Paz Polak

43.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
41 papers, 3.3k citations indexed

About

Paz Polak is a scholar working on Cancer Research, Molecular Biology and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Paz Polak has authored 41 papers receiving a total of 3.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 25 papers in Cancer Research, 21 papers in Molecular Biology and 10 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Paz Polak's work include Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics (25 papers), DNA Repair Mechanisms (10 papers) and Genetic factors in colorectal cancer (8 papers). Paz Polak is often cited by papers focused on Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics (25 papers), DNA Repair Mechanisms (10 papers) and Genetic factors in colorectal cancer (8 papers). Paz Polak collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Croatia. Paz Polak's co-authors include Amnon Koren, Gad Getz, Michael S. Lawrence, Eytan Domany, Jaegil Kim, Atanas Kamburov, Peter F. Arndt, Shamil Sunyaev, Rosa Karlić and Nicholas J. Haradhvala and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and New England Journal of Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Paz Polak

39 papers receiving 3.3k 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.

RNA sequence analysis reveals macroscopic somatic clonal expansion across normal tissues

2019 310 citations Keren Yizhak, François Aguet et al. Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Paz Polak United States	21	2.3k	1.3k	774	576	446	41	3.3k
Svitlana Tyekucheva United States	28	1.6k 0.7×	878 0.7×	560 0.7×	428 0.7×	357 0.8×	88	2.8k
Mhairi Marshall Australia	16	3.3k 1.4×	1.9k 1.5×	838 1.1×	446 0.8×	296 0.7×	25	4.9k
Frank O. Fackelmayer Germany	27	2.9k 1.3×	1.5k 1.2×	523 0.7×	772 1.3×	413 0.9×	38	4.1k
Jesse J. Salk United States	23	1.8k 0.8×	1.5k 1.2×	566 0.7×	427 0.7×	346 0.8×	51	2.9k
Tatiana Popova France	20	1.5k 0.7×	899 0.7×	532 0.7×	831 1.4×	256 0.6×	39	2.4k
Thomas LaFramboise United States	27	2.2k 0.9×	701 0.5×	715 0.9×	362 0.6×	176 0.4×	83	3.0k
Diane Esposito United States	10	1.7k 0.7×	1.5k 1.2×	636 0.8×	720 1.3×	241 0.5×	12	2.8k
Valentina Boeva France	24	1.7k 0.7×	769 0.6×	676 0.9×	318 0.6×	182 0.4×	46	2.4k
Barbara Tabak United States	7	1.9k 0.8×	761 0.6×	416 0.5×	344 0.6×	172 0.4×	10	2.5k
Peter M. Haverty United States	29	2.4k 1.0×	677 0.5×	389 0.5×	846 1.5×	277 0.6×	38	3.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Paz Polak

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Panja, Sukanya, Aditya Deshpande, Huasong Tian, et al.. (2025). Passenger mutations link cellular origin and transcriptional identity in human lung adenocarcinomas. Nature Genetics. 57(12). 3066–3074.

Giotti, Bruno, Elvin Wagenblast, Dolores Hambardzumyan, et al.. (2025). Learning the cellular origins across cancers using single-cell chromatin landscapes. Nature Communications. 16(1). 8301–8301. 3 indexed citations

Mutetwa, Tinaye, Yuxin Liu, Richard Silvera, et al.. (2024). Host Nuclear Genome Copy Number Variations Identify High-Risk Anal Precancers in People Living With HIV. JAIDS Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes. 96(2). 190–195.

Cheng, Alexandre Pellan, Matthew P. Cheng, Joan Sesing Lenz, et al.. (2022). Cell-free DNA profiling informs all major complications of hematopoietic cell transplantation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(4). 29 indexed citations

Fujita, Masashi, Kirsten Kübler, Paz Polak, et al.. (2022). COOBoostR: An Extreme Gradient Boosting-Based Tool for Robust Tissue or Cell-of-Origin Prediction of Tumors. Life. 13(1). 71–71. 2 indexed citations

Stupp, Doron, et al.. (2022). Machine-learning of complex evolutionary signals improves classification of SNVs. NAR Genomics and Bioinformatics. 4(2). lqac025–lqac025. 4 indexed citations

Hamel, Nancy, et al.. (2022). The Great Majority of Homologous Recombination Repair-Deficient Tumors Are Accounted for by Established Causes. Frontiers in Genetics. 13. 852159–852159. 5 indexed citations

Singh, Harshabad, Jason L. Hornick, Shariq Madha, et al.. (2021). Hybrid Stomach-Intestinal Chromatin States Underlie Human Barrett’s Metaplasia. Gastroenterology. 161(3). 924–939.e11. 23 indexed citations

Zayed, Nadia, Manon de Ladurantaye, Nancy Hamel, et al.. (2021). Current gene panels account for nearly all homologous recombination repair-associated multiple-case breast cancer families. npj Breast Cancer. 7(1). 109–109. 6 indexed citations

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Koga, Yusuke, Hanbing Song, Zachary R. Chalmers, et al.. (2020). Genomic Profiling of Prostate Cancers from Men with African and European Ancestry. Clinical Cancer Research. 26(17). 4651–4660. 58 indexed citations

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Fujita, Masashi, Rosa Karlić, Ruidong Xue, et al.. (2020). Somatic mutation landscape reveals differential variability of cell-of-origin for primary liver cancer. Heliyon. 6(2). e03350–e03350. 29 indexed citations

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Yizhak, Keren, François Aguet, Jaegil Kim, et al.. (2019). RNA sequence analysis reveals macroscopic somatic clonal expansion across normal tissues. Science. 364(6444). 310 indexed citations breakdown →

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Haradhvala, Nicholas J., Jaegil Kim, Yosef E. Maruvka, et al.. (2018). Distinct mutational signatures characterize concurrent loss of polymerase proofreading and mismatch repair. Nature Communications. 9(1). 1746–1746. 114 indexed citations

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Kim, Jaegil, Kent W. Mouw, Paz Polak, et al.. (2016). Somatic ERCC2 mutations are associated with a distinct genomic signature in urothelial tumors. Nature Genetics. 48(6). 600–606. 233 indexed citations

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Francioli, Laurent C., Paz Polak, Amnon Koren, et al.. (2015). Genome-wide patterns and properties of de novo mutations in humans. Nature Genetics. 47(7). 822–826. 238 indexed citations

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Kazanov, Marat D., Steven A. Roberts, Paz Polak, et al.. (2015). APOBEC-Induced Cancer Mutations Are Uniquely Enriched in Early-Replicating, Gene-Dense, and Active Chromatin Regions. Cell Reports. 13(6). 1103–1109. 68 indexed citations

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Kasar, Siddha, Jaegil Kim, Reina Improgo, et al.. (2015). Whole-genome sequencing reveals activation-induced cytidine deaminase signatures during indolent chronic lymphocytic leukaemia evolution. Nature Communications. 6(1). 8866–8866. 138 indexed citations

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Koren, Amnon, Paz Polak, James Nemesh, et al.. (2012). Differential Relationship of DNA Replication Timing to Different Forms of Human Mutation and Variation. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 91(6). 1033–1040. 161 indexed citations

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Polak, Paz, et al.. (2010). The evolution of transcription-associated biases of mutations across vertebrates. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 10(1). 187–187. 19 indexed citations

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Polak, Paz & Peter F. Arndt. (2008). Transcription induces strand-specific mutations at the 5′ end of human genes. Genome Research. 18(8). 1216–1223. 78 indexed citations

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