Peter Van Loo

72.7k total citations · 6 hit papers
83 papers, 7.0k citations indexed

About

Peter Van Loo is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cancer Research and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Peter Van Loo has authored 83 papers receiving a total of 7.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 52 papers in Molecular Biology, 43 papers in Cancer Research and 28 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Peter Van Loo's work include Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics (37 papers), Genomic variations and chromosomal abnormalities (16 papers) and Genomics and Rare Diseases (10 papers). Peter Van Loo is often cited by papers focused on Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics (37 papers), Genomic variations and chromosomal abnormalities (16 papers) and Genomics and Rare Diseases (10 papers). Peter Van Loo collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Belgium and United States. Peter Van Loo's co-authors include Peter J. Campbell, Michael R. Stratton, Kerstin Haase, Moritz Gerstung, Iñigo Martincorena, Peter Marynen, Yves Moreau, David C. Wedge, Stein Aerts and Ludmil B. Alexandrov and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Peter Van Loo

74 papers receiving 6.9k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

High burden and pervasive positive selection of somatic mutations in normal human skin

2015 1.1k citations Iñigo Martincorena, Amit Roshan et al. Science profile →
Universal Patterns of Selection in Cancer and Somatic Tissues

2017 802 citations Iñigo Martincorena, Moritz Gerstung et al. profile →
Mutational signatures associated with tobacco smoking in human cancer

2016 680 citations Ludmil B. Alexandrov, Young Seok Ju et al. Science profile →
Gene prioritization through genomic data fusion

2006 661 citations Peter Van Loo, Peter Marynen et al. profile →
Allele-specific copy number analysis of tumors

2010 635 citations Peter Van Loo, Silje Nord et al. profile →
A pan-cancer compendium of chromosomal instability

2022 135 citations Ruben M. Drews, Bárbara Hernando et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Peter Van Loo United Kingdom	35	4.1k	2.9k	1.8k	1.4k	887	83	7.0k
Chai Yin Kok United Kingdom	10	4.4k 1.1×	2.4k 0.8×	1.6k 0.9×	972 0.7×	939 1.1×	14	6.5k
Sally Bamford United Kingdom	12	5.6k 1.4×	3.1k 1.1×	2.1k 1.2×	1.3k 0.9×	1.2k 1.4×	19	8.1k
Mingming Jia China	12	3.7k 0.9×	2.1k 0.7×	1.5k 0.8×	840 0.6×	896 1.0×	19	5.6k
Serena Nik‐Zainal United Kingdom	31	3.8k 0.9×	3.2k 1.1×	1.9k 1.1×	1.2k 0.9×	858 1.0×	66	6.5k
János Demeter United States	27	3.8k 0.9×	2.5k 0.9×	2.4k 1.4×	1.1k 0.8×	613 0.7×	55	6.6k
Abel González-Pérez Spain	31	4.5k 1.1×	3.0k 1.0×	1.1k 0.6×	1.3k 0.9×	925 1.0×	71	6.5k
Alexander Miron United States	42	3.7k 0.9×	1.6k 0.6×	2.4k 1.3×	1.9k 1.4×	578 0.7×	74	7.8k
José Adélaı̈de France	47	4.4k 1.1×	1.9k 0.7×	2.7k 1.5×	956 0.7×	782 0.9×	130	7.6k
Moritz Gerstung United Kingdom	29	3.4k 0.8×	2.2k 0.8×	1.1k 0.6×	874 0.6×	493 0.6×	55	5.8k
Charles Lu United States	24	3.6k 0.9×	2.1k 0.7×	1.7k 1.0×	611 0.4×	890 1.0×	49	6.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Peter Van Loo

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Guo, Shuai, et al.. (2025). A guide to transcriptomic deconvolution in cancer. Nature reviews. Cancer. 26(2). 84–103.

Baker, Toby M., Tom Lesluyes, Haixi Yan, et al.. (2024). The History of Chromosomal Instability in Genome-Doubled Tumors. Cancer Discovery. 14(10). 1810–1822. 1 indexed citations

Puttick, Clare, Michelle Leung, Felipe Gálvez‐Cancino, et al.. (2024). MHC Hammer reveals genetic and non-genetic HLA disruption in cancer evolution. Nature Genetics. 56(10). 2121–2131. 15 indexed citations

Kuzmin, Elena, Toby M. Baker, Peter Van Loo, & Leon Glass. (2024). Dynamics of karyotype evolution. Chaos An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science. 34(5).

Baker, Toby M., Sara Waise, Maxime Tarabichi, & Peter Van Loo. (2024). Aneuploidy and complex genomic rearrangements in cancer evolution. Nature Cancer. 5(2). 228–239. 25 indexed citations

Lesluyes, Tom, Toby M. Baker, Maxime Tarabichi, et al.. (2024). Reconstructing oral cavity tumor evolution through brush biopsy. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 22591–22591.

O’Connor, David, Jonas Demeulemeester, Lucía Conde, et al.. (2023). The Clinicogenomic Landscape of Induction Failure in Childhood and Young Adult T-Cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia. Journal of Clinical Oncology. 41(19). 3545–3556. 12 indexed citations

Watkins, Thomas B.K., Emma Colliver, Matthew R. Huska, et al.. (2023). Refphase: Multi-sample phasing reveals haplotype-specific copy number heterogeneity. PLoS Computational Biology. 19(10). e1011379–e1011379. 4 indexed citations

Drews, Ruben M., Bárbara Hernando, Maxime Tarabichi, et al.. (2022). A pan-cancer compendium of chromosomal instability. Nature. 606(7916). 976–983. 135 indexed citations breakdown →

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Demeulemeester, Jonas, Stefan C. Dentro, Moritz Gerstung, & Peter Van Loo. (2022). Biallelic mutations in cancer genomes reveal local mutational determinants. Nature Genetics. 54(2). 128–133. 18 indexed citations

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Kaufmann, Tom L., Marina Petković, Thomas B.K. Watkins, et al.. (2022). MEDICC2: whole-genome doubling aware copy-number phylogenies for cancer evolution. Genome biology. 23(1). 241–241. 45 indexed citations

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Tarabichi, Maxime, Adriana Salcedo, Amit G. Deshwar, et al.. (2021). A practical guide to cancer subclonal reconstruction from DNA sequencing. Nature Methods. 18(2). 144–155. 84 indexed citations

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Dentro, Stefan C., David C. Wedge, & Peter Van Loo. (2017). Principles of Reconstructing the Subclonal Architecture of Cancers. Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Medicine. 7(8). a026625–a026625. 56 indexed citations

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Alexandrov, Ludmil B., Young Seok Ju, Kerstin Haase, et al.. (2016). Mutational signatures associated with tobacco smoking in human cancer. Science. 354(6312). 618–622. 680 indexed citations breakdown →

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Sandhu, Vandana, David C. Wedge, Inger Marie Bowitz Lothe, et al.. (2016). The Genomic Landscape of Pancreatic and Periampullary Adenocarcinoma. Cancer Research. 76(17). 5092–5102. 27 indexed citations

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Martincorena, Iñigo, Amit Roshan, Moritz Gerstung, et al.. (2015). High burden and pervasive positive selection of somatic mutations in normal human skin. Science. 348(6237). 880–886. 1123 indexed citations breakdown →

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Nilsen, Gro, Knut Liestøl, Peter Van Loo, et al.. (2012). Copynumber: Efficient algorithms for single- and multi-track copy number segmentation. BMC Genomics. 13(1). 591–591. 156 indexed citations

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Loo, Peter Van & Peter Marynen. (2009). Computational methods for the detection of cis-regulatory modules. Briefings in Bioinformatics. 10(5). 509–524. 45 indexed citations

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Włodarska, Iwona, Peter Van Loo, Birgitte Roland, et al.. (2008). Array-CGH mapping of an overrepresented 7Q region in gamma/delta hepatosplenic T-cell lymphoma. Annals of Oncology. 19. 93–94. 1 indexed citations

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Thienpont, Bernard, Luc Mertens, Peter Van Loo, et al.. (2006). Array-CGH: A novel tool in genetic diagnosis of individuals with congenital heart defects. European Journal of Human Genetics. 14(1). 124.

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