Kefei Yu

3.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
53 papers, 2.4k citations indexed

About

Kefei Yu is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Immunology and Epidemiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Kefei Yu has authored 53 papers receiving a total of 2.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 38 papers in Molecular Biology, 26 papers in Immunology and 10 papers in Epidemiology. Recurrent topics in Kefei Yu's work include DNA Repair Mechanisms (25 papers), T-cell and B-cell Immunology (20 papers) and CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (15 papers). Kefei Yu is often cited by papers focused on DNA Repair Mechanisms (25 papers), T-cell and B-cell Immunology (20 papers) and CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (15 papers). Kefei Yu collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and France. Kefei Yu's co-authors include Michael R. Lieber, Chih-Lin Hsieh, Li Han, Frédéric Chédin, Thomas E. Wilson, Feng‐Ting Huang, Deepankar Roy, Sathees C. Raghavan, Katheryn Meek and Nicholas R. Pannunzio and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nucleic Acids Research and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Kefei Yu

51 papers receiving 2.4k 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.

R-loops at immunoglobulin class switch regions in the chromosomes of stimulated B cells

2003 601 citations Kefei Yu, Frédéric Chédin et al. Nature Immunology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kefei Yu United States	26	1.8k	912	300	225	184	53	2.4k
Brett K. Kaiser United States	18	1.3k 0.7×	650 0.7×	439 1.5×	160 0.7×	181 1.0×	25	2.1k
Dermot Walls Ireland	24	782 0.4×	262 0.3×	360 1.2×	177 0.8×	122 0.7×	55	1.7k
Gretchen S. Jimenez United States	13	1.1k 0.6×	246 0.3×	473 1.6×	374 1.7×	118 0.6×	15	1.8k
Xiaoling Yu China	21	957 0.5×	609 0.7×	795 2.6×	113 0.5×	218 1.2×	58	1.9k
T. Wilson United States	16	944 0.5×	667 0.7×	282 0.9×	61 0.3×	194 1.1×	30	1.7k
Hiroki Miyashita Japan	22	1.4k 0.7×	279 0.3×	216 0.7×	97 0.4×	150 0.8×	54	2.0k
Shaowen Wang China	23	817 0.4×	536 0.6×	166 0.6×	109 0.5×	103 0.6×	78	1.5k
Frans Hochstenbach Netherlands	18	767 0.4×	856 0.9×	229 0.8×	121 0.5×	101 0.5×	25	1.8k
Christophe Duperray France	22	488 0.3×	577 0.6×	242 0.8×	87 0.4×	82 0.4×	49	1.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kefei Yu

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Kefei Yu. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Kefei Yu 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 Kefei Yu. Kefei Yu 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

Lv, Fangfang, et al.. (2025). Impact of effort-reward imbalance, emotional labour, and nurse-patient relationship on physical and mental health of registered nurses in China: a structural equation modeling. BMC Nursing. 24(1). 535–535. 1 indexed citations

Lim, Junghyun, Brice Laffleur, Uttiya Basu, & Kefei Yu. (2022). Identification of RNA–DNA Hybrids Associated with R-Loops at the IgH Switch Sequence in Activated B Cells. Methods in molecular biology. 2528. 55–66.

Yu, Kefei & Michael R. Lieber. (2019). Current insights into the mechanism of mammalian immunoglobulin class switch recombination. Critical Reviews in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. 54(4). 333–351. 69 indexed citations

Ramachandran, Shaliny, Dania Haddad, Conglei Li, et al.. (2016). The SAGA Deubiquitination Module Promotes DNA Repair and Class Switch Recombination through ATM and DNAPK-Mediated γH2AX Formation. Cell Reports. 15(7). 1554–1565. 72 indexed citations

Pannunzio, Nicholas R., et al.. (2015). Complexities due to single-stranded RNA during antibody detection of genomic rna:dna hybrids. BMC Research Notes. 8(1). 127–127. 28 indexed citations

Hsieh, Chih-Lin, et al.. (2015). Effect of CpG dinucleotides within IgH switch region repeats on immunoglobulin class switch recombination. Molecular Immunology. 66(2). 284–289. 4 indexed citations

Pannunzio, Nicholas R., et al.. (2014). The role of G-density in switch region repeats for immunoglobulin class switch recombination. Nucleic Acids Research. 42(21). 13186–13193. 24 indexed citations

Han, Li, et al.. (2014). DNA Ligase I Is Not Essential for Mammalian Cell Viability. Cell Reports. 7(2). 316–320. 28 indexed citations

Wang, Zhixiao, et al.. (2014). Effect of hyperlipidemia on Foxp3 expression in apolipoprotein E-knockout mice. Journal of Cardiovascular Medicine. 15(4). 273–279. 15 indexed citations

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Han, Li, et al.. (2010). Cutting Edge: CTNNBL1 Is Dispensable for Ig Class Switch Recombination. The Journal of Immunology. 185(3). 1379–1381. 22 indexed citations

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Han, Li & Kefei Yu. (2008). Altered kinetics of nonhomologous end joining and class switch recombination in ligase IV–deficient B cells. The Journal of Experimental Medicine. 205(12). 2745–2753. 85 indexed citations

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Huang, Feng‐Ting, Kefei Yu, Erik Selsing, et al.. (2007). Sequence Dependence of Chromosomal R-Loops at the Immunoglobulin Heavy-Chain Sμ Class Switch Region. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 27(16). 5921–5932. 72 indexed citations

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Yu, Kefei, Deepankar Roy, Feng‐Ting Huang, & Michael R. Lieber. (2006). Detection and Structural Analysis of R‐Loops. Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology. 409. 316–329. 25 indexed citations

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Huang, Feng‐Ting, Kefei Yu, Chih-Lin Hsieh, & Michael R. Lieber. (2006). Downstream boundary of chromosomal R-loops at murine switch regions: Implications for the mechanism of class switch recombination. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 103(13). 5030–5035. 54 indexed citations

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Lieber, Michael R., Kefei Yu, & Sathees C. Raghavan. (2006). Roles of nonhomologous DNA end joining, V(D)J recombination, and class switch recombination in chromosomal translocations. DNA repair. 5(9-10). 1234–1245. 140 indexed citations

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Irvine, Ryan A., Noritaka Adachi, Darryl Shibata, et al.. (2004). Generation and Characterization of Endonuclease G Null Mice. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 25(1). 294–302. 83 indexed citations

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Yu, Kefei & Michael R. Lieber. (2003). Nucleic acid structures and enzymes in the immunoglobulin class switch recombination mechanism. DNA repair. 2(11). 1163–1174. 77 indexed citations

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Yu, Kefei, et al.. (2003). Kinetic analysis of the nicking and hairpin formation steps in V(D)J recombination. DNA repair. 3(1). 67–75. 7 indexed citations

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Yu, Kefei, Frédéric Chédin, Chih-Lin Hsieh, Thomas E. Wilson, & Michael R. Lieber. (2003). R-loops at immunoglobulin class switch regions in the chromosomes of stimulated B cells. Nature Immunology. 4(5). 442–451. 601 indexed citations breakdown →

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Jong, Ambrose, Kefei Yu, Bingsen Zhou, et al.. (1998). A simple and sensitive ribonucleotide reductase assay. Journal of Biomedical Science. 5(1). 62–68. 14 indexed citations

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