Luca Pinello

16.0k total citations · 6 hit papers
97 papers, 6.0k citations indexed

About

Luca Pinello is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Luca Pinello has authored 97 papers receiving a total of 6.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 89 papers in Molecular Biology, 12 papers in Genetics and 10 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Luca Pinello's work include CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (39 papers), Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (22 papers) and Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (21 papers). Luca Pinello is often cited by papers focused on CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (39 papers), Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (22 papers) and Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (21 papers). Luca Pinello collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Italy. Luca Pinello's co-authors include Guo‐Cheng Yuan, Daniel E. Bauer, Kendell Clement, Stuart H. Orkin, J. Keith Joung, Huidong Chen, Matthew C. Canver, Jonathan Y. Hsu, Jing Zeng and Yuko Fujiwara and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Luca Pinello

92 papers receiving 5.9k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

What are hit papers?

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.

BCL11A enhancer dissection by Cas9-mediated in situ saturating mutagenesis

2015 612 citations Matthew C. Canver, Elenoe C. Smith et al. profile →
Engineered CRISPR–Cas12a variants with increased activities and improved targeting ranges for gene, epigenetic and base editing

2019 453 citations Benjamin P. Kleinstiver, Russell T. Walton et al. Nature Biotechnology profile →
An Erythroid Enhancer of BCL11A Subject to Genetic Variation Determines Fetal Hemoglobin Level

2013 450 citations Daniel E. Bauer, Samuel Lessard et al. profile →
BRCA1 Recruitment to Transcriptional Pause Sites Is Required for R-Loop-Driven DNA Damage Repair

2015 351 citations Luca Pinello et al. profile →
An APOBEC3A-Cas9 base editor with minimized bystander and off-target activities

2018 331 citations Jason M. Gehrke, Kendell Clement et al. Nature Biotechnology profile →
CRISPR prime editing with ribonucleoprotein complexes in zebrafish and primary human cells

2021 150 citations Kendell Clement, Jonathan Y. Hsu et al. Nature Biotechnology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Luca Pinello United States	37	5.2k	990	791	650	453	97	6.0k
Jonghwan Kim United States	37	5.7k 1.1×	780 0.8×	894 1.1×	243 0.4×	669 1.5×	119	7.3k
Adrian P. Bracken Ireland	33	7.4k 1.4×	1.0k 1.0×	1.2k 1.5×	228 0.4×	1.1k 2.5×	47	8.5k
Yuanxin Xi United States	28	4.2k 0.8×	565 0.6×	712 0.9×	223 0.3×	466 1.0×	43	5.5k
William C. Forrester United States	26	4.5k 0.9×	1.4k 1.4×	367 0.5×	391 0.6×	705 1.6×	33	5.2k
Stephen Taylor United Kingdom	32	3.0k 0.6×	445 0.4×	551 0.7×	404 0.6×	205 0.5×	74	4.4k
Judith M. Boer Netherlands	36	2.7k 0.5×	419 0.4×	713 0.9×	262 0.4×	650 1.4×	94	4.7k
Patrick Cahan United States	31	3.9k 0.8×	582 0.6×	532 0.7×	185 0.3×	360 0.8×	73	5.4k
Caleb A. Lareau United States	34	5.3k 1.0×	800 0.8×	1.1k 1.4×	192 0.3×	650 1.4×	71	6.5k
Patrick J. Paddison United States	31	5.1k 1.0×	1.1k 1.1×	1.1k 1.4×	286 0.4×	472 1.0×	66	6.0k
Peter B. Rahl United States	19	8.2k 1.6×	714 0.7×	1.3k 1.6×	197 0.3×	861 1.9×	28	9.3k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Sreekanth, Vedagopuram, Max Jan, Kevin T. Zhao, et al.. (2025). A Molecular Glue Approach to Control the Half-Life of CRISPR-Based Technologies. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 147(27). 23844–23856. 3 indexed citations

Li, Zhijian, Wenjie Xie, Wenjing Ye, et al.. (2025). Spatial multiomics decipher fibroblast–macrophage dynamics in systemic sclerosis. Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases. 84(7). 1231–1245. 3 indexed citations

Rahmat, Mahshid, Kendell Clement, Jean-Baptiste Alberge, et al.. (2024). Selective Enhancer Gain-of-Function Deregulates MYC Expression in Multiple Myeloma. Cancer Research. 84(24). 4173–4183. 1 indexed citations

Chen, Zeyu, Nauman Javed, Jingyi Wu, et al.. (2023). Integrative dissection of gene regulatory elements at base resolution. Cell Genomics. 3(6). 100318–100318. 8 indexed citations

Christie, Kathleen A., Jimmy A. Guo, Rachel A. Silverstein, et al.. (2022). Precise DNA cleavage using CRISPR-SpRYgests. Nature Biotechnology. 41(3). 409–416. 35 indexed citations

Hacken, Elisa ten, Shanye Yin, Robert Redd, et al.. (2022). Loss-of-function lesions impact B-cell development and fitness but are insufficient to drive CLL in mouse models. Blood Advances. 7(16). 4514–4517. 5 indexed citations

Zeng, Jing, Jiecong Lin, Nicola Bombieri, et al.. (2022). Human genetic diversity alters off-target outcomes of therapeutic gene editing. Nature Genetics. 55(1). 34–43. 57 indexed citations

Vinjamur, Divya S., Qiuming Yao, Mitchel A. Cole, et al.. (2021). ZNF410 represses fetal globin by singular control of CHD4. Nature Genetics. 53(5). 719–728. 50 indexed citations

Liu, Nan, Shuqian Xu, Qiuming Yao, et al.. (2021). Transcription factor competition at the γ-globin promoters controls hemoglobin switching. Nature Genetics. 53(4). 511–520. 57 indexed citations

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Liu, Nan, Shuqian Xu, Qiuming Yao, et al.. (2021). Author Correction: Transcription factor competition at the γ-globin promoters controls hemoglobin switching. Nature Genetics. 53(4). 586–586. 2 indexed citations

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Wu, Jingyi, Gilbert J. Rahme, Sofia Battaglia, et al.. (2020). Parallel Single-Cell RNA-Seq and Genetic Recording Reveals Lineage Decisions in Developing Embryoid Bodies. Cell Reports. 33(1). 108222–108222. 18 indexed citations

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Zeng, Jing, Yuxuan Wu, Chunyan Ren, et al.. (2020). Therapeutic base editing of human hematopoietic stem cells. Nature Medicine. 26(4). 535–541. 205 indexed citations

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Albergante, Luca, Evgeny M. Mirkes, Huidong Chen, et al.. (2020). Robust and Scalable Learning of Complex Intrinsic Dataset Geometry via ElPiGraph. Entropy. 22(3). 296–296. 35 indexed citations

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Canver, Matthew C., Pratibha Tripathi, Michael Bullen, et al.. (2020). A saturating mutagenesis CRISPR-Cas9–mediated functional genomic screen identifies cis- and trans-regulatory elements of Oct4 in murine ESCs. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 295(47). 15797–15809. 5 indexed citations

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Li, Carman Man-Chung, Laura M. Selfors, Huidong Chen, et al.. (2020). Aging-Associated Alterations in Mammary Epithelia and Stroma Revealed by Single-Cell RNA Sequencing. Cell Reports. 33(13). 108566–108566. 90 indexed citations

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Vinyard, Michael, Amanda L. Waterbury, Allyson M. Freedy, et al.. (2019). CRISPR-suppressor scanning reveals a nonenzymatic role of LSD1 in AML. Nature Chemical Biology. 15(5). 529–539. 70 indexed citations

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Pinello, Luca, Rick Farouni, & Guo‐Cheng Yuan. (2018). Haystack: systematic analysis of the variation of epigenetic states and cell-type specific regulatory elements. Bioinformatics. 34(11). 1930–1933. 12 indexed citations

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Clement, Kendell, Rick Farouni, Daniel E. Bauer, & Luca Pinello. (2018). AmpUMI: design and analysis of unique molecular identifiers for deep amplicon sequencing. Bioinformatics. 34(13). i202–i210. 25 indexed citations

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Tang, Qin, Sowmya Iyer, Riadh Lobbardi, et al.. (2017). Dissecting hematopoietic and renal cell heterogeneity in adult zebrafish at single-cell resolution using RNA sequencing. The Journal of Experimental Medicine. 214(10). 2875–2887. 141 indexed citations

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Canver, Matthew C., Elenoe C. Smith, Falak Sher, et al.. (2015). BCL11A enhancer dissection by Cas9-mediated in situ saturating mutagenesis. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics. 2 indexed citations

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