Hunter B. Fraser

9.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
83 papers, 6.2k citations indexed

About

Hunter B. Fraser is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Hunter B. Fraser has authored 83 papers receiving a total of 6.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 68 papers in Molecular Biology, 38 papers in Genetics and 7 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Hunter B. Fraser's work include Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (21 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (19 papers) and Fungal and yeast genetics research (17 papers). Hunter B. Fraser is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (21 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (19 papers) and Fungal and yeast genetics research (17 papers). Hunter B. Fraser collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and United Kingdom. Hunter B. Fraser's co-authors include Aaron E. Hirsh, Dennis P. Wall, Michael B. Eisen, Marcus W. Feldman, Curt Scharfe, Lars M. Steinmetz, Carlo G. Artieri, Michael S. Kobor, Sarah Neumann and Lucia L.C. Lam and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Hunter B. Fraser

81 papers receiving 6.1k citations

Hit Papers

Evolutionary Rate in the Protein Interaction Network 2002 2026 2010 2018 2002 200 400 600
What are hit papers?

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.

  1. Evolutionary Rate in the Protein Interaction Network
    2002 667 citations Hunter B. Fraser, Aaron E. Hirsh et al. Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Hunter B. Fraser United States 39 4.7k 1.9k 569 375 292 83 6.2k
Andreas D. Baxevanis United States 39 3.7k 0.8× 1.3k 0.7× 386 0.7× 291 0.8× 117 0.4× 111 5.9k
Sven Bergmann Switzerland 41 4.2k 0.9× 1.9k 1.0× 719 1.3× 400 1.1× 87 0.3× 105 7.3k
Justin C. Fay United States 36 3.4k 0.7× 2.8k 1.5× 1.4k 2.5× 206 0.5× 171 0.6× 91 6.4k
Lisa Stubbs United States 41 3.5k 0.7× 1.8k 0.9× 607 1.1× 328 0.9× 406 1.4× 114 5.5k
Ben Lehner Spain 53 7.1k 1.5× 2.3k 1.2× 655 1.2× 355 0.9× 202 0.7× 119 9.1k
Devin Absher United States 41 4.0k 0.8× 3.2k 1.7× 476 0.8× 217 0.6× 609 2.1× 96 7.3k
V Reinke United States 37 4.5k 0.9× 962 0.5× 691 1.2× 325 0.9× 120 0.4× 74 6.1k
Toby Johnson United States 46 4.4k 0.9× 2.3k 1.2× 297 0.5× 480 1.3× 305 1.0× 128 9.2k
Ewen F. Kirkness United States 44 4.2k 0.9× 2.0k 1.0× 869 1.5× 138 0.4× 108 0.4× 96 7.1k
António Amorim Portugal 48 3.9k 0.8× 5.5k 2.9× 473 0.8× 250 0.7× 206 0.7× 451 9.4k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Hunter B. Fraser

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Mack, Katya L., Heather E. Talbott, Michelle Griffin, et al.. (2023). Allele-specific expression reveals genetic drivers of tissue regeneration in mice. Cell stem cell. 30(10). 1368–1381.e6. 12 indexed citations
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Gokhman, David, et al.. (2023). Accounting for cis-regulatory constraint prioritizes genes likely to affect species-specific traits. Genome biology. 24(1). 11–11. 8 indexed citations
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Mack, Katya L., Tyler A. Square, Bin Zhao, Craig T. Miller, & Hunter B. Fraser. (2023). Evolution of Spatial and Temporalcis-Regulatory Divergence in Sticklebacks. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 40(3). 8 indexed citations
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Hu, Caroline K., et al.. (2022). cis-Regulatory changes in locomotor genes are associated with the evolution of burrowing behavior. Cell Reports. 38(7). 110360–110360. 14 indexed citations
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Singh-Babak, Sheena D., Tomas Babak, Hunter B. Fraser, & Alexander D. Johnson. (2021). Lineage-specific selection and the evolution of virulence in the Candida clade. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(12). 10 indexed citations
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Harshman, Lana, Fumitaka Inoue, Hunter B. Fraser, et al.. (2021). The cis-regulatory effects of modern human-specific variants. eLife. 10. 40 indexed citations
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Nivina, Aleksandra, Sur Herrera Paredes, Hunter B. Fraser, & Chaitan Khosla. (2021). GRINS: Genetic elements that recode assembly-line polyketide synthases and accelerate their diversification. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(26). 15 indexed citations
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Fraser, Hunter B.. (2020). Detecting selection with a genetic cross. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(36). 22323–22330. 15 indexed citations
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Zhao, Quanyi, Michael Dacre, Trieu Nguyen, et al.. (2020). Molecular mechanisms of coronary disease revealed using quantitative trait loci for TCF21 binding, chromatin accessibility, and chromosomal looping. Genome biology. 21(1). 135–135. 13 indexed citations
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Sharon, Eilon, et al.. (2018). Functional Genetic Variants Revealed by Massively Parallel Precise Genome Editing. Cell. 175(2). 544–557.e16. 153 indexed citations
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Combs, Peter A., Joshua J. Krupp, Dennis J. Bua, et al.. (2018). Tissue-Specific cis-Regulatory Divergence Implicates eloF in Inhibiting Interspecies Mating in Drosophila. Current Biology. 28(24). 3969–3975.e3. 27 indexed citations
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Venkataram, Sandeep, et al.. (2017). High-resolution mapping of cis -regulatory variation in budding yeast. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 114(50). E10736–E10744. 35 indexed citations
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Sharon, Eilon, Leah V. Sibener, Alexis Battle, et al.. (2016). Genetic variation in MHC proteins is associated with T cell receptor expression biases. Nature Genetics. 48(9). 995–1002. 102 indexed citations
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Kaplow, Irene M., Julia L. MacIsaac, Sarah M Mah, et al.. (2015). A pooling-based approach to mapping genetic variants associated with DNA methylation. Genome Research. 25(6). 907–917. 22 indexed citations
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Fraser, Hunter B., Sasha F. Levy, Arun R. Chavan, et al.. (2012). Polygenic cis-regulatory adaptation in the evolution of yeast pathogenicity. Genome Research. 22(10). 1930–1939. 37 indexed citations
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Wall, Dennis P., Aaron E. Hirsh, Hunter B. Fraser, et al.. (2005). Functional genomic analysis of the rates of protein evolution. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 102(15). 5483–5488. 214 indexed citations
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Hirsh, Aaron E., Hunter B. Fraser, & Dennis P. Wall. (2004). Adjusting for Selection on Synonymous Sites in Estimates of Evolutionary Distance. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 22(1). 174–177. 50 indexed citations
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Wall, Dennis P., Hunter B. Fraser, & Aaron E. Hirsh. (2003). Detecting putative orthologs. Bioinformatics. 19(13). 1710–1711. 200 indexed citations
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Fraser, Hunter B., Aaron E. Hirsh, Lars M. Steinmetz, Curt Scharfe, & Marcus W. Feldman. (2002). Evolutionary Rate in the Protein Interaction Network. Science. 296(5568). 750–752. 667 indexed citations breakdown →
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Hirsh, Aaron E. & Hunter B. Fraser. (2001). Protein dispensability and rate of evolution. Nature. 411(6841). 1046–1049. 323 indexed citations

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