Mark H. Skolnick

37.7k citations
141 papers · 17.3k · 5 hit papers · h-index 47

Impact in

  • Genetics top 0.05%
    • Genetic diversity and population structure
    • Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals
    • Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock
    • BRCA gene mutations in cancer
  • Hematology top 0.5%
    • Iron Metabolism and Disorders

Papers in

  • Genetics 53
    • Genomic variations and chromosomal abnormalities 20
    • BRCA gene mutations in cancer 17
    • Genetic Associations and Epidemiology 9
    • Genetic and rare skin diseases. 9
  • Molecular Biology 52
Co-authors
R. White (4 shared papers)Ronald W. Davis (1 shared paper)David Botstein (1 shared paper)Alexander Kamb (11 shared papers)Nelleke A. Gruis (6 shared papers)Sean V. Tavtigian (6 shared papers)D. Timothy Bishop (17 shared papers)Lisa Cannon‐Albright (32 shared papers)
Journals
Genomics (8 papers)Science (6 papers)Cytogenetic and Genome Research (6 papers)New England Journal of Medicine (6 papers)Genetic Epidemiology (6 papers)
Partner nations
United StatesUnited KingdomNetherlands

In The Last Decade

Mark H. Skolnick

139 papers receiving 16.2k citations

Mark H. Skolnick's Hit Papers

A Cell Cycle Regulator Potentially Involved in Genesis of Many Tumor Types 1994 · 2.3k citations
2.3k0+15+30Years since publication2.0k4.0k6.0k
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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.
  1. 1994 Science
  2. 1990 Science
  3. 1988 New England Journal of Medicine
  4. 1987 Science
  5. 1980 PubMed

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Mark H. Skolnick
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  • Genetics 6.4k
  • Hematology 1.5k
  • Oncology 3.4k
  • Cancer Research 1.9k
  • Genetics 1.1k
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1
Construction of a genetic linkage map in man using restriction fragment length polymorphisms.
PubMed ·David Botstein, R. White, Mark H. Skolnick, Ronald W. Davis
Hit paper breakdown →		19806486
2
A Cell Cycle Regulator Potentially Involved in Genesis of Many Tumor Types
Science ·Alexander Kamb, Nelleke A. Gruis, Jane Weaver-Feldhaus, Qingyun Liu, Keith Harshman, Sean V. Tavtigian, Elisabeth Stockert, Rufus S. Day, Bruce E. Johnson, Mark H. Skolnick
Hit paper breakdown →		19942328
3
Identification of Mutations in the COL4A5 Collagen Gene in Alport Syndrome
Science ·David F. Barker, Sirkka Liisa Hostikka, Jing Zhou, Louise T. Chow, Arnold Oliphant, Steven C. Gerken, Martin C. Gregory, Mark H. Skolnick, Curtis L. Atkin, Karl Tryggvason
Hit paper breakdown →		1990612
4
Gene for von Recklinghausen Neurofibromatosis Is in the Pericentromeric Region of Chromosome 17
Science ·David Barker, E Wright, K. Nguyen, Lisa A. Cannon, Pamela R. Fain, (unknown), D. Timothy Bishop, John C. Carey, Bonnie Jeanne Baty, J. Kivlin, H.F. Willard, John S. Waye, Gillian Greig, Leslie A. Leinwand, Yusuke Nakamura, P. O’Connell, M. Leppert, Jean-Marc Lalouel, R. White, Mark H. Skolnick
Hit paper breakdown →		1987520
5
Prevalence of Hemochromatosis among 11,065 Presumably Healthy Blood Donors
New England Journal of Medicine ·Corwin Q. Edwards, Linda M. Griffen, David E. Goldgar, Charles Drummond, Mark H. Skolnick, James P. Kushner
Hit paper breakdown →		1988503
6
Assignment of a Locus for Familial Melanoma, MLM, to Chromosome 9p13-p22
Science ·Lisa Cannon‐Albright, David E. Goldgar, Laurence J. Meyer, Cathryn M. Lewis, David E. Anderson, Jane W. Fountain, Monika E. Hegi, Roger W. Wiseman, Elizabeth M. Petty, A. Bale, Olufunmilayo I. Olopade, Manuel O. Dı́az, David J. Kwiatkowski, Michael W. Piepkorn, John J. Zone, Mark H. Skolnick
1992391
7
Common Inheritance of Susceptibility to Colonic Adenomatous Polyps and Associated Colorectal Cancers
New England Journal of Medicine ·Lisa Cannon‐Albright, Mark H. Skolnick, D. Timothy Bishop, Randall G. Lee, Randall W. Burt
1988363
8
Probability functions on complex pedigrees
Advances in Applied Probability ·C. Cannings, E. A. Thompson, Mark H. Skolnick
1978303
9
Common origins of BRCA1 mutations in Canadian breast and ovarian cancer families
Nature Genetics ·Jacques Simard, Patricia N. Tonin, Francine Durocher, K. Morgan, Johanna M. Rommens, Sébastien Gingras, C. Samson, J LEBLANC, Chantal Bélanger, France Dion, Qingqing Liu, Mark H. Skolnick, (unknown), Donna Shattuck-Eidens, Fernand Labrie, Steven A. Narod
1994264
10
A mutation in PCSK9 causing autosomal-dominant hypercholesterolemia in a Utah pedigree
Human Genetics ·Kirsten M. Timms, Susanne Wagner, Mark Samuels, Kristian C. Forbey, Howard Goldfine, Srikanth Jammulapati, Mark H. Skolnick, Paul N. Hopkins, Steve Hunt, Donna Shattuck
2004259
11
Risk of Colorectal Cancer in the Families of Patients with Adenomatous Polyps
New England Journal of Medicine ·Sidney J. Winawer, Ann G. Zauber, Hans Gerdes, Michael J. O’Brien, Leonard S. Gottlieb, Stephen S. Sternberg, John H. Bond, Jerome D. Waye, Melvin Schapiro, Joel F. Panish, Robert C. Kurtz, Moshe Shike, Frederick W. Ackroyd, Edward T. Stewart, Mark H. Skolnick, D. Timothy Bishop
1996226
12
Hereditary Hemochromatosis
New England Journal of Medicine ·George E. Cartwright, Corwin Q. Edwards, K Kravitz, Mark H. Skolnick, D. Bernard Amos, Armead H. Johnson, Lisbeth Buskjaer
1979226
13
Recurrent BRCA2 6174delT mutations in Ashkenazi Jewish women affected by breast cancer
Nature Genetics ·Susan L. Neuhausen, Teresa Gilewski, Larry Norton, Thao Tran, Peter J. McGuire, Jeffrey Swensen, Heather Hampel, Patrick I. Borgen, Karen Brown, Mark H. Skolnick, Donna Shattuck-Eidens, Suresh C. Jhanwar, David E. Goldgar, Kenneth Offit
1996219
14
Hereditary Hemochromatosis: Analysis of Laboratory Expression of the Disease by Genotype in 18 Pedigrees
American Journal of Clinical Pathology ·Mary M. Dadone, James P. Kushner, Corwin Q. Edwards, D. Timothy Bishop, Mark H. Skolnick
1982162
15
Dominant Inheritance of Adenomatous Colonic Polyps and Colorectal Cancer
New England Journal of Medicine ·Randall W. Burt, D. Timothy Bishop, Lisa A. Cannon, Mark A. Dowdle, Randall G. Lee, Mark H. Skolnick
1985161
16
Genetic distances between the Utah Mormons and related populations.
PubMed ·Tracy McLellan, Lynn B. Jorde, Mark H. Skolnick
1984149
17
Low incidence of BRCA2 mutations in breast carcinoma and other cancers
Nature Genetics ·David Teng, Robert Bogden, Jeffrey T. Mitchell, Michelle Baumgard, Russell Bell, Simin Berry, Thaylon Davis, Phuong C. Ha, Robert Kehrer, Srikanth Jammulapati, Qian Chen, Kenneth Offit, Mark H. Skolnick, Sean V. Tavtigian, Suresh C. Jhanwar, Brad Swedlund, Alexander Wong, Alexander Kamb
1996142
18
TBC1D1 is a candidate for a severe obesity gene and evidence for a gene/gene interaction in obesity predisposition
Human Molecular Genetics ·Steven Stone, Victor Abkevich, Deanna L. Russell, Robyn Riley, Kirsten M. Timms, Thanh V. Tran, Deborah J. Trem, David A. Frank, Srikanth Jammulapati, Chris Neff, Diana Iliev, Richard E. Gress, Gongping He, Georges C. Frech, Ted D. Adams, Mark H. Skolnick, Jerry S. Lanchbury, Alexander Gutin, Steven C. Hunt, Donna Shattuck
2006119
19
Detection of restriction fragment length polymorphisms at the centromeres of human chromosomes by using chromosome-specific alpha satellite DNA probes: implications for development of centromere-based genetic linkage maps.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·H.F. Willard, John S. Waye, Mark H. Skolnick, Charles E. Schwartz, Vicki E. C. Powers, Sarah England
1986115
20
Guidelines for Human Gene Nomenclature
Cytogenetic and Genome Research ·(unknown), P.J. McAlpine, (unknown), (unknown), P.M. Conneally, J. Frézal, (unknown), P.N. Goodfellow, Jeff G. Hall, P.D. Issitt, (unknown), Barbara B. Knowles, (unknown), (unknown), Miriam H. Meisler, Newton E. Morton, Peter A. Rubenstein, Moses S. Schanfield, (unknown), Mark H. Skolnick, M. Anne Spence, G.R. Sutherland, (unknown), N. Van Cong, H.F. Willard, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Claude Boucheix, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown)
1987106

About Mark H. Skolnick

Mark H. Skolnick is a scholar working on Genetics, Molecular Biology, Oncology, Hematology and Cancer Research, having authored 141 papers that have together received 17.3k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Genomic variations and chromosomal abnormalities (20 papers), BRCA gene mutations in cancer (17 papers), Cutaneous Melanoma Detection and Management (14 papers), Iron Metabolism and Disorders (13 papers), Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics (13 papers), Genetic factors in colorectal cancer (12 papers), Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (9 papers) and Genetic and rare skin diseases. (9 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Genetics (6.4k citations), Hematology (1.5k citations), Oncology (3.4k citations), Cancer Research (1.9k citations) and Genetics (1.1k citations). Mark H. Skolnick has collaborated with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Netherlands. Frequent co-authors include R. White, Ronald W. Davis, David Botstein, Alexander Kamb, Nelleke A. Gruis, Sean V. Tavtigian, D. Timothy Bishop, Lisa Cannon‐Albright, Jane Weaver-Feldhaus and Elisabeth Stockert. Their work appears in journals such as Genomics, Science, Cytogenetic and Genome Research, New England Journal of Medicine and Genetic Epidemiology.

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