Alan Ashworth

Active 1979–2026

284
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83,441
Citations
147
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Citations

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Countries

World map of the countries and regions citing this authorUnited States: 10,024 citing papers, 28.7% of this breakdownUnited Kingdom: 3,595 citing papers, 10.3% of this breakdownChina: 3,141 citing papers, 9% of this breakdownGermany: 1,650 citing papers, 4.7% of this breakdownCanada: 1,414 citing papers, 4% of this breakdownFrance: 1,351 citing papers, 3.9% of this breakdownItaly: 1,297 citing papers, 3.7% of this breakdownAustralia: 1,044 citing papers, 3% of this breakdownNetherlands: 990 citing papers, 2.8% of this breakdownJapan: 941 citing papers, 2.7% of this breakdownSpain: 913 citing papers, 2.6% of this breakdownSwitzerland: 632 citing papers, 1.8% of this breakdown
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Fields

  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology52.1%
  • Medicine40.3%
  • Immunology and Microbiology2.8%
  • Computer Science1.1%
  • Neuroscience1.1%
  • Engineering0.5%
  • Other2.1%

Topics

  • PARP inhibition in cancer therapy5.8%
  • DNA Repair Mechanisms5.3%
  • Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics3%
  • BRCA gene mutations in cancer2.9%
  • CRISPR and Genetic Engineering2.5%
  • Epigenetics and DNA Methylation2.1%
  • Other78.4%

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  1. PARP inhibitors: Synthetic lethality in the clinic

    Authors: , - Science 2017 cited by 2,937

  2. Targeting the DNA repair defect in BRCA mutant cells as a therapeutic strategy

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , - Nature 2005 cited by 6,735

  3. Genome-wide CRISPR screens of T cell exhaustion identify chromatin remodeling factors that limit T cell persistence

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , - Cancer Cell 2022 cited by 350

  4. Inhibition of Poly(ADP-Ribose) Polymerase in Tumors from BRCA Mutation Carriers

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , - New England Journal of Medicine 2009 cited by 3,632

  5. DNA-Repair Defects and Olaparib in Metastatic Prostate Cancer

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Bernardette Ebbs, Gemma Fowler, Desamparados Roda, Wei Yuan, Yi‐Mi Wu, Xuhong Cao, Rachel Brough, Helen N. Pemberton, Roger A’Hern, Amanda Swain, Lakshmi P. Kunju, Rosalind A. Eeles, Gerhardt Attard, Christopher J. Lord, Alan Ashworth, Mark A. Rubin, Karen E. Knudsen, Felix Y. Feng, Arul M. Chinnaiyan, Emma Hall, Johann S. de Bono - New England Journal of Medicine 2015 cited by 2,187

  6. Reprogramming human T cell function and specificity with non-viral genome targeting

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Jonathan S. Weissman, Kathrin Schumann, Jonathan H. Esensten, Andrew P. May, Alan Ashworth, Gary M. Kupfer, Siri Atma W. Greeley, Rosa Bacchetta, Eric Meffre, Maria Grazia Roncarolo, Neil Romberg, Kevan C. Herold, Antoni Ribas, Manuel D. Leonetti, Alexander Marson - Nature 2018 cited by 871

  7. Genomic Hallmarks and Structural Variation in Metastatic Prostate Cancer

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Jonathan Chou, Haolong Li, Rajdeep Das, Hui Li, Ruhollah Moussavi-Baygi, Hani Goodarzi, Luke A. Gilbert, Primo N. Lara, Christopher P. Evans, Theodore C. Goldstein, Joshua M. Stuart, Scott A. Tomlins, Daniel E. Spratt, R. Keira Cheetham, Donavan T. Cheng, Kyle Kai‐How Farh, Julian Gehring, Jörg Hakenberg, Arnold Liao, Philip G. Febbo, John Shon, Brad Sickler, Serafim Batzoglou, Karen E. Knudsen, Housheng Hansen He, Jiaoti Huang, Alexander W. Wyatt, Scott M. Dehm, Alan Ashworth, Arul M. Chinnaiyan, Christopher A. Maher, Eric J. Small, Felix Y. Feng - Cell 2018 cited by 759

  8. Genome-wide CRISPR Screens in Primary Human T Cells Reveal Key Regulators of Immune Function

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , - Cell 2018 cited by 581

  9. BRCAness revisited

    Authors: , - Nature reviews. Cancer 2016 cited by 1,250

  10. The DNA damage response and cancer therapy

    Authors: , - Nature 2012 cited by 1,829

  11. Synthetic lethality as an engine for cancer drug target discovery

    Authors: , , , - Nature Reviews Drug Discovery 2019 cited by 469

  12. ADP‐ribosyltransferases, an update on function and nomenclature

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , George‐Lucian Moldovan, Joel Moss, Gioacchino Natoli, Michael L. Nielsen, Mario Niepel, F. Nolte, John M. Pascal, Bryce M. Paschal, Krzysztof Pawłowski, Guy G. Poirier, Susan Smith, Gyula Timinszky, Zhao‐Qi Wang, José Yélamos, Xiaochun Yu, Roko Žaja, Mathias Ziegler - FEBS Journal 2021 cited by 327

  13. RASA2 ablation in T cells boosts antigen sensitivity and long-term function

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Giedre Krenciute, Alan Ashworth, Alexander Marson - Nature 2022 cited by 223

  14. Genome-wide and high-density CRISPR-Cas9 screens identify point mutations in PARP1 causing PARP inhibitor resistance

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , - Nature Communications 2018 cited by 447

  15. The DNA methylation landscape of advanced prostate cancer

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Robert E. Reiter, Matthew B. Rettig, Owen N. Witte, M. Yvonne Kim, Lawrence Fong, Daniel E. Spratt, Todd M. Morgan, Rohit Bose, Franklin W. Huang, Hui Li, Lisa N. Chesner, Tanushree Shenoy, Hani Goodarzi, Irfan A. Asangani, Shahneen Sandhu, Joshua M. Lang, Nupam P. Mahajan, Primo N. Lara, Christopher P. Evans, Phillip G. Febbo, Serafim Batzoglou, Karen E. Knudsen, Housheng Hansen He, Jiaoti Huang, Wilbert Zwart, J Costello, Jianhua Luo, Scott A. Tomlins, Alexander W. Wyatt, Scott M. Dehm, Alan Ashworth, Luke A. Gilbert, Paul C. Boutros, Kyle Kai‐How Farh, Arul M. Chinnaiyan, Christopher A. Maher, Eric J. Small, David A. Quigley, Felix Y. Feng - Nature Genetics 2020 cited by 353

  16. Transcription-Associated Cyclin-Dependent Kinases as Targets and Biomarkers for Cancer Therapy

    Authors: , , , , - Cancer Discovery 2020 cited by 293

  17. PARP inhibition enhances tumor cell–intrinsic immunity in ERCC1-deficient non–small cell lung cancer

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , - Journal of Clinical Investigation 2018 cited by 324

  18. ATR inhibitors as a synthetic lethal therapy for tumours deficient in ARID1A

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , - Nature Communications 2016 cited by 387

  19. Resistance to therapy caused by intragenic deletion in BRCA2

    Authors: , , , , , , , , - Nature 2008 cited by 1,012

  20. Detection of early stage pancreatic cancer using 5-hydroxymethylcytosine signatures in circulating cell free DNA

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , - Nature Communications 2020 cited by 186

  21. Fragment binding to the Nsp3 macrodomain of SARS-CoV-2 identified through crystallographic screening and computational docking

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , James M. Holton, Michael G. Johnson, T. Krojer, G. Meigs, A.J. Powell, J.G.M. Rack, V.L. Rangel, Silvia Russi, R. Skyner, Clyde A. Smith, Alexei S. Soares, Jennifer L. Wierman, Kang Zhu, Peter O’Brien, Natalia Jura, Alan Ashworth, John J. Irwin, Michael C. Thompson, Jason E. Gestwicki, F. von Delft, Brian K. Shoichet, James S. Fraser, Ivan Ahel - Science Advances 2021 cited by 208

  22. Identification of the breast cancer susceptibility gene BRCA2

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Cees J. Cornelisse, Henry T. Lynch, Steven A. Narod, Gilbert Lenoir, V Egilsson, Rosa Bjork Barkadottir, Douglas F. Easton, David Bentley, P. Andrew Futreal, Alan Ashworth, Michael R. Stratton - Nature 1995 cited by 3,663

  23. Synthetic lethal therapies for cancer: what’s next after PARP inhibitors?

    Authors: , - Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology 2018 cited by 421

  24. Deficiency in the Repair of DNA Damage by Homologous Recombination and Sensitivity to Poly(ADP-Ribose) Polymerase Inhibition

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , - Cancer Research 2006 cited by 1,305