Rita Neumann

5.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
46 papers, 4.0k citations indexed

About

Rita Neumann is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Rita Neumann has authored 46 papers receiving a total of 4.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 35 papers in Molecular Biology, 25 papers in Genetics and 8 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Rita Neumann's work include DNA Repair Mechanisms (20 papers), CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (9 papers) and Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (8 papers). Rita Neumann is often cited by papers focused on DNA Repair Mechanisms (20 papers), CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (9 papers) and Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (8 papers). Rita Neumann collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Netherlands. Rita Neumann's co-authors include Alec J. Jeffreys, Victoria Wilson, Liisa Kauppi, John Keyte, John A.L. Armour, David L. Neil, Stéphanie Gobert, John M. Murray, Celia A. May and Yuri E. Dubrova and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Rita Neumann

44 papers receiving 3.9k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Intensely punctate meiotic recombination in the class II region of the major histocompatibility complex

2001 611 citations Alec J. Jeffreys, Rita Neumann et al. Nature Genetics profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Rita Neumann United Kingdom	26	2.5k	2.0k	859	305	208	46	4.0k
Isaäc J. Nijman Netherlands	36	2.6k 1.1×	1.9k 0.9×	549 0.6×	633 2.1×	299 1.4×	81	5.1k
Khalid Shakir United States	2	2.1k 0.8×	1.8k 0.9×	612 0.7×	626 2.1×	243 1.2×	2	4.3k
J L Weber United States	21	2.2k 0.9×	2.0k 1.0×	896 1.0×	318 1.0×	166 0.8×	31	4.7k
Ami Levy‐Moonshine United States	5	2.2k 0.9×	1.9k 1.0×	634 0.7×	659 2.2×	253 1.2×	5	4.5k
David Roazen United States	2	2.1k 0.8×	1.8k 0.9×	609 0.7×	617 2.0×	242 1.2×	2	4.3k
Mauricio O. Carneiro United States	6	2.6k 1.0×	2.0k 1.0×	754 0.9×	694 2.3×	326 1.6×	6	5.0k
Elena Giulotto Italy	36	3.4k 1.4×	1.1k 0.5×	1.6k 1.9×	521 1.7×	137 0.7×	104	4.6k
Paula E. May United States	18	1.7k 0.7×	1.7k 0.9×	575 0.7×	299 1.0×	162 0.8×	37	3.5k
Geraldine Van Der Auwera Belgium	14	2.5k 1.0×	1.9k 1.0×	703 0.8×	617 2.0×	509 2.4×	18	4.9k
Wanjun Gu China	25	2.5k 1.0×	616 0.3×	698 0.8×	645 2.1×	223 1.1×	60	3.1k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Eales, James, Xiaoguang Xu, Rita Neumann, et al.. (2025). Multiple origins and phenotypic implications of an extended human pseudoautosomal region shown by analysis of the UK Biobank. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 112(4). 927–939.

Neumann, Rita, et al.. (2023). Defining cat mitogenome variation and accounting for numts via multiplex amplification and Nanopore sequencing. Forensic Science International Genetics. 67. 102944–102944. 2 indexed citations

Neumann, Rita, et al.. (2023). Mitogenome sequences of domestic cats demonstrate lineage expansions and dynamic mutation processes in a mitochondrial minisatellite. BMC Genomics. 24(1). 690–690. 6 indexed citations

Wood, Michael L., Colin Veal, Rita Neumann, et al.. (2021). Variation in human herpesvirus 6B telomeric integration, excision, and transmission between tissues and individuals. eLife. 10. 7 indexed citations

Beasley, Jordan, et al.. (2021). Massively parallel sequencing and capillary electrophoresis of a novel panel of falcon STRs: Concordance with minisatellite DNA profiles from historical wildlife crime. Forensic Science International Genetics. 54. 102550–102550. 3 indexed citations

Neumann, Rita, et al.. (2018). Recombination hotspots in an extended human pseudoautosomal domain predicted from double-strand break maps and characterized by sperm-based crossover analysis. PLoS Genetics. 14(10). e1007680–e1007680. 7 indexed citations

Zhang, Enjie, Gavin S. Wilkie, Nicolás M. Suárez, et al.. (2017). Inherited Chromosomally Integrated Human Herpesvirus 6 Genomes Are Ancient, Intact, and Potentially Able To Reactivate from Telomeres. Journal of Virology. 91(22). 29 indexed citations

Ergören, Mahmut Çerkez, et al.. (2017). cis- and trans- regulation controls of human meiotic recombination at a hotspot. The EuroBiotech Journal. 1(4). 319–331.

Delser, Pierpaolo Maisano, Rita Neumann, Stéphane Ballereau, et al.. (2017). Signatures of human European Palaeolithic expansion shown by resequencing of non-recombining X-chromosome segments. European Journal of Human Genetics. 25(4). 485–492. 5 indexed citations

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King, Turi, Gloria G. Fortes, Patricia Balaresque, et al.. (2014). Identification of the remains of King Richard III. Nature Communications. 5(1). 5631–5631. 124 indexed citations

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Berg, Ingrid, Rita Neumann, Kwan-Wood Gabriel Lam, et al.. (2010). PRDM9 variation strongly influences recombination hot-spot activity and meiotic instability in humans. Nature Genetics. 42(10). 859–863. 223 indexed citations

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Neumann, Rita & Alec J. Jeffreys. (2006). Polymorphism in the activity of human crossover hotspots independent of local DNA sequence variation. Human Molecular Genetics. 15(9). 1401–1411. 71 indexed citations

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Jeffreys, Alec J. & Rita Neumann. (2005). Factors influencing recombination frequency and distribution in a human meiotic crossover hotspot. Human Molecular Genetics. 14(15). 2277–2287. 114 indexed citations

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Jeffreys, Alec J., Ruth Barber, Philippe R.J. Bois, et al.. (1999). Human minisatellites, repeat DNA instability and meiotic recombination. Electrophoresis. 20(8). 1665–1675. 51 indexed citations

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Murray, John M., et al.. (1998). High-Resolution Mapping of Crossovers in Human Sperm Defines a Minisatellite-Associated Recombination Hotspot. Molecular Cell. 2(2). 267–273. 187 indexed citations

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Dubrova, Yuri E., et al.. (1996). Human minisatellite mutation rate after the Chernobyl accident. Nature. 380(6576). 683–686. 308 indexed citations

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Jeffreys, Alec J., Maxine Allen, John A.L. Armour, et al.. (1995). Mutation processes at human minisatellites. Electrophoresis. 16(1). 1577–1585. 46 indexed citations

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Armour, John A.L., Rita Neumann, Stéphanie Gobert, & Alec J. Jeffreys. (1994). Isolation of human simple repeat loci by hybridization selection. Human Molecular Genetics. 3(4). 599–605. 316 indexed citations

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Jeffreys, A.J., Nicola J. Royle, I. Patel, et al.. (1991). Principles and Recent Advances in Human DNA Fingerprinting. Proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium on Polarization Phenomena in Nuclear Reactions. 58. 1–19. 37 indexed citations

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Neumann, Rita, Jadwiga Chroboczek, & B. Jacrot. (1988). Determination of the nucleotide sequence for the penton-base gene of human adenovirus type 5. Gene. 69(1). 153–157. 39 indexed citations

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