Riku Katainen

4.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
33 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Riku Katainen is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Pathology and Forensic Medicine and Cancer Research. According to data from OpenAlex, Riku Katainen has authored 33 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Molecular Biology, 15 papers in Pathology and Forensic Medicine and 10 papers in Cancer Research. Recurrent topics in Riku Katainen's work include Genetic factors in colorectal cancer (11 papers), Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics (9 papers) and Colorectal Cancer Treatments and Studies (5 papers). Riku Katainen is often cited by papers focused on Genetic factors in colorectal cancer (11 papers), Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics (9 papers) and Colorectal Cancer Treatments and Studies (5 papers). Riku Katainen collaborates with scholars based in Finland, Sweden and Denmark. Riku Katainen's co-authors include Lauri A. Aaltonen, Eevi Kaasinen, Pia Vahteristo, Miika Mehine, Netta Mäkinen, Esa Pitkänen, Jari Sjöberg, Minna Taipale, Massimiliano Gentile and Jussi Taipale and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, New England Journal of Medicine and Nature Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Riku Katainen

32 papers receiving 1.6k 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.

MED12 , the Mediator Complex Subunit 12 Gene, Is Mutated at High Frequency in Uterine Leiomyomas

2011 470 citations Netta Mäkinen, Miika Mehine et al. Science profile →

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Riku Katainen

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Eiichiro Tominaga Japan

Masafumi Koshiyama Japan

Toshio Hirakawa Japan

Karin Boman Sweden

Maria Rosaria De Filippo Italy

Ilary Ruscito Italy

Mary B. Daly United States

Anniina Färkkilä Finland

Zheng Feng China

Tomohito Tanaka Japan

Eiichiro Tominaga Japan

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Riku Katainen

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

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Taira, Aurora, Mervi Aavikko, Riku Katainen, et al.. (2025). Comprehensive metabolomic and epigenomic characterization of microsatellite stable BRAF-mutated colorectal cancer. Oncogene. 44(22). 1718–1730. 2 indexed citations

Katainen, Riku, Jun Dai, Anna Vähärautio, et al.. (2025). Drug-tolerant persisting polyploid giant cancer cells mediate resistance to HER2-targeting antibody-drug conjugates. Cancer Letters. 630. 217900–217900. 2 indexed citations

Afyounian, Ebrahim, Riku Katainen, Anssi Nurminen, et al.. (2024). Previously reported CCDC26 risk variant and novel germline variants in GALNT13, AR, and MYO10 associated with familial glioma in Finland. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 11562–11562. 1 indexed citations

Berger, Hilmar, Federica Battistini, Britta A. M. Bouwman, et al.. (2020). Colibactin DNA-damage signature indicates mutational impact in colorectal cancer. Nature Medicine. 26(7). 1063–1069. 188 indexed citations

Hänninen, Ulrika A., Erkki‐Ville Wirta, Riku Katainen, et al.. (2019). Exome and immune cell score analyses reveal great variation within synchronous primary colorectal cancers. British Journal of Cancer. 120(9). 922–930. 4 indexed citations

Katainen, Riku, Iikki Donner, Tatiana Cajuso, et al.. (2018). Discovery of potential causative mutations in human coding and noncoding genome with the interactive software BasePlayer. Nature Protocols. 13(11). 2580–2600. 29 indexed citations

Hänninen, Ulrika A., Riku Katainen, Tomas Tanskanen, et al.. (2018). Exome-wide somatic mutation characterization of small bowel adenocarcinoma. PLoS Genetics. 14(3). e1007200–e1007200. 54 indexed citations

Donner, Iikki, et al.. (2018). Germline mutations in young non-smoking women with lung adenocarcinoma. Lung Cancer. 122. 76–82. 33 indexed citations

Donner, Iikki, Riku Katainen, Eevi Kaasinen, et al.. (2018). Candidate susceptibility variants in angioimmunoblastic T-cell lymphoma. Familial Cancer. 18(1). 113–119. 11 indexed citations

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Kondelin, Johanna, Alexandra E. Gylfe, Tomas Tanskanen, et al.. (2017). Comprehensive Evaluation of Protein Coding Mononucleotide Microsatellites in Microsatellite-Unstable Colorectal Cancer. Cancer Research. 77(15). 4078–4088. 14 indexed citations

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Cajuso, Tatiana, Riku Katainen, Päivi Sulo, et al.. (2017). Detection of subclonal L1 transductions in colorectal cancer by long-distance inverse-PCR and Nanopore sequencing. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 14521–14521. 18 indexed citations

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Tamene, Fitsum, Helka Göös, Audrey van Drogen, et al.. (2017). Systematic Analysis of Human Protein Phosphatase Interactions and Dynamics. Cell Systems. 4(4). 430–444.e5. 63 indexed citations

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Mehine, Miika, Hanna-Riikka Heinonen, Nanna Sarvilinna, et al.. (2015). Clonally related uterine leiomyomas are common and display branched tumor evolution. Human Molecular Genetics. 24(15). 4407–4416. 17 indexed citations

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Heliövaara, Elina, Anniina Raitila, M-R Rautiainen, et al.. (2014). AIP inactivation leads to pituitary tumorigenesis through defective Gαi-cAMP signaling. Oncogene. 34(9). 1174–1184. 79 indexed citations

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Tanskanen, Tomas, Alexandra E. Gylfe, Riku Katainen, et al.. (2014). Systematic search for rare variants in Finnish early-onset colorectal cancer patients. Cancer Genetics. 208(1-2). 35–40. 22 indexed citations

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Tuupanen, Sari, Ulrika A. Hänninen, Johanna Kondelin, et al.. (2014). Identification of 33 candidate oncogenes by screening for base-specific mutations. British Journal of Cancer. 111(8). 1657–1662. 31 indexed citations

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Gylfe, Alexandra E., Riku Katainen, Johanna Kondelin, et al.. (2013). Eleven Candidate Susceptibility Genes for Common Familial Colorectal Cancer. PLoS Genetics. 9(10). e1003876–e1003876. 60 indexed citations

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Mehine, Miika, Eevi Kaasinen, Netta Mäkinen, et al.. (2013). Characterization of Uterine Leiomyomas by Whole-Genome Sequencing. New England Journal of Medicine. 369(1). 43–53. 252 indexed citations

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Mäkinen, Netta, Miika Mehine, Jaana Tolvanen, et al.. (2011). MED12 , the Mediator Complex Subunit 12 Gene, Is Mutated at High Frequency in Uterine Leiomyomas. Science. 334(6053). 252–255. 470 indexed citations breakdown →

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Soikkeli, Johanna, Margus Lukk, Pirjo Nummela, et al.. (2007). Systematic search for the best gene expression markers for melanoma micrometastasis detection. The Journal of Pathology. 213(2). 180–189. 34 indexed citations

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