Pedro P. Rocha

2.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
29 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Pedro P. Rocha is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Immunology. According to data from OpenAlex, Pedro P. Rocha has authored 29 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 26 papers in Molecular Biology, 6 papers in Genetics and 6 papers in Immunology. Recurrent topics in Pedro P. Rocha's work include Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (15 papers), Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (9 papers) and RNA modifications and cancer (6 papers). Pedro P. Rocha is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (15 papers), Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (9 papers) and RNA modifications and cancer (6 papers). Pedro P. Rocha collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Japan. Pedro P. Rocha's co-authors include Jane A. Skok, Ramya Raviram, Esteban O. Mazzoni, Varun Narendra, Danny Reinberg, Disi An, Heinrich Schrewe, Wilfrid Bleiß, Richard Bonneau and Vincent Luo and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

Pedro P. Rocha

27 papers receiving 1.5k 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.

CTCF establishes discrete functional chromatin domains at the Hox clusters during differentiation

2015 400 citations Varun Narendra, Pedro P. Rocha et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Pedro P. Rocha United States	19	1.3k	249	195	136	109	29	1.5k
Ramya Raviram United States	18	1.5k 1.1×	282 1.1×	194 1.0×	158 1.2×	175 1.6×	22	1.7k
Andrea Scelfo Italy	15	1.2k 0.9×	137 0.6×	181 0.9×	173 1.3×	113 1.0×	18	1.4k
Birgit Czermin Germany	19	2.1k 1.6×	258 1.0×	248 1.3×	88 0.6×	112 1.0×	27	2.3k
Silvia Remeseiro Spain	14	973 0.8×	187 0.8×	138 0.7×	50 0.4×	124 1.1×	26	1.1k
Constantinos Chronis United States	18	1.6k 1.3×	148 0.6×	280 1.4×	84 0.6×	243 2.2×	27	1.9k
Thomas Whitington Sweden	7	1.2k 0.9×	122 0.5×	241 1.2×	80 0.6×	146 1.3×	8	1.4k
Yoko Koseki Japan	15	1.3k 1.0×	106 0.4×	277 1.4×	121 0.9×	167 1.5×	17	1.5k
Nicholas Shukeir Germany	14	1.2k 0.9×	167 0.7×	142 0.7×	54 0.4×	185 1.7×	17	1.4k
Donna McCabe Switzerland	7	1.5k 1.2×	260 1.0×	235 1.2×	67 0.5×	119 1.1×	7	1.7k
Bas Tolhuis Netherlands	7	2.0k 1.6×	487 2.0×	310 1.6×	124 0.9×	90 0.8×	8	2.2k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Pedro P. Rocha

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Anderson, Matthew J., Joyce J. Thompson, Raj Chari, et al.. (2025). Deletion of a single CTCF motif at the boundary of a chromatin domain with three FGF genes disrupts gene expression and embryonic development. Developmental Cell. 60(13). 1838–1853.e9.

Brown, J. Lesley, Liangliang Zhang, Pedro P. Rocha, Judith A. Kassis, & Ming-an Sun. (2024). Polycomb protein binding and looping in the ON transcriptional state. Science Advances. 10(17). eadn1837–eadn1837. 3 indexed citations

Rhodes, Christopher T., Mira Sohn, Shovan Naskar, et al.. (2024). Loss of Ezh2 in the medial ganglionic eminence alters interneuron fate, cell morphology and gene expression profiles. Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience. 18. 1334244–1334244.

Zuo, Zhenyu, Parirokh Awasthi, Raj Chari, et al.. (2023). Enhancer–promoter interactions can bypass CTCF-mediated boundaries and contribute to phenotypic robustness. Nature Genetics. 55(2). 280–290. 52 indexed citations

Xie, Guojia, Ji‐Eun Lee, Anna D. Senft, et al.. (2023). MLL3/MLL4 methyltransferase activities control early embryonic development and embryonic stem cell differentiation in a lineage-selective manner. Nature Genetics. 55(4). 693–705. 35 indexed citations

Rhodes, Christopher T., Joyce J. Thompson, Apratim Mitra, et al.. (2022). An epigenome atlas of neural progenitors within the embryonic mouse forebrain. Nature Communications. 13(1). 4196–4196. 18 indexed citations

Kurotaki, Daisuke, Kenta Kikuchi, Kairong Cui, et al.. (2022). Chromatin structure undergoes global and local reorganization during murine dendritic cell development and activation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(34). e2207009119–e2207009119. 14 indexed citations

Silva-Diz, Victoria da, Maya Aleksandrova, Shirley Luo, et al.. (2022). A Therapeutically Targetable NOTCH1–SIRT1–KAT7 Axis in T-cell Leukemia. Blood Cancer Discovery. 4(1). 12–33. 8 indexed citations

Thompson, Joyce J., et al.. (2022). Extensive co-binding and rapid redistribution of NANOG and GATA6 during emergence of divergent lineages. Nature Communications. 13(1). 4257–4257. 26 indexed citations

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Payer, Lindsay M., Jared P. Steranka, Giacomo Grillo, et al.. (2021). Alu insertion variants alter gene transcript levels. Genome Research. 31(12). 2236–2248. 22 indexed citations

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Oksuz, Ozgur, Varun Narendra, Chul‐Hwan Lee, et al.. (2018). Capturing the Onset of PRC2-Mediated Repressive Domain Formation. Molecular Cell. 70(6). 1149–1162.e5. 182 indexed citations

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Robert, Isabelle, Pedro P. Rocha, Ramya Raviram, et al.. (2016). Mediator facilitates transcriptional activation and dynamic long-range contacts at the IgH locus during class switch recombination. The Journal of Experimental Medicine. 213(3). 303–312. 29 indexed citations

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Rocha, Pedro P., Ramya Raviram, Yi Fu, et al.. (2016). A Damage-Independent Role for 53BP1 that Impacts Break Order and Igh Architecture during Class Switch Recombination. Cell Reports. 16(1). 48–55. 20 indexed citations

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Jiang, Tingting, Ramya Raviram, Valentina Snetkova, et al.. (2016). Identification of multi-loci hubs from 4C-seq demonstrates the functional importance of simultaneous interactions. Nucleic Acids Research. 44(18). 8714–8725. 35 indexed citations

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Fu, Yi, Pedro P. Rocha, Vincent Luo, et al.. (2016). CRISPR-dCas9 and sgRNA scaffolds enable dual-colour live imaging of satellite sequences and repeat-enriched individual loci. Nature Communications. 7(1). 11707–11707. 108 indexed citations

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Raviram, Ramya, Pedro P. Rocha, Christian L. Müller, et al.. (2016). 4C-ker: A Method to Reproducibly Identify Genome-Wide Interactions Captured by 4C-Seq Experiments. PLoS Computational Biology. 12(3). e1004780–e1004780. 59 indexed citations

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Rocha, Pedro P. & Jane A. Skok. (2013). The origin of recurrent translocations in recombining lymphocytes: a balance between break frequency and nuclear proximity. Current Opinion in Cell Biology. 25(3). 365–371. 9 indexed citations

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Rocha, Pedro P., Mariann Micsinai, Jung‐Hyun Kim, et al.. (2012). Close Proximity to Igh Is a Contributing Factor to AID-Mediated Translocations. Molecular Cell. 47(6). 873–885. 48 indexed citations

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Rocha, Pedro P., et al.. (2010). Med12 is essential for early mouse development and for canonical Wnt and Wnt/PCP signaling. Development. 137(16). 2723–2731. 120 indexed citations

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Rocha, Pedro P., Wilfrid Bleiß, & Heinrich Schrewe. (2010). Mosaic expression of Med12 in female mice leads to exencephaly, spina bifida, and craniorachischisis. Birth Defects Research Part A Clinical and Molecular Teratology. 88(8). 626–632. 12 indexed citations

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