Itsik Pe’er

16.2k citations

114 papers · 7.4k · 3 hit papers · h-index 36

Impact in

Genetics top 0.5%
- Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
- Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals
- Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock
- Forensic and Genetic Research
- Genetic diversity and population structure
Aging top 2%

Papers in

Genetics 64
- Genetic Associations and Epidemiology 37
- Genetic diversity and population structure 14
- Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock 12
- Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals 12
- Forensic and Genetic Research 11
- Genomic variations and chromosomal abnormalities 10
Molecular Biology 45
- Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies 24

Co-authors: Mark J. Daly (11 shared papers)David Altshuler (11 shared papers)Roman Yelensky (3 shared papers)Paul I. W. de Bakker (3 shared papers)Stacey Gabriel (1 shared paper)Ron Shamir (14 shared papers)Snehit Prabhu (4 shared papers)Pier Francesco Palamara (9 shared papers)
Journals: Journal of Computational Biology (7 papers)The American Journal of Human Genetics (7 papers)Bioinformatics (6 papers)PLoS Genetics (6 papers)Genome Research (5 papers)
Partner nations: United States Israel Switzerland

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Itsik Pe’er

111 papers receiving 7.2k citations

Itsik Pe’er's Hit Papers

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FEAST: fast expectation-maximization for microbial source tracking 2019 · 414 citations

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

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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.

2019 Nature Methods
2009 Nature Genetics
2005 Nature Genetics

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1	Efficiency and power in genetic association studies Nature Genetics ·Paul I. W. de Bakker, Roman Yelensky, Itsik Pe’er, Stacey Gabriel, Mark J. Daly, David Altshuler Hit paper breakdown →	2005	1418
2	HLA-B5701 genotype is a major determinant of drug-induced liver injury due to flucloxacillin Nature Genetics* ·(unknown), Ann K. Daly, Peter T. Donaldson, Pallav Bhatnagar, Yufeng Shen, Itsik Pe’er, Aris Floratos, Mark J. Daly, David B. Goldstein, Sally John, Matthew R. Nelson, Julia Graham, B. Kevin Park, John Dillon, William Bernal, Heather J. Cordell, Munir Pirmohamed, Guruprasad P. Aithal, Christopher P. Day Hit paper breakdown →	2009	821
3	Estimation of the multiple testing burden for genomewide association studies of nearly all common variants Genetic Epidemiology ·Itsik Pe’er, Roman Yelensky, David Altshuler, Mark J. Daly	2008	479
4	FEAST: fast expectation-maximization for microbial source tracking Nature Methods ·Liat Shenhav, Michael Thompson, Tyler Joseph, Leah Briscoe, Ori Furman, David Bogumil, Itzhak Mizrahi, Itsik Pe’er, Eran Halperin Hit paper breakdown →	2019	414
5	Web-Based, Participant-Driven Studies Yield Novel Genetic Associations for Common Traits PLoS Genetics ·Nicholas Eriksson, J. Michael Macpherson, Joyce Y. Tung, Lawrence Hon, Brian Naughton, Serge Saxonov, Linda Avey, Anne Wojcicki, Itsik Pe’er, Joanna L. Mountain	2010	321
6	Whole population, genome-wide mapping of hidden relatedness Genome Research ·Alexander Gusev, Jennifer K. Lowe, Markus Stoffel, Mark J. Daly, David Altshuler, Jan L. Breslow, Jeffrey M. Friedman, Itsik Pe’er	2008	315
7	Identity inference of genomic data using long-range familial searches Science ·Yaniv Erlich, Tal Shor, Itsik Pe’er, Shai Carmi	2018	227
8	Evaluating and improving power in whole-genome association studies using fixed marker sets Nature Genetics ·Itsik Pe’er, Paul I. W. de Bakker, Julian Maller, Roman Yelensky, David Altshuler, Mark J. Daly	2006	208
9	Integrative eQTL-Based Analyses Reveal the Biology of Breast Cancer Risk Loci Cell ·Qiyuan Li, Ji-Heui Seo, Barbara E. Stranger, Aaron McKenna, Itsik Pe’er, Thomas LaFramboise, Myles Brown, Svitlana Tyekucheva, Matthew L. Freedman	2013	201
10	Caenorhabditis elegans mutant allele identification by whole-genome sequencing Nature Methods ·Sumeet Sarin, Snehit Prabhu, M O’Meara, Itsik Pe’er, Oliver Hobert	2008	191
11	Length Distributions of Identity by Descent Reveal Fine-Scale Demographic History The American Journal of Human Genetics ·Pier Francesco Palamara, Todd Lencz, Ariel Darvasi, Itsik Pe’er	2012	157
12	Abraham's Children in the Genome Era: Major Jewish Diaspora Populations Comprise Distinct Genetic Clusters with Shared Middle Eastern Ancestry The American Journal of Human Genetics ·Gil Atzmon, Hao Li, Itsik Pe’er, Christopher Vélez, Alexander Pearlman, Pier Francesco Palamara, Bernice E. Morrow, Eitan Friedman, Carole Oddoux, Edward R. Burns, Harry Ostrer	2010	147
13	Proteomic signatures: Amino acid and oligopeptide compositions differentiate among phyla Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics ·Itsik Pe’er, Clifford E. Felder, Orna Man, Israel Silman, Joel L. Sussman, J. Beckmann	2003	134
14	Cryptic Distant Relatives Are Common in Both Isolated and Cosmopolitan Genetic Samples PLoS ONE ·Brenna M. Henn, Lawrence Hon, J. Michael Macpherson, Nick Eriksson, Serge Saxonov, Itsik Pe’er, Joanna L. Mountain	2012	118
15	arcasHLA: high-resolution HLA typing from RNAseq Bioinformatics ·Rose Orenbuch, Ioan Filip, Devon Comito, Jeffrey Shaman, Itsik Pe’er, Raúl Rabadán	2019	112
16	The median problems for breakpoints are NP-complete Electronic colloquium on computational complexity ·Itsik Pe’er, Ron Shamir	1998	101
17	Common SNPs in HMGCR in Micronesians and Whites Associated With LDL-Cholesterol Levels Affect Alternative Splicing of Exon13 Arteriosclerosis Thrombosis and Vascular Biology ·Ralph Burkhardt, Eimear E. Kenny, Jennifer K. Lowe, Andrew C. Birkeland, Rebecca Josowitz, Martha Noel, Jacqueline Salit, Julian Maller, Itsik Pe’er, Mark J. Daly, David Altshuler, Markus Stoffel, Jeffrey M. Friedman, Jan L. Breslow	2008	100
18	A Structural EM Algorithm for Phylogenetic Inference Journal of Computational Biology ·Nir Friedman, Matan Ninio, Itsik Pe’er, Tal Pupko	2002	100
19	A branch-and-bound algorithm for the inference of ancestral amino-acid sequences when the replacement rate varies among sites: Application to the evolution of five gene families Bioinformatics ·Tal Pupko, Itsik Pe’er, Masami Hasegawa, Dan Graur, Nir Friedman	2002	92
20	Elevated GM3 plasma concentration in idiopathic Parkinson’s disease: A lipidomic analysis PLoS ONE ·Robin Chan, Adler Perotte, Bowen Zhou, Christopher Liong, Evan Shorr, Karen Marder, Un Jung Kang, Cheryl Waters, Oren Levy, Yimeng Xu, Hong Bin Shim, Itsik Pe’er, Gilbert Di Paolo, Roy N. Alcalay	2017	91

About Itsik Pe’er

Itsik Pe’er is a scholar working on Genetics, Molecular Biology, Artificial Intelligence, Cancer Research and Pharmacology, having authored 114 papers that have together received 7.4k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (37 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (24 papers), Genetic diversity and population structure (14 papers), Algorithms and Data Compression (13 papers), Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock (12 papers), Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals (12 papers), Forensic and Genetic Research (11 papers) and Genomic variations and chromosomal abnormalities (10 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Genetics (3.1k citations), Aging (145 citations), Pharmacology (551 citations), Molecular Biology (2.5k citations) and Cancer Research (336 citations). Itsik Pe’er has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Israel and Switzerland. Frequent co-authors include Mark J. Daly, David Altshuler, Roman Yelensky, Paul I. W. de Bakker, Stacey Gabriel, Ron Shamir, Snehit Prabhu, Pier Francesco Palamara, Tyler Joseph and Shai Carmi. Their work appears in journals such as Journal of Computational Biology, The American Journal of Human Genetics, Bioinformatics, PLoS Genetics and Genome Research.

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