Standout Papers

The variant call format and VCFtools 2007 2026 2013 2019 9.5k
  1. The variant call format and VCFtools (2011)
    Petr Danecek, Adam Auton et al. Bioinformatics
  2. An integrated map of genetic variation from 1,092 human genomes (2012)
    Gonçalo R. Abecasis, Adam Auton et al. Nature
  3. The UK Biobank resource with deep phenotyping and genomic data (2018)
    Clare Bycroft, Colin Freeman et al. Nature
  4. Detecting Novel Associations in Large Data Sets (2011)
    David N. Reshef, Yakir Reshef et al. Science
  5. A new multipoint method for genome-wide association studies by imputation of genotypes (2007)
    Jonathan Marchini, Bryan Howie et al. Nature Genetics
  6. A Fine-Scale Map of Recombination Rates and Hotspots Across the Human Genome (2005)
    Simon Myers, Leonardo Bottolo et al. Science
  7. The Fine-Scale Structure of Recombination Rate Variation in the Human Genome (2004)
    Gil McVean, Simon Myers et al. Science
  8. Integrating mapping-, assembly- and haplotype-based approaches for calling variants in clinical sequencing applications (2014)
    Andy Rimmer, Hang Phan et al. Nature Genetics
  9. A Coalescent-Based Method for Detecting and Estimating Recombination From Gene Sequences (2002)
    Gil McVean, Philip Awadalla et al. Genetics
  10. Efficient Coalescent Simulation and Genealogical Analysis for Large Sample Sizes (2016)
    Jerome Kelleher, Alison Etheridge et al. PLoS Computational Biology

Immediate Impact

14 by Nobel laureates 61 from Science/Nature 113 standout
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Works of Gil McVean being referenced

Strong male bias drives germline mutation in chimpanzees
2014 Science
The variant call format and VCFtools
2011 Standout
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Author Peers

Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Gil McVean 14737 18032 1939 5312 125 35.0k
Steve Rozen 16272 10151 2068 8067 112 33.3k
David Reich 9475 21959 1389 3106 176 33.1k
Shaun Purcell 11413 21712 2184 3165 135 38.0k
Kiran Garimella 14092 12020 1369 4954 45 29.0k
Andrey Sivachenko 14768 10618 1311 4456 48 28.0k
Paul I. W. de Bakker 12277 16212 3010 2756 88 33.4k
Michael Ashburner 32949 7879 3769 6241 178 46.5k
Ewan Birney 21408 5714 1810 5355 169 30.1k
Eric Banks 18118 17798 1765 7671 29 39.1k
Jue Ruan 26823 12298 2490 10694 64 45.0k

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