Juan Botas

11.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
82 papers, 5.9k citations indexed

About

Juan Botas is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Juan Botas has authored 82 papers receiving a total of 5.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 64 papers in Molecular Biology, 41 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 22 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Juan Botas's work include Genetic Neurodegenerative Diseases (33 papers), Mitochondrial Function and Pathology (26 papers) and Developmental Biology and Gene Regulation (20 papers). Juan Botas is often cited by papers focused on Genetic Neurodegenerative Diseases (33 papers), Mitochondrial Function and Pathology (26 papers) and Developmental Biology and Gene Regulation (20 papers). Juan Botas collaborates with scholars based in United States, Spain and China. Juan Botas's co-authors include Huda Y. Zoghbi, Maria Capovilla, Ismael Al‐Ramahi, Harry T. Orr, María de Haro, Antonio Garcı́a-Bellido, Pedro Fernández-Fúnez, Richard S. Mann, Siu-Kwong Chan and Yung C. Lam and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Juan Botas

79 papers receiving 5.8k citations

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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.

Identification of genes that modify ataxin-1-induced neurodegeneration

2000 510 citations Harry T. Orr, Huda Y. Zoghbi et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Juan Botas United States	39	4.7k	2.6k	1.1k	786	560	82	5.9k
Patricia C. Salinas United Kingdom	44	5.0k 1.1×	2.8k 1.0×	1.6k 1.4×	1.2k 1.6×	221 0.4×	90	7.4k
Koen J. T. Venken United States	30	3.2k 0.7×	1.8k 0.7×	904 0.8×	906 1.2×	180 0.3×	50	4.8k
P. Robin Hiesinger United States	33	2.6k 0.6×	2.0k 0.7×	663 0.6×	1.7k 2.1×	235 0.4×	69	4.8k
Elena I. Rugarli Germany	39	4.4k 0.9×	1.1k 0.4×	566 0.5×	791 1.0×	365 0.7×	80	5.8k
Sandro Banfi Italy	46	7.4k 1.6×	2.7k 1.0×	1.4k 1.3×	1.1k 1.3×	838 1.5×	144	9.8k
Toshiyuki Ohtsuka Japan	42	6.3k 1.3×	1.4k 0.5×	1.0k 0.9×	905 1.2×	152 0.3×	60	8.5k
Mike Fainzilber Israel	46	4.4k 0.9×	3.2k 1.2×	505 0.5×	1.0k 1.3×	360 0.6×	103	7.0k
Bo Chang United States	52	7.3k 1.6×	2.1k 0.8×	1.3k 1.2×	973 1.2×	151 0.3×	162	9.0k
William C. Skarnes United States	20	3.4k 0.7×	1.4k 0.5×	919 0.8×	825 1.0×	136 0.2×	29	4.9k
Bernd Wissinger Germany	54	9.2k 1.9×	1.6k 0.6×	1.1k 1.0×	1.0k 1.3×	202 0.4×	235	10.2k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Juan Botas

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Perez, Alma, et al.. (2025). Computational and functional prioritization identifies genes that rescue behavior and reduce tau protein in fly and human cell models of Alzheimer disease. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 112(5). 1081–1096. 2 indexed citations

Wu, Timothy, Anh‐Tuan Le, Alma Perez, et al.. (2025). Longitudinal multi-omics in alpha-synuclein Drosophila model discriminates disease- from age-associated pathologies in Parkinson’s disease. npj Parkinson s Disease. 11(1). 46–46. 1 indexed citations

Justice, Joshua, et al.. (2025). Multi-epitope immunocapture of huntingtin reveals striatum-selective molecular signatures. Molecular Systems Biology. 21(5). 492–522.

Kim, Wonho, Marta Iwanaszko, Yuki Aoi, et al.. (2025). MeCP2 interacts with the super elongation complex to regulate transcription. Science Advances. 11(48). eadt5937–eadt5937.

Li‐Kroeger, David, Ismael Al‐Ramahi, Nathaniel Smith, et al.. (2024). The SMOC1 proteomics network M42 controls multiple signaling modalities, brain homeostasis and toxicity in fly Alzheimer’s disease models. Alzheimer s & Dementia. 20(S1). e089554–e089554.

Bourquard, Thomas, Kwanghyuk Lee, Ismael Al‐Ramahi, et al.. (2023). Functional variants identify sex-specific genes and pathways in Alzheimer’s Disease. Nature Communications. 14(1). 2765–2765. 11 indexed citations

Ye, Hui, Carl Grant Mangleburg, Timothy Wu, et al.. (2023). Functional screening of lysosomal storage disorder genes identifies modifiers of alpha-synuclein neurotoxicity. PLoS Genetics. 19(5). e1010760–e1010760. 7 indexed citations

Haro, María de, Ismael Al‐Ramahi, Hyun-Hwan Jeong, et al.. (2023). Evolutionarily conserved regulators of tau identify targets for new therapies. Neuron. 111(6). 824–838.e7. 32 indexed citations

Al‐Ramahi, Ismael, Hyun-Hwan Jeong, Tao Lin, et al.. (2022). Cross-species genetic screens identify transglutaminase 5 as a regulator of polyglutamine-expanded ataxin-1. Journal of Clinical Investigation. 132(9). 7 indexed citations

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Zhu, Chenggang, Ziying Wang, Peng Wu, et al.. (2022). Suppression of toxicity of the mutant huntingtin protein by its interacting compound, desonide. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(10). e2114303119–e2114303119. 7 indexed citations

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Perez, Alma, et al.. (2021). Spinocerebellar Ataxia Type 1 protein Ataxin-1 is signaled to DNA damage by ataxia-telangiectasia mutated kinase. Human Molecular Genetics. 30(8). 706–715. 4 indexed citations

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Lavery, Laura A., Maxime W.C. Rousseaux, Ying‐Wooi Wan, et al.. (2021). Dual targeting of brain region‐specific kinases potentiates neurological rescue in Spinocerebellar ataxia type 1. The EMBO Journal. 40(7). e106106–e106106. 13 indexed citations

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Al‐Ramahi, Ismael, Boxun Lu, Simone Di Paola, et al.. (2018). High-Throughput Functional Analysis Distinguishes Pathogenic, Nonpathogenic, and Compensatory Transcriptional Changes in Neurodegeneration. Cell Systems. 7(1). 28–40.e4. 28 indexed citations

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Al‐Ramahi, Ismael, Sai Srinivas Panapakkam Giridharan, Yu‐Chi Chen, et al.. (2017). Inhibition of PIP4Kγ ameliorates the pathological effects of mutant huntingtin protein. eLife. 6. 51 indexed citations

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Calap-Quintana, Pablo, Sirena Soriano, José Vicente Llorens, et al.. (2015). TORC1 Inhibition by Rapamycin Promotes Antioxidant Defences in a Drosophila Model of Friedreich’s Ataxia. PLoS ONE. 10(7). e0132376–e0132376. 44 indexed citations

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Holth, Jerrah K., Valerie C. Bomben, John G. Reed, et al.. (2013). Tau Loss Attenuates Neuronal Network Hyperexcitability in Mouse andDrosophilaGenetic Models of Epilepsy. Journal of Neuroscience. 33(4). 1651–1659. 183 indexed citations

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Jin, Peng, et al.. (2007). Argonaute-2-dependent rescue of a Drosophila model of FXTAS by FRAXE premutation repeat. Human Molecular Genetics. 16(19). 2326–2332. 34 indexed citations

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Kadener, Sebastián, Adriana Villella, Elżbieta Pyza, et al.. (2006). Neurotoxic protein expression reveals connections between the circadian clock and mating behavior in Drosophila. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 103(36). 13537–13542. 26 indexed citations

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Botas, Juan, et al.. (1996). Chromosomal binding sites of Ultrabithorax homeotic proteins. Mechanisms of Development. 56(1-2). 129–138. 21 indexed citations

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Botas, Juan. (1993). Control of morphogenesis and differentiation by HOM/Hox genes. Current Opinion in Cell Biology. 5(6). 1015–1022. 116 indexed citations

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