Itsik Pe’er

16.0k total citations · 3 hit papers
99 papers, 6.8k citations indexed

About

Itsik Pe’er is a scholar working on Genetics, Molecular Biology and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Itsik Pe’er has authored 99 papers receiving a total of 6.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 61 papers in Genetics, 42 papers in Molecular Biology and 11 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Itsik Pe’er's work include Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (38 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (19 papers) and Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals (12 papers). Itsik Pe’er is often cited by papers focused on Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (38 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (19 papers) and Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals (12 papers). Itsik Pe’er collaborates with scholars based in United States, Israel and Switzerland. Itsik Pe’er's co-authors include Mark J. Daly, David Altshuler, Roman Yelensky, Paul I. W. de Bakker, Stacey Gabriel, Snehit Prabhu, Pier Francesco Palamara, Tyler Joseph, Ron Shamir and Ariel Darvasi and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Itsik Pe’er

96 papers receiving 6.7k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Efficiency and power in genetic association studies

2005 1.4k citations Itsik Pe’er, Mark J. Daly et al. profile →
HLA-B*5701 genotype is a major determinant of drug-induced liver injury due to flucloxacillin

2009 732 citations Yufeng Shen, Itsik Pe’er et al. profile →
FEAST: fast expectation-maximization for microbial source tracking

2019 388 citations Liat Shenhav, Tyler Joseph et al. Nature Methods profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Itsik Pe’er United States	35	3.1k	2.7k	501	485	410	99	6.8k
Matthew R. Nelson United States	38	2.6k 0.9×	2.7k 1.0×	773 1.5×	608 1.3×	450 1.1×	84	7.4k
Nicole Soranzo United Kingdom	35	2.3k 0.7×	2.5k 0.9×	523 1.0×	283 0.6×	288 0.7×	78	5.8k
John C. Whittaker United Kingdom	48	3.3k 1.1×	2.3k 0.9×	214 0.4×	525 1.1×	613 1.5×	220	8.4k
Antti Sajantila Finland	46	3.8k 1.2×	2.6k 1.0×	734 1.5×	242 0.5×	208 0.5×	198	7.2k
Andrew D. Johnson United States	39	1.9k 0.6×	2.8k 1.0×	202 0.4×	456 0.9×	411 1.0×	127	6.6k
William McLaren United Kingdom	13	2.9k 0.9×	3.2k 1.2×	439 0.9×	410 0.8×	226 0.6×	16	6.4k
Eric R. Gamazon United States	38	2.7k 0.9×	3.7k 1.4×	359 0.7×	369 0.8×	318 0.8×	162	6.6k
Kathryn L. Lunetta United States	44	2.3k 0.7×	2.6k 1.0×	183 0.4×	311 0.6×	395 1.0×	198	7.0k
Sarah Hunt United Kingdom	28	4.1k 1.3×	3.9k 1.4×	380 0.8×	678 1.4×	365 0.9×	55	8.2k
Mark A. DePristo United States	15	4.0k 1.3×	4.5k 1.7×	138 0.3×	525 1.1×	434 1.1×	16	8.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Itsik Pe’er

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Itsik Pe’er

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Jiménez-Sánchez, Alejandro, Sitara Persad, Akimasa Hayashi, et al.. (2025). Transcriptomic Plasticity is a Hallmark of Metastatic Pancreatic Cancer. Cancer Research.

Pe’er, Itsik, et al.. (2025). Distributional bias compromises leave-one-out cross-validation. Science Advances. 11(48). eadx6976–eadx6976. 1 indexed citations

Kav, Aya Brown, Heekuk Park, Jana Biermann, et al.. (2025). Processing-bias correction with DEBIAS-M improves cross-study generalization of microbiome-based prediction models. Nature Microbiology. 10(4). 897–911. 2 indexed citations

Saxena, A., Qi Yan, Ronald J. Wapner, et al.. (2024). Diving into CDC pregnancy data in the United States: longitudinal study and interactive application. JAMIA Open. 7(1). ooae024–ooae024. 1 indexed citations

Yan, Qi, David M. Haas, Ronald J. Wapner, et al.. (2024). A comprehensive and bias-free machine learning approach for risk prediction of preeclampsia with severe features in a nulliparous study cohort. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth. 24(1). 853–853. 1 indexed citations

Pe’er, Itsik, et al.. (2020). SICaRiO: short indel call filtering with boosting. Briefings in Bioinformatics. 22(4). 1 indexed citations

Joseph, Tyler, Liat Shenhav, João B. Xavier, Eran Halperin, & Itsik Pe’er. (2020). Compositional Lotka-Volterra describes microbial dynamics in the simplex. PLoS Computational Biology. 16(5). e1007917–e1007917. 40 indexed citations

Pe’er, Itsik, et al.. (2019). Smoothing Nonlinear Variational Objectives with Sequential Monte Carlo. International Conference on Learning Representations. 1 indexed citations

Lencz, Todd, Jin Yu, Cameron D. Palmer, et al.. (2018). High-depth whole genome sequencing of an Ashkenazi Jewish reference panel: enhancing sensitivity, accuracy, and imputation. Human Genetics. 137(4). 343–355. 15 indexed citations

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Agarwal, Ipsita, et al.. (2017). 2-Way k -Means as a Model for Microbiome Samples. Journal of Healthcare Engineering. 2017. 1–7. 1 indexed citations

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Palmer, Cameron D. & Itsik Pe’er. (2017). Statistical correction of the Winner’s Curse explains replication variability in quantitative trait genome-wide association studies. PLoS Genetics. 13(7). e1006916–e1006916. 65 indexed citations

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Campbell, Christopher, Pier Francesco Palamara, Maya Dubrovsky, et al.. (2012). North African Jewish and non-Jewish populations form distinctive, orthogonal clusters. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 109(34). 13865–13870. 43 indexed citations

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Prabhu, Snehit & Itsik Pe’er. (2012). Ultrafast genome-wide scan for SNP–SNP interactions in common complex disease. Genome Research. 22(11). 2230–2240. 83 indexed citations

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Setty, Manu, Alexander Gusev, & Itsik Pe’er. (2011). HLA Type Inference via Haplotypes Identical by Descent. Journal of Computational Biology. 18(3). 483–493. 13 indexed citations

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Shen, Yufeng, et al.. (2011). A Hidden Markov Model for Copy Number Variant prediction from whole genome resequencing data. BMC Bioinformatics. 12(S6). S4–S4. 11 indexed citations

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Kenny, Eimear E., Alexander Gusev, Jennifer K. Lowe, et al.. (2010). Increased power of mixed models facilitates association mapping of 10 loci for metabolic traits in an isolated population. Human Molecular Genetics. 20(4). 827–839. 19 indexed citations

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Gusev, Alexander, Jennifer K. Lowe, Markus Stoffel, et al.. (2008). Whole population, genome-wide mapping of hidden relatedness. Genome Research. 19(2). 318–326. 301 indexed citations

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Sarin, Sumeet, Snehit Prabhu, M O’Meara, Itsik Pe’er, & Oliver Hobert. (2008). Caenorhabditis elegans mutant allele identification by whole-genome sequencing. Nature Methods. 5(10). 865–867. 185 indexed citations

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Pe’er, Itsik & Ron Shamir. (1998). The median problems for breakpoints are NP-complete. Electronic colloquium on computational complexity. 5. 66 indexed citations

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Pe’er, Itsik & Ron Shamir. (1997). Satisfiability problems on intervals and unit intervals. Theoretical Computer Science. 175(2). 349–372. 11 indexed citations

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