Jürg Ott

36.8k total citations · 5 hit papers
343 papers, 25.1k citations indexed

About

Jürg Ott is a scholar working on Genetics, Molecular Biology and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Jürg Ott has authored 343 papers receiving a total of 25.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 159 papers in Genetics, 155 papers in Molecular Biology and 45 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Jürg Ott's work include Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (105 papers), Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals (58 papers) and Gene expression and cancer classification (30 papers). Jürg Ott is often cited by papers focused on Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (105 papers), Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals (58 papers) and Gene expression and cancer classification (30 papers). Jürg Ott collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and United Kingdom. Jürg Ott's co-authors include Joseph D. Terwilliger, Josephine Hoh, G.M. Lathrop, J.-M. Lalouel, Cécile Julier, Derek Gordon, Robert J. Klein, Chad Haynes, A. W. F. Edwards and Emily Y. Chew and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and New England Journal of Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Jürg Ott

340 papers receiving 24.4k 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.

Complement Factor H Polymorphism in Age-Related Macular Degeneration

2005 3.3k citations Robert J. Klein, Caroline J. Zeiss et al. Science profile →
Interaction Between the Serotonin Transporter Gene (5-HTTLPR), Stressful Life Events, and Risk of Depression

2009 1.2k citations Neil Risch, Richard Herrell et al. JAMA profile →
Multilocus linkage analysis in humans: detection of linkage and estimation of recombination.

1985 1.0k citations Jürg Ott et al. PubMed profile →
Handbook of Human Genetic Linkage.

1996 730 citations Jürg Ott et al. profile →
Linkage of a prion protein missense variant to Gerstmann–Sträussler syndrome

1989 625 citations Jürg Ott et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Jürg Ott	10.6k	8.5k	3.1k	2.6k	2.0k	343	25.1k
Val C. Sheffield	17.1k 1.6×	10.4k 1.2×	6.6k 2.1×	1.6k 0.6×	2.5k 1.3×	312	27.6k
Michael Dean	18.0k 1.7×	4.2k 0.5×	2.2k 0.7×	3.0k 1.2×	1.7k 0.8×	385	41.2k
Margaret A. Pericak‐Vance	7.0k 0.7×	2.8k 0.3×	3.6k 1.2×	2.4k 0.9×	2.5k 1.3×	340	18.4k
Julian Maller	11.0k 1.0×	17.9k 2.1×	1.7k 0.5×	1.2k 0.5×	1.3k 0.7×	15	35.6k
Jonathan L. Haines	8.4k 0.8×	3.6k 0.4×	4.2k 1.4×	2.8k 1.1×	2.5k 1.3×	412	21.3k
Thomas Meitinger	11.2k 1.1×	5.5k 0.6×	1.4k 0.5×	1.7k 0.6×	772 0.4×	319	19.1k
James R. Lupski	21.2k 2.0×	17.9k 2.1×	1.5k 0.5×	6.7k 2.5×	743 0.4×	579	38.9k
Robert E. Ferrell	6.7k 0.6×	4.5k 0.5×	1.2k 0.4×	1.5k 0.6×	902 0.5×	384	20.7k
Han G. Brunner	11.9k 1.1×	9.2k 1.1×	917 0.3×	1.6k 0.6×	491 0.2×	278	20.9k
Colin J. Barnstable	9.3k 0.9×	1.7k 0.2×	3.9k 1.3×	3.6k 1.4×	3.8k 1.9×	209	17.9k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jürg Ott

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Wang, Xingyu, et al.. (2024). Digenic analysis confirms known and uncovers novel schizophrenia risk genes. Medical Research Archives. 12(9). 1 indexed citations

Zhang, Qingrun, et al.. (2023). A multi-threaded approach to genotype pattern mining for detecting digenic disease genes. Frontiers in Genetics. 14. 1222517–1222517. 1 indexed citations

Amin, Mutaz, Jürg Ott, Rongling Wu, Teodor T. Postolache, & Claudia Gragnoli. (2022). Implication of Melanocortin Receptor Genes in the Familial Comorbidity of Type 2 Diabetes and Depression. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 23(15). 8350–8350. 6 indexed citations

Levran, Orna, Matthew Randesi, John Rotrosen, et al.. (2019). A 3’ UTR SNP rs885863, a cis-eQTL for the circadian gene VIPR2 and lincRNA 689, is associated with opioid addiction. PLoS ONE. 14(11). e0224399–e0224399. 11 indexed citations

Ott, Jürg. (2015). Polygenic Models for Risk Prediction in Human Genetics. Human Heredity. 80(4). 162–164. 5 indexed citations

Guo, Liyuan, Weina Zhang, Suhua Chang, et al.. (2012). MK4MDD: A Multi-Level Knowledge Base and Analysis Platform for Major Depressive Disorder. PLoS ONE. 7(10). e46335–e46335. 14 indexed citations

Risch, Neil, Richard Herrell, Thomas Lehner, et al.. (2009). Interaction Between the Serotonin Transporter Gene (5-HTTLPR), Stressful Life Events, and Risk of Depression. JAMA. 301(23). 2462–2462. 1173 indexed citations breakdown →

Cheng, Yu‐Wei, Hanna Pinças, Manny D. Bacolod, et al.. (2008). CpG Island Methylator Phenotype Associates with Low-Degree Chromosomal Abnormalities in Colorectal Cancer. Clinical Cancer Research. 14(19). 6005–6013. 77 indexed citations

Bacolod, Manny D., Shuang Wang, Richard Shattock, et al.. (2008). The Signatures of Autozygosity among Patients with Colorectal Cancer. Cancer Research. 68(8). 2610–2621. 40 indexed citations

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Levran, Orna, Douglas Londoño, David A. Nielsen, et al.. (2008). Genetic susceptibility to heroin addiction: a candidate gene association study. Genes Brain & Behavior. 7(7). 720–729. 169 indexed citations

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Matthews, Abigail G., et al.. (2008). Collapsing SNP Genotypes in Case-Control Genome-Wide Association Studies Increases the Type I Error Rate and Power. Statistical Applications in Genetics and Molecular Biology. 7(1). Article23–Article23. 12 indexed citations

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Karppinen, Jaro, Simo Taimela, Jürg Ott, et al.. (2007). Occupational and Genetic Risk Factors Associated With Intervertebral Disc Disease. Spine. 32(10). 1129–1134. 81 indexed citations

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Haider, Asifa, Jules Cohen, Fei Ji, et al.. (2007). Insights into Gene Modulation by Therapeutic TNF and IFNγ Antibodies: TNF Regulates IFNγ Production by T Cells and TNF-Regulated Genes Linked to Psoriasis Transcriptome. Journal of Investigative Dermatology. 128(3). 655–666. 31 indexed citations

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Cheung, Kmc, Danny Chan, Jaro Karppinen, et al.. (2006). Association of the Taq I Allele in Vitamin D Receptor With Degenerative Disc Disease and Disc Bulge in a Chinese Population. Spine. 31(10). 1143–1148. 114 indexed citations

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Klein, Robert J., Caroline J. Zeiss, Emily Y. Chew, et al.. (2005). Complement Factor H Polymorphism in Age-Related Macular Degeneration. Science. 308(5720). 385–389. 3275 indexed citations breakdown →

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Karttunen, Riitta, Susanne Schwenke, Eveliina Jakkula, et al.. (2005). Genetic variations in IL6 associate with intervertebral disc disease characterized by sciatica. Pain. 114(1). 186–194. 109 indexed citations

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Saux, Olivia Le, Zsolt Urbán, Katalin Csiszár, et al.. (2000). Erratum: Pseudoxanthoma elasticum maps to an 820-kb region of the p13.1 region of chromosome 16 (Genomics (1999) 62: 1 (1)). Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS). 1 indexed citations

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Pauls, David L., Jürg Ott, Steven M. Paul, et al.. (1996). Chromosome 18 markers: Linked or not linked to bipolar affective disorders in the Old Order Amish? A reply to Gershon et al.. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 58(6). 1384–1385. 1 indexed citations

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Brzustowicz, Linda M., et al.. (1993). Molecular and statistical approaches to the detection and correction of errors in genotype databases.. PubMed. 53(5). 1137–45. 69 indexed citations

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Ikonen, Elina, J. Palo, Jürg Ott, et al.. (1990). Huntington disease in Finland: linkage disequilibrium of chromosome 4 RFLP haplotypes and exclusion of a tight linkage between the disease and D4S43 locus.. PubMed. 46(1). 5–11. 17 indexed citations

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