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William J. Greenleaf

Stanford Medicine · US
Area of research
Molecular Biology · Cancer Research
Research interest
Research interests include Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics, Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics, RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms, and RNA Research and Splicing.
h-index
88
citations
49,004
works
508
NIH funding
primary concept
Biology
email

Recent publications

Three-dimensional genome landscape of primary human cancers
Nature Genetics 2025cited by 18position: middledoi
Spatial proteomics of Alzheimer’s disease-specific human microglial states
Nature Immunology 2025cited by 17position: middledoi
MorPhiC Consortium: towards functional characterization of all human genes
Nature 2025cited by 12position: middledoi
Thymic epithelial cells amplify epigenetic noise to promote immune tolerance
Nature 2025cited by 5position: middledoi
Compact RNA sensors for increasingly complex functions of multiple inputs
Nature Chemistry 2025cited by 3position: middledoi
Enhancing transcription–replication conflict targets ecDNA-positive cancers
Nature 2024cited by 82position: middledoi
Massively parallel characterization of regulatory elements in the developing human cortex
Science 2024cited by 61position: middledoi
Multicenter integrated analysis of noncoding CRISPRi screens
Nature Methods 2024cited by 49position: middledoi
Cross-ancestry atlas of gene, isoform, and splicing regulation in the developing human brain
Science 2024cited by 46position: middledoi
Single-cell chromatin accessibility reveals malignant regulatory programs in primary human cancers
Science 2024cited by 41position: middledoi
PU.1 and BCL11B sequentially cooperate with RUNX1 to anchor mSWI/SNF to poise the T cell effector landscape
Nature Immunology 2024cited by 27position: middledoi
The killifish germline regulates longevity and somatic repair in a sex-specific manner
Nature Aging 2024cited by 25position: middledoi
Transcriptomic sex differences in postmortem brain samples from patients with psychiatric disorders
Science Translational Medicine 2024cited by 20position: middledoi
Abstract B008: The polyclonal path towards malignant transformation in familial adenomatous polyposis
Cancer Research 2024cited by 0position: middledoi
Abstract 3872: Multi-ancestral origins of colorectal lesionsMulti-ancestral origins of colorectal lesions
Cancer Research 2024cited by 0position: middledoi
Beyond the exome: What’s next in diagnostic testing for Mendelian conditions
The American Journal of Human Genetics 2023cited by 117position: middledoi
Integrated single-cell chromatin and transcriptomic analyses of human scalp identify gene-regulatory programs and critical cell types for hair and skin diseases
Nature Genetics 2023cited by 68position: lastdoi
Single-cell transcriptomic landscape of the developing human spinal cord
Nature Neuroscience 2023cited by 56position: middledoi
Systematic benchmarking of single-cell ATAC-sequencing protocols
Nature Biotechnology 2023cited by 50position: middledoi
Malaria-driven expansion of adaptive-like functional CD56-negative NK cells correlates with clinical immunity to malaria
Science Translational Medicine 2023cited by 48position: middledoi
CasKAS: direct profiling of genome-wide dCas9 and Cas9 specificity using ssDNA mapping
Genome biology 2023cited by 12position: lastdoi
The chromatin landscape of the euryarchaeon Haloferax volcanii
Genome biology 2023cited by 10position: lastdoi
Single-cell chromatin state transitions during epigenetic memory formation
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) 2023cited by 7position: middledoi
Abstract 3497: The polyclonal path to malignant transformation in familial adenomatous polyposis
Cancer Research 2023cited by 2position: middledoi
PD-1 combination therapy with IL-2 modifies CD8+ T cell exhaustion program
Nature 2022cited by 312position: middledoi
Targeted profiling of human extrachromosomal DNA by CRISPR-CATCH
Nature Genetics 2022cited by 120position: middledoi
Systematic discovery and perturbation of regulatory genes in human T cells reveals the architecture of immune networks
Nature Genetics 2022cited by 88position: middledoi
Engineered cell entry links receptor biology with single-cell genomics
Cell 2022cited by 66position: middledoi
High-throughput biochemical profiling reveals functional adaptation of a bacterial Argonaute
Molecular Cell 2022cited by 19position: lastdoi
The chromatin organization of a chlorarachniophyte nucleomorph genome
Genome biology 2022cited by 8position: lastdoi

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Frequent collaborators

Howard Y. Chang · Amgen (United States)28 papers (2013–2025)Jason D. Buenrostro · Harvard University13 papers (2013–2018)M. Ryan Corces · Gladstone Institutes11 papers (2016–2025)Anshul Kundaje · Stanford Medicine10 papers (2016–2023)Beijing Wu · National Cheng Kung University9 papers (2015–2019)Maxwell R. Mumbach · Stanford University9 papers (2016–2020)M Snyder · Cardiovascular Institute of the South8 papers (2014–2024)Jeffrey M. Granja · Enable Biosciences (United States)8 papers (2018–2025)Paul A. Khavari · Stanford University7 papers (2016–2019)Adam J. Rubin · Broad Institute7 papers (2016–2019)Ansuman T. Satpathy · Stanford University7 papers (2016–2022)Arwa S. Kathiria · Stanford University6 papers (2017–2022)S. Tansu Bagdatli · Stanford University5 papers (2020–2023)Georgi K. Marinov · California Institute of Technology5 papers (2021–2024)Sandy Klemm · Stanford University5 papers (2018–2025)Jonathan K. Pritchard · Stanford Medicine5 papers (2016–2022)Alicia N. Schep · Stanford University4 papers (2017–2018)Anja Mezger · AstraZeneca (Sweden)4 papers (2018–2019)Yanyan Qi · Stanford University4 papers (2018–2019)Mark M. Davis · Case Western Reserve University4 papers (2018–2023)