Sook Wah Yee

11.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
101 papers, 5.1k citations indexed

About

Sook Wah Yee is a scholar working on Oncology, Molecular Biology and Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Sook Wah Yee has authored 101 papers receiving a total of 5.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 46 papers in Oncology, 34 papers in Molecular Biology and 26 papers in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health. Recurrent topics in Sook Wah Yee's work include Drug Transport and Resistance Mechanisms (45 papers), Pharmacological Effects and Toxicity Studies (21 papers) and Pharmacogenetics and Drug Metabolism (16 papers). Sook Wah Yee is often cited by papers focused on Drug Transport and Resistance Mechanisms (45 papers), Pharmacological Effects and Toxicity Studies (21 papers) and Pharmacogenetics and Drug Metabolism (16 papers). Sook Wah Yee collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Japan. Sook Wah Yee's co-authors include Kathleen M. Giacomini, Lawrence Lin, Richard B. Kim, Teri E. Klein, Claire Simons, C-H Pui, Mary V. Relling, William E. Evans, Ligong Chen and KM Giacomini and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and Molecular Cell.

In The Last Decade

Sook Wah Yee

100 papers receiving 5.0k 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.

SLC transporters as therapeutic targets: emerging opportunities

2015 584 citations Sook Wah Yee, Kathleen M. Giacomini et al. profile →
Clinical Pharmacogenetics Implementation Consortium Guidelines for Thiopurine Methyltransferase Genotype and Thiopurine Dosing

2011 401 citations Sook Wah Yee, Teri E. Klein et al. Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sook Wah Yee United States	41	2.0k	1.8k	1.2k	854	521	101	5.1k
Rommel G. Tirona Canada	39	3.1k 1.5×	1.1k 0.6×	1.4k 1.2×	2.0k 2.3×	465 0.9×	99	5.7k
Toshiya Katsura Japan	49	3.7k 1.8×	2.4k 1.3×	2.0k 1.6×	626 0.7×	258 0.5×	144	7.0k
Olivier Barbier Canada	44	1.7k 0.9×	2.9k 1.6×	564 0.5×	1.3k 1.5×	653 1.3×	130	6.4k
Leszek Wojnowski Germany	39	1.8k 0.9×	2.5k 1.4×	788 0.7×	1.9k 2.2×	586 1.1×	93	6.1k
Reinhold Kerb Germany	42	3.3k 1.7×	1.8k 1.0×	1.8k 1.5×	1.6k 1.8×	333 0.6×	69	6.7k
Seok Ho South Korea	34	2.7k 1.3×	2.0k 1.1×	1.2k 1.0×	515 0.6×	157 0.3×	79	6.1k
Yoshiro Saito Japan	45	2.2k 1.1×	2.3k 1.2×	903 0.8×	1.9k 2.2×	336 0.6×	257	6.5k
Naohiko Anzai Japan	46	2.1k 1.1×	2.9k 1.6×	838 0.7×	553 0.6×	194 0.4×	213	6.8k
Kazuto Yasuda United States	30	2.7k 1.4×	1.0k 0.6×	1.4k 1.1×	2.6k 3.0×	570 1.1×	59	5.4k
Cristina Rodríguez‐Antona Spain	39	2.1k 1.0×	2.2k 1.2×	369 0.3×	2.0k 2.3×	483 0.9×	137	6.0k

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Yee, Sook Wah, Jia Yang, Claire M. Brett, et al.. (2025). Identification and Clinical Evaluation of Potential Biomarkers for Breast Cancer Resistance Protein (BCRP/ABCG2). Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics. 118(1). 177–189. 1 indexed citations

West, Mark A., et al.. (2025). Significance of gut breast cancer resistance protein versus organic anion transporting polypeptide 2B1 inhibition on rosuvastatin clinical drug-drug interactions. Drug Metabolism and Disposition. 53(4). 100056–100056.

Yang, Jia, Khondoker Alam, Andre Raw, et al.. (2024). Effect of Antioxidants in Medicinal Products on Intestinal Drug Transporters. Pharmaceutics. 16(5). 647–647. 4 indexed citations

Wang, Xue, Lifeng Han, Chunze Zhang, et al.. (2024). SLC13A3 is a major effector downstream of activated β-catenin in liver cancer pathogenesis. Nature Communications. 15(1). 7522–7522. 11 indexed citations

Rao, J. N. K., Christian B. Macdonald, Sook Wah Yee, et al.. (2024). Rosace: a robust deep mutational scanning analysis framework employing position and mean-variance shrinkage. Genome biology. 25(1). 138–138. 10 indexed citations

Yee, Sook Wah, Christian B. Macdonald, Jia Yang, et al.. (2024). The full spectrum of SLC22 OCT1 mutations illuminates the bridge between drug transporter biophysics and pharmacogenomics. Molecular Cell. 84(10). 1932–1947.e10. 17 indexed citations

Wu, Baojun, Sook Wah Yee, Shujie Xiao, et al.. (2023). Genome-Wide Association Study Identifies Pharmacogenomic Variants Associated With Metformin Glycemic Response in African American Patients With Type 2 Diabetes. Diabetes Care. 47(2). 208–215. 7 indexed citations

Yee, Sook Wah, et al.. (2023). TICBase: Integrated Resource for Data on Drug and Environmental Chemical Interactions with Mammalian Drug Transporters. Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics. 114(6). 1293–1303. 3 indexed citations

Lin, Ting‐Yu, N. Quynh, Emily B. Wilson, et al.. (2023). Cardiac contraction and relaxation are regulated by distinct subcellular cAMP pools. Nature Chemical Biology. 20(1). 62–73. 29 indexed citations

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Vora, Bianca, Sook Wah Yee, Marina Sirota, et al.. (2023). The Effect of Trimethoprim on Thiamine Absorption: A Transporter‐Mediated Drug‐Nutrient Interaction. Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics. 114(2). 381–392. 7 indexed citations

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Zhu, Ying, et al.. (2023). The Impacts of Slc19a3 Deletion and Intestinal SLC19A3 Insertion on Thiamine Distribution and Brain Metabolism in the Mouse. Metabolites. 13(8). 885–885. 5 indexed citations

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Greenberg, Andrew S., Kathleen M. Giacomini, John W. Newman, et al.. (2023). OR18-06-23 The Impacts of slc19a3 Deletion and Intestinal SLC19A3 Insertion on Thiamine Distribution and Brain Metabolism in the Mouse. Current Developments in Nutrition. 7. 101796–101796. 1 indexed citations

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Lebouvier, Nicolas, Fabrice Pagniez, Da Shi, et al.. (2020). Synthesis, Optimization, Antifungal Activity, Selectivity, and CYP51 Binding of New 2-Aryl-3-azolyl-1-indolyl-propan-2-ols. Pharmaceuticals. 13(8). 186–186. 14 indexed citations

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Liang, Xiaomin, Sook Wah Yee, Huan‐Chieh Chien, et al.. (2018). Organic cation transporter 1 (OCT1) modulates multiple cardiometabolic traits through effects on hepatic thiamine content. PLoS Biology. 16(4). e2002907–e2002907. 49 indexed citations

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Chen, Ligong, Yan Shu, Xiaomin Liang, et al.. (2014). OCT1 is a high-capacity thiamine transporter that regulates hepatic steatosis and is a target of metformin. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 111(27). 9983–9988. 182 indexed citations

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Clancy, John P., Samuel G. Johnson, Sook Wah Yee, et al.. (2014). Clinical Pharmacogenetics Implementation Consortium (CPIC) Guidelines for Ivacaftor Therapy in the Context of CFTR Genotype. Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics. 95(6). 592–597. 41 indexed citations

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More, Swati S., Shuanglian Li, Sook Wah Yee, et al.. (2010). Organic Cation Transporters Modulate the Uptake and Cytotoxicity of Picoplatin, a Third-Generation Platinum Analogue. Molecular Cancer Therapeutics. 9(4). 1058–1069. 61 indexed citations

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Schlessinger, Avner, Pär Matsson, James E. Shima, et al.. (2010). Comparison of human solute carriers. Protein Science. 19(3). 412–428. 87 indexed citations

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Yee, Sook Wah, Li Gong, Ilaria Badagnani, et al.. (2010). SLC19A1 pharmacogenomics summary. Pharmacogenetics and Genomics. 20(11). 708–715. 25 indexed citations

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Choi, Ji Ha, Sook Wah Yee, Mee J. Kim, et al.. (2009). Identification and characterization of novel polymorphisms in the basal promoter of the human transporter, MATE1. Pharmacogenetics and Genomics. 19(10). 770–780. 45 indexed citations

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