Yang Liao

43.8k citations

59 papers · 21.7k · 3 hit papers · h-index 21

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Aging top 0.5%
Immunology top 0.5%
- Immune Cell Function and Interaction
- T-cell and B-cell Immunology

Papers in

Molecular Biology 26
- RNA modifications and cancer 5
Immunology 16
- Immune Cell Function and Interaction 12
- T-cell and B-cell Immunology 10
- Immunotherapy and Immune Responses 6

Co-authors: Wei Shi (30 shared papers)Gordon K. Smyth (11 shared papers)Stephen L. Nutt (13 shared papers)Axel Kallies (9 shared papers)Julie Tellier (7 shared papers)Simon N. Willis (7 shared papers)Renee Gloury (6 shared papers)David M. Tarlinton (6 shared papers)
Journals: Nucleic Acids Research (3 papers)Nature Immunology (3 papers)Cell Reports (3 papers)Immunology and Cell Biology (2 papers)Blood (2 papers)
Partner nations: Australia United States China

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Yang Liao

52 papers receiving 21.6k citations

Yang Liao's Hit Papers

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The R package Rsubread is easier, faster, cheaper and better for alignment and quantification of RNA sequencing reads 2019 · 1.6k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2019 Nucleic Acids Research
2013 Nucleic Acids Research
2013 Bioinformatics

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1	featureCounts: an efficient general purpose program for assigning sequence reads to genomic features Bioinformatics ·Yang Liao, Gordon K. Smyth, Wei Shi Hit paper breakdown →	2013	16197
2	The Subread aligner: fast, accurate and scalable read mapping by seed-and-vote Nucleic Acids Research ·Yang Liao, Gordon K. Smyth, Wei Shi Hit paper breakdown →	2013	1959
3	The R package Rsubread is easier, faster, cheaper and better for alignment and quantification of RNA sequencing reads Nucleic Acids Research ·Yang Liao, Gordon K. Smyth, Wei Shi Hit paper breakdown →	2019	1645
4	Transcription Factor IRF4 Promotes CD8+ T Cell Exhaustion and Limits the Development of Memory-like T Cells during Chronic Infection Immunity ·Kevin Man, Sarah S. Gabriel, Yang Liao, Renee Gloury, Simon Preston, Darren C. Henstridge, Marc Pellegrini, Dietmar Zehn, Friederike Berberich‐Siebelt, Mark A. Febbraio, Wei Shi, Axel Kallies	2017	332
5	Transcriptional profiling of mouse B cell terminal differentiation defines a signature for antibody-secreting plasma cells Nature Immunology ·Wei Shi, Yang Liao, Simon N. Willis, Nadine Taubenheim, Michael Inouye, David M. Tarlinton, Gordon K. Smyth, Philip D. Hodgkin, Stephen L. Nutt, Lynn M. Corcoran	2015	284
6	Blimp-1 controls plasma cell function through the regulation of immunoglobulin secretion and the unfolded protein response Nature Immunology ·Julie Tellier, Wei Shi, Martina Minnich, Yang Liao, Simon Crawford, Gordon K. Smyth, Axel Kallies, Meinrad Busslinger, Stephen L. Nutt	2016	264
7	A molecular threshold for effector CD8+ T cell differentiation controlled by transcription factors Blimp-1 and T-bet Nature Immunology ·Annie Xin, Frédérick Masson, Yang Liao, Simon Preston, Tianxia Guan, Renee Gloury, Moshe Olshansky, Jian-Xin Lin, Peng Li, Terence P. Speed, Gordon K. Smyth, Matthias Ernst, Warren J. Leonard, Marc Pellegrini, Susan M. Kaech, Stephen L. Nutt, Wei Shi, Gabrielle T. Belz, Axel Kallies	2016	127
8	Environmental sensing by mature B cells is controlled by the transcription factors PU.1 and SpiB Nature Communications ·Simon N. Willis, Julie Tellier, Yang Liao, Stephanie Trezise, Amanda Light, Kristy O’Donnell, Lee Ann Garrett‐Sinha, Wei Shi, David M. Tarlinton, Stephen L. Nutt	2017	71
9	Effector Regulatory T Cell Differentiation and Immune Homeostasis Depend on the Transcription Factor Myb Immunity ·Sheila Dias, Angela D’Amico, Erika Cretney, Yang Liao, Julie Tellier, Christine W. Bruggeman, Francisca F. Almeida, Jamie Leahy, Gabrielle T. Belz, Gordon K. Smyth, Wei Shi, Stephen L. Nutt	2017	70
10	Attenuation of TCR-induced transcription by Bach2 controls regulatory T cell differentiation and homeostasis Nature Communications ·Tom Sidwell, Yang Liao, Alexandra L. Garnham, Ajithkumar Vasanthakumar, Renee Gloury, Jonas Blume, Peggy P. Teh, David Chisanga, Christoph Thelemann, Fabian de Labastida Rivera, Christian Engwerda, Lynn M. Corcoran, Kohei Kometani, Tomohiro Kurosaki, Gordon K. Smyth, Wei Shi, Axel Kallies	2020	67
11	Pax5 loss imposes a reversible differentiation block in B-progenitor acute lymphoblastic leukemia Genes & Development ·Grace J. Liu, Luisa Cimmino, Julian Jude, Yifang Hu, Matthew T. Witkowski, Mark McKenzie, Mutlu Kartal‐Kaess, Sarah A. Best, Laura Tuohey, Yang Liao, Wei Shi, Charles G. Mullighan, Michael A. Farrar, Stephen L. Nutt, Gordon K. Smyth, Johannes Zuber, Ross A. Dickins	2014	65
12	IMiDs prime myeloma cells for daratumumab-mediated cytotoxicity through loss of Ikaros and Aiolos Blood ·Pasquale L. Fedele, Simon N. Willis, Yang Liao, Michael Löw, Jai Rautela, David Segal, Jianan Gong, Nicholas D. Huntington, Wei Shi, David C.S. Huang, George Grigoriadis, Julie Tellier, Stephen L. Nutt	2018	65
13	IRF4 Activity Is Required in Established Plasma Cells to Regulate Gene Transcription and Mitochondrial Homeostasis Cell Reports ·Michael Löw, Erica J. Brodie, Pasquale L. Fedele, Yang Liao, George Grigoriadis, Andreas Strasser, Axel Kallies, Simon N. Willis, Julie Tellier, Wei Shi, Sarah S. Gabriel, Kristy O’Donnell, Catherine Pitt, Stephen L. Nutt, David M. Tarlinton	2019	56
14	Dynamic changes in Id3 and E-protein activity orchestrate germinal center and plasma cell development The Journal of Experimental Medicine ·Renee Gloury, Dimitra Zotos, Malou Zuidscherwoude, Frédérick Masson, Yang Liao, Jhaguaral Hasbold, Lynn M. Corcoran, Philip D. Hodgkin, Gabrielle T. Belz, Wei Shi, Stephen L. Nutt, David M. Tarlinton, Axel Kallies	2016	45
15	Transcription Factor T-bet in B Cells Modulates Germinal Center Polarization and Antibody Affinity Maturation in Response to Malaria Cell Reports ·Ann Ly, Yang Liao, Halina M. Pietrzak, Lisa J. Ioannidis, Tom Sidwell, Renee Gloury, Marcel Doerflinger, Tony Triglia, Raymond Z. Qin, Joanna R. Groom, Gabrielle T. Belz, Kim L. Good‐Jacobson, Wei Shi, Axel Kallies, Diana S. Hansen	2019	36
16	lncRNA CCHE1 increased proliferation, metastasis and invasion of non-small lung cancer cells and predicted poor survival in non-small lung cancer patients. PubMed ·Yang Liao, Shih‐Jung Cheng, Jie Xiang, Cheng Luo	2018	31
17	Anticancer compound Oplopantriol A kills cancer cells through inducing ER stress and BH3 proteins Bim and Noxa Cell Death and Disease ·Jin Hr, Yang Liao, Li X, Zhenfeng Zhang, J. Zhao, (unknown), (unknown), Shaoping Li, CS Yuan, Wei Du	2014	29
18	Read trimming is not required for mapping and quantification of RNA-seq reads at the gene level NAR Genomics and Bioinformatics ·Yang Liao, Wei Shi	2020	27
19	MnO₂nanoparticles as a minimalist multimode vaccine adjuvant/delivery system to regulate antigen presenting cells for tumor immunotherapy Journal of Materials Chemistry B ·Ting Song, Yang Liao, Qinhua Zuo, Ning Liu, Zonghua Liu	2022	26
20	The transcription factor IRF4 represses proapoptotic BMF and BIM to licence multiple myeloma survival Leukemia ·Pasquale L. Fedele, Yang Liao, Jianan Gong, Yuan Yao, Mark F. van Delft, Michael Löw, Lin Tai, Marco J. Herold, Jacob T. Jackson, Charis E. Teh, Tania Tan, Lorraine A. O’Reilly, Julie Tellier, George Grigoriadis, David C.S. Huang, Wei Shi, Stephen L. Nutt, Simon N. Willis	2020	23

About Yang Liao

Yang Liao is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Immunology, Oncology, Cancer Research and Hematology, having authored 59 papers that have together received 21.7k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Immune Cell Function and Interaction (12 papers), T-cell and B-cell Immunology (10 papers), Immunotherapy and Immune Responses (6 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (5 papers), Multiple Myeloma Research and Treatments (4 papers), Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research (4 papers), Cancer-related Molecular Pathways (4 papers) and CAR-T cell therapy research (4 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Aging (323 citations), Immunology (3.5k citations), Cancer Research (2.3k citations), Molecular Biology (11.2k citations) and Plant Science (3.2k citations). Yang Liao has collaborated with scholars based in Australia, United States and China. Frequent co-authors include Wei Shi, Gordon K. Smyth, Stephen L. Nutt, Axel Kallies, Julie Tellier, Simon N. Willis, Renee Gloury, David M. Tarlinton, Lynn M. Corcoran and Marc Pellegrini. Their work appears in journals such as Nucleic Acids Research, Nature Immunology, Cell Reports, Immunology and Cell Biology and Blood.

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