Stephan Sanders

50.5k total citations · 3 hit papers
107 papers, 6.0k citations indexed

About

Stephan Sanders is a scholar working on Genetics, Molecular Biology and Cognitive Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Stephan Sanders has authored 107 papers receiving a total of 6.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 52 papers in Genetics, 49 papers in Molecular Biology and 36 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Stephan Sanders's work include Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders (35 papers), Autism Spectrum Disorder Research (34 papers) and Genomic variations and chromosomal abnormalities (21 papers). Stephan Sanders is often cited by papers focused on Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders (35 papers), Autism Spectrum Disorder Research (34 papers) and Genomic variations and chromosomal abnormalities (21 papers). Stephan Sanders collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and South Korea. Stephan Sanders's co-authors include Bernie Devlin, A. Starr, Ragnar Amlie, William H. Martin, Jack A. Kosmicki, Matthew W. State, Grace Schwartz, Kathryn Roeder, Kyle Kai‐How Farh and Siavash Fazel Darbandi and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Stephan Sanders

100 papers receiving 5.8k 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.

Predicting Splicing from Primary Sequence with Deep Learning

2019 1.3k citations Grace Schwartz, Stephan Sanders et al. Cell profile →
Most genetic risk for autism resides with common variation

2014 774 citations Stephan Sanders, Sven Sandin et al. profile →
Sex and gender differences in autism spectrum disorder: summarizing evidence gaps and identifying emerging areas of priority

2015 407 citations Somer Bishop, John N. Constantino et al. profile →

Peers

Countries citing papers authored by Stephan Sanders

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Citations

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Fields of papers citing papers by Stephan Sanders

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Stephan Sanders

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

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Massively parallel reporter assays and mouse transgenic assays provide correlated and complementary information about neuronal enhancer activity 2025 ·Nature Communications ·Michael Kosicki, Dianne Laboy Cintrón, (unknown), Max Schubach, Nicholas F. Page, Ilias Georgakopoulos‐Soares, Jennifer A. Akiyama, Ingrid Plajzer-Frick, Catherine S. Novak, Momoe Kato, Riana D. Hunter, (unknown), Sarah Barton, Patrick Godfrey, (unknown), Stephan Sanders, Martin Kircher, L Pennacchio, Nadav Ahituv	4
2	Genotypic, functional, and phenotypic characterization in CTNNB1 neurodevelopmental syndrome 2025 ·Human Genetics and Genomics Advances ·(unknown), David Gosar, Špela Miroševič, Stephan Sanders, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Ying An, (unknown), Fiona Moultrie, Roman Jerala, Duško Lainšček, (unknown), (unknown), Leszek Lisowski, (unknown), (unknown), Ho Yin Edwin Chan, Damjan Osredkar	1
3	Targeted BDNF upregulation via upstream open reading frame disruption 2025 ·Molecular Therapy ·Feng Ning, (unknown), Nenad Svrzikapa, Yan Dai, Hans Friedrichsen, Britt Hanson, Alicia Ljungdahl, Ruxandra Dafinca, Kevin Talbot, Stephan Sanders, Dhanu Gupta, Matthew J. A. Wood, Thomas C. Roberts	0
4	CWAS-Plus: estimating category-wide association of rare noncoding variation from whole-genome sequencing data with cell-type-specific functional data 2024 ·Briefings in Bioinformatics ·(unknown), Minwoo Jeong, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Jae Hyun Kim, (unknown), Il Bin Kim, Jeongbin Park, Donna M. Werling, Stephan Sanders, Joon‐Yong An	5
5	Examining Sex Differences in Autism Heritability 2024 ·JAMA Psychiatry ·Sven Sandin, Benjamin Hon Kei Yip, Weiyao Yin, Lauren A. Weiss, (unknown), (unknown), John N. Constantino, (unknown), Tychele N. Turner, Natasha Marrus, David H. Gutmann, Stephan Sanders, (unknown)	11
6	Prenatal delivery of a therapeutic antisense oligonucleotide achieves broad biodistribution in the brain and ameliorates Angelman syndrome phenotype in mice 2024 ·Molecular Therapy ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), David M. Young, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Manuel E. Lopez, Jan H. Lui, Lawrence R. Shiow, Scott V. Dindot, Saul Villeda, Stephan Sanders, Tippi C. MacKenzie	14
7	Multiplex, single-cell CRISPRa screening for cell type specific regulatory elements 2024 ·Nature Communications ·Florence M. Chardon, Troy A. McDiarmid, Nicholas F. Page, Riza M. Daza, Beth Martin, Silvia Domcke, Samuel G. Regalado, Jean‐Benoît Lalanne, Diego Calderon, Xiaoyi Li, Lea M. Starita, Stephan Sanders, Nadav Ahituv, Jay Shendure	14
8	A Closed-Loop Digital Health Tool to Improve Depression Care in Multiple Sclerosis: Iterative Design and Cross-Sectional Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial and its Impact on Depression Care 2024 ·JMIR Formative Research ·(unknown), (unknown), Kanishka Koshal, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), M. T. Doyle, (unknown), Judith Sheridan, Chu‐Yueh Guo, (unknown), Katherine P. Rankin, Stephan Sanders, Anthony Feinstein, Christina Mangurian, Riley Bove	4
9	The Conundrum of Mechanics Versus Genetics in Congenital Hydrocephalus and Its Implications for Fetal Therapy Approaches: A Scoping Review 2024 ·Prenatal Diagnosis ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Nalin Gupta, Tippi C. MacKenzie, Stephan Sanders	3
10	Characterization of De Novo Promoter Variants in Autism Spectrum Disorder with Massively Parallel Reporter Assays 2023 ·International Journal of Molecular Sciences ·(unknown), Joon‐Yong An, Fumitaka Inoue, (unknown), Nadav Ahituv, Stephan Sanders, Anat Kreimer	8
11	Neuropsychiatric biomarker discovery: go big or go home 2023 ·Trends in Molecular Medicine ·Alicia Ljungdahl, Stephan Sanders	1
12	Assessing the utility of electronic measures as a proxy for cognitive ability 2022 ·Autism Research ·Tess Levy, Bari Britvan, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Jordana Weissman, Danielle Halpern, Jessica Zweifach, M. Pilar Trelles, Jennifer H. Foss‐Feig, Alexander Kolevzon, Stephan Sanders, Elise Robinson, Joseph D. Buxbaum, Somer Bishop, Paige M. Siper	0
13	Spatiotemporal and genetic regulation of A-to-I editing throughout human brain development 2022 ·Cell Reports ·(unknown), (unknown), Laura Sloofman, Lindsay Liang, Enrico Mossotto, (unknown), (unknown), Minghui Wang, Bin Zhang, Jiebiao Wang, Nenad Šestan, Bernie Devlin, Kathryn Roeder, Stephan Sanders, Joseph D. Buxbaum, Michael S. Breen	12
14	High-throughput characterization of the role of non-B DNA motifs on promoter function 2022 ·Cell Genomics ·Ilias Georgakopoulos‐Soares, (unknown), Guillermo E. Parada, Vikram Agarwal, Jingjing Zhao, (unknown), Mubarak Ishaq Umar, (unknown), (unknown), Joon‐Yong An, Stephan Sanders, Chun Kit Kwok, Fumitaka Inoue, Martin Hemberg, Nadav Ahituv	36
15	Extrathymic Aire -expressing cells support maternal-fetal tolerance 2021 ·Science Immunology ·Eva Mae Gillis-Buck, (unknown), Marina Sirota, Stephan Sanders, Vasilis Ntranos, Mark S. Anderson, James M. Gardner, Tippi C. MacKenzie	19
16	Building a Precision Medicine Delivery Platform for Clinics: The University of California, San Francisco, BRIDGE Experience 2021 ·Journal of Medical Internet Research ·Riley Bove, (unknown), (unknown), Michael C. Gilson, (unknown), (unknown), Bruce L. Miller, Stephen L. Hauser, Stephan Sanders, Katherine P. Rankin	7
17	Exome sequencing of fetuses with congenital diaphragmatic hernia supports a causal role for NR2F2, PTPN11, and WT1 variants 2021 ·The American Journal of Surgery ·(unknown), Shan Dong, Billie R. Lianoglou, (unknown), Grace Schwartz, Mary E. Norton, Tippi C. MacKenzie, Stephan Sanders	6
18	A Chromatin Accessibility Atlas of the Developing Human Telencephalon 2020 ·Cell ·Eirene Markenscoff-Papadimitriou, Sean Whalen, Pawel F. Przytycki, Reuben Thomas, (unknown), Tomasz J. Nowakowski, Arnold R. Kriegstein, Stephan Sanders, Matthew W. State, Katherine S. Pollard, John L.R. Rubenstein	49
19	Rare Inherited and De Novo CNVs Reveal Complex Contributions to ASD Risk in Multiplex Families 2016 ·The American Journal of Human Genetics ·Virpi Leppä, Stephanie N. Kravitz, Alastair J. Martin, Joris Andrieux, Cédric Le Caignec, Dominique Martin‐Coignard, (unknown), Stephan Sanders, Jennifer K. Lowe, Rita M. Cantor, Daniel H. Geschwind	121
20	Body composition at high altitude: a randomized placebo-controlled trial of dietary carbohydrate supplementation 2009 ·American Journal of Clinical Nutrition ·Jamie Macdonald, Samuel J. Oliver, (unknown), Stephan Sanders, (unknown), Catherine J. Williams, (unknown), (unknown), Edward F. Scanlon, Edward W. Roberts, (unknown), Justin S. Lawley, (unknown)	36

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