Wenli Gu

4.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
47 papers, 2.7k citations indexed

About

Wenli Gu is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Wenli Gu has authored 47 papers receiving a total of 2.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Molecular Biology, 13 papers in Genetics and 7 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Wenli Gu's work include Genomic variations and chromosomal abnormalities (10 papers), Congenital heart defects research (7 papers) and Ubiquitin and proteasome pathways (4 papers). Wenli Gu is often cited by papers focused on Genomic variations and chromosomal abnormalities (10 papers), Congenital heart defects research (7 papers) and Ubiquitin and proteasome pathways (4 papers). Wenli Gu collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Germany. Wenli Gu's co-authors include James R. Lupski, Feng Zhang, Matthew E. Hurles, Peihua Lu, Ortrud K. Steinlein, Eylert Brodtkorb, Melanie Lacaria, Christian Derst, Sai‐Li Fu and Pei‐Hua Lu and has published in prestigious journals such as The Journal of Physiology, Annals of Neurology and Brain Research.

In The Last Decade

Wenli Gu

44 papers receiving 2.6k citations

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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.

Copy Number Variation in Human Health, Disease, and Evolution

2009 869 citations Feng Zhang, Wenli Gu et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Wenli Gu China	22	1.4k	1.3k	459	372	302	47	2.7k
Lorraine Potocki United States	35	2.1k 1.5×	2.6k 2.0×	521 1.1×	392 1.1×	118 0.4×	87	4.3k
Meelad M. Dawlaty United States	21	5.3k 3.8×	1.4k 1.1×	272 0.6×	307 0.8×	304 1.0×	39	5.9k
Hans G. Dauwerse Netherlands	25	2.1k 1.5×	1.2k 0.9×	155 0.3×	520 1.4×	333 1.1×	43	3.5k
Paul Le Tissier United Kingdom	27	1.3k 0.9×	827 0.6×	237 0.5×	159 0.4×	84 0.3×	59	2.9k
Jo Peters United Kingdom	31	2.6k 1.9×	2.0k 1.5×	152 0.3×	355 1.0×	164 0.5×	66	3.8k
Claudia M.B. Carvalho United States	30	2.4k 1.7×	2.6k 1.9×	1.1k 2.3×	159 0.4×	180 0.6×	74	3.9k
André Hanauer France	35	4.0k 2.9×	2.5k 1.9×	200 0.4×	771 2.1×	532 1.8×	86	5.5k
Melanie Pritchard Australia	36	2.9k 2.1×	2.2k 1.7×	123 0.3×	554 1.5×	321 1.1×	77	4.8k
Jacqueline Levilliers France	26	2.5k 1.8×	1.5k 1.1×	257 0.6×	280 0.8×	357 1.2×	45	4.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Wenli Gu

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

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Wu, Mei‐Zhen, Ran Guo, Chanchal Chandramouli, et al.. (2025). Urinary tract infection and continuation of sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitors in diabetic patients. European Heart Journal.

Tay, Wan Ting, Tiew‐Hwa Katherine Teng, Wouter Ouwerkerk, et al.. (2025). Global Patterns of Polypharmacy After Acute Heart Failure Hospitalization: Prevalence and Outcomes from the REPORT-HF Registry. European Journal of Heart Failure. 27(12). 2705–2715.

Huang, Jiayi, Anping Cai, Mei‐Zhen Wu, et al.. (2024). The association of haemoglobin A1c variability with adverse outcomes in patients with atrial fibrillation prescribed anticoagulants. European Journal of Preventive Cardiology. 31(18). 2073–2083. 1 indexed citations

Zhang, Xingming, Yi Tang, Yingying Wang, et al.. (2024). Ubiquitin-specific protease 14 targets PFKL-mediated glycolysis to promote the proliferation and migration of oral squamous cell carcinoma. Journal of Translational Medicine. 22(1). 193–193. 10 indexed citations

Zhang, Xingming, Li Yang, Yingying Wang, et al.. (2023). Anlotinib exerts an anti-T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia effect in vitro and in vivo. Cellular Signalling. 110. 110837–110837. 2 indexed citations

Cui, Jiaqi, Pengfei Cui, Jianzhong Shi, et al.. (2021). Continued evolution of H6 avian influenza viruses isolated from farms in China between 2014 and 2018. Transboundary and Emerging Diseases. 69(4). 2156–2172. 10 indexed citations

Gu, Wenli, Xiao Liu, Runlu Sun, et al.. (2021). No Sex Differences in Psychological Burden and Health Behaviors of Healthcare Workers During the COVID-19 Stay-at-Home Orders. Frontiers in Medicine. 8. 740064–740064. 1 indexed citations

Chen, Xiangyun, Xingming Zhang, Haiyan Cai, et al.. (2019). Targeting USP9x/SOX2 axis contributes to the anti-osteosarcoma effect of neogambogic acid. Cancer Letters. 469. 277–286. 31 indexed citations

Chen, Xiangyun, Jingjing Wu, Yitian Chen, et al.. (2016). Ubiquitin-specific protease 14 regulates cell proliferation and apoptosis in oral squamous cell carcinoma. The International Journal of Biochemistry & Cell Biology. 79. 350–359. 22 indexed citations

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Wu, Chao‐Liang, et al.. (2014). DOG1, cyclin D1, CK7, CD117 and vimentin are useful immunohistochemical markers in distinguishing chromophobe renal cell carcinoma from clear cell renal cell carcinoma and renal oncocytoma. Pathology - Research and Practice. 211(4). 303–307. 33 indexed citations

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Lacaria, Melanie, Wenli Gu, & James R. Lupski. (2013). Circadian abnormalities in mouse models of smith–magenis syndrome: Evidence for involvement of RAI1. American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A. 161(7). 1561–1568. 22 indexed citations

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Jefferies, John L., Ricardo H. Pignatelli, Hugo R. Martinez, et al.. (2012). Cardiovascular findings in duplication 17p11.2 syndrome. Genetics in Medicine. 14(1). 90–94. 25 indexed citations

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Lacaria, Melanie, Corinne M. Spencer, Wenli Gu, Richard Paylor, & James R. Lupski. (2012). Enriched rearing improves behavioral responses of an animal model for CNV-based autistic-like traits. Human Molecular Genetics. 21(14). 3083–3096. 46 indexed citations

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Lacaria, Melanie, Wenli Gu, & James R. Lupski. (2012). A functional role for structural variation in metabolism. Adipocyte. 2(1). 55–57. 1 indexed citations

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Wang, Yanxia, Wenli Gu, Sai‐Li Fu, et al.. (2011). Expression and function of myelin-associated proteins and their common receptor NgR on oligodendrocyte progenitor cells. Brain Research. 1437. 1–15. 25 indexed citations

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Ricard, Guénola, Jéssica Molina, Jacqueline Chrast, et al.. (2010). Phenotypic Consequences of Copy Number Variation: Insights from Smith-Magenis and Potocki-Lupski Syndrome Mouse Models. PLoS Biology. 8(11). e1000543–e1000543. 71 indexed citations

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Gu, Wenli, Sai‐Li Fu, Yanxia Wang, et al.. (2009). Chondroitin sulfate proteoglycans regulate the growth, differentiation and migration of multipotent neural precursor cells through the integrin signaling pathway. Publisher. 2 indexed citations

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Gu, Wenli, Feng Zhang, & James R. Lupski. (2008). Mechanisms for human genomic rearrangements. PubMed. 1(1). 4–4. 443 indexed citations

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Gu, Wenli, Daniel Bertrand, & Ortrud K. Steinlein. (2007). A major role of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor gene CHRNA2 in autosomal dominant nocturnal frontal lobe epilepsy (ADNFLE) is unlikely. Neuroscience Letters. 422(1). 74–76. 20 indexed citations

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Gu, Wenli, Günter Schlichthörl, Jochen R. Hirsch, et al.. (2002). Expression pattern and functional characteristics of two novel splice variants of the two‐pore‐domain potassium channel TREK‐2. The Journal of Physiology. 539(3). 657–668. 88 indexed citations

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