Laura Carrel

7.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
46 papers, 4.1k citations indexed

About

Laura Carrel is a scholar working on Genetics, Molecular Biology and Gender Studies. According to data from OpenAlex, Laura Carrel has authored 46 papers receiving a total of 4.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 36 papers in Genetics, 25 papers in Molecular Biology and 6 papers in Gender Studies. Recurrent topics in Laura Carrel's work include Genetic and Clinical Aspects of Sex Determination and Chromosomal Abnormalities (26 papers), Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (10 papers) and Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders (9 papers). Laura Carrel is often cited by papers focused on Genetic and Clinical Aspects of Sex Determination and Chromosomal Abnormalities (26 papers), Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (10 papers) and Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders (9 papers). Laura Carrel collaborates with scholars based in United States, Myanmar and United Kingdom. Laura Carrel's co-authors include Huntington F. Willard, Carolyn J. Brown, Jeffrey A. Bailey, Evan E. Eichler, Aravinda Chakravarti, Huntington F. Willard, Karrie Goglin, Christine M. Distèche, Joel B. Berletch and Jun Xu and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Laura Carrel

45 papers receiving 4.0k 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.

X-inactivation profile reveals extensive variability in X-linked gene expression in females

2005 1.5k citations Laura Carrel, Huntington F. Willard Nature profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Laura Carrel United States	27	2.6k	2.4k	579	385	238	46	4.1k
Larry J. Shapiro United States	42	2.8k 1.1×	3.5k 1.4×	565 1.0×	204 0.5×	127 0.5×	105	5.6k
Andrew R. Zinn United States	40	2.4k 0.9×	2.1k 0.9×	333 0.6×	140 0.4×	86 0.4×	82	4.3k
Barbara R. Migeon United States	46	3.2k 1.2×	4.2k 1.7×	880 1.5×	304 0.8×	324 1.4×	136	6.3k
Elfride De Baere Belgium	39	1.8k 0.7×	3.1k 1.3×	238 0.4×	478 1.2×	114 0.5×	153	4.4k
Ronald G. Lafrenière Canada	22	2.0k 0.8×	2.9k 1.2×	367 0.6×	168 0.4×	948 4.0×	40	4.1k
Joël Zlotogora Israel	35	2.0k 0.8×	1.9k 0.8×	167 0.3×	234 0.6×	177 0.7×	170	5.0k
Veronica J. Buckle United Kingdom	47	2.1k 0.8×	4.6k 1.9×	1.3k 2.2×	251 0.7×	476 2.0×	91	6.5k
Ulrich Zechner Germany	36	1.6k 0.6×	3.0k 1.2×	367 0.6×	266 0.7×	346 1.5×	121	4.7k
Andy Greenfield United Kingdom	31	1.8k 0.7×	2.7k 1.1×	127 0.2×	268 0.7×	245 1.0×	78	3.7k
Claire Rougeulle France	30	1.8k 0.7×	3.2k 1.3×	301 0.5×	162 0.4×	778 3.3×	60	3.8k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Laura Carrel

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Markus, Havell, Siyuan Chen, Shuang Gao, et al.. (2025). An atlas of single-cell eQTLs dissects autoimmune disease genes and identifies novel drug classes for treatment. Cell Genomics. 5(4). 100820–100820. 2 indexed citations

Gao, Shuang, Siyuan Chen, Havell Markus, et al.. (2025). Integrating axis quantitative trait loci looks beyond cell types and offers insights into brain-related traits. Nature Communications. 16(1). 10606–10606. 1 indexed citations

Wang, Chen, Havell Markus, Avantika R. Diwadkar, et al.. (2025). Integrating electronic health records and GWAS summary statistics to predict the progression of autoimmune diseases from preclinical stages. Nature Communications. 16(1). 180–180. 2 indexed citations

McGuire, Daniel, Havell Markus, Lina Yang, et al.. (2024). Dissecting heritability, environmental risk, and air pollution causal effects using > 50 million individuals in MarketScan. Nature Communications. 15(1). 5357–5357. 3 indexed citations

Khunsriraksakul, Chachrit, Havell Markus, Fang Chen, et al.. (2024). Integrating single cell expression quantitative trait loci summary statistics to understand complex trait risk genes. Nature Communications. 15(1). 4260–4260. 9 indexed citations

Khunsriraksakul, Chachrit, Havell Markus, Matthew T. Patrick, et al.. (2023). Multi-ancestry and multi-trait genome-wide association meta-analyses inform clinical risk prediction for systemic lupus erythematosus. Nature Communications. 14(1). 668–668. 26 indexed citations

Khunsriraksakul, Chachrit, Daniel McGuire, Renan Sauteraud, et al.. (2022). Integrating 3D genomic and epigenomic data to enhance target gene discovery and drug repurposing in transcriptome-wide association studies. Nature Communications. 13(1). 3258–3258. 27 indexed citations

Khunsriraksakul, Chachrit, Havell Markus, Nancy J. Olsen, et al.. (2022). Construction and Application of Polygenic Risk Scores in Autoimmune Diseases. Frontiers in Immunology. 13. 889296–889296. 12 indexed citations

Sauteraud, Renan, et al.. (2021). Inferring genes that escape X-Chromosome inactivation reveals important contribution of variable escape genes to sex-biased diseases. Genome Research. 31(9). 1629–1637. 24 indexed citations

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Cheung, Aaron, et al.. (2012). X-Chromosome Inactivation in Rett Syndrome Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells. Frontiers in Psychiatry. 3. 24–24. 41 indexed citations

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Lopes, Alexandra M., et al.. (2011). Clustered transcripts that escape X inactivation at mouse XqD. Mammalian Genome. 22(9-10). 572–582. 22 indexed citations

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Park, Chungoo, Laura Carrel, & Kateryna D. Makova. (2010). Strong Purifying Selection at Genes Escaping X Chromosome Inactivation. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 27(11). 2446–2450. 29 indexed citations

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Heard, Édith & Laura Carrel. (2009). Foreword: Coping with sex chromosome imbalance. Chromosome Research. 17(5). 579–583. 1 indexed citations

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Carrel, Laura, Chungoo Park, Svitlana Tyekucheva, et al.. (2006). Genomic Environment Predicts Expression Patterns on the Human Inactive X Chromosome. PLoS Genetics. 2(9). e151–e151. 72 indexed citations

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Carrel, Laura & Huntington F. Willard. (2005). X-inactivation profile reveals extensive variability in X-linked gene expression in females. Nature. 434(7031). 400–404. 1512 indexed citations breakdown →

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Carrel, Laura, et al.. (1999). Germ Cell Development in the XXY Mouse: Evidence That X Chromosome Reactivation Is Independent of Sexual Differentiation. Developmental Biology. 207(1). 229–238. 73 indexed citations

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Carrel, Laura & Huntington F. Willard. (1996). An assay for X inactivation based on differential methylation at the fragile X locus,FMR1. American Journal of Medical Genetics. 64(1). 27–30. 62 indexed citations

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Carrel, Laura. (1996). X inactivation analysis and DNA methylation studies of the ubiquitin activating enzyme E1 and PCTAIRE-1 genes in human and mouse. Human Molecular Genetics. 5(3). 391–401. 64 indexed citations

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Lafrenière, Ronald G., Laura Carrel, & Huntington F. Willard. (1994). A novel transmembrane transporter encoded by the XPCT gene in Xq13.2. Human Molecular Genetics. 3(7). 1133–1139. 93 indexed citations

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Willard, H.F., Carolyn J. Brown, Laura Carrel, Brian Hendrich, & Andrew P. Miller. (1993). Epigenetic and Chromosomal Control of Gene Expression: Molecular and Genetic Analysis of X Chromosome Inactivation. Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology. 58(0). 315–322. 37 indexed citations

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