Keith E. Young

8.7k total citations · 4 hit papers
27 papers, 7.1k citations indexed

About

Keith E. Young is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Keith E. Young has authored 27 papers receiving a total of 7.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 25 papers in Molecular Biology, 7 papers in Genetics and 5 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Keith E. Young's work include Developmental Biology and Gene Regulation (10 papers), Hedgehog Signaling Pathway Studies (7 papers) and Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (7 papers). Keith E. Young is often cited by papers focused on Developmental Biology and Gene Regulation (10 papers), Hedgehog Signaling Pathway Studies (7 papers) and Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (7 papers). Keith E. Young collaborates with scholars based in United States. Keith E. Young's co-authors include Philip A. Beachy, Jeffery A. Porter, Chin Chiang, Heiner Westphal, Ying Litingtung, Doris P. von Kessler, Stephen C. Ekker, Michael K. Cooper, Tapan Maiti and James Chen and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Keith E. Young

27 papers receiving 6.9k 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.

Cyclopia and defective axial patterning in mice lacking Sonic hedgehog gene function

1996 2.5k citations Chin Chiang, Ying Litingtung et al. Nature profile →
Cholesterol Modification of Hedgehog Signaling Proteins in Animal Development

1996 1.1k citations Jeffery A. Porter, Keith E. Young et al. Science profile →
Small molecule modulation of Smoothened activity

2002 817 citations James Chen, Jussi Taipale et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Teratogen-Mediated Inhibition of Target Tissue Response to Shh Signaling

1998 720 citations Jeffery A. Porter, Keith E. Young et al. Science profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Keith E. Young United States	21	6.4k	2.0k	649	538	456	27	7.1k
Ljiljana Milenković United States	24	6.1k 1.0×	2.7k 1.3×	331 0.5×	551 1.0×	572 1.3×	45	7.1k
Jeffery A. Porter United States	23	8.2k 1.3×	1.9k 0.9×	782 1.2×	831 1.5×	979 2.1×	24	9.6k
Achim Gossler Germany	47	7.6k 1.2×	1.9k 0.9×	704 1.1×	1.0k 1.9×	617 1.4×	102	9.3k
Michael K. Cooper United States	24	5.1k 0.8×	1.5k 0.7×	442 0.7×	383 0.7×	883 1.9×	45	6.0k
Charles P. Ordahl United States	41	5.4k 0.8×	941 0.5×	357 0.6×	566 1.1×	439 1.0×	80	6.2k
Pao‐Tien Chuang United States	34	4.2k 0.7×	1.5k 0.7×	458 0.7×	480 0.9×	462 1.0×	52	5.1k
David Bumcrot United States	26	4.3k 0.7×	1.0k 0.5×	201 0.3×	246 0.5×	201 0.4×	46	5.1k
Shinji Takada Japan	56	11.1k 1.7×	2.4k 1.2×	882 1.4×	2.1k 3.9×	850 1.9×	135	13.0k
Juanito J. Meneses United States	26	4.5k 0.7×	1.5k 0.8×	842 1.3×	502 0.9×	617 1.4×	32	6.1k
Andrei Glinka Germany	15	5.0k 0.8×	1.1k 0.5×	315 0.5×	591 1.1×	671 1.5×	21	5.8k

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Lyon, Elaine, et al.. (2010). A Simple, High-Throughput Assay for Fragile X Expanded Alleles Using Triple Repeat Primed PCR and Capillary Electrophoresis. Journal of Molecular Diagnostics. 12(4). 505–511. 75 indexed citations

Baker, Rosanna P., Keith E. Young, Liang Feng, Yigong Shi, & Siniša Urban. (2007). Enzymatic analysis of a rhomboid intramembrane protease implicates transmembrane helix 5 as the lateral substrate gate. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 104(20). 8257–8262. 118 indexed citations

Chen, James, Jussi Taipale, Keith E. Young, Tapan Maiti, & Philip A. Beachy. (2002). Small molecule modulation of Smoothened activity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 99(22). 14071–14076. 817 indexed citations breakdown →

Hall, Traci M. Tanaka, Jeffery A. Porter, Keith E. Young, et al.. (1997). Crystal Structure of a Hedgehog Autoprocessing Domain: Homology between Hedgehog and Self-Splicing Proteins. Cell. 91(1). 85–97. 224 indexed citations

Porter, Jeffery A., Stephen C. Ekker, Woo-Jin Park, et al.. (1996). Hedgehog Patterning Activity: Role of a Lipophilic Modification Mediated by the Carboxy-Terminal Autoprocessing Domain. Cell. 86(1). 21–34. 417 indexed citations

Chiang, Chin, et al.. (1996). Cyclopia and defective axial patterning in mice lacking Sonic hedgehog gene function. Nature. 383(6599). 407–413. 2480 indexed citations breakdown →

Porter, Jeffery A., Keith E. Young, & Philip A. Beachy. (1996). Cholesterol Modification of Hedgehog Signaling Proteins in Animal Development. Science. 274(5285). 255–259. 1088 indexed citations breakdown →

Chiang, Chin, Keith E. Young, & Philip A. Beachy. (1995). Control of Drosophila tracheal branching by the novel homeodomain gene unplugged, a regulatory target for genes of the bithorax complex. Development. 121(11). 3901–3912. 38 indexed citations

Porter, Jeffery A., Doris P. von Kessler, Stephen C. Ekker, et al.. (1995). The product of hedgehog autoproteolytic cleavage active in local and long-range signalling. Nature. 374(6520). 363–366. 420 indexed citations

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Chiang, Chin, Nipam H. Patel, Keith E. Young, & Philip A. Beachy. (1994). The novel homeodomain gene buttonless specifies differentiation and axonal guidance functions of Drosophila dorsal median cells. Development. 120(12). 3581–3593. 29 indexed citations

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Ekker, Stephen C., Donald Jackson, Doris P. von Kessler, et al.. (1994). The degree of variation in DNA sequence recognition among four Drosophila homeotic proteins.. The EMBO Journal. 13(15). 3551–3560. 182 indexed citations

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Beachy, Philip A., et al.. (1993). Cooperative binding of an Ultrabithorax homeodomain protein to nearby and distant DNA sites.. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 13(11). 6941–6956. 66 indexed citations

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Ekker, Stephen C., Keith E. Young, Doris P. von Kessler, & Philip A. Beachy. (1991). Optimal DNA sequence recognition by the Ultrabithorax homeodomain of Drosophila.. The EMBO Journal. 10(5). 1179–1186. 156 indexed citations

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Smith, Kirby D., Keith E. Young, C. Conover Talbot, & Barbara J. Schmeckpeper. (1987). Repeated DNA of the human Y chromosome. Development. 101(Supplement). 77–92. 38 indexed citations

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Boyer, Samuel H., Harry Ostrer, Kirby D. Smith, Keith E. Young, & Andrea N. Noyes. (1984). Isoation of cDNA Clones for Rabbit Red Cell Carbonic Anhydrase and Catalase: A Pilot Study Directed at Isolation of Coordinately Expressed Genes. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 429(1). 324–331. 4 indexed citations

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Boyer, Samuel H., Kirby D. Smith, Andrea N. Noyes, & Keith E. Young. (1983). Adjuvants to immunological methods for mRNA purification. Application to the isolation of mRNA for carbonic anhydrase I from rabbit reticulocytes.. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 258(4). 2068–2071. 9 indexed citations

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Phillips, John A., Alan F. Scott, Kirby D. Smith, et al.. (1979). A molecular basis for hemoglobin-H disease in American blacks.. PubMed. 54(6). 1439–45. 24 indexed citations

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Young, Keith E., et al.. (1975). Isolation and characterization of the DNA fraction of rat liver chromatin which binds polylysine. Nucleic Acids Research. 2(5). 667–682. 5 indexed citations

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Young, Keith E., et al.. (1974). Heterogeneity of chromatin: Fractionation of sonicated rat liver chromatin by partial precipitation with Mg2+. Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics. 164(1). 73–89. 36 indexed citations

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Young, Keith E., et al.. (1972). Low molecular weight chromatin-associated RNA from rat liver. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Nucleic Acids and Protein Synthesis. 269(2). 252–258. 14 indexed citations

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