Simon Heath

61.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
96 papers, 7.3k citations indexed

About

Simon Heath is a scholar working on Genetics, Molecular Biology and Immunology. According to data from OpenAlex, Simon Heath has authored 96 papers receiving a total of 7.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 44 papers in Genetics, 42 papers in Molecular Biology and 13 papers in Immunology. Recurrent topics in Simon Heath's work include Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (20 papers), Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals (14 papers) and Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (12 papers). Simon Heath is often cited by papers focused on Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (20 papers), Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals (14 papers) and Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (12 papers). Simon Heath collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and Spain. Simon Heath's co-authors include Marta Gut, Martin Farrall, William Cookson, Miriam F. Moffatt, Mark Lathrop, Erika von Mutius, Florence Démenais, Emmanuelle Bouzigon, David P. Strachan and Ellen M. Wijsman and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and New England Journal of Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Simon Heath

94 papers receiving 7.2k 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.

A Large-Scale, Consortium-Based Genomewide Association Study of Asthma

2010 1.4k citations Marta Gut, Simon Heath et al. profile →
A genome-wide association study of global gene expression

2007 632 citations Simon Heath, Marta Gut et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Simon Heath United States	37	2.8k	2.4k	1.5k	1.4k	737	96	7.3k
Timothy J. Aitman United Kingdom	44	3.2k 1.1×	2.6k 1.1×	894 0.6×	839 0.6×	850 1.2×	140	7.1k
Jeanine J. Houwing‐Duistermaat Netherlands	48	2.1k 0.7×	1.2k 0.5×	988 0.7×	741 0.5×	481 0.7×	231	6.9k
Michael A. Simpson United Kingdom	44	2.7k 1.0×	1.2k 0.5×	859 0.6×	649 0.5×	626 0.8×	161	6.3k
Kristin Ardlie United States	37	4.4k 1.6×	4.1k 1.7×	1.5k 1.0×	610 0.4×	746 1.0×	71	9.7k
Yukinori Okada Japan	43	2.2k 0.8×	3.1k 1.3×	1.3k 0.9×	509 0.4×	396 0.5×	171	7.5k
Jayne S. Danska Canada	35	2.9k 1.0×	1.3k 0.5×	2.3k 1.5×	697 0.5×	710 1.0×	87	6.5k
Eleftheria Zeggini United Kingdom	47	2.9k 1.0×	3.8k 1.6×	748 0.5×	598 0.4×	962 1.3×	192	7.7k
Robert P. Erickson United States	49	4.7k 1.7×	3.2k 1.3×	964 0.6×	2.6k 1.9×	788 1.1×	350	10.7k
Melanie Bahlo Australia	47	3.3k 1.2×	2.1k 0.9×	1.5k 1.0×	598 0.4×	325 0.4×	203	9.3k
Terry F. Davies United States	61	3.3k 1.2×	3.7k 1.5×	2.7k 1.8×	1.0k 0.7×	1.1k 1.5×	349	13.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Simon Heath

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Simon Heath

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Duran‐Ferrer, Martí, Diego Mallo, Ferran Nadeu, et al.. (2025). Fluctuating DNA methylation tracks cancer evolution at clinical scale. Nature. 645(8081). 764–773. 2 indexed citations

Castel, Victoria, et al.. (2023). Evaluation of circulating tumor DNA by electropherogram analysis and methylome profiling in high-risk neuroblastomas. Frontiers in Oncology. 13. 1037342–1037342. 9 indexed citations

Becker, Philipp, Cristina Frías-López, Marc Dabad, et al.. (2022). A method for multiplexed full-length single-molecule sequencing of the human mitochondrial genome. Nature Communications. 13(1). 5902–5902. 17 indexed citations

Bonet, Jose, Marc Dabad, Simon Heath, et al.. (2021). DeepMP: a deep learning tool to detect DNA base modifications on Nanopore sequencing data. Bioinformatics. 38(5). 1235–1243. 18 indexed citations

Sáez, María Eugenia, Javier Varona Santos, Cristina Nuevo‐Tapioles, et al.. (2019). PD-1 signaling affects cristae morphology and leads to mitochondrial dysfunction in human CD8+ T lymphocytes. Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer. 7(1). 151–151. 96 indexed citations

Merkel, Angelika, Marcos Fernández-Callejo, Santiago Marco‐Sola, et al.. (2018). gemBS: high throughput processing for DNA methylation data from bisulfite sequencing. Bioinformatics. 35(5). 737–742. 33 indexed citations

Libertini, Emanuele, Simon Heath, Rifat Hamoudi, et al.. (2016). Saturation analysis for whole-genome bisulfite sequencing data. Nature Biotechnology. 34(7). 691–693. 23 indexed citations

Narni-Mancinelli, Émilie, Baptiste N. Jaeger, Claire Bernat, et al.. (2012). Tuning of Natural Killer Cell Reactivity by NKp46 and Helios Calibrates T Cell Responses. Science. 335(6066). 344–348. 150 indexed citations

Raineri, Emanuele, Luca Ferretti, Anna Esteve‐Codina, et al.. (2012). SNP calling by sequencing pooled samples. BMC Bioinformatics. 13(1). 239–239. 53 indexed citations

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Heath, Simon, Van C. Willis, Karin J. Purdie, et al.. (2011). Clinically Significant Human Papilloma Virus in Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Head and Neck in UK Practice. Clinical Oncology. 24(1). e18–e23. 36 indexed citations

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Darmanis, Spyros, Rachel Yuan Nong, Agneta Siegbahn, et al.. (2011). ProteinSeq: High-Performance Proteomic Analyses by Proximity Ligation and Next Generation Sequencing. PLoS ONE. 6(9). e25583–e25583. 75 indexed citations

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Zinovieva, Elena, Catherine Bourgain, Amir Kadi, et al.. (2009). Comprehensive Linkage and Association Analyses Identify Haplotype, Near to the TNFSF15 Gene, Significantly Associated with Spondyloarthritis. PLoS Genetics. 5(6). e1000528–e1000528. 46 indexed citations

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Flori, Laurence, Sébastien Fritz, Florence Jaffrézic, et al.. (2009). The Genome Response to Artificial Selection: A Case Study in Dairy Cattle. PLoS ONE. 4(8). e6595–e6595. 173 indexed citations

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Sakuntabhai, Anavaj, Isabelle Casadémont, Chayanon Peerapittayamongkol, et al.. (2008). Correction: Genetic Determination and Linkage Mapping of Plasmodium falciparum Malaria Related Traits in Senegal. PLoS ONE. 3(4). 4 indexed citations

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Shmulewitz, Dvora, Simon Heath, Maude L. Blundell, et al.. (2006). Linkage analysis of quantitative traits for obesity, diabetes, hypertension, and dyslipidemia on the island of Kosrae, Federated States of Micronesia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 103(10). 3502–3509. 53 indexed citations

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Serre, Jean‐Louis, et al.. (2006). Diagnostic techniques in genetics. John Wiley & Sons eBooks. 1 indexed citations

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Rothenbühler, Anya, Delphine Fradin, Simon Heath, et al.. (2006). Weight-Adjusted Genome Scan Analysis for Mapping Quantitative Trait Loci for Menarchal Age. The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. 91(9). 3534–3537. 26 indexed citations

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Liu, Hui, Simon Heath, Christina Sobin, et al.. (2002). Genetic variation at the 22q11 PRODH2/DGCR6 locus presents an unusual pattern and increases susceptibility to schizophrenia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 99(6). 3717–3722. 245 indexed citations

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Gordon, Derek, Simon Heath, Xin Liu, & Jürg Ott. (2001). A Transmission/Disequilibrium Test That Allows for Genotyping Errors in the Analysis of Single-Nucleotide Polymorphism Data. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 69(2). 371–380. 121 indexed citations

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Daw, E. Warwick, Simon Heath, & Ellen M. Wijsman. (1999). Multipoint Oligogenic Analysis of Age-at-Onset Data with Applications to Alzheimer Disease Pedigrees. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 64(3). 839–851. 76 indexed citations

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