2026 Sarah J. Wheelan: 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	46	2808	2548	1348	1209	167	7990

Overview

Sarah J. Wheelan is affiliated with Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in the United States. Their research spans across multiple disciplines within biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with significant contributions in medicine. The main fields of study include biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine, while the subfields focus on molecular biology, oncology, immunology, cancer research, and epidemiology.

The scientist's work covers a variety of topics reflecting contemporary techniques and applications in molecular and cancer biology. These topics include:

CRISPR and Genetic Engineering
Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics
Single-cell and Spatial Transcriptomics
Gene Expression and Cancer Classification
Molecular Biology Techniques and Applications
Hepatitis C Virus Research
Advanced Biosensing and Bioanalysis Techniques

Sarah J. Wheelan has contributed research to several peer-reviewed journals. Frequent publication venues include:

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Cancer Research
Nature
Molecular Microbiology
The Prostate

Their recent work includes papers such as:

"Transcriptional programs of neoantigen-specific TIL in anti-PD-1-treated lung cancers," 2021, published in Nature
"A conserved intratumoral regulatory T cell signature identifies 4-1BB as a pan-cancer target," 2020, published in Journal of Clinical Investigation
"Inverting the model of genomics data sharing with the NHGRI Genomic Data Science Analysis, Visualization, and Informatics Lab-space," 2022, published in Cell Genomics
"De novo genome assembly of Candida glabrata reveals cell wall protein complement and structure of dispersed tandem repeat arrays," 2020, published in Molecular Microbiology
"Cell wall protein variation, break-induced replication, and subtelomere dynamics in Candida glabrata," 2021, published in Molecular Microbiology

The scientist has collaborated extensively with colleagues, including frequent co-authors such as Alyza Skaist, Srinivasan Yegnasubramanian, Ajay Vaghasia, Jennifer Meyers, and William G. Nelson.

Best Publications

Spidey: a tool for mRNA-to-genomic alignments.

Sarah J. Wheelan;Deanna M. Church;James M. Ostell

405
Citations
Nuclear miRNA Regulates the Mitochondrial Genome in the Heart

Samarjit Das;Marcella Ferlito;Oliver A. Kent;Karen Fox-Talbot

379
Citations
Gibbon genome and the fast karyotype evolution of small apes

Lucia Carbone;R. Alan Harris;Sante Gnerre;Krishna R. Veeramah;Krishna R. Veeramah

349
Citations
Directed targeting of chromatin to the nuclear lamina is mediated by chromatin state and A-type lamins

Jennifer C. Harr;Teresa Romeo Luperchio;Xianrong Wong;Erez Cohen

342
Citations
Extensive somatic L1 retrotransposition in colorectal tumors

Szilvia Solyom;Adam D. Ewing;Eric P. Rahrmann;Tara T. Doucet

297
Citations
Mobile Interspersed Repeats Are Major Structural Variants in the Human Genome

Cheng Ran Lisa Huang;Anna M. Schneider;Yunqi Lu;Tejasvi Niranjan

290
Citations
piggyBac transposase tools for genome engineering

Xianghong Li;Erin R. Burnight;Ashley L. Cooney;Nirav Malani

248
Citations
Domain size distributions can predict domain boundaries

Sarah J. Wheelan;Aron Marchler-Bauer;Stephen H. Bryant

240
Citations
Genome-wide consequences of deleting any single gene

Xinchen Teng;Margaret Dayhoff-Brannigan;Wen Chih Cheng;Catherine E. Gilbert

211
Citations
Cellular resolution maps of X-chromosome inactivation: implications for neural development, function, and disease

Hao Wu;Junjie Luo;Huimin Yu;Amir Rattner

211
Citations
GeneDesign: Rapid, automated design of multikilobase synthetic genes

Sarah M. Richardson;Sarah J. Wheelan;Robert M. Yarrington;Jef D. Boeke

208
Citations
Transcriptome-Wide Binding Sites for Components of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae Non-Poly(A) Termination Pathway: Nrd1, Nab3, and Sen1

Tyler J. Creamer;Miranda M. Darby;Nuttara Jamonnak;Paul Schaughency

181
Citations
Clinical Validation of KRAS, BRAF, and EGFR Mutation Detection Using Next-Generation Sequencing

Ming Tseh Lin;Stacy L. Mosier;Michele Thiess;Katie F. Beierl

162
Citations
Sequence and Comparative Analysis of the Mouse 1-Megabase Region Orthologous to the Human 11p15 Imprinted Domain

Patrick Onyango;Webb Miller;Jessica Lehoczky;Cheuk T. Leung

152
Citations
Gene-breaking: a new paradigm for human retrotransposon-mediated gene evolution.

Sarah J. Wheelan;Yasunori Aizawa;Jeffrey S. Han;Jef D. Boeke

143
Citations
Active retrotransposition by a synthetic L1 element in mice.

Wenfeng An;Jeffrey S. Han;Jeffrey S. Han;Sarah J. Wheelan;Edward S. Davis

133
Citations
Sequence variations in the public human genome data reflect a bottlenecked population history

Gabor Marth;Greg Schuler;Raymond Yeh;Ruth Davenport

125
Citations
DNA transposon Hermes inserts into DNA in nucleosome-free regions in vivo

Sunil Gangadharan;Loris Mularoni;Jennifer Fain-Thornton;Jennifer Fain-Thornton;Sarah J. Wheelan

122
Citations
Yeast Nrd1, Nab3, and Sen1 transcriptome-wide binding maps suggest multiple roles in post-transcriptional RNA processing

Nuttara Jamonnak;Tyler J. Creamer;Miranda M. Darby;Paul Schaughency

111
Citations
ATM Kinase Is Required for Telomere Elongation in Mouse and Human Cells

Stella Suyong Lee;Craig Bohrson;Alexandra Mims Pike;Sarah Jo Wheelan

109
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Jef D. Boeke New York University

Srinivasan Yegnasubramanian Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Joseph A. Califano University of California, San Diego

James R. Eshleman Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Kenneth W. Kinzler Johns Hopkins University

Bert Vogelstein Johns Hopkins University

Ludmila Danilova Johns Hopkins University

William H. Westra Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Alan K. Meeker Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

David L. Thomas Johns Hopkins University

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