Julien Duc

3.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
25 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Julien Duc is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Plant Science and Condensed Matter Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Julien Duc has authored 25 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Molecular Biology, 13 papers in Plant Science and 2 papers in Condensed Matter Physics. Recurrent topics in Julien Duc's work include Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (13 papers), Chromosomal and Genetic Variations (12 papers) and CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (9 papers). Julien Duc is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (13 papers), Chromosomal and Genetic Variations (12 papers) and CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (9 papers). Julien Duc collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, United States and Austria. Julien Duc's co-authors include Didier Trono, Andrea Coluccio, Evarist Planet, Alberto De Iaco, Priscilla Turelli, Sonia Verp, Alexandre Coudray, Sandra Offner, Gabriela Ecco and Julien Pontis 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

Julien Duc

23 papers receiving 1.5k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

DUX-family transcription factors regulate zygotic genome activation in placental mammals

2017 415 citations Alberto De Iaco, Evarist Planet et al. Nature Genetics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Julien Duc Switzerland	16	1.4k	614	206	78	77	25	1.5k
Danny Rangasamy Australia	19	1.6k 1.2×	464 0.8×	159 0.8×	36 0.5×	108 1.4×	32	1.8k
Jenna Persson Sweden	9	1.2k 0.8×	130 0.2×	291 1.4×	44 0.6×	41 0.5×	10	1.2k
Mark Wossidlo United States	12	1.7k 1.2×	374 0.6×	362 1.8×	206 2.6×	65 0.8×	16	1.8k
Francisco J. Sánchez‐Luque Spain	12	659 0.5×	376 0.6×	127 0.6×	25 0.3×	37 0.5×	29	787
Michael D. Litt United States	12	1.6k 1.2×	188 0.3×	406 2.0×	20 0.3×	97 1.3×	14	1.7k
Vanja Haberle Austria	12	1.2k 0.9×	179 0.3×	240 1.2×	47 0.6×	64 0.8×	16	1.4k
Douglas Roberts United States	12	1.5k 1.1×	244 0.4×	120 0.6×	18 0.2×	40 0.5×	12	1.6k
Benjamin E. Powell United States	9	1.6k 1.2×	103 0.2×	393 1.9×	106 1.4×	51 0.7×	12	1.7k
Chih-Jen Lin United States	12	831 0.6×	198 0.3×	126 0.6×	261 3.3×	52 0.7×	26	985
Raymond T. O’Keefe United Kingdom	19	1.4k 1.0×	122 0.2×	128 0.6×	26 0.3×	25 0.3×	48	1.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Julien Duc

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20 of 20 papers shown

Bracq, Lucie, Béatrice Kunz, Olivier Burri, et al.. (2025). Injury-induced intestinal stem cell renewal requires capillary morphogenesis gene 2. EMBO Molecular Medicine. 17(10). 2612–2631.

Forey, Romain, Alex R. Lederer, Joana Carlevaro-Fita, et al.. (2025). Evolutionarily recent transcription factors partake in human cell cycle regulation. Cell Genomics. 5(8). 100923–100923. 1 indexed citations

Duc, Julien, et al.. (2024). Clusters of lineage-specific genes are anchored by ZNF274 in repressive perinucleolar compartments. Science Advances. 10(37). eado1662–eado1662. 3 indexed citations

Ernst, Christina, Julien Duc, & Didier Trono. (2023). Efficient and sensitive profiling of RNA–protein interactions using TLC-CLIP. Nucleic Acids Research. 51(13). e70–e70. 2 indexed citations

Tribolet-Hardy, Jonas de, Christian W. Thorball, Romain Forey, et al.. (2023). Genetic features and genomic targets of human KRAB-zinc finger proteins. Genome Research. 33(8). 1409–1423. 28 indexed citations

Grün, Delphine, Julien Duc, Evarist Planet, et al.. (2023). Statistical learning quantifies transposable element-mediated cis-regulation. Genome biology. 24(1). 258–258. 4 indexed citations

Simó‐Riudalbas, Laia, Sandra Offner, Evarist Planet, et al.. (2022). Transposon-activated POU5F1B promotes colorectal cancer growth and metastasis. Nature Communications. 13(1). 4913–4913. 14 indexed citations

Pontis, Julien, Christopher J. Playfoot, Evarist Planet, et al.. (2022). Primate-specific transposable elements shape transcriptional networks during human development. Nature Communications. 13(1). 7178–7178. 35 indexed citations

Iouranova, Alexandra, Delphine Grün, Julien Duc, et al.. (2022). KRAB zinc finger protein ZNF676 controls the transcriptional influence of LTR12-related endogenous retrovirus sequences. Mobile DNA. 13(1). 4–4. 21 indexed citations

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Playfoot, Christopher J., et al.. (2021). Transposable elements and their KZFP controllers are drivers of transcriptional innovation in the developing human brain. Genome Research. 31(9). 1531–1545. 27 indexed citations

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Turelli, Priscilla, Christopher J. Playfoot, Charlène Raclot, et al.. (2020). Primate-restricted KRAB zinc finger proteins and target retrotransposons control gene expression in human neurons. Science Advances. 6(35). eaba3200–eaba3200. 44 indexed citations

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Chen, Wanze, Petra Schwalie, Carine Gubelmann, et al.. (2019). ZFP30 promotes adipogenesis through the KAP1-mediated activation of a retrotransposon-derived Pparg2 enhancer. Nature Communications. 10(1). 1809–1809. 26 indexed citations

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Pontis, Julien, Evarist Planet, Sandra Offner, et al.. (2019). Hominoid-Specific Transposable Elements and KZFPs Facilitate Human Embryonic Genome Activation and Control Transcription in Naive Human ESCs. Cell stem cell. 24(5). 724–735.e5. 164 indexed citations

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Heusel, Moritz, Julien Duc, Cécile Piot, et al.. (2019). The interactome of KRAB zinc finger proteins reveals the evolutionary history of their functional diversification. The EMBO Journal. 38(18). e101220–e101220. 64 indexed citations

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Iaco, Alberto De, Alexandre Coudray, Julien Duc, & Didier Trono. (2019). DPPA2 and DPPA4 are necessary to establish a 2C‐like state in mouse embryonic stem cells. EMBO Reports. 20(5). 91 indexed citations

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Kauzlaric, Annamaria, Gabriela Ecco, Marco Cassano, et al.. (2017). The mouse genome displays highly dynamic populations of KRAB-zinc finger protein genes and related genetic units. PLoS ONE. 12(3). e0173746–e0173746. 38 indexed citations

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Iaco, Alberto De, Evarist Planet, Andrea Coluccio, et al.. (2017). DUX-family transcription factors regulate zygotic genome activation in placental mammals. Nature Genetics. 49(6). 941–945. 415 indexed citations breakdown →

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Ecco, Gabriela, Marco Cassano, Annamaria Kauzlaric, et al.. (2016). Transposable Elements and Their KRAB-ZFP Controllers Regulate Gene Expression in Adult Tissues. Developmental Cell. 36(6). 611–623. 156 indexed citations

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Turelli, Priscilla, Flavia Marzetta, Adamandia Kapopoulou, et al.. (2014). Interplay of TRIM28 and DNA methylation in controlling human endogenous retroelements. Genome Research. 24(8). 1260–1270. 143 indexed citations

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Ecco, Gabriela, Andrea Coluccio, Adamandia Kapopoulou, et al.. (2014). Evolutionally dynamic L1 regulation in embryonic stem cells. Genes & Development. 28(13). 1397–1409. 161 indexed citations

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