Ernest B. Hook

5.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
133 papers, 4.2k citations indexed

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Ernest B. Hook is a scholar working on Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Genetics and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Ernest B. Hook has authored 133 papers receiving a total of 4.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 52 papers in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, 29 papers in Genetics and 18 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Ernest B. Hook's work include Prenatal Screening and Diagnostics (38 papers), Genetic and Clinical Aspects of Sex Determination and Chromosomal Abnormalities (11 papers) and Carcinogens and Genotoxicity Assessment (10 papers). Ernest B. Hook is often cited by papers focused on Prenatal Screening and Diagnostics (38 papers), Genetic and Clinical Aspects of Sex Determination and Chromosomal Abnormalities (11 papers) and Carcinogens and Genotoxicity Assessment (10 papers). Ernest B. Hook collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Argentina. Ernest B. Hook's co-authors include Ronald R. Regal, Ian Porter, Dorothy Warburton, Philip K. Cross, Carolyn L. Olsen, Art Daniel, Christina Hecht, John W. Reynolds, Andrew E. Czeizel and Linda S. Lustig and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and New England Journal of Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Ernest B. Hook

124 papers receiving 3.8k citations

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Capture-Recapture Methods in Epidemiology: Methods and Limitations

1995 586 citations Ernest B. Hook, Ronald R. Regal profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ernest B. Hook United States	33	1.4k	1.0k	807	749	663	133	4.2k
Kai Yu United States	34	218 0.2×	873 0.8×	955 1.2×	1.0k 1.3×	351 0.5×	143	4.8k
Muin J. Khoury United States	26	406 0.3×	697 0.7×	420 0.5×	429 0.6×	287 0.4×	41	2.3k
Philip J Smith United States	35	544 0.4×	529 0.5×	3.0k 3.8×	633 0.8×	325 0.5×	146	6.5k
S. A. Roberts United Kingdom	47	636 0.4×	464 0.4×	800 1.0×	1.6k 2.1×	1.2k 1.7×	165	6.5k
B. Ducot France	40	732 0.5×	314 0.3×	1.5k 1.9×	702 0.9×	1.2k 1.8×	131	6.3k
Esteban G. Burchard United States	55	810 0.6×	3.2k 3.1×	572 0.7×	2.2k 3.0×	922 1.4×	172	10.3k
Melissa Fazzari United States	40	420 0.3×	638 0.6×	1.3k 1.6×	2.5k 3.3×	286 0.4×	159	6.6k
Michael W.T. Tanck Netherlands	41	282 0.2×	536 0.5×	1.1k 1.3×	1.4k 1.9×	284 0.4×	185	6.0k
Ian Leck United Kingdom	28	439 0.3×	290 0.3×	318 0.4×	203 0.3×	392 0.6×	67	2.9k
John Carstensen Sweden	45	332 0.2×	597 0.6×	444 0.6×	1.0k 1.4×	525 0.8×	162	5.5k

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Hassold, Terry, Ernest B. Hook, & Patricia A. Jacobs. (2016). Dorothy Warburton (1936–2016). The American Journal of Human Genetics. 99(4). 1000–1000. 4 indexed citations

Hook, Ernest B.. (2002). Prematurity in Scientific Discovery: On Resistance and Neglect. Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University). 36 indexed citations

Schell, Lawrence M., et al.. (1994). Unequal adaptive value of changing cigarette use during pregnancy for heavy, moderate, and light smokers. American Journal of Human Biology. 6(1). 25–32. 2 indexed citations

Hook, Ernest B., et al.. (1993). Effect of Variation in Probability of Ascertainment by Sources (“Variable Catchability”) upon “Capture-Recapture” Estimates of Prevalence. American Journal of Epidemiology. 137(10). 1148–1166. 72 indexed citations

Hook, Ernest B. & Ronald R. Regal. (1993). Representative and Misrepresentative Associations of Birth Defects in Livebirths. American Journal of Epidemiology. 137(6). 660–675. 6 indexed citations

Hook, Ernest B.. (1992). Congenital malformations worldwide: A report from the international clearinghouse for birth defect monitoring systems. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 51(4). 919–920. 2 indexed citations

Hook, Ernest B.. (1991). Birth defects encyclopedia. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 49(2). 470–472. 169 indexed citations

Daniel, Art, et al.. (1989). Risks of unbalanced progeny at amniocentesis to carriers of chromosome rearrangements: Data from United States and Canadian laboratories. American Journal of Medical Genetics. 33(1). 14–53. 161 indexed citations

Hook, Ernest B.. (1989). Screening for Down syndrome: Reply to Wald et al. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 44(4). 587–590. 1 indexed citations

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Hook, Ernest B.. (1987). The consequences of chromosome imbalance: Principles, mechanisms, and models. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 41(2). 316–318. 1 indexed citations

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Cross, Philip K. & Ernest B. Hook. (1987). An analysis of paternal age and 47,+21 in 35,000 new prenatal cytogenetic diagnosis data from the New York State Chromosome Registry: no significant effect. Human Genetics. 77(4). 307–313. 25 indexed citations

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Porter, Ian & Ernest B. Hook. (1980). Human embryonic and fetal death. Academic Press eBooks. 246 indexed citations

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Risemberg, H M, et al.. (1979). Sister-chromatid exchange and phototherapy. Mutation Research/Fundamental and Molecular Mechanisms of Mutagenesis. 60(3). 401–403. 8 indexed citations

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Hook, Ernest B.. (1978). The ratio of de novo unbalanced translocation to 47, trisomy 21 Down syndrome a new method for human mutation surveillance and an apparent recent change in mutation rate resulting in human interchange trisomies in one jurisdiction. Mutation Research/Fundamental and Molecular Mechanisms of Mutagenesis. 52(3). 427–439. 9 indexed citations

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Hook, Ernest B. & Ian Porter. (1977). Population cytogenetics : studies in humans : proceedings of a Symposium on Human Population Cytogenetics sponsored by the Birth Defects Institute of the New York State Department of Health, held in Albany, New York, October 14-15, 1975. Academic Press eBooks. 3 indexed citations

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Hook, Ernest B.. (1977). Cytogenetics, environment, and malformation syndromes. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 29(3). 322–322. 38 indexed citations

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Hook, Ernest B., et al.. (1976). Sister chromatid exchanges in ataxia telangiectasia. Mutation Research/Fundamental and Molecular Mechanisms of Mutagenesis. 35(2). 333–335. 22 indexed citations

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Hook, Ernest B.. (1974). The XYY Syndrome and Klinefelter's Syndrome. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 26(5). 667–668.

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Hook, Ernest B., et al.. (1972). A pilot screening study of chromosome breakage in cultured blood cells from newborn infants. Mutation Research/Fundamental and Molecular Mechanisms of Mutagenesis. 16(4). 428–430. 1 indexed citations

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Hook, Ernest B. & John W. Reynolds. (1967). Cerebral gigantism: Endocrinological and clinical observations of six patients including a congenital giant, concordant monozygotic twins, and a child who achieved adult gigantic size. The Journal of Pediatrics. 70(6). 900–914. 66 indexed citations

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