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Abel Gonzalez-Perez

Abel Gonzalez-Perez

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Genetics

D-Index
47
Citations
29514
World Ranking
4075
National Ranking
79

Overview

Abel Gonzalez-Perez is affiliated with Pompeu Fabra University in Spain, focusing primarily on disciplines within Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology as well as Medicine. Their research spans several subfields including Molecular Biology, Cancer Research, Genetics, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, and Oncology.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics central to cancer and genomic research, such as Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics, Single-cell and Spatial Transcriptomics, Acute Myeloid Leukemia Research, Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks, Epigenetics and DNA Methylation, Lung Cancer Treatments and Mutations, and RNA Modifications in Cancer.

Recent notable publications include:

  • A compendium of mutational cancer driver genes, 2020, Nature reviews. Cancer
  • Analyses of non-coding somatic drivers in 2,658 cancer whole genomes, 2020, Nature
  • Integrative pathway enrichment analysis of multivariate omics data, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Genomic and evolutionary classification of lung cancer in never smokers, 2021, Nature Genetics
  • Cancer LncRNA Census reveals evidence for deep functional conservation of long noncoding RNAs in tumorigenesis, 2020, Communications Biology

Gonzalez-Perez frequently collaborates with other researchers, including:

  • Núria López-Bigas
  • Ferran Muiños
  • Oriol Pich
  • Francisco Martínez-Jiménez
  • Iker Reyes-Salazar

The scientist publishes regularly in a variety of research venues. The most frequent publication outlets consist of:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Communications
  • Nature
  • Nature Genetics
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Best Publications

  • The cancer genome atlas pan-cancer analysis project

    John N Weinstein;John N Weinstein;Eric A. Collisson;Gordon B Mills;Kenna R Mills Shaw;Kenna R Mills Shaw

  • Pan-cancer analysis of whole genomes

    Peter J. Campbell;Gad Getz;Jan O. Korbel;Joshua M. Stuart

  • Comprehensive Characterization of Cancer Driver Genes and Mutations.

    Matthew H Bailey;Collin Tokheim;Eduard Porta-Pardo;Sohini Sengupta

  • Patterns of somatic structural variation in human cancer genomes

    Yilong Li;Nicola D Roberts;Jeremiah A Wala;Jeremiah A Wala;Ofer Shapira;Ofer Shapira

  • Pan-cancer network analysis identifies combinations of rare somatic mutations across pathways and protein complexes

    Mark D.M. Leiserson;Fabio Vandin;Hsin Ta Wu;Jason R. Dobson

  • A compendium of mutational cancer driver genes.

    Francisco Martínez-Jiménez;Ferran Muiños;Inés Sentís;Jordi Deu-Pons

  • Improving the Assessment of the Outcome of Nonsynonymous SNVs with a Consensus Deleteriousness Score, Condel

    Abel González-Pérez;Nuria López-Bigas

  • Erratum: Comprehensive Characterization of Cancer Driver Genes and Mutations (ARTICLE (2018) 173(2) (371–385), (S009286741830237X), (10.1016/j.cell.2018.02.060))

    Matthew H. Bailey;Collin Tokheim;Eduard Porta-Pardo;Sohini Sengupta

  • IntOGen-mutations identifies cancer drivers across tumor types

    Abel Gonzalez-Perez;Christian Perez-Llamas;Jordi Deu-Pons;David Tamborero

  • A framework to rank genomic alterations as targets for cancer precision medicine: the ESMO Scale for Clinical Actionability of molecular Targets (ESCAT)

    J. Mateo;D. Chakravarty;R. Dienstmann;S. Jezdic

  • Comprehensive identification of mutational cancer driver genes across 12 tumor types

    David Tamborero;Abel Gonzalez-Perez;Christian Perez-Llamas;Jordi Deu-Pons

  • Cancer Genome Interpreter annotates the biological and clinical relevance of tumor alterations

    David Tamborero;Carlota Rubio-Perez;Jordi Deu-Pons;Michael P. Schroeder;Michael P. Schroeder

  • OncodriveCLUST: exploiting the positional clustering of somatic mutations to identify cancer genes

    David Tamborero;Abel Gonzalez-Perez;Nuria Lopez-Bigas

  • Functional impact bias reveals cancer drivers

    Abel Gonzalez-Perez;Nuria Lopez-Bigas

  • Pathway and network analysis of cancer genomes

    Pau Creixell;Jueri Reimand;Syed Haider;Guanming Wu

  • In silico prescription of anticancer drugs to cohorts of 28 tumor types reveals targeting opportunities.

    Carlota Rubio-Perez;David Tamborero;Michael P. Schroeder;Albert A. Antolín

  • Nucleotide excision repair is impaired by binding of transcription factors to DNA

    Radhakrishnan Sabarinathan;Loris Mularoni;Jordi Deu-Pons;Abel Gonzalez-Perez

  • OncodriveFML: a general framework to identify coding and non-coding regions with cancer driver mutations

    Loris Mularoni;Radhakrishnan Sabarinathan;Jordi Deu-Pons;Abel Gonzalez-Perez

  • A Pan-cancer Landscape of Interactions between Solid Tumors and Infiltrating Immune Cell Populations

    David Tamborero;Carlota Rubio-Perez;Ferran Muiños;Radhakrishnan Sabarinathan

  • The Cancer Genome Atlas Pan-Cancer analysis project

    Kyle Chang;Chad J Creighton;Caleb Davis;Lawrence Donehower

Frequent Co-Authors

Nuria Lopez-Bigas
Nuria Lopez-Bigas Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats
Gad Getz
Gad Getz Broad Institute
Li Ding
Li Ding Washington University in St. Louis
Michael S. Lawrence
Michael S. Lawrence Harvard University
Joshua M. Stuart
Joshua M. Stuart University of California, Santa Cruz
Chris Sander
Chris Sander Harvard University
Michael C. Wendl
Michael C. Wendl Washington University in St. Louis
Gary D. Bader
Gary D. Bader University of Toronto
Gordon B. Mills
Gordon B. Mills Oregon Health & Science University
Rameen Beroukhim
Rameen Beroukhim Harvard University

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