Giorgio Sirugo

11.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
83 papers, 4.0k citations indexed

About

Giorgio Sirugo is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Infectious Diseases and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Giorgio Sirugo has authored 83 papers receiving a total of 4.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 26 papers in Molecular Biology, 21 papers in Infectious Diseases and 20 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Giorgio Sirugo's work include Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology (21 papers), Genetic Neurodegenerative Diseases (18 papers) and Mitochondrial Function and Pathology (12 papers). Giorgio Sirugo is often cited by papers focused on Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology (21 papers), Genetic Neurodegenerative Diseases (18 papers) and Mitochondrial Function and Pathology (12 papers). Giorgio Sirugo collaborates with scholars based in United States, Italy and Gambia. Giorgio Sirugo's co-authors include Scott M. Williams, Sarah A. Tishkoff, Colette Adida, Dario C. Altieri, Grazia Ambrosini, Jean‐Louis Mandel, Christian Wejse, Adrian V. S. Hill, Nicola M. Zetola and Branwen J. Hennig and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

Giorgio Sirugo

81 papers receiving 3.9k 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.

The Missing Diversity in Human Genetic Studies

2019 743 citations Giorgio Sirugo, Scott M. Williams et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Giorgio Sirugo United States	35	1.5k	1.1k	735	727	726	83	4.0k
Nigel Garrett South Africa	38	2.4k 1.6×	442 0.4×	837 1.1×	606 0.8×	1.4k 1.9×	182	5.6k
Jason B. Weinberg United States	37	1.4k 0.9×	439 0.4×	769 1.0×	1.7k 2.4×	549 0.8×	122	5.0k
Wanda K. O’Neal United States	48	3.1k 2.1×	1.1k 1.0×	663 0.9×	655 0.9×	456 0.6×	117	7.3k
Eric Lai United States	35	1.9k 1.3×	1.1k 1.0×	277 0.4×	958 1.3×	274 0.4×	73	4.8k
Michael Schmidt Germany	33	866 0.6×	698 0.6×	931 1.3×	694 1.0×	593 0.8×	144	4.0k
Dongliang Ge United States	30	1.5k 1.0×	1.1k 1.0×	3.6k 4.8×	974 1.3×	513 0.7×	68	7.8k
Sangkot Marzuki Australia	34	2.1k 1.4×	465 0.4×	639 0.9×	299 0.4×	594 0.8×	112	3.6k
Bonnie LaFleur United States	39	1.8k 1.2×	421 0.4×	765 1.0×	545 0.7×	291 0.4×	121	5.2k
Michio Yasunami Japan	33	1.4k 0.9×	341 0.3×	580 0.8×	769 1.1×	313 0.4×	99	3.3k
Joseph Bryant United States	34	1.3k 0.8×	390 0.4×	684 0.9×	565 0.8×	1.0k 1.4×	139	4.2k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Giorgio Sirugo

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20 of 20 papers shown

Ciesielski, Timothy H., Giorgio Sirugo, Sudha K. Iyengar, & Scott M. Williams. (2024). Characterizing the pathogenicity of genetic variants: the consequences of context. npj Genomic Medicine. 9(1). 3–3. 10 indexed citations

Stein, Catherine M., Penelope Benchek, Jacquelaine Bartlett, et al.. (2021). Methylome-wide Analysis Reveals Epigenetic Marks Associated With Resistance to Tuberculosis in Human Immunodeficiency Virus–Infected Individuals From East Africa. The Journal of Infectious Diseases. 224(4). 695–704. 1 indexed citations

Bartlett, Jacquelaine, Robert P. Igo, Eddie M. Wampande, et al.. (2020). Interaction between host genes and Mycobacterium tuberculosis lineage can affect tuberculosis severity: Evidence for coevolution?. PLoS Genetics. 16(4). e1008728–e1008728. 40 indexed citations

White, Marquitta J., Alessandra Tacconelli, Rafal S. Sobota, et al.. (2020). CLEC4E (Mincle) genetic variation associates with pulmonary tuberculosis in Guinea-Bissau (West Africa). Infection Genetics and Evolution. 85. 104560–104560. 7 indexed citations

Stein, Catherine M., Christian Wejse, Rafal S. Sobota, et al.. (2017). Genomics of Human Pulmonary Tuberculosis: from Genes to Pathways. PubMed. 5(4). 149–166. 25 indexed citations

Predazzi, Irene M., Antonis Rokas, Amos Deinard, et al.. (2013). Putting Pleiotropy and Selection Into Context Defines a New Paradigm for Interpreting Genetic Data. Circulation Cardiovascular Genetics. 6(3). 299–307. 9 indexed citations

Collins, Ryan L., Ting Hu, Christian Wejse, et al.. (2013). Multifactor dimensionality reduction reveals a three-locus epistatic interaction associated with susceptibility to pulmonary tuberculosis. BioData Mining. 6(1). 4–4. 31 indexed citations

Hu, Ting, Yuanzhu Chen, Jeff Kiralis, et al.. (2013). An information-gain approach to detecting three-way epistatic interactions in genetic association studies. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. 20(4). 630–636. 56 indexed citations

Hennig, Branwen J., Digna Velez-Edwards, Maarten F. Schim van der Loeff, et al.. (2010). CD4 Intragenic SNPs Associate With HIV-2 Plasma Viral Load and CD4 Count in a Community-Based Study From Guinea-Bissau, West Africa. JAIDS Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes. 56(1). 1–8. 16 indexed citations

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Savy, Mathilde, Branwen J. Hennig, Conor Doherty, et al.. (2010). Haptoglobin and Sickle Cell Polymorphisms and Risk of Active Trachoma in Gambian Children. PLoS ONE. 5(6). e11075–e11075. 7 indexed citations

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Velez, Digna R., Christian Wejse, Martín E. Stryjewski, et al.. (2009). Variants in toll-like receptors 2 and 9 influence susceptibility to pulmonary tuberculosis in Caucasians, African-Americans, and West Africans. Human Genetics. 127(1). 65–73. 134 indexed citations

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Cooke, Graham, Sarah J. Campbell, Steve Bennett, et al.. (2008). Mapping of a Novel Susceptibility Locus Suggests a Role for MC3R and CTSZ in Human Tuberculosis. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. 178(2). 203–207. 61 indexed citations

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Sirugo, Giorgio, Branwen J. Hennig, Adebowale Adeyemo, et al.. (2008). Genetic studies of African populations: an overview on disease susceptibility and response to vaccines and therapeutics. Human Genetics. 123(6). 557–598. 64 indexed citations

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Atkinson, Sarah H., Kirk A. Rockett, Giorgio Sirugo, et al.. (2006). Seasonal Childhood Anaemia in West Africa Is Associated with the Haptoglobin 2-2 Genotype. PLoS Medicine. 3(5). e172–e172. 53 indexed citations

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Tishkoff, Sarah A., A.J. Pakstis, Mark Stoneking, et al.. (2000). Short Tandem-Repeat Polymorphism/Alu Haplotype Variation at the PLAT Locus: Implications for Modern Human Origins. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 67(4). 901–925. 74 indexed citations

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King, Bonnie L., Giorgio Sirugo, Joseph H. Nadeau, et al.. (1998). Long CAG/CTG repeats in mice. Mammalian Genome. 9(5). 392–393. 2 indexed citations

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Ambrosini, Grazia, Colette Adida, Giorgio Sirugo, & Dario C. Altieri. (1998). Induction of Apoptosis and Inhibition of Cell Proliferation bysurvivin Gene Targeting. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 273(18). 11177–11182. 359 indexed citations

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Chew, Anne, et al.. (1997). Cloning, Expression, and Chromosomal Assignment of the Human Mitochondrial Intermediate Peptidase Gene (MIPEP). Genomics. 40(3). 493–496. 26 indexed citations

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Sirugo, Giorgio, Amos S. Deinard, J.R. Kidd, & K. Kidd. (1997). Survey of Maximum CTG/CAG Repeat Lengths in Humans and Non-Human Primates: Total Genome Scan in Populations Using the Repeat Expansion Detection Method. Human Molecular Genetics. 6(3). 403–408. 21 indexed citations

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Belal, Samir, Giorgio Sirugo, P.A. Ioannou, et al.. (1992). Study of large inbred Friedreich ataxia families reveals a recombination between D9S15 and the disease locus.. PubMed. 51(6). 1372–6. 11 indexed citations

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