Louis M. Kunkel

46.9k citations

284 papers · 36.5k indexed · 13 hit papers · h-index 91

Aging top 0.1%
Genetics top 0.05%
- Neurogenetic and Muscular Disorders Research 29
Molecular Biology top 0.02%
- Muscle Physiology and Disorders 190
- RNA Research and Splicing 50
- RNA modifications and cancer 27
Rehabilitation top 0.05%
Cell Biology top 0.1%
- Biotin and Related Studies 18
Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
- Cardiomyopathy and Myosin Studies 35
Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience
- Genetic Neurodegenerative Diseases 30
Physiology
- Adipose Tissue and Metabolism 26

Co-authors: Eric P. Hoffman Anthony P. Monaco Robert H. Brown M. Kœnig Corlee J. Bertelson Hart G.W. Lidov Emanuela Gussoni Alan H. Beggs
Cited by: Aging Genetics Molecular Biology
Journals: Nature (11 papers)Science (5 papers)New England Journal of Medicine (1 paper)
Partner nations: United States Japan United Kingdom

In The Last Decade

Louis M. Kunkel

281 papers receiving 35.6k 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.

2012 PLoS ONE
1999 Nature
1993 Nature Genetics
1989 Nature
1988 Genomics
1988 Cell
1988 Cell
1988 New England Journal of Medicine
1987 Cell
1987 Cell
1986 Nature
1986 Nature
1977 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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1	Conditional Dmd ablation in muscle and brain causes profound effects on muscle function and neurobehavior Communications Biology ·Muthukumar Karuppasamy,Katherine G. English,James R. Conner,Shelby N. Rorrer,Michael A. Lopez,David K. Crossman,Jodi R. Paul,Miguel A. Gutierrez‐Monreal,Karen L. Gamble,Karyn A. Esser,Jeffrey J. Widrick,Louis M. Kunkel,Matthew S. Alexander	2025	0
2	Applying genome-wide CRISPR-Cas9 screens for therapeutic discovery in facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy Science Translational Medicine ·Angela Lek,Tracy Zhang,Keryn G. Woodman,Shushu Huang,Alec M. DeSimone,Justin Cohen,Vincent Ho,James R. Conner,Lillian Mead,Andrew Kodani,Anna Pakuła,Neville E. Sanjana,Oliver D. King,Peter L. Jones,Kathryn R. Wagner,Monkol Lek,Louis M. Kunkel	2020	45
3	Concordance between gene expression in peripheral whole blood and colonic tissue in children with inflammatory bowel disease PLoS ONE ·Nathan Palmer,Jocelyn A. Silvester,Jessica J. Lee,Andrew L. Beam,Inbar Fried,Vladimir I. Valtchinov,Fedik Rahimov,Sek Won Kong,Saum Ghodoussipour,H Hood,Athos Bousvaros,Richard J. Grand,Louis M. Kunkel,Isaac S. Kohane	2019	33
4	MicroRNA-486–dependent modulation of DOCK3/PTEN/AKT signaling pathways improves muscular dystrophy–associated symptoms Journal of Clinical Investigation ·Matthew S. Alexander,Juan Carlos Casar,Norio Motohashi,Natássia M. Vieira,Iris Eisenberg,Jamie L. Marshall,Molly Gasperini,Angela Lek,Jennifer A. Myers,Elicia Estrella,Peter B. Kang,Frederic Shapiro,Fedik Rahimov,Genri Kawahara,Jeffrey J. Widrick,Louis M. Kunkel	2014	119
5	Mutations in the satellite cell gene MEGF10 cause a recessive congenital myopathy with minicores Neurogenetics ·Steven E. Boyden,Lane J. Mahoney,Genri Kawahara,Jennifer A. Myers,Satomi Mitsuhashi,Elicia Estrella,Anna R. Duncan,Friederike Dey,Elizabeth T. DeChene,Jessica M. Blasko-Goehringer,Carsten G. Bönnemann,Basil T. Darras,Jerry R. Mendell,Hart G.W. Lidov,Ichizo Nishino,Alan H. Beggs,Louis M. Kunkel,Peter B. Kang	2012	57
6	Drug screening in a zebrafish model of Duchenne muscular dystrophy Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Genri Kawahara,Jeremy A. Karpf,Jennifer A. Myers,Matthew S. Alexander,Jeffrey R. Guyon,Louis M. Kunkel	2011	144
7	Isolation and transcriptome analysis of adult zebrafish cells enriched for skeletal muscle progenitors Muscle & Nerve ·Matthew S. Alexander,Genri Kawahara,Alvin T. Kho,Melanie Howell,Timothy J. Pusack,Jennifer A. Myers,Federica Montanaro,Leonard I. Zon,Jeffrey R. Guyon,Louis M. Kunkel	2011	17
8	Genetic isolation and characterization of a splicing mutant of zebrafish dystrophin Human Molecular Genetics ·Jeffrey R. Guyon,Julie Goswami,Susan J. Jun,Marielle Thorne,Melanie Howell,Timothy J. Pusack,Genri Kawahara,Leta S. Steffen,Michal Galdzicki,Louis M. Kunkel	2008	58
9	Distinctive patterns of microRNA expression in primary muscular disorders Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Iris Eisenberg,Alal Eran,Ichizo Nishino,Maurizio Moggio,Costanza Lamperti,Anthony A. Amato,Hart G.W. Lidov,Peter B. Kang,Kathryn N. North,Stella Mitrani‐Rosenbaum,Kevin M. Flanigan,Lori A. Neely,Duncan Whitney,Alan H. Beggs,Isaac S. Kohane,Louis M. Kunkel	2007	407
10	Stem and Progenitor Cells in Skeletal Muscle Development, Maintenance, and Therapy Molecular Therapy ·Bruno Péault,Michael A. Rudnicki,Yvan Torrente,Giulio Cossu,Jacques P. Tremblay,Terry Partridge,Emanuela Gussoni,Louis M. Kunkel,Johnny Huard	2007	423
11	The dystrophin associated protein complex in zebrafish Human Molecular Genetics ·Jeffrey R. Guyon,Alycia Mosley Austin,Yi Zhou,Kristine O'Brien,Xiaoming Sheng,Karen Chiang,Alan J. Davidson,Jay Volinski,L I Zon,Louis M. Kunkel	2003	88
12	Long-term persistence of donor nuclei in a Duchenne muscular dystrophy patient receiving bone marrow transplantation Journal of Clinical Investigation ·Emanuela Gussoni,Richard Rodney Bennett,Kristina R. Muskiewicz,Todd E. Meyerrose,Jan A. Nolta,Irene Gilgoff,James H. Stein,Yiu-mo Chan,Hart G.W. Lidov,Carsten G. Bönnemann,Arpad von Moers,Glenn E. Morris,Johan T. den Dunnen,Jeffrey S. Chamberlain,Louis M. Kunkel,Kenneth I. Weinberg	2002	116
13	A genome-wide scan for linkage to human exceptional longevity identifies a locus on chromosome 4 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Annibale Alessandro Puca,Mark J. Daly,Stephanie Brewster,Tara C. Matise,Jeffrey C. Barrett,Maureen Shea-Drinkwater,Sammy Kang,Erin Joyce,Julie Nicoli,Erica K. Benson,Louis M. Kunkel,Thomas T. Perls	2001	237
14	Evolutionary Divergence of the Mouse and Human Lgn1/SMA Repeat Structures Genomics ·Joseph D. Growney,Jeremiah M. Scharf,Louis M. Kunkel,William F. Dietrich	2000	19
15	A (CA)n repeat polymorphism for the human skeletal muscle α-actinin gene ACTN2 and its localization on the linkage map of chromosome 1 Genomics ·Alan H. Beggs,Hilary A. Phillips,H.M. Kozman,John C. Mulley,Steve D. Wilton,Louis M. Kunkel,Nigel G. Laing	1992	10
16	Complementary DNA probes for the Duchenne muscular dystrophy locus demonstrate a previously undetectable deletion in a patient with dystrophic myopathy, glycerol kinase deficiency, and congenital adrenal hypoplasia. Journal of Clinical Investigation ·Edward R.B. McCabe,Jeffrey A. Towbin,Jeffrey S. Chamberlain,L. Baumbach,Jan Witkowski,G J van Ommen,M. Kœnig,Louis M. Kunkel,William Seltzer	1989	48
17	The Wellcome Lecture, 1988 - Muscular dystrophy: a time of hope Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences ·Louis M. Kunkel	1989	8
18	Duchenne muscular dystrophy: Deficiency of dystrophin at the muscle cell surfacebreakdown → Cell ·Eduardo Bonilla,Craig E. Samitt,Armand F. Miranda,Arthur P. Hays,G. Salviati,Salvatore DiMauro,Louis M. Kunkel,Eric P. Hoffman,Lewis P. Rowland	1988	528
19	Cell and fiber type distribution of dystrophin Neuron ·Eric P. Hoffman,Michael S. Hudecki,Paul A. Rosenberg,Catherine M. Pollina,Louis M. Kunkel	1988	198
20	Isolation and characterization of two repetitive DNA fragments located near the centromere of the mouse X chromosome Cytogenetic and Genome Research ·Christine M. Distèche,Umadevi Tantravahi,S. L. Gandy,M. Eisenhard,David Adler,Louis M. Kunkel	1985	46

About Louis M. Kunkel

Louis M. Kunkel is a scholar working on Aging, Genetics and Molecular Biology, having authored 284 papers that have together received 36.5k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Muscle Physiology and Disorders (190 papers), RNA Research and Splicing (50 papers), Cardiomyopathy and Myosin Studies (35 papers), Genetic Neurodegenerative Diseases (30 papers), Neurogenetic and Muscular Disorders Research (29 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (27 papers), Adipose Tissue and Metabolism (26 papers) and Biotin and Related Studies (18 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Aging (947 citations), Genetics (5.7k citations) and Molecular Biology (30.3k citations). Louis M. Kunkel has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Japan and United Kingdom. Frequent co-authors include Eric P. Hoffman, Anthony P. Monaco, Robert H. Brown, M. Kœnig, Corlee J. Bertelson, Hart G.W. Lidov, Emanuela Gussoni, Alan H. Beggs, T J Byers and Simon C. Watkins. Their work appears in journals such as Nature, Science and New England Journal of Medicine.

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