Ken Higashimoto

1.7k total citations
51 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Ken Higashimoto is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Ken Higashimoto has authored 51 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 44 papers in Molecular Biology, 38 papers in Genetics and 23 papers in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health. Recurrent topics in Ken Higashimoto's work include Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (41 papers), Genetic Syndromes and Imprinting (35 papers) and Prenatal Screening and Diagnostics (23 papers). Ken Higashimoto is often cited by papers focused on Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (41 papers), Genetic Syndromes and Imprinting (35 papers) and Prenatal Screening and Diagnostics (23 papers). Ken Higashimoto collaborates with scholars based in Japan, China and Indonesia. Ken Higashimoto's co-authors include Hidenobu Soejima, Hitomi Yatsuki, Keiichiro Joh, Tsunehiro Mukai, Takeshi Urano, Wei Xu, Xiaodong Cheng, Peter Kühn, T Mukai and Mitsuo Oshimura and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Oncogene and The FASEB Journal.

In The Last Decade

Ken Higashimoto

51 papers receiving 1.1k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Ken Higashimoto Japan 20 939 516 299 184 72 51 1.2k
Sayeda Abu‐Amero United Kingdom 18 926 1.0× 843 1.6× 663 2.2× 211 1.1× 39 0.5× 31 1.5k
Jiangzhen Li United States 8 418 0.4× 751 1.5× 294 1.0× 126 0.7× 45 0.6× 8 946
Jonathan J. Waters United Kingdom 17 362 0.4× 439 0.9× 410 1.4× 69 0.4× 58 0.8× 32 1.0k
Anita S. Kulharya United States 14 509 0.5× 452 0.9× 147 0.5× 60 0.3× 91 1.3× 31 843
Cathy Holding United Kingdom 12 599 0.6× 180 0.3× 147 0.5× 88 0.5× 89 1.2× 38 878
Nicole L. Hoppman United States 14 279 0.3× 279 0.5× 115 0.4× 92 0.5× 78 1.1× 62 704
Antoine Daunay France 15 508 0.5× 206 0.4× 133 0.4× 172 0.9× 17 0.2× 26 796
Fengchang Qiao China 18 697 0.7× 165 0.3× 210 0.7× 412 2.2× 22 0.3× 51 995
Shlomit Rienstein Israel 14 277 0.3× 161 0.3× 107 0.4× 94 0.5× 69 1.0× 28 559
Periklis Makrythanasis Switzerland 18 402 0.4× 278 0.5× 59 0.2× 83 0.5× 82 1.1× 58 798

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All Works

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Higashimoto, Ken, Yuki Ohkawa, Hidenobu Soejima, et al.. (2023). Possible regulation of ganglioside GD3 synthase gene expression with DNA methylation in human glioma cells. Glycoconjugate Journal. 40(3). 323–332. 2 indexed citations
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Sun, Feifei, et al.. (2021). Phenotypically concordant but epigenetically discordant monozygotic dichorionic diamniotic twins with Beckwith–Wiedemann syndrome. American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A. 185(10). 3062–3067. 5 indexed citations
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Sun, Feifei, Ken Higashimoto, Naoto Nishizaki, et al.. (2019). The extent of DNA methylation anticipation due to a genetic defect in ICR1 in Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome. Journal of Human Genetics. 64(9). 937–943. 7 indexed citations
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Yamada, Tomohiro, Ken Higashimoto, Hiroyuki Nakano, et al.. (2018). Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome with asymmetric mosaic of paternal disomy causing hemihyperplasia. Oral Surgery Oral Medicine Oral Pathology and Oral Radiology. 127(3). e84–e88. 5 indexed citations
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Yamaguchi, Yûko, Kazuhiko Nakabayashi, Ken Higashimoto, et al.. (2016). The HUS1B promoter is hypomethylated in the placentas of low-birth-weight infants. Gene. 583(2). 141–146. 9 indexed citations
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Maeda, Toshiyuki, Ryota Souzaki, Ken Higashimoto, et al.. (2013). Comprehensive analyses of imprinted differentially methylated regions reveal epigenetic and genetic characteristics in hepatoblastoma. BMC Cancer. 13(1). 608–608. 27 indexed citations
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Higashimoto, Ken, Takaho A. Endo, Jafar Sharif, et al.. (2013). Ash1l Methylates Lys36 of Histone H3 Independently of Transcriptional Elongation to Counteract Polycomb Silencing. PLoS Genetics. 9(11). e1003897–e1003897. 66 indexed citations
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Higashimoto, Ken, Toshiyuki Maeda, Yasufumi Ohtsuka, et al.. (2013). Homozygous deletion of DIS3L2 exon 9 due to non-allelic homologous recombination between LINE-1s in a Japanese patient with Perlman syndrome. European Journal of Human Genetics. 21(11). 1316–1319. 15 indexed citations
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Soejima, Hidenobu & Ken Higashimoto. (2013). Epigenetic and genetic alterations of the imprinting disorder Beckwith–Wiedemann syndrome and related disorders. Journal of Human Genetics. 58(7). 402–409. 100 indexed citations
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Higashimoto, Ken, Kazuhiko Nakabayashi, Hitomi Yatsuki, et al.. (2012). Aberrant methylation of H19‐DMR acquired after implantation was dissimilar in soma versus placenta of patients with Beckwith–Wiedemann syndrome. American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A. 158A(7). 1670–1675. 7 indexed citations
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Aoki, Aiko, et al.. (2011). Beckwith–Wiedemann syndrome with placental chorangioma due to H19‐differentially methylated region hypermethylation: A case report. Journal of obstetrics and gynaecology research. 37(12). 1872–1876. 10 indexed citations
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Sasaki, Kensaku, Hidenobu Soejima, Ken Higashimoto, et al.. (2007). Japanese and North American/European patients with Beckwith–Wiedemann syndrome have different frequencies of some epigenetic and genetic alterations. European Journal of Human Genetics. 15(12). 1205–1210. 35 indexed citations
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Joh, Keiichiro, Hitomi Yatsuki, Wei Zhao, et al.. (2006). Retinoic acid receptor β2 is epigenetically silenced either by DNA methylation or repressive histone modifications at the promoter in cervical cancer cells. Cancer Letters. 247(2). 318–327. 27 indexed citations
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Satoh, Y., Hisaya Nakadate, Ken Higashimoto, et al.. (2006). Genetic and epigenetic alterations on the short arm of chromosome 11 are involved in a majority of sporadic Wilms' tumours. British Journal of Cancer. 95(4). 541–547. 41 indexed citations
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Zhang, Zhongming, Keiichiro Joh, Hitomi Yatsuki, et al.. (2005). Comparative analyses of genomic imprinting and CpG island-methylation in mouse Murr1 and human MURR1 loci revealed a putative imprinting control region in mice. Gene. 366(1). 77–86. 23 indexed citations
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Higashimoto, Ken, Takeshi Urano, Kazumitsu Sugiura, et al.. (2003). Loss of CpG Methylation Is Strongly Correlated with Loss of Histone H3 Lysine 9 Methylation at DMR-LIT1 in Patients with Beckwith-Wiedemann Syndrome. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 73(4). 948–956. 36 indexed citations
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Higashimoto, Ken, Hidenobu Soejima, Hitomi Yatsuki, et al.. (2002). Characterization and Imprinting Status of OBPH1/Obph1 Gene: Implications for an Extended Imprinting Domain in Human and Mouse. Genomics. 80(6). 575–584. 26 indexed citations
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Higashimoto, Ken, Hidenobu Soejima, Hitomi Yatsuki, Takeshi Katsuki, & T Mukai. (2000). An NsiI RFLP in the human long QT intronic transcript 1 (LIT1). Journal of Human Genetics. 45(2). 96–97. 3 indexed citations
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Zhu, Xike, Ken Higashimoto, Hidenobu Soejima, et al.. (2000). C11orf21, a novel gene within the Beckwith–Wiedemann syndrome region in human chromosome 11p15.5. Gene. 256(1-2). 311–317. 3 indexed citations
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Zhao, Xin, Hidenobu Soejima, Ken Higashimoto, et al.. (2000). A Novel Imprinted Gene, KCNQ1DN, within the WT2 Critical Region of Human Chromosome 11p15.5 and Its Reduced Expression in Wilms' Tumors. The Journal of Biochemistry. 128(5). 847–853. 22 indexed citations

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