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20344
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1369
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Brian D. Harfe publication distribution in Molecular Biology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Molecular Biology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Brian D. Harfe sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 564+

This scientist: 127 publications — 26th percentile

26% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 564 publications or more.

Brian D. Harfe D-index placement in Molecular Biology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Molecular Biology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Brian D. Harfe sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 145+

This scientist: 71 D-Index — 57th percentile

57% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 145 D-Index or more.

Overview

Brian D. Harfe is affiliated with the University of Florida in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on molecular and developmental biology, with significant contributions to biochemistry, genetics, and medicine.

The main fields of study in their work include:

  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
  • Medicine

Within these, their subfields encompass:

  • Molecular Biology
  • Developmental Biology
  • Pathology and Forensic Medicine
  • Hepatology
  • Rheumatology

The research topics they cover frequently are:

  • Hedgehog Signaling Pathway Studies
  • Congenital limb and hand anomalies
  • Developmental Biology and Gene Regulation
  • Spine and Intervertebral Disc Pathology
  • TGF-β signaling in diseases
  • Liver physiology and pathology
  • Bone and Dental Protein Studies

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Brian D. Harfe include:

  • Sonic hedgehog is not a limb morphogen but acts as a trigger to specify all digits in mice, 2022, Developmental Cell
  • Intervertebral disc repair and regeneration: Insights from the notochord, 2021, Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology
  • Loss of BMP2 and BMP4 Signaling in the Dental Epithelium Causes Defective Enamel Maturation and Aberrant Development of Ameloblasts, 2022, International Journal of Molecular Sciences
  • Sonic Hedgehog is not a limb morphogen but acts as a trigger to specify all digits, 2020, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • A New Mouse Strain to Study Motoneurons in Pompe Disease, 2020, The FASEB Journal

Brian D. Harfe has published multiple times in the following venues:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Developmental Cell
  • Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology
  • International Journal of Molecular Sciences
  • The FASEB Journal

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Jianjian Zhu
  • Rashmi Patel
  • Anna Trofka
  • Susan Mackem
  • Claes-Göran Reibring

Best Publications

  • Evidence for an Expansion-Based Temporal Shh Gradient in Specifying Vertebrate Digit Identities

    Brian D. Harfe;Paul J. Scherz;Sahar Nissim;Hua Tian

  • BMP2 activity, although dispensable for bone formation, is required for the initiation of fracture healing.

    Kunikazu Tsuji;Amitabha Bandyopadhyay;Brian D Harfe;Karen Cox

  • DNA Mismatch Repair and Genetic Instability

    Brian D Harfe;Sue Jinks-Robertson

  • The RNaseIII enzyme Dicer is required for morphogenesis but not patterning of the vertebrate limb

    Brian D. Harfe;Michael T. McManus;Jennifer H. Mansfield;Eran Hornstein

  • Genetic analysis of the roles of BMP2, BMP4, and BMP7 in limb patterning and skeletogenesis.

    Amitabha Bandyopadhyay;Kunikazu Tsuji;Karen Ann Cox;Brian D Harfe

  • MicroRNA-responsive 'sensor' transgenes uncover Hox-like and other developmentally regulated patterns of vertebrate microRNA expression

    Jennifer H Mansfield;Brian D Harfe;Brian D Harfe;Robert Nissen;John Obenauer

  • The microRNA miR-196 acts upstream of Hoxb8 and Shh in limb development

    Eran Hornstein;Jennifer H. Mansfield;Soraya Yekta;Jimmy Kuang-Hsien Hu

  • Conditional Loss of Dicer Disrupts Cellular and Tissue Morphogenesis in the Cortex and Hippocampus

    Tigwa H. Davis;Trinna L. Cuellar;Selina M. Koch;Allison J. Barker

  • Degeneration and regeneration of the intervertebral disc: lessons from development.

    Lachlan J. Smith;Nandan L. Nerurkar;Kyung-Suk Choi;Brian D. Harfe

  • Distinct stem cell populations regenerate the follicle and interfollicular epidermis.

    Vered Levy;Catherine Lindon;Brian D. Harfe;Bruce A. Morgan

  • Epidermal stem cells arise from the hair follicle after wounding

    Vered Levy;Catherine Lindon;Ying Zheng;Brian D. Harfe

  • Dicer function is essential for lung epithelium morphogenesis

    Kelley S. Harris;Zhen Zhang;Michael T. McManus;Brian D. Harfe

  • Expression of anoctamin 1/TMEM16A by interstitial cells of Cajal is fundamental for slow wave activity in gastrointestinal muscles

    Sung Jin Hwang;Peter J. A. Blair;Fiona C. Britton;Kate E. O’Driscoll

  • MicroRNAs in vertebrate development.

    Brian D Harfe

  • MicroRNA Expression Is Required for Pancreatic Islet Cell Genesis in the Mouse

    Francis C. Lynn;Peter Skewes-Cox;Yasuhiro Kosaka;Michael T. McManus

  • The calcium-activated chloride channel anoctamin 1 acts as a heat sensor in nociceptive neurons

    Hawon Cho;Young Duk Yang;Jesun Lee;Byeongjoon Lee

  • Podocyte-Specific Deletion of Dicer Alters Cytoskeletal Dynamics and Causes Glomerular Disease

    Scott J. Harvey;George Jarad;Jeanette Cunningham;Seth Goldberg

  • Mutations that alter an Arg-Gly-Asp (RGD) sequence in the adenovirus type 2 penton base protein abolish its cell-rounding activity and delay virus reproduction in flat cells.

    Mei Bai;B. Harfe;P. Freimuth

  • Essential role for Dicer during skeletal muscle development.

    Jason R. O'Rourke;Sara A. Georges;Howard R. Seay;Stephen J. Tapscott

  • Studies on expression and function of the TMEM16A calcium-activated chloride channel.

    Fen Huang;Jason R. Rock;Brian D. Harfe;Tong Cheng

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael T. McManus
Michael T. McManus University of California, San Francisco
Clifford J. Tabin
Clifford J. Tabin Harvard University
Sue Jinks-Robertson
Sue Jinks-Robertson Duke University
Andrew P. McMahon
Andrew P. McMahon University of Southern California
Andrew Fire
Andrew Fire Stanford University
Rainer Schreiber
Rainer Schreiber University of Regensburg
Bruce A. Morgan
Bruce A. Morgan Saarland University
Kunikazu Tsuji
Kunikazu Tsuji Tokyo Medical and Dental University
Karl Kunzelmann
Karl Kunzelmann University of Regensburg
Vicki Rosen
Vicki Rosen Harvard University

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