Tom Sexton

5.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
49 papers, 4.0k citations indexed

About

Tom Sexton is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Plant Science and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Tom Sexton has authored 49 papers receiving a total of 4.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 40 papers in Molecular Biology, 20 papers in Plant Science and 7 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Tom Sexton's work include Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (34 papers), RNA Research and Splicing (18 papers) and Chromosomal and Genetic Variations (14 papers). Tom Sexton is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (34 papers), RNA Research and Splicing (18 papers) and Chromosomal and Genetic Variations (14 papers). Tom Sexton collaborates with scholars based in France, United States and United Kingdom. Tom Sexton's co-authors include Giacomo Cavalli, Frédéric Bantignies, Eitan Yaffe, Benjamin Leblanc, Michael Hoichman, Ephraim Kenigsberg, Peter Fraser, Suzana Hadjur, Luke M. Williams and Natalie K. Ryan and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Tom Sexton

48 papers receiving 4.0k 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.

Three-Dimensional Folding and Functional Organization Principles of the Drosophila Genome

2012 1.4k citations Tom Sexton, Eitan Yaffe et al. Cell profile →
Preferential associations between co-regulated genes reveal a transcriptional interactome in erythroid cells

2009 536 citations Tom Sexton, Sreenivasulu Kurukuti et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Tom Sexton France	22	3.6k	1.3k	499	204	166	49	4.0k
Tommy Kaplan Israel	29	3.6k 1.0×	638 0.5×	504 1.0×	142 0.7×	192 1.2×	56	4.3k
Pavel Georgiev Russia	41	4.2k 1.2×	2.1k 1.6×	620 1.2×	223 1.1×	147 0.9×	275	4.7k
Charles Girardot Germany	21	1.9k 0.5×	374 0.3×	358 0.7×	101 0.5×	91 0.5×	30	2.2k
Claire Vourc’h France	25	2.2k 0.6×	455 0.4×	430 0.9×	201 1.0×	67 0.4×	44	2.7k
Hualin Simon Xi United States	25	2.1k 0.6×	689 0.5×	488 1.0×	158 0.8×	134 0.8×	35	2.7k
Andrew Olson United States	22	1.4k 0.4×	871 0.7×	283 0.6×	211 1.0×	206 1.2×	47	2.4k
Yikang S. Rong United States	25	2.4k 0.7×	811 0.6×	458 0.9×	329 1.6×	159 1.0×	60	2.8k
Victoria P. Belancio United States	25	1.7k 0.5×	1.3k 1.1×	345 0.7×	76 0.4×	102 0.6×	56	2.5k
Takeya Kasukawa Japan	28	2.0k 0.6×	305 0.2×	287 0.6×	279 1.4×	188 1.1×	58	2.9k
Marc S. Halfon United States	28	1.9k 0.5×	362 0.3×	351 0.7×	461 2.3×	222 1.3×	55	2.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Tom Sexton

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Kohwi, Yoshinori, Xianrong Wong, Tom Sexton, et al.. (2025). Genome organization by SATB1 binding to base-unpairing regions (BURs) provides a scaffold for SATB1-regulated gene expression. eLife. 14.

Pomp, Wim, Karen J. Meaburn, Silvia Kocanova, et al.. (2024). Transcription processes compete with loop extrusion to homogenize promoter and enhancer dynamics. Science Advances. 10(50). eadq0987–eadq0987. 11 indexed citations

Sexton, Tom, et al.. (2024). Gene-to-gene coordinated regulation of transcription and alternative splicing by 3D chromatin remodeling upon NF-κB activation. Nucleic Acids Research. 52(4). 1527–1543. 3 indexed citations

Essen, Dominic van, Lan T.M. Dao, Guillaume Charbonnier, et al.. (2023). Short tandem repeats are important contributors to silencer elements in T cells. Nucleic Acids Research. 51(10). 4845–4866. 6 indexed citations

Aabidine, Amal Zine El, Nilay Shah, Ignasi Forné, et al.. (2023). RNA polymerase II CTD is dispensable for transcription and required for termination in human cells. EMBO Reports. 24(9). e56150–e56150. 6 indexed citations

Macpherson, Neil, Sakthi D. Moorthy, Lida Langroudi, et al.. (2022). Transcriptional regulation and chromatin architecture maintenance are decoupled functions at the Sox2 locus. Genes & Development. 36(11-12). 699–717. 20 indexed citations

Rovito, Daniela, Shilpy Joshi, Maxime Parisotto, et al.. (2021). Myod1 and GR coordinate myofiber-specific transcriptional enhancers. Nucleic Acids Research. 49(8). 4472–4492. 21 indexed citations

Sexton, Tom, Sindhuja Sankaran, & Asaph B. Cousins. (2021). Predicting photosynthetic capacity in tobacco using shortwave infrared spectral reflectance. Journal of Experimental Botany. 72(12). 4373–4383. 30 indexed citations

Séguin, Jonathan, Anne Molitor, Ibai Irastorza-Azcárate, et al.. (2021). Age-related and disease locus-specific mechanisms contribute to early remodelling of chromatin structure in Huntington’s disease mice. Nature Communications. 12(1). 364–364. 20 indexed citations

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Sexton, Tom, et al.. (2021). Assessment of 3D Interactions Between Promoters and Distal Regulatory Elements with Promoter Capture Hi-C (PCHi-C). Methods in molecular biology. 2351. 229–248. 1 indexed citations

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Molitor, Anne, Magali Torres, Lan T.M. Dao, et al.. (2020). Integration of high-throughput reporter assays identify a critical enhancer of the Ikzf1 gene. PLoS ONE. 15(5). e0233191–e0233191. 3 indexed citations

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Sexton, Tom, et al.. (2019). Defining Functionally Relevant Spatial Chromatin Domains: It is a TAD Complicated. Journal of Molecular Biology. 432(3). 653–664. 36 indexed citations

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Cattoni, Diego I., Andrés M. Cardozo Gizzi, Marco Di Stefano, et al.. (2017). Single-cell absolute contact probability detection reveals chromosomes are organized by multiple low-frequency yet specific interactions. Nature Communications. 8(1). 1753–1753. 115 indexed citations

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Sexton, Tom & Eitan Yaffe. (2015). Chromosome Folding: Driver or Passenger of Epigenetic State?: Figure 1.. Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology. 7(2). a018721–a018721. 4 indexed citations

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Sexton, Tom & Giacomo Cavalli. (2015). The Role of Chromosome Domains in Shaping the Functional Genome. Cell. 160(6). 1049–1059. 281 indexed citations

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Sexton, Tom, et al.. (2012). Polycomb: a paradigm for genome organization from one to three dimensions. Current Opinion in Cell Biology. 24(3). 405–414. 32 indexed citations

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Sexton, Tom, Sreenivasulu Kurukuti, Jennifer A. Mitchell, et al.. (2012). Sensitive detection of chromatin coassociations using enhanced chromosome conformation capture on chip. Nature Protocols. 7(7). 1335–1350. 31 indexed citations

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Daunais, James B., Stacey L. Hart, Hilary R. Smith, et al.. (1998). Long-Acting Blockade of Biogenic Amine Transporters in Rat Brain by Administration of the Potent Novel Tropane 2β-Propanoyl-3β-(2-Naphthyl)-Tropane. Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics. 285(3). 1246–1254. 7 indexed citations

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Daunais, James B., Stephanie Hart, Hilary R. Smith, et al.. (1998). Long-acting blockade of biogenic amine transporters in rat brain by administration of the potent novel tropane 2beta-propanoyl-3beta-(2-Naphthyl)-tropane.. PubMed. 285(3). 1246–54. 14 indexed citations

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Davies, Huw M. L., Elie Saikali, Nicholas Huby, et al.. (1994). Synthesis of 2.beta.-Acyl-3.beta.-aryl-8-azabicyclo[3.2.1]octanes and Their Binding Affinities at Dopamine and Serotonin Transport Sites in Rat Striatum and Frontal Cortex. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. 37(9). 1262–1268. 73 indexed citations

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