W. Roy Breg

3.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
73 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

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W. Roy Breg is a scholar working on Genetics, Molecular Biology and Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health. According to data from OpenAlex, W. Roy Breg has authored 73 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 55 papers in Genetics, 26 papers in Molecular Biology and 23 papers in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health. Recurrent topics in W. Roy Breg's work include Genomic variations and chromosomal abnormalities (38 papers), Prenatal Screening and Diagnostics (23 papers) and Chromosomal and Genetic Variations (18 papers). W. Roy Breg is often cited by papers focused on Genomic variations and chromosomal abnormalities (38 papers), Prenatal Screening and Diagnostics (23 papers) and Chromosomal and Genetic Variations (18 papers). W. Roy Breg collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and United Kingdom. W. Roy Breg's co-authors include MarkW. Steele, O. J. Miller, P. W. Allderdice, Karin J. Blakemore, D.A. Miller, Orlando J. Miller, Stephen S. Wachtel, Gloria C. Koo, Robert M. Fineman and John C. Hobbins and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and New England Journal of Medicine.

In The Last Decade

W. Roy Breg

73 papers receiving 2.2k citations

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CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS OF HUMAN AMNIOTIC-FLUID CELLS

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
W. Roy Breg United States	29	1.6k	898	892	538	439	73	2.5k
Catherine G. Palmer United States	34	2.2k 1.4×	1.7k 1.9×	1.1k 1.2×	596 1.1×	351 0.8×	103	3.7k
Irene A. Uchida Canada	30	1.2k 0.8×	861 1.0×	717 0.8×	368 0.7×	227 0.5×	65	2.8k
Eeva Therman United States	30	1.9k 1.2×	1.5k 1.6×	690 0.8×	949 1.8×	189 0.4×	89	3.3k
Joy Delhanty United Kingdom	36	1.7k 1.1×	1.6k 1.8×	2.2k 2.4×	475 0.9×	405 0.9×	104	4.1k
Laird G. Jackson United States	30	866 0.5×	1.6k 1.7×	1.0k 1.2×	146 0.3×	326 0.7×	71	3.0k
Miriam G. Wilson United States	24	829 0.5×	592 0.7×	478 0.5×	237 0.4×	292 0.7×	82	1.9k
N. J. Leschot Netherlands	28	899 0.6×	702 0.8×	1.2k 1.3×	157 0.3×	281 0.6×	94	2.3k
Giuseppe Simoni Italy	34	1.5k 1.0×	727 0.8×	2.0k 2.3×	224 0.4×	515 1.2×	112	3.3k
Wayseen Wang Taiwan	23	2.1k 1.3×	914 1.0×	1.9k 2.1×	435 0.8×	624 1.4×	399	3.1k
Leonard Atkins United States	25	629 0.4×	546 0.6×	431 0.5×	141 0.3×	351 0.8×	64	1.8k

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Estabrooks, Laurel L., W. Roy Breg, Michael R. Hayden, et al.. (1995). Summary of the 1993 ASHG ancillary meeting “recent research on chromosome 4p syndromes and genes”. American Journal of Medical Genetics. 55(4). 453–458. 21 indexed citations

Chu, Thomas, Ahmad S. Teebi, Lisa H. Gibson, W. Roy Breg, & Teresa L. Yang‐Feng. (1994). FISH diagnosis of partial trisomy 13 and tetrasomy 13 in a patient with severe trigonocephaly (C) phenotype. American Journal of Medical Genetics. 52(1). 92–96. 15 indexed citations

Petty, Elizabeth M., Lisa H. Gibson, W. Roy Breg, J Burns, & Teresa L. Yang‐Feng. (1993). Mosaic dup (9p) diagnosed by fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH). American Journal of Medical Genetics. 45(6). 770–773. 6 indexed citations

Teebi, Ahmad S., Lisa H. Gibson, James McGrath, et al.. (1993). Molecular and cytogenetic characterization of 9p– abnormalities. American Journal of Medical Genetics. 46(3). 288–292. 43 indexed citations

Murphy, Patricia D., M. Watson, Lawrence R. Shapiro, Patrick L. Wilmot, & W. Roy Breg. (1991). DNA‐based genetic testing in fifty fragile X families. American Journal of Medical Genetics. 38(2-3). 305–310. 2 indexed citations

Vockley, Jerry, et al.. (1991). “Pseudomosaicism” for 4p – in amniotic fluid cell culture proven to be true mosaicism after birth. American Journal of Medical Genetics. 39(1). 81–83. 19 indexed citations

Pletcher, Beth A., et al.. (1991). Familial occurrence of esophageal atresia with and without tracheoesophagel fistula:Report of two unusual kindreds. American Journal of Medical Genetics. 39(4). 380–384. 15 indexed citations

Watson, M., et al.. (1989). Deletion (12)(q15q21.2).. Journal of Medical Genetics. 26(5). 343–344. 22 indexed citations

Watson, Michael S., W. Roy Breg, David L. Pauls, et al.. (1988). Aneuploidy and the fragile X syndrome. American Journal of Medical Genetics. 30(1-2). 115–121. 13 indexed citations

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Stevens, Cathy A., et al.. (1988). Report of two cases of distal deletion of the long arm of chromosome 6. American Journal of Medical Genetics. 29(4). 807–814. 30 indexed citations

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Haseltine, Florence P., Kathleen DePonte, W. Roy Breg, Myron Genel, & John M. Opitz. (1982). Presence of H‐Y antigen in patients with ullrich‐Turner syndrome and X‐chromosome rearrangements. American Journal of Medical Genetics. 11(1). 97–107. 16 indexed citations

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Haseltine, Florence P., Myron Genel, John D. Crawford, & W. Roy Breg. (1981). H-Y antigen negative patients with testicular tissue and 46,XY karyotype. Human Genetics. 57(3). 265–8. 11 indexed citations

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Wachtel, Stephen S., Gloria C. Koo, W. Roy Breg, & Myron Genel. (1980). H-Y antigen in X,i(Xq) gonadal dysgenesis: Evidence of X-linked genes in testicular differentiation. Human Genetics. 56(2). 183–187. 29 indexed citations

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Willard, Huntington F. & W. Roy Breg. (1980). Human X chromosomes: Synchrony of DNA replication in diploid and triploid fibroblasts with multiple active or inactive X chromosomes. Somatic Cell and Molecular Genetics. 6(2). 187–198. 16 indexed citations

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Fineman, Robert M., et al.. (1979). Complete and partial trisomy of different segments of chromosome 8: case reports and review. Clinical Genetics. 16(6). 390–398. 42 indexed citations

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Breg, W. Roy, M.M. Aronson, A.E. Greene, & L.L. Coriell. (1977). Deletion of the short arm of chromosome 4 from a subject with Wolf’s syndrome. Cytogenetic and Genome Research. 18(5). 307–308. 4 indexed citations

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Breg, W. Roy. (1976). Deletion in the short arm of chromosone 9 from a subject with congenital cerebral maldevelopment. Repository identification No. GM-870. Cytogenet. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 17. 296–297. 3 indexed citations

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Breg, W. Roy, O. J. Miller, D.A. Miller, & P. W. Allderdice. (1971). Distinctive Fluorescence of Quinacrine-labelled Human G Group Chromosomes. PubMed. 231(26). 276–277. 19 indexed citations

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Miller, O. J., P. W. Allderdice, D.A. Miller, W. Roy Breg, & Barbara R. Migeon. (1971). Human Thymidine Kinase Gene Locus: Assignment to Chromosome 17 in a Hybrid of Man and Mouse Cells. Science. 173(3993). 244–245. 86 indexed citations

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Miller, Orlando J., Barid B. Mukherjee, & W. Roy Breg. (1962). SECTION OF BIOLOGICAL AND MEDICAL SCIENCES: I. NORMAL VARIATIONS IN THE HUMAN KARYOTYPE*. Transactions of the New York Academy of Sciences. 24(4 Series II). 372–382. 16 indexed citations

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