William McGinnis

16.5k total citations · 4 hit papers
106 papers, 12.3k citations indexed

About

William McGinnis is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, William McGinnis has authored 106 papers receiving a total of 12.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 93 papers in Molecular Biology, 39 papers in Genetics and 17 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in William McGinnis's work include Developmental Biology and Gene Regulation (73 papers), Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (35 papers) and Genetic and Clinical Aspects of Sex Determination and Chromosomal Abnormalities (21 papers). William McGinnis is often cited by papers focused on Developmental Biology and Gene Regulation (73 papers), Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (35 papers) and Genetic and Clinical Aspects of Sex Determination and Chromosomal Abnormalities (21 papers). William McGinnis collaborates with scholars based in United States, Switzerland and United Kingdom. William McGinnis's co-authors include Robb Krumlauf, Derek Lemons, Michael Kuziora, Nadine McGinnis, Atsushi Kuroiwa, Walter J. Gehring, Walter J. Gehring, Joseph C. Pearson, Michael Levine and Ernst Hafen and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

William McGinnis

105 papers receiving 11.9k 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.

Homeobox genes and axial patterning

1992 2.3k citations William McGinnis et al. Cell profile →
A conserved DNA sequence in homoeotic genes of the Drosophila Antennapedia and bithorax complexes

1984 842 citations William McGinnis, Michael Levine et al. Nature profile →
A homologous protein-coding sequence in drosophila homeotic genes and its conservation in other metazoans

1984 709 citations William McGinnis, Walter J. Gehring et al. Cell profile →
Modulating Hox gene functions during animal body patterning

2005 660 citations Joseph C. Pearson, Derek Lemons et al. Nature Reviews Genetics profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
William McGinnis United States	52	10.6k	4.1k	1.5k	1.5k	952	106	12.3k
Walter J. Gehring Switzerland	57	11.6k 1.1×	3.7k 0.9×	1.8k 1.2×	2.3k 1.6×	1.0k 1.1×	122	13.6k
Matthew P. Scott United States	50	11.0k 1.0×	3.9k 0.9×	1.4k 0.9×	1.3k 0.9×	862 0.9×	82	12.6k
Walter J. Gehring Switzerland	42	7.5k 0.7×	2.8k 0.7×	1.2k 0.8×	1.4k 1.0×	754 0.8×	72	8.7k
Thomas C. Kaufman United States	66	9.6k 0.9×	3.7k 0.9×	2.1k 1.4×	2.1k 1.4×	1.8k 1.9×	157	11.9k
Thomas B. Kornberg United States	57	11.9k 1.1×	3.3k 0.8×	1.5k 1.0×	2.1k 1.5×	2.3k 2.4×	134	13.6k
Markus Noll Switzerland	51	9.3k 0.9×	2.4k 0.6×	1.0k 0.7×	1.4k 1.0×	1.6k 1.7×	89	11.0k
Ginés Morata Spain	58	8.8k 0.8×	2.6k 0.6×	1.4k 1.0×	2.3k 1.6×	3.0k 3.1×	116	10.7k
David Ish‐Horowicz United Kingdom	50	9.5k 0.9×	2.1k 0.5×	1.4k 0.9×	1.0k 0.7×	1.3k 1.4×	103	11.2k
Olivier Pourquié United States	68	12.2k 1.2×	2.4k 0.6×	972 0.7×	1.2k 0.8×	2.2k 2.3×	171	14.9k
Anthony P. Mahowald United States	58	6.7k 0.6×	3.0k 0.7×	1.5k 1.0×	1.6k 1.1×	1.5k 1.6×	130	9.3k

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McGinnis, William & Michael Levine. (2024). A blueprint most wonderful, the homeobox discovery. Development. 151(6). 7 indexed citations

Juarez, Michelle T., et al.. (2013). Microinjection Wound Assay and <em>In vivo</em> Localization of Epidermal Wound Response Reporters in <em>Drosophila</em> Embryos.. Journal of Visualized Experiments. e50750–e50750. 8 indexed citations

Juarez, Michelle T., et al.. (2011). Duox, Flotillin-2, and Src42A Are Required to Activate or Delimit the Spread of the Transcriptional Response to Epidermal Wounds in Drosophila. PLoS Genetics. 7(12). e1002424–e1002424. 61 indexed citations

Lemons, Derek, Jens H. Fritzenwanker, John C. Gerhart, Christopher J. Lowe, & William McGinnis. (2010). Co-option of an anteroposterior head axis patterning system for proximodistal patterning of appendages in early bilaterian evolution. Developmental Biology. 344(1). 358–362. 35 indexed citations

Pearson, Joseph C., Michelle T. Juarez, Myung-Jin Kim, Øyvind Drivenes, & William McGinnis. (2009). Multiple transcription factor codes activate epidermal wound–response genes in Drosophila. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 106(7). 2224–2229. 50 indexed citations

Mace, Kimberly A., Joseph C. Pearson, & William McGinnis. (2005). An Epidermal Barrier Wound Repair Pathway in Drosophila Is Mediated by grainy head. Science. 308(5720). 381–385. 184 indexed citations

Pearson, Joseph C., Derek Lemons, & William McGinnis. (2005). Modulating Hox gene functions during animal body patterning. Nature Reviews Genetics. 6(12). 893–904. 660 indexed citations breakdown →

Lohmann, Ingrid & William McGinnis. (2002). Hox Genes: It's All a Matter of Context. Current Biology. 12(15). R514–R516. 25 indexed citations

Ronshaugen, Matthew, et al.. (2002). Structure and expression patterns of Drosophila TULP and TUSP, members of the tubby-like gene family. Mechanisms of Development. 117(1-2). 209–215. 19 indexed citations

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Lohmann, Ingrid, et al.. (2002). The Drosophila Hox Gene Deformed Sculpts Head Morphology via Direct Regulation of the Apoptosis Activator reaper. Cell. 110(4). 457–466. 158 indexed citations

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Veraksa, Alexey, James A. Kennison, & William McGinnis. (2002). DEAF‐1 function is essential for the early embryonic development of drosophila. genesis. 33(2). 67–76. 40 indexed citations

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Walldorf, Uwe, et al.. (2000). Homeobrain, a novel paired-like homeobox gene is expressed in the Drosophila brain. Mechanisms of Development. 96(1). 141–144. 20 indexed citations

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Gehring, Walter J., William McGinnis, & Peter A. Lawrence. (1999). A homeotic nightmare. Nature. 398(6725). 301–301. 1 indexed citations

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Li, Xuelin & William McGinnis. (1999). Activity regulation of Hox proteins, a mechanism for altering functional specificity in development and evolution. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 96(12). 6802–6807. 46 indexed citations

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Kosaki, Kenjiro, Matthew J. McGinniss, Alexey Veraksa, William McGinnis, & Kenneth Lyons Jones. (1997). Prader-Willi and Angelman syndromes: Diagnosis with a bisulfite-treated methylation-specific PCR method. American Journal of Medical Genetics. 73(3). 308–313. 54 indexed citations

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McGinnis, William. (1994). A century of homeosis, a decade of homeoboxes.. Genetics. 137(3). 607–611. 32 indexed citations

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Malicki, Jarema, Leonard D. Bogarad, Melissa M. Martin, Frank H. Ruddle, & William McGinnis. (1993). Functional analysis of the mouse homeobox gene HoxB9 in Drosophila development. Mechanisms of Development. 42(3). 139–150. 27 indexed citations

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Barad, Mark, Adrian Erlebacher, & William McGinnis. (1991). Despite expression in embryonic visceral mesoderm, H2.0 is not essential for Drosophila visceral muscle morphogenesis. Developmental Genetics. 12(3). 206–211. 18 indexed citations

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Jack, Thomas, et al.. (1988). Pair—rule segmentation genes regulate the expression of the homeotic selector gene, Deformed. Genes & Development. 2(6). 635–651. 60 indexed citations

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Ruddle, F.H., Charles P. Hart, Alexander Awgulewitsch, et al.. (1985). Mammalian Homeo Box Genes. Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology. 50(0). 277–284. 21 indexed citations

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