Lukas Burger

10.3k citations

33 papers · 7.7k · 2 hit papers · h-index 29

Impact in

Molecular Biology top 0.5%
- Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
- RNA Research and Splicing
- Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics
- RNA modifications and cancer
- Protein Structure and Dynamics
- Pluripotent Stem Cells Research
Cancer Research top 1%
- MicroRNA in disease regulation
- Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research

Papers in

Molecular Biology 30
- Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics 14
- Epigenetics and DNA Methylation 11
- RNA Research and Splicing 4
- Protein Structure and Dynamics 1
Nuclear Energy and Engineering 0

Co-authors: Dirk Schübeler (25 shared papers)Dimos Gaidatzis (7 shared papers)Mohsen Khorshid (4 shared papers)Mihaela Zavolan (4 shared papers)Erik van Nimwegen (3 shared papers)Michael Beda Stadler (7 shared papers)Jean Hausser (3 shared papers)Greg S. Wardle (3 shared papers)
Journals: Nature Communications (5 papers)Nature (4 papers)Molecular Cell (3 papers)PLoS Genetics (3 papers)Nature Genetics (2 papers)
Partner nations: Switzerland Germany United States

In The Last Decade

Lukas Burger

33 papers receiving 7.6k citations

Lukas Burger's Hit Papers

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DNA-binding factors shape the mouse methylome at distal regulatory regions 2011 · 1.1k citations

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Paper score: A paper's citations measured against the top-1% bar of its own field and year: the square root of citations ÷ bar, so 1 means right at the bar and 2 means four times its citations. The bar blends the citation counts that enter the top 1% of the paper's subfields in its year (weighted 89.5%), of those subfields over all years (0.5%) and of its year across all fields (10%); a subfield and year with fewer than 400 papers takes its year's bar. Papers from 2026 are not scored yet: in an unfinished year, when a paper appeared matters more than how it is cited.

Hit paper: A paper cited at least 1.5× the top-1% bar of its field and year: a paper score of at least √1.5.

2011 Nature
2010 Cell

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1	Transcriptome-wide Identification of RNA-Binding Protein and MicroRNA Target Sites by PAR-CLIP Cell ·Markus Hafner, Markus Landthaler, Lukas Burger, Mohsen Khorshid, Jean Hausser, Philipp Berninger, Andrea Rothballer, Manuel Ascano Hit paper breakdown →	2010	2301
2	DNA-binding factors shape the mouse methylome at distal regulatory regions Nature ·Michael Beda Stadler, Rabih Murr, Lukas Burger, Robert Ivánek, Florian Lienert, Anne Schöler, Erik van Nimwegen, Edward J. Oakeley Hit paper breakdown →	2011	1066
3	Genomic profiling of DNA methyltransferases reveals a role for DNMT3B in genic methylation Nature ·Tuncay Baubec, Daniele Colombo, Lukas Burger, Arnaud Regis Krebs, Altuna Akalin, Dirk Schübeler +2 others	2015	555
4	A quantitative analysis of CLIP methods for identifying binding sites of RNA-binding proteins Nature Methods ·Shivendra Kishore, Łukasz Jaśkiewicz, Lukas Burger, Jean Hausser, Mohsen Khorshid, Mihaela Zavolan	2011	381
5	Competition between DNA methylation and transcription factors determines binding of NRF1 Nature ·Silvia Domcke, Anaïs F. Bardet, Paul Adrian Ginno, Dominik Hartl, Lukas Burger, Dirk Schübeler	2015	378
6	Dynamic DNA methylation orchestrates cardiomyocyte development, maturation and disease Nature Communications ·Ralf Gilsbach, Sebastian Preißl, Björn Andreas Grüning, Tilman Schnick, Lukas Burger, Vladimı́r Beneš, Andreas Würch, Ulrike Bönisch	2014	261
7	PAR-CliP - A Method to Identify Transcriptome-wide the Binding Sites of RNA Binding Proteins Journal of Visualized Experiments ·Markus Hafner, Markus Landthaler, Lukas Burger, Mohsen Khorshid, Jean Hausser, Philipp Berninger, Andrea Rothballer, Manuel Ascano	2010	219
8	Analysis of intronic and exonic reads in RNA-seq data characterizes transcriptional and post-transcriptional regulation Nature Biotechnology ·Dimos Gaidatzis, Lukas Burger, Maria Florescu, Michael Beda Stadler	2015	219
9	Transcription Factor Occupancy Can Mediate Active Turnover of DNA Methylation at Regulatory Regions PLoS Genetics ·Angelika Feldmann, Robert Ivánek, Rabih Murr, Dimos Gaidatzis, Lukas Burger, Dirk Schübeler	2013	173
10	Mechanisms of OCT4-SOX2 motif readout on nucleosomes Science ·Alicia K. Michael, Ralph Stefan Grand, Luke Isbel, Simone Cavadini, Zuzanna Kozicka, Georg Kempf, R.D. Bunker, Andreas D. Schenk	2020	170
11	Identification of active regulatory regions from DNA methylation data Nucleic Acids Research ·Lukas Burger, Dimos Gaidatzis, Dirk Schübeler, Michael Beda Stadler	2013	169
12	Aging-Dependent Demethylation of Regulatory Elements Correlates with Chromatin State and Improved β Cell Function Cell Metabolism ·Dana Avrahami, Changhong Li, Jia Zhang, Jonathan Schug, Ran Avrahami, Shilpa J. Rao, Michael Beda Stadler, Lukas Burger	2015	168
13	Disentangling Direct from Indirect Co-Evolution of Residues in Protein Alignments PLoS Computational Biology ·Lukas Burger, Erik van Nimwegen	2009	150
14	Genome-wide Single-Molecule Footprinting Reveals High RNA Polymerase II Turnover at Paused Promoters Molecular Cell ·Arnaud Regis Krebs, Dilek Imanci, Leslie Hoerner, Dimos Gaidatzis, Lukas Burger, Dirk Schübeler	2017	149
15	Accurate prediction of protein–protein interactions from sequence alignments using a Bayesian method Molecular Systems Biology ·Lukas Burger, Erik van Nimwegen	2008	146
16	Target genes of Topoisomerase IIβ regulate neuronal survival and are defined by their chromatin state Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Vijay Kumar Tiwari, Lukas Burger, Vassiliki Nikoletopoulou, Rubén Deogracias, Sudhir Thakurela, Johannes Kaut, Rémi Terranova, Leslie Hoerner	2012	140
17	Evidence that direct inhibition of transcription factor binding is the prevailing mode of gene and repeat repression by DNA methylation Nature Genetics ·Sebastian Kaluscha, Silvia Domcke, Michael Beda Stadler, Sevi Durdu, Lukas Burger, Dirk Schübeler +1 other	2022	121
18	Short sequences can efficiently recruit histone H3 lysine 27 trimethylation in the absence of enhancer activity and DNA methylation Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Philip M. Jermann, Leslie Hoerner, Lukas Burger, Dirk Schübeler	2014	113
19	A genome-scale map of DNA methylation turnover identifies site-specific dependencies of DNMT and TET activity Nature Communications ·Paul Adrian Ginno, Dimos Gaidatzis, Angelika Feldmann, Leslie Hoerner, Dilek Imanci, Lukas Burger, Frédéric Zilbermann, Antoine H.F.M. Peters	2020	112
20	Pioneering Activity of the C-Terminal Domain of EBF1 Shapes the Chromatin Landscape for B Cell Programming Immunity ·Sören Boller, Senthilkumar Ramamoorthy, Duygu Akbas, Robert Nechanitzky, Lukas Burger, Rabih Murr, Dirk Schübeler, Rudolf Grosschedl	2016	88

About Lukas Burger

Lukas Burger is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Nuclear Energy and Engineering, Waste Management and Disposal, Infectious Diseases and Organic Chemistry, having authored 33 papers that have together received 7.7k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (14 papers), Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (11 papers), RNA Research and Splicing (4 papers) and Protein Structure and Dynamics (1 paper). The work is most often cited by research in Molecular Biology (4.3k citations), Cancer Research (862 citations), Aging (21 citations), Developmental Neuroscience (34 citations) and Genetics (157 citations). Lukas Burger has collaborated with scholars based in Switzerland, Germany and United States. Frequent co-authors include Dirk Schübeler, Dimos Gaidatzis, Mohsen Khorshid, Mihaela Zavolan, Erik van Nimwegen, Michael Beda Stadler, Jean Hausser, Greg S. Wardle, Markus Landthaler and Manuel Ascano. Their work appears in journals such as Nature Communications, Nature, Molecular Cell, PLoS Genetics and Nature Genetics.

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