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D-Index
48
Citations
8688
World Ranking
4059
National Ranking
1750

Aron M. Geurts publication distribution in Genetics in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Genetics in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Aron M. Geurts sits on this spectrum.

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45 publications 703+

This scientist: 217 publications — 56th percentile

56% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 703 publications or more.

Aron M. Geurts D-index placement in Genetics in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Genetics scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Aron M. Geurts sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 160+

This scientist: 48 D-Index — 8th percentile

8% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 160 D-Index or more.

Overview

Aron M. Geurts is affiliated with the Medical College of Wisconsin in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, as well as Medicine, with a significant focus on Molecular Biology, Genetics, Immunology, Physiology, and Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine.

The scientist's work addresses diverse topics including:

  • Adipose Tissue and Metabolism
  • Diabetes and associated disorders
  • Birth, Development, and Health
  • Immune Cell Function and Interaction
  • Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research
  • Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals
  • T-cell and B-cell Immunology

Key recent publications include:

  • "Endogenous miR-204 Protects the Kidney against Chronic Injury in Hypertension and Diabetes" (2020) published in Journal of the American Society of Nephrology
  • "Contractility of Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell-Cardiomyocytes With an MYH6 Head Domain Variant Associated With Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome" (2020) published in Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology
  • "Diurnal Control of Blood Pressure Is Uncoupled From Sodium Excretion" (2020) published in Hypertension
  • "CD226 Deletion Reduces Type 1 Diabetes in the NOD Mouse by Impairing Thymocyte Development and Peripheral T Cell Activation" (2020) published in Frontiers in Immunology
  • "Robust and replicable measurement for prepulse inhibition of the acoustic startle response" (2020) published in Molecular Psychiatry

Frequent collaborators in their research include Michael Grzybowski, Andrew S. Greene, Allen W. Cowley, Sridhar Rao, and Mingyu Liang, reflecting ongoing partnerships across multiple projects.

The scientist often publishes in these venues:

  • Hypertension
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • The FASEB Journal
  • Physiology
  • The Journal of Immunology

Best Publications

  • Knockout Rats via Embryo Microinjection of Zinc-Finger Nucleases

    Aron M. Geurts;Gregory J. Cost;Yevgeniy Freyvert;Bryan Zeitler

  • Gene Transfer into Genomes of Human Cells by the Sleeping Beauty Transposon System

    Aron M Geurts;Ying Yang;Karl J Clark;Geyi Liu

  • Harnessing a high cargo-capacity transposon for genetic applications in vertebrates.

    Darius Balciunas;Kirk J Wangensteen;Andrew Wilber;Jason Bell

  • Progress and prospects in rat genetics: a community view.

    Timothy J Aitman;John K Critser;Edwin Cuppen;Anna Dominiczak

  • Structure-function analysis of the inverted terminal repeats of the sleeping beauty transposon.

    Zongbin Cui;Aron M. Geurts;Geyi Liu;Christopher D. Kaufman

  • Efficient CRISPR/Cas9-Mediated Genome Editing in Mice by Zygote Electroporation of Nuclease

    Wenning Qin;Stephanie L. Dion;Peter M. Kutny;Yingfan Zhang

  • Keratinocytes mediate innocuous and noxious touch via ATP-P2X4 signaling

    Francie Moehring;Ashley M Cowie;Anthony D Menzel;Andy D Weyer

  • Genetic mutation of recombination activating gene 1 in Dahl salt-sensitive rats attenuates hypertension and renal damage

    David L. Mattson;Hayley Lund;Chuanling Guo;Nathan Rudemiller

  • Target-site preferences of Sleeping Beauty transposons.

    Geyi Liu;Aron M. Geurts;Kojiro Yae;A.R. Srinivasan

  • Gene targeting in the rat: advances and opportunities

    Howard J. Jacob;Jozef Lazar;Melinda R. Dwinell;Carol Moreno

  • CD247 Modulates Blood Pressure by Altering T-Lymphocyte Infiltration in the Kidney

    Nathan Rudemiller;Hayley Lund;Howard J. Jacob;Aron M. Geurts

  • Increased expression of NAD(P)H oxidase subunit p67(phox) in the renal medulla contributes to excess oxidative stress and salt-sensitive hypertension.

    Di Feng;Chun Yang;Aron M. Geurts;Terry Kurth

  • Generation of Gene-Specific Mutated Rats Using Zinc-Finger Nucleases

    Aron M. Geurts;Gregory J. Cost;Séverine Rémy;Xiaoxia Cui

  • Identifying multiple causative genes at a single GWAS locus

    Michael J. Flister;Shirng-Wern Tsaih;Caitlin C. O'Meara;Bradley Endres

  • A NOX4/TRPC6 Pathway in Podocyte Calcium Regulation and Renal Damage in Diabetic Kidney Disease.

    Daria V. Ilatovskaya;Gregory Blass;Oleg Palygin;Vladislav Levchenko

  • Gene Mutations and Genomic Rearrangements in the Mouse as a Result of Transposon Mobilization from Chromosomal Concatemers

    Aron M Geurts;Lara S Collier;Jennifer L Geurts;Leann L Oseth

  • miR‐29 contributes to normal endothelial function and can restore it in cardiometabolic disorders

    Michael E Widlansky;David M Jensen;Jingli Wang;Yong Liu

  • Germline transgenesis in pigs by cytoplasmic microinjection of Sleeping Beauty transposons

    Zoltán Ivics;Wiebke Garrels;Lajos Mátés;Tien Yin Yau

  • Transposon-mediated transgenesis, transgenic rescue, and tissue-specific gene expression in rodents and rabbits

    Katharina Katter;Aron M. Geurts;Orsolya Hoffmann;Lajos Mátés;Lajos Mátés

  • Generation of rat mutants using a coat color-tagged Sleeping Beauty transposon system.

    Baisong Lu;Aron M. Geurts;Christophe Poirier;Christophe Poirier;Deborah C. Petit;Deborah C. Petit

Frequent Co-Authors

Howard J. Jacob
Howard J. Jacob AbbVie (United States)
Allen W. Cowley
Allen W. Cowley Medical College of Wisconsin
Mingyu Liang
Mingyu Liang Medical College of Wisconsin
Richard J. Roman
Richard J. Roman University of Mississippi Medical Center
Perry B. Hackett
Perry B. Hackett University of Minnesota
David A. Largaespada
David A. Largaespada University of Minnesota
David V. Serreze
David V. Serreze The Jackson Laboratory
Michal Pravenec
Michal Pravenec Czech Academy of Sciences
R. Scott McIvor
R. Scott McIvor University of Minnesota
Fyodor D. Urnov
Fyodor D. Urnov University of California, Berkeley

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