Craig B. Lowe

9.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
22 papers, 4.3k citations indexed

About

Craig B. Lowe is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Craig B. Lowe has authored 22 papers receiving a total of 4.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Molecular Biology, 10 papers in Genetics and 8 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Craig B. Lowe's work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (8 papers), Chromosomal and Genetic Variations (8 papers) and Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (5 papers). Craig B. Lowe is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (8 papers), Chromosomal and Genetic Variations (8 papers) and Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (5 papers). Craig B. Lowe collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Poland. Craig B. Lowe's co-authors include Gill Bejerano, Bruce T. Schaar, Cory Y. McLean, Michael Hiller, Aaron M. Wenger, Shoa L. Clarke, David Haussler, Sofie R. Salama, Adam Siepel and Bryan H. King and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Craig B. Lowe

19 papers receiving 4.3k 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.

GREAT improves functional interpretation of cis-regulatory regions

2010 2.9k citations Cory Y. McLean, Michael Hiller et al. Nature Biotechnology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Craig B. Lowe United States	13	3.6k	873	826	552	392	22	4.3k
Steffen Heyne Germany	10	4.1k 1.1×	628 0.7×	936 1.1×	513 0.9×	466 1.2×	14	5.1k
Fabian Kilpert Germany	14	4.1k 1.2×	641 0.7×	942 1.1×	476 0.9×	492 1.3×	18	5.2k
Cory Y. McLean United States	15	3.8k 1.1×	1.2k 1.4×	439 0.5×	703 1.3×	391 1.0×	21	5.0k
Sofie R. Salama United States	24	3.8k 1.1×	806 0.9×	972 1.2×	655 1.2×	241 0.6×	52	4.6k
Ivan Ovcharenko United States	29	3.7k 1.0×	1.1k 1.3×	707 0.9×	386 0.7×	295 0.8×	71	4.4k
José Luis Gómez-Skármeta Spain	47	5.2k 1.5×	1.3k 1.5×	720 0.9×	400 0.7×	266 0.7×	134	6.2k
Lingyun Song United States	30	3.9k 1.1×	1.2k 1.3×	336 0.4×	537 1.0×	238 0.6×	59	4.5k
Shyam Prabhakar Singapore	34	4.0k 1.1×	1.1k 1.3×	461 0.6×	742 1.3×	547 1.4×	70	5.3k
Mary Goll United States	21	3.9k 1.1×	933 1.1×	806 1.0×	390 0.7×	299 0.8×	27	5.1k
Hiram Clawson United States	17	4.6k 1.3×	1.7k 1.9×	894 1.1×	1.1k 1.9×	259 0.7×	23	5.7k

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Wücherpfennig, Julia, et al.. (2025). Genome sequence of a marine threespine stickleback ( Gasterosteus aculeatus ) from Rabbit Slough in the Cook Inlet. G3 Genes Genomes Genetics. 15(7).

Lowe, Craig B., et al.. (2024). Novelty versus innovation of gene regulatory elements in human evolution and disease. Current Opinion in Genetics & Development. 90. 102279–102279. 2 indexed citations

Bartelt, Luke C., Anna Samelak-Czajka, Paulina Jackowiak, et al.. (2024). Antibody-assisted selective isolation of Purkinje cell nuclei from mouse cerebellar tissue. Cell Reports Methods. 4(7). 100816–100816.

Bartelt, Luke C., Paweł M. Świtoński, Juliana Lott Carvalho, et al.. (2024). Dysregulation of zebrin-II cell subtypes in the cerebellum is a shared feature across polyglutamine ataxia mouse models and patients. Science Translational Medicine. 16(772). eadn5449–eadn5449. 2 indexed citations

Pollen, Alex A., Umut Kilik, Craig B. Lowe, & J. Gray Camp. (2023). Human-specific genetics: new tools to explore the molecular and cellular basis of human evolution. Nature Reviews Genetics. 24(10). 687–711. 49 indexed citations

Mangan, Riley J., et al.. (2023). Gonomics: uniting high performance and readability for genomics with Go. Bioinformatics. 39(8). 4 indexed citations

Wücherpfennig, Julia, Timothy R. Howes, Garrett A. Roberts Kingman, et al.. (2022). Evolution of stickleback spines through independent cis-regulatory changes at HOXDB. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 6(10). 1537–1552. 12 indexed citations

Mangan, Riley J., Fernando C. Alsina, Daniel Snellings, et al.. (2022). Adaptive sequence divergence forged new neurodevelopmental enhancers in humans. Cell. 185(24). 4587–4603.e23. 51 indexed citations

Saelens, Joseph W., Kristen L. Jurcic Smith, Jörn Coers, et al.. (2022). An ancestral mycobacterial effector promotes dissemination of infection. Cell. 185(24). 4507–4525.e18. 26 indexed citations

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Song, Janet, Craig B. Lowe, & David M. Kingsley. (2018). Characterization of a Human-Specific Tandem Repeat Associated with Bipolar Disorder and Schizophrenia. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 103(3). 421–430. 70 indexed citations

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Lowe, Craig B., Timothy R. Howes, Shannon D. Brady, et al.. (2017). Detecting differential copy number variation between groups of samples. Genome Research. 28(2). 256–265. 10 indexed citations

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Lowe, Craig B., Julia A. Clarke, Allan J. Baker, David Haussler, & Scott V. Edwards. (2014). Feather Development Genes and Associated Regulatory Innovation Predate the Origin of Dinosauria. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 32(1). 23–28. 48 indexed citations

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Lowe, Craig B. & David Haussler. (2012). 29 Mammalian Genomes Reveal Novel Exaptations of Mobile Elements for Likely Regulatory Functions in the Human Genome. PLoS ONE. 7(8). e43128–e43128. 57 indexed citations

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Lowe, Craig B., Manolis Kellis, Adam Siepel, et al.. (2011). Three Periods of Regulatory Innovation During Vertebrate Evolution. Science. 333(6045). 1019–1024. 100 indexed citations

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McLean, Cory Y., Michael Hiller, Shoa L. Clarke, et al.. (2010). GREAT improves functional interpretation of cis-regulatory regions. Nature Biotechnology. 28(5). 495–501. 2888 indexed citations breakdown →

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Lowe, Craig B., Gill Bejerano, Sofie R. Salama, & David Haussler. (2010). Endangered Species Hold Clues to Human Evolution. Journal of Heredity. 101(4). 437–447. 5 indexed citations

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Zhu, Jingchun, et al.. (2007). Comparative Genomics Search for Losses of Long-Established Genes on the Human Lineage. PLoS Computational Biology. 3(12). e247–e247. 80 indexed citations

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Lowe, Craig B., Gill Bejerano, & David Haussler. (2007). Thousands of human mobile element fragments undergo strong purifying selection near developmental genes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 104(19). 8005–8010. 191 indexed citations

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Bejerano, Gill, Craig B. Lowe, Nadav Ahituv, et al.. (2006). A distal enhancer and an ultraconserved exon are derived from a novel retroposon. Nature. 441(7089). 87–90. 389 indexed citations

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Zhu, Jingchun, et al.. (2005). Comparative Genomics Search for Losses of Long-Established Genes on the Human Lineage. PLoS Computational Biology. preprint(2007). e247–e247. 3 indexed citations

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