Michael S. Lawrence

188.5k citations

89 papers · 11.5k · 4 hit papers · h-index 40

Impact in

Cancer Research top 0.2%
- Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics
Molecular Biology top 0.5%
- Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
- RNA modifications and cancer
- Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics
- Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks
- RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
- DNA Repair Mechanisms

Papers in

Molecular Biology 64
- Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics 13
- RNA modifications and cancer 12
- Epigenetics and DNA Methylation 9
- DNA Repair Mechanisms 7
- RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms 7
- Molecular Biology Techniques and Applications 6
Cancer Research 36
- Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics 33

Co-authors: Gad Getz (35 shared papers)Matthew Meyerson (9 shared papers)Stacey Gabriel (9 shared papers)Petar Stojanov (7 shared papers)Eric S. Lander (9 shared papers)Craig H. Mermel (2 shared papers)Todd R. Golub (3 shared papers)Levi A. Garraway (4 shared papers)
Journals: Cancer Research (10 papers)Blood (6 papers)Nature Communications (6 papers)Nature Biotechnology (5 papers)Nature Genetics (5 papers)
Partner nations: United States Germany Canada

In The Last Decade

Michael S. Lawrence

85 papers receiving 11.4k citations

Michael S. Lawrence's Hit Papers

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Discovery and saturation analysis of cancer genes across 21 tumour types 2014 · 2.1k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2014 Nature
2014 Nature Genetics
2013 Nature Genetics
2013 Nature Genetics

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1	Discovery and saturation analysis of cancer genes across 21 tumour types Nature ·Michael S. Lawrence, Petar Stojanov, Craig H. Mermel, James Robinson, Levi A. Garraway, Todd R. Golub, Matthew Meyerson, Stacey Gabriel, Eric S. Lander, Gad Getz Hit paper breakdown →	2014	2086
2	Pan-cancer patterns of somatic copy number alteration Nature Genetics ·Travis Zack, Steven E. Schumacher, Scott L. Carter, Andrew D. Cherniack, Gordon Saksena, Barbara Tabak, Michael S. Lawrence, Cheng‐Zhong Zhang, Jeremiah A. Wala, Craig H. Mermel, Carrie Sougnez, Stacey Gabriel, Bryan Hernandez, Hui Shen, Peter W. Laird, Gad Getz, Matthew Meyerson, Rameen Beroukhim Hit paper breakdown →	2013	1260
3	An APOBEC cytidine deaminase mutagenesis pattern is widespread in human cancers Nature Genetics ·Steven A. Roberts, Michael S. Lawrence, Leszek J. Klimczak, Sara A. Grimm, David C. Fargo, Petar Stojanov, Adam Kieżun, Gregory V. Kryukov, Scott L. Carter, Gordon Saksena, Shawn Harris, Ruchir Shah, Michael A. Resnick, Gad Getz, Dmitry A. Gordenin Hit paper breakdown →	2013	844
4	Pan-cancer network analysis identifies combinations of rare somatic mutations across pathways and protein complexes Nature Genetics ·Mark D.M. Leiserson, Fabio Vandin, Hsin-Ta Wu, Jason R. Dobson, Jonathan V Eldridge, Jacob Thomas, Alexandra Papoutsaki, Younhun Kim, Beifang Niu, Michael D. McLellan, Michael S. Lawrence, Abel González-Pérez, David Tamborero, Yu‐Wei Cheng, Gregory Ryslik, Núria López-Bigas, Gad Getz, Li Ding, Benjamin J. Raphael Hit paper breakdown →	2014	596
5	RNA-Catalyzed RNA Polymerization: Accurate and General RNA-Templated Primer Extension Science ·Wendy K. Johnston, Peter J. Unrau, Michael S. Lawrence, Margaret E. Glasner, David P. Bartel	2001	473
6	Supercharging Proteins Can Impart Unusual Resilience Journal of the American Chemical Society ·Michael S. Lawrence, Kevin J. Phillips, David R. Liu	2007	440
7	Comprehensive analysis of cancer-associated somatic mutations in class I HLA genes Nature Biotechnology ·Sachet A. Shukla, Michael S. Rooney, Mohini Rajasagi, Grace Tiao, Philip M. Dixon, Michael S. Lawrence, Jonathan Stevens, William J. Lane, Jamie L. DellaGatta, Scott Steelman, Carrie Sougnez, Kristian Cibulskis, Adam Kieżun, Nir Hacohen, Vladimir Brusić, Catherine J. Wu, Gad Getz	2015	412
8	Comprehensive identification of mutational cancer driver genes across 12 tumor types Scientific Reports ·David Tamborero, Abel González-Pérez, Christian Perez-Llamas, Jordi Deu-Pons, Cyriac Kandoth, Jüri Reimand, Michael S. Lawrence, Gad Getz, Gary D. Bader, Jun Li, Núria López-Bigas	2013	366
9	Cell-of-origin chromatin organization shapes the mutational landscape of cancer Nature ·Paz Polak, Rosa Karlić, Amnon Koren, Robert E. Thurman, Richard Sandstrom, Michael S. Lawrence, Alex Reynolds, Eric Rynes, Kristian Vlahoviček, J Stamatoyannopoulos, Shamil Sunyaev	2015	365
10	RNF43 is frequently mutated in colorectal and endometrial cancers Nature Genetics ·Marios Giannakis, Eran Hodis, Xinmeng Jasmine Mu, Mai Yamauchi, Joseph Rosenbluh, Kristian Cibulskis, Gordon Saksena, Michael S. Lawrence, Zhi Rong Qian, Reiko Nishihara, Eliezer M. Van Allen, William C. Hahn, Stacey Gabriel, Eric S. Lander, Gad Getz, Shuji Ogino, Charles S. Fuchs, Levi A. Garraway	2014	338
11	Tumor-suppressor genes that escape from X-inactivation contribute to cancer sex bias Nature Genetics ·Andrew Dunford, David M. Weinstock, Virginia Savova, Steven E. Schumacher, John P. Cleary, Akinori Yoda, Timothy J. Sullivan, Julian M. Hess, Alexander A. Gimelbrant, Rameen Beroukhim, Michael S. Lawrence, Gad Getz, Andrew A. Lane	2016	309
12	Oncotator: Cancer Variant Annotation Tool Human Mutation ·Alex H. Ramos, Lee Lichtenstein, Manaswi Gupta, Michael S. Lawrence, Trevor J. Pugh, Gordon Saksena, Matthew Meyerson, Gad Getz	2015	275
13	Mutational Strand Asymmetries in Cancer Genomes Reveal Mechanisms of DNA Damage and Repair Cell ·Nicholas J. Haradhvala, Paz Polak, Petar Stojanov, Kyle R. Covington, Eve Shinbrot, Julian M. Hess, Esther Rheinbay, Jaegil Kim, Yosef E. Maruvka, Lior Z. Braunstein, Atanas Kamburov, Philip C. Hanawalt, David A. Wheeler, Amnon Koren, Michael S. Lawrence, Gad Getz	2016	274
14	A remarkably simple genome underlies highly malignant pediatric rhabdoid cancers Journal of Clinical Investigation ·Ryan S. Lee, Chip Stewart, Scott L. Carter, Lauren Ambrogio, Kristian Cibulskis, Carrie Sougnez, Michael S. Lawrence, Daniel Auclair, Jaume Mora, Todd R. Golub, Jaclyn A. Biegel, Gad Getz, Charles W.M. Roberts	2012	269
15	Identification of driver genes in hepatocellular carcinoma by exome sequencing Hepatology ·Sean P. Cleary, William R. Jeck, Xiaobei Zhao, Kui Chen, Sara R. Selitsky, Gleb L. Savich, Ting Xu Tan, Michael C. Wu, Gad Getz, Michael S. Lawrence, Joel S. Parker, Jinyu Li, Scott Powers, Hyeja Kim, Sandra E. Fischer, Maha Guindi, Anand Ghanekar, Derek Y. Chiang	2013	237
16	Sensitive detection of somatic point mutations in impure and heterogeneous cancer samples Nature Biotechnology ·Kristian Cibulskis, Michael S. Lawrence, Scott L. Carter, Andrey Sivachenko, David B. Jaffe, Carrie Sougnez, (unknown), Matthew Meyerson, Eric S. Lander, Gad Getz	2013	224
17	Assessing the clinical utility of cancer genomic and proteomic data across tumor types Nature Biotechnology ·Yuan Yuan, Eliezer M. Van Allen, Larsson Omberg, Nikhil Wagle, Ali Amin‐Mansour, Artem Sokolov, (unknown), Yanxun Xu, Kenneth R. Hess, Lixia Diao, Leng Han, Xuelin Huang, Michael S. Lawrence, John N. Weinstein, Joshua M. Stuart, Gordon B. Mills, Levi A. Garraway, (unknown), Gad Getz, Han Liang	2014	217
18	Passenger hotspot mutations in cancer driven by APOBEC3A and mesoscale genomic features Science ·Rémi Buisson, Adam Langenbucher, Danae Bowen, Eugene E. Kwan, Cyril H. Benes, Lee Zou, Michael S. Lawrence	2019	185
19	Somatic retrotransposition in human cancer revealed by whole-genome and exome sequencing Genome Research ·Elena Helman, Michael S. Lawrence, Chip Stewart, Carrie Sougnez, Gad Getz, Matthew Meyerson	2014	163
20	Comprehensive assessment of cancer missense mutation clustering in protein structures Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Atanas Kamburov, Michael S. Lawrence, Paz Polak, Ignaty Leshchiner, Kasper Lage, Todd R. Golub, Eric S. Lander, Gad Getz	2015	147

About Michael S. Lawrence

Michael S. Lawrence is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cancer Research, Oncology, Genetics and Immunology, having authored 89 papers that have together received 11.5k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics (33 papers), Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (13 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (12 papers), Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (9 papers), Genetic factors in colorectal cancer (8 papers), DNA Repair Mechanisms (7 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (7 papers) and Molecular Biology Techniques and Applications (6 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Cancer Research (3.5k citations), Molecular Biology (7.3k citations), Oncology (2.1k citations), Pathology and Forensic Medicine (1.2k citations) and Genetics (1.6k citations). Michael S. Lawrence has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Germany and Canada. Frequent co-authors include Gad Getz, Matthew Meyerson, Stacey Gabriel, Petar Stojanov, Eric S. Lander, Craig H. Mermel, Todd R. Golub, Levi A. Garraway, James Robinson and Gordon Saksena. Their work appears in journals such as Cancer Research, Blood, Nature Communications, Nature Biotechnology and Nature Genetics.

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