2026 Melanie Ehrlich: 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	63	1782	1604	892	789	173	19873

Overview

Melanie Ehrlich is a researcher affiliated with Tulane University in the United States. Their academic work spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with a particular focus on Molecular Biology, Cancer Research, and Genetics. Additional areas of study include Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine and Physiology.

The body of Ehrlich's research covers key topics such as RNA modifications and cancer, Epigenetics and DNA Methylation, cancer-related molecular mechanisms and gene regulation, Genetic Associations and Epidemiology, Connective Tissue Growth Factor Research, and Pulmonary Hypertension Research and Treatments.

Ehrlich has contributed to multiple publications across prominent scientific venues. Frequent publication platforms include Epigenomes, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), International Journal of Molecular Sciences, Epigenomics, and Epigenetics.

Significant recent papers authored or co-authored by Ehrlich include:

Epigenetics of Skeletal Muscle-Associated Genes in the ASB, LRRC, TMEM, and OSBPL Gene Families, 2020, Epigenomes
Epigenetics of Muscle- and Brain-Specific Expression of KLHL Family Genes, 2020, International Journal of Molecular Sciences
Epigenetics and expression of key genes associated with cardiac fibrosis: NLRP3, MMP2, MMP9, CCN2/CTGF and AGT, 2021, Epigenomics
Prioritization of Osteoporosis-Associated Genome-wide Association Study (GWAS) Single-Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs) Using Epigenomics and Transcriptomics, 2021, JBMR Plus
Osteoporosis- and obesity-risk interrelationships: an epigenetic analysis of GWAS-derived SNPs at the developmental gene TBX15, 2020, Epigenetics

Ehrlich's research collaborations include frequent coauthors such as Kenneth C. Ehrlich, Carl Baribault, Michelle Lacey, Sagnik Sen, and Sriharsa Pradhan, indicating interdisciplinary and cooperative approaches within molecular and genetic studies.

Best Publications

DNA methylation in cancer: too much, but also too little.

Melanie Ehrlich

1915
Citations
Amount and distribution of 5-methylcytosine in human DNA from different types of tissues or cells

Melanie Ehrlich;Miguel A. Gama-Sosa;Lan Hsiang Huang;Rose Marie Midgett

1428
Citations
DNA hypomethylation in cancer cells.

Melanie Ehrlich

1087
Citations
The 5-methylcytosine content of DNA from human tumors

Miguel A. Gama-Sosa;Valerie A. Slagel;Ronald W. Trewyn;Ronald Oxenhandler

1082
Citations
5-Methylcytosine in eukaryotic DNA

Melanie Ehrlich;Richard Y.-H. Wang

970
Citations
Analysis of repetitive element DNA methylation by MethyLight

Daniel J. Weisenberger;Mihaela Campan;Tiffany I. Long;Myungjin Kim

814
Citations
Reduced Genomic 5-Methylcytosine Content in Human Colonic Neoplasia

Andrew P. Feinberg;Charles W. Gehrke;Kenneth C. Kuo;Melanie Ehrlich

698
Citations
Quantitative reversed-phase high performance liquid chromatographic determination of major and modified deoxyribonucleosides in DNA

Kenneth C. Kuo;Roy A. McCune;Charles W. Gehrke;Rosemarie Midgett

369
Citations
Comparison of bisulfite modification of 5-methyldeoxycytidine and deoxycytidine residues

Richard Y.-H. Wang;Charles W. Gehrke;Melanie Ehrlich

363
Citations
Hypomethylation of pericentromeric DNA in breast adenocarcinomas

Ajita Narayan;Weizhen Ji;Xian Yang Zhang;Aizen Marrogi

310
Citations
DNA hypermethylation in disease: mechanisms and clinical relevance

Melanie Ehrlich

309
Citations
DNA Hypomethylation and Ovarian Cancer Biology

Martin Widschwendter;Guanchao Jiang;Christian Woods;Hannes M. Müller

301
Citations
Tissue-specific differences in DNA methylation in various mammals

Miguel A. Gama-Sosa;Rose Marie Midgett;Valerie A. Slagel;Sherwood Githens

300
Citations
Expression of various genes is controlled by DNA methylation during mammalian development

Melanie Ehrlich

283
Citations
DNA hypomethylation and unusual chromosome instability in cell lines from ICF syndrome patients

C.M. Tuck-Muller;A. Narayan;F. Tsien;D.F.C.M. Smeets

271
Citations
The ICF syndrome, a DNA methyltransferase 3B deficiency and immunodeficiency disease.

Melanie Ehrlich

265
Citations
DNA cytosine methylation and heat-induced deamination

Melanie Ehrlich;Kyle F. Norris;Richard Y. Wang;Kenneth C. Kuo

235
Citations
Frequent Hypomethylation in Wilms Tumors of Pericentromeric DNA in Chromosomes 1 and 16

Guang-zhi Qu;Paul E Grundy;Ajita Narayan;Melanie Ehrlich

225
Citations
DNA demethylation and pericentromeric rearrangements of chromosome 1.

Weizhen Ji;Raymundo Hernandez;Xian-Yang Zhang;Guang-zhi Qu

224
Citations
Hypomethylation and hypermethylation of DNA in Wilms tumors.

Melanie Ehrlich;Guanchao Jiang;Emerich Fiala;Jeffrey S. Dome

220
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Kenneth C. Ehrlich US Department of Agriculture

Charles W. Gehrke University of Missouri

Gregory E. Crawford Duke University

Lingyun Song Duke University

Sriharsa Pradhan New England Biolabs

Peter W. Laird Van Andel Institute

Mimi C. Yu University of Southern California

Rork Kuick University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

Dominique Smeets Radboud University

Martin Widschwendter University College London

External Links

Personal website of Melanie Ehrlich

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