Kaur Alasoo

7.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
19 papers, 857 citations indexed

About

Kaur Alasoo is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Immunology. According to data from OpenAlex, Kaur Alasoo has authored 19 papers receiving a total of 857 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Molecular Biology, 6 papers in Genetics and 4 papers in Immunology. Recurrent topics in Kaur Alasoo's work include Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (5 papers), RNA Research and Splicing (5 papers) and RNA modifications and cancer (4 papers). Kaur Alasoo is often cited by papers focused on Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (5 papers), RNA Research and Splicing (5 papers) and RNA modifications and cancer (4 papers). Kaur Alasoo collaborates with scholars based in Estonia, United Kingdom and United States. Kaur Alasoo's co-authors include Daniel J. Gaffney, Christine Hale, Gordon Dougan, Subhankar Mukhopadhyay, Julia Rodrigues, Andrew Knights, Pedro Madrigal, Kousik Kundu, Alice Mann and Dmytro Fishman and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Genetics, PLoS ONE and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Kaur Alasoo

19 papers receiving 854 citations

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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.

A compendium of uniformly processed human gene expression and splicing quantitative trait loci

2021 165 citations Nurlan Kerimov, James Hayhurst et al. Nature Genetics profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kaur Alasoo Estonia	12	545	259	155	65	55	19	857
Alessandra Breschi United States	9	507 0.9×	189 0.7×	86 0.6×	115 1.8×	98 1.8×	13	914
Juan C. Perín United States	14	510 0.9×	189 0.7×	111 0.7×	78 1.2×	53 1.0×	17	834
Sravya Kommineni United States	5	727 1.3×	221 0.9×	120 0.8×	35 0.5×	55 1.0×	5	1.0k
Alka Chaubey United States	15	371 0.7×	218 0.8×	48 0.3×	79 1.2×	65 1.2×	49	782
April Mengos United States	17	633 1.2×	157 0.6×	111 0.7×	60 0.9×	89 1.6×	20	1.3k
Shurjo K. Sen United States	15	857 1.6×	326 1.3×	196 1.3×	107 1.6×	36 0.7×	26	1.3k
Ehsan Habibi Iran	13	1.1k 2.0×	180 0.7×	69 0.4×	82 1.3×	24 0.4×	30	1.3k
Erik Arner Japan	15	421 0.8×	70 0.3×	89 0.6×	83 1.3×	61 1.1×	24	636
Yingleong Chan United States	13	686 1.3×	429 1.7×	52 0.3×	75 1.2×	55 1.0×	22	1.1k
Carl G. de Boer Canada	15	800 1.5×	157 0.6×	144 0.9×	53 0.8×	93 1.7×	23	1.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kaur Alasoo

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Kalnapenkis, Anette, Kaido Lepik, Mart Kals, et al.. (2024). Genetic determinants of plasma protein levels in the Estonian population. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 7694–7694. 2 indexed citations

Love, Michael I., et al.. (2024). Extensive co-regulation of neighboring genes complicates the use of eQTLs in target gene prioritization. Human Genetics and Genomics Advances. 5(4). 100348–100348. 3 indexed citations

Aguet, François, Kaur Alasoo, Yang Li, et al.. (2023). Molecular quantitative trait loci. Nature Reviews Methods Primers. 3(1). 49 indexed citations

Pook, Martin, Anu Remm, Tanel Tenson, et al.. (2023). Skin Colonization with S. aureus Can Lead to Increased NLRP1 Inflammasome Activation in Patients with Atopic Dermatitis. Journal of Investigative Dermatology. 143(7). 1268–1278.e8. 17 indexed citations

Hallast, Pille, Luca Crepaldi, Yan Zhou, et al.. (2023). Optimized whole-genome CRISPR interference screens identify ARID1A-dependent growth regulators in human induced pluripotent stem cells. Stem Cell Reports. 18(5). 1061–1074. 3 indexed citations

Reigo, Anu, Sven Laur, Ardi Tampuu, et al.. (2023). Common clinical blood and urine biomarkers for ischemic stroke: an Estonian Electronic Health Records database study. European journal of medical research. 28(1). 133–133. 3 indexed citations

Gilchrist, James J., Silvia N. Kariuki, James A Watson, et al.. (2022). BIRC6 modifies risk of invasive bacterial infection in Kenyan children. eLife. 11. 4 indexed citations

Hamid, Fursham, Kaur Alasoo, Jaak Vilo, & Eugene V. Makeyev. (2022). Functional Annotation of Custom Transcriptomes. Methods in molecular biology. 2537. 149–172. 4 indexed citations

Bossini‐Castillo, Lara, Dafni A. Glinos, Natalia Kunowska, et al.. (2022). Immune disease variants modulate gene expression in regulatory CD4+ T cells. Cell Genomics. 2(4). 100117–100117. 27 indexed citations

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Kerimov, Nurlan, James Hayhurst, Jonathan Manning, et al.. (2021). A compendium of uniformly processed human gene expression and splicing quantitative trait loci. Nature Genetics. 53(9). 1290–1299. 165 indexed citations breakdown →

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Kolberg, Liis, Nurlan Kerimov, Hedi Peterson, & Kaur Alasoo. (2020). Co-expression analysis reveals interpretable gene modules controlled by trans-acting genetic variants. eLife. 9. 22 indexed citations

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Alasoo, Kaur, Julia Rodrigues, John Danesh, et al.. (2019). Genetic effects on promoter usage are highly context-specific and contribute to complex traits. eLife. 8. 36 indexed citations

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Madrigal, Pedro & Kaur Alasoo. (2018). AP-1 Takes Centre Stage in Enhancer Chromatin Dynamics. Trends in Cell Biology. 28(7). 509–511. 43 indexed citations

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Alasoo, Kaur, Julia Rodrigues, Subhankar Mukhopadhyay, et al.. (2018). Shared genetic effects on chromatin and gene expression indicate a role for enhancer priming in immune response. Nature Genetics. 50(3). 424–431. 162 indexed citations

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Godinho, Cláudia P., Nuno P. Mira, Tânia R. Cabrito, et al.. (2017). Yeast response and tolerance to benzoic acid involves the Gcn4- and Stp1-regulated multidrug/multixenobiotic resistance transporter Tpo1. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology. 101(12). 5005–5018. 8 indexed citations

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Schwartzentruber, Jeremy, Stefanie Foskolou, Helena Kilpinen, et al.. (2017). Molecular and functional variation in iPSC-derived sensory neurons. Nature Genetics. 50(1). 54–61. 142 indexed citations

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Alasoo, Kaur, et al.. (2017). Computational biology: deep learning. Emerging Topics in Life Sciences. 1(3). 257–274. 58 indexed citations

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Alasoo, Kaur, Fernando O. Martínez, Christine Hale, et al.. (2015). Transcriptional profiling of macrophages derived from monocytes and iPS cells identifies a conserved response to LPS and novel alternative transcription. Scientific Reports. 5(1). 12524–12524. 73 indexed citations

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Hale, Christine, Amy Yeung, David Goulding, et al.. (2015). Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Derived Macrophages as a Cellular System to Study Salmonella and Other Pathogens. PLoS ONE. 10(5). e0124307–e0124307. 36 indexed citations

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