2026 Peter C. Scacheri: Genetics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Genetics	56	3487	3292	1513	1416	126	12777

Overview

Peter C. Scacheri is affiliated with Case Western Reserve University in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, contributing extensively to the field through a significant number of publications. Their work spans several subfields, including Molecular Biology, Genetics, Cancer Research, Immunology, and Pharmacology.

They have contributed to the understanding of genomics and chromatin dynamics, epigenetics and DNA methylation, immune cells in cancer, RNA modifications and cancer, cancer genomics and diagnostics, microRNA in disease regulation, and genetic associations and epidemiology. These topics highlight the depth and interdisciplinary approach of their research activity.

Their publication record includes numerous papers in respected venues. Notable recent papers include:

Robust Hi-C Maps of Enhancer-Promoter Interactions Reveal the Function of Non-coding Genome in Neural Development and Diseases, 2020, Molecular Cell
Cell Type-Specific Intralocus Interactions Reveal Oligodendrocyte Mechanisms in MS, 2020, Cell
CHD7 promotes neural progenitor differentiation in embryonic stem cells via altered chromatin accessibility and nascent gene expression, 2020, Scientific Reports
Distinct Cell Adhesion Signature Defines Glioblastoma Myeloid-Derived Suppressor Cell Subsets, 2022, Cancer Research
Chromatin Mechanisms Driving Cancer, 2021, Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

The frequent publication venues for their work include:

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Cancer Research
Cell
Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention
Neuro-Oncology

Peter C. Scacheri has collaborated extensively, with frequent co-authors including Cynthia F. Bartels, Katreya Lovrenert, Olivia Corradin, Víctor Moreno, and Ulrike Peters. These collaborations demonstrate a network of research partnerships across related fields.

Best Publications

Short interfering RNAs can induce unexpected and divergent changes in the levels of untargeted proteins in mammalian cells

Peter C. Scacheri;Orit Rozenblatt-Rosen;Natasha J. Caplen;Tyra G. Wolfsberg

788
Citations
CBP-mediated acetylation of histone H3 lysine 27 antagonizes Drosophila Polycomb silencing.

Feng Tie;Rakhee Banerjee;Carl A. Stratton;Jayashree Prasad-Sinha

636
Citations
Epigenetic signatures distinguish multiple classes of enhancers with distinct cellular functions

Gabriel E. Zentner;Paul J. Tesar;Peter C. Scacheri

635
Citations
A mouse model of multiple endocrine neoplasia, type 1, develops multiple endocrine tumors

Judy S. Crabtree;Peter Christopher Scacheri;Jerrold M. Ward;Lisa Garrett-Beal

504
Citations
Discovery of common and rare genetic risk variants for colorectal cancer

Jeroen R. Huyghe;Stephanie A. Bien;Tabitha A. Harrison;Hyun Min Kang

486
Citations
Combinatorial effects of multiple enhancer variants in linkage disequilibrium dictate levels of gene expression to confer susceptibility to common traits.

Olivia Corradin;Alina Saiakhova;Batool Akhtar-Zaidi;Lois Myeroff

376
Citations
Epigenomic enhancer profiling defines a signature of colon cancer

Batool Akhtar-Zaidi;Batool Akhtar-Zaidi;Richard Cowper-Sal·lari;Olivia Corradin;Alina Saiakhova

361
Citations
Molecular and phenotypic aspects of CHD7 mutation in CHARGE syndrome.

Gabriel E. Zentner;Wanda S. Layman;Donna M. Martin;Peter C. Scacheri

333
Citations
DNase-chip: A high-resolution method to identify DNase I hypersensitive sites using tiled microarrays

Gregory E Crawford;Sean Davis;Peter C Scacheri;Gabriel Renaud

301
Citations
CHD7 Targets Active Gene Enhancer Elements to Modulate ES Cell-Specific Gene Expression

Michael P. Schnetz;Lusy Handoko;Batool Akhtar-Zaidi;Cynthia F. Bartels

274
Citations
Genomic distribution of CHD7 on chromatin tracks H3K4 methylation patterns

Michael P. Schnetz;Cynthia F. Bartels;Kuntal Shastri;Dheepa Balasubramanian

269
Citations
Functional Enhancers Shape Extrachromosomal Oncogene Amplifications

Andrew R. Morton;Nergiz Dogan-Artun;Zachary J. Faber;Graham MacLeod

267
Citations
Of Mice and MEN1: Insulinomas in a Conditional Mouse Knockout

Judy S. Crabtree;Peter C. Scacheri;Jerrold M. Ward;Sara R. McNally

254
Citations
Enhancer variants: evaluating functions in common disease

Olivia Corradin;Peter Christopher Scacheri

241
Citations
Genome-Wide Analysis of Menin Binding Provides Insights into MEN1 Tumorigenesis

Peter C Scacheri;Sean Davis;Duncan T Odom;Gregory E Crawford

226
Citations
ZNF143 provides sequence specificity to secure chromatin interactions at gene promoters.

Swneke D. Bailey;Swneke D. Bailey;Xiaoyang Zhang;Xiaoyang Zhang;Kinjal Desai;Malika Aid

217
Citations
Molecular Pathology of the MEN1 Gene

Sunita K. Agarwal;A. Lee Burns;Karen E. Sukhodolets;Patricia A. Kennedy

197
Citations
Therapeutic targeting of ependymoma as informed by oncogenic enhancer profiling

Stephen C. Mack;Kristian W. Pajtler;Kristian W. Pajtler;Lukas Chavez;Lukas Chavez;Konstantin Okonechnikov

194
Citations
Transcription elongation factors represent in vivo cancer dependencies in glioblastoma

Tyler E. Miller;Tyler E. Miller;Brian B. Liau;Brian B. Liau;Lisa C. Wallace;Andrew R. Morton;Andrew R. Morton

191
Citations
Discovery of common and rare genetic risk variants for colorectal cancer

Jeroen R. Huyghe;Stephanie A. Bien;Tabitha A. Harrison;Hyun Min Kang

0
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Sanford D. Markowitz Case Western Reserve University

Jeremy N. Rich University of Pittsburgh

Francis S. Collins National Institutes of Health

Alicja Wolk Karolinska Institute

Daniel D. Buchanan University of Melbourne

Allen M. Spiegel Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Kenneth Offit Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Jenny Chang-Claude German Cancer Research Center

Andrew T. Chan Harvard University

Stephen B. Gruber City Of Hope National Medical Center

External Links

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