William A. Pastor

12.7k total citations · 4 hit papers
59 papers, 9.1k citations indexed

About

William A. Pastor is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Surgery. According to data from OpenAlex, William A. Pastor has authored 59 papers receiving a total of 9.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 39 papers in Molecular Biology, 10 papers in Genetics and 5 papers in Surgery. Recurrent topics in William A. Pastor's work include Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (22 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (14 papers) and Cancer-related gene regulation (8 papers). William A. Pastor is often cited by papers focused on Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (22 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (14 papers) and Cancer-related gene regulation (8 papers). William A. Pastor collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Germany. William A. Pastor's co-authors include Anjana Rao, L. Aravind, Mamta Tahiliani, Yinghua Shen, David R. Liu, Suneet Agarwal, Yevgeny Brudno, Hozefa S. Bandukwala, Kian Peng Koh and Lakshminarayan M. Iyer and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

William A. Pastor

58 papers receiving 9.0k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

Conversion of 5-Methylcytosine to 5-Hydroxymethylcytosine in Mammalian DNA by MLL Partner TET1

2009 4.4k citations Mamta Tahiliani, Kian Peng Koh et al. Science profile →
TETonic shift: biological roles of TET proteins in DNA demethylation and transcription

2013 684 citations William A. Pastor, L. Aravind et al. Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology profile →
Genome-wide mapping of 5-hydroxymethylcytosine in embryonic stem cells

2011 643 citations William A. Pastor, Yun Huang et al. profile →
The Behaviour of 5-Hydroxymethylcytosine in Bisulfite Sequencing

2010 571 citations Yun Huang, William A. Pastor et al. PLoS ONE profile →

Peers

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Mamta Tahiliani United States

François Fuks Belgium

John M. Greally United States

Jesper Frank Christensen Denmark

Yehudit Bergman Israel

Suneet Agarwal United States

Shinsuke Ito Japan

André Mégarbané Lebanon

Jörg Tost France

Alexander Hoischen Netherlands

Mamta Tahiliani United States

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496 ×0.7

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of William A. Pastor

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

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Cinkornpumin, Jessica, Jacinthe Sirois, Judith D. Goldberg, et al.. (2025). Hypoxia and loss of GCM1 expression prevent differentiation and contact inhibition in human trophoblast stem cells. Stem Cell Reports. 20(5). 102481–102481. 2 indexed citations

Chen, Haifeng, Bo Hu, Cynthia Horth, et al.. (2022). H3K36 dimethylation shapes the epigenetic interaction landscape by directing repressive chromatin modifications in embryonic stem cells. Genome Research. 32(5). 825–837. 28 indexed citations

Guo, Yixin, et al.. (2021). RAD: a web application to identify region associated differentially expressed genes. Bioinformatics. 37(17). 2741–2743. 14 indexed citations

Wu, Haoyu, William A. Pastor, Ryan L. Kan, et al.. (2021). The role of MORC3 in silencing transposable elements in mouse embryonic stem cells. Epigenetics & Chromatin. 14(1). 49–49. 16 indexed citations

Cinkornpumin, Jessica, et al.. (2021). Mapping Chromatin Accessibility in Human Naïve Pluripotent Stem Cells Using ATAC-Seq. Methods in molecular biology. 2416. 201–211. 1 indexed citations

Pastor, William A., Wanlu Liu, Di Chen, et al.. (2018). TFAP2C regulates transcription in human naive pluripotency by opening enhancers. Nature Cell Biology. 20(5). 553–564. 115 indexed citations

Ridoré, Michelande, William A. Pastor, Dorothy Bulas, et al.. (2018). Initiation and Compliance with a Chest X-Ray (CXR) Reduction Protocol in the Children's National Medical Center Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). PEDIATRICS. 142. 221–221. 1 indexed citations

Yue, Xiaojing, Sara Trifari, Tarmo Äijö, et al.. (2016). Control of Foxp3 stability through modulation of TET activity. The Journal of Experimental Medicine. 213(3). 377–397. 265 indexed citations

Tsagaratou, Ageliki, Edahí González‐Avalos, Sini Rautio, et al.. (2016). TET proteins regulate the lineage specification and TCR-mediated expansion of iNKT cells. Nature Immunology. 18(1). 45–53. 110 indexed citations

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Pastor, William A., Di Chen, Wanlu Liu, et al.. (2016). Naive Human Pluripotent Cells Feature a Methylation Landscape Devoid of Blastocyst or Germline Memory. Cell stem cell. 18(3). 323–329. 211 indexed citations

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Spaeder, Michael C., et al.. (2015). Unplanned Extubations in Children. Pediatric Critical Care Medicine. 16(6). 572–575. 49 indexed citations

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Pastor, William A., Hume Stroud, Kevin Nee, et al.. (2014). MORC1 represses transposable elements in the mouse male germline. Nature Communications. 5(1). 5795–5795. 94 indexed citations

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Orgel, Etan, Lingyun Ji, William A. Pastor, & Reuven J. Schore. (2013). Infectious Morbidity by Catheter Type in Neutropenic Children With Cancer. The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal. 33(3). 263–266. 10 indexed citations

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Pastor, William A., L. Aravind, & Anjana Rao. (2013). TETonic shift: biological roles of TET proteins in DNA demethylation and transcription. Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology. 14(6). 341–356. 684 indexed citations breakdown →

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Siegel, David A., Xiaoyan Song, Karl C. Klontz, William A. Pastor, & Nalini Singh. (2011). EPIDEMIOLOGY OF CHILDHOOD TUBERCULOSIS. The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal. 30(5). 428–430. 7 indexed citations

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Hickey, Patrick W., Penny Masuoka, Joseph M. Campos, et al.. (2011). A Local, Regional, and National Assessment of Pediatric Malaria in the United States. Journal of Travel Medicine. 18(3). 153–160. 10 indexed citations

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Huang, Yun, William A. Pastor, Yinghua Shen, et al.. (2010). The Behaviour of 5-Hydroxymethylcytosine in Bisulfite Sequencing. PLoS ONE. 5(1). e8888–e8888. 571 indexed citations breakdown →

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Tahiliani, Mamta, Kian Peng Koh, Yinghua Shen, et al.. (2009). Conversion of 5-Methylcytosine to 5-Hydroxymethylcytosine in Mammalian DNA by MLL Partner TET1. Science. 324(5929). 930–935. 4364 indexed citations breakdown →

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Greenland, John R., et al.. (2007). Plasmid DNA Vaccine-Elicited Cellular Immune Responses Limit In Vivo Vaccine Antigen Expression through Fas-Mediated Apoptosis. The Journal of Immunology. 178(9). 5652–5658. 28 indexed citations

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Pastor, William A.. (2005). No Sweat (Shop): Labor Reforms in Cambodia. Harvard international review. 26(4). 8. 1 indexed citations

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