Melissa Gymrek

11.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
55 papers, 3.5k citations indexed

About

Melissa Gymrek is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Melissa Gymrek has authored 55 papers receiving a total of 3.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 38 papers in Molecular Biology, 25 papers in Genetics and 7 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Melissa Gymrek's work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (16 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (14 papers) and Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals (11 papers). Melissa Gymrek is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (16 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (14 papers) and Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals (11 papers). Melissa Gymrek collaborates with scholars based in United States, Israel and Netherlands. Melissa Gymrek's co-authors include Yaniv Erlich, David E. Golan, Eran Halperin, Amy L. McGuire, Thomas Willems, Maya Schuldiner, Sharona Shleizer-Burko, Michal Breker, Nima Mousavi and Saharon Rosset and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Melissa Gymrek

50 papers receiving 3.4k 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.

Identifying Personal Genomes by Surname Inference

2013 710 citations Melissa Gymrek, Amy L. McGuire et al. Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Melissa Gymrek United States	29	2.2k	1.4k	474	426	327	55	3.5k
Yaniv Erlich United States	27	2.7k 1.2×	1.4k 1.0×	294 0.6×	670 1.6×	687 2.1×	45	4.5k
Andreas D. Baxevanis United States	39	3.7k 1.7×	1.3k 0.9×	223 0.5×	195 0.5×	291 0.9×	111	5.9k
John V. Pearson Australia	24	1.8k 0.8×	745 0.5×	106 0.2×	299 0.7×	659 2.0×	59	3.7k
William S. Bush United States	29	1.3k 0.6×	1.4k 1.0×	102 0.2×	153 0.4×	156 0.5×	171	3.5k
Mikael Huss Sweden	25	2.9k 1.3×	481 0.3×	105 0.2×	239 0.6×	309 0.9×	56	3.9k
Melissa Haendel United States	33	3.0k 1.4×	1.3k 0.9×	93 0.2×	209 0.5×	286 0.9×	165	4.9k
Katheleen Gardiner United States	38	4.1k 1.9×	1.6k 1.1×	228 0.5×	1.2k 2.7×	223 0.7×	113	5.9k
Paul Shannon United States	23	3.0k 1.4×	1.6k 1.2×	131 0.3×	137 0.3×	508 1.6×	43	4.8k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Melissa Gymrek

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Guevara, James P., Stephen Tran, Serge Batalov, et al.. (2026). Long-read genome sequencing improves detection and functional interpretation of structural and repeat variants in autism. Cell Genomics. 101186–101186.

D’Antonio, Matteo, Timothy D. Arthur, Windell L. Rivera, et al.. (2025). Genetic analysis of elevated levels of creatinine and cystatin C biomarkers reveals novel genetic loci associated with kidney function. Human Molecular Genetics. 34(9). 751–764.

D’Antonio, Matteo, Windell L. Rivera, Robert A. Greenes, Melissa Gymrek, & Kelly A. Frazer. (2025). A highly accurate risk factor-based XGBoost multiethnic model for identifying patients with skin cancer. Nature Communications. 16(1). 9542–9542.

English, Adam C., Egor Dolzhenko, Sean K. McKenzie, et al.. (2024). Analysis and benchmarking of small and large genomic variants across tandem repeats. Nature Biotechnology. 43(3). 431–442. 24 indexed citations

Maksimov, Mikhail O., David G. Ashbrook, Flavia Villani, et al.. (2023). A novel quantitative trait locus implicates Msh3 in the propensity for genome-wide short tandem repeat expansions in mice. Genome Research. 33(5). 689–702. 4 indexed citations

Margoliash, Jonathan, Shai Fuchs, Yang Li, et al.. (2023). Polymorphic short tandem repeats make widespread contributions to blood and serum traits. Cell Genomics. 3(12). 100458–100458. 20 indexed citations

Maksimov, Mikhail O., et al.. (2022). Mutation and selection processes regulating short tandem repeats give rise to genetic and phenotypic diversity across species. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 36(2). 321–336. 32 indexed citations

Hoeksema, Marten A., Zeyang Shen, Inge R. Holtman, et al.. (2021). Mechanisms underlying divergent responses of genetically distinct macrophages to IL-4. Science Advances. 7(25). 27 indexed citations

Mitra, Ileena, et al.. (2021). Patterns of de novo tandem repeat mutations and their role in autism. Nature. 589(7841). 246–250. 100 indexed citations

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Bakhtiari, Mehrdad, Yuan-Chun Ding, Sharona Shleizer-Burko, et al.. (2021). Variable number tandem repeats mediate the expression of proximal genes. Nature Communications. 12(1). 2075–2075. 48 indexed citations

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Pinsach‐Abuin, Mel·lina, Bernat del Olmo, Jesús Matés, et al.. (2021). Analysis of Brugada syndrome loci reveals that fine-mapping clustered GWAS hits enhances the annotation of disease-relevant variants. Cell Reports Medicine. 2(4). 100250–100250. 4 indexed citations

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Mousavi, Nima, et al.. (2020). TRTools: a toolkit for genome-wide analysis of tandem repeats. Bioinformatics. 37(5). 731–733. 31 indexed citations

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Mousavi, Nima, et al.. (2019). Profiling the genome-wide landscape of tandem repeat expansions. Nucleic Acids Research. 47(15). e90–e90. 124 indexed citations

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Kaplanis, Joanna, Assaf Gordon, Tal Shor, et al.. (2018). Quantitative analysis of population-scale family trees with millions of relatives. Science. 360(6385). 171–175. 131 indexed citations

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Gymrek, Melissa. (2017). A genomic view of short tandem repeats. Current Opinion in Genetics & Development. 44. 9–16. 85 indexed citations

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Willems, Thomas, Dina Zielinski, Jie Yuan, et al.. (2017). Genome-wide profiling of heritable and de novo STR variations. Nature Methods. 14(6). 590–592. 161 indexed citations

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Gymrek, Melissa, Thomas Willems, Audrey Guilmatre, et al.. (2015). Abundant contribution of short tandem repeats to gene expression variation in humans. Nature Genetics. 48(1). 22–29. 245 indexed citations

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Gymrek, Melissa, Amy L. McGuire, David E. Golan, Eran Halperin, & Yaniv Erlich. (2013). Identifying Personal Genomes by Surname Inference. Science. 339(6117). 321–324. 710 indexed citations breakdown →

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Gymrek, Melissa, David E. Golan, Saharon Rosset, & Yaniv Erlich. (2012). lobSTR: A short tandem repeat profiler for personal genomes. Genome Research. 22(6). 1154–1162. 214 indexed citations

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Ram, Oren, Alon Goren, Ido Amit, et al.. (2011). Combinatorial Patterning of Chromatin Regulators Uncovered by Genome-wide Location Analysis in Human Cells. Cell. 147(7). 1628–1639. 250 indexed citations

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