Gísli Másson

35.8k citations

29 papers · 4.5k indexed · 3 hit papers · h-index 22

Genetics top 0.5%
Molecular Biology top 5%
Plant Science top 5%
Ophthalmology top 1%
Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health top 5%

Co-authors: Kāri Stefánsson Augustine Kong Daníel F. Guðbjartsson Michael L. Frigge Unnur Þorsteinsdóttir Guðmar Þorleifsson Sigurjón A. Guðjónsson Agnar Helgason
Topics: Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (9 papers)Genomics and Rare Diseases (7 papers)Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (4 papers)
Cited by: Genetics Ophthalmology Molecular Biology
Journals: Nature Science Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Partner nations: Iceland United States United Kingdom

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Gísli Másson

29 papers receiving 4.4k citations

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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 →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Relatedness disequilibrium regression estimates heritability without environmental bias 2018 ·Nature Genetics ·Alexander I. Young,Michael L. Frigge,Daníel F. Guðbjartsson,Guðmar Þorleifsson,Gyða Björnsdóttir,Patrick Sulem,Gísli Másson,Unnur Þorsteinsdóttir,Kāri Stefánsson,Augustine Kong	104
2	The nature of nurture: Effects of parental genotypesbreakdown → 2018 ·Science ·Augustine Kong,Guðmar Þorleifsson,Michael L. Frigge,Bjarni J. Vilhjálmsson,Alexander I. Young,Thorgeir E. Thorgeirsson,Stefania Benónísdóttir,Ásmundur Oddsson,Bjarni V. Halldórsson,Gísli Másson,Daníel F. Guðbjartsson,Agnar Helgason,Gyða Björnsdóttir,Unnur Þorsteinsdóttir,Kāri Stefánsson	519
3	Reconstructing an African haploid genome from the 18th century 2018 ·Nature Genetics ·Anuradha Jagadeesan,Ellen D. Gunnarsdóttir,S. Sunna Ebenesersdóttir,(unknown),(unknown),(unknown),Hákon Jónsson,Jean‐Michel Dugoujon,Cesar Fortes‐Lima,Florence Migot‐Nabias,Achille Massougbodji,Gil Bellis,Luı́sa Pereira,Gísli Másson,Augustine Kong,Kāri Stefánsson,Agnar Helgason	11
4	Graphtyper enables population-scale genotyping using pangenome graphs 2017 ·Nature Genetics ·Hannes P. Eggertsson,Hákon Jónsson,Snædís Kristmundsdóttir,Eirikur Hjartarson,Birte Kehr,Gísli Másson,Florian Zink,Kristján Eldjárn Hjörleifsson,Áslaug Jónasdóttir,Aðalbjörg Jónasdóttir,Ingileif Jónsdóttir,Daníel F. Guðbjartsson,Páll Melsted,Kāri Stefánsson,Bjarni V. Halldórsson	113
5	Compound heterozygous mutations in UBA5 causing early-onset epileptic encephalopathy in two sisters 2017 ·BMC Medical Genetics ·Gudny A. Arnadottir,Brynjar Ö. Jensson,(unknown),Gerald Sulem,Ásmundur Oddsson,Ragnar P. Kristjansson,Stefania Benónísdóttir,Sigurjón A. Guðjónsson,Gísli Másson,Guðmundur Á. Þórisson,Jona Saemundsdottir,Ólafur Þ. Magnússon,Aðalbjörg Jónasdóttir,Áslaug Jónasdóttir,Ásgeir Sigurðsson,Daníel F. Guðbjartsson,Unnur Þorsteinsdóttir,Reynir Arngrı́msson,Patrick Sulem,Kāri Stefánsson	29
6	Weighting sequence variants based on their annotation increases power of whole-genome association studies 2016 ·Nature Genetics ·Garðar Sveinbjörnsson,Anders Albrechtsen,Florian Zink,Sigurjón A. Guðjónsson,Asmundur Oddson,Gísli Másson,Hilma Hólm,Augustine Kong,Unnur Þorsteinsdóttir,Patrick Sulem,Daníel F. Guðbjartsson,Kāri Stefánsson	52
7	Physical and neurobehavioral determinants of reproductive onset and success 2016 ·Nature Genetics ·Felix R. Day,Hannes Helgason,Daniel I. Chasman,Lynda M. Rose,Po‐Ru Loh,Robert A. Scott,Agnar Helgason,Augustine Kong,Gísli Másson,Ólafur Þ. Magnússon,Daníel F. Guðbjartsson,Unnur Þorsteinsdóttir,Julie E. Buring,Paul M. Ridker,Patrick Sulem,Kāri Stefánsson,Ken K. Ong,John R. B. Perry	80
8	The rate of meiotic gene conversion varies by sex and age 2016 ·Nature Genetics ·Bjarni V. Halldórsson,Marteinn T. Hardarson,Birte Kehr,Unnur Styrkársdóttir,Arnaldur Gylfason,Guðmar Þorleifsson,Florian Zink,Aðalbjörg Jónasdóttir,Áslaug Jónasdóttir,Patrick Sulem,Gísli Másson,Unnur Þorsteinsdóttir,Agnar Helgason,Augustine Kong,Daníel F. Guðbjartsson,Kāri Stefánsson	61
9	Multi-nucleotide de novo Mutations in Humans 2016 ·PLoS Genetics ·Søren Besenbacher,Patrick Sulem,Agnar Helgason,Hannes Helgason,(unknown),Áslaug Jónasdóttir,Aðalbjörg Jónasdóttir,Ólafur Þ. Magnússon,Unnur Þorsteinsdóttir,Gísli Másson,Augustine Kong,Daníel F. Guðbjartsson,Kāri Stefánsson	82
10	BamHash: a checksum program for verifying the integrity of sequence data 2015 ·Bioinformatics ·(unknown),Gísli Másson,Páll Melsted	1
11	Sequence variants from whole genome sequencing a large group of Icelanders 2015 ·Scientific Data ·Daníel F. Guðbjartsson,Patrick Sulem,Hannes Helgason,Arnaldur Gylfason,Sigurjón A. Guðjónsson,Florian Zink,Asmundur Oddson,Gísli Magnússon,Bjarni V. Halldórsson,Eirikur Hjartarson,Gunnar Sigurðsson,Augustine Kong,Agnar Helgason,Gísli Másson,Ólafur Þ. Magnússon,Unnur Þorsteinsdóttir,Kāri Stefánsson	31
12	Common and rare variants associated with kidney stones and biochemical traits 2015 ·Nature Communications ·Ásmundur Oddsson,Patrick Sulem,Hannes Helgason,Viðar Ö. Eðvarðsson,Guðmar Þorleifsson,Garðar Sveinbjörnsson,(unknown),Guðmundur I. Eyjólfsson,Ólöf Sigurðardóttir,Ísleifur Ólafsson,Gísli Másson,Hilma Hólm,Daníel F. Guðbjartsson,Unnur Þorsteinsdóttir,Ólafur S. Indridason,Runólfur Pálsson,Kāri Stefánsson	120
13	Rare mutations associating with serum creatinine and chronic kidney disease 2014 ·Human Molecular Genetics ·Garðar Sveinbjörnsson,Evgenia Mikaelsdottir,Runólfur Pálsson,Ólafur S. Indridason,Hilma Hólm,Áslaug Jónasdóttir,Agnar Helgason,Snævar Sigurðsson,Aðalbjörg Jónasdóttir,Ásgeir Sigurðsson,Guðmundur I. Eyjólfsson,Ólöf Sigurðardóttir,Ólafur Þ. Magnússon,Augustine Kong,Gísli Másson,Patrick Sulem,Ísleifur Ólafsson,Unnur Þorsteinsdóttir,Daníel F. Guðbjartsson,Kāri Stefánsson	38
14	Common and low-frequency variants associated with genome-wide recombination rate 2013 ·Nature Genetics ·Augustine Kong,Guðmar Þorleifsson,Michael L. Frigge,Gísli Másson,Daníel F. Guðbjartsson,(unknown),Erna Magnúsdóttir,(unknown),Unnur Þorsteinsdóttir,Kāri Stefánsson	90
15	A direct characterization of human mutation based on microsatellites 2012 ·Nature Genetics ·(unknown),Agnar Helgason,Gísli Másson,S. Sunna Ebenesersdóttir,Heng Li,Swapan Mallick,Sante Gnerre,Nick Patterson,Augustine Kong,(unknown),Kāri Stefánsson	235
16	Fine-scale recombination rate differences between sexes, populations and individuals 2010 ·Nature ·Augustine Kong,Guðmar Þorleifsson,Daníel F. Guðbjartsson,Gísli Másson,Ásgeir Sigurðsson,Áslaug Jónasdóttir,G. Bragi Walters,Aðalbjörg Jónasdóttir,Arnaldur Gylfason,Kári Kristinsson,Sigurjón A. Guðjónsson,Michael L. Frigge,Agnar Helgason,Unnur Þorsteinsdóttir,Kāri Stefánsson	406
17	Detection of sharing by descent, long-range phasing and haplotype imputation 2008 ·Nature Genetics ·Augustine Kong,Gísli Másson,Michael L. Frigge,Arnaldur Gylfason,(unknown),Guðmar Þorleifsson,Pall I. Olason,Andrés Ingason,Stacy Steinberg,Þórunn Rafnar,Patrick Sulem,Magali Mouy,Frosti Jónsson,Unnur Þorsteinsdóttir,Daníel F. Guðbjartsson,Hreinn Stefánsson,Kāri Stefánsson	231
18	CDKN2A mutations and melanoma risk in the Icelandic population 2008 ·Journal of Medical Genetics ·Alisa M. Goldstein,Simon Stacey,Jón Ólafsson,Guðbjörn F. Jónsson,Agnar Helgason,Patrick Sulem,Bárður Sigurgeirsson,Kristrún R. Benediktsdóttir,Kristin Thorisdottir,Rafn Ragnarsson,Jens Kjartansson,Jovana Kostić,Gísli Másson,Kristleifur Kristjánsson,Jeffery R. Gulcher,Augustine Kong,U. Thorsteinsdottir,Þórunn Rafnar,Margaret A. Tucker,Kāri Stefánsson	21
19	A high-resolution recombination map of the human genomebreakdown → 2002 ·Nature Genetics ·Augustine Kong,Daníel F. Guðbjartsson,Jesús Sainz,G.M. Jonsdottir,Sigurjón A. Guðjónsson,(unknown),Sigrún Sigurðardóttir,John Barnard,(unknown),Gísli Másson,Adam Shlien,Stefan Palsson,Michael L. Frigge,Thorgeir E. Thorgeirsson,Jeffrey R. Gulcher,Kāri Stefánsson	1297
20	Peripheral myelin modification in CMT1B correlates with MPZ gene mutations 1999 ·Neuromuscular Disorders ·A Lagueny,Philippe Latour,A. Vital,Yusuf A. Rajabally,Gísli Másson,Xavier Ferrer,Ismaël Bernard,Jean‐Philippe Julien,C Vital,A. Vandenberghe	21

About Gísli Másson

Gísli Másson is a scholar working on Genetics, Nephrology and Molecular Biology, having authored 29 papers that have together received 4.5k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (9 papers), Genomics and Rare Diseases (7 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (4 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Genetics (2.5k citations), Ophthalmology (364 citations) and Molecular Biology (1.9k citations). Gísli Másson has collaborated with scholars based in Iceland, United States and United Kingdom. Frequent 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. Their work appears in journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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