Andrew Rowan

11.0k citations

66 papers · 9.2k · 4 hit papers · h-index 41

Impact in

Pathology and Forensic Medicine top 0.2%
- Genetic factors in colorectal cancer
Cancer Research top 1%
- Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics

Papers in

Pathology and Forensic Medicine 39
- Genetic factors in colorectal cancer 38
Oncology 22
- Colorectal Cancer Treatments and Studies 10
- Colorectal Cancer Screening and Detection 7

Co-authors: Walter Fred Bodmer (25 shared papers)Ian P.M. Tomlinson (23 shared papers)Mohammad Ilyas (7 shared papers)D C Bicknell (8 shared papers)Nanda R. Rodrigues (1 shared paper)Mark E. Smith (1 shared paper)I. Ballini Kerr (1 shared paper)Julian Gannon (1 shared paper)
Journals: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (10 papers)Nature Genetics (6 papers)Cancer Research (5 papers)Human Mutation (4 papers)British Journal of Cancer (4 papers)
Partner nations: United Kingdom United States Finland

In The Last Decade

Andrew Rowan

65 papers receiving 8.9k citations

Andrew Rowan's Hit Papers

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Replication stress links structural and numerical cancer chromosomal instability 2013 · 681 citations

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Paper score: A paper's citations measured against the top-1% bar of its own field and year: the square root of citations ÷ bar, so 1 means right at the bar and 2 means four times its citations. The bar blends the citation counts that enter the top 1% of the paper's subfields in its year (weighted 89.5%), of those subfields over all years (0.5%) and of its year across all fields (10%); a subfield and year with fewer than 400 papers takes its year's bar. Papers from 2026 are not scored yet: in an unfinished year, when a paper appeared matters more than how it is cited.

Hit paper: A paper cited at least 1.5× the top-1% bar of its field and year: a paper score of at least √1.5.

2013 Nature
2007 Nature Genetics
2002 Nature Genetics
1990 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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1	Germline mutations in FH predispose to dominantly inherited uterine fibroids, skin leiomyomata and papillary renal cell cancer Nature Genetics ·Ian P. M. Tomlinson, Neyaz Alam, Andrew Rowan, Ella Barclay, Emma Jaeger, Patricia A. Gorman, Hanan Lamlum, Rebecca R. Roylance Hit paper breakdown →	2002	1297
2	p53 mutations in colorectal cancer. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Nanda R. Rodrigues, Andrew Rowan, Mark E. Smith, I. Ballini Kerr, Walter Fred Bodmer, Julian Gannon, David Philip Lane Hit paper breakdown →	1990	920
3	A genome-wide association scan of tag SNPs identifies a susceptibility variant for colorectal cancer at 8q24.21 Nature Genetics ·Ian P. M. Tomlinson, Emily L. Webb, Luis G. Carvajal‐Carmona, Peter Broderick, Zoe Kemp, Sarah L. Spain, Steven Penegar, Ian P. Chandler Hit paper breakdown →	2007	696
4	Replication stress links structural and numerical cancer chromosomal instability Nature ·Rebecca A. Burrell, Sarah Elizabeth McClelland, David Endesfelder, Petra Groth, Marie-Christine Weller, Nadeem Shaikh, Enric Domingo, Nnennaya Kanu Hit paper breakdown →	2013	681
5	A genome-wide association study identifies colorectal cancer susceptibility loci on chromosomes 10p14 and 8q23.3 Nature Genetics ·Ian PM Tomlinson, Emily L. Webb, Luis G. Carvajal‐Carmona, Peter Broderick, Kimberley M. Howarth, Alan Michael Pittman, Sarah L. Spain, Steven J Lubbe	2008	482
6	β-Catenin mutations in cell lines established from human colorectal cancers Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Mohammad Ilyas, Ian P.M. Tomlinson, Andrew Rowan, Massimo N. Pignatelli, Walter Fred Bodmer	1997	446
7	A genome-wide association study shows that common alleles of SMAD7 influence colorectal cancer risk Nature Genetics ·Peter Broderick, Luis G. Carvajal‐Carmona, Alan Michael Pittman, Emily L. Webb, Kimberley M. Howarth, Andrew Rowan, Steven J Lubbe, Sarah L. Spain	2007	439
8	APC mutations in sporadic colorectal tumors: A mutational “hotspot” and interdependence of the “two hits” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Andrew Rowan, H. Lamlum, Mohammad Ilyas, James Wheeler, Joseph Straub, Aggeliki Papadopoulou, D C Bicknell, Walter Fred Bodmer	2000	420
9	The type of somatic mutation at APC in familial adenomatous polyposis is determined by the site of the germline mutation: a new facet to Knudson's 'two-hit' hypothesis Nature Medicine ·Hanan Lamlum, Mohammad Ilyas, Andrew Rowan, Susan K. Clark, Victoria Johnson, Jennie Bell, Ian M. Frayling, Jason Alexander Efstathiou	1999	299
10	Common genetic variants at the CRAC1 (HMPS) locus on chromosome 15q13.3 influence colorectal cancer risk Nature Genetics ·Emma Jaeger, Emily L. Webb, Kimberley M. Howarth, Luis G. Carvajal‐Carmona, Andrew Rowan, Peter Broderick, Axel Walther, Sarah L. Spain	2007	261
11	Array Comparative Genomic Hybridization Analysis of Colorectal Cancer Cell Lines and Primary Carcinomas Cancer Research ·Eleanor J. Douglas, Heike Fiegler, Andrew Rowan, Sarah Halford, David Bicknell, Walter Fred Bodmer, Ian P.M. Tomlinson, Nigel P. Carter	2004	164
12	SMAD4 mutations in colorectal cancer probably occur before chromosomal instability, but after divergence of the microsatellite instability pathway Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·K Woodford-Richens, Andrew Rowan, Patricia A. Gorman, Sarah Halford, D C Bicknell, Harpreet Singh Wasan, Rebecca R. Roylance, Walter Fred Bodmer	2001	162
13	Tissue typing the HLA-A locus from genomic DNA by sequence-specific PCR: comparison of HLA genotype and surface expression on colorectal tumor cell lines. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Michael J. Browning, P. Krausa, Andrew Rowan, D C Bicknell, J. G. Bodmer, Walter Fred Bodmer	1993	159
14	APC mutations are sufficient for the growth of early colorectal adenomas Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Hanan Lamlum, Angeliki Papadopoulou, Mohammad Ilyas, Andrew Rowan, Cheryl Gillet, Andrew M. Hanby, Ian A. Talbot, Walter Fred Bodmer	2000	154
15	Clinical Features of Multiple Cutaneous and Uterine Leiomyomatosis Archives of Dermatology ·Neyaz Alam, Ella Barclay, Andrew Rowan, Jonathan P. Tyrer, Eduardo J. Calonje, Sanjiv Manek, David P. Kelsell, Irene M. Leigh	2005	147
16	Intestinal trefoil factor controls the expression of the adenomatous polyposis coli–catenin and the E-cadherin–catenin complexes in human colon carcinoma cells Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Jason Alexander Efstathiou, Masafumi Noda, Andrew Rowan, Catherine Dixon, Rebecca Chinery, Aida U. Jawhari, Takanori Hattori, Nicholas A. Wright	1998	142
17	Beta 2-microglobulin gene mutations: a study of established colorectal cell lines and fresh tumors. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·D C Bicknell, Andrew Rowan, Walter Fred Bodmer	1994	128
18	Whole-gene APC deletions cause classical familial adenomatous polyposis, but not attenuated polyposis or “multiple” colorectal adenomas Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Oliver M. Sieber, H. Lamlum, Michael Crabtree, Andrew Rowan, Ella Barclay, Lara Rachel Lipton, Shirley Hodgson, Hunu J W Thomas	2002	116
19	Germline Mutations but Not Somatic Changes at the MYH Locus Contribute to the Pathogenesis of Unselected Colorectal Cancers American Journal Of Pathology ·Sarah Halford, Andrew Rowan, Lara Rachel Lipton, Oliver M. Sieber, Kevin Pack, Huw J. W. Thomas, Shirley Victoria Hodgson, Walter Fred Bodmer	2003	113
20	Germline APC variants in patients with multiple colorectal adenomas, with evidence for the particular importance of E1317Q Human Molecular Genetics ·H. Lamlum, Nada A Al Tassan, E Jaeger, Ian M. Frayling, Oliver M. Sieber, Faisal Reza, Michaela Eckert, Andrew Rowan	2000	108

About Andrew Rowan

Andrew Rowan is a scholar working on Pathology and Forensic Medicine, Oncology, Cancer Research, Genetics and Molecular Biology, having authored 66 papers that have together received 9.2k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Genetic factors in colorectal cancer (38 papers), Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics (13 papers), Colorectal Cancer Treatments and Studies (10 papers), Wnt/β-catenin signaling in development and cancer (10 papers), Genomic variations and chromosomal abnormalities (7 papers), Colorectal Cancer Screening and Detection (7 papers), Cancer-related gene regulation (6 papers) and TGF-β signaling in diseases (4 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Pathology and Forensic Medicine (2.9k citations), Cancer Research (1.9k citations), Oncology (2.7k citations), Molecular Biology (4.2k citations) and Genetics (1.6k citations). Andrew Rowan has collaborated with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Finland. Frequent co-authors include Walter Fred Bodmer, Ian P.M. Tomlinson, Mohammad Ilyas, D C Bicknell, Nanda R. Rodrigues, Mark E. Smith, I. Ballini Kerr, Julian Gannon, David Philip Lane and Massimo N. Pignatelli. Their work appears in journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Genetics, Cancer Research, Human Mutation and British Journal of Cancer.

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