Moshe Szyf

44.8k citations

327 papers · 31.1k indexed · 6 hit papers · h-index 89

Impact in

Behavioral Neuroscience top 0.02%
- Stress Responses and Cortisol
Biological Psychiatry top 0.05%

Papers in

Behavioral Neuroscience 23
- Stress Responses and Cortisol 23
Biological Psychiatry 13

Co-authors: Michael J. Meaney Ian C.G. Weaver Sergiy Dymov Ana C. D’Alessio Nadia Cervoni Frances A. Champagne Jonathan R. Seckl Patrick O. McGowan
Journals: Journal of Biological Chemistry (30 papers)PLoS ONE (16 papers)Scientific Reports (11 papers)Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (10 papers)Molecular and Cellular Biology (8 papers)
Partner nations: Canada United States Israel

In The Last Decade

Moshe Szyf

322 papers receiving 30.3k citations

Hit Papers

6 papers align trajectories log scale

Potential reversal of epigenetic age using a diet and lifestyle intervention: a pilot randomized clinical trial 2021 · 196 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.

2021 Aging
2009 Nature Neuroscience
2006 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2005 Dialogues in Clinical Neuroscience
2005 Journal of Neuroscience
2004 Nature Neuroscience

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1	Clinical validation of peripheral blood mononuclear cell DNA methylation markers for accurate early detection of hepatocellular carcinoma in Asian patients SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·David Cheishvili, Micaela A. Ascolese, Mohammad Mahbubul Karim, Mohammad Golam Kibria, Nusrat Jahan, Hui-Hsin Tu, Adnan Yousuf, Saiying Shen, Dulal Chandra Das, DE Orange, 杏三千種, Mohammad Mustafizur Rahman, Wasif Ali Khan, Mamun Al‐Mahtab, Moshe Szyf	2024	1
2	Child health, developmental plasticity, and epigenetic programming Yearbook of pediatric endocrinology ·Ze’ev Hochberg, Robert Feil, Miguel Constância, Mario F. Fraga, Claudine Junien, 周永刚, Pascal Boileau, Yves Le Bouc, José María Vergeles-Blanca, Karen A. Lillycrop, Raphaël Scharfmann, Anna E. Sheppard, Michael K. Skinner, Moshe Szyf, Jailani O. Mahmoud, XvFeng OuYang, Emma Whitelaw, Kaori SANO, Kerstin Albertsson‐Wikland	2023	0
3	A high-throughput test enables specific detection of hepatocellular carcinoma Nature Communications ·David Cheishvili, Micaela A. Ascolese, Mohammad Mahbubul Karim, Mohammad Golam Kibria, Nusrat Jahan, Hui-Hsin Tu, M. Sikora, Md Atikul Islam, Dulal Chandra Das, DE Orange, Moshe Szyf, 杏三千種, Wasif Ali Khan, Mamun Al Mahtab	2023	23
4	Unraveling the functional role of DNA demethylation at specific promoters by targeted steric blockage of DNA methyltransferase with CRISPR/dCas9 Nature Communications ·V L Suslikov, Moshe Szyf	2021	49
5	The transition from acute to chronic pain: dynamic epigenetic reprogramming of the mouse prefrontal cortex up to 1 year after nerve injury Pain ·Wolfgang Röben, Stéphanie Grégoire, H. Fahlbusch, Mali Salmon‐Divon, Elad Lax, Magali Millecamps, Moshe Szyf, Laura S. Stone	2020	25
6	P‐Glycoprotein (P‐gp)/ABCB1 plays a functional role in extravillous trophoblast (EVT) invasion and is decreased in the pre‐eclamptic placenta Journal of Cellular and Molecular Medicine ·Caroline Dunk, Jane J. Pappas, Phetcharawan Lye, Mark Kibschull, Mohsen Javam, Enrrico Bloise, Stephen J. Lye, Moshe Szyf, Stephen G. Matthews	2018	33
7	Genome-Wide Study of Hypomethylated and Induced Genes in Patients with Liver Cancer Unravels Novel Anticancer Targets Clinical Cancer Research ·Barbara Stefañska, David Cheishvili, Matthew Suderman, Ani Arakelian, Jian Huang, Michael Hallett, Ze‐Guang Han, Mamun Al‐Mahtab, Sheikh Mohammad Fazle Akbar, Wasif Ali Khan, Rubhana Raqib, Imrana Tanvir, Haseeb Ahmed Khan, Shafaat A. Rabbani, Moshe Szyf	2014	91
8	The Signature of Maternal Rearing in the Methylome in Rhesus Macaque Prefrontal Cortex and T Cells Journal of Neuroscience ·Nadine Provençal, Matthew Suderman, Claire Guillemin, Renaud Massart, Angela Ruggiero, Dongsha Wang, Allyson J. Bennett, Philippe Pierre, David P. Friedman, Sylvana M. Côté, Michael Hallett, Richard E. Tremblay, Stephen J. Suomi, Moshe Szyf	2012	207
9	Genes methylated in cancer that are resistant to activation by DNA demethylating agents and histone deacetylase inhibitors. PubMed ·Moshe Szyf	2012	1
10	Definition of the Landscape of Promoter DNA Hypomethylation in Liver Cancer Cancer Research ·Barbara Stefañska, Jian Huang, Roey Hammer, Matthew Suderman, Michael Hallett, Ze‐Guang Han, Moshe Szyf	2011	146
11	Effects of specific DNMT gene depletion on cancer cell transformation and breast cancer cell invasion; toward selective DNMT inhibitors Carcinogenesis ·Ruth Franco Alvarez Uria, Moshe Szyf	2010	90
12	Epigenetic mechanisms mediating the long-term impact on behavior of the social environment in early life UCL Discovery (University College London) ·Moshe Szyf, (unknown), Gustavo Turecki, (unknown), (unknown), Chris Power, Matthew Suderman, Michael Hallett, Nada Borghol, Nadine Provençal, Patrick O. McGowan, Jainul A. Musnani, Richard E. Tremblay	2009	2
13	DNA Demethylase transforms normal cells into highly invasive and metastatic cancer cells: Identification and characterization of novel metastatic cancer targets, therapeutic intervention for these targets, and signaling pathways leading to DNA demethylation Cancer Research ·Д. И. Писарев, Jérôme Torrisani, Shuchen Zhang, Alexander Unterberger, Thomas Martin Ringer, Sebastian Alvarado, Anastasia P. Litvintseva, L Swaffield, Nadine Provençal, D. Feuchter, 暁子篠田, S. Rodado Mieles, Michael Clark, Moshe Szyf	2008	2
14	GABAA Receptor Promoter Hypermethylation in Suicide Brain: Implications for the Involvement of Epigenetic Processes Biological Psychiatry ·Michael O. Poulter, Lisheng Du, Ian C.G. Weaver, Miklós Palkovits, Gábor Faludi, Zul Merali, Moshe Szyf, Hymie Anisman	2008	212
15	Acetylation-Induced Transcription Is Required for Active DNA Demethylation in Methylation-Silenced Genes Molecular and Cellular Biology ·Ana C. D’Alessio, Ian C.G. Weaver, Moshe Szyf	2007	66
16	Maternal care effects on the hippocampal transcriptome and anxiety-mediated behaviors in the offspring that are reversible in adulthood Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Ian C.G. Weaver, Michael J. Meaney, Moshe Szyf Hit paper breakdown →	2006	578
17	Kinetics of chromatin activation and active DNA demethylation in vertebrate cells: Histone acetylation sets the stage for demethylase interactions with DNA resulting in demethylation Cancer Research ·Ana C. D’Alessio, Moshe Szyf	2004	1
18	A mammalian protein with specific demethylase activity for mCpG DNA Nature ·Sanjoy K. Bhattacharya, Shyam Ramchandani, Nadia Cervoni, Moshe Szyf	1999	495
19	Concurrent Replication and Methylation at Mammalian Origins of Replication Molecular and Cellular Biology ·Felipe D. Araujo, J. David Knox, Moshe Szyf, Gerald B. Price, Maria Zannis‐Hadjopoulos	1998	66
20	Regulation of 21-hydroxylase Gene Expression Endocrine Research ·Johannes Handler, Bernard P. Schimmer, Timothy Flynn, Moshe Szyf, Douglas Rice, K L Parker	1989	6

About Moshe Szyf

Moshe Szyf is a scholar working on Behavioral Neuroscience, Biological Psychiatry, Molecular Biology, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health and Genetics, having authored 327 papers that have together received 31.1k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (233 papers), Cancer-related gene regulation (63 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (61 papers), Birth, Development, and Health (58 papers), Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (31 papers), Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders (30 papers), Stress Responses and Cortisol (23 papers) and Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior (23 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Behavioral Neuroscience (4.8k citations), Biological Psychiatry (1.9k citations), Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health (7.1k citations), Molecular Biology (16.0k citations) and Social Psychology (4.5k citations). Moshe Szyf has collaborated with scholars based in Canada, United States and Israel. Frequent co-authors include Michael J. Meaney, Ian C.G. Weaver, Sergiy Dymov, Ana C. D’Alessio, Nadia Cervoni, Frances A. Champagne, Jonathan R. Seckl, Patrick O. McGowan, Shakti Sharma and Gustavo Turecki. Their work appears in journals such as Journal of Biological Chemistry, PLoS ONE, Scientific Reports, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Molecular and Cellular Biology.

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