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Chia-Lin Wei 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 Chia-Lin Wei sits on this spectrum.

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45 publications 703+

This scientist: 116 publications — 14th percentile

14% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Chia-Lin Wei 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 Chia-Lin Wei sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 160+

This scientist: 61 D-Index — 31st percentile

31% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Chia-Lin Wei is affiliated with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in the United States. Their primary research contributions lie in the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with a focus on Molecular Biology as the predominant subfield. Other relevant subfields in their work include Cancer Research, Infectious Diseases, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, and Biophysics.

The scientist's body of work centers around several key topics, including:

  • Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics
  • Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
  • RNA Research and Splicing
  • Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics
  • CRISPR and Genetic Engineering
  • Protein Degradation and Inhibitors
  • Pluripotent Stem Cells Research

Wei has published extensively, with significant appearances in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Cancer Cell, Nature Communications, Nature Genetics, and Stem Cells. These outlets reflect the range and depth of the scientist's research interests and contributions.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Wei include the following:

  • Oncogenic extrachromosomal DNA functions as mobile enhancers to globally amplify chromosomal transcription, 2021, Cancer Cell
  • Chromatin interaction analyses elucidate the roles of PRC2-bound silencers in mouse development, 2020, Nature Genetics
  • Sox2 Controls Neural Stem Cell Self-Renewal Through a Fos-Centered Gene Regulatory Network, 2021, Stem Cells
  • ChIA-PIPE: A fully automated pipeline for comprehensive ChIA-PET data analysis and visualization, 2020, Science Advances
  • Discovery of photosynthesis genes through whole-genome sequencing of acetate-requiring mutants of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, 2021, PLoS Genetics

Their collaborative network includes frequent co-authors such as Chew Yee Ngan, Chee-Hong Wong, Harianto Tjong, Yijun Ruan, and Rahul Maurya, highlighting ongoing partnerships in related areas of study.

Best Publications

  • Identification and analysis of functional elements in 1% of the human genome by the ENCODE pilot project

    Ewan Birney;John A. Stamatoyannopoulos;Anindya Dutta;Roderic Guigó

  • The Transcriptional Landscape of the Mammalian Genome

    P. Carninci;T. Kasukawa;S. Katayama;J. Gough

  • Integration of External Signaling Pathways with the Core Transcriptional Network in Embryonic Stem Cells

    Xi Chen;Han Xu;Ping Yuan;Fang Fang;Fang Fang

  • The Oct4 and Nanog transcription network regulates pluripotency in mouse embryonic stem cells.

    Yuin Han Loh;Qiang Wu;Joon Lin Chew;Joon Lin Chew;Vinsensius B. Vega

  • An oestrogen-receptor-α-bound human chromatin interactome

    Melissa J. Fullwood;Mei Hui Liu;You Fu Pan;Jun Liu

  • A User's Guide to the Encyclopedia of DNA Elements (ENCODE)

    Richard M. Myers;John Stamatoyannopoulos;Michael Snyder;Ian Dunham

  • A global map of p53 transcription-factor binding sites in the human genome.

    Chia-Lin Wei;Qiang Wu;Vinsensius B. Vega;Kuo Ping Chiu

  • Extensive promoter-centered chromatin interactions provide a topological basis for transcription regulation.

    Guoliang Li;Xiaoan Ruan;Raymond K. Auerbach;Kuljeet Singh Sandhu

  • Dynamic changes in the human methylome during differentiation

    Louise Laurent;Eleanor Wong;Guoliang Li;Tien Huynh

  • CTCF-Mediated Human 3D Genome Architecture Reveals Chromatin Topology for Transcription.

    Zhonghui Tang;Oscar Junhong Luo;Xingwang Li;Meizhen Zheng

  • A large fraction of extragenic RNA pol II transcription sites overlap enhancers.

    Francesca de Santa;Iros Barozzi;Flore Mietton;Serena Ghisletti

  • RNA Viral Community in Human Feces: Prevalence of Plant Pathogenic Viruses

    Tao Zhang;Mya Breitbart;Wah Heng Lee;Jin-Quan Run

  • Preferential associations between co-regulated genes reveal a transcriptional interactome in erythroid cells

    Stefan Schoenfelder;Tom Sexton;Lyubomira Chakalova;Nathan F Cope

  • CTCF-mediated functional chromatin interactome in pluripotent cells

    Lusy Handoko;Han Xu;Guoliang Li;Chew Yee Ngan

  • Comparative full-length genome sequence analysis of 14 SARS coronavirus isolates and common mutations associated with putative origins of infection

    Yijun Ruan;Chia Lin Wei;Ai Ee Ling;Vinsensius B Vega

  • Identification and Characterization of Enhancers Controlling the Inflammatory Gene Expression Program in Macrophages

    Serena Ghisletti;Iros Barozzi;Flore Mietton;Sara Polletti

  • The status, quality, and expansion of the NIH full-length cDNA project: The Mammalian Gene Collection (MGC)

    Daniela S. Gerhard;Lukas Wagner;Elise A. Feingold;Carolyn M. Shenmen

  • Whole-genome mapping of histone H3 Lys4 and 27 trimethylations reveals distinct genomic compartments in human embryonic stem cells.

    Xiao Dong Zhao;Xu Han;Joon Lin Chew;Joon Lin Chew;Jun Liu

  • Global mapping of c-Myc binding sites and target gene networks in human B cells

    Karen I. Zeller;XiaoDong Zhao;Charlie W. H. Lee;Kuo Ping Chiu

  • The Schistosoma japonicum genome reveals features of host-parasite interplay

    Yan Zhou;Huajun Zheng;Yangyi Chen;Lei Zhang

Frequent Co-Authors

Yijun Ruan
Yijun Ruan University of Connecticut Health Center
Wing-Kin Sung
Wing-Kin Sung Chinese University of Hong Kong
Edison T. Liu
Edison T. Liu The Jackson Laboratory
Huck-Hui Ng
Huck-Hui Ng Genome Institute of Singapore
Guillaume Bourque
Guillaume Bourque McGill University
Bing Lim
Bing Lim Thymmune Therapeutics
Leonard Lipovich
Leonard Lipovich Wayne State University
Paul Robson
Paul Robson University of Connecticut
Lawrence W. Stanton
Lawrence W. Stanton Hamad bin Khalifa University
Mark Gerstein
Mark Gerstein Yale University

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