Nicholas A. Willis

7.7k total citations · 5 hit papers
37 papers, 5.4k citations indexed

About

Nicholas A. Willis is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Oncology and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Nicholas A. Willis has authored 37 papers receiving a total of 5.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 28 papers in Molecular Biology, 12 papers in Oncology and 7 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. Recurrent topics in Nicholas A. Willis's work include DNA Repair Mechanisms (23 papers), CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (16 papers) and PARP inhibition in cancer therapy (7 papers). Nicholas A. Willis is often cited by papers focused on DNA Repair Mechanisms (23 papers), CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (16 papers) and PARP inhibition in cancer therapy (7 papers). Nicholas A. Willis collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Czechia. Nicholas A. Willis's co-authors include Tyler Jacks, David A. Tuveson, Ralph Scully, Roderick T. Bronson, Denise Crowley, Arvind Panday, Rajula Elango, Kim L. Mercer, Erica L. Jackson and R Montoya and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Nicholas A. Willis

37 papers receiving 5.3k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Analysis of lung tumor initiation and progression using conditional expression of oncogenic K-ras

2001 1.4k citations Erica L. Jackson, Nicholas A. Willis et al. Genes & Development profile →
Mutant p53 Gain of Function in Two Mouse Models of Li-Fraumeni Syndrome

2004 974 citations Kenneth P. Olive, David A. Tuveson et al. Cell profile →
DNA double-strand break repair-pathway choice in somatic mammalian cells

2019 930 citations Ralph Scully, Arvind Panday et al. profile →
Endogenous oncogenic K-rasG12D stimulates proliferation and widespread neoplastic and developmental defects

2004 626 citations David A. Tuveson, Alice T. Shaw et al. Cancer Cell profile →
STI571 inactivation of the gastrointestinal stromal tumor c-KIT oncoprotein: biological and clinical implications

2001 550 citations David A. Tuveson, Nicholas A. Willis et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Nicholas A. Willis United States	18	3.7k	2.3k	998	721	501	37	5.4k
Kenji Hibi Japan	40	2.8k 0.8×	1.9k 0.8×	1.0k 1.0×	897 1.2×	347 0.7×	142	4.6k
Wolfgang Dietmaier Germany	41	2.5k 0.7×	2.3k 1.0×	1.4k 1.4×	989 1.4×	509 1.0×	135	6.2k
Margaret Leversha United States	24	1.9k 0.5×	1.7k 0.7×	1.3k 1.3×	1.3k 1.9×	359 0.7×	37	4.5k
Michael T. Barrett United States	34	1.9k 0.5×	1.4k 0.6×	1.1k 1.1×	840 1.2×	486 1.0×	99	4.2k
Fernanda Milanezi Portugal	36	1.7k 0.5×	1.9k 0.8×	1.2k 1.3×	686 1.0×	332 0.7×	75	4.0k
Mieke Schutte Netherlands	38	5.2k 1.4×	5.3k 2.3×	2.4k 2.4×	523 0.7×	1.3k 2.6×	63	8.7k
Ruth Holm Norway	45	2.8k 0.8×	2.8k 1.2×	1.3k 1.3×	680 0.9×	403 0.8×	187	6.1k
Nina N. Nupponen Finland	35	2.2k 0.6×	999 0.4×	1.1k 1.1×	1.4k 2.0×	610 1.2×	64	4.5k
Katharine Romans United States	18	2.6k 0.7×	2.0k 0.9×	2.5k 2.5×	1.2k 1.6×	334 0.7×	25	5.5k
John F. Lyons United States	32	2.7k 0.7×	1.3k 0.6×	551 0.6×	454 0.6×	308 0.6×	81	4.3k

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Elango, Rajula, Daniel Nguyen, Emilie Rass, et al.. (2024). Two-ended recombination at a Flp-nickase-broken replication fork. Molecular Cell. 85(1). 78–90.e3. 10 indexed citations

Cvek, Jakub, Charles Kelly, Nick West, et al.. (2024). Timing of development of osteoradionecrosis post head and neck radiotherapy: does a safe time interval exist for dental extraction?. Strahlentherapie und Onkologie. 200(10). 882–894. 2 indexed citations

Cvek, Jakub, C. Kelly, Nick West, et al.. (2023). Extra-mandibular Osteoradionecrosis after the Treatment of Head and Neck Cancer. Clinical Oncology. 35(9). e498–e505. 3 indexed citations

Elango, Rajula, Arvind Panday, Francis P. Lach, et al.. (2022). The structure-specific endonuclease complex SLX4–XPF regulates Tus–Ter-induced homologous recombination. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 29(8). 801–812. 14 indexed citations

Panday, Arvind, Nicholas A. Willis, Rajula Elango, et al.. (2021). FANCM regulates repair pathway choice at stalled replication forks. Molecular Cell. 81(11). 2428–2444.e6. 47 indexed citations

Scully, Ralph, Rajula Elango, Arvind Panday, & Nicholas A. Willis. (2021). Recombination and restart at blocked replication forks. Current Opinion in Genetics & Development. 71. 154–162. 16 indexed citations

Kovařík, Josef, et al.. (2021). Osteoradionecrosis after treatment of head and neck cancer: a comprehensive analysis of risk factors with a particular focus on role of dental extractions. British Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. 60(2). 168–173. 9 indexed citations

Willis, Nicholas A. & Ralph Scully. (2020). Measurement of Homologous Recombination at Stalled Mammalian Replication Forks. Methods in molecular biology. 2153. 329–353. 5 indexed citations

Smith, Eric A., Boris Gole, Nicholas A. Willis, et al.. (2017). DEK is required for homologous recombination repair of DNA breaks. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 44662–44662. 26 indexed citations

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Willis, Nicholas A., Richard L. Frock, Francesca Menghi, et al.. (2017). Mechanism of tandem duplication formation in BRCA1-mutant cells. Nature. 551(7682). 590–595. 95 indexed citations

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Willis, Nicholas A., Gurushankar Chandramouly, Bin Huang, et al.. (2014). BRCA1 controls homologous recombination at Tus/Ter-stalled mammalian replication forks. Nature. 510(7506). 556–559. 116 indexed citations

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Chandramouly, Gurushankar, Amy Kwok, Bin Huang, et al.. (2013). BRCA1 and CtIP suppress long-tract gene conversion between sister chromatids. Nature Communications. 4(1). 2404–2404. 52 indexed citations

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Willis, Nicholas A., et al.. (2011). Dosimetric and radiobiological comparison of helical tomotherapy, forward-planned intensity-modulated radiotherapy and two-phase conformal plans for radical radiotherapy treatment of head and neck squamous cell carcinomas. British Journal of Radiology. 84(1008). 1083–1090. 15 indexed citations

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Willis, Nicholas A. & Nick Rhind. (2011). Studying G2 DNA Damage Checkpoints Using the Fission Yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe. Methods in molecular biology. 782. 1–12. 9 indexed citations

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Chandramouly, Gurushankar, Nicholas A. Willis, & Ralph Scully. (2011). A protective role for BRCA2 at stalled replication forks. Breast Cancer Research. 13(5). 314–314. 6 indexed citations

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Willis, Nicholas A. & Nick Rhind. (2008). Mus81, Rhp51(Rad51), and Rqh1 Form an Epistatic Pathway Required for the S-Phase DNA Damage Checkpoint. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 20(3). 819–833. 34 indexed citations

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Gundersen, Robert E., et al.. (2005). Loss-of-function mutations identified in the Helical domain of the G protein α-subunit, Gα2, of Dictyostelium discoideum. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - General Subjects. 1722(3). 262–270. 4 indexed citations

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Olive, Kenneth P., David A. Tuveson, Zachary C. Ruhe, et al.. (2004). Mutant p53 Gain of Function in Two Mouse Models of Li-Fraumeni Syndrome. Cell. 119(6). 847–860. 974 indexed citations breakdown →

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Tuveson, David A., Alice T. Shaw, Nicholas A. Willis, et al.. (2004). Endogenous oncogenic K-rasG12D stimulates proliferation and widespread neoplastic and developmental defects. Cancer Cell. 5(4). 375–387. 626 indexed citations breakdown →

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Jackson, Erica L., Nicholas A. Willis, Kim L. Mercer, et al.. (2001). Analysis of lung tumor initiation and progression using conditional expression of oncogenic K-ras. Genes & Development. 15(24). 3243–3248. 1392 indexed citations breakdown →

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