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73
Citations
25934
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2018
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921

Deyou Zheng 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 Deyou Zheng sits on this spectrum.

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45 publications 703+

This scientist: 226 publications — 60th percentile

60% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Deyou Zheng 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 Deyou Zheng sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 160+

This scientist: 73 D-Index — 54th percentile

54% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Deyou Zheng is affiliated with the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the United States. Their research covers multiple disciplines within biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine, with a focus on molecular biology, pulmonary and respiratory medicine, oncology, immunology, and genetics.

The main topics in their work include:

  • Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics
  • Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
  • Congenital heart defects research
  • RNA modifications and cancer
  • Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research
  • Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers
  • Sarcoma Diagnosis and Treatment

Deyou Zheng has contributed extensively to scientific literature and has key publications in high-impact venues. Notable recent papers include:

  • Phase separation drives aberrant chromatin looping and cancer development, 2021, Nature
  • Molecular Features of Cancer-associated Fibroblast Subtypes and their Implication on Cancer Pathogenesis, Prognosis, and Immunotherapy Resistance, 2021, Clinical Cancer Research
  • KIR3DL3-HHLA2 is a human immunosuppressive pathway and a therapeutic target, 2021, Science Immunology
  • NFI transcription factors provide chromatin access to maintain stem cell identity while preventing unintended lineage fate choices, 2020, Nature Cell Biology
  • Microglial Homeostasis Requires Balanced CSF-1/CSF-2 Receptor Signaling, 2020, Cell Reports

Frequent coauthors in their research include:

  • Phillip M. Galbo
  • Yang Liu
  • Alexander Ferrena
  • Xingxing Zang
  • Bernice E. Morrow

Deyou Zheng often publishes in the following venues:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Communications
  • Cancer Research
  • Faculty Opinions - Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature
  • UNC Libraries

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

  • Distinct Factors Control Histone Variant H3.3 Localization at Specific Genomic Regions

    Aaron D. Goldberg;Laura A. Banaszynski;Kyung Min Noh;Peter W. Lewis

  • Glucocorticoid Receptor Confers Resistance to Antiandrogens by Bypassing Androgen Receptor Blockade

    Vivek K. Arora;Emily Schenkein;Rajmohan Murali;Sumit K. Subudhi

  • What is a gene, post-ENCODE? History and updated definition

    Mark B. Gerstein;Joel S. Rozowsky;Deyou Zheng;Jiang Du

  • PRC2 is recurrently inactivated through EED or SUZ12 loss in malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumors

    William Lee;Sewit Teckie;Thomas Wiesner;Leili Ran

  • Androgen receptor signaling regulates DNA repair in prostate cancers

    William R. Polkinghorn;Joel S. Parker;Man X. Lee;Elizabeth M. Kass

  • Pioneer factors govern super-enhancer dynamics in stem cell plasticity and lineage choice

    Rene C. Adam;Hanseul Yang;Shira Rockowitz;Samantha B. Larsen

  • Endocardial Cells Form the Coronary Arteries by Angiogenesis through Myocardial-Endocardial VEGF Signaling

    Bingruo Wu;Zheng Zhang;Zheng Zhang;Wendy Lui;Xiangjian Chen

  • ETV1 is a lineage survival factor that cooperates with KIT in gastrointestinal stromal tumours

    Ping Chi;Yu Chen;Lei Zhang;Xingyi Guo

  • ETS factors reprogram the androgen receptor cistrome and prime prostate tumorigenesis in response to PTEN loss.

    Yu Chen;Ping Chi;Shira Rockowitz;Phillip J Iaquinta

  • Phase separation drives aberrant chromatin looping and cancer development

    Jeong Hyun Ahn;Eric S. Davis;Timothy A. Daugird;Shuai Zhao

  • CRISPR/Cas9-mediated heterozygous knockout of the autism gene CHD8 and characterization of its transcriptional networks in cerebral organoids derived from iPS cells

    Ping Wang;Ryan Mokhtari;Erika Pedrosa;Michael Kirschenbaum

  • Hira-dependent histone H3.3 deposition facilitates PRC2 recruitment at developmental loci in ES cells.

    Laura A. Banaszynski;Duancheng Wen;Scott Dewell;Sarah J. Whitcomb

  • Identification and Initial Functional Characterization of a Human Vascular Cell–Enriched Long Noncoding RNA

    Robert D. Bell;Xiaochun Long;Mingyan Lin;Jan H. Bergmann

  • RNA-Seq of human neurons derived from iPS cells reveals candidate long non-coding RNAs involved in neurogenesis and neuropsychiatric disorders

    Mingyan Lin;Erika Pedrosa;Abhishek Shah;Anastasia Hrabovsky

  • Protein NMR spectroscopy in structural genomics.

    Gaetano T. Montelione;Deyou Zheng;Yuanpeng J. Huang;Kristin C. Gunsalus

  • Pseudogenes in the ENCODE regions: Consensus annotation, analysis of transcription, and evolution

    Deyou Zheng;Adam Frankish;Robert Baertsch;Philipp Kapranov

  • An H3K36 Methylation-Engaging Tudor Motif of Polycomb-like Proteins Mediates PRC2 Complex Targeting

    Ling Cai;Scott B. Rothbart;Rui Lu;Bowen Xu

  • Selective inhibition of EZH2 and EZH1 enzymatic activity by a small molecule suppresses MLL-rearranged leukemia

    Bowen Xu;Doan M. On;Anqi Ma;Trevor Parton

  • Alternative transcription initiation leads to expression of a novel ALK isoform in cancer

    Thomas Wiesner;William Lee;Anna C. Obenauf;Leili Ran

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark Gerstein
Mark Gerstein Yale University
Ales Cvekl
Ales Cvekl Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Bin Zhou
Bin Zhou Chinese Academy of Sciences
Gaetano T. Montelione
Gaetano T. Montelione Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Charles L. Sawyers
Charles L. Sawyers Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Elaine Fuchs
Elaine Fuchs Rockefeller University
Michael Snyder
Michael Snyder Stanford University
Bernice E. Morrow
Bernice E. Morrow Albert Einstein College of Medicine
John M. Greally
John M. Greally Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Sherman M. Weissman
Sherman M. Weissman Yale University

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