Tiago C. Silva

11.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
28 papers, 3.7k citations indexed

About

Tiago C. Silva is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cancer Research and Oncology. According to data from OpenAlex, Tiago C. Silva has authored 28 papers receiving a total of 3.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 25 papers in Molecular Biology, 5 papers in Cancer Research and 3 papers in Oncology. Recurrent topics in Tiago C. Silva's work include Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (16 papers), Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks (6 papers) and RNA modifications and cancer (4 papers). Tiago C. Silva is often cited by papers focused on Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (16 papers), Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks (6 papers) and RNA modifications and cancer (4 papers). Tiago C. Silva collaborates with scholars based in United States, Brazil and China. Tiago C. Silva's co-authors include Houtan Noushmehr, Antonio Colaprico, Catharina Olsen, Gianluca Bontempi, Tathiane M. Malta, Thaís S. Sabedot, Claudia Cava, Isabella Castiglioni, Michele Ceccarelli and Stefano Maria Pagnotta and has published in prestigious journals such as Nucleic Acids Research, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Tiago C. Silva

28 papers receiving 3.6k 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.

TCGAbiolinks: an R/Bioconductor package for integrative analysis of TCGA data

2015 2.4k citations Antonio Colaprico, Tiago C. Silva et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
New functionalities in the TCGAbiolinks package for the study and integration of cancer data from GDC and GTEx

2019 310 citations Mohamed Mounir, Marta Lucchetta et al. PLoS Computational Biology profile →

Peers

Tiago C. Silva

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Antonio Colaprico United States

Thaís S. Sabedot United States

Sílvia Menéndez United States

Caterina Nardella United States

Adrian M. Jubb United Kingdom

Stefano Maria Pagnotta Italy

Tokuzo Arao Japan

Rani E. George United States

Cristina Nadal Spain

Sakari Vanharanta United Kingdom

Antonio Colaprico United States

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Countries citing papers authored by Tiago C. Silva

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Tiago C. Silva

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Tiago C. Silva. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Tiago C. Silva 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 Tiago C. Silva. Tiago C. Silva 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

Evans, David M., Lijing Yao, Simon Finfer, et al.. (2025). A gene expression-based approach for the precision use of hydrocortisone in septic shock patients; a secondary analysis of the ADRENAL trial. Critical Care and Resuscitation. 27(2). 100109–100109. 1 indexed citations

Silva, Tiago C., et al.. (2022). MethReg: estimating the regulatory potential of DNA methylation in gene transcription. Nucleic Acids Research. 50(9). e51–e51. 10 indexed citations

Silva, Tiago C., Juan I. Young, Lissette Gomez, et al.. (2022). Cross-tissue analysis of blood and brain epigenome-wide association studies in Alzheimer’s disease. Nature Communications. 13(1). 4852–4852. 23 indexed citations

Silva, Tiago C., Juan I. Young, Lissette Gomez, et al.. (2022). Distinct sex-specific DNA methylation differences in Alzheimer’s disease. Alzheimer s Research & Therapy. 14(1). 133–133. 17 indexed citations

Fernández, Irina, Maria A. Quintero, Ana M. Santander, et al.. (2022). Lamina Propria Phagocyte Profiling Reveals Targetable Signaling Pathways in Refractory Inflammatory Bowel Disease. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1(3). 380–392. 6 indexed citations

Sabedot, Thaís S., Tiago C. Silva, Tathiane M. Malta, et al.. (2021). DNA methylation-based signatures classify sporadic pituitary tumors according to clinicopathological features. Neuro-Oncology. 23(8). 1292–1303. 14 indexed citations

Zheng, Yueyuan, Guowei Huang, Tiago C. Silva, et al.. (2021). A pan-cancer analysis of CpG Island gene regulation reveals extensive plasticity within Polycomb target genes. Nature Communications. 12(1). 2485–2485. 26 indexed citations

Zheng, Yueyuan, Guowei Huang, Tiago C. Silva, et al.. (2021). Publisher Correction: A pan-cancer analysis of CpG Island gene regulation reveals extensive plasticity within Polycomb target genes. Nature Communications. 12(1). 4106–4106. 2 indexed citations

Zhang, Lanyu, Juan I. Young, Lissette Gomez, et al.. (2021). Sex-specific DNA methylation differences in Alzheimer’s disease pathology. Acta Neuropathologica Communications. 9(1). 77–77. 35 indexed citations

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Lehmann, Brian D., Antonio Colaprico, Tiago C. Silva, et al.. (2021). Multi-omics analysis identifies therapeutic vulnerabilities in triple-negative breast cancer subtypes. Nature Communications. 12(1). 6276–6276. 154 indexed citations

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Odom, Gabriel, Antonio Colaprico, Tiago C. Silva, X. Steven Chen, & Lily Wang. (2021). PathwayMultiomics: An R Package for Efficient Integrative Analysis of Multi-Omics Datasets With Matched or Un-matched Samples. Frontiers in Genetics. 12. 783713–783713. 10 indexed citations

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Lü, Min, Tiago C. Silva, Antonio Colaprico, et al.. (2021). LR Hunting: A Random Forest Based Cell–Cell Interaction Discovery Method for Single-Cell Gene Expression Data. Frontiers in Genetics. 12. 708835–708835. 13 indexed citations

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Pan, Jian, Tiago C. Silva, Nicole Gull, et al.. (2020). Lineage-Specific Epigenomic and Genomic Activation of Oncogene HNF4A Promotes Gastrointestinal Adenocarcinomas. Cancer Research. 80(13). 2722–2736. 38 indexed citations

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Zhang, Lanyu, Tiago C. Silva, Juan I. Young, et al.. (2020). Epigenome-wide meta-analysis of DNA methylation differences in prefrontal cortex implicates the immune processes in Alzheimer’s disease. Nature Communications. 11(1). 6114–6114. 87 indexed citations

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Colaprico, Antonio, Catharina Olsen, Matthew H. Bailey, et al.. (2020). Interpreting pathways to discover cancer driver genes with Moonlight. Nature Communications. 11(1). 69–69. 62 indexed citations

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Colaprico, Antonio, Catharina Olsen, Matthew H. Bailey, et al.. (2020). Interpreting pathways to discover cancer driver genes with Moonlight. Faculty of 1000 Research Ltd. 11(1). 69. 4 indexed citations

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Mounir, Mohamed, Marta Lucchetta, Tiago C. Silva, et al.. (2019). New functionalities in the TCGAbiolinks package for the study and integration of cancer data from GDC and GTEx. PLoS Computational Biology. 15(3). e1006701–e1006701. 310 indexed citations breakdown →

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Silva, Tiago C., et al.. (2019). High-resolution melting for detecting KRAS mutations in colorectal cancer. Biomedical Reports. 11(6). 269–273. 4 indexed citations

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Silva, Tiago C., Simon G. Coetzee, Jasmine Plummer, et al.. (2019). GENAVi: a shiny web application for gene expression normalization, analysis and visualization. BMC Genomics. 20(1). 745–745. 30 indexed citations

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Silva, Tiago C., Simon G. Coetzee, Nicole Gull, et al.. (2018). ELMER v.2: an R/Bioconductor package to reconstruct gene regulatory networks from DNA methylation and transcriptome profiles. Bioinformatics. 35(11). 1974–1977. 62 indexed citations

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