Sebastian Zöllner

15.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
56 papers, 3.4k citations indexed

About

Sebastian Zöllner is a scholar working on Genetics, Molecular Biology and Psychiatry and Mental health. According to data from OpenAlex, Sebastian Zöllner has authored 56 papers receiving a total of 3.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 33 papers in Genetics, 21 papers in Molecular Biology and 6 papers in Psychiatry and Mental health. Recurrent topics in Sebastian Zöllner's work include Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (23 papers), Genomics and Rare Diseases (13 papers) and Genomic variations and chromosomal abnormalities (11 papers). Sebastian Zöllner is often cited by papers focused on Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (23 papers), Genomics and Rare Diseases (13 papers) and Genomic variations and chromosomal abnormalities (11 papers). Sebastian Zöllner collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Sweden. Sebastian Zöllner's co-authors include Jonathan K. Pritchard, Margit Burmeister, Svante Pääbo, Noah A. Rosenberg, Henrik Kaessmann, Wolfgang Enard, Patrick Giavalisco, Ronald E. Bontrop, Gaby M. Doxiadis and Joachim Klose and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Nature Genetics and Bioinformatics.

In The Last Decade

Sebastian Zöllner

55 papers receiving 3.3k citations

Hit Papers

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Intra- and Interspecific Variation in Primate Gene Expression Patterns

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sebastian Zöllner United States	24	2.0k	1.5k	418	211	189	56	3.4k
Evan A. Boyle United States	15	1.9k 1.0×	1.9k 1.3×	221 0.5×	104 0.5×	244 1.3×	22	3.5k
Lluı́s Armengol Spain	24	1.4k 0.7×	1.2k 0.8×	433 1.0×	89 0.4×	173 0.9×	61	2.7k
Sagiv Shifman Israel	29	1.5k 0.7×	1.3k 0.9×	240 0.6×	174 0.8×	169 0.9×	64	2.8k
Alkes L. Price United States	6	2.6k 1.3×	1.0k 0.7×	234 0.6×	186 0.9×	168 0.9×	6	3.8k
Dmitri V. Zaykin United States	23	1.4k 0.7×	1.1k 0.8×	168 0.4×	152 0.7×	112 0.6×	51	3.1k
Stacey B. Gabriel United States	11	1.6k 0.8×	1.7k 1.1×	295 0.7×	230 1.1×	418 2.2×	13	3.6k
Jesús Sainz Spain	21	1.1k 0.6×	1.2k 0.8×	371 0.9×	112 0.5×	122 0.6×	43	2.8k
Kirk E. Lohmueller United States	35	4.0k 2.0×	2.0k 1.4×	338 0.8×	101 0.5×	221 1.2×	73	6.2k
Susan K. Service United States	27	1.8k 0.9×	907 0.6×	767 1.8×	130 0.6×	132 0.7×	48	4.0k
Sarah S. Murray United States	23	1.7k 0.9×	1.5k 1.0×	172 0.4×	78 0.4×	255 1.3×	45	3.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Sebastian Zöllner

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sebastian Zöllner

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Ryan, Kelly A., Anastasia K. Yocum, Peisong Han, et al.. (2025). Predictive evidence for the impact of personality styles on depression and functioning in two bipolar disorder cohorts. Journal of Affective Disorders. 380. 746–755.

Si, Yichen, ChangHee Lee, Jeong H. Yun, et al.. (2024). FICTURE: scalable segmentation-free analysis of submicron-resolution spatial transcriptomics. Nature Methods. 21(10). 1843–1854. 14 indexed citations

Zawistowski, Matthew, Lars G. Fritsche, Anita Pandit, et al.. (2023). The Michigan Genomics Initiative: A biobank linking genotypes and electronic clinical records in Michigan Medicine patients. Cell Genomics. 3(2). 100257–100257. 40 indexed citations

Si, Yichen, Brett Vanderwerff, & Sebastian Zöllner. (2021). Why are rare variants hard to impute? Coalescent models reveal theoretical limits in existing algorithms. Genetics. 217(4). 10 indexed citations

Ryan, Kelly A., Peisong Han, David Marshall, et al.. (2021). Stability of personality traits in bipolar disorder: Findings from a longitudinal cohort. Journal of Affective Disorders. 283. 1–10. 4 indexed citations

Dutta, Diptavo, Peter VandeHaar, Lars G. Fritsche, et al.. (2021). A powerful subset-based method identifies gene set associations and improves interpretation in UK Biobank. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 108(4). 669–681. 9 indexed citations

Cochran, Amy L., et al.. (2020). Gene-set Enrichment with Mathematical Biology (GEMB). GigaScience. 9(10). 3 indexed citations

Carlson, Jedidiah, Jun Z. Li, & Sebastian Zöllner. (2018). Helmsman: fast and efficient mutation signature analysis for massive sequencing datasets. BMC Genomics. 19(1). 845–845. 13 indexed citations

Li, Mingkun, Rebecca Rothwell, Martijn Vermaat, et al.. (2016). Transmission of human mtDNA heteroplasmy in the Genome of the Netherlands families: support for a variable-size bottleneck. Genome Research. 26(4). 417–426. 64 indexed citations

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Wilfert, Amy B., Katherine R. Chao, Madhurima Kaushal, et al.. (2016). Genome-wide significance testing of variation from single case exomes. Nature Genetics. 48(12). 1455–1461. 25 indexed citations

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Zhang, Peng, et al.. (2015). Choosing Subsamples for Sequencing Studies by Minimizing the Average Distance to the Closest Leaf. Genetics. 201(2). 499–511. 3 indexed citations

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Wang, Chaolong, Xiaowei Zhan, Jennifer L. Bragg‐Gresham, et al.. (2014). Ancestry estimation and control of population stratification for sequence-based association studies. Nature Genetics. 46(4). 409–415. 89 indexed citations

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Flannery, Erika L., et al.. (2011). Wounds, Functional Disability, and Indwelling Devices Are Associated With Cocolonization by Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus and Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococci in Southeast Michigan. Clinical Infectious Diseases. 53(12). 1215–1222. 11 indexed citations

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Saunders, Erika F.H., et al.. (2009). Suggestive linkage at 9p22 in bipolar disorder weighted by alcohol abuse. American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B Neuropsychiatric Genetics. 150B(8). 1133–1138. 10 indexed citations

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Moroi, Sayoko E., Duna Raoof, David M. Reed, et al.. (2009). Progress toward personalized medicine for glaucoma. Expert Review of Ophthalmology. 4(2). 145–161. 12 indexed citations

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Zöllner, Sebastian, et al.. (2008). Bayesian EM algorithm for scoring polymorphic deletions from SNP data and application to a common CNV on 8q24. Genetic Epidemiology. 33(4). 357–368. 7 indexed citations

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She, Xinwei, Ze Cheng, Sebastian Zöllner, Deanna M. Church, & Evan E. Eichler. (2008). Mouse segmental duplication and copy number variation. Nature Genetics. 40(7). 909–914. 173 indexed citations

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Zandi, Peter P., Sebastian Zöllner, Dimitrios Avramopoulos, et al.. (2007). Family‐based SNP association study on 8q24 in bipolar disorder. American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B Neuropsychiatric Genetics. 147B(5). 612–618. 20 indexed citations

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Zöllner, Sebastian & Jonathan K. Pritchard. (2004). Coalescent-Based Association Mapping and Fine Mapping of Complex Trait Loci. Genetics. 169(2). 1071–1092. 94 indexed citations

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Kaessmann, Henrik, Sebastian Zöllner, Anton Nekrutenko, & Wen‐Hsiung Li. (2002). Signatures of Domain Shuffling in the Human Genome. Genome Research. 12(11). 1642–1650. 76 indexed citations

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