Michael R. Stratton

196.6k total citations · 23 hit papers
215 papers, 39.5k citations indexed

About

Michael R. Stratton is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Cancer Research. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael R. Stratton has authored 215 papers receiving a total of 39.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 120 papers in Molecular Biology, 89 papers in Genetics and 83 papers in Cancer Research. Recurrent topics in Michael R. Stratton's work include Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics (76 papers), BRCA gene mutations in cancer (43 papers) and Genetic factors in colorectal cancer (41 papers). Michael R. Stratton is often cited by papers focused on Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics (76 papers), BRCA gene mutations in cancer (43 papers) and Genetic factors in colorectal cancer (41 papers). Michael R. Stratton collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Netherlands. Michael R. Stratton's co-authors include P. Andrew Futreal, Peter J. Campbell, Nazneen Rahman, Richard Wooster, Ludmil B. Alexandrov, Simon Forbes, Sally Bamford, Nidhi Bindal, Serena Nik‐Zainal and Douglas F. Easton and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and New England Journal of Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Michael R. Stratton

208 papers receiving 38.7k citations

Hit Papers

Genomics of Drug Sensitivity in Cancer (GDSC... 1999 2026 2008 2017 2012 2009 2004 2010 2014 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k 2.5k
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.

  1. Genomics of Drug Sensitivity in Cancer (GDSC): a resource for therapeutic biomarker discovery in cancer cells
    2012 2.6k citations Wanjuan Yang, Jorge Soares et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
  2. The cancer genome
    2009 2.3k citations Michael R. Stratton, Peter J. Campbell et al. Nature profile →
  3. A census of human cancer genes
    2004 2.2k citations P. Andrew Futreal, Tim Hubbard et al. profile →
  4. COSMIC: mining complete cancer genomes in the Catalogue of Somatic Mutations in Cancer
    2010 1.7k citations Simon Forbes, Nidhi Bindal et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
  5. COSMIC: exploring the world's knowledge of somatic mutations in human cancer
    2014 1.7k citations Simon Forbes, Nidhi Bindal et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
  6. High burden and pervasive positive selection of somatic mutations in normal human skin
    2015 1.1k citations Iñigo Martincorena, Amit Roshan et al. Science profile →
  7. The COSMIC (Catalogue of Somatic Mutations in Cancer) database and website
    2004 932 citations Simon Forbes, Michael R. Stratton et al. profile →
  8. JAK2 Exon 12 Mutations in Polycythemia Vera and Idiopathic Erythrocytosis
    2007 898 citations Michael R. Stratton, P. Andrew Futreal et al. profile →
  9. BRAF and RAS mutations in human lung cancer and melanoma.
    2002 841 citations Helen Davies, P. Andrew Futreal et al. profile →
  10. Universal Patterns of Selection in Cancer and Somatic Tissues
    2017 802 citations Iñigo Martincorena, Keiran Raine et al. profile →
  11. Deciphering Signatures of Mutational Processes Operative in Human Cancer
    2013 733 citations Ludmil B. Alexandrov, Serena Nik‐Zainal et al. profile →
  12. PALB2, which encodes a BRCA2-interacting protein, is a breast cancer susceptibility gene
    2006 689 citations Nazneen Rahman, Sheila Seal et al. Nature Genetics profile →
  13. Mutational signatures associated with tobacco smoking in human cancer
    2016 680 citations Ludmil B. Alexandrov, Young Seok Ju et al. Science profile →
  14. Prevalence of BRCA1 and BRCA2 Gene Mutations in Patients With Early-Onset Breast Cancer
    1999 662 citations William Warren, Nazneen Rahman et al. profile →
  15. The Catalogue of Somatic Mutations in Cancer (COSMIC)
    2008 658 citations Simon Forbes, Andrew Menzies et al. profile →
  16. Somatic mutant clones colonize the human esophagus with age
    2018 651 citations Iñigo Martincorena, Joanna C. Fowler et al. Science profile →
  17. Tumor Exome Analysis Reveals Neoantigen-Specific T-Cell Reactivity in an Ipilimumab-Responsive Melanoma
    2013 624 citations Michael R. Stratton et al. profile →
  18. Clock-like mutational processes in human somatic cells
    2015 569 citations Ludmil B. Alexandrov, Philip H. Jones et al. Nature Genetics profile →
  19. High-throughput epitope discovery reveals frequent recognition of neo-antigens by CD4+ T cells in human melanoma
    2014 527 citations Michael R. Stratton et al. profile →
  20. Truncating mutations in the Fanconi anemia J gene BRIP1 are low-penetrance breast cancer susceptibility alleles
    2006 513 citations Sheila Seal, D. Gareth Evans et al. Nature Genetics profile →
  21. ATM mutations that cause ataxia-telangiectasia are breast cancer susceptibility alleles
    2006 511 citations Sheila Seal, D. Gareth Evans et al. Nature Genetics profile →
  22. Intra-tumour diversification in colorectal cancer at the single-cell level
    2018 376 citations Henry Lee-Six, Ludmil B. Alexandrov et al. Nature profile →
  23. Population dynamics of normal human blood inferred from somatic mutations
    2018 374 citations Henry Lee-Six, Iñigo Martincorena et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Michael R. Stratton United Kingdom 90 23.5k 14.3k 10.7k 10.2k 6.0k 215 39.5k
Joe W. Gray United States 99 26.8k 1.1× 10.8k 0.8× 12.1k 1.1× 11.5k 1.1× 3.7k 0.6× 487 46.4k
Olli Kallioniemi Finland 99 20.2k 0.9× 11.3k 0.8× 9.4k 0.9× 9.7k 1.0× 4.5k 0.8× 428 36.3k
René Bernards Netherlands 90 30.7k 1.3× 9.8k 0.7× 6.2k 0.6× 16.4k 1.6× 2.9k 0.5× 322 44.6k
Gad Getz United States 74 27.7k 1.2× 18.7k 1.3× 4.0k 0.4× 10.6k 1.0× 4.0k 0.7× 225 42.6k
P. Andrew Futreal United States 71 16.9k 0.7× 9.3k 0.6× 4.1k 0.4× 7.8k 0.8× 3.0k 0.5× 291 28.0k
Paul S. Meltzer United States 93 22.7k 1.0× 7.2k 0.5× 5.3k 0.5× 9.2k 0.9× 2.7k 0.4× 384 36.0k
Victor E. Velculescu United States 83 34.5k 1.5× 17.0k 1.2× 4.9k 0.5× 20.4k 2.0× 6.4k 1.1× 184 54.3k
James G. Herman United States 119 50.9k 2.2× 13.6k 1.0× 6.9k 0.6× 15.1k 1.5× 8.6k 1.4× 399 65.8k
Eric R. Fearon United States 82 23.8k 1.0× 12.5k 0.9× 5.4k 0.5× 20.8k 2.0× 13.0k 2.2× 191 45.9k
Matt van de Rijn United States 86 23.4k 1.0× 16.4k 1.1× 4.9k 0.5× 19.3k 1.9× 6.0k 1.0× 251 50.2k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Coorens, Tim, Grace Collord, Yichen Wang, et al.. (2025). The somatic mutation landscape of normal gastric epithelium. Nature. 640(8058). 418–426. 9 indexed citations
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Stratton, Michael R., Laura Humphreys, Ludmil B. Alexandrov, et al.. (2025). Implementing Mutational Epidemiology on a Global Scale: Lessons from Mutographs. Cancer Discovery. 15(1). 22–27. 5 indexed citations
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Stratton, Michael R., et al.. (2024). A case report of successful bedside needle decompression in the management of tension pneumoperitoneum secondary to colonic perforated colonic Pseudo-obstruction. International Journal of Surgery Case Reports. 122(C). 110087–110087.
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Petljak, Mia, Alexandra Dananberg, Kevan Chu, et al.. (2022). Mechanisms of APOBEC3 mutagenesis in human cancer cells. Nature. 607(7920). 799–807. 123 indexed citations
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Lee, Bernard C. H., Philip S. Robinson, Tim Coorens, et al.. (2022). Mutational landscape of normal epithelial cells in Lynch Syndrome patients. Nature Communications. 13(1). 2710–2710. 28 indexed citations
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Robinson, Philip S., Tim Coorens, Claire Palles, et al.. (2021). Increased somatic mutation burdens in normal human cells due to defective DNA polymerases. Nature Genetics. 53(10). 1434–1442. 94 indexed citations
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Martincorena, Iñigo, Joanna C. Fowler, Agnieszka Wabik, et al.. (2018). Somatic mutant clones colonize the human esophagus with age. Science. 362(6417). 911–917. 651 indexed citations breakdown →
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Davies, Helen, Sandro Morganella, Colin A. Purdie, et al.. (2017). Whole-Genome Sequencing Reveals Breast Cancers with Mismatch Repair Deficiency. Cancer Research. 77(18). 4755–4762. 76 indexed citations
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Alexandrov, Ludmil B., Young Seok Ju, Kerstin Haase, et al.. (2016). Mutational signatures associated with tobacco smoking in human cancer. Science. 354(6312). 618–622. 680 indexed citations breakdown →
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Alexandrov, Ludmil B., Philip H. Jones, David C. Wedge, et al.. (2015). Clock-like mutational processes in human somatic cells. Nature Genetics. 47(12). 1402–1407. 569 indexed citations breakdown →
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Martincorena, Iñigo, Amit Roshan, Moritz Gerstung, et al.. (2015). High burden and pervasive positive selection of somatic mutations in normal human skin. Science. 348(6237). 880–886. 1123 indexed citations breakdown →
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Meier, Bettina, Susanna L. Cooke, Aymeric Bailly, et al.. (2014). C. eleganswhole-genome sequencing reveals mutational signatures related to carcinogens and DNA repair deficiency. Genome Research. 24(10). 1624–1636. 126 indexed citations
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Yang, Wanjuan, Jorge Soares, Patricia Greninger, et al.. (2012). Genomics of Drug Sensitivity in Cancer (GDSC): a resource for therapeutic biomarker discovery in cancer cells. Nucleic Acids Research. 41(D1). D955–D961. 2597 indexed citations breakdown →
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Greenman, Chris, Erin Pleasance, Scott Newman, et al.. (2011). Estimation of rearrangement phylogeny for cancer genomes. Genome Research. 22(2). 346–361. 75 indexed citations
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Kool, Jaap, Anthony G. Uren, Jeroen de Ridder, et al.. (2010). Novel Candidate Cancer Genes Identified by a Large-Scale Cross-Species Comparative Oncogenomics Approach. Cancer Research. 70(3). 883–895. 34 indexed citations
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Ikediobi, Ogechi, Mark Reimers, Steffen Durinck, et al.. (2008). In vitro differential sensitivity of melanomas to phenothiazines is based on the presence of codon 600 BRAF mutation. Molecular Cancer Therapeutics. 7(6). 1337–1346. 11 indexed citations
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Melchor, Lorenzo, Emiliano Honrado, Jia Huang, et al.. (2007). Estrogen Receptor Status Could Modulate the Genomic Pattern in Familial and Sporadic Breast Cancer. Clinical Cancer Research. 13(24). 7305–7313. 28 indexed citations
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Cahill, Daniel P., Kymberly K. Levine, Rebecca A. Betensky, et al.. (2007). Loss of the Mismatch Repair Protein MSH6 in Human Glioblastomas Is Associated with Tumor Progression during Temozolomide Treatment. Clinical Cancer Research. 13(7). 2038–2045. 330 indexed citations
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Bevan, Steve, Tuya Pal, C. R. Greenberg, et al.. (2001). A Comprehensive Analysis ofMNG1,TCO1,fPTC,PTEN,TSHR, and TRKA in Familial Nonmedullary Thyroid Cancer: Confirmation of Linkage to TCO1. The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. 86(8). 3701–3704. 54 indexed citations
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Gayther, Simon A., William Warren, Sylvie Mazoyer, et al.. (1995). Germline mutations of the BRCA1 gene in breast and ovarian cancer families provide evidence for a genotype–phenotype correlation. Nature Genetics. 11(4). 428–433. 376 indexed citations

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