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Andrew B. Lassar

D-Index & Metrics

Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
63
Citations
35631
World Ranking
9950
National Ranking
4356

Andrew B. Lassar publication distribution in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Biology and Biochemistry in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Andrew B. Lassar sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 1,028+

This scientist: 97 publications — 4th percentile

4% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,028 publications or more.

Andrew B. Lassar D-index placement in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Biology and Biochemistry scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Andrew B. Lassar sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 63 D-Index — 49th percentile

49% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 167 D-Index or more.

Overview

Andrew B. Lassar is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, as well as Medicine. Within these fields, their work spans molecular biology, cancer research, immunology and allergy, rheumatology, and pharmacology.

The scientist has contributed to multiple main topics, including RNA research and splicing, cell adhesion molecules research, cancer-related molecular mechanisms research, osteoarthritis treatment and mechanisms, cancer-related gene regulation, TGF-β signaling in diseases, and NF-κB signaling pathways.

Frequent collaborators in their research include Cheng-Hai Zhang, Yao Gao, Han-Hwa Hung, Alan J. Grodzinsky, and Unmesh Jadhav.

Andrew B. Lassar has published in several significant venues, notably:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Communications Biology
  • Nature Communications
  • Bone
  • Development

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Andrew B. Lassar include:

  • Creb5 establishes the competence for Prg4 expression in articular cartilage, 2021, Communications Biology
  • Creb5 coordinates synovial joint formation with the genesis of articular cartilage, 2022, Nature Communications
  • Overexpression of transcription factor FoxA2 in the developing skeleton causes an enlargement of the cartilage hypertrophic zone, but it does not trigger ectopic differentiation in immature chondrocytes, 2022, Bone
  • Colchicine protects against cartilage degeneration by inhibiting MMP13 expression via PLC-γ1 phosphorylation, 2021, Osteoarthritis and Cartilage
  • FOXC1 and FOXC2 regulate growth plate chondrocyte maturation towards hypertrophy in the embryonic mouse limb skeleton, 2024, Development

Best Publications

  • Expression of a single transfected cDNA converts fibroblasts to myoblasts.

    Robert L. Davis;Harold Weintraub;Andrew B. Lassar

  • Interactions between heterologous helix-loop-helix proteins generate complexes that bind specifically to a common DNA sequence.

    Cornelis Murre;Patrick Schonleber McCaw;H. Vaessin;M. Caudy

  • The myoD gene family: nodal point during specification of the muscle cell lineage

    Harold Weintraub;Robert Davis;Stephen Tapscott;Matthew Thayer

  • Correlation of terminal cell cycle arrest of skeletal muscle with induction of p21 by MyoD

    Orna Halevy;Bennett G. Novitch;Douglas B. Spicer;Stephen X. Skapek

  • Activation of muscle-specific genes in pigment, nerve, fat, liver, and fibroblast cell lines by forced expression of MyoD.

    H Weintraub;S J Tapscott;R L Davis;M J Thayer

  • Functional activity of myogenic HLH proteins requires hetero-oligomerization with E12/E47-like proteins in vivo

    Andrew B. Lassar;Robert L. Davis;Woodring E. Wright;Tom Kadesch

  • MyoD1: A Nuclear Phosphoprotein Requiring a Myc Homology Region to Convert Fibroblasts to Myoblasts

    Stephen J. Tapscott;Robert L. Davis;Mathew J. Thayer;Pei Feng Cheng

  • MyoD is a sequence-specific DNA binding protein requiring a region of myc homology to bind to the muscle creatine kinase enhancer

    Andrew B. Lassar;Jean N. Buskin;Daniel Lockshon;Robert L. Davis

  • A role for bone morphogenetic proteins in the induction of cardiac myogenesis.

    T. M. Schultheiss;J. B. E. Burch;A. B. Lassar

  • The MyoD DNA binding domain contains a recognition code for muscle-specific gene activation

    Robert L. Davis;Pei-Feng Cheng;Andrew B. Lassar;Harold Weintraub

  • Analysis of the tendon cell fate using Scleraxis, a specific marker for tendons and ligaments

    Ronen Schweitzer;Jay H. Chyung;Lewis C. Murtaugh;Ava E. Brent

  • Inhibition of Wnt activity induces heart formation from posterior mesoderm

    Martha J. Marvin;Giuliana Di Rocco;Aaron Gardiner;Sara M. Bush

  • Expression of two myogenic regulatory factors myogenin and MyoDl during mouse embryogenesis

    David Sassoon;Gary Lyons;Woodring E. Wright;Victor Lin

  • Inhibition of myogenic differentiation in proliferating myoblasts by cyclin D1-dependent kinase

    Stephen X. Skapek;James Rhee;Douglas B. Spicer;Andrew B. Lassar

  • Induction of avian cardiac myogenesis by anterior endoderm.

    Thomas M. Schultheiss;Steve Xydas;Andrew B. Lassar

  • Combinatorial signaling by Sonic hedgehog and Wnt family members induces myogenic bHLH gene expression in the somite.

    A E Münsterberg;J Kitajewski;D A Bumcrot;A P McMahon

  • Positive autoregulation of the myogenic determination gene MyoD1.

    Mathew J. Thayer;Stephen J. Tapscott;Stephen J. Tapscott;Robert L. Davis;Robert L. Davis;Woodring E. Wright

  • A pathway to bone: signaling molecules and transcription factors involved in chondrocyte development and maturation

    Elena Kozhemyakina;Andrew B. Lassar;Elazar Zelzer

  • Ectopic Pax-3 activates MyoD and Myf-5 expression in embryonic mesoderm and neural tissue.

    Miguel Maroto;Ram Reshef;Andrea E Münsterberg;Susan Koester

  • Transcription of class III genes: formation of preinitiation complexes

    Andrew B. Lassar;Paul L. Martin;Robert G. Roeder

Frequent Co-Authors

Harold Weintraub
Harold Weintraub Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Stephen J. Tapscott
Stephen J. Tapscott Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Robert L. Davis
Robert L. Davis University of Tennessee Health Science Center
Clifford J. Tabin
Clifford J. Tabin Harvard University
Bennett G. Novitch
Bennett G. Novitch University of California, Los Angeles
Ramesh A. Shivdasani
Ramesh A. Shivdasani Harvard University
Alan J. Grodzinsky
Alan J. Grodzinsky MIT
Henry M. Kronenberg
Henry M. Kronenberg Harvard University
Woodring E. Wright
Woodring E. Wright The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Klaus H. Kaestner
Klaus H. Kaestner University of Pennsylvania

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