E. A. Thompson

13.2k total citations · 3 hit papers
190 papers, 8.6k citations indexed

About

E. A. Thompson is a scholar working on Genetics, Molecular Biology and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, E. A. Thompson has authored 190 papers receiving a total of 8.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 113 papers in Genetics, 59 papers in Molecular Biology and 14 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in E. A. Thompson's work include Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals (74 papers), Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (67 papers) and Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock (47 papers). E. A. Thompson is often cited by papers focused on Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals (74 papers), Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (67 papers) and Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock (47 papers). E. A. Thompson collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Canada. E. A. Thompson's co-authors include Charles J. Geyer, Eric C. Anderson, C. Cannings, Ellen M. Wijsman, Greenfield Sluder, Mark H. Skolnick, Sun‐Wei Guo, Thomas R. Meagher, N.H. Chapman and Edward H. Hinchcliffe and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

E. A. Thompson

180 papers receiving 8.1k 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.

A Model-Based Method for Identifying Species Hybrids Using Multilocus Genetic Data

2002 1.3k citations E. A. Thompson et al. profile →
Constrained Monte Carlo Maximum Likelihood for Dependent Data

1992 562 citations E. A. Thompson et al. profile →
Annealing Markov Chain Monte Carlo with Applications to Ancestral Inference

1995 551 citations E. A. Thompson et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
E. A. Thompson United States	41	4.7k	2.4k	983	772	766	190	8.6k
David J. Balding United Kingdom	58	9.3k 2.0×	4.7k 2.0×	1.3k 1.3×	1.2k 1.5×	1.3k 1.7×	169	15.0k
Warren J. Ewens United States	34	8.0k 1.7×	3.4k 1.4×	1.1k 1.2×	714 0.9×	659 0.9×	129	12.8k
Kenneth Lange United States	56	10.0k 2.1×	5.1k 2.1×	2.3k 2.4×	873 1.1×	1.8k 2.4×	274	23.2k
Olivier François France	42	5.3k 1.1×	1.9k 0.8×	1.3k 1.4×	2.2k 2.8×	590 0.8×	143	9.9k
Simon Tavaré United States	68	6.7k 1.4×	10.7k 4.5×	1.8k 1.8×	1.0k 1.4×	1.7k 2.2×	220	21.3k
Robert Griffiths United States	46	3.6k 0.8×	2.6k 1.1×	445 0.5×	290 0.4×	843 1.1×	171	9.0k
John Haigh United Kingdom	16	3.6k 0.8×	1.4k 0.6×	975 1.0×	556 0.7×	257 0.3×	85	6.9k
Michael P. H. Stumpf United Kingdom	47	1.5k 0.3×	5.2k 2.2×	497 0.5×	418 0.5×	839 1.1×	193	9.2k
Dennis K. Pearl United States	43	1.6k 0.3×	3.3k 1.4×	452 0.5×	228 0.3×	286 0.4×	144	8.9k
Marcus A. Brubaker Canada	19	785 0.2×	4.1k 1.7×	384 0.4×	957 1.2×	980 1.3×	52	11.7k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Thompson, E. A., et al.. (2022). Comparing heritability estimators under alternative structures of linkage disequilibrium. G3 Genes Genomes Genetics. 12(8). 5 indexed citations

Silberstein, Mark, Omer Weissbrod, Adel Shalata, et al.. (2013). A system for exact and approximate genetic linkage analysis of SNP data in large pedigrees. Bioinformatics. 29(5). 669–669. 1 indexed citations

Thompson, E. A., et al.. (2012). Improving Pedigree-based Linkage Analysis by Estimating Coancestry Among Families. Statistical Applications in Genetics and Molecular Biology. 11(2). 8 indexed citations

Glista-Baker, Ellen E., Alexia J. Taylor, Brian C. Sayers, E. A. Thompson, & James C. Bonner. (2012). Nickel Nanoparticles Enhance Platelet-Derived Growth Factor–Induced Chemokine Expression by Mesothelial Cells via Prolonged Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase Activation. American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology. 47(4). 552–561. 23 indexed citations

Basu, Saonli, Yanming Di, & E. A. Thompson. (2008). Exact Trait‐Model‐Free Tests for Linkage Detection in Pedigrees. Annals of Human Genetics. 72(5). 676–682. 5 indexed citations

Wijsman, Ellen M., Joseph H. Rothstein, & E. A. Thompson. (2006). Multipoint Linkage Analysis with Many Multiallelic or Dense Diallelic Markers: Markov Chain–Monte Carlo Provides Practical Approaches for Genome Scans on General Pedigrees. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 79(5). 846–858. 56 indexed citations

Sieh, Weiva, Saonli Basu, Audrey Qiuyan Fu, et al.. (2005). Comparison of marker types and map assumptions using Markov chain Monte Carlo-based linkage analysis of COGA data. BMC Genetics. 6(S1). S11–S11. 15 indexed citations

George, Andrew W., Ellen M. Wijsman, & E. A. Thompson. (2005). MCMC Multilocus Lod Scores: Application of a New Approach. Human Heredity. 59(2). 98–108. 12 indexed citations

Thompson, E. A.. (2000). Statistical Inference From Genetic Data on Pedigrees. 95 indexed citations

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Prodöhl, Paulo A., W. J. Loughry, Colleen M. McDonough, et al.. (1998). Genetic Maternity and Paternity in a Local Population of Armadillos Assessed by Microsatellite DNA Markers and Field Data. The American Naturalist. 151(1). 7–19. 46 indexed citations

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Edwards, J. H., et al.. (1997). Genetic mapping of disease genes. Academic Press eBooks. 53 indexed citations

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Thompson, E. A.. (1994). Monte Carlo Likelihood in Genetic Mapping. Statistical Science. 9(3). 77 indexed citations

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Thompson, E. A.. (1994). Monte Carlo likelihood in the genetic mapping of complex traits. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 344(1310). 345–351. 31 indexed citations

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Thompson, E. A., Shili Lin, Adam B. Olshen, & Ellen M. Wijsman. (1993). Monte Carlo analysis on a large pedigree. Genetic Epidemiology. 10(6). 677–682. 20 indexed citations

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Thompson, E. A., et al.. (1991). Monte Carlo Estimation of Variance Component Models for Large Complex Pedigrees. Mathematical Medicine and Biology A Journal of the IMA. 8(3). 171–189. 42 indexed citations

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Thompson, E. A. & K. Morgan. (1989). Recursive descent probabilities for rare recessive lethals. Annals of Human Genetics. 53(4). 357–374. 10 indexed citations

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Thompson, E. A.. (1986). LIKELIHOOD AND PARSIMONY: COMPARISON OF CRITERIA AND SOLUTIONS. Cladistics. 2(1). 43–52. 2 indexed citations

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Thompson, E. A.. (1985). The History of a Lethal X-Linked Mutant. Mathematical Medicine and Biology A Journal of the IMA. 2(2). 75–92. 1 indexed citations

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Thompson, E. A., et al.. (1971). Shunt grafts and aneurysm resection Definitive treatment of selected thoracic aortic aneurysms. Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. 62(2). 250–254. 3 indexed citations

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Thompson, E. A., et al.. (1952). A Roman reformer and inventor : being a new text of the treatise De rebus bellicis. Clarendon Press eBooks. 2 indexed citations

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