Christopher W. Whelan

3.3k total citations
13 papers, 504 citations indexed

About

Christopher W. Whelan is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Christopher W. Whelan has authored 13 papers receiving a total of 504 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Molecular Biology, 3 papers in Genetics and 2 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. Recurrent topics in Christopher W. Whelan's work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (4 papers), Genomic variations and chromosomal abnormalities (2 papers) and Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics (2 papers). Christopher W. Whelan is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (4 papers), Genomic variations and chromosomal abnormalities (2 papers) and Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics (2 papers). Christopher W. Whelan collaborates with scholars based in United States, Italy and United Kingdom. Christopher W. Whelan's co-authors include Steven A. McCarroll, Beth Stevens, Minghe Ma, Melis Yilmaz, Michael C. Carroll, Jessy Présumey, Esra Yalçın, Ernest Aw, Chandra Sekhar Pedamallu and Matthew Meyerson and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Nucleic Acids Research and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Christopher W. Whelan

12 papers receiving 501 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Christopher W. Whelan United States 8 214 114 85 78 75 13 504
Marion Butler Ireland 10 254 1.2× 104 0.9× 149 1.8× 28 0.4× 103 1.4× 14 725
Benjamin Renouf France 8 375 1.8× 23 0.2× 36 0.4× 82 1.1× 69 0.9× 10 545
Haofeng Zhang China 8 460 2.1× 108 0.9× 13 0.2× 69 0.9× 98 1.3× 20 744
Meritxell Aguiló Spain 10 656 3.1× 155 1.4× 44 0.5× 105 1.3× 242 3.2× 13 1.1k
Mohamed Nadhir Djekidel United States 15 701 3.3× 39 0.3× 37 0.4× 111 1.4× 127 1.7× 29 915
Charles‐Félix Calvo France 13 291 1.4× 182 1.6× 19 0.2× 30 0.4× 52 0.7× 20 780
Fen Ji China 16 510 2.4× 67 0.6× 15 0.2× 159 2.0× 204 2.7× 41 846
Michelle L. Seymour United States 11 311 1.5× 35 0.3× 23 0.3× 119 1.5× 54 0.7× 19 840
Daniel C. Ellwanger United States 14 444 2.1× 109 1.0× 20 0.2× 34 0.4× 235 3.1× 19 800
Pramod Thekkat United States 6 714 3.3× 58 0.5× 19 0.2× 140 1.8× 122 1.6× 8 1.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Christopher W. Whelan

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Fields of papers citing papers by Christopher W. Whelan

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Christopher W. Whelan

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Christopher W. Whelan. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Christopher W. Whelan based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Christopher W. Whelan. Christopher W. Whelan is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

13 of 13 papers shown
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Collins, Ryan L., Jett Crowdis, Amanda Garza, et al.. (2025). Rare germline structural variants increase risk for pediatric solid tumors. Science. 387(6729). eadq0071–eadq0071. 4 indexed citations
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Genovese, Giulio, Curtis J. Mello, Po‐Ru Loh, et al.. (2022). Chromosomal phase improves aneuploidy detection in non-invasive prenatal testing at low fetal DNA fractions. Scientific Reports. 12(1). 12025–12025. 1 indexed citations
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Razvi, Yousuf, Rajni V. Patel, Adam Ioannou, et al.. (2022). Cardiac transplantation in transthyretin amyloid cardiomyopathy: outcomes from three decades of tertiary centre experience. European Heart Journal. 43(Supplement_2).
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Yilmaz, Melis, Esra Yalçın, Jessy Présumey, et al.. (2020). Overexpression of schizophrenia susceptibility factor human complement C4A promotes excessive synaptic loss and behavioral changes in mice. Nature Neuroscience. 24(2). 214–224. 198 indexed citations
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Estrada, Karol, Christopher W. Whelan, Fengmei Zhao, et al.. (2018). A whole-genome sequence study identifies genetic risk factors for neuromyelitis optica. Nature Communications. 9(1). 1929–1929. 90 indexed citations
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Numanagić, Ibrahim, et al.. (2018). Statistical Binning for Barcoded Reads Improves Downstream Analyses. Cell Systems. 7(2). 219–226.e5. 13 indexed citations
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Walker, Mark, Chandra Sekhar Pedamallu, Akinyemi I. Ojesina, et al.. (2018). GATK PathSeq: a customizable computational tool for the discovery and identification of microbial sequences in libraries from eukaryotic hosts. Bioinformatics. 34(24). 4287–4289. 68 indexed citations
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Macchia, Gemma, Karolin H. Nord, Stefania Purgato, et al.. (2014). Ring chromosomes, breakpoint clusters, and neocentromeres in sarcomas. Genes Chromosomes and Cancer. 54(3). 156–167. 7 indexed citations
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L’Abbate, Alberto, Gemma Macchia, Pietro D’Addabbo, et al.. (2014). Genomic organization and evolution of double minutes/homogeneously staining regions withMYCamplification in human cancer. Nucleic Acids Research. 42(14). 9131–9145. 81 indexed citations
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Whelan, Christopher W.. (2014). Detecting and Analyzing Genomic Structural Variation Using Distributed Computing. OHSU Digital Commons. 1 indexed citations
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Capozzi, Oronzo, Lucia Carbone, Roscoe Stanyon, et al.. (2012). A comprehensive molecular cytogenetic analysis of chromosome rearrangements in gibbons. Genome Research. 22(12). 2520–2528. 29 indexed citations
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Whelan, Christopher W. & Kemal Sönmez. (2011). Computing graphlet signatures of network nodes and motifs in Cytoscape with GraphletCounter. Bioinformatics. 28(2). 290–291. 8 indexed citations
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Whelan, Christopher W., Brian Roark, & Kemal Sönmez. (2010). Designing antimicrobial peptides with weighted finite-state transducers. PubMed. 5. 764–767. 4 indexed citations

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