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Michelle M. Le Beau

Michelle M. Le Beau

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Molecular Biology

D-Index
98
Citations
61259
World Ranking
562
National Ranking
308

Medicine

D-Index
101
Citations
62280
World Ranking
7799
National Ranking
4067

Overview

Michelle M. Le Beau is affiliated with the University of Chicago in the United States. Their research contributions primarily span the fields of Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with notable specialization in Hematology, Genetics, Molecular Biology, Immunology, and Cancer Research.

Their main research topics focus on Acute Myeloid Leukemia Research, Myeloproliferative Neoplasms: Diagnosis and Treatment, Epigenetics and DNA Methylation, Chronic Myeloid Leukemia Treatments, Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics, Lymphoma Diagnosis and Treatment, and the role of Immune Cells in cancer.

Le Beau has authored or coauthored several recent papers, including:

  • International Consensus Classification of Myeloid Neoplasms and Acute Leukemias: integrating morphologic, clinical, and genomic data (2022), published in Blood
  • Progress in Cancer Research, Prevention, and Care (2020), published in New England Journal of Medicine
  • axl, a transforming gene isolated from primary human myeloid leukemia cells, encodes a novel receptor tyrosine kinase. (2020), published in UNC Libraries
  • Genome-wide association study identifies susceptibility loci for acute myeloid leukemia (2021), published in Nature Communications
  • Cytotoxic Therapy-Induced Effects on Both Hematopoietic and Marrow Stromal Cells Promotes Therapy-Related Myeloid Neoplasms (2020), published in Blood Cancer Discovery

Their frequent coauthors include Richard A. Larson, Megan E. McNerney, Wendy Stock, Hervé Dombret, and Lucy A. Godley. These collaborators have contributed to various research projects with Le Beau, forming part of a consistent professional network.

Michelle M. Le Beau's work is often published in several journals known for their focus on hematologic and oncologic research. The most frequent publication venues for their work are:

  • Blood
  • Nature Communications
  • Blood Cancer Discovery
  • Blood Advances
  • New England Journal of Medicine

Best Publications

  • The 2016 revision to the World Health Organization classification of myeloid neoplasms and acute leukemia

    Daniel A. Arber;Attilio Orazi;Robert Hasserjian;Jürgen Thiele

  • Genomic and epigenomic landscapes of adult de novo acute myeloid leukemia

    Timothy J. Ley;Christopher Miller;Li Ding;Benjamin J. Raphael

  • The 2008 revision of the World Health Organization (WHO) classification of myeloid neoplasms and acute leukemia: rationale and important changes

    James W. Vardiman;Jüergen Thiele;Daniel A. Arber;Richard D. Brunning

  • Revised International Prognostic Scoring System for Myelodysplastic Syndromes

    Peter L. Greenberg;Heinz Tuechler;Julie Schanz;Guillermo Sanz

  • The hMre11/hRad50 protein complex and Nijmegen breakage syndrome: linkage of double-strand break repair to the cellular DNA damage response.

    James P Carney;James P Carney;Richard S Maser;Heidi Olivares;Elizabeth M Davis

  • A zinc finger-encoding gene coregulated with c-fos during growth and differentiation, and after cellular depolarization

    Vikas P. Sukhatme;Xinmin Cao;Louise C. Chang;Chon-Hwa Tsai-Morris

  • BCR–ABL1 lymphoblastic leukaemia is characterized by the deletion of Ikaros

    Charles G. Mullighan;Christopher B. Miller;Ina Radtke;Letha A. Phillips

  • Prostate stem cell antigen: A cell surface marker overexpressed in prostate cancer

    Robert E. Reiter;Zhennen Gu;Tetsuro Watabe;George Thomas

  • Acquired mutations in GATA1 in the megakaryoblastic leukemia of Down syndrome.

    Joshua Wechsler;Marianne Greene;Michael A. McDevitt;John Anastasi

  • Subnuclear compartmentalization of immunoglobulin loci during lymphocyte development.

    Steven T. Kosak;Jane A. Skok;Kay L. Medina;Roy Riblet

  • Genetic characterization of TET1, TET2, and TET3 alterations in myeloid malignancies

    Omar Abdel-Wahab;Ann Mullally;Cyrus Hedvat;Guillermo Garcia-Manero

  • Clinical-cytogenetic associations in 306 patients with therapy-related myelodysplasia and myeloid leukemia: the University of Chicago series.

    Sonali M. Smith;Michelle M. Le Beau;Dezheng Huo;Theodore Karrison

  • MicroRNA expression signatures accurately discriminate acute lymphoblastic leukemia from acute myeloid leukemia

    Shuangli Mi;Jun Lu;Jun Lu;Miao Sun;Zejuan Li

  • Hematopoietic Stem Cell Quiescence Promotes Error-Prone DNA Repair and Mutagenesis

    Mary Mohrin;Emer Bourke;David Alexander;Matthew R. Warr

  • Human and rat brain-derived neurotrophic factor and neurotrophin-3: gene structures, distributions, and chromosomal localizations.

    Peter C. Maisonpierre;Michelle M. Le Beau;Rafael Espinosa;Nancy Y. Ip

  • Acute myeloid leukemia induced by graded reduction of a lineage-specific transcription factor, PU.1.

    Frank Rosenbauer;Katharina Wagner;Jeffery L Kutok;Hiromi Iwasaki

  • Replication stress is a potent driver of functional decline in ageing haematopoietic stem cells

    Johanna Flach;Sietske T. Bakker;Mary Mohrin;Pauline C. Conroy

  • New Comprehensive Cytogenetic Scoring System for Primary Myelodysplastic Syndromes (MDS) and Oligoblastic Acute Myeloid Leukemia After MDS Derived From an International Database Merge

    Julie Schanz;Heinz Tüchler;Francesc Solé;Mar Mallo

  • Distinct microRNA expression profiles in acute myeloid leukemia with common translocations

    Zejuan Li;Jun Lu;Jun Lu;Miao Sun;Shuangli Mi

  • Receptor tyrosine kinase specific for the skeletal muscle lineage: Expression in embryonic muscle, at the neuromuscular junction, and after injury

    David M. Valenzuela;Trevor N. Stitt;Peter S. DiStefano;Eduardo Rojas

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard A. Larson
Richard A. Larson University of Chicago
Janet D. Rowley
Janet D. Rowley University of Chicago
James W. Vardiman
James W. Vardiman University of Chicago
Kevin Shannon
Kevin Shannon University of California, San Francisco
Lucy A. Godley
Lucy A. Godley University of Chicago
Scott C. Kogan
Scott C. Kogan University of California, San Francisco
John M. Bennett
John M. Bennett University of Rochester Medical Center
Ulrich Germing
Ulrich Germing Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Peter L. Greenberg
Peter L. Greenberg Stanford University
Francesc Solé
Francesc Solé Autonomous University of Barcelona

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