Gerald Quon

13.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
34 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

Gerald Quon is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Cancer Research. According to data from OpenAlex, Gerald Quon has authored 34 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 28 papers in Molecular Biology, 8 papers in Genetics and 6 papers in Cancer Research. Recurrent topics in Gerald Quon's work include Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics (6 papers), Gene expression and cancer classification (6 papers) and Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics (4 papers). Gerald Quon is often cited by papers focused on Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics (6 papers), Gene expression and cancer classification (6 papers) and Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics (4 papers). Gerald Quon collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and United Kingdom. Gerald Quon's co-authors include Manolis Kellis, Quaid Morris, Li-Huei Tsai, Hansruedi Mathys, Elizabeta Gjoneska, Anshul Kundaje, Andreas Pfenning, Jannel Liu, Wouter Meuleman and Hans Hauner and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, New England Journal of Medicine and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Gerald Quon

34 papers receiving 2.2k 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.

FTO Obesity Variant Circuitry and Adipocyte Browning in Humans

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Gerald Quon United States	17	1.5k	621	379	284	133	34	2.2k
Hans‐Ulrich Klein Germany	31	2.4k 1.6×	537 0.9×	590 1.6×	312 1.1×	251 1.9×	108	3.8k
Heather E. Wheeler United States	24	1.5k 1.0×	1.2k 1.9×	157 0.4×	283 1.0×	60 0.5×	59	2.8k
Henne Holstege Netherlands	26	1.3k 0.9×	600 1.0×	620 1.6×	366 1.3×	175 1.3×	72	2.8k
Stefan Kirov United States	13	1.6k 1.1×	371 0.6×	178 0.5×	415 1.5×	48 0.4×	26	2.3k
Quentin Shao Canada	3	2.1k 1.4×	428 0.7×	201 0.5×	584 2.1×	73 0.5×	3	3.3k
Aoife McMahon United Kingdom	10	1.2k 0.8×	981 1.6×	157 0.4×	201 0.7×	53 0.4×	16	2.2k
Kristina Hanspers United States	19	2.3k 1.6×	274 0.4×	178 0.5×	450 1.6×	62 0.5×	25	3.1k
Stephen A. Wood Australia	37	2.5k 1.7×	760 1.2×	234 0.6×	213 0.8×	113 0.8×	85	3.5k
David Valle‐García United States	20	2.2k 1.5×	784 1.3×	167 0.4×	402 1.4×	34 0.3×	35	3.0k
Dominik Seelow Germany	19	1.8k 1.2×	1.2k 1.9×	119 0.3×	217 0.8×	54 0.4×	50	2.6k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Gerald Quon

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Gerald Quon. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Gerald Quon based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Gerald Quon. Gerald Quon is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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Soto, Daniela C., Gulhan Kaya, Keiko Hino, et al.. (2025). Human-specific gene expansions contribute to brain evolution. Cell. 188(19). 5363–5383.e22. 2 indexed citations

Pargett, Michael, et al.. (2025). Deciphering the history of ERK activity from fixed-cell immunofluorescence measurements. Nature Communications. 16(1). 4721–4721. 1 indexed citations

Quon, Gerald, et al.. (2024). scPair: Boosting single cell multimodal analysis by leveraging implicit feature selection and single cell atlases. Nature Communications. 15(1). 9932–9932. 6 indexed citations

Neier, Kari, Ian Korf, Gerald Quon, et al.. (2024). Sex-specific single cell-level transcriptomic signatures of Rett syndrome disease progression. Communications Biology. 7(1). 1292–1292. 5 indexed citations

Li, Ruoxin, et al.. (2023). siVAE: interpretable deep generative models for single-cell transcriptomes. Genome biology. 24(1). 29–29. 20 indexed citations

Johansen, Nelson, et al.. (2023). Projecting RNA measurements onto single cell atlases to extract cell type-specific expression profiles using scProjection. Nature Communications. 14(1). 5192–5192. 3 indexed citations

Davies, Alexander E., Michael Pargett, Stefan Siebert, et al.. (2020). Systems-Level Properties of EGFR-RAS-ERK Signaling Amplify Local Signals to Generate Dynamic Gene Expression Heterogeneity. Cell Systems. 11(2). 161–175.e5. 30 indexed citations

Johansen, Nelson & Gerald Quon. (2019). scAlign: a tool for alignment, integration, and rare cell identification from scRNA-seq data. Genome biology. 20(1). 166–166. 57 indexed citations

Li, Jiannan, Wen See Tan, Wenwu Xiao, et al.. (2018). A Plug-and-Play, Drug-on-Pillar Platform for Combination Drug Screening Implemented by Microfluidic Adaptive Printing. Analytical Chemistry. 90(23). 13969–13977. 24 indexed citations

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Ramani, Vishnu C., Rakhi Gupta, Gerald Quon, et al.. (2017). Abstract 1847: Evaluating the metastatic potential and the molecular heterogeneity of patient-derived orthotopic xenograft models of triple-negative breast cancer. Cancer Research. 77(13_Supplement). 1847–1847. 1 indexed citations

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Cui, Ang, Gerald Quon, Alan Rosenberg, Rae S. M. Yeung, & Quaid Morris. (2016). Gene Expression Deconvolution for Uncovering Molecular Signatures in Response to Therapy in Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis. PLoS ONE. 11(5). e0156055–e0156055. 10 indexed citations

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Marbach, Daniel, David Lamparter, Gerald Quon, et al.. (2016). Tissue-specific regulatory circuits reveal variable modular perturbations across complex diseases. Nature Methods. 13(4). 366–370. 192 indexed citations

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Gjoneska, Elizabeta, Andreas Pfenning, Hansruedi Mathys, et al.. (2015). Conserved epigenomic signals in mice and humans reveal immune basis of Alzheimer’s disease. Nature. 518(7539). 365–369. 384 indexed citations

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Lippert, Christoph, Gerald Quon, Eun Yong Kang, et al.. (2013). The benefits of selecting phenotype-specific variants for applications of mixed models in genomics. Scientific Reports. 3(1). 1815–1815. 35 indexed citations

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Quon, Gerald, Christoph Lippert, David Heckerman, & Jennifer Listgarten. (2013). Patterns of methylation heritability in a genome-wide analysis of four brain regions. Nucleic Acids Research. 41(4). 2095–2104. 35 indexed citations

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Li, Xiao, Gerald Quon, Howard D. Lipshitz, & Quaid Morris. (2010). Predicting in vivo binding sites of RNA-binding proteins using mRNA secondary structure. RNA. 16(6). 1096–1107. 134 indexed citations

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Quon, Gerald, Yee Whye Teh, Esther T. Chan, et al.. (2008). A mixture model for the evolution of gene expression in non-homogeneous datasets. UCL Discovery (University College London). 21. 1297–1304. 2 indexed citations

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Quon, Gerald, et al.. (2005). Nh3D: A reference dataset of non-homologous protein structures. BMC Structural Biology. 5(1). 12–12. 16 indexed citations

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Shah, Sohrab P., David He, Gerald Quon, et al.. (2004). Pegasys: software for executing and integrating analyses of biological sequences. BMC Bioinformatics. 5(1). 40–40. 57 indexed citations

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Quon, Gerald, Paul M. K. Gordon, & Christoph W. Sensen. (2003). 4D Bioinformatics: A New Look at the Ribosome as an Example. IUBMB Life. 55(4-5). 279–283. 5 indexed citations

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