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Mauro Santibanez-Koref

Mauro Santibanez-Koref

D-Index & Metrics

Genetics

D-Index
54
Citations
9482
World Ranking
3659
National Ranking
432

Mauro Santibanez-Koref 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 Mauro Santibanez-Koref sits on this spectrum.

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45 publications 703+

This scientist: 156 publications — 33rd percentile

33% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Mauro Santibanez-Koref 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 Mauro Santibanez-Koref sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 160+

This scientist: 54 D-Index — 17th percentile

17% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Mauro Santibanez-Koref is affiliated with Newcastle University in the United Kingdom. Their research spans across multiple fields related to biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine, with particular focus within subfields such as molecular biology, cancer research, pathology and forensic medicine, oncology, and neurology.

Their recent publications include work on genetic and molecular mechanisms relevant to diseases and diagnostics. Notable papers authored or coauthored by Santibanez-Koref include:

  • A slipped-CAG DNA-binding small molecule induces trinucleotide-repeat contractions in vivo, 2020, Nature Genetics
  • A de novo paradigm for male infertility, 2022, Nature Communications
  • Circulating cell-free mitochondrial DNA levels in Parkinson's disease are influenced by treatment, 2020, Molecular Neurodegeneration
  • Large-scale benchmarking of circRNA detection tools reveals large differences in sensitivity but not in precision, 2023, Nature Methods
  • How Should We Test for Lynch Syndrome? A Review of Current Guidelines and Future Strategies, 2021, Cancers

The main topics addressed in their work include genetic factors in colorectal cancer, cancer genomics and diagnostics, DNA repair mechanisms, mitochondrial function and pathology, circular RNAs in diseases, microRNA in disease regulation, and cancer-related molecular mechanisms research.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Mauro Santibanez-Koref are:

  • Michael S. Jackson
  • Richard Gallon
  • John Burn
  • Christine Hayes
  • Rachel Phelps

Their research has been published in several scientific venues, with repeated publications in:

  • Cancers
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • British Journal of Dermatology
  • Nature Methods
  • Nature Genetics

Best Publications

  • Early-onset lymphoproliferation and autoimmunity caused by germline STAT3 gain-of-function mutations

    Joshua D. Milner;Tiphanie P. Vogel;Lisa Forbes;Chi A. Ma

  • Exome sequencing identifies GATA-2 mutation as the cause of dendritic cell, monocyte, B and NK lymphoid deficiency

    Rachel Emma Dickinson;Helen Griffin;Venetia Bigley;Louise N. Reynard

  • Universal heteroplasmy of human mitochondrial DNA

    Brendan A.I. Payne;Ian J. Wilson;Patrick Yu-Wai-Man;Jonathan Coxhead

  • Use of Whole-Exome Sequencing to Determine the Genetic Basis of Multiple Mitochondrial Respiratory Chain Complex Deficiencies

    Robert W. Taylor;Angela Pyle;Helen Griffin;Emma L. Blakely

  • Germ-Line Mutations of TP53 in Li-Fraumeni Families: An Extended Study of 39 Families

    J. M. Varley;G. Mcgown;M. Thorncroft;M. F. Santibanez-Koref

  • Contribution of Global Rare Copy-Number Variants to the Risk of Sporadic Congenital Heart Disease

    Rachel Soemedi;Ian J. Wilson;Jamie Bentham;Rebecca Darlay

  • Mitochondrial aging is accelerated by anti-retroviral therapy through the clonal expansion of mtDNA mutations

    Brendan A I Payne;Brendan A I Payne;Ian J Wilson;Charlotte A Hateley;Rita Horvath

  • O6‐alkylguanine‐DNA alkyltransferase: Role in carcinogenesis and chemotherapy

    Geoffrey P. Margison;Mauro F. Santibáñez-Koref

  • Circular RNA enrichment in platelets is a signature of transcriptome degradation

    Abd A. Alhasan;Osagie G. Izuogu;Haya H. Al-Balool;Jannetta S. Steyn

  • p53 germline mutations in Li-Fraumeni syndrome

    M.F. Santibáñez-Koref;J.M. Birch;A.L. Hartley;D. Crowther

  • Whole Exome Sequencing Reveals the Major Genetic Contributors to Nonsyndromic Tetralogy of Fallot.

    Donna J Page;Matthieu J Miossec;Matthieu J Miossec;Simon G Williams;Richard M Monaghan

  • Overexpression of aurora B kinase (AURKB) in primary non-small cell lung carcinoma is frequent, generally driven from one allele, and correlates with the level of genetic instability.

    S L Smith;N L Bowers;D C Betticher;O Gautschi

  • Exome sequencing in undiagnosed inherited and sporadic ataxias

    Angela Pyle;Tania Smertenko;David Bargiela;Helen Griffin

  • Flipping of alkylated DNA damage bridges base and nucleotide excision repair

    Julie L Tubbs;Vitaly F Latypov;Sreenivas Kanugula;Amna Butt

  • A slipped-CAG DNA-binding small molecule induces trinucleotide-repeat contractions in vivo

    Masayuki Nakamori;Gagan B. Panigrahi;Stella Lanni;Terence Gall-Duncan

  • EXOSC8 mutations alter mRNA metabolism and cause hypomyelination with spinal muscular atrophy and cerebellar hypoplasia

    Veronika Boczonadi;Juliane S. Müller;Angela Pyle;Jennifer Munkley

  • Phenotype-specific effect of chromosome 1q21.1 rearrangements and GJA5 duplications in 2436 congenital heart disease patients and 6760 controls

    Rachel Soemedi;Ana Töpf;Ian J. Wilson;Rebecca Darlay

  • Titin mutation segregates with hereditary myopathy with early respiratory failure

    Gerald Pfeffer;Hannah R. Elliott;Helen Griffin;Rita Barresi

  • An immediate early human gene encodes an Id-like helix-loop-helix protein and is regulated by protein kinase C activation in diverse cell types.

    Richard W Deed;S M Bianchi;Graham T Atherton;D Johnston

  • Defective i6A37 Modification of Mitochondrial and Cytosolic tRNAs Results from Pathogenic Mutations in TRIT1 and Its Substrate tRNA

    John W. Yarham;Tek N. Lamichhane;Angela Pyle;Sandy Mattijssen

Frequent Co-Authors

Patrick F. Chinnery
Patrick F. Chinnery University of Cambridge
Bernard Keavney
Bernard Keavney University of Manchester
Angela Pyle
Angela Pyle Newcastle University
Rita Horvath
Rita Horvath University of Cambridge
John Burn
John Burn Newcastle University
John Loughlin
John Loughlin Newcastle University
Geoffrey P. Margison
Geoffrey P. Margison University of Manchester
Sophie Hambleton
Sophie Hambleton Newcastle University
Heather J. Cordell
Heather J. Cordell Newcastle University
Mark Lathrop
Mark Lathrop McGill University

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