Verity A. Letts

3.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
32 papers, 2.6k citations indexed

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Verity A. Letts is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Cell Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Verity A. Letts has authored 32 papers receiving a total of 2.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 24 papers in Molecular Biology, 15 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 8 papers in Cell Biology. Recurrent topics in Verity A. Letts's work include Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (12 papers), Ion channel regulation and function (12 papers) and Cellular transport and secretion (5 papers). Verity A. Letts is often cited by papers focused on Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (12 papers), Ion channel regulation and function (12 papers) and Cellular transport and secretion (5 papers). Verity A. Letts collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Japan. Verity A. Letts's co-authors include Wayne N. Frankel, Connie L. Mahaffey, Wayne N. Frankel, Susan A. Henry, Kevin P. Campbell, Yasuo Mori, E H Birkenmeier, Alicia Valenzuela, Lucy B. Rowe and Minoru S.H. Ko and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Biological Chemistry and Nature Genetics.

In The Last Decade

Verity A. Letts

32 papers receiving 2.5k 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.

Maps from two interspecific backcross DNA panels available as a community genetic mapping resource

1994 550 citations Lucy B. Rowe, Joseph H. Nadeau et al. Mammalian Genome profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Verity A. Letts United States	23	1.9k	1.0k	439	406	215	32	2.6k
Tateki Kikuchi Japan	23	1.8k 0.9×	1.6k 1.6×	613 1.4×	330 0.8×	228 1.1×	80	3.5k
Robert S. Lasher United States	23	2.0k 1.1×	992 1.0×	185 0.4×	386 1.0×	59 0.3×	44	3.2k
Louis J. DeGennaro United States	22	1.5k 0.8×	814 0.8×	238 0.5×	354 0.9×	49 0.2×	30	2.9k
Koh‐ichi Nagata Japan	31	2.1k 1.1×	554 0.6×	528 1.2×	1.1k 2.6×	46 0.2×	157	3.2k
John Holik United States	25	1.5k 0.8×	289 0.3×	560 1.3×	643 1.6×	38 0.2×	47	2.3k
Thomas M. Laz United States	25	2.6k 1.4×	2.0k 2.0×	171 0.4×	196 0.5×	47 0.2×	29	4.2k
Fadi F. Hamdan Canada	34	2.2k 1.1×	774 0.8×	1.3k 3.1×	403 1.0×	44 0.2×	57	3.4k
Kevin A. Wilkinson United Kingdom	28	2.2k 1.2×	944 0.9×	341 0.8×	431 1.1×	54 0.3×	68	3.0k
Paul R. Dobner United States	33	2.0k 1.1×	1.3k 1.3×	352 0.8×	427 1.1×	32 0.1×	52	3.3k
Rebecca S. Devon United Kingdom	17	1.1k 0.6×	588 0.6×	297 0.7×	170 0.4×	35 0.2×	27	1.8k

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Dugger, Sarah A., Ryan S. Dhindsa, Gabriela Louise de Almeida Sampaio, et al.. (2023). Neurodevelopmental deficits and cell-type-specific transcriptomic perturbations in a mouse model of HNRNPU haploinsufficiency. PLoS Genetics. 19(10). e1010952–e1010952. 6 indexed citations

Asinof, Samuel K., Stacey J. Sukoff Rizzo, Barbara Beyer, et al.. (2015). Independent Neuronal Origin of Seizures and Behavioral Comorbidities in an Animal Model of a Severe Childhood Genetic Epileptic Encephalopathy. PLoS Genetics. 11(6). e1005347–e1005347. 26 indexed citations

Frankel, Wayne N., et al.. (2014). Unraveling Genetic Modifiers in the Gria4 Mouse Model of Absence Epilepsy. PLoS Genetics. 10(7). e1004454–e1004454. 16 indexed citations

Boumil, Rebecca M., Verity A. Letts, Connie L. Mahaffey, et al.. (2010). A Missense Mutation in a Highly Conserved Alternate Exon of Dynamin-1 Causes Epilepsy in Fitful Mice. PLoS Genetics. 6(8). e1001046–e1001046. 83 indexed citations

Papale, Ligia A., Barbara Beyer, Julie Miller Jones, et al.. (2009). Heterozygous mutations of the voltage-gated sodium channel SCN8A are associated with spike-wave discharges and absence epilepsy in mice. Human Molecular Genetics. 18(9). 1633–1641. 85 indexed citations

Beyer, Barbara, Charlotte Deleuze, Verity A. Letts, et al.. (2008). Absence seizures in C3H/HeJ and knockout mice caused by mutation of the AMPA receptor subunit Gria4. Human Molecular Genetics. 17(12). 1738–1749. 67 indexed citations

Miki, Takafumi, Theresa A. Zwingman, Minoru Wakamori, et al.. (2008). Two novel alleles of tottering with distinct Ca(v)2.1 calcium channel neuropathologies. Neuroscience. 155(1). 31–44. 40 indexed citations

Frankel, Wayne N., Barbara Beyer, Christina R. Maxwell, et al.. (2005). Development of a New Genetic Model for Absence Epilepsy: Spike-Wave Seizures in C3H/He and Backcross Mice. Journal of Neuroscience. 25(13). 3452–3458. 28 indexed citations

Letts, Verity A., Myoung‐Goo Kang, Connie L. Mahaffey, et al.. (2003). Phenotypic heterogeneity in the stargazin allelic series. Mammalian Genome. 14(8). 506–513. 21 indexed citations

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Kang, Myoung‐Goo, Chien‐Chang Chen, Ricardo Felix, et al.. (2001). Biochemical and Biophysical Evidence for γ2 Subunit Association with Neuronal Voltage-activated Ca2+Channels. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 276(35). 32917–32924. 98 indexed citations

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Letts, Verity A., Alicia Valenzuela, Cynthia E. Dunbar, et al.. (2000). A new spontaneous mouse mutation in the Kcne1 gene. Mammalian Genome. 11(10). 831–835. 32 indexed citations

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Cox, Gregory A., Connie L. Mahaffey, Arne Nystuen, Verity A. Letts, & Wayne N. Frankel. (2000). The mouse fidgetin gene defines a new role for AAA family proteins in mammalian development. Nature Genetics. 26(2). 198–202. 84 indexed citations

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Letts, Verity A., Ricardo Felix, Gloria Biddlecome, et al.. (1998). The mouse stargazer gene encodes a neuronal Ca2+-channel γ subunit. Nature Genetics. 19(4). 340–347. 450 indexed citations

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Letts, Verity A., et al.. (1997). Genetic and Physical Maps of the Stargazer Locus on Mouse Chromosome 15. Genomics. 43(1). 62–68. 28 indexed citations

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Letts, Verity A., Nicholas J. Schork, Andrew J. Copp, Merton Bernfield, & Wayne N. Frankel. (1995). A Curly-Tail Modifier Locus,mct1,on Mouse Chromosome 17. Genomics. 29(3). 719–724. 49 indexed citations

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Hasenkrug, Kim J., Alicia Valenzuela, Verity A. Letts, et al.. (1995). Chromosome mapping of Rfv3, a host resistance gene to Friend murine retrovirus. Journal of Virology. 69(4). 2617–2620. 33 indexed citations

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Rowe, Lucy B., Joseph H. Nadeau, Wayne N. Frankel, et al.. (1994). Maps from two interspecific backcross DNA panels available as a community genetic mapping resource. Mammalian Genome. 5(5). 253–274. 550 indexed citations breakdown →

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Neumann, Paul E., Wayne N. Frankel, Verity A. Letts, et al.. (1994). Multifactorial inheritance of neural tube defects: localization of the major gene and recognition of modifiers in ct mutant mice. Nature Genetics. 6(4). 357–362. 101 indexed citations

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Birkenmeier, E H, Verity A. Letts, Wayne N. Frankel, Brenda S. Magenheimer, & James P. Calvet. (1993). Sulfated glycoprotein-2 (Sgp-2) maps to mouse Chromosome 14. Mammalian Genome. 4(2). 131–132. 7 indexed citations

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Letts, Verity A., et al.. (1988). Saccharomyces cerevisiae cho2 mutants are deficient in phospholipid methylation and cross-pathway regulation of inositol synthesis.. Genetics. 120(4). 909–922. 143 indexed citations

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