Primo Schär

6.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
70 papers, 5.2k citations indexed

About

Primo Schär is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Pathology and Forensic Medicine and Cancer Research. According to data from OpenAlex, Primo Schär has authored 70 papers receiving a total of 5.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 60 papers in Molecular Biology, 15 papers in Pathology and Forensic Medicine and 14 papers in Cancer Research. Recurrent topics in Primo Schär's work include DNA Repair Mechanisms (38 papers), Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (24 papers) and Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (15 papers). Primo Schär is often cited by papers focused on DNA Repair Mechanisms (38 papers), Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (24 papers) and Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (15 papers). Primo Schär collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, United Kingdom and Germany. Primo Schär's co-authors include Roland Steinacher, Tomas Lindahl, Josef Jiricny, Ulrike Hardeland, Arne Klungland, Deborah E. Barnes, David Schuermann, C Kunz, Gernot Herrmann and Giancarlo Marra and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

Primo Schär

68 papers receiving 5.1k 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.

Reconstitution of DNA base excision-repair with purified human proteins: interaction between DNA polymerase beta and the XRCC1 protein.

1996 661 citations Arne Klungland, Primo Schär et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Primo Schär Switzerland	35	4.5k	1.0k	791	662	579	70	5.2k
Paola Gallinari Italy	29	4.1k 0.9×	1.1k 1.1×	434 0.5×	504 0.8×	456 0.8×	51	5.0k
Randy J. Legerski United States	37	4.2k 0.9×	826 0.8×	975 1.2×	283 0.4×	625 1.1×	79	4.6k
Grigory L. Dianov United Kingdom	50	6.6k 1.5×	2.0k 2.0×	1.5k 1.9×	380 0.6×	774 1.3×	117	7.4k
Haijuan Yang United States	13	4.5k 1.0×	692 0.7×	444 0.6×	299 0.5×	674 1.2×	20	5.1k
Harry Vrieling Netherlands	43	4.0k 0.9×	967 0.9×	1.2k 1.5×	216 0.3×	746 1.3×	117	5.5k
James P. Carney United States	20	4.3k 0.9×	1.3k 1.2×	794 1.0×	145 0.2×	753 1.3×	30	4.8k
Roy M. Pollock United States	29	5.4k 1.2×	636 0.6×	368 0.5×	261 0.4×	748 1.3×	55	6.4k
Nitai P. Bhattacharyya India	30	2.1k 0.5×	458 0.4×	719 0.9×	447 0.7×	437 0.8×	104	3.0k
Junwei Shi United States	35	6.2k 1.4×	1.3k 1.3×	808 1.0×	214 0.3×	436 0.8×	105	7.3k
Xiaobing Shi United States	48	7.1k 1.6×	868 0.8×	630 0.8×	195 0.3×	573 1.0×	104	8.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Primo Schär

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Primo Schär

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Noreen, Faiza, et al.. (2025). The TDG protein environment connects active DNA demethylation with chromatin and RNA biology. Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences. 83(1). 15–15.

Gorlanova, Olga, Loretta Müller, Danielle Vienneau, et al.. (2025). Prenatal exposure to air pollution affects autophagy, senescence and remodelling proteins in cord blood. ERJ Open Research. 11(5). 92–2025.

Xu, Jianming, Kapila Gunasekera, Cathrine Broberg Vågbø, et al.. (2024). Covalent PARylation of DNA base excision repair proteins regulates DNA demethylation. Nature Communications. 15(1). 184–184. 21 indexed citations

Steinacher, Roland, et al.. (2024). DNA-methylation variability in normal mucosa: a field cancerization marker in patients with adenomatous polyps. JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute. 116(6). 974–982. 5 indexed citations

Gunapala, Keith M., et al.. (2024). Ascorbic Acid Ameliorates Molecular and Developmental Defects in Human-Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell and Cerebral Organoid Models of Fragile X Syndrome. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 25(23). 12718–12718. 2 indexed citations

Germain, Pierre‐Luc, et al.. (2023). Sperm chromatin accessibility’s involvement in the intergenerational effects of stress hormone receptor activation. Translational Psychiatry. 13(1). 378–378. 3 indexed citations

Noreen, Faiza, et al.. (2020). Longitudinal analysis of healthy colon establishes aspirin as a suppressor of cancer-related epigenetic aging. Clinical Epigenetics. 12(1). 164–164. 6 indexed citations

Noreen, Faiza, Luigi Tornillo, Miguel G. Silva, et al.. (2019). DNA methylation instability by BRAF-mediated TET silencing and lifestyle-exposure divides colon cancer pathways. Clinical Epigenetics. 11(1). 196–196. 21 indexed citations

Gao, Yanyun, Nina Hobi, Sabina Berezowska, et al.. (2018). Tumor Initiation Capacity and Therapy Resistance Are Differential Features of EMT-Related Subpopulations in the NSCLC Cell Line A549. Neoplasia. 21(2). 185–196. 46 indexed citations

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Schuermann, David, et al.. (2016). 3CAPS – a structural AP–site analogue as a tool to investigate DNA base excision repair. Nucleic Acids Research. 44(5). 2187–2198. 17 indexed citations

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Weber, Alain, Adam B. Robertson, Anna Kuśnierczyk, et al.. (2016). Biochemical reconstitution of TET1–TDG–BER-dependent active DNA demethylation reveals a highly coordinated mechanism. Nature Communications. 7(1). 10806–10806. 161 indexed citations

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Talhaoui, Ibtissam, Sophie Couvé, Alexander A. Ishchenko, et al.. (2012). 7,8-dihydro-8-oxoadenine, a highly mutagenic adduct, is repaired by Escherichia coli and human mismatch-specific uracil/thymine-DNA glycosylases. Nucleic Acids Research. 41(2). 912–923. 25 indexed citations

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Focke, Frauke, David Schuermann, Niels Kuster, & Primo Schär. (2009). DNA fragmentation in human fibroblasts under extremely low frequency electromagnetic field exposure. Mutation research. Fundamental and molecular mechanisms of mutagenesis. 683(1-2). 74–83. 96 indexed citations

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Fleck, Oliver & Primo Schär. (2004). Translesion DNA Synthesis: Little Fingers Teach Tolerance. Current Biology. 14(10). R389–R391. 21 indexed citations

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Kunz, C & Primo Schär. (2004). Meiotic Recombination: Sealing the Partnership at the Junction. Current Biology. 14(22). R962–R964. 13 indexed citations

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Schär, Primo. (2004). SMC1 coordinates DNA double-strand break repair pathways. Nucleic Acids Research. 32(13). 3921–3929. 61 indexed citations

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Wellinger, Ralf Erik, Primo Schär, & José M. Sogo. (2003). Rad52-Independent Accumulation of Joint Circular Minichromosomes during S Phase in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 23(18). 6363–6372. 19 indexed citations

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Hasan, Sameez, Nazim El‐Andaloussi, Ulrike Hardeland, et al.. (2002). Acetylation Regulates the DNA End-Trimming Activity of DNA Polymerase β. Molecular Cell. 10(5). 1213–1222. 99 indexed citations

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Hardeland, Ulrike, et al.. (2001). Thymine DNA glycosylase. Progress in nucleic acid research and molecular biology. 68. 235–253. 76 indexed citations

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Schär, Primo. (2001). Spontaneous DNA Damage, Genome Instability, and Cancer—When DNA Replication Escapes Control. Cell. 104(3). 329–332. 101 indexed citations

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