhang	2017	67
5	A single double-strand break system reveals repair dynamics and mechanisms in heterochromatin and euchromatin Genes & Development ·Aniek Janssen, G. Breuer, Eva K. Brinkman, Annelot I. van der Meulen, Sean V. Borden, Bas van Steensel, Ranjit S. Bindra, Jeannine R. LaRocque, Gary H. Karpen	2016	84
6	Heterochromatic breaks move to the nuclear periphery to continue recombinational repair Nature Cell Biology ·Taehyun Ryu, Brett N. Spatola, Lætitia Delabaere, Katherine Bowlin, H. Esteban Hopp, Ryan C. Kunitake, Gary H. Karpen, Irene Chiolo	2015	194
7	The Cell Cycle Timing of Centromeric Chromatin Assembly in Drosophila Meiosis Is Distinct from Mitosis Yet Requires CAL1 and CENP-C PLoS Biology ·Elaine M. Dunleavy, Nicole L. Beier, Walter Gorgescu, Jonathan Tang, Sylvain V. Costes, Gary H. Karpen	2012	62
8	Assembly of Drosophila Centromeric Chromatin Proteins during Mitosis PLoS Genetics ·Barbara G. Mellone, Kathryn J. Grive, Vladimir Shteyn, Sarion R. Bowers, Isaac M. Oderberg, Gary H. Karpen	2011	116
9	Identification of a physiological E2 module for the human anaphase-promoting complex Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Adam J. Williamson, Katherine E. Wickliffe, Barbara G. Mellone, Ling Song, Gary H. Karpen, Michael Rapé	2009	244
10	Unlocking the Secrets of the Genome Carolina Digital Repository (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) ·S Celniker, Laura A. L. Dillon, Mark Gerstein, Kristin C. Gunsalus, Steven Henikoff, Gary H. Karpen, Manolis Kellis, Eric C. Lai, Jason D. Lieb, David M. MacAlpine, Gos Micklem, Fabio Piano, M Snyder, Lincoln Stein, Kevin P. White, R Waterston	2009	1
11	Epigenetic regulation of heterochromatic DNA stability Current Opinion in Genetics & Development ·Jamy C. Peng, Gary H. Karpen	2008	163
12	Sequence Finishing and Mapping of Drosophila melanogaster Heterochromatin Science ·Roger A. Hoskins, Joseph W. Carlson, Cameron Kennedy, Daniel Estrada Acevedo, Martha Evans-Holm, Erwin Frise, Kenneth H. Wan, Soo Hyung Park, María Méndez-Lago, Fabrizio Rossi, Alfredo Villasanté, Patrizio Dimitri, Gary H. Karpen, S Celniker	2007	228
13	Mislocalization of the Drosophila centromere-specific histone CID promotes formation of \nfunctional ectopic kinetochores eScholarship (California Digital Library) ·Patrick Heun, Sylvia Erhardt, Michael D. Blower, Samara Weiss, Andrew D. Skora, Gary H. Karpen	2006	280
14	Improved repeat identification and masking in Dipterans Gene ·Christopher D. Smith, R. C. Edgar, Mark Yandell, Douglas R. Smith, S Celniker, Eugene W. Myers, Gary H. Karpen	2006	56
15	Identification of Chromosome Inheritance Modifiers in Drosophila melanogaster Genetics ·Kenneth W Dobie, Cameron Kennedy, Vivienne M Velasco, Tory McGrath, Juliani Weko, Ryan W. Patterson, Gary H. Karpen	2001	48
16	Centromeres Take Flight: Alpha Satellite and the Quest for the Human Centromere Cell ·Terence D. Murphy, Gary H. Karpen	1998	111
17	Identification of Trans-Acting Genes Necessary for Centromere Function in Drosophila melanogaster Using Centromere-Defective Minichromosomes Genetics ·Kevin R Cook, Terence D. Murphy, Thai Nguyen, Gary H. Karpen	1997	13
18	Localization of centromere function in a drosophila minichromosome Cell ·Terence D. Murphy, Gary H. Karpen	1995	167
19	Position-effect variegation and the new biology of heterochromatin Current Opinion in Genetics & Development ·Gary H. Karpen	1994	212
20	Sixty years of mystery. Genetics ·Allan C. Spradling, Gary H. Karpen	1990	55

About Gary H. Karpen

Gary H. Karpen is a scholar working on Plant Science, Cell Biology, Molecular Biology, Aging and Genetics, having authored 97 papers that have together received 12.2k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (64 papers), Chromosomal and Genetic Variations (60 papers), Microtubule and mitosis dynamics (21 papers), RNA Research and Splicing (15 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (15 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (11 papers), DNA Repair Mechanisms (8 papers) and Plant Molecular Biology Research (7 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Plant Science (6.0k citations), Molecular Biology (10.8k citations), Aging (262 citations), Cell Biology (1.8k citations) and Genetics (1.8k citations). Gary H. Karpen has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Sweden and United Kingdom. Frequent co-authors include Beth A. Sullivan, Michael D. Blower, Robin C. Allshire, Jamy C. Peng, Allan C. Spradling, Dmitry V. Fyodorov, Amy R. Strom, Serafin U. Colmenares, Xavier Darzacq and Alexander Emelyanov. Their work appears in journals such as Genetics, Cell, PLoS Genetics, Genes & Development and eLife.

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