Ruth Appanah

2.8k total citations · 3 hit papers
10 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

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Ruth Appanah is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Virology. According to data from OpenAlex, Ruth Appanah has authored 10 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Molecular Biology, 6 papers in Genetics and 1 paper in Virology. Recurrent topics in Ruth Appanah's work include Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (7 papers), Cancer-related gene regulation (4 papers) and Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders (4 papers). Ruth Appanah is often cited by papers focused on Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (7 papers), Cancer-related gene regulation (4 papers) and Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders (4 papers). Ruth Appanah collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Japan and Netherlands. Ruth Appanah's co-authors include Neil Brockdorff, Tatyana B. Nesterova, Arie P. Otte, Winifred Mak, José Silva, Haruhiko Koseki, Mitsuhiro Endoh, Shinya Yamanaka, Miguel Vidal and Rika Wakao and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Genes & Development.

In The Last Decade

Ruth Appanah

10 papers receiving 2.2k 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.

Polycomb Group Proteins Ring1A/B Link Ubiquitylation of Histone H2A to Heritable Gene Silencing and X Inactivation

2004 728 citations Jacqueline E. Mermoud, Rika Wakao et al. Developmental Cell profile →
Establishment of Histone H3 Methylation on the Inactive X Chromosome Requires Transient Recruitment of Eed-Enx1 Polycomb Group Complexes

2003 529 citations José Silva, Winifred Mak et al. Developmental Cell profile →
Reactivation of the Paternal X Chromosome in Early Mouse Embryos

2004 428 citations Winifred Mak, Tatyana B. Nesterova et al. Science profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ruth Appanah United Kingdom	9	2.0k	928	231	224	87	10	2.2k
Miguel Casanova United Kingdom	12	2.1k 1.0×	399 0.4×	250 1.1×	204 0.9×	53 0.6×	15	2.2k
Danielle Arnaud France	14	1.7k 0.8×	1.0k 1.1×	209 0.9×	239 1.1×	50 0.6×	19	2.0k
Giancarlo Bonora United States	21	1.9k 0.9×	421 0.5×	281 1.2×	176 0.8×	30 0.3×	34	2.0k
Philip Avner France	21	2.4k 1.2×	1.2k 1.3×	306 1.3×	502 2.2×	64 0.7×	29	2.7k
Peter Jeppesen United Kingdom	16	1.6k 0.8×	755 0.8×	495 2.1×	83 0.4×	102 1.2×	23	1.8k
Meng Amy Li United Kingdom	12	1.4k 0.7×	423 0.5×	201 0.9×	128 0.6×	39 0.4×	12	1.5k
Lionel A. Sanz United States	17	2.5k 1.2×	543 0.6×	241 1.0×	635 2.8×	147 1.7×	20	2.7k
Veronica McCabe United Kingdom	6	1.3k 0.6×	788 0.8×	156 0.7×	467 2.1×	58 0.7×	8	1.6k
J A Sharpe United Kingdom	13	1.2k 0.6×	445 0.5×	138 0.6×	183 0.8×	92 1.1×	20	1.4k
Mitchell L. Leibowitz United States	8	1.0k 0.5×	425 0.5×	252 1.1×	226 1.0×	26 0.3×	9	1.3k

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Leung, Danny, Kevin Dong, Irina A. Maksakova, et al.. (2011). Lysine methyltransferase G9a is required for de novo DNA methylation and the establishment, but not the maintenance, of proviral silencing. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 108(14). 5718–5723. 100 indexed citations

Casanova, Miguel, Andrea Cerase, Raymond A. Poot, et al.. (2011). Polycomblike 2 facilitates the recruitment of PRC2 Polycomb group complexes to the inactive X chromosome and to target loci in embryonic stem cells. Development. 138(8). 1471–1482. 73 indexed citations

Rush, Margaret, Ruth Appanah, Sandra Lee, et al.. (2009). Targeting of EZH2 to a defined genomic site is sufficient for recruitment of Dnmt3a but not de novo DNA methylation. Epigenetics. 4(6). 404–414. 69 indexed citations

Dong, Kevin, Irina A. Maksakova, Fabio Mohn, et al.. (2008). DNA methylation in ES cells requires the lysine methyltransferase G9a but not its catalytic activity. The EMBO Journal. 27(20). 2691–2701. 183 indexed citations

Appanah, Ruth, David Dickerson, Preeti Goyal, Mark Groudine, & Matthew C. Lorincz. (2007). An Unmethylated 3′ Promoter-Proximal Region Is Required for Efficient Transcription Initiation. PLoS Genetics. 3(2). e27–e27. 45 indexed citations

Appanah, Ruth, David Dickerson, Preeti Goyal, Mark Groudine, & Matthew C. Lorincz. (2005). An Unmethylated 3' Promoter-proximal Region is Required for Efficient Transcription Initiation. PLoS Genetics. preprint(2007). e27–e27. 1 indexed citations

Mermoud, Jacqueline E., Rika Wakao, Amy Tang, et al.. (2004). Polycomb Group Proteins Ring1A/B Link Ubiquitylation of Histone H2A to Heritable Gene Silencing and X Inactivation. Developmental Cell. 7(5). 663–676. 728 indexed citations breakdown →

Mak, Winifred, Tatyana B. Nesterova, Ruth Appanah, et al.. (2004). Reactivation of the Paternal X Chromosome in Early Mouse Embryos. Science. 303(5658). 666–669. 428 indexed citations breakdown →

Nesterova, Tatyana B., Colette M. Johnston, Ruth Appanah, et al.. (2003). Skewing X chromosome choice by modulating sense transcription across theXistlocus. Genes & Development. 17(17). 2177–2190. 60 indexed citations

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Silva, José, Winifred Mak, Ilona Zvetkova, et al.. (2003). Establishment of Histone H3 Methylation on the Inactive X Chromosome Requires Transient Recruitment of Eed-Enx1 Polycomb Group Complexes. Developmental Cell. 4(4). 481–495. 529 indexed citations breakdown →

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