Roberta Menafra

1.8k citations

17 papers · 1.2k · 1 hit paper · h-index 12

Impact in

Molecular Biology top 10%
- Pluripotent Stem Cells Research
- CRISPR and Genetic Engineering
- Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
- Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics
- Renal and related cancers
- RNA modifications and cancer
- RNA Research and Splicing
Aging

Papers in

Pharmacology 3
- Pharmacogenetics and Drug Metabolism 3
Molecular Biology 11
- Epigenetics and DNA Methylation 4
- CRISPR and Genetic Engineering 3
- Pluripotent Stem Cells Research 3
- Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics 2
- DNA Repair Mechanisms 2

Co-authors: Hendrik G. Stunnenberg (6 shared papers)Austin G Smith (1 shared paper)Tüzer Kalkan (1 shared paper)Andrea Kranz (1 shared paper)Helmut Hofemeister (1 shared paper)Hendrik Marks (1 shared paper)Kenneth D. Jones (1 shared paper)Jennifer Nichols (1 shared paper)
Journals: Science Translational Medicine (1 paper)Frontiers in Pharmacology (1 paper)Blood (1 paper)PLoS Pathogens (1 paper)International Journal of Molecular Sciences (1 paper)
Partner nations: Netherlands United States Germany

In The Last Decade

Roberta Menafra

15 papers receiving 1.2k citations

Roberta Menafra's Hit Papers

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The Transcriptional and Epigenomic Foundations of Ground State Pluripotency 2012 · 645 citations

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Paper score: A paper's citations measured against the top-1% bar of its own field and year: the square root of citations ÷ bar, so 1 means right at the bar and 2 means four times its citations. The bar blends the citation counts that enter the top 1% of the paper's subfields in its year (weighted 89.5%), of those subfields over all years (0.5%) and of its year across all fields (10%); a subfield and year with fewer than 400 papers takes its year's bar. Papers from 2026 are not scored yet: in an unfinished year, when a paper appeared matters more than how it is cited.

Hit paper: A paper cited at least 1.5× the top-1% bar of its field and year: a paper score of at least √1.5.

2012 Cell

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1	The Transcriptional and Epigenomic Foundations of Ground State Pluripotency Cell ·Hendrik Marks, Tüzer Kalkan, Roberta Menafra, Sergey Denissov, Kenneth D. Jones, Helmut Hofemeister, Jennifer Nichols, Andrea Kranz, (unknown), Austin G Smith, Hendrik G. Stunnenberg Hit paper breakdown →	2012	645
2	GATA3-dependent cellular reprogramming requires activation-domain dependent recruitment of a chromatin remodeler Genome biology ·Motoki Takaku, Sara A. Grimm, Takashi Shimbo, L. Perera, Roberta Menafra, Hendrik G. Stunnenberg, Trevor Archer, Shinichi Machida, Hitoshi Kurumizaka, Paul A. Wade	2016	111
3	ZMYND8 Co-localizes with NuRD on Target Genes and Regulates Poly(ADP-Ribose)-Dependent Recruitment of GATAD2A/NuRD to Sites of DNA Damage Cell Reports ·Cornelia G. Spruijt, Martijn S. Luijsterburg, Roberta Menafra, Rik G.H. Lindeboom, Pascal W.T.C. Jansen, Raghu Ram Edupuganti, Marijke P. A. Baltissen, Wouter W. Wiegant, Moritz Voelker-Albert, Filomena Matarese, Anneloes Mensinga, Ina Poser, Harmjan R. Vos, Hendrik G. Stunnenberg, Haico van Attikum, Michiel Vermeulen	2016	83
4	p53 convergently activates Dux/DUX4 in embryonic stem cells and in facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy cell models Nature Genetics ·Edward J. Grow, Bradley D. Weaver, Christina M. Smith, Jingtao Guo, Paula Stein, Sean C. Shadle, Peter G. Hendrickson, Nicholas Elwood Johnson, Russell J. Butterfield, Roberta Menafra, Susan L. Kloet, Silvère M. van der Maarel, Carmen J. Williams, Bradley Robert Cairns	2021	72
5	MBD2 and MBD3: elusive functions and mechanisms Frontiers in Genetics ·Roberta Menafra, Hendrik G. Stunnenberg	2014	50
6	Toward predicting CYP2D6-mediated variable drug response from CYP2D6 gene sequencing data Science Translational Medicine ·Maaike van der Lee, William G. Allard, Rolf H. A. M. Vossen, Renée F. Baak-Pablo, Roberta Menafra, Birgit A. L. M. Deiman, Maarten J. Deenen, Patrick Neven, Inger M. Johansson, Stefano Gastaldello, Magnus Ingelman‐Sundberg, Henk‐Jan Guchelaar, Jesse Joachim Swen, Seyed Yahya Anvar	2021	50
7	Genome-Wide Binding of MBD2 Reveals Strong Preference for Highly Methylated Loci PLoS ONE ·Roberta Menafra, Arie B. Brinkman, Filomena Matarese, Gianluigi Franci, Stefanie J. J. Bartels, Luan N. M. Nguyen, Takashi Shimbo, Paul A. Wade, Nina C. Hubner, Hendrik G. Stunnenberg	2014	39
8	IL-7 receptor signaling drives human B-cell progenitor differentiation and expansion Blood ·Fabian M. P. Kaiser, Iga Janowska, Roberta Menafra, Melanie de Gier, Jakov Korzhenevich, Ingrid Pico‐Knijnenburg, Indu Khatri, Ansgar Schulz, T. Kuijpers, Arjan C. Lankester, Lukas Konstantinidis, Miriam Erlacher, Susan L. Kloet, Pauline A. van Schouwenburg, Marta Rizzi, Mirjam van der Burg	2023	33
9	The establishment of variant surface glycoprotein monoallelic expression revealed by single-cell RNA-seq of Trypanosoma brucei in the tsetse fly salivary glands PLoS Pathogens ·Sebastian Hutchinson, Sophie Foulon, Aline Crouzols, Roberta Menafra, Brice Rotureau, Andrew D. Griffiths, Philippe Bastin	2021	29
10	Application of long-read sequencing to elucidate complex pharmacogenomic regions: a proof of principle The Pharmacogenomics Journal ·Maaike van der Lee, William J. Rowell, Roberta Menafra, Henk‐Jan Guchelaar, Jesse Joachim Swen, Seyed Yahya Anvar	2021	26
11	The class I-specific HDAC inhibitor MS-275 modulates the differentiation potential of mouse embryonic stem cells Biology Open ·Gianluigi Franci, Laura Casalino, Francesca Petraglia, Marco Miceli, Roberta Menafra, Branka Radic-Sarikas, Valeria Tarallo, Monica Vitale, Marzia Scarfò, Gabriella Pòcsfalvi, Alfonso Baldi, Concetta Ambrosino, Nicola Zambrano, Eduardo Jorge Patriarca, Sandro De Falco, Gabriella Minchiotti, Hendrik G. Stunnenberg, Lucia Altucci	2013	16
12	From gene to dose: Long-read sequencing and -allele tools to refine phenotype predictions of CYP2C19 Frontiers in Pharmacology* ·Lonneke J. Graansma, Qinglian Zhai, Loes Busscher, Roberta Menafra, Redmar R. van den Berg, Susan L. Kloet, Maaike van der Lee	2023	13
13	CACTUS: integrating clonal architecture with genomic clustering and transcriptome profiling of single tumor cells Genome Medicine ·Shadi Darvish Shafighi, Szymon M. Kiełbasa, Julieta Sepúlveda-Yáñez, Ramin Monajemi, Davy Cats, Hailiang Mei, Roberta Menafra, Susan L. Kloet, Hendrik Veelken, Cornelis A.M. van Bergen, Ewa Szczurek	2021	7
14	Inflammatory and tolerogenic myeloid cells determine outcome following human allergen challenge The Journal of Experimental Medicine ·Astrid L. Voskamp, Tamar Tak, Maarten L. Gerdes, Roberta Menafra, Ellen Duijster, Simon P. Jochems, Szymon M. Kiełbasa, Tom Groot Kormelink, Koen A. Stam, Oscar R. J. van Hengel, Nicolette W. de Jong, Rudi W. Hendriks, Susan L. Kloet, Maria Yazdanbakhsh, Esther C. de Jong, Roy Gerth van Wijk, Hermelijn H. Smits	2023	5
15	Acquisition of a glycosylated B-cell receptor drives follicular lymphoma toward a dark zone phenotype Blood Advances ·Cornelis A.M. van Bergen, Susan L. Kloet, Edwin Quinten, Julieta Sepúlveda-Yáñez, Roberta Menafra, Marieke Griffioen, Patty M. Jansen, Marvyn T. Koning, Jeroen Knijnenburg, Marcelo A. Navarrete, Szymon M. Kiełbasa, Hendrik Veelken	2023	4
16	Profiling BRCA1-BRCT interactions and their functional relevance at amino acid resolution Nucleic Acids Research ·Venda Mangkusaputra, A.G. Murachelli, Zhengzhou Yu, (unknown), Roberta Menafra, Anne Schreuder, Susan L. Kloet, Titia K. Sixma, Sylvie M. Noordermeer	2025	0
17	Nonsense Mutation in USH2A Exon-13 Activates the Innate Immune Response in Müller Glial Cells International Journal of Molecular Sciences ·Rossella Valenzano, Xuefei Lu, Andrew J. McDonald, Ioannis Moustakas, Roberta Menafra, Aat A. Mulder, Roman I. Koning, Susan L. Kloet, Jun Yang, Hailiang Mei, Jan Wijnholds	2026	0

About Roberta Menafra

Roberta Menafra is a scholar working on Pharmacology, Molecular Biology, Genetics, Immunology and Oncology, having authored 17 papers that have together received 1.2k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (4 papers), CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (3 papers), Pluripotent Stem Cells Research (3 papers), Pharmacogenetics and Drug Metabolism (3 papers), Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (2 papers), Genomics and Rare Diseases (2 papers), DNA Repair Mechanisms (2 papers) and Immune Cell Function and Interaction (2 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Molecular Biology (977 citations), Aging (13 citations), Pharmacology (59 citations), Cancer Research (84 citations) and Genetics (157 citations). Roberta Menafra has collaborated with scholars based in Netherlands, United States and Germany. Frequent co-authors include Hendrik G. Stunnenberg, Austin G Smith, Tüzer Kalkan, Andrea Kranz, Helmut Hofemeister, Hendrik Marks, Kenneth D. Jones, Jennifer Nichols, Paul A. Wade and Takashi Shimbo. Their work appears in journals such as Science Translational Medicine, Frontiers in Pharmacology, Blood, PLoS Pathogens and International Journal of Molecular Sciences.

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