A.J. Jeffreys

6.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
50 papers, 4.3k citations indexed

About

A.J. Jeffreys is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, A.J. Jeffreys has authored 50 papers receiving a total of 4.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 31 papers in Molecular Biology, 21 papers in Genetics and 5 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in A.J. Jeffreys's work include Forensic and Genetic Research (10 papers), Molecular Biology Techniques and Applications (10 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (7 papers). A.J. Jeffreys is often cited by papers focused on Forensic and Genetic Research (10 papers), Molecular Biology Techniques and Applications (10 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (7 papers). A.J. Jeffreys collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Netherlands and Japan. A.J. Jeffreys's co-authors include Victoria Wilson, Swee Lay Thein, R. A. Flavell, D. B. Morton, I. Patel, Zeng Hao Wong, S. Povey, E. Solomon, Victoria L. Hall and Walter F. Bodmer and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and The Lancet.

In The Last Decade

A.J. Jeffreys

50 papers receiving 3.9k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Individual-specific ‘fingerprints’ of human DNA

1985 1.5k citations A.J. Jeffreys, Swee Lay Thein et al. profile →
Chromosome 5 allele loss in human colorectal carcinomas

1987 451 citations A.J. Jeffreys, I. Patel et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
A.J. Jeffreys United Kingdom	22	2.3k	1.9k	586	551	360	50	4.3k
John A.L. Armour United Kingdom	40	2.9k 1.3×	2.8k 1.5×	785 1.3×	211 0.4×	304 0.8×	104	5.8k
J L Weber United States	21	2.2k 1.0×	2.0k 1.1×	896 1.5×	166 0.3×	372 1.0×	31	4.7k
Ronald E. Bontrop Netherlands	62	3.9k 1.7×	2.3k 1.2×	711 1.2×	294 0.5×	484 1.3×	268	13.7k
Melanie Culver United States	22	1.8k 0.8×	1.4k 0.8×	319 0.5×	642 1.2×	364 1.0×	92	4.7k
Mauricio O. Carneiro United States	6	2.6k 1.1×	2.0k 1.1×	754 1.3×	326 0.6×	345 1.0×	6	5.0k
Jan Klein Germany	60	4.6k 2.0×	3.2k 1.7×	657 1.1×	836 1.5×	627 1.7×	334	15.1k
Isaäc J. Nijman Netherlands	36	2.6k 1.2×	1.9k 1.0×	549 0.9×	299 0.5×	410 1.1×	81	5.1k
Khalid Shakir United States	2	2.1k 0.9×	1.8k 1.0×	612 1.0×	243 0.4×	336 0.9×	2	4.3k
Pierre Pontarotti France	46	3.2k 1.4×	1.1k 0.6×	902 1.5×	680 1.2×	285 0.8×	204	6.8k
Victoria Wilson United States	17	3.9k 1.7×	3.6k 1.9×	1.3k 2.3×	1.1k 2.0×	238 0.7×	47	7.5k

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Mizukoshi, Toshimi, Keiji Tamaki, Jun‐ichi Azumi, et al.. (2002). Allelic structures at hypervariable minisatellite B6.7 in Japanese show population specificity. Journal of Human Genetics. 47(5). 232–238. 1 indexed citations

Signer, Esther, Gustl Anzenberger, & A.J. Jeffreys. (2000). Chimaeric and constitutive DNA fingerprints in the common marmoset (Callithrix jacchus). Primates. 41(1). 49–61. 14 indexed citations

Bois, Philippe R.J. & A.J. Jeffreys. (1999). Minisatellite instability and germline mutation. Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences. 55(12). 1636–1648. 63 indexed citations

Signer, Esther, A.J. Jeffreys, S.T. Licence, et al.. (1999). DNA profiling reveals remarkably low genetic variability in a herd of SLA homozygous pigs. Research in Veterinary Science. 67(2). 207–211. 13 indexed citations

Armour, John A.L., Moira Crosier, & A.J. Jeffreys. (1996). Distribution of tandem repeat polymorphism within minisatellite MS621 (D5S110). Annals of Human Genetics. 60(1). 11–20. 17 indexed citations

Signer, Esther, Feng Gu, & A.J. Jeffreys. (1996). A panel of VNTR markers in pigs. Mammalian Genome. 7(6). 433–437. 5 indexed citations

Collick, Andrew, Janice E. Drew, Philippe R.J. Bois, et al.. (1996). Instability of long inverted repeats within mouse transgenes.. The EMBO Journal. 15(5). 1163–1171. 84 indexed citations

Armour, John A.L., Moira Crosier, S Malcolm, Juliana C.N. Chan, & A.J. Jeffreys. (1995). Human minisatellite loci composed of interspersed GGA-GGT triplet repeats. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 261(1362). 345–349. 4 indexed citations

Signer, Esther, Feng Gu, I. Gustavsson, Leif Andersson, & A.J. Jeffreys. (1994). A pseudoautosomal minisatellite in the pig. Mammalian Genome. 5(1). 48–51. 6 indexed citations

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Pena, Sérgio D.J. & A.J. Jeffreys. (1993). Breve introducao as impressoes digitais de dna ( brief introduction to human dna fingerprinting ). Revista brasileira de genetica. 16(3). 857–879. 1 indexed citations

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Signer, Esther & A.J. Jeffreys. (1993). Application of human minisatellite probes to the development of informative DNA fingerprints and the isolation of locus-specific markers in animals. Birkhäuser Basel eBooks. 67. 421–428. 6 indexed citations

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Jeffreys, A.J. & Sérgio D.J. Pena. (1993). Brief introduction to human DNA fingerprinting. Birkhäuser Basel eBooks. 67. 1–20. 31 indexed citations

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Jeffreys, A.J., Nicola J. Royle, I. Patel, et al.. (1991). Principles and Recent Advances in Human DNA Fingerprinting. Proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium on Polarization Phenomena in Nuclear Reactions. 58. 1–19. 37 indexed citations

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Crosier, Moira, John A.L. Armour, & A.J. Jeffreys. (1991). A highly polymorphic minisatellite (pMS627) on chromsome 14 (D14S44). Nucleic Acids Research. 19(19). 5446–5446. 2 indexed citations

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Smith, Julianne, Rashida Anwar, J. Riley, et al.. (1990). Highly polymorphic minisatellite sequences: allele frequencies and mutation rates for five locus-specific probes in a Caucasian population. Journal of the Forensic Science Society. 30(1). 19–32. 49 indexed citations

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Hillel, J., et al.. (1989). DNA fingerprints of poultry. Animal Genetics. 20(3). 145–155. 74 indexed citations

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Dixson, A. F., Nicholas D. Hastie, I. Patel, & A.J. Jeffreys. (1988). DNA ‘Fingerprinting’ of Captive Family Groups of Common Marmosets (Callithrix jacchus). Folia Primatologica. 51(1). 52–55. 21 indexed citations

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Jones, Lydia, Swee Lay Thein, A.J. Jeffreys, et al.. (1987). Identical twin marrow transplantation for 5 patients with chronic myeloid leukaemia: Role of DNA finger‐printing to confirm monozygosity in 3 cases. European Journal Of Haematology. 39(2). 144–147. 12 indexed citations

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Harris, Stephen, Justin Thackeray, A.J. Jeffreys, & Mark L. Weiss. (1986). Nucleotide sequence analysis of the lemur beta-globin gene family: evidence for major rate fluctuations in globin polypeptide evolution.. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 3(6). 465–84. 26 indexed citations

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Jeffreys, A.J., et al.. (1981). Sequence variation and evolution of nuclear DNA in man and the primates. Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences. 292(1057). 133–142. 5 indexed citations

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