Edward V. Ball

33.3k total citations · 5 hit papers
23 papers, 5.9k citations indexed

About

Edward V. Ball is a scholar working on Genetics, Molecular Biology and Cancer Research. According to data from OpenAlex, Edward V. Ball has authored 23 papers receiving a total of 5.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Genetics, 16 papers in Molecular Biology and 7 papers in Cancer Research. Recurrent topics in Edward V. Ball's work include Genomics and Rare Diseases (14 papers), Genomic variations and chromosomal abnormalities (12 papers) and Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics (7 papers). Edward V. Ball is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Rare Diseases (14 papers), Genomic variations and chromosomal abnormalities (12 papers) and Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics (7 papers). Edward V. Ball collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Germany and United States. Edward V. Ball's co-authors include D.N. Cooper, Peter D. Stenson, Matthew Mort, Andrew D. Phillips, Michael Krawczak, Nick Thomas, Shaun S. Abeysinghe, Katy Shaw, Sally Heywood and Matthew Hayden and has published in prestigious journals such as The American Journal of Human Genetics, Genome biology and PLoS Genetics.

In The Last Decade

Edward V. Ball

22 papers receiving 5.8k citations

Hit Papers

Human Gene Mutation Database (HGMD®): 2003 update 2003 2026 2010 2018 2003 2013 2017 2009 2020 400 800 1.2k
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.

  1. Human Gene Mutation Database (HGMD®): 2003 update
    2003 1.4k citations Peter D. Stenson, Edward V. Ball et al. Human Mutation profile →
  2. The Human Gene Mutation Database: building a comprehensive mutation repository for clinical and molecular genetics, diagnostic testing and personalized genomic medicine
    2013 955 citations Peter D. Stenson, Matthew Mort et al. Human Genetics profile →
  3. The Human Gene Mutation Database: towards a comprehensive repository of inherited mutation data for medical research, genetic diagnosis and next-generation sequencing studies
    2017 921 citations Peter D. Stenson, Matthew Mort et al. Human Genetics profile →
  4. The Human Gene Mutation Database: 2008 update
    2009 630 citations Peter D. Stenson, Matthew Mort et al. Genome Medicine profile →
  5. The Human Gene Mutation Database (HGMD®): optimizing its use in a clinical diagnostic or research setting
    2020 410 citations Peter D. Stenson, Matthew Mort et al. Human Genetics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Edward V. Ball United Kingdom 17 3.8k 2.4k 558 399 351 23 5.9k
Andrew D. Phillips United Kingdom 9 3.0k 0.8× 2.0k 0.8× 438 0.8× 363 0.9× 305 0.9× 10 4.8k
Kym M. Boycott Canada 42 3.8k 1.0× 2.9k 1.2× 559 1.0× 360 0.9× 453 1.3× 208 6.5k
Denise Horn Germany 37 3.9k 1.0× 3.0k 1.2× 351 0.6× 359 0.9× 470 1.3× 134 6.1k
Nick Thomas United Kingdom 27 3.2k 0.8× 1.3k 0.6× 285 0.5× 331 0.8× 403 1.1× 41 4.6k
Peter D. Stenson United Kingdom 35 5.7k 1.5× 4.0k 1.7× 1.1k 1.9× 481 1.2× 457 1.3× 63 8.9k
Matthew Mort United Kingdom 33 6.1k 1.6× 3.5k 1.5× 964 1.7× 586 1.5× 536 1.5× 79 9.1k
Bernhard Schermer Germany 42 4.0k 1.0× 2.2k 0.9× 426 0.8× 454 1.1× 970 2.8× 126 6.0k
Melissa Landrum United States 14 3.0k 0.8× 2.6k 1.1× 983 1.8× 134 0.3× 132 0.4× 16 5.2k
Hane Lee United States 34 3.7k 1.0× 1.1k 0.5× 640 1.1× 138 0.3× 457 1.3× 86 5.3k
Avraham Shaag Israel 47 4.3k 1.1× 993 0.4× 241 0.4× 395 1.0× 581 1.7× 118 6.3k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Fan, Cong, Ken Chen, Yukai Wang, et al.. (2022). Profiling human pathogenic repeat expansion regions by synergistic and multi-level impacts on molecular connections. Human Genetics. 142(2). 245–274.
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Stenson, Peter D., Edward V. Ball, John A. Tainer, et al.. (2021). Distinct sequence features underlie microdeletions and gross deletions in the human genome. Human Mutation. 43(3). 328–346. 5 indexed citations
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Stenson, Peter D., Matthew Mort, Edward V. Ball, et al.. (2020). The Human Gene Mutation Database (HGMD®): optimizing its use in a clinical diagnostic or research setting. Human Genetics. 139(10). 1197–1207. 410 indexed citations breakdown →
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Stenson, Peter D., Matthew Mort, Edward V. Ball, et al.. (2017). The Human Gene Mutation Database: towards a comprehensive repository of inherited mutation data for medical research, genetic diagnosis and next-generation sequencing studies. Human Genetics. 136(6). 665–677. 921 indexed citations breakdown →
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Mort, Matthew, Timothy Sterne-Weiler, Biao Li, et al.. (2014). MutPred Splice: machine learning-based prediction of exonic variants that disrupt splicing. Genome biology. 15(1). R19–R19. 114 indexed citations
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Stenson, Peter D., Matthew Mort, Edward V. Ball, et al.. (2013). The Human Gene Mutation Database: building a comprehensive mutation repository for clinical and molecular genetics, diagnostic testing and personalized genomic medicine. Human Genetics. 133(1). 1–9. 955 indexed citations breakdown →
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Bacolla, Albino, Nuri A. Temiz, Ming Yi, et al.. (2013). Guanine Holes Are Prominent Targets for Mutation in Cancer and Inherited Disease. PLoS Genetics. 9(9). e1003816–e1003816. 33 indexed citations
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Xue, Yali, Yuan Chen, Qasim Ayub, et al.. (2012). Deleterious- and Disease-Allele Prevalence in Healthy Individuals: Insights from Current Predictions, Mutation Databases, and Population-Scale Resequencing. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 91(6). 1022–1032. 188 indexed citations
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Wolf, Andreas, Amke Caliebe, Nick Thomas, et al.. (2011). Single base-pair substitutions at the translation initiation sites of human genes as a cause of inherited disease. Human Mutation. 32(10). 1137–1143. 26 indexed citations
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Cooper, D.N., Jian‐Min Chen, Edward V. Ball, et al.. (2010). Genes, mutations, and human inherited disease at the dawn of the age of personalized genomics. Human Mutation. 31(6). 631–655. 119 indexed citations
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Cooper, D.N., Edward V. Ball, & Matthew Mort. (2010). Chromosomal Distribution of Disease Genes in the Human Genome. Genetic Testing and Molecular Biomarkers. 14(4). 441–446. 3 indexed citations
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Cooper, D.N., Matthew Mort, Peter D. Stenson, Edward V. Ball, & Nadia Chuzhanova. (2010). Methylation-mediated deamination of 5-methylcytosine appears to give rise to mutations causing human inherited disease in CpNpG trinucleotides, as well as in CpG dinucleotides. Human Genomics. 4(6). 406–406. 103 indexed citations
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Stenson, Peter D., Matthew Mort, Edward V. Ball, et al.. (2009). The Human Gene Mutation Database: 2008 update. Genome Medicine. 1(1). 13–13. 630 indexed citations breakdown →
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Ball, Edward V., Peter D. Stenson, Shaun S. Abeysinghe, et al.. (2005). Microdeletions and microinsertions causing human genetic disease: common mechanisms of mutagenesis and the role of local DNA sequence complexity. Human Mutation. 26(3). 205–213. 116 indexed citations
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Stenson, Peter D., Edward V. Ball, Matthew Mort, et al.. (2003). Human Gene Mutation Database (HGMD®): 2003 update. Human Mutation. 21(6). 577–581. 1356 indexed citations breakdown →
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Abeysinghe, Shaun S., Nadia Chuzhanova, Michael Krawczak, Edward V. Ball, & D.N. Cooper. (2003). Translocation and gross deletion breakpoints in human inherited disease and cancer I: Nucleotide composition and recombination-associated motifs. Human Mutation. 22(3). 229–244. 186 indexed citations
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Chuzhanova, Nadia, et al.. (2002). Meta-analysis of indels causing human genetic disease: mechanisms of mutagenesis and the role of local DNA sequence complexity. Human Mutation. 21(1). 28–44. 88 indexed citations
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Krawczak, Michael, et al.. (2000). Changes in primary DNA sequence complexity influence the phenotypic consequences of mutations in human gene regulatory regions. Human Genetics. 107(4). 362–365. 11 indexed citations
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Krawczak, Michael, Edward V. Ball, Iain Fenton, et al.. (2000). Human Gene Mutation Database?A biomedical information and research resource. Human Mutation. 15(1). 45–51. 212 indexed citations
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Krawczak, Michael, Edward V. Ball, & D.N. Cooper. (1998). Neighboring-Nucleotide Effects on the Rates of Germ-Line Single-Base-Pair Substitution in Human Genes. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 63(2). 474–488. 228 indexed citations

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