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Swee Lay Thein

Active 1985–2024

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Swee-Lay Thein
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18,359
Citations
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Citations

Citations per year for Swee Lay Thein1985: 14 citations1986: 31 citations1987: 57 citations1988: 63 citations1989: 94 citations1990: 106 citations1991: 90 citations1992: 86 citations1993: 62 citations1994: 83 citations1995: 44 citations1996: 43 citations1997: 54 citations1998: 64 citations1999: 28 citations2000: 29 citations2001: 31 citations2002: 39 citations2003: 40 citations2004: 39 citations2005: 27 citations2006: 31 citations2007: 53 citations2008: 69 citations2009: 96 citations2010: 109 citations2011: 126 citations2012: 76 citations2013: 89 citations2014: 79 citations2015: 82 citations2016: 74 citations2017: 102 citations2018: 89 citations2019: 246 citations2020: 312 citations2021: 323 citations2022: 267 citations2023: 210 citations2024: 305 citations2025: 112 citations2026: 3 citations

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Countries

World map of the countries and regions citing this authorUnited States: 1,375 citing papers, 28.1% of this breakdownUnited Kingdom: 542 citing papers, 11.1% of this breakdownChina: 297 citing papers, 6.1% of this breakdownFrance: 219 citing papers, 4.5% of this breakdownGermany: 210 citing papers, 4.3% of this breakdownItaly: 210 citing papers, 4.3% of this breakdownCanada: 177 citing papers, 3.6% of this breakdownNetherlands: 162 citing papers, 3.3% of this breakdownJapan: 109 citing papers, 2.2% of this breakdownIndia: 102 citing papers, 2.1% of this breakdownAustralia: 97 citing papers, 2% of this breakdownSwitzerland: 74 citing papers, 1.5% of this breakdown
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Fields

  • Medicine44.9%
  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology40.3%
  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences4.9%
  • Immunology and Microbiology2.5%
  • Environmental Science2.3%
  • Neuroscience1.4%
  • Other3.7%

Topics

  • Hemoglobinopathies and Related Disorders10%
  • Iron Metabolism and Disorders4.9%
  • Molecular Biology Techniques and Applications3.9%
  • Blood groups and transfusion3.6%
  • Erythrocyte Function and Pathophysiology2.5%
  • Prenatal Screening and Diagnostics2.2%
  • Other72.9%

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  1. Selection of housekeeping genes for gene expression studies in human reticulocytes using real-time PCR

    Authors: Nicholas Silver, Steve Best, Jie Jiang, Swee Lay Thein - BMC Molecular Biology 2006 cited by 1,746

  2. Circulating mitochondrial DNA is a proinflammatory DAMP in sickle cell disease

    Authors: Laxminath Tumburu, Shohini Ghosh-Choudhary, Fayaz Seifuddin, Emilia Alina Barbu, Simon Yang, Maliha Maryam Ahmad, Lauren H. W. Wilkins, Ilker Tunc, Ishwarya Sivakumar, James S. Nichols, Pradeep K. Dagur, Shutong Yang, Luis E.F. Almeida, Zenaide Quezado, Christian A. Combs, Eric Lindberg, Christopher K. E. Bleck, Jun Zhu, Arun S. Shet, Jay H. Chung, Mehdi Pirooznia, Swee Lay Thein - Blood 2021 cited by 122

  3. American Society of Hematology 2020 guidelines for sickle cell disease: transfusion support

    Authors: Stella T. Chou, Mouaz Alsawas, Ross M. Fasano, Joshua J. Field, Jeanne E. Hendrickson, Jo Howard, Michelle Kameka, Janet L. Kwiatkowski, France Pirenne, Patricia A. Shi, Sean R. Stowell, Swee Lay Thein, Connie M. Westhoff, Trisha E. Wong, Elie A. Akl - Blood Advances 2020 cited by 463

  4. Recent Advances in the Treatment of Sickle Cell Disease

    Authors: Gabriel Salinas Cisneros, Swee Lay Thein - Frontiers in Physiology 2020 cited by 196

  5. A QTL influencing F cell production maps to a gene encoding a zinc-finger protein on chromosome 2p15

    Authors: Stephan Menzel, Chad Garner, Marta Gut, Fumihiko Matsuda, Masao Yamaguchi, Simon Heath, Mario Foglio, Diana Zélénika, Anne Boland, Helen Rooks, Steve Best, Tim D. Spector, Martin Farrall, Mark Lathrop, Swee Lay Thein - Nature Genetics 2007 cited by 530

  6. A phase 1 dose escalation study of the pyruvate kinase activator mitapivat (AG-348) in sickle cell disease

    Authors: Julia Xu, Anna Conrey, Ingrid Frey, Eveline Gwaabe, Laurel A. Menapace, Laxminath Tumburu, Maureen Lundt, Timothy Lequang, Quan Li, Kristen E. Glass, Emily B. Dunkelberger, Varsha Iyer, Heidi Mangus, Charles Kung, Lenny Dang, Penelope A. Kosinski, Peter Hawkins, Neal Jeffries, William A. Eaton, Swee Lay Thein - Blood 2022 cited by 72

  7. Hypervariable ‘minisatellite’ regions in human DNA

    Authors: Alec J. Jeffreys, Victoria Wilson, Swee Lay Thein - Nature 1985 cited by 3,778

  8. Sickle Cell Anemia and Its Phenotypes

    Authors: Thomas N. Williams, Swee Lay Thein - Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics 2018 cited by 142

  9. The platelet NLRP3 inflammasome is upregulated in sickle cell disease via HMGB1/TLR4 and Bruton tyrosine kinase

    Authors: Sebastian Vogel, Taruna Arora, Xunde Wang, Laurel Mendelsohn, James Nichols, Darlene Allen, Arun S. Shet, Christian A. Combs, Zenaide Quezado, Swee Lay Thein - Blood Advances 2018 cited by 100

  10. Anemia in the elderly: clinical implications and new therapeutic concepts

    Authors: Reinhard Stauder, Swee Lay Thein - Haematologica 2014 cited by 128

  11. Molecular basis of β thalassemia and potential therapeutic targets

    Authors: Swee Lay Thein - Blood Cells Molecules and Diseases 2017 cited by 208

  12. MYB – A regulatory factor in hematopoiesis

    Authors: Xunde Wang, Nikolaos Angelis, Swee Lay Thein - Gene 2018 cited by 90

  13. Genome Wide Association Study of Fetal Hemoglobin in Sickle Cell Anemia in Tanzania

    Authors: Siana Nkya, Tarjinder Singh, Helen Rooks, Josephine Mgaya, Harvest Mariki, Deogratius Soka, Bruno P. Mmbando, Evarist Msaki, I. Kolder, Swee Lay Thein, Stephan Menzel, Sharon E. Cox, Julie Makani, Jeffrey C. Barrett - PLoS ONE 2014 cited by 110

  14. Cardiovascular complications of sickle cell disease

    Authors: Vandana Sachdev, Douglas R. Rosing, Swee Lay Thein - Trends in Cardiovascular Medicine 2020 cited by 72

  15. Allosteric control of hemoglobin S fiber formation by oxygen and its relation to the pathophysiology of sickle cell disease

    Authors: Eric R. Henry, Troy Cellmer, Emily B. Dunkelberger, Belhu Metaferia, James Hofrichter, Quan Li, David Ostrowski, Rodolfo Ghirlando, John M. Louis, Stéphane Moutereau, F. Galactéros, Swee Lay Thein, Pablo Bartolucci, William A. Eaton - National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2020 cited by 59

  16. Phenotypic screening of the ReFRAME drug repurposing library to discover new drugs for treating sickle cell disease

    Authors: Belhu Metaferia, Troy Cellmer, Emily B. Dunkelberger, Quan Li, Eric R. Henry, James Hofrichter, Dwayne Staton, Matthew M. Hsieh, Anna Conrey, John F. Tisdale, Arnab K. Chatterjee, Swee Lay Thein, William A. Eaton - National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2022 cited by 29

  17. Individual-specific ‘fingerprints’ of human DNA

    Authors: A.J. Jeffreys, Victoria Wilson, Swee Lay Thein - Nature 1985 cited by 2,175

  18. HBS1L-MYB intergenic variants modulate fetal hemoglobin via long-range MYB enhancers

    Authors: Ralph Stadhouders, Süleyman Aktuna, Supat Thongjuea, Ali Aghajanirefah, Farzin Pourfarzad, Wilfred F. J. van IJcken, Boris Lenhard, Helen Rooks, Steve Best, Stephan Menzel, Frank Grosveld, Swee Lay Thein, Éric Soler - Journal of Clinical Investigation 2014 cited by 214

  19. Reversible binding of hemoglobin to band 3 constitutes the molecular switch that mediates O2 regulation of erythrocyte properties

    Authors: Haiyan Chu, Mary M. McKenna, Nathan A. Krump, Suilan Zheng, Laurel Mendelsohn, Swee Lay Thein, Lisa Garrett, David M. Bodine, Philip S. Low - Blood 2016 cited by 85

  20. Treating sickle cell anemia

    Authors: John F. Tisdale, Swee Lay Thein, William A. Eaton - Science 2020 cited by 81

  21. Mitapivat increases ATP and decreases oxidative stress and erythrocyte mitochondria retention in a SCD mouse model

    Authors: Zenaide Quezado, Sayuri Kamimura, Meghann L. Smith, Xunde Wang, Michael R. Heaven, Sirsendu Jana, Sebastian Vogel, Patricia M. Zerfas, Christian A. Combs, Luis E.F. Almeida, Quan Li, Martha Quezado, Iren Horkayne‐Szakaly, Penelope A. Kosinski, Shaoxia Yu, Unnati Kapadnis, Charles Kung, Lenny Dang, Paul Wakim, William A. Eaton, Abdu I. Alayash, Swee Lay Thein - Blood Cells Molecules and Diseases 2022 cited by 36

  22. Dietary iron restriction improves markers of disease severity in murine sickle cell anemia

    Authors: Nermi L. Parrow, Pierre-Christian Violet, Nisha George, Faris Ali, Shivam Bhanvadia, Ryan Wong, John F. Tisdale, Courtney D. Fitzhugh, Mark Levine, Swee Lay Thein, Robert E. Fleming - Blood 2020 cited by 22

  23. Control of fetal hemoglobin: new insights emerging from genomics and clinical implications

    Authors: Swee Lay Thein, Stephan Menzel, Mark Lathrop, C. Garner - Human Molecular Genetics 2009 cited by 253

  24. Survival in adults with sickle cell disease in a high-income setting

    Authors: Kate Gardner, Abdel Douiri, Emma Drašar, Marlene Allman, Anne Mwirigi, Moji Awogbade, Swee Lay Thein - Blood 2016 cited by 227