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Heinz Arnheiter 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 Heinz Arnheiter sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 564+

This scientist: 138 publications — 31st percentile

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

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

Heinz Arnheiter 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 Heinz Arnheiter sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 145+

This scientist: 62 D-Index — 41st percentile

41% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Heinz Arnheiter is affiliated with the National Institutes of Health in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Medicine, with focus areas including Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, Immunology and Allergy, Physiology, and Dermatology.

The scientist's main research topics encompass melanin and skin pigmentation, genomics and chromatin dynamics, RNA regulation and disease, cell adhesion molecules, melanoma and MAPK pathways, telomeres, telomerase and senescence, as well as skin protection and aging.

Heinz Arnheiter has contributed to several publications, including:

  • "Melanoblast transcriptome analysis reveals pathways promoting melanoma metastasis" (2020) published in Nature Communications
  • "Novel mechanisms of MITF regulation identified in a mouse suppressor screen" (2024) published in EMBO Reports
  • "Senescent no more" (2020) published in Pigment Cell & Melanoma Research
  • "Vesicular stomatitis virus N and NS proteins form multiple complexes." (2020) published in UNC Libraries
  • "Novel mechanisms of MITF regulation and melanoma predisposition identified in a mouse suppressor screen" (2023) published in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

The scientist has collaborated frequently with colleagues including Hong Nhung Vu, Matti Már Valdimarsson, Sara Sigurbjörnsdóttir, Kristín Bergsteinsdóttir, and Julien Debbache.

Heinz Arnheiter's work has appeared in a variety of scientific venues, notably:

  • Nature Communications
  • EMBO Reports
  • Pigment Cell & Melanoma Research
  • UNC Libraries
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Best Publications

  • Mutations at the mouse microphthalmia locus are associated with defects in a gene encoding a novel basic-helix-loop-helix-zipper protein.

    Colin A. Hodgkinson;Karen J. Moore;Atsuo Nakayama;Eiríkur Steingrímsson

  • microphthalmia, a critical factor in melanocyte development, defines a discrete transcription factor family.

    Timothy J. Hemesath;Eiríkur Steingrímsson;Gaël McGill;Michael J. Hansen

  • Molecular basis of mouse microphthalmia ( mi ) mutations helps explain their developmental and phenotypic consequences

    Eiríkur Steingrímsson;Karen J. Moore;M. Lynn Lamoreux;Adrian R. Ferré-D'Amaré

  • Transcription factor hierarchy in Waardenburg syndrome: regulation of MITF expression by SOX10 and PAX3.

    S. Brian Potterf;Minao Furumura;Karen J. Dunn;Heinz Arnheiter

  • Signaling and transcriptional regulation in early mammalian eye development: a link between FGF and MITF

    M. Nguyen;H. Arnheiter

  • MITF—the first 25 years

    Colin R. Goding;Heinz Arnheiter

  • Melanocyte development in vivo and in neural crest cell cultures: crucial dependence on the Mitf basic-helix-loop-helix-zipper transcription factor.

    Karin Opdecamp;Atsuo Nakayama;Minh-Thanh T. Nguyen;Colin A. Hodgkinson

  • Interferon-γ links ultraviolet radiation to melanomagenesis in mice

    M. Raza Zaidi;Sean Davis;Frances P. Noonan;Cari Graff-Cherry

  • Transgenic mice with intracellular immunity to influenza virus

    Heinz Arnheiter;Susan Skuntz;Mathieu Noteborn;Stephen Chang

  • The other pigment cell: specification and development of the pigmented epithelium of the vertebrate eye.

    Kapil Bharti;Minh-Thanh T. Nguyen;Susan Skuntz;Stefano Bertuzzi

  • The concerted action of Meox homeobox genes is required upstream of genetic pathways essential for the formation, patterning and differentiation of somites

    Baljinder S. Mankoo;Susan Skuntz;Ian Harrigan;Elena Grigorieva

  • Mitf and Tfe3, two members of the Mitf-Tfe family of bHLH-Zip transcription factors, have important but functionally redundant roles in osteoclast development

    Eiríkur Steingrímsson;Lino Tessarollo;Bhavani Pathak;Ling Hou

  • Chx10 repression of Mitf is required for the maintenance of mammalian neuroretinal identity

    D. Jonathan Horsford;Minh-Thanh T. Nguyen;Grant C. Sellar;Rashmi Kothary

  • Mutations in microphthalmia, the mouse homolog of the human deafness gene MITF, affect neuroepithelial and neural crest-derived melanocytes differently

    Atsuo Nakayama;Minh-Thanh T Nguyen;Catherine C Chen;Karin Opdecamp

  • Cloning of MITF, the human homolog of the mouse microphthalmia gene and assignment to chromosome 3p14. 1-p12.3

    M Tachibana;L A Perez-Jurado;A Nakayama;C A Hodgkinson

  • Signaling and transcriptional regulation in the neural crest-derived melanocyte lineage: interactions between KIT and MITF.

    Ling Hou;Jean-Jacques Panthier;Heinz Arnheiter

  • Genetically determined, interferon-dependent resistance to influenza virus in mice.

    O Haller;H Arnheiter;I Gresser;J Lindenmann

  • Studies of the interferon receptors.

    Kathryn C. Zoon;Heinz Arnheiter

  • Activity of rat Mx proteins against a rhabdovirus.

    Ellen Meier;Gisela Kunz;Otto Haller;Heinz Arnheiter

  • Analysis of SOX10 function in neural crest-derived melanocyte development: SOX10-dependent transcriptional control of dopachrome tautomerase.

    S B Potterf;R Mollaaghababa;L Hou;E M Southard-Smith

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert N. Kelsh
Robert N. Kelsh University of Bath
Marcus Bosenberg
Marcus Bosenberg Yale University
Eirikur Steingrimsson
Eirikur Steingrimsson University of Iceland
Robert A. Lazzarini
Robert A. Lazzarini Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Paul S. Meltzer
Paul S. Meltzer National Institutes of Health
Neal G. Copeland
Neal G. Copeland The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Nancy A. Jenkins
Nancy A. Jenkins The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Glenn Merlino
Glenn Merlino National Institutes of Health
William J. Pavan
William J. Pavan National Institutes of Health
Otto Haller
Otto Haller University of Freiburg

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