Nancy J. Leysens

1.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
13 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

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Nancy J. Leysens is a scholar working on Genetics, Molecular Biology and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Nancy J. Leysens has authored 13 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Genetics, 8 papers in Molecular Biology and 1 paper in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Nancy J. Leysens's work include Craniofacial Disorders and Treatments (4 papers), Cleft Lip and Palate Research (3 papers) and Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (3 papers). Nancy J. Leysens is often cited by papers focused on Craniofacial Disorders and Treatments (4 papers), Cleft Lip and Palate Research (3 papers) and Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (3 papers). Nancy J. Leysens collaborates with scholars based in United States, Netherlands and Germany. Nancy J. Leysens's co-authors include Elena V. Semina, Rebecca S. Reiter, John C. Carey, Pierre Bitoun, Bernhard Zabel, Nicole A. Datson, Jacqueline Siegel‐Bartelt, J.C. Murray, Kent W. Small and Wallace L.M. Alward and has published in prestigious journals such as Nucleic Acids Research, Nature Genetics and The American Journal of Human Genetics.

In The Last Decade

Nancy J. Leysens

13 papers receiving 1.3k citations

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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.

Cloning and characterization of a novel bicoid-related homeobox transcription factor gene, RIEG, involved in Rieger syndrome

1996 720 citations Elena V. Semina, Rebecca S. Reiter et al. Nature Genetics profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Nancy J. Leysens United States	8	897	708	121	120	114	13	1.3k
Pierre Bitoun France	17	1.4k 1.5×	818 1.2×	239 2.0×	137 1.1×	52 0.5×	39	1.9k
Jacqueline Siegel‐Bartelt Canada	8	820 0.9×	477 0.7×	111 0.9×	89 0.7×	19 0.2×	10	1.1k
Sanjeev S. Bhaskar United Kingdom	20	1.1k 1.3×	609 0.9×	252 2.1×	84 0.7×	58 0.5×	31	1.6k
Simon D. Bamforth United Kingdom	23	1.3k 1.5×	328 0.5×	97 0.8×	209 1.7×	86 0.8×	43	1.9k
James O’Sullivan United Kingdom	22	1.4k 1.5×	510 0.7×	324 2.7×	103 0.9×	169 1.5×	40	2.0k
Rahat Perveen United Kingdom	18	965 1.1×	637 0.9×	444 3.7×	51 0.4×	205 1.8×	30	1.6k
Abdulrahman Alswaid Saudi Arabia	16	509 0.6×	698 1.0×	74 0.6×	54 0.5×	60 0.5×	29	1.1k
Linda M. Reis United States	24	839 0.9×	770 1.1×	319 2.6×	142 1.2×	67 0.6×	49	1.5k
Luitgard M. Neumann Germany	20	708 0.8×	1.0k 1.4×	39 0.3×	207 1.7×	53 0.5×	46	1.7k
Lesley C. Adès Australia	23	915 1.0×	1.3k 1.8×	49 0.4×	356 3.0×	40 0.4×	58	2.2k

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Hampe, Jochen, Sarah H. Shaw, Robert Saiz, et al.. (1999). Linkage of Inflammatory Bowel Disease to Human Chromosome 6p. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 65(6). 1647–1655. 186 indexed citations

Yoshiura, Koh-ichiro, Nancy J. Leysens, Rebecca S. Reiter, & Jeffrey C. Murray. (1998). Cloning, Characterization, and Mapping of the Mouse Homeobox GeneHmx1. Genomics. 50(1). 61–68. 36 indexed citations

Lidral, Andrew C., Paul A. Romitti, Ann M. Basart, et al.. (1998). Association of MSX1 and TGFB3 with Nonsyndromic Clefting in Humans. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 63(2). 557–568. 255 indexed citations

Yoshiura, Koh-ichiro, et al.. (1997). Genomic structure, sequence, and mapping of humanFGF8 with no evidence for its role in craniosynostosis/limb defect syndromes. American Journal of Medical Genetics. 72(3). 354–362. 17 indexed citations

Schutte, Brian C., et al.. (1997). Exclusion of Ifa and Ifb as the Lps gene and mapping of three markers near the Lps locus. Mammalian Genome. 8(10). 785–786. 2 indexed citations

Yoshiura, Koh‐ichiro, et al.. (1997). Genomic structure, sequence, and mapping of human FGF8 with no evidence for its role in craniosynostosis/limb defect syndromes. American Journal of Medical Genetics. 72(3). 354–362. 1 indexed citations

Semina, Elena V., Rebecca S. Reiter, Nancy J. Leysens, et al.. (1996). Cloning and characterization of a novel bicoid-related homeobox transcription factor gene, RIEG, involved in Rieger syndrome. Nature Genetics. 14(4). 392–399. 720 indexed citations breakdown →

Semina, Elena V., Nicole A. Datson, Nancy J. Leysens, et al.. (1996). Exclusion of epidermal growth factor and high-resolution physical mapping across the Rieger syndrome locus.. PubMed. 59(6). 1288–96. 21 indexed citations

Stadler, H. Scott, Jeffrey C. Murray, Nancy J. Leysens, Paul J. Goodfellow, & Michael Solursh. (1995). Phylogenetic conservation and physical mapping of members of the H6 homeobox gene family. Mammalian Genome. 6(6). 383–388. 34 indexed citations

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Nishimura, Darryl, Nancy J. Leysens, & Jeffrey C. Murray. (1992). A dinucleotide repeat for the D1S53 locus. Nucleic Acids Research. 20(5). 1167–1167. 4 indexed citations

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Buetow, Kenneth H., Rita Shiang, Ping Yang, et al.. (1991). A detailed multipoint map of human chromosome 4 provides evidence for linkage heterogeneity and position-specific recombination rates.. PubMed. 48(5). 911–25. 58 indexed citations

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Leysens, Nancy J., et al.. (1989). A Kpnl polymorphism for the human insulin-responsive glucose transporter gene (GLUT4) on chromosome 17. Nucleic Acids Research. 17(9). 3621–3621. 4 indexed citations

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Leysens, Nancy J., et al.. (1989). SacI and Xbal polymorphisms detected by lipocortin 2A (LPC2A). Nucleic Acids Research. 17(13). 5417–5417. 4 indexed citations

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