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Thomas Ried publication distribution in Molecular Biology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Molecular Biology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Thomas Ried sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 564+

This scientist: 488 publications — 95th percentile

95% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 564 publications or more.

Thomas Ried D-index placement in Molecular Biology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Molecular Biology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Thomas Ried sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 145+

This scientist: 115 D-Index — 90th percentile

90% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 145 D-Index or more.

Overview

Thomas Ried is affiliated with the National Institutes of Health in the United States. Their research spans multiple disciplines, primarily within biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine. The scientist's work is concentrated notably in molecular biology, cancer research, oncology, pathology and forensic medicine, and genetics.

Their main research topics encompass cancer genomics and diagnostics, genetic factors in colorectal cancer, lung cancer research studies, renal cell carcinoma treatment, renal and related cancers, genomic variations and chromosomal abnormalities, as well as RNA modifications and cancer.

Thomas Ried has contributed to a significant number of publications, with notable works including:

  • Genomic and evolutionary classification of lung cancer in never smokers, 2021, Nature Genetics
  • Extrachromosomal DNA Amplification Contributes to Small Cell Lung Cancer Heterogeneity and Is Associated with Worse Outcomes, 2023, Cancer Discovery
  • Mitochondrial DNA alterations underlie an irreversible shift to aerobic glycolysis in fumarate hydratase-deficient renal cancer, 2021, Science Signaling
  • Intratumoral Heterogeneity and Clonal Evolution Induced by HPV Integration, 2023, Cancer Discovery
  • Clonal selection of stable aneuploidies in progenitor cells drives high-prevalence tumorigenesis, 2021, Genes & Development

Their frequent co-authors include Darawalee Wangsa, Kerstin Heselmeyer-Haddad, Daniela Hirsch, Irianna Torres, and E. Michael Gertz. These collaborations indicate a network of researchers working extensively in related fields.

Thomas Ried's research has been published in several prominent venues, with repeated contributions to:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Cancer Research
  • Cancer Genetics
  • Cancers
  • Scientific Reports

Best Publications

  • Multicolor Spectral Karyotyping of Human Chromosomes

    E. Schröck;S. du Manoir;T. Veldman;B. Schoell

  • Atm-deficient mice: a paradigm of ataxia telangiectasia.

    Carrolee Barlow;Shinji Hirotsune;Richard Paylor;Marek Liyanage

  • SIRT6 is a histone H3 lysine 9 deacetylase that modulates telomeric chromatin

    Eriko Michishita;Ronald A. McCord;Elisabeth Berber;Mitomu Kioi

  • Centrosome amplification and a defective G2-M cell cycle checkpoint induce genetic instability in BRCA1 exon 11 isoform-deficient cells.

    Xiaoling Xu;Zoë Weaver;Steven P Linke;Cuiling Li

  • Impaired DNA damage response, genome instability, and tumorigenesis in SIRT1 mutant mice.

    Rui Hong Wang;Kundan Sengupta;Cuiling Li;Hyun Seok Kim

  • Conditional mutation of Brca1 in mammary epithelial cells results in blunted ductal morphogenesis and tumour formation.

    Xiaoling Xu;Kay Uwe Wagner;Denise Larson;Zoë Weaver

  • Frequent translocation t(4;14)(p16.3;q32.3) in multiple myeloma is associated with increased expression and activating mutations of fibroblast growth factor receptor 3.

    Chesi M;Nardini E;Brents La;Schröck E

  • From silencing to gene expression: real-time analysis in single cells.

    Susan M Janicki;Toshiro Tsukamoto;Simone E Salghetti;William P Tansey

  • Accumulated chromosomal instability in murine bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells leads to malignant transformation

    Masako Miura;Yasuo Miura;Hesed M. Padilla‐Nash;Alfredo A. Molinolo

  • DNA repair protein Ku80 suppresses chromosomal aberrations and malignant transformation.

    Michael J. Difilippantonio;Jie Zhu;Hua Tang Chen;Eric Meffre

  • H2AX Haploinsufficiency Modifies Genomic Stability and Tumor Susceptibility

    Arkady Celeste;Simone Difilippantonio;Michael J. Difilippantonio;Oscar Fernandez-Capetillo

  • Role of Chromosome Territories in the Functional Compartmentalization of the Cell Nucleus

    Thomas Cremer;A. Kurz;R. M. Zirbel;S. Dietzel

  • Gain of chromosome 3q defines the transition from severe dysplasia to invasive carcinoma of the uterine cervix

    K Heselmeyer;E Schröck;S du Manoir;H Blegen

  • AID is required to initiate Nbs1/γ-H2AX focus formation and mutations at sites of class switching

    Simone Petersen;Rafael Casellas;Bernardo Reina-San-Martin;Hua Tang Chen

  • Positional stability of single double-strand breaks in mammalian cells

    Evi Soutoglou;Jonas F. Dorn;Kundan Sengupta;Maria Jasin

  • Simultaneous visualization of seven different DNA probes by in situ hybridization using combinatorial fluorescence and digital imaging microscopy

    Thomas Ried;Antonio Baldini;Timothy C. Rand;David C. Ward

  • Frequent dysregulation of the c-maf proto-oncogene at 16q23 by translocation to an Ig locus in multiple myeloma

    Marta Chesi;Marta Chesi;P. Leif Bergsagel;P. Leif Bergsagel;Oluwatoyin O. Shonukan;Oluwatoyin O. Shonukan;Maria Luisa Martelli;Maria Luisa Martelli

  • Comparative genomic hybridization reveals a specific pattern of chromosomal gains and losses during the genesis of colorectal tumors.

    Thomas Ried;Regina Knutzen;Rüdiger Steinbeck;Harald Blegen

  • Genome-wide analysis of HPV integration in human cancers reveals recurrent, focal genomic instability

    Keiko Akagi;Jingfeng Li;Tatevik R. Broutian;Hesed Padilla-Nash

  • Hidden chromosome abnormalities in haematological malignancies detected by multicolour spectral karyotyping

    Tim Veldman;Christine Vignon;Evelin Schröck;Janet D. Rowley

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas Cremer
Thomas Cremer Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Alejandro A. Schäffer
Alejandro A. Schäffer National Institutes of Health
Michael R. Speicher
Michael R. Speicher Medical University of Graz
H. Richard Alexander
H. Richard Alexander Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
André Nussenzweig
André Nussenzweig National Institutes of Health
David C. Ward
David C. Ward Nevada Cancer Research Foundation
W. Marston Linehan
W. Marston Linehan National Institutes of Health
Anthony Wynshaw-Boris
Anthony Wynshaw-Boris Case Western Reserve University
Paul S. Meltzer
Paul S. Meltzer National Institutes of Health

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