2026 Dirce Maria Carraro: Molecular Biology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Molecular Biology	45	2857	2596	9	9	352	8518

Overview

Dirce Maria Carraro is affiliated with AC Camargo Hospital in Brazil and has an extensive research record primarily focused on cancer genetics and molecular biology. Their scientific contributions include significant work on hereditary cancer syndromes, DNA repair mechanisms, and cancer genomics.

The recent publications featuring this researcher reflect interdisciplinary approaches combining genetics, pathology, and computational analysis. Selected notable papers include:

Mortality by age, gene and gender in carriers of pathogenic mismatch repair gene variants receiving surveillance for early cancer diagnosis and treatment: a report from the prospective Lynch syndrome database (2023, EClinicalMedicine)
Whole-exome sequencing of non- BRCA1/BRCA2 mutation carrier cases at high-risk for hereditary breast/ovarian cancer (2020, Human Mutation)
Deep Learning Predicts Underlying Features on Pathology Images with Therapeutic Relevance for Breast and Gastric Cancer (2020, Cancers)
Germline variants in DNA repair genes associated with hereditary breast and ovarian cancer syndrome: analysis of a 21 gene panel in the Brazilian population (2020, BMC Medical Genomics)
Genetic Landscape of Male Breast Cancer (2021, Cancers)

The researcher frequently collaborates with several coauthors, with the most common being Giovana Tardin Torrezan, Karina Miranda Santiago, Maria Nirvana Formiga, Rafael Canfield Brianese, and Ana Cristina Victorino Krepischi.

The venues where this researcher often publishes are:

Frontiers in Oncology
Annals of Oncology
Cancer Research
Cancers
Journal of Clinical Oncology

Dirce Maria Carraro's core fields of study encompass biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine. Their subfields emphasize cancer research, molecular biology, genetics, oncology, and pathology and forensic medicine.

The principal topics of their research involve:

Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics
BRCA gene mutations in cancer
Genetic factors in colorectal cancer
DNA Repair Mechanisms
Sarcoma Diagnosis and Treatment
Renal cell carcinoma treatment
Colorectal Cancer Treatments and Studies

Best Publications

The genome sequence of the plant pathogen Xylella fastidiosa

A. J.G. Simpson;F. C. Reinach;P. Arruda;F. A. Abreu

1137
Citations
Comparative analyses of the complete genome sequences of Pierce's disease and citrus variegated chlorosis strains of Xylella fastidiosa

M. A. Van Sluys;M. C. De Oliveira;C. B. Monteiro-Vitorello;C. Y. Miyaki

412
Citations
Analysis and functional annotation of an expressed sequence tag collection for tropical crop sugarcane.

André L. Vettore;André L. Vettore;Felipe R. da Silva;Felipe R. da Silva;Edson L. Kemper;Edson L. Kemper;Glaucia M. Souza

395
Citations
Swine and Poultry Pathogens: the Complete Genome Sequences of Two Strains of Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae and a Strain of Mycoplasma synoviae

Ana Tereza R. Vasconcelos;Henrique B. Ferreira;Cristiano V. Bizarro;Sandro L. Bonatto

375
Citations
The complete genome sequence of Chromobacterium violaceum reveals remarkable and exploitable bacterial adaptability

Ana Tereza Ribeiro de Vasconcelos;Darcy F. De Almeida;Mariangela Hungria;Claudia Teixeira Guimarães

374
Citations
PRUNE2 is a human prostate cancer suppressor regulated by the intronic long noncoding RNA PCA3

Ahmad Salameh;Alessandro K. Lee;Marina Cardó-Vila;Diana N. Nunes

275
Citations
Gene Expression Profile Associated with Response to Doxorubicin-Based Therapy in Breast Cancer

Maria Aparecida Azevedo Koike Folgueira;Dirce Maria Carraro;Helena Brentani;Diogo Ferreira da Costa Patrão

222
Citations
Recurrent somatic mutation in DROSHA induces microRNA profile changes in Wilms tumour

Giovana T. Torrezan;Elisa N. Ferreira;Adriana M. Nakahata;Bruna D. F. Barros

183
Citations
A genome survey of Moniliophthora perniciosa gives new insights into Witches' Broom Disease of cacao

Jorge M.C. Mondego;Marcelo F. Carazzolle;Gustavo G.L. Costa;Eduardo F. Formighieri

171
Citations
The Genome Sequence of the Gram-Positive Sugarcane Pathogen Leifsonia xyli subsp. xyli

Claudia B. Monteiro-Vitorello;Luis E. A. Camargo;Marie A. Van Sluys;João P. Kitajima

169
Citations
The contribution of 700,000 ORF sequence tags to the definition of the human transcriptome

Anamaria A. Camargo;Helena P. B. Samaia;Emmanuel Dias-Neto;Daniel F. Simão

163
Citations
Germline DNA copy number variation in familial and early-onset breast cancer

Ana C.V. Krepischi;Ana C.V. Krepischi;Maria Isabel W. Achatz;Maria Isabel W. Achatz;Erika M.M. Santos;Silvia S. Costa

132
Citations
Mismatch repair genes in Lynch syndrome: a review

Felipe Cavalcanti Carneiro da Silva;Mev Dominguez Valentin;Fábio de Oliveira Ferreira;Dirce Maria Carraro

123
Citations
Structural features and transcript-editing analysis of sugarcane (Saccharum officinarum L.) chloroplast genome

Tercilio Calsa Júnior;Dirce Maria Carraro;Matheus Romanos Benatti;Matheus Romanos Benatti;Alexandre Corrêa Barbosa

116
Citations
Comprehensive analysis of BRCA1, BRCA2 and TP53 germline mutation and tumor characterization: a portrait of early-onset breast cancer in Brazil.

Dirce Maria Carraro;Maria Aparecida Azevedo Koike Folgueira;Bianca Cristina Garcia Lisboa;Eloisa Helena Ribeiro Olivieri

111
Citations
Epigenetic silencing of CRABP2 and MX1 in head and neck tumors.

Marilia de Freitas Calmon;Rodrigo V. Rodrigues;Carla M. Kaneto;Ricardo P. Moura

110
Citations
Gene expression arrays in cancer research: methods and applications.

Ricardo R. Brentani;Dirce Maria Carraro;Sergio Verjovski-Almeida;Eduardo M. Reis

107
Citations
Amyloid-β Oligomers Induce Differential Gene Expression in Adult Human Brain Slices

Adriano Sebollela;Leo Freitas-Correa;Fabio F. Oliveira;Andrea C. Paula-Lima

103
Citations
Identification of human chromosome 22 transcribed sequences with ORF expressed sequence tags

Sandro J. de Souza;Anamaria A. Camargo;Marcelo R. S. Briones;Fernando F. Costa

99
Citations
The contribution of 700,000 ORF sequence tags to the definition of the human transcriptome ( vol 98, pg 12103, 2001)

AA Camargo;Hpb Samaia;E Dias-Neto;DF Simao

3
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Carla Rosenberg Universidade de São Paulo

Ricardo R. Brentani Ludwig Cancer Research

Gustavo H. Goldman Universidade de São Paulo

Andrew J.G. Simpson Ludwig Cancer Research

Wilson A. Silva Universidade de São Paulo

Ana Tereza Ribeiro de Vasconcelos National Laboratory of Scientific Computing

Luiz Paulo Kowalski Universidade de São Paulo

João C. Setubal Universidade de São Paulo

Sergio Verjovski-Almeida Universidade de São Paulo

Vasco Azevedo Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

External Links

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