Mitch McVey

6.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
51 papers, 4.5k citations indexed

About

Mitch McVey is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Plant Science and Cancer Research. According to data from OpenAlex, Mitch McVey has authored 51 papers receiving a total of 4.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 42 papers in Molecular Biology, 10 papers in Plant Science and 9 papers in Cancer Research. Recurrent topics in Mitch McVey's work include DNA Repair Mechanisms (33 papers), CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (21 papers) and Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (10 papers). Mitch McVey is often cited by papers focused on DNA Repair Mechanisms (33 papers), CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (21 papers) and Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (10 papers). Mitch McVey collaborates with scholars based in United States, Netherlands and Italy. Mitch McVey's co-authors include Matt Kaeberlein, Leonard Guarente, Sang Eun Lee, Jeff Sekelsky, Alder Yu, Melissa D. Adams, Sze Ham Chan, Varandt Y. Khodaverdian, Shin‐ichiro Imai and L Guarente and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

Mitch McVey

50 papers receiving 4.4k 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.

The SIR2/3/4 complex and SIR2 alone promote longevity in Saccharomyces cerevisiae by two different mechanisms

1999 1.7k citations Matt Kaeberlein, Mitch McVey et al. Genes & Development profile →
MMEJ repair of double-strand breaks (director’s cut): deleted sequences and alternative endings

2008 714 citations Mitch McVey, Sang Eun Lee Trends in Genetics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Mitch McVey United States	25	3.2k	991	759	751	686	51	4.5k
Pierre‐Antoine Defossez France	34	3.8k 1.2×	931 0.9×	1.1k 1.4×	1.3k 1.7×	304 0.4×	66	5.5k
Jessica K. Tyler United States	43	6.7k 2.1×	243 0.2×	510 0.7×	444 0.6×	901 1.3×	101	7.7k
Philipp Oberdoerffer United States	21	2.4k 0.7×	715 0.7×	462 0.6×	205 0.3×	181 0.3×	31	3.3k
Ethan Ford United States	19	1.4k 0.4×	1.0k 1.0×	501 0.7×	202 0.3×	178 0.3×	23	2.6k
Siu Sylvia Lee United States	25	2.8k 0.9×	133 0.1×	740 1.0×	2.5k 3.3×	156 0.2×	44	4.8k
Paul F. Cliften United States	16	1.8k 0.6×	272 0.3×	286 0.4×	131 0.2×	343 0.5×	24	3.1k
Greg Donahue United States	32	4.7k 1.5×	84 0.1×	968 1.3×	282 0.4×	322 0.5×	50	6.1k
Lynne Chantranupong United States	21	4.2k 1.3×	121 0.1×	658 0.9×	181 0.2×	229 0.3×	26	5.8k
Miklós Sass Hungary	28	1.5k 0.5×	135 0.1×	452 0.6×	390 0.5×	227 0.3×	65	3.4k
Dan Garza United States	28	2.8k 0.9×	60 0.1×	589 0.8×	291 0.4×	362 0.5×	47	4.2k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Mitch McVey

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Woodward, Nicholas B., et al.. (2025). A non-tethering role for the Drosophila Pol θ linker domain in promoting damage resolution. Nucleic Acids Research. 53(8). 1 indexed citations

McVey, Mitch, et al.. (2025). REV7: a small but mighty regulator of genome maintenance and cancer development. Frontiers in Oncology. 14. 1516165–1516165. 1 indexed citations

Gormally, Brenna M. G., et al.. (2024). Investigating the effects of acute and chronic stress on DNA damage. Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A Ecological and Integrative Physiology. 341(3). 256–263. 2 indexed citations

Gormally, Brenna M. G., et al.. (2022). Background DNA damage is higher in summer than winter in both free‐living and captive birds. Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A Ecological and Integrative Physiology. 337(8). 789–794. 2 indexed citations

Gormally, Brenna M. G., et al.. (2020). Beyond corticosterone: The acute stress response increases DNA damage in house sparrows. Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A Ecological and Integrative Physiology. 333(8). 595–606. 9 indexed citations

Marygold, Steven J, Helen Attrill, Elena Speretta, et al.. (2020). The DNA polymerases of Drosophila melanogaster. Fly. 14(1-4). 49–61. 6 indexed citations

Levin, Michael, et al.. (2020). Sertraline induces DNA damage and cellular toxicity in Drosophila that can be ameliorated by antioxidants. Scientific Reports. 10(1). 4512–4512. 13 indexed citations

Coughlin, Catherine G., et al.. (2019). The Drosophila melanogaster PIF1 Helicase Promotes Survival During Replication Stress and Processive DNA Synthesis During Double-Strand Gap Repair. Genetics. 213(3). 835–847. 14 indexed citations

Gormally, Brenna M. G., et al.. (2018). DNA damage as an indicator of chronic stress: Correlations with corticosterone and uric acid. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A Molecular & Integrative Physiology. 227. 116–122. 37 indexed citations

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Witsell, Alice, et al.. (2017). Drosophila DNA polymerase theta utilizes both helicase-like and polymerase domains during microhomology-mediated end joining and interstrand crosslink repair. PLoS Genetics. 13(5). e1006813–e1006813. 43 indexed citations

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McVey, Mitch, et al.. (2015). Error‐Prone Repair of DNA Double‐Strand Breaks. Journal of Cellular Physiology. 231(1). 15–24. 264 indexed citations

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McVey, Mitch, et al.. (2015). Linking DNA polymerase theta structure and function in health and disease. Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences. 73(3). 603–615. 34 indexed citations

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Garcı́a, Ana Maria, Robert Salomon, Alice Witsell, et al.. (2011). Loss of the bloom syndrome helicase increases DNA ligase 4-independent genome rearrangements and tumorigenesis in aging Drosophila. Genome biology. 12(12). R121–R121. 22 indexed citations

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Yu, Alder & Mitch McVey. (2010). Synthesis-dependent microhomology-mediated end joining accounts for multiple types of repair junctions. Nucleic Acids Research. 38(17). 5706–5717. 152 indexed citations

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McVey, Mitch. (2010). Strategies for DNA interstrand crosslink repair: Insights from worms, flies, frogs, and slime molds. Environmental and Molecular Mutagenesis. 51(6). 646–658. 39 indexed citations

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McVey, Mitch & Sang Eun Lee. (2008). MMEJ repair of double-strand breaks (director’s cut): deleted sequences and alternative endings. Trends in Genetics. 24(11). 529–538. 714 indexed citations breakdown →

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McVey, Mitch, Jeannine R. LaRocque, Melissa D. Adams, & Jeff Sekelsky. (2004). Formation of deletions during double-strand break repair in Drosophila DmBlm mutants occurs after strand invasion. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 101(44). 15694–15699. 70 indexed citations

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Park, Peter U., Mitch McVey, & Leonard Guarente. (2002). Separation of mother and daughter cells. Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology. 351. 468–477. 47 indexed citations

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Kaeberlein, Matt, Mitch McVey, & Leonard Guarente. (2001). Using Yeast to Discover the Fountain of Youth. Science of Aging Knowledge Environment. 2001(1). pe1–pe1. 27 indexed citations

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Kaeberlein, Matt, Mitch McVey, & Leonard Guarente. (1999). The SIR2/3/4 complex and SIR2 alone promote longevity in Saccharomyces cerevisiae by two different mechanisms. Genes & Development. 13(19). 2570–2580. 1725 indexed citations breakdown →

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