Greg Elgar

16.5k total citations · 3 hit papers
111 papers, 4.4k citations indexed

About

Greg Elgar is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Greg Elgar has authored 111 papers receiving a total of 4.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 93 papers in Molecular Biology, 33 papers in Genetics and 22 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Greg Elgar's work include Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (34 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (22 papers) and Chromosomal and Genetic Variations (22 papers). Greg Elgar is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (34 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (22 papers) and Chromosomal and Genetic Variations (22 papers). Greg Elgar collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Germany. Greg Elgar's co-authors include Tanya Vavouri, Sydney Brenner, Adam Woolfe, Debbie K. Goode, Byrappa Venkatesh, Samuel Aparício, Heather Callaway, Gayle K. McEwen, Yvonne J. K. Edwards and Melody S. Clark and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Greg Elgar

111 papers receiving 4.3k 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.

Highly Conserved Non-Coding Sequences Are Associated with Vertebrate Development

2004 723 citations Adam Woolfe, Martin Goodson et al. profile →
Characterization of the pufferfish (Fugu) genome as a compact model vertebrate genome

1993 479 citations Sydney Brenner, Greg Elgar et al. Nature profile →
Ongoing chromothripsis underpins osteosarcoma genome complexity and clonal evolution

2025 20 citations Jose Espejo Valle-Inclán, Sonia Zumalave et al. Cell profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Greg Elgar United Kingdom	34	3.3k	1.3k	951	427	311	111	4.4k
Hugues Roest Crollius France	27	2.1k 0.6×	934 0.7×	732 0.8×	527 1.2×	197 0.6×	60	3.2k
Jordi García‐Fernàndez Spain	37	4.1k 1.2×	1.2k 0.9×	724 0.8×	257 0.6×	215 0.7×	101	5.4k
Satoru Kobayashi Japan	40	4.4k 1.3×	1.7k 1.3×	583 0.6×	464 1.1×	257 0.8×	142	6.1k
Yi‐Lin Yan United States	17	4.2k 1.3×	2.0k 1.5×	1.5k 1.6×	401 0.9×	371 1.2×	18	6.0k
John S. Taylor Canada	32	2.9k 0.9×	1.3k 1.0×	1.7k 1.8×	344 0.8×	174 0.6×	88	5.3k
Kazutoyo Osoegawa United States	29	2.1k 0.6×	1.7k 1.3×	931 1.0×	296 0.7×	187 0.6×	61	3.5k
Elwood Linney United States	41	2.6k 0.8×	1.3k 1.0×	412 0.4×	442 1.0×	181 0.6×	74	4.4k
Thomas R. Bürglin Sweden	37	3.8k 1.1×	816 0.6×	1.2k 1.3×	200 0.5×	326 1.0×	71	5.2k
Victor Guryev Netherlands	36	3.9k 1.2×	1.6k 1.2×	646 0.7×	425 1.0×	989 3.2×	124	5.9k
J L Weber United States	21	2.2k 0.7×	2.0k 1.5×	896 0.9×	224 0.5×	318 1.0×	31	4.7k

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Valle-Inclán, Jose Espejo, Sonia Zumalave, Carolin M. Sauer, et al.. (2025). Ongoing chromothripsis underpins osteosarcoma genome complexity and clonal evolution. Cell. 188(2). 352–370.e22. 20 indexed citations breakdown →

Burté, Florence, Sandrine Marquet, Biobele J. Brown, et al.. (2018). Low plasma haptoglobin is a risk factor for life-threatening childhood severe malarial anemia and not an exclusive consequence of hemolysis. Scientific Reports. 8(1). 17527–17527. 10 indexed citations

Rosa, Ilaria Dalla, Takehiro Yasukawa, Robert S. Young, et al.. (2017). Aberrant ribonucleotide incorporation and multiple deletions in mitochondrial DNA of the murine MPV17 disease model. Nucleic Acids Research. 45(22). 12808–12815. 33 indexed citations

Silva, Dilrini De, Richard A. Nichols, & Greg Elgar. (2014). Purifying Selection in Deeply Conserved Human Enhancers Is More Consistent than in Coding Sequences. PLoS ONE. 9(7). e103357–e103357. 8 indexed citations

Goode, Debbie K., et al.. (2011). Minor change, major difference: divergent functions of highly conserved cis-regulatory elements subsequent to whole genome duplication events. Development. 138(5). 879–884. 27 indexed citations

Elgar, Greg & Tanya Vavouri. (2008). Tuning in to the signals: noncoding sequence conservation in vertebrate genomes. Trends in Genetics. 24(7). 344–352. 128 indexed citations

Elgar, Greg. (2006). Different words, same meaning: understanding the languages of the genome. Trends in Genetics. 22(12). 639–641. 1 indexed citations

Vavouri, Tanya, Gayle K. McEwen, Adam Woolfe, Walter R. Gilks, & Greg Elgar. (2005). Defining a genomic radius for long-range enhancer action: duplicated conserved non-coding elements hold the key. Trends in Genetics. 22(1). 5–10. 62 indexed citations

Edwards, Yvonne J. K., Klaudia Walter, Gayle K. McEwen, et al.. (2005). Characterisation of conserved non-coding sequences in vertebrate genomes using bioinformatics, statistics and functional studies. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part D Genomics and Proteomics. 1(1). 46–58. 6 indexed citations

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Elgar, Greg. (2004). Plenty more fish in the sea: Comparative and functional genomics using teleost models. Briefings in Functional Genomics and Proteomics. 3(1). 15–25. 5 indexed citations

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Cardoso, João C. R., Deborah M. Power, Greg Elgar, & Melody S. Clark. (2003). Isolation and Characterisation of the Corticotropin Releasing Factor Receptor 1 (CRFR1) Gene in a Teleost Fish,Fugu rubripes. DNA sequence. 14(3). 215–218. 23 indexed citations

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Clark, Melody S., Pierre Pontarotti, André Gilles, Alison Kelly, & Greg Elgar. (2000). Identification and Characterization of a β Proteasome Subunit Cluster in the Japanese Pufferfish ( Fugu rubripes ). The Journal of Immunology. 165(8). 4446–4452. 26 indexed citations

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Elgar, Greg, Melody S. Clark, Stephen Meek, et al.. (1999). Generation and Analysis of 25 Mb of Genomic DNA from the Pufferfish Fugu rubripes by Sequence Scanning. Genome Research. 9(10). 960–971. 70 indexed citations

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Maur, Adrian Auf der, et al.. (1999). Characterization of the Transcription Factor MTF-1 from the Japanese Pufferfish (<I>Fugu rubripes</I>) Reveals Evolutionary Conservation of Heavy Metal Stress Response. Biological Chemistry. 380(2). 175–85. 73 indexed citations

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Edwards, Yvonne J. K., Martin C. Frith, Greg Elgar, & Martin J. Bishop. (1998). Theatre: A Novel Tool For The Comparative Investigation and Display of Evolutionary Diversity of Functional and Structural Features in DNA Sequences.. 1 indexed citations

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Kehrer‐Sawatzki, Hildegard, et al.. (1998). Genomic characterization of the Neurofibromatosis Type 1 gene of Fugu rubripes. Gene. 222(1). 145–153. 12 indexed citations

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Timón, Marcos, Greg Elgar, Sonoko Habu, Katsuzumi Okumura, & Peter C. L. Beverley. (1997). Molecular cloning of major histocompatibility complex class I cDNAs from the pufferfish Fugu rubripes. Immunogenetics. 47(2). 170–173. 17 indexed citations

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Schofield, J. Paul, Greg Elgar, Rebecca Deadman, et al.. (1997). Regions of Human Chromosome 2 (2q32–q35) and Mouse Chromosome 1 Show Synteny with the Pufferfish Genome (Fugu rubripes). Genomics. 45(1). 158–167. 22 indexed citations

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Brenner, Sydney, Greg Elgar, Robert A. Sanford, et al.. (1993). Characterization of the pufferfish (Fugu) genome as a compact model vertebrate genome. Nature. 366(6452). 265–268. 479 indexed citations breakdown →

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Elgar, Greg, et al.. (1992). A novel method for isolation of large insert DNA from recombinant lambda DNA. Nucleic Acids Research. 20(17). 4667–4667. 2 indexed citations

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