Bert Gold

13.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
58 papers, 6.8k citations indexed

About

Bert Gold is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Oncology. According to data from OpenAlex, Bert Gold has authored 58 papers receiving a total of 6.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 24 papers in Molecular Biology, 20 papers in Genetics and 10 papers in Oncology. Recurrent topics in Bert Gold's work include Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (8 papers), BRCA gene mutations in cancer (7 papers) and Retinal Diseases and Treatments (5 papers). Bert Gold is often cited by papers focused on Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (8 papers), BRCA gene mutations in cancer (7 papers) and Retinal Diseases and Treatments (5 papers). Bert Gold collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and United Kingdom. Bert Gold's co-authors include Michael Dean, Daniel R. Weinberger, Bhaskar Kolachana, Joseph H. Callicott, Eugene Zaitsev, Terry E. Goldberg, Alessandro Bertolino, Bai Lu, David Goldman and Masami Kojima and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Bert Gold

57 papers receiving 6.7k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

The BDNF val66met Polymorphism Affects Activity-Dependent Secretion of BDNF and Human Memory and Hippocampal Function

2003 3.1k citations Joseph H. Callicott, Bhaskar Kolachana et al. profile →
Variation in factor B (BF) and complement component 2 (C2) genes is associated with age-related macular degeneration

2006 843 citations Bert Gold, Joanna E. Merriam et al. Nature Genetics profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Bert Gold	1.9k	1.9k	1.2k	1.1k	938	58	6.8k
Eden R. Martin	1.4k 0.7×	4.4k 2.3×	1.5k 1.2×	4.1k 3.7×	311 0.3×	241	11.2k
Muriel T. Davisson	1.9k 1.0×	7.2k 3.7×	531 0.4×	3.4k 3.1×	1.5k 1.6×	183	12.0k
John G. Flannery	3.0k 1.5×	6.8k 3.5×	641 0.5×	2.0k 1.8×	2.1k 2.2×	137	9.0k
Allison E. Ashley‐Koch	1.3k 0.7×	2.2k 1.2×	1.6k 1.3×	1.8k 1.7×	233 0.2×	210	8.3k
Frank A. Middleton	2.6k 1.3×	3.5k 1.8×	3.9k 3.1×	1.3k 1.2×	95 0.1×	156	12.2k
Nathalie Boddaert	1.3k 0.6×	4.4k 2.3×	2.2k 1.8×	2.7k 2.4×	93 0.1×	389	12.7k
Richard J. Smeyne	4.4k 2.3×	5.4k 2.8×	518 0.4×	1.0k 0.9×	178 0.2×	119	12.1k
Yu‐Qiang Ding	2.8k 1.5×	4.0k 2.1×	788 0.6×	737 0.7×	74 0.1×	262	8.7k
Ben A. Oostra	1.4k 0.7×	7.0k 3.7×	3.8k 3.0×	8.2k 7.4×	686 0.7×	164	12.3k
Richard S. Smith	848 0.4×	4.5k 2.3×	460 0.4×	799 0.7×	2.9k 3.1×	107	7.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Bert Gold

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Fields of papers citing papers by Bert Gold

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Bert Gold

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20 of 20 papers shown

Ricks‐Santi, Luisel, J. Tyson McDonald, Bert Gold, et al.. (2017). Next Generation Sequencing Reveals High Prevalence of BRCA1 and BRCA2 Variants of Unknown Significance in Early-Onset Breast Cancer in African American Women. Ethnicity & Disease. 27(2). 169–169. 21 indexed citations

Gold, Bert, Milena Cankovic, Larissa V. Furtado, Frederick A. Meier, & Christopher D. Gocke. (2015). Do Circulating Tumor Cells, Exosomes, and Circulating Tumor Nucleic Acids Have Clinical Utility?. Journal of Molecular Diagnostics. 17(3). 209–224. 162 indexed citations

Silverman, Robert H., Jaydip Das Gupta, Vincent C. Lombardi, et al.. (2011). Partial Retraction. Science. 334(6053). 176–176. 16 indexed citations

Moitra, Karobi, et al.. (2011). Molecular Evolutionary Analysis of ABCB5: The Ancestral Gene Is a Full Transporter with Potentially Deleterious Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms. PLoS ONE. 6(1). e16318–e16318. 28 indexed citations

Sawitzke, Julie, et al.. (2011). Association Assessment of Copy Number Polymorphism and Risk of Age-Related Macular Degeneration. Ophthalmology. 118(12). 2442–2446. 18 indexed citations

Nicodemus, Kristin K., Amanda J. Law, Eugenia Radulescu, et al.. (2010). Biological Validation of Increased Schizophrenia Risk With NRG1, ERBB4, and AKT1 Epistasis via Functional Neuroimaging in Healthy Controls. Archives of General Psychiatry. 67(10). 991–991. 104 indexed citations

Kirchhoff, Tomas, Zhang-qun Chen, Bert Gold, et al.. (2009). The 6q22.33 Locus and Breast Cancer Susceptibility. Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention. 18(9). 2468–2475. 15 indexed citations

Sawitzke, Julie, et al.. (2009). Multilocus analysis of age-related macular degeneration. European Journal of Human Genetics. 17(9). 1190–1199. 66 indexed citations

Bacolod, Manny D., Shuang Wang, Richard Shattock, et al.. (2008). The Signatures of Autozygosity among Patients with Colorectal Cancer. Cancer Research. 68(8). 2610–2621. 40 indexed citations

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Meyer‐Lindenberg, Andreas, Bhaskar Kolachana, Bert Gold, et al.. (2008). Genetic variants in AVPR1A linked to autism predict amygdala activation and personality traits in healthy humans. Molecular Psychiatry. 14(10). 968–975. 168 indexed citations

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Li, Xing, Bert Gold, Colm Ó’hUigín, et al.. (2006). Unique features of TRIM5α among closely related human TRIM family members. Virology. 360(2). 419–433. 60 indexed citations

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Javanbakht, Hassan, Ping An, Bert Gold, et al.. (2006). Effects of human TRIM5α polymorphisms on antiretroviral function and susceptibility to human immunodeficiency virus infection. Virology. 354(1). 15–27. 99 indexed citations

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Bacolla, Albino, Jack Collins, Bert Gold, et al.. (2006). Long homopurine*homopyrimidine sequences are characteristic of genes expressed in brain and the pseudoautosomal region. Nucleic Acids Research. 34(9). 2663–2675. 54 indexed citations

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Gold, Bert, Joanna E. Merriam, Jana Zernant, et al.. (2006). Variation in factor B (BF) and complement component 2 (C2) genes is associated with age-related macular degeneration. Nature Genetics. 38(4). 458–462. 843 indexed citations breakdown →

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Ogino, Shuji, Pamela Flodman, Robert B. Wilson, Bert Gold, & Wayne W. Grody. (2005). Risk calculations for cystic fibrosis in neonatal screening by immunoreactive trypsinogen and CFTR mutation tests. Genetics in Medicine. 7(5). 317–327. 3 indexed citations

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Ogino, Shuji, Robert B. Wilson, Bert Gold, Pamela Hawley, & Wayne W. Grody. (2004). Bayesian analysis for cystic fibrosis risks in prenatal and carrier screening. Genetics in Medicine. 6(5). 439–449. 7 indexed citations

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Ogino, Shuji, Robert B. Wilson, & Bert Gold. (2004). New insights on the evolution of the SMN1 and SMN2 region: simulation and meta-analysis for allele and haplotype frequency calculations. European Journal of Human Genetics. 12(12). 1015–1023. 96 indexed citations

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Collins, Jack, Robert M. Stephens, Bert Gold, et al.. (2003). An exhaustive DNA micro-satellite map of the human genome using high performance computing. Genomics. 82(1). 10–19. 45 indexed citations

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Gold, Bert. (2003). Origin and utility of the reverse dot–blot. Expert Review of Molecular Diagnostics. 3(2). 143–152. 21 indexed citations

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Lazzarini, Alice, Edward S. Stenroos, Thomas Lehner, et al.. (1995). Short tandem repeat polymorphism linkage studies in a new family with X‐linked mental retardation (MRX20). American Journal of Medical Genetics. 57(4). 552–557. 12 indexed citations

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