William Lai

1.8k total citations
35 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

William Lai is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Information Systems and Management and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, William Lai has authored 35 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 27 papers in Molecular Biology, 4 papers in Information Systems and Management and 4 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in William Lai's work include Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (15 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (10 papers) and RNA Research and Splicing (9 papers). William Lai is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (15 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (10 papers) and RNA Research and Splicing (9 papers). William Lai collaborates with scholars based in United States, Netherlands and Czechia. William Lai's co-authors include B. Franklin Pugh, Matthew J. Rossi, Paul Ducheyne, Jonathan P. Garino, Debra C. DuBois, Richard R. Almon, William J. Jusko, Michael Buck, Ioannis P. Androulakis and Eric Yang and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nucleic Acids Research and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

William Lai

32 papers receiving 1.1k citations

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Xiaoyan Yin China

Haopeng Xu China

Zuquan Hu China

Alicia Izquierdo-Álvarez Spain

Yu Yin China

Chunfen Zhang Canada

Ling‐Jun Huan Canada

Kinga Majchrzak Poland

Chih‐Yuan Ko Taiwan

Xiaoyan Yin China

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143 ×1.8

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Nwosu, Zeribe C., Rosa E. Menjivar, Dae-Ho Kim, et al.. (2025). Multidimensional analyses identify genes of high priority for pancreatic cancer research. JCI Insight. 10(4). 3 indexed citations

Srivastava, Divyanshi, et al.. (2023). GenoPipe: identifying the genotype of origin within (epi)genomic datasets. Nucleic Acids Research. 51(22). 12054–12068. 1 indexed citations

Badjatia, Nitika, et al.. (2022). Genome-wide promoter assembly in E. coli measured at single-base resolution. Genome Research. 32(5). 878–892. 2 indexed citations

Zhao, Tingting, Irina O. Vvedenskaya, William Lai, et al.. (2021). Ssl2/TFIIH function in transcription start site scanning by RNA polymerase II in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. eLife. 10. 5 indexed citations

Rossi, Matthew J., William Lai, Naomi Yamada, et al.. (2021). A high-resolution protein architecture of the budding yeast genome. Nature. 592(7853). 309–314. 126 indexed citations

Badjatia, Nitika, Matthew J. Rossi, Alain R. Bataille, et al.. (2021). Acute stress drives global repression through two independent RNA polymerase II stalling events in Saccharomyces. Cell Reports. 34(3). 108640–108640. 11 indexed citations

Qiu, Chenxi, Huiyan Jin, Irina O. Vvedenskaya, et al.. (2020). Universal promoter scanning by Pol II during transcription initiation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Genome biology. 21(1). 132–132. 30 indexed citations

Yamada, Naomi, William Lai, Nina Farrell, B. Franklin Pugh, & Shaun Mahony. (2018). Characterizing protein–DNA binding event subtypes in ChIP-exo data. Bioinformatics. 35(6). 903–913. 17 indexed citations

Rossi, Matthew J., William Lai, & B. Franklin Pugh. (2018). Genome-wide determinants of sequence-specific DNA binding of general regulatory factors. Genome Research. 28(4). 497–508. 29 indexed citations

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Lai, William & B. Franklin Pugh. (2017). Understanding nucleosome dynamics and their links to gene expression and DNA replication. Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology. 18(9). 548–562. 342 indexed citations

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Rossi, Matthew J., William Lai, & B. Franklin Pugh. (2017). Correspondence: DNA shape is insufficient to explain binding. Nature Communications. 8(1). 15643–15643. 6 indexed citations

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Lai, William & B. Franklin Pugh. (2016). Genome-wide uniformity of human ‘open’ pre-initiation complexes. Genome Research. 27(1). 15–26. 16 indexed citations

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Lai, William, Jason M. Rizzo, Jonathan Bard, et al.. (2012). Chromatin architectures at fission yeast transcriptional promoters and replication origins. Nucleic Acids Research. 40(15). 7176–7189. 34 indexed citations

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Escamilla, Rosalba, Rumela Chakrabarti, Rose-Anne Romano, et al.. (2010). Genome-wide search identifies Ccnd2 as a direct transcriptional target of Elf5 in mouse mammary gland. BMC Molecular Biology. 11(1). 68–68. 15 indexed citations

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Almon, Richard R., Eric Yang, William Lai, et al.. (2008). Circadian Variations in Rat Liver Gene Expression: Relationships to Drug Actions. Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics. 326(3). 700–716. 51 indexed citations

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Almon, Richard R., Eric Yang, William Lai, et al.. (2008). Relationships between circadian rhythms and modulation of gene expression by glucocorticoids in skeletal muscle. American Journal of Physiology-Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology. 295(4). R1031–R1047. 62 indexed citations

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Almon, Richard R., Debra C. DuBois, William Lai, et al.. (2008). Gene expression analysis of hepatic roles in cause and development of diabetes in Goto-Kakizaki rats. Journal of Endocrinology. 200(3). 331–346. 52 indexed citations

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Almon, Richard R., William Lai, Debra C. DuBois, & William J. Jusko. (2005). Corticosteroid-regulated genes in rat kidney: mining time series array data. American Journal of Physiology-Endocrinology and Metabolism. 289(5). E870–E882. 38 indexed citations

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Lai, William, Jonathan P. Garino, Catherine M. Flaitz, & Paul Ducheyne. (2005). Excretion of resorption products from bioactive glass implanted in rabbit muscle. Journal of Biomedical Materials Research Part A. 75A(2). 398–407. 26 indexed citations

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Lai, William, Jonathan P. Garino, & Paul Ducheyne. (2002). Silicon excretion from bioactive glass implanted in rabbit bone. Biomaterials. 23(1). 213–217. 87 indexed citations

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