Nicolas Altemose

6.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
17 papers, 964 citations indexed

About

Nicolas Altemose is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Plant Science and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Nicolas Altemose has authored 17 papers receiving a total of 964 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Molecular Biology, 7 papers in Plant Science and 4 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Nicolas Altemose's work include Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (7 papers), Chromosomal and Genetic Variations (7 papers) and RNA modifications and cancer (4 papers). Nicolas Altemose is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (7 papers), Chromosomal and Genetic Variations (7 papers) and RNA modifications and cancer (4 papers). Nicolas Altemose collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Spain. Nicolas Altemose's co-authors include Huntington F. Willard, Simon Myers, Karen H. Miga, Miten Jain, W. James Kent, Yulia Newton, Emmanuelle Bitoun, Karen H. Miga, Anjali Gupta Hinch and Peter Donnelly and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Nicolas Altemose

17 papers receiving 959 citations

Hit Papers

Epigenetic patterns in a complete human genome 2022 2026 2023 2024 2022 40 80 120
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.

  1. Epigenetic patterns in a complete human genome
    2022 146 citations Ariel Gershman, Michael E.G. Sauria et al. Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Nicolas Altemose United States 13 751 418 373 60 33 17 964
Nathalie Bolduc United States 13 631 0.8× 672 1.6× 179 0.5× 59 1.0× 32 1.0× 19 942
Alessandro Brero Germany 12 1.2k 1.6× 356 0.9× 416 1.1× 50 0.8× 52 1.6× 16 1.3k
Stephen L. Gasior United States 11 1.5k 2.0× 529 1.3× 203 0.5× 146 2.4× 114 3.5× 13 1.6k
Vaijayanti Gupta India 6 286 0.4× 254 0.6× 211 0.6× 38 0.6× 15 0.5× 13 548
Mita Chotalia United Kingdom 8 1.2k 1.6× 255 0.6× 350 0.9× 53 0.9× 17 0.5× 10 1.2k
Joke G. van Bemmel Netherlands 13 1.2k 1.6× 338 0.8× 229 0.6× 100 1.7× 30 0.9× 16 1.3k
Tera L. Newman United States 9 556 0.7× 355 0.8× 551 1.5× 103 1.7× 8 0.2× 9 964
Samantha J Linder United States 6 1.5k 2.0× 126 0.3× 301 0.8× 55 0.9× 16 0.5× 6 1.5k
Heidi Rosenbaum United States 7 474 0.6× 512 1.2× 262 0.7× 38 0.6× 40 1.2× 11 841
Martin Radolf Austria 8 905 1.2× 196 0.5× 197 0.5× 70 1.2× 96 2.9× 8 1.0k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Nicolas Altemose

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nicolas Altemose

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Nicolas Altemose. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Nicolas Altemose 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 Nicolas Altemose. Nicolas Altemose is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

17 of 17 papers shown
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Lü, Xiaodong, Wanqing Xie, Galina Gritsina, et al.. (2025). NKX2-1 drives neuroendocrine transdifferentiation of prostate cancer via epigenetic and 3D chromatin remodeling. Nature Genetics. 57(8). 1966–1980. 1 indexed citations
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Dumont, Marie, Paweł Mikulski, Daniele Fachinetti, et al.. (2025). Heterochromatin boundaries maintain centromere position, size and number. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 33(2). 220–234. 1 indexed citations
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Altemose, Nicolas, Lucy D. Brennan, Kousik Sundararajan, et al.. (2024). Mapping protein–DNA interactions with DiMeLo-seq. Nature Protocols. 19(12). 3697–3720. 1 indexed citations
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Altemose, Nicolas. (2022). A classical revival: Human satellite DNAs enter the genomics era. Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology. 128. 2–14. 30 indexed citations
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Altemose, Nicolas, Owen K. Smith, Kousik Sundararajan, et al.. (2022). DiMeLo-seq: a long-read, single-molecule method for mapping protein–DNA interactions genome wide. Nature Methods. 19(6). 711–723. 70 indexed citations
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Gershman, Ariel, Michael E.G. Sauria, Xavi Guitart, et al.. (2022). Epigenetic patterns in a complete human genome. Science. 376(6588). eabj5089–eabj5089. 146 indexed citations breakdown →
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Nakatsuka, Nathan, Nikolaos A. Patsopoulos, Nicolas Altemose, et al.. (2020). Two genetic variants explain the association of European ancestry with multiple sclerosis risk in African-Americans. Scientific Reports. 10(1). 16902–16902. 9 indexed citations
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Altemose, Nicolas, et al.. (2020). μDamID: A Microfluidic Approach for Joint Imaging and Sequencing of Protein-DNA Interactions in Single Cells. Cell Systems. 11(4). 354–366.e9. 14 indexed citations
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Altemose, Nicolas, et al.. (2019). On-ratio PDMS bonding for multilayer microfluidic device fabrication. Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering. 29(10). 107001–107001. 21 indexed citations
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Li, Ran, Emmanuelle Bitoun, Nicolas Altemose, et al.. (2019). A high-resolution map of non-crossover events reveals impacts of genetic diversity on mammalian meiotic recombination. Nature Communications. 10(1). 3900–3900. 57 indexed citations
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Altemose, Nicolas, Nudrat Noor, Emmanuelle Bitoun, et al.. (2017). A map of human PRDM9 binding provides evidence for novel behaviors of PRDM9 and other zinc-finger proteins in meiosis. eLife. 6. 64 indexed citations
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Davies, Benjamin, Nicolas Altemose, Julie Hussin, et al.. (2016). Re-engineering the zinc fingers of PRDM9 reverses hybrid sterility in mice. Nature. 530(7589). 171–176. 146 indexed citations
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Williams, Amy L., Giulio Genovese, Thomas D. Dyer, et al.. (2015). Non-crossover gene conversions show strong GC bias and unexpected clustering in humans. eLife. 4. 69 indexed citations
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Miga, Karen H., Yulia Newton, Miten Jain, et al.. (2014). Centromere reference models for human chromosomes X and Y satellite arrays. Genome Research. 24(4). 697–707. 159 indexed citations
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Altemose, Nicolas, Karen H. Miga, Mauro Maggioni, & Huntington F. Willard. (2014). Genomic Characterization of Large Heterochromatic Gaps in the Human Genome Assembly. PLoS Computational Biology. 10(5). e1003628–e1003628. 72 indexed citations
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Hinch, Anjali Gupta, Nicolas Altemose, Nudrat Noor, Peter Donnelly, & Simon Myers. (2014). Recombination in the Human Pseudoautosomal Region PAR1. PLoS Genetics. 10(7). e1004503–e1004503. 60 indexed citations
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Genovese, Giulio, Robert E. Handsaker, Heng Li, et al.. (2013). Using population admixture to help complete maps of the human genome. Nature Genetics. 45(4). 406–414. 44 indexed citations

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