Simon Heath

61.2k citations

96 papers · 7.3k indexed · 2 hit papers · h-index 37

Impact in

Genetics top 0.5%
- Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
- Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals
- Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock
- Hemoglobinopathies and Related Disorders
Immunology top 2%
- IL-33, ST2, and ILC Pathways
- Immune Cell Function and Interaction

Papers in ⓘ

Genetics 44
- Genetic Associations and Epidemiology 20
- Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals 14
- Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock 9
- Genomic variations and chromosomal abnormalities 7
Virology 5

Co-authors: Marta Gut (25 shared papers)Martin Farrall (5 shared papers)Miriam F. Moffatt (2 shared papers)William Cookson (2 shared papers)Mark Lathrop (10 shared papers)Erika von Mutius (1 shared paper)David P. Strachan (1 shared paper)Emmanuelle Bouzigon (1 shared paper)
Journals: PLoS ONE (8 papers)Genetic Epidemiology (5 papers)Nature Communications (4 papers)The American Journal of Human Genetics (4 papers)Human Heredity (4 papers)
Partner nations: United States France Spain

In The Last Decade

Simon Heath

94 papers receiving 7.2k citations

Hit Papers

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A Large-Scale, Consortium-Based Genomewide Association Study of Asthma 2010 · 1.4k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2010 New England Journal of Medicine
2007 Nature Genetics

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1	A Large-Scale, Consortium-Based Genomewide Association Study of Asthma New England Journal of Medicine ·Miriam F. Moffatt, Marta Gut, Florence Démenais, David P. Strachan, Emmanuelle Bouzigon, Simon Heath, Erika von Mutius, Martin Farrall, Mark Lathrop, William Cookson Hit paper breakdown →	2010	1397
2	A genome-wide association study of global gene expression Nature Genetics ·Anna Dixon, Liming Liang, Miriam F. Moffatt, Wei Chen, Simon Heath, Kenny Wong, Jennifer M. Taylor, Edward Burnett, Marta Gut, Martin Farrall, G.M. Lathrop, Gonçalo R. Abecasis, William Cookson Hit paper breakdown →	2007	632
3	Markov Chain Monte Carlo Segregation and Linkage Analysis for Oligogenic Models The American Journal of Human Genetics ·Simon Heath	1997	466
4	A QTL influencing F cell production maps to a gene encoding a zinc-finger protein on chromosome 2p15 Nature Genetics ·Stephan Menzel, Chad Garner, Marta Gut, Fumihiko Matsuda, Masao Yamaguchi, Simon Heath, Mario Foglio, Diana Zélénika, Anne Boland, Helen Rooks, Steve Best, Tim D. Spector, Martin Farrall, Mark Lathrop, Swee Lay Thein	2007	393
5	Genetic variation at the 22q11 PRODH2/DGCR6 locus presents an unusual pattern and increases susceptibility to schizophrenia Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Hui Liu, Simon Heath, Christina Sobin, Johannes L. Roos, Brandi L. Galke, Maude L. Blundell, Marge Lenane, Brian Robertson, Ellen M. Wijsman, Judith L. Rapoport, Joseph A. Gogos, Maria Karayiorgou	2002	245
6	Common susceptibility alleles are unlikely to contribute as strongly as the FV and ABO loci to VTE risk: results from a GWAS approach Blood ·David‐Alexandre Trégouët, Simon Heath, Noémie Saut, Christine Biron‐Andréani, Jean‐François Schved, Gilles Pernod, Pilar Galán, Ludovic Drouet, Diana Zélénika, I. Juhan‐Vague, Marie‐Christine Alessi, Laurence Tiret, Mark Lathrop, Joseph Emmerich, Pierre‐Emmanuel Morange	2009	209
7	HLA Has Strongest Association with IgA Nephropathy in Genome-Wide Analysis Journal of the American Society of Nephrology ·John Feehally, Martin Farrall, Anne Boland, Daniel P. Gale, Marta Gut, Simon Heath, Ashish Kumar, John F. Peden, Patrick H. Maxwell, David L. Morris, Sandosh Padmanabhan, Timothy J. Vyse, Anna Zawadzka, Andrew J. Rees, Mark Lathrop, Peter J. Ratcliffe	2010	191
8	The Genome Response to Artificial Selection: A Case Study in Dairy Cattle PLoS ONE ·Laurence Flori, Sébastien Fritz, Florence Jaffrézic, Mekki Boussaha, Marta Gut, Simon Heath, Jean‐Louis Foulley, Mathieu Gautier	2009	173
9	Transcription Factors Drive Tet2-Mediated Enhancer Demethylation to Reprogram Cell Fate Cell stem cell ·José Luis Sardina, Samuel Collombet, Tian V. Tian, Antonio Gómez, Bruno Di Stefano, Clara Berenguer, Justin Brumbaugh, Ralph Stadhouders, Carolina Segura-Morales, Marta Gut, Simon Heath, Sergi Aranda, Luciano Di Croce, Konrad Hochedlinger, Denis Thieffry, Thomas Graf	2018	165
10	Mutations of the FHL1 Gene Cause Emery-Dreifuss Muscular Dystrophy The American Journal of Human Genetics ·Lucie Gueneau, A. Bertrand, Jean-Philippe Jaı̈s, Mustafa A. Salih, Tanya Stojkovic, Manfred Wehnert, Maria Hoeltzenbein, Simone Spuler, Shinji Saitoh, Annie Verschueren, Christine Tranchant, Maud Beuvin, Emmanuelle Lacène, Norma B. Romero, Simon Heath, Diana Zélénika, Thomas Voït, B. Eymard, Rabah Ben Yaou, Gisèle Bonne	2009	156
11	Genetic variation in the 22q11 locus and susceptibility to schizophrenia Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Hui Liu, Gonçalo R. Abecasis, Simon Heath, Alyson Knowles, Sandra Demars, Ying-Jiun Chen, Johannes L. Roos, Judith L. Rapoport, Joseph A. Gogos, Maria Karayiorgou	2002	156
12	Tuning of Natural Killer Cell Reactivity by NKp46 and Helios Calibrates T Cell Responses Science ·Émilie Narni-Mancinelli, Baptiste N. Jaeger, Claire Bernat, Aurore Fenis, Sam K. P. Kung, Aude De Gassart, Sajid Mahmood, Marta Gut, Simon Heath, Jordi Estellé, Elodie Bertosio, Frédéric Vely, Louis N. Gastinel, Bruce Beutler, Bernard Malissen, Marie Malissen, Éric Vivier, Sophie Ugolini	2012	150
13	Genetic Background Determines the Extent of Atherosclerosis in ApoE-Deficient Mice Arteriosclerosis Thrombosis and Vascular Biology ·Hayes M. Dansky, Sherri A. Charlton, John L. Sikes, Simon Heath, Ronit Simantov, Lawrence F. Levin, Pei Shu, Karen J. Moore, Jan L. Breslow, Jonathan D. Smith	1999	148
14	A Transmission/Disequilibrium Test That Allows for Genotyping Errors in the Analysis of Single-Nucleotide Polymorphism Data The American Journal of Human Genetics ·Derek Gordon, Simon Heath, Xin Liu, Jürg Ott	2001	121
15	The FOXE1 locus is a major genetic determinant for radiation-related thyroid carcinoma in Chernobyl Human Molecular Genetics ·Meiko Takahashi, Vladimir Saenko, Tatiana Rogounovitch, Takahisa Kawaguchi, Valentina M. Drozd, Hisako Takigawa-Imamura, Natallia Akulevich, Chanavee Ratanajaraya, Norisato Mitsutake, Noboru Takamura, Larisa Danilova, М.Л. Лущик, Yuri E. Demidchik, Simon Heath, Ryo Yamada, Mark Lathrop, Fumihiko Matsuda, Shunichi Yamashita	2010	119
16	Comprehensive genome and epigenome characterization of CHO cells in response to evolutionary pressures and over time Biotechnology and Bioengineering ·Julia Feichtinger, Inmaculada Hernández, Christoph Fischer, Michael Hanscho, Norbert Auer, Matthias Hackl, Vaibhav Jadhav, Martina Baumann, Peter M. Krempl, Christian Schmidl, Matthias Farlik, Michael Schuster, Angelika Merkel, Andreas Sommer, Simon Heath, Daniel Rico, Christoph Bock, Gerhard Thallinger, Nicole Borth	2016	113
17	Single-cell transcriptome conservation in cryopreserved cells and tissues Genome biology ·Amy Guillaumet-Adkins, Gustavo Rodríguez-Esteban, Elisabetta Mereu, María Méndez-Lago, Diego Adhemar Jaitin, Alberto Villanueva, August Vidal, Alex Martínez‐Martí, Enriqueta Felip, Ana Vivancos, Hadas Keren‐Shaul, Simon Heath, Marta Gut, Ido Amit, Holger Heyn	2017	109
18	Implication of the Immune System in Alzheimer's Disease: Evidence from Genome-Wide Pathway Analysis Journal of Alzheimer s Disease ·Jean‐Charles Lambert, Benjamin Grenier‐Boley, Vincent Chouraki, Simon Heath, Diana Zélénika, Nathalie Fiévet, Didier Hannequin, Florence Pasquier, Olivier Hanon, Alexis Brice, Jacques Epelbaum, Claudine Berr, Jean‐François Dartigues, Christophe Tzourio, Dominique Campion, Mark Lathrop, Philippe Amouyel	2010	109
19	PD-1 signaling affects cristae morphology and leads to mitochondrial dysfunction in human CD8+ T lymphocytes Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer ·Jesús Ogando, María Eugenia Sáez, Javier Varona Santos, Cristina Nuevo‐Tapioles, Marta Gut, Anna Esteve‐Codina, Simon Heath, Antonio González‐Pérez, José M. Cuezva, Rosa Ana Lacalle, Santos Mañes	2019	96
20	Genetic factors of susceptibility and of severity in primary biliary cirrhosis Journal of Hepatology ·Raoul Poupon, Ping Chen, Yves Chrétien, Christophe Corpechot, Olivier Chazouillères, Tabassome Simon, Simon Heath, Fumihiko Matsuda, R.E. Poupon, Chantal Housset, Véronique Barbu	2008	94

About Simon Heath

Simon Heath is a scholar working on Genetics, Virology, Immunology, Molecular Biology and Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, having authored 96 papers that have together received 7.3k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (20 papers), Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals (14 papers), Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (12 papers), Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock (9 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (8 papers), Genomic variations and chromosomal abnormalities (7 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (6 papers) and Immune Cell Function and Interaction (6 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Genetics (2.4k citations), Immunology (1.5k citations), Physiology (1.4k citations), Hematology (535 citations) and Genetics (465 citations). Simon Heath has collaborated with scholars based in United States, France and Spain. Frequent co-authors include Marta Gut, Martin Farrall, Miriam F. Moffatt, William Cookson, Mark Lathrop, Erika von Mutius, David P. Strachan, Emmanuelle Bouzigon, Florence Démenais and Ellen M. Wijsman. Their work appears in journals such as PLoS ONE, Genetic Epidemiology, Nature Communications, The American Journal of Human Genetics and Human Heredity.

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