Gísli Másson

35.8k total citations · 3 hit papers
29 papers, 4.5k citations indexed

About

Gísli Másson is a scholar working on Genetics, Molecular Biology and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Gísli Másson has authored 29 papers receiving a total of 4.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Genetics, 16 papers in Molecular Biology and 4 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Gísli Másson's work include Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (9 papers), Genomics and Rare Diseases (7 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (4 papers). Gísli Másson is often cited by papers focused on Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (9 papers), Genomics and Rare Diseases (7 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (4 papers). Gísli Másson collaborates with scholars based in Iceland, United States and United Kingdom. Gísli Másson's co-authors include Kāri Stefánsson, Augustine Kong, Daníel F. Guðbjartsson, Michael L. Frigge, Unnur Þorsteinsdóttir, Guðmar Þorleifsson, Sigurjón A. Guðjónsson, Agnar Helgason, Thorgeir E. Thorgeirsson and Patrick Sulem and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Gísli Másson

29 papers receiving 4.4k 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.

A high-resolution recombination map of the human genome

2002 1.3k citations Augustine Kong, Daníel F. Guðbjartsson et al. Nature Genetics profile →
The nature of nurture: Effects of parental genotypes

2018 519 citations Augustine Kong, Guðmar Þorleifsson et al. Science profile →
Common Sequence Variants in the LOXL1 Gene Confer Susceptibility to Exfoliation Glaucoma

2007 478 citations Guðmar Þorleifsson, Patrick Sulem et al. Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Gísli Másson Iceland	22	2.5k	1.9k	621	364	326	29	4.5k
Unnur Þorsteinsdóttir Iceland	39	2.1k 0.8×	3.0k 1.6×	325 0.5×	359 1.0×	350 1.1×	68	6.5k
Daníel F. Guðbjartsson Iceland	41	3.9k 1.6×	3.2k 1.6×	705 1.1×	377 1.0×	592 1.8×	81	8.1k
Irma Järvelä Finland	42	2.3k 0.9×	1.7k 0.9×	102 0.2×	551 1.5×	186 0.6×	146	5.6k
Anjali K. Henders Australia	35	3.3k 1.3×	1.8k 1.0×	498 0.8×	46 0.1×	411 1.3×	83	6.5k
R E Ferrell United States	51	3.2k 1.3×	2.8k 1.5×	190 0.3×	247 0.7×	244 0.7×	193	8.8k
M. Anne Spence United States	44	2.9k 1.1×	1.6k 0.8×	200 0.3×	111 0.3×	302 0.9×	157	6.3k
Joseph E. Powell Australia	35	2.4k 1.0×	3.3k 1.7×	214 0.3×	102 0.3×	215 0.7×	97	6.2k
Michèle Ramsay South Africa	37	2.0k 0.8×	1.8k 0.9×	214 0.3×	173 0.5×	636 2.0×	237	5.4k
Robert S. Sparkes United States	47	2.7k 1.1×	4.0k 2.1×	347 0.6×	962 2.6×	505 1.5×	205	9.8k
Melanie Bahlo Australia	47	2.1k 0.8×	3.3k 1.7×	137 0.2×	159 0.4×	266 0.8×	203	9.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Gísli Másson

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20 of 20 papers shown

Young, Alexander I., Michael L. Frigge, Daníel F. Guðbjartsson, et al.. (2018). Relatedness disequilibrium regression estimates heritability without environmental bias. Nature Genetics. 50(9). 1304–1310. 104 indexed citations

Kong, Augustine, Guðmar Þorleifsson, Michael L. Frigge, et al.. (2018). The nature of nurture: Effects of parental genotypes. Science. 359(6374). 424–428. 519 indexed citations breakdown →

Jagadeesan, Anuradha, Ellen D. Gunnarsdóttir, S. Sunna Ebenesersdóttir, et al.. (2018). Reconstructing an African haploid genome from the 18th century. Nature Genetics. 50(2). 199–205. 11 indexed citations

Eggertsson, Hannes P., Hákon Jónsson, Snædís Kristmundsdóttir, et al.. (2017). Graphtyper enables population-scale genotyping using pangenome graphs. Nature Genetics. 49(11). 1654–1660. 113 indexed citations

Arnadottir, Gudny A., Brynjar Ö. Jensson, Gerald Sulem, et al.. (2017). Compound heterozygous mutations in UBA5 causing early-onset epileptic encephalopathy in two sisters. BMC Medical Genetics. 18(1). 103–103. 29 indexed citations

Sveinbjörnsson, Garðar, Anders Albrechtsen, Florian Zink, et al.. (2016). Weighting sequence variants based on their annotation increases power of whole-genome association studies. Nature Genetics. 48(3). 314–317. 52 indexed citations

Day, Felix R., Hannes Helgason, Daniel I. Chasman, et al.. (2016). Physical and neurobehavioral determinants of reproductive onset and success. Nature Genetics. 48(6). 617–623. 80 indexed citations

Halldórsson, Bjarni V., Marteinn T. Hardarson, Birte Kehr, et al.. (2016). The rate of meiotic gene conversion varies by sex and age. Nature Genetics. 48(11). 1377–1384. 61 indexed citations

Besenbacher, Søren, Patrick Sulem, Agnar Helgason, et al.. (2016). Multi-nucleotide de novo Mutations in Humans. PLoS Genetics. 12(11). e1006315–e1006315. 82 indexed citations

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Másson, Gísli, et al.. (2015). BamHash: a checksum program for verifying the integrity of sequence data. Bioinformatics. 32(1). 140–141. 1 indexed citations

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Guðbjartsson, Daníel F., Patrick Sulem, Hannes Helgason, et al.. (2015). Sequence variants from whole genome sequencing a large group of Icelanders. Scientific Data. 2(1). 150011–150011. 31 indexed citations

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Oddsson, Ásmundur, Patrick Sulem, Hannes Helgason, et al.. (2015). Common and rare variants associated with kidney stones and biochemical traits. Nature Communications. 6(1). 7975–7975. 120 indexed citations

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Sveinbjörnsson, Garðar, Evgenia Mikaelsdottir, Runólfur Pálsson, et al.. (2014). Rare mutations associating with serum creatinine and chronic kidney disease. Human Molecular Genetics. 23(25). 6935–6943. 38 indexed citations

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Kong, Augustine, Guðmar Þorleifsson, Michael L. Frigge, et al.. (2013). Common and low-frequency variants associated with genome-wide recombination rate. Nature Genetics. 46(1). 11–16. 90 indexed citations

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Helgason, Agnar, Gísli Másson, S. Sunna Ebenesersdóttir, et al.. (2012). A direct characterization of human mutation based on microsatellites. Nature Genetics. 44(10). 1161–1165. 235 indexed citations

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Kong, Augustine, Guðmar Þorleifsson, Daníel F. Guðbjartsson, et al.. (2010). Fine-scale recombination rate differences between sexes, populations and individuals. Nature. 467(7319). 1099–1103. 406 indexed citations

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Kong, Augustine, Gísli Másson, Michael L. Frigge, et al.. (2008). Detection of sharing by descent, long-range phasing and haplotype imputation. Nature Genetics. 40(9). 1068–1075. 231 indexed citations

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Goldstein, Alisa M., Simon Stacey, Jón Ólafsson, et al.. (2008). CDKN2A mutations and melanoma risk in the Icelandic population. Journal of Medical Genetics. 45(5). 284–289. 21 indexed citations

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Kong, Augustine, Daníel F. Guðbjartsson, Jesús Sainz, et al.. (2002). A high-resolution recombination map of the human genome. Nature Genetics. 31(3). 241–247. 1297 indexed citations breakdown →

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Lagueny, A, Philippe Latour, A. Vital, et al.. (1999). Peripheral myelin modification in CMT1B correlates with MPZ gene mutations. Neuromuscular Disorders. 9(6-7). 361–367. 21 indexed citations

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