Lucas Santana‐Santos

1.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
30 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Lucas Santana‐Santos is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Cancer Research. According to data from OpenAlex, Lucas Santana‐Santos has authored 30 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Molecular Biology, 10 papers in Genetics and 10 papers in Cancer Research. Recurrent topics in Lucas Santana‐Santos's work include Glioma Diagnosis and Treatment (9 papers), Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (6 papers) and Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics (6 papers). Lucas Santana‐Santos is often cited by papers focused on Glioma Diagnosis and Treatment (9 papers), Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (6 papers) and Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics (6 papers). Lucas Santana‐Santos collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Brazil. Lucas Santana‐Santos's co-authors include Michelle Barbi de Moura, Bennett Van Houten, Panayiotis V. Benos, Robert W. Sobol, Jianfeng Li, Bo Hu, Sung-Hak Kim, Soumya Luthra, Ping Mao and Ichiro Nakano and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nucleic Acids Research and Journal of Clinical Oncology.

In The Last Decade

Lucas Santana‐Santos

26 papers receiving 1.3k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Mesenchymal glioma stem cells are maintained by activated glycolytic metabolism involving aldehyde dehydrogenase 1A3

2013 501 citations Ping Mao, Jianfeng Li et al. profile →
Analytical performance of the ThyroSeq v3 genomic classifier for cancer diagnosis in thyroid nodules

2018 262 citations Marina N. Nikiforova, Abigail I. Wald et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Lucas Santana‐Santos United States	12	641	402	286	266	252	30	1.3k
Pietro Zoppoli Italy	21	854 1.3×	322 0.8×	98 0.3×	244 0.9×	56 0.2×	48	1.3k
Johanna Tommiska Finland	25	1.3k 2.0×	336 0.8×	167 0.6×	590 2.2×	109 0.4×	39	1.9k
Monica Bartucci Italy	20	1.6k 2.4×	951 2.4×	150 0.5×	637 2.4×	137 0.5×	25	2.3k
Chibo Hong United States	20	1.8k 2.8×	347 0.9×	62 0.2×	318 1.2×	272 1.1×	33	2.4k
Anna Garuti Italy	21	644 1.0×	254 0.6×	68 0.2×	477 1.8×	137 0.5×	67	1.5k
Monica Gatti Italy	20	561 0.9×	217 0.5×	98 0.3×	467 1.8×	194 0.8×	26	1.1k
Jorge Martı́n-Pérez Spain	25	1.2k 1.9×	198 0.5×	251 0.9×	548 2.1×	48 0.2×	49	1.8k
Regan M. Memmott United States	14	1.3k 2.0×	312 0.8×	114 0.4×	509 1.9×	52 0.2×	24	1.7k
Joana Couto Portugal	12	439 0.7×	188 0.5×	186 0.7×	454 1.7×	37 0.1×	26	959
Federico Tagliati Italy	26	810 1.3×	615 1.5×	952 3.3×	411 1.5×	199 0.8×	57	2.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Lucas Santana‐Santos

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Lucas Santana‐Santos

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All Works

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Duckett, Drew, Pouya Jamshidi, Madina Sukhanova, et al.. (2025). Accurate identification of primary site in tumors of unknown origin (TUO) using DNA methylation. npj Precision Oncology. 9(1). 8–8. 1 indexed citations

Duckett, Drew, Jared T. Ahrendsen, Lawrence J. Jennings, et al.. (2025). Meningiomas With Chromosomal Polysomies Reveal Nonrandom Gain of Chromosomes, Distinct Methylation Signature, and Lower Risk of Recurrence. Modern Pathology. 38(7). 100775–100775.

Chen, Alice P., Natasha Sharma, Pragi Patel, et al.. (2025). Clinical, Morphologic, and Genomic Differences in Deep-Penetrating Nevi and Deep-Penetrating Nevus-like Melanomas. Modern Pathology. 38(5). 100707–100707. 3 indexed citations

Smith, Heather, Melissa Mejía-Bautista, Anas Alshawa, et al.. (2025). IDH-wildtype astrocytoma with FH mutation, epigenetic similarity to IDH-mutant astrocytoma, and hypermethylation of CDKN2A arising in the brainstem. Journal of Neuropathology & Experimental Neurology. 85(4). 398–401.

Vitello, Dominic, Dhavan V. Shah, M.C. Cox, et al.. (2024). Mutant KRAS in Circulating Tumor DNA as a Biomarker in Localized Pancreatic Cancer in Patients Treated with Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy. Annals of Surgery. 6 indexed citations

Leung, Marco L., et al.. (2024). Microarray-Based DNA Methylation Profiling. Journal of Molecular Diagnostics. 26(6). 447–455. 6 indexed citations

LaFramboise, William A., et al.. (2023). A Tumor and Immune-Related Micro-RNA Signature Predicts Relapse-Free Survival of Melanoma Patients Treated with Ipilimumab. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 24(9). 8167–8167. 4 indexed citations

Alexiev, Borislav A., Lucas Santana‐Santos, Drew Duckett, et al.. (2023). Methylation classifier array and classification of solitary fibrous tumors.. Journal of Clinical Oncology. 41(16_suppl). e23522–e23522. 1 indexed citations

Missinato, Maria A, et al.. (2023). Foxm1 regulates cardiomyocyte proliferation in adult zebrafish after cardiac injury. Development. 150(6). 11 indexed citations

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Zak, Taylor, Lucas Santana‐Santos, Juehua Gao, et al.. (2023). Prognostic significance of copy number gains of MYC detected by fluorescence in situ hybridization in large B-cell lymphoma. Leukemia & lymphoma. 65(1). 26–36.

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Santana‐Santos, Lucas, Matthew McCord, Pouya Jamshidi, et al.. (2022). Validation of Whole Genome Methylation Profiling Classifier for Central Nervous System Tumors. Journal of Molecular Diagnostics. 24(8). 924–934. 19 indexed citations

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Roy, Somak, Sameer Agnihotri, Soufiane El Hallani, et al.. (2019). Clinical Utility of GlioSeq Next-Generation Sequencing Test in Pediatric and Young Adult Patients With Brain Tumors. Journal of Neuropathology & Experimental Neurology. 78(8). 694–702. 2 indexed citations

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Callenberg, Keith M., Lucas Santana‐Santos, Chen Liang, et al.. (2018). Clinical Implementation and Validation of Automated Human Genome Variation Society (HGVS) Nomenclature System for Next-Generation Sequencing–Based Assays for Cancer. Journal of Molecular Diagnostics. 20(5). 628–634. 9 indexed citations

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Kulkarni, Sucheta, James M. Dolezal, Huabo Wang, et al.. (2017). Ribosomopathy-like properties of murine and human cancers. PLoS ONE. 12(8). e0182705–e0182705. 29 indexed citations

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Bahreini, Amir, Kevin M. Levine, Lucas Santana‐Santos, et al.. (2016). Non-coding single nucleotide variants affecting estrogen receptor binding and activity. Genome Medicine. 8(1). 128–128. 6 indexed citations

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Chandran, Uma, Soumya Luthra, Lucas Santana‐Santos, et al.. (2015). Gene expression profiling distinguishes proneural glioma stem cells from mesenchymal glioma stem cells. Genomics Data. 5. 333–336. 28 indexed citations

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Wang, Jingnan, Jianfeng Li, Lucas Santana‐Santos, et al.. (2014). A novel strategy for targeted killing of tumor cells: Induction of multipolar acentrosomal mitotic spindles with a quinazolinone derivative mdivi‐1. Molecular Oncology. 9(2). 488–502. 21 indexed citations

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Asagoshi, Kenjiro, Wolf D. Lehmann, Elena K. Braithwaite, et al.. (2011). Single-nucleotide base excision repair DNA polymerase activity in C. elegans in the absence of DNA polymerase . Nucleic Acids Research. 40(2). 670–681. 22 indexed citations

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Moura, Michelle Barbi de, Lucas Santana‐Santos, & Bennett Van Houten. (2010). Mitochondrial dysfunction in neurodegenerative diseases and cancer. Environmental and Molecular Mutagenesis. 51(5). 391–405. 187 indexed citations

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Santana‐Santos, Lucas, Francisco Prosdocimi, & José Miguel Ortega. (2008). Essential amino acid usage and evolutionary nutrigenomics of eukaryotes - insights into the differential usage of amino acids in protein domains and extra-domains. Genetics and Molecular Research. 7(3). 839–852. 5 indexed citations

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