Nezar Abdennur

15.1k total citations · 10 hit papers
29 papers, 6.7k citations indexed

About

Nezar Abdennur is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Plant Science and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Nezar Abdennur has authored 29 papers receiving a total of 6.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Molecular Biology, 9 papers in Plant Science and 6 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Nezar Abdennur's work include Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (15 papers), RNA Research and Splicing (9 papers) and Chromosomal and Genetic Variations (7 papers). Nezar Abdennur is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (15 papers), RNA Research and Splicing (9 papers) and Chromosomal and Genetic Variations (7 papers). Nezar Abdennur collaborates with scholars based in United States, Austria and Switzerland. Nezar Abdennur's co-authors include Leonid A. Mirny, Maxim Imakaev, Anton Goloborodko, Geoffrey Fudenberg, Job Dekker, Johan H. Gibcus, Elphège P. Nora, Anne-Laure Valton, Benoit G. Bruneau and Alec Uebersohn and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, New England Journal of Medicine and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Nezar Abdennur

27 papers receiving 6.7k citations

Hit Papers

Formation of Chromosomal Domains by Loop Extrusion 2015 2026 2018 2022 2016 2017 2015 2017 2017 400 800 1.2k
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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.

  1. Formation of Chromosomal Domains by Loop Extrusion
    2016 1.3k citations Geoffrey Fudenberg, Maxim Imakaev et al. Cell Reports profile →
  2. Targeted Degradation of CTCF Decouples Local Insulation of Chromosome Domains from Genomic Compartmentalization
    2017 1.1k citations Anton Goloborodko, Johan H. Gibcus et al. profile →
  3. FTO Obesity Variant Circuitry and Adipocyte Browning in Humans
    2015 878 citations Nezar Abdennur et al. profile →
  4. Two independent modes of chromatin organization revealed by cohesin removal
    2017 791 citations Wibke Schwarzer, Nezar Abdennur et al. Nature profile →
  5. Single-nucleus Hi-C reveals unique chromatin reorganization at oocyte-to-zygote transition
    2017 538 citations Ilya M. Flyamer, Maxim Imakaev et al. Nature profile →
  6. Chromatin organization by an interplay of loop extrusion and compartmental segregation
    2018 421 citations Johannes Nuebler, Geoffrey Fudenberg et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  7. Cooler: scalable storage for Hi-C data and other genomically labeled arrays
    2019 386 citations Nezar Abdennur, Leonid A. Mirny Bioinformatics profile →
  8. Ultrastructural Details of Mammalian Chromosome Architecture
    2020 336 citations Nils Krietenstein, Sameer Abraham et al. Molecular Cell profile →
  9. Cooltools: Enabling high-resolution Hi-C analysis in Python
    2024 86 citations Nezar Abdennur, Sameer Abraham et al. PLoS Computational Biology profile →
  10. Pairtools: From sequencing data to chromosome contacts
    2024 58 citations Nezar Abdennur, Geoffrey Fudenberg et al. PLoS Computational Biology profile →

Peers

Nezar Abdennur
Ye Zhan United States
Mathieu Blanchette Canada
Tobias Ragoczy United States
Michael O. Dorschner United States
Kami Ahmad United States
Juan M. Vaquerizas Germany
Devon Ryan Germany
Siddarth Selvaraj United States
Adrian L. Sanborn United States
Yin Shen United States
Ye Zhan United States
Nezar Abdennur
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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nezar Abdennur

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Nezar Abdennur. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Nezar Abdennur based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Nezar Abdennur. Nezar Abdennur is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Adams, Nicholas M., Ioanna Tiniakou, Anne Martin, et al.. (2026). Cohesin-mediated chromatin organization controls the differentiation and function of dendritic cells. Science Immunology. 11(116). eadx4622–eadx4622.
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Abdennur, Nezar, Sameer Abraham, Geoffrey Fudenberg, et al.. (2024). Cooltools: Enabling high-resolution Hi-C analysis in Python. PLoS Computational Biology. 20(5). e1012067–e1012067. 86 indexed citations breakdown →
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Huey, Jack & Nezar Abdennur. (2024). Bigtools: a high-performance BigWig and BigBed library in Rust. Bioinformatics. 40(6).
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Scelfo, Andrea, Viviana Barra, Nezar Abdennur, et al.. (2024). Tunable DNMT1 degradation reveals DNMT1/DNMT3B synergy in DNA methylation and genome organization. The Journal of Cell Biology. 223(4). 10 indexed citations
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Manz, Trevor, Nils Gehlenborg, & Nezar Abdennur. (2024). Any notebook served: authoring and sharing reusable interactive widgets. Proceedings of the Python in Science Conferences. 247–255. 1 indexed citations
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Spracklin, George, Nezar Abdennur, Maxim Imakaev, et al.. (2022). Diverse silent chromatin states modulate genome compartmentalization and loop extrusion barriers. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 30(1). 38–51. 58 indexed citations
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Wolff, Joachim, Nezar Abdennur, Rolf Backofen, & Björn Grüning. (2020). Scool: a new data storage format for single-cell Hi-C data. Bioinformatics. 37(14). 2053–2054. 5 indexed citations
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Krietenstein, Nils, Sameer Abraham, Sergey V. Venev, et al.. (2020). Ultrastructural Details of Mammalian Chromosome Architecture. Molecular Cell. 78(3). 554–565.e7. 336 indexed citations breakdown →
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Abdennur, Nezar & Leonid A. Mirny. (2019). Cooler: scalable storage for Hi-C data and other genomically labeled arrays. Bioinformatics. 36(1). 311–316. 386 indexed citations breakdown →
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Erceg, Jelena, Jumana AlHaj Abed, Anton Goloborodko, et al.. (2019). The genome-wide multi-layered architecture of chromosome pairing in early Drosophila embryos. Nature Communications. 10(1). 4486–4486. 39 indexed citations
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Mirny, Leonid A., Maxim Imakaev, & Nezar Abdennur. (2019). Two major mechanisms of chromosome organization. Current Opinion in Cell Biology. 58. 142–152. 149 indexed citations
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Nuebler, Johannes, Geoffrey Fudenberg, Maxim Imakaev, Nezar Abdennur, & Leonid A. Mirny. (2018). Chromatin organization by an interplay of loop extrusion and compartmental segregation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 115(29). E6697–E6706. 421 indexed citations breakdown →
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Nuebler, Johannes, Geoffrey Fudenberg, Maxim Imakaev, Nezar Abdennur, & Leonid A. Mirny. (2018). Chromatin Organization by an Interplay of Loop Extrusion and Compartmental Segregation. Biophysical Journal. 114(3). 30a–30a. 16 indexed citations
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Kerpedjiev, Peter, Nezar Abdennur, Fritz Lekschas, et al.. (2018). HiGlass: web-based visual exploration and analysis of genome interaction maps. Genome biology. 19(1). 125–125. 292 indexed citations
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Fudenberg, Geoffrey, Nezar Abdennur, Maxim Imakaev, Anton Goloborodko, & Leonid A. Mirny. (2017). Emerging Evidence of Chromosome Folding by Loop Extrusion. Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology. 82. 45–55. 186 indexed citations
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Schwarzer, Wibke, Nezar Abdennur, Anton Goloborodko, et al.. (2017). Two independent modes of chromatin organization revealed by cohesin removal. Nature. 551(7678). 51–56. 791 indexed citations breakdown →
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Ulianov, Sergey V., Aleksandra A. Galitsyna, Ilya M. Flyamer, et al.. (2017). Activation of the alpha-globin gene expression correlates with dramatic upregulation of nearby non-globin genes and changes in local and large-scale chromatin spatial structure. Epigenetics & Chromatin. 10(1). 35–35. 16 indexed citations
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Fudenberg, Geoffrey, et al.. (2016). Formation of Chromosomal Domains by Loop Extrusion. Cell Reports. 15(9). 2038–2049. 1255 indexed citations breakdown →
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Charlebois, Daniel A., Nezar Abdennur, & Mads Kærn. (2011). Gene Expression Noise Facilitates Adaptation and Drug Resistance Independently of Mutation. Physical Review Letters. 107(21). 218101–218101. 55 indexed citations
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Abdennur, Nezar, et al.. (2008). Interaction of the N- and C-terminal Autoregulatory Domains of FRL2 Does Not Inhibit FRL2 Activity. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 283(48). 33750–33762. 48 indexed citations

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