Samuel Lessard

2.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
19 papers, 911 citations indexed

About

Samuel Lessard is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Samuel Lessard has authored 19 papers receiving a total of 911 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Molecular Biology, 9 papers in Genetics and 4 papers in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health. Recurrent topics in Samuel Lessard's work include Hemoglobinopathies and Related Disorders (9 papers), CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (5 papers) and Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (4 papers). Samuel Lessard is often cited by papers focused on Hemoglobinopathies and Related Disorders (9 papers), CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (5 papers) and Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (4 papers). Samuel Lessard collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Japan. Samuel Lessard's co-authors include Guillaume Lettre, Mélissa Beaudoin, Stuart H. Orkin, Matthew C. Canver, Daniel E. Bauer, Guo‐Cheng Yuan, Zhen Shao, Jian Xu, Jeff Vierstra and Matthew H. Porteus and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Samuel Lessard

17 papers receiving 899 citations

Hit Papers

An Erythroid Enhancer of BCL11A Subject to Genetic Variat... 2013 2026 2017 2021 2013 100 200 300 400
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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.

  1. An Erythroid Enhancer of BCL11A Subject to Genetic Variation Determines Fetal Hemoglobin Level
    2013 450 citations Daniel E. Bauer, Sophia C. Kamran et al. Science profile →

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Samuel Lessard United States 7 651 292 201 148 108 19 911
Marios Phylactides Cyprus 11 225 0.3× 223 0.8× 93 0.5× 173 1.2× 45 0.4× 22 682
Zhenning He United States 14 826 1.3× 71 0.2× 470 2.3× 52 0.4× 39 0.4× 23 1.0k
Doris Kraemer Germany 16 905 1.4× 44 0.2× 57 0.3× 107 0.7× 17 0.2× 47 1.3k
Pascal Bailly France 20 414 0.6× 245 0.8× 222 1.1× 734 5.0× 114 1.1× 54 1.3k
Brian K. Dalley United States 12 458 0.7× 54 0.2× 63 0.3× 81 0.5× 6 0.1× 22 697
Victoria E. Brown United States 13 934 1.4× 27 0.1× 162 0.8× 49 0.3× 12 0.1× 14 1.3k
Isabelle Max‐Audit France 11 164 0.3× 49 0.2× 52 0.3× 82 0.6× 58 0.5× 16 419
Aziz Belkadi France 5 314 0.5× 33 0.1× 451 2.2× 24 0.2× 29 0.3× 5 919
Alicia D. Volkheimer United States 14 254 0.4× 261 0.9× 49 0.2× 52 0.4× 13 0.1× 30 801
Dragana Vujić Serbia 11 271 0.4× 29 0.1× 45 0.2× 33 0.2× 18 0.2× 43 450

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Fields of papers citing papers by Samuel Lessard

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Samuel Lessard

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

All Works

19 of 19 papers shown
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Chatelain, Clément, et al.. (2025). Building a human genetic data lake to scale up insights for drug discovery. Drug Discovery Today. 30(6). 104385–104385. 1 indexed citations
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Lessard, Samuel, Michael J. Chao, Kadri Reis, et al.. (2024). Leveraging large-scale multi-omics evidences to identify therapeutic targets from genome-wide association studies. BMC Genomics. 25(1). 1111–1111. 4 indexed citations
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Du, Zhaohui, Samuel Lessard, Michael J. Chao, et al.. (2024). Genetic analyses of inflammatory polyneuropathy and chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy identified candidate genes. Human Genetics and Genomics Advances. 5(3). 100317–100317.
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Lemgart, Viktor T., Nis Halland, Kiana Mahdaviani, et al.. (2023). SGK1 inhibition induces fetal hemoglobin expression and delays polymerization in sickle erythroid cells. Blood Advances. 7(11). 2317–2323. 2 indexed citations
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Lessard, Samuel, Deepak K. Rajpal, K. Klinger, et al.. (2022). Genome-Wide Association Study and Gene-Based Analysis of Participants With Hemophilia A and Inhibitors in the My Life, Our Future Research Repository. Frontiers in Medicine. 9. 903838–903838. 2 indexed citations
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Canver, Matthew C., Pratibha Tripathi, Michael Bullen, et al.. (2020). A saturating mutagenesis CRISPR-Cas9–mediated functional genomic screen identifies cis- and trans-regulatory elements of Oct4 in murine ESCs. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 295(47). 15797–15809. 5 indexed citations
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Gupta, Dipti, Samuel Lessard, Shujia Dai, et al.. (2020). Genetic Silencing of KEAP1 Induces NRF2 Mediated Oxidative Stress Pathway in Human Erythroid Cells. Blood. 136(Supplement 1). 8–9. 1 indexed citations
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Gupta, Dipti, Samuel Lessard, Nancy Moore, et al.. (2019). Genetic Activation of NRF2 By KEAP1 Inhibition Induces Fetal Hemoglobin Expression and Triggers Anti-Oxidant Stress Response in Erythroid Cells. Blood. 134(Supplement_1). 210–210. 1 indexed citations
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Lessard, Samuel, Mélissa Beaudoin, Stuart H. Orkin, Daniel E. Bauer, & Guillaume Lettre. (2018). 14q32 and let-7 microRNAs regulate transcriptional networks in fetal and adult human erythroblasts. Human Molecular Genetics. 27(8). 1411–1420. 32 indexed citations
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Stone, Oliver A., Samuel Lessard, Adam Lavertu, et al.. (2017). Frameshift indels introduced by genome editing can lead to in-frame exon skipping. PLoS ONE. 12(6). e0178700–e0178700. 71 indexed citations
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Lessard, Samuel, Mélissa Beaudoin, Patrick G. Schupp, et al.. (2017). An erythroid-specific ATP2B4 enhancer mediates red blood cell hydration and malaria susceptibility. Journal of Clinical Investigation. 127(8). 3065–3074. 44 indexed citations
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Lessard, Samuel, Laurent C. Francioli, Jessica Alföldi, et al.. (2017). Human genetic variation alters CRISPR-Cas9 on- and off-targeting specificity at therapeutically implicated loci. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 114(52). E11257–E11266. 84 indexed citations
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Nguyen, Albert, Maya Mamarbachi, Valérie Turcot, et al.. (2016). Lower Methylation of the ANGPTL2 Gene in Leukocytes from Post-Acute Coronary Syndrome Patients. PLoS ONE. 11(4). e0153920–e0153920. 22 indexed citations
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Lessard, Samuel, et al.. (2016). An Essential Erythroid-Specific Enhancer of ATP2B4 Associated with Red Blood Cell Traits and Malaria Susceptibility. Blood. 128(22). 1250–1250. 2 indexed citations
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Lessard, Samuel, et al.. (2015). Comparison of DNA methylation profiles in human fetal and adult red blood cell progenitors. Genome Medicine. 7(1). 1–1. 183 indexed citations
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Bauer, Daniel E., Sophia C. Kamran, Samuel Lessard, et al.. (2013). Fine-Mapping and Genome Editing Reveal An Essential Erythroid Enhancer At The HbF-Associated BCL11A Locus. Blood. 122(21). 437–437.
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Bauer, Daniel E., Sophia C. Kamran, Samuel Lessard, et al.. (2013). An Erythroid Enhancer of BCL11A Subject to Genetic Variation Determines Fetal Hemoglobin Level. Science. 342(6155). 253–257. 450 indexed citations breakdown →

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