Ömer Gökçümen

6.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
73 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

Ömer Gökçümen is a scholar working on Genetics, Molecular Biology and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Ömer Gökçümen has authored 73 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 44 papers in Genetics, 33 papers in Molecular Biology and 16 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Ömer Gökçümen's work include Forensic and Genetic Research (22 papers), Chromosomal and Genetic Variations (16 papers) and Genomic variations and chromosomal abnormalities (13 papers). Ömer Gökçümen is often cited by papers focused on Forensic and Genetic Research (22 papers), Chromosomal and Genetic Variations (16 papers) and Genomic variations and chromosomal abnormalities (13 papers). Ömer Gökçümen collaborates with scholars based in United States, Greece and United Kingdom. Ömer Gökçümen's co-authors include Charles Lee, Rebecca C. Iskow, Yen‐Lung Lin, Eunjung Lee, Peter J. Park, Richard A. Gibbs, Richard K. Wilson, Jens G. Lohr, Jun Li and Lixing Yang and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

Ömer Gökçümen

69 papers receiving 2.0k 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.

Landscape of Somatic Retrotransposition in Human Cancers

2012 532 citations Ömer Gökçümen, Charles Lee et al. Science profile →

Peers

Ömer Gökçümen

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Irene Gallego Romero Estonia

Tatiana Zerjal France

Brian J. Raney United States

Qasim Ayub United Kingdom

Thierry Grange France

Lawrence Hon United States

Massimo Mezzavilla Italy

Marc Haber Lebanon

Marian M. de Pancorbo Spain

Irene Gallego Romero Estonia

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87 ×0.6

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Citations per year, relative to Ömer Gökçümen Ömer Gökçümen (= 1×) peers Irene Gallego Romero

Countries citing papers authored by Ömer Gökçümen

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ömer Gökçümen

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Ömer Gökçümen. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Ömer Gökçümen. The network helps show where Ömer Gökçümen may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ömer Gökçümen

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Ömer Gökçümen. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Ömer Gökçümen based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Ömer Gökçümen. Ömer Gökçümen is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Li, Yanyan, Zhiliang Wang, M. A. H. Russell, et al.. (2025). Switch-like gene expression modulates disease risk. Nature Communications. 16(1). 5323–5323. 1 indexed citations

Speidel, Leo, et al.. (2023). Balancing selection on genomic deletion polymorphisms in humans. eLife. 12. 13 indexed citations

Shen, Shichen, Jun Qu, Alison J. May, et al.. (2022). A mechanism of gene evolution generating mucin function. Science Advances. 8(34). eabm8757–eabm8757. 15 indexed citations

Nikkanen, Joni, Yew Ann Leong, William C. Krause, et al.. (2022). An evolutionary trade-off between host immunity and metabolism drives fatty liver in male mice. Science. 378(6617). 290–295. 37 indexed citations

Lu, Daniel, Shichen Shen, Viviana Monje‐Galvan, et al.. (2021). Protein acylation by saturated very long chain fatty acids and endocytosis are involved in necroptosis. Cell chemical biology. 28(9). 1298–1309.e7. 31 indexed citations

Saitou, Marie, Fuguo Wu, Nancy J. Hall, et al.. (2021). Sex-specific phenotypic effects and evolutionary history of an ancient polymorphic deletion of the human growth hormone receptor. Science Advances. 7(39). eabi4476–eabi4476. 10 indexed citations

Seiffert-Sinha, Kristina, et al.. (2021). Evolutionary context of psoriatic immune skin response. Evolution Medicine and Public Health. 9(1). 474–486. 6 indexed citations

Eaaswarkhanth, Muthukrishnan, et al.. (2020). Genome-Wide Selection Scan in an Arabian Peninsula Population Identifies a TNKS Haplotype Linked to Metabolic Traits and Hypertension. Genome Biology and Evolution. 12(3). 77–87. 10 indexed citations

Xu, Duo, Ömer Gökçümen, & Ekta Khurana. (2020). Loss-of-function tolerance of enhancers in the human genome. PLoS Genetics. 16(4). e1008663–e1008663. 8 indexed citations

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Saitou, Marie & Ömer Gökçümen. (2019). An Evolutionary Perspective on the Impact of Genomic Copy Number Variation on Human Health. Journal of Molecular Evolution. 88(1). 104–119. 24 indexed citations

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Pavlidis, Pavlos, Lubov Neznanova, Rose‐Anne Romano, et al.. (2019). Independent amylase gene copy number bursts correlate with dietary preferences in mammals. eLife. 8. 67 indexed citations

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Lin, Yen‐Lung & Ömer Gökçümen. (2019). Fine-Scale Characterization of Genomic Structural Variation in the Human Genome Reveals Adaptive and Biomedically Relevant Hotspots. Genome Biology and Evolution. 11(4). 1136–1151. 30 indexed citations

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Gökçümen, Ömer. (2019). Archaic hominin introgression into modern human genomes. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 171(S70). 60–73. 31 indexed citations

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Saitou, Marie, Yoko Satta, & Ömer Gökçümen. (2018). Complex Haplotypes of GSTM1 Gene Deletions Harbor Signatures of a Selective Sweep in East Asian Populations. G3 Genes Genomes Genetics. 8(9). 2953–2966. 7 indexed citations

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Saitou, Marie, et al.. (2018). An evolutionary transcriptomics approach links CD36 to membrane remodeling in replicative senescence. Molecular Omics. 14(4). 237–246. 17 indexed citations

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Saitou, Marie, Yoko Satta, Ömer Gökçümen, & Takafumi Ishida. (2018). Complex evolution of the GSTM gene family involves sharing of GSTM1 deletion polymorphism in humans and chimpanzees. BMC Genomics. 19(1). 293–293. 11 indexed citations

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Lizardo, Darleny Y., Yen‐Lung Lin, Ömer Gökçümen, & G. Ekin Atilla‐Gokcumen. (2017). Regulation of lipids is central to replicative senescence. Molecular BioSystems. 13(3). 498–509. 72 indexed citations

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Lin, Yen‐Lung, et al.. (2016). The psoriasis-associated deletion of late cornified envelope genes LCE3B and LCE3C has been maintained under balancing selection since Human Denisovan divergence. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 16(1). 265–265. 27 indexed citations

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Poptsova, Maria, Samprit Banerjee, Ömer Gökçümen, Mark A. Rubin, & Francesca Demichelis. (2013). Impact of constitutional copy number variants on biological pathway evolution. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 13(1). 19–19. 16 indexed citations

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Rubinstein, Samara, Matthew C. Dulik, Ömer Gökçümen, et al.. (2008). Russian Old Believers: Genetic Consequences of Their Persecution and Exile, as Shown by Mitochondrial DNA Evidence. Human Biology. 80(3). 203–237. 10 indexed citations

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