Aaron McKenna

77.7k citations
28 papers · 28.7k indexed · 8 hit papers · h-index 19

Impact in

  • Genetics top 0.02%
    • Genetic diversity and population structure
    • Genomics and Rare Diseases
    • Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals
    • Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock
    • Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics

Papers in

Aaron McKenna

26 papers receiving 28.4k citations

Hit Papers

Single-cell lineage tracing of metastatic cancer reveals selection of hybrid EMT states 2021 · 208 citations
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Peers

Aaron McKenna
Comparison fields: 5 of 187
  • Genetics 10.7k
  • Cancer Research 4.9k
  • Molecular Biology 14.4k
  • Horticulture 119
  • Plant Science 4.5k
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The 25 scholars most cited alongside Aaron McKenna, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
#Work
1 20250
2 20250
3 20235
4 20231
5 20224
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Single-cell lineage tracing of metastatic cancer reveals selection of hybrid EMT states
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2021208
7 202154
8 202065
9 2019129
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Simultaneous single-cell profiling of lineages and cell types in the vertebrate brain
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2018408
11 201879
12 201793
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Whole-organism lineage tracing by combinatorial and cumulative genome editing
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2016477
14 201318
15 2013195
16 201351
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Whole-exome sequencing identifies a recurrent NAB2-STAT6 fusion in solitary fibrous tumors
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2013422
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Genomic sequencing of meningiomas identifies oncogenic SMO and AKT1 mutations
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2013419
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A framework for variation discovery and genotyping using next-generation DNA sequencing data
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20117268
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The Genome Analysis Toolkit: A MapReduce framework for analyzing next-generation DNA sequencing data
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201017384

About Aaron McKenna

Aaron McKenna is a scholar working on Aging, Cancer Research, Cell Biology, Molecular Biology and Genetics, having authored 28 papers that have together received 28.7k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics (8 papers), CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (7 papers), Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics (6 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (6 papers), Zebrafish Biomedical Research Applications (3 papers), Genomics and Rare Diseases (2 papers), Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (2 papers) and Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (2 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Genetics (10.7k citations), Cancer Research (4.9k citations), Molecular Biology (14.4k citations), Horticulture (119 citations) and Plant Science (4.5k citations). Aaron McKenna has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Switzerland and South Africa. Frequent co-authors include Kristian Cibulskis, Eric Banks, Mark A. DePristo, Stacey Gabriel, Andrew Kernytsky, Mark J. Daly, David Altshuler, Andrey Sivachenko, Kiran Garimella and Matthew G. Hanna. Their work appears in journals such as Nature Genetics, Nature Biotechnology, Cancer Research, Cancer Cell and BMC Biology.

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