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Esteban Ballestar

Esteban Ballestar

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Genetics

D-Index
74
Citations
28467
World Ranking
1940
National Ranking
24

Overview

Esteban Ballestar is affiliated with the University of Valencia in Spain, where their research focuses on immunology, molecular biology, and related biomedical fields. Their scholarly output covers a broad range of topics within immunology and genetics, particularly emphasizing epigenetics and DNA methylation in immune system function and disease.

Their primary fields of study include Immunology and Microbiology, Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Medicine. They have contributed to subfields such as Immunology, Molecular Biology, Genetics, Rheumatology, and Cancer Research.

Ballestar's main research topics are:

  • Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
  • Immune Cell Function and Interaction
  • Immune cells in cancer
  • Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Research
  • Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics
  • Immune responses and vaccinations
  • Immune Response and Inflammation

The scientist has published significant work on DNA methylation and autoimmune diseases, including the paper titled Clinical value of DNA methylation markers in autoimmune rheumatic diseases (2020) in Nature Reviews Rheumatology. Other notable papers from their research network, which are relevant to their field, include:

  • Tolerogenic Dendritic Cells in Autoimmunity and Inflammatory Diseases (2020), Trends in Immunology
  • Sampling time-dependent artifacts in single-cell genomics studies (2020), Genome Biology
  • Understanding the Relevance of DNA Methylation Changes in Immune Differentiation and Disease (2020), Genes
  • Epigenetic regulation of B cells and its role in autoimmune pathogenesis (2022), Cellular and Molecular Immunology

Ballestar frequently collaborates with several co-authors including Laura Ciudad, Javier Rodríguez-Ubreva, Tianlu Li, Carlos de la Calle-Fabregat, and Octavio Morante-Palacios.

Their publications often appear in venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases
  • Nature Communications
  • Nucleic Acids Research
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Best Publications

  • Epigenetic differences arise during the lifetime of monozygotic twins

    Mario F. Fraga;Esteban Ballestar;Maria F. Paz;Santiago Ropero

  • Loss of acetylation at Lys16 and trimethylation at Lys20 of histone H4 is a common hallmark of human cancer

    Mario F Fraga;Esteban Ballestar;Ana Villar-Garea;Manuel Boix-Chornet

  • Autophagy maintains stemness by preventing senescence

    García-Prat L;Martínez-Vicente M;Perdiguero E;Ortet L

  • Genetic Unmasking of an Epigenetically Silenced microRNA in Human Cancer Cells

    Amaia Lujambio;Santiago Ropero;Esteban Ballestar;Mario F. Fraga

  • Mi-2 complex couples DNA methylation to chromatin remodelling and histone deacetylation.

    Paul A. Wade;Anne Gegonne;Peter L. Jones;Esteban Ballestar

  • Geriatric muscle stem cells switch reversible quiescence into senescence

    Pedro Sousa-Victor;Pedro Sousa-Victor;Susana Gutarra;Laura García-Prat;Javier Rodriguez-Ubreva

  • Snail mediates E-cadherin repression by the recruitment of the Sin3A/histone deacetylase 1 (HDAC1)/HDAC2 complex.

    Hector Peinado;Esteban Ballestar;Manel Esteller;Amparo Cano

  • Changes in the pattern of DNA methylation associate with twin discordance in systemic lupus erythematosus

    Biola M. Javierre;Agustin F. Fernandez;Julia Richter;Fatima Al-Shahrour

  • Notch Signaling Is Essential for Ventricular Chamber Development

    Joaquín Grego-Bessa;Luis Luna-Zurita;Gonzalo del Monte;Victoria Bolós

  • Data integration in the era of omics: current and future challenges.

    David Gomez-Cabrero;Imad Abugessaisa;Dieter Maier;Andrew E. Teschendorff

  • Methyl-CpG-binding proteins. Targeting specific gene repression.

    Esteban Ballestar;Alan P. Wolffe

  • A DNA methylation fingerprint of 1628 human samples

    Augustin F. Fernandez;Yassen Assenov;Jose Ignacio Martin-Subero;Balazs Balint

  • Epigenetic inactivation of the Wnt antagonist DICKKOPF-1 (DKK-1) gene in human colorectal cancer

    O Aguilera;M F Fraga;E Ballestar;M F Paz

  • Methyl-CpG binding proteins identify novel sites of epigenetic inactivation in human cancer

    Esteban Ballestar;Maria F. Paz;Laura Valle;Susan Wei

  • DNA Methylation Polymorphisms Precede Any Histological Sign of Atherosclerosis in Mice Lacking Apolipoprotein E

    Gertrud Lund;Linda Andersson;Massimiliano Lauria;Marie Lindholm

  • A truncating mutation of HDAC2 in human cancers confers resistance to histone deacetylase inhibition

    Santiago Ropero;Mario F Fraga;Esteban Ballestar;Richard Hamelin

  • Epigenetic control of myeloid cell differentiation, identity and function

    Damiana Álvarez-Errico;Roser Vento-Tormo;Michael Sieweke;Esteban Ballestar

  • The dynamic DNA methylomes of double-stranded DNA viruses associated with human cancer

    Agustin F. Fernandez;Cecilia Rosales;Pilar Lopez-Nieva;Osvaldo Graña

  • The affinity of different MBD proteins for a specific methylated locus depends on their intrinsic binding properties

    Mario F. Fraga;Esteban Ballestar;Guillermo Montoya;Panya Taysavang

  • A Mouse Skin Multistage Carcinogenesis Model Reflects the Aberrant DNA Methylation Patterns of Human Tumors

    Mario F. Fraga;Michel Herranz;Jesús Espada;Esteban Ballestar

Frequent Co-Authors

Manel Esteller
Manel Esteller Josep Carreras Leukaemia Research Institute
Mario F. Fraga
Mario F. Fraga University of Oviedo
Pura Muñoz-Cánoves
Pura Muñoz-Cánoves Pompeu Fabra University
José I. Martín-Subero
José I. Martín-Subero University of Barcelona
Felipe Prosper
Felipe Prosper University of Navarra
Agustín F. Fernández
Agustín F. Fernández University of Oviedo
Marta E. Alarcón-Riquelme
Marta E. Alarcón-Riquelme University of Granada
Javier Martín
Javier Martín Spanish National Research Council
Reiner Siebert
Reiner Siebert University of Ulm
Juan C. Cigudosa
Juan C. Cigudosa Instituto de Salud Carlos III

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