Deborah Ritter

5.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
29 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Deborah Ritter is a scholar working on Genetics, Molecular Biology and Cancer Research. According to data from OpenAlex, Deborah Ritter has authored 29 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Genetics, 11 papers in Molecular Biology and 9 papers in Cancer Research. Recurrent topics in Deborah Ritter's work include Genomics and Rare Diseases (13 papers), Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics (8 papers) and BRCA gene mutations in cancer (7 papers). Deborah Ritter is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Rare Diseases (13 papers), Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics (8 papers) and BRCA gene mutations in cancer (7 papers). Deborah Ritter collaborates with scholars based in United States, Malaysia and Australia. Deborah Ritter's co-authors include Erin Rooney Riggs, Athena M. Cherry, Daniel Pineda‐Alvarez, Gordana Raca, Swaroop Aradhya, Sarah T. South, Ankita Patel, Erik C. Thorland, Hutton M. Kearney and Sibel Kantarci and has published in prestigious journals such as Bioinformatics, PLoS ONE and Cancer.

In The Last Decade

Deborah Ritter

25 papers receiving 1.5k citations

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Technical standards for the interpretation and reporting of constitutional copy-number variants: a joint consensus recommendation of the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics (ACMG) and the Clinical Genome Resource (ClinGen)

2019 879 citations Erin Rooney Riggs, Erica Andersen et al. Genetics in Medicine profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Deborah Ritter United States	14	904	538	333	216	164	29	1.5k
Kent W. Small United States	30	504 0.6×	1.5k 2.8×	52 0.2×	78 0.4×	68 0.4×	96	2.7k
Soma Ray United States	24	94 0.1×	889 1.7×	166 0.5×	143 0.7×	154 0.9×	32	1.4k
David Ng United States	22	550 0.6×	924 1.7×	39 0.1×	340 1.6×	275 1.7×	45	1.9k
Vaidehi Jobanputra United States	23	521 0.6×	456 0.8×	221 0.7×	207 1.0×	234 1.4×	79	1.3k
Arif O. Khan Saudi Arabia	24	610 0.7×	845 1.6×	115 0.3×	94 0.4×	48 0.3×	131	1.8k
Vimla S. Aggarwal United States	17	361 0.4×	523 1.0×	238 0.7×	52 0.2×	43 0.3×	34	1.0k
Mary B. Breslin United States	20	377 0.4×	553 1.0×	33 0.1×	122 0.6×	333 2.0×	37	1.3k
Alexander N. Combes Australia	29	892 1.0×	2.3k 4.3×	376 1.1×	118 0.5×	218 1.3×	63	2.8k
Wendy N. Cooper United Kingdom	26	499 0.6×	1.6k 3.1×	581 1.7×	383 1.8×	200 1.2×	34	2.3k
Gerald Goh United States	12	220 0.2×	454 0.8×	10 0.0×	254 1.2×	515 3.1×	16	1.4k

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Martinelli, Simone, Hélène Cavé, Alessandro De Luca, et al.. (2025). Interpreting the functional impact of genetic variants: The need for context qualifiers. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 113(1). 5–15.

Ritter, Deborah, Jinyoung Byun, Jun Wang, et al.. (2024). Experiences in providing a community educational resource for the All of Us Researcher Workbench. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. 31(12). 2952–2957. 2 indexed citations

Li, Eric V., et al.. (2023). Developing a disease-specific annotation protocol for VHL gene curation using Hypothes.is. Database. 2023. 1 indexed citations

Church, Alanna J., Shruti Rao, Arpad Danos, et al.. (2022). Standardized evidence-based approach for assessment of oncogenic and clinical significance of NTRK fusions. Cancer Genetics. 264-265. 50–59. 6 indexed citations

Scollon, Sarah, et al.. (2022). Evolution of germline TP53 variant classification in children with cancer. Cancer Genetics. 264-265. 29–32. 6 indexed citations

Popejoy, Alice B., Kristy Crooks, Stephanie M. Fullerton, et al.. (2020). Clinical Genetics Lacks Standard Definitions and Protocols for the Collection and Use of Diversity Measures. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 107(1). 72–82. 50 indexed citations

Ramundo, Janet, et al.. (2020). Evaluation of the Impact of the Wound Treatment Associate (WTA) Education Program on Practice and Quality Patient Outcomes. Journal of Wound Ostomy and Continence Nursing. 47(1). 13–19. 2 indexed citations

Riggs, Erin Rooney, Erica Andersen, Athena M. Cherry, et al.. (2019). Technical standards for the interpretation and reporting of constitutional copy-number variants: a joint consensus recommendation of the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics (ACMG) and the Clinical Genome Resource (ClinGen). Genetics in Medicine. 22(2). 245–257. 879 indexed citations breakdown →

Wain, Karen E., Danielle R. Azzariti, Jennifer Goldstein, et al.. (2019). Variant interpretation is a component of clinical practice among genetic counselors in multiple specialties. Genetics in Medicine. 22(4). 785–792. 16 indexed citations

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Ritter, Deborah, Shruti Rao, Shashikant Kulkarni, et al.. (2019). A case for expert curation: an overview of cancer curation in the Clinical Genome Resource (ClinGen). Molecular Case Studies. 5(5). a004739–a004739. 11 indexed citations

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Danos, Arpad, Deborah Ritter, Alex H. Wagner, et al.. (2018). Adapting crowdsourced clinical cancer curation in CIViC to the ClinGen minimum variant level data community‐driven standards. Human Mutation. 39(11). 1721–1732. 12 indexed citations

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Lee, Kristy, Bryce A. Seifert, Hermela Shimelis, et al.. (2018). Clinical validity assessment of genes frequently tested on hereditary breast and ovarian cancer susceptibility sequencing panels. Genetics in Medicine. 21(7). 1497–1506. 41 indexed citations

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Seifert, Bryce A., Jennifer McGlaughon, Sarah A. Jackson, et al.. (2018). Determining the clinical validity of hereditary colorectal cancer and polyposis susceptibility genes using the Clinical Genome Resource Clinical Validity Framework. Genetics in Medicine. 21(7). 1507–1516. 17 indexed citations

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Ritter, Deborah, Sameek Roychowdhury, Angshumoy Roy, et al.. (2016). Somatic cancer variant curation and harmonization through consensus minimum variant level data. Genome Medicine. 8(1). 117–117. 42 indexed citations

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Ghosh, Rajarshi, Bradford C. Powell, Stephanie C. Hicks, et al.. (2016). Pharmacogenetic characterization of naturally occurring germline NT5C1A variants to chemotherapeutic nucleoside analogs. Pharmacogenetics and Genomics. 26(6). 271–279. 2 indexed citations

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Davis, Caleb, Deborah Ritter, David A. Wheeler, et al.. (2016). SV-STAT accurately detects structural variation via alignment to reference-based assemblies. PubMed. 11(1). 8–8. 3 indexed citations

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Ritter, Deborah, Hannah Cheung, Caleb Davis, et al.. (2015). Identifying gene disruptions in novel balanced de novo constitutional translocations in childhood cancer patients by whole-genome sequencing. Genetics in Medicine. 17(10). 831–835. 18 indexed citations

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Ritter, Deborah, Zhiqiang Dong, Su Guo, & Jeffrey H. Chuang. (2012). Transcriptional Enhancers in Protein-Coding Exons of Vertebrate Developmental Genes. PLoS ONE. 7(5). e35202–e35202. 37 indexed citations

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Ritter, Deborah, Qiang Li, Dennis Kostka, et al.. (2010). The Importance of Being Cis: Evolution of Orthologous Fish and Mammalian Enhancer Activity. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 27(10). 2322–2332. 39 indexed citations

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Li, Qiang, Deborah Ritter, Nan Yang, et al.. (2009). A systematic approach to identify functional motifs within vertebrate developmental enhancers. Developmental Biology. 337(2). 484–495. 53 indexed citations

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