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90
Citations
38582
World Ranking
1065
National Ranking
148

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2018 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2005 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 1992 - William Allan Award, the American Society of Human Genetics
  • 1989 - Member of Academia Europaea
  • 1986 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom

Overview

Alec J. Jeffreys is affiliated with the University of Leicester in the United Kingdom. The scientist's career is marked by recognition from several prestigious organizations across the scientific community.

Jeffreys has been honored with notable awards, including the Fellowship of the Royal Society, United Kingdom, awarded in 1986. Membership in Academia Europaea was granted in 1989. Additional recognition includes the William Allan Award from the American Society of Human Genetics in 1992, election to the National Academy of Sciences in 2005, and Fellowship of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2018.

Best Publications

  • Hypervariable 'minisatellite' regions in human DNA.

    Alec J. Jeffreys;Victoria Wilson;Swee Lay Thein

  • Individual-specific 'fingerprints' of human DNA.

    A. J. Jeffreys;V. Wilson;S. L. Thein

  • Forensic application of DNA 'fingerprints'.

    Peter Gill;Alec J. Jeffreys;David J. Werrett

  • Spontaneous mutation rates to new length alleles at tandem-repetitive hypervariable loci in human DNA.

    Alec J. Jeffreys;Nicola J. Royle;Victoria Wilson;Zilla Wong

  • Intensely punctate meiotic recombination in the class II region of the major histocompatibility complex.

    Alec J. Jeffreys;Liisa Kauppi;Rita Neumann

  • A physical map of the DNA regions flanking the rabbit β-globin gene

    A.J. Jeffreys;R.A. Flavell

  • Positive identification of an immigration test-case using human DNA fingerprints

    Alec J. Jeffreys;John F. Y. Brookfield;Robert Semeonoff

  • Chromosome 5 allele loss in human colorectal carcinomas.

    E. Solomon;R. Voss;V. Hall;W. F. Bodmer

  • Characterization of a panel of highly variable minisatellites cloned from human DNA.

    Z. Wong;V. Wilson;I. Patel;S. Povey

  • Amplification of human minisatellites by the polymerase chain reaction: towards DNA fingerprinting of single cells

    Alec J. Jeffreys;Victoria Wilson;Rita Neumann;John Keyte

  • Complex gene conversion events in germline mutation at human minisatellites

    Alec J. Jeffreys;Keiji Tamaki;Annette MacLeod;Darren G. Monckton;Darren G. Monckton

  • Repeat unit sequence variation in minisatellites: a novel source of DNA polymorphism for studying variation and mutation by single molecule analysis.

    Alec J. Jeffreys;Rita Neumann;Victoria Wilson

  • Human minisatellite mutation rate after the Chernobyl accident

    Yuri E. Dubrova;Yuri E. Dubrova;Valeri N. Nesterov;Nicolay G. Krouchinsky;Valdislav A. Ostapenko

  • DNA sequence variants in the Gγ-, Aγ-, δ- and β-globin genes of man

    Alec J. Jeffreys

  • Minisatellite repeat coding as a digital approach to DNA typing

    Alec J. Jeffreys;Annette MacLeod;Keiji Tamaki;David L. Neil

  • DNA fingerprints of dogs and cats.

    A. J. Jeffreys;D. B. Morton

  • The rabbit β-globin gene contains a large insert in the coding sequence

    A.J. Jeffreys;R.A. Flavell

  • Isolation of human simple repeat loci by hybridization selection

    John A.L. Armour;Rita Neumann;Stephanie Gobert;Alec J. Jeffreys

  • Identification of the skeletal remains of a murder victim by DNA analysis

    Erika Hagelberg;Ian C. Gray;Alec J. Jeffreys

  • Intense and highly localized gene conversion activity in human meiotic crossover hot spots.

    Alec J Jeffreys;Celia A May

Frequent Co-Authors

John A.L. Armour
John A.L. Armour University of Nottingham
Yuri E. Dubrova
Yuri E. Dubrova University of Leicester
Darren G. Monckton
Darren G. Monckton University of Glasgow
Swee Lay Thein
Swee Lay Thein King's College London
Duncan Martin Baird
Duncan Martin Baird Cardiff University
Sue Malcolm
Sue Malcolm University College London
Antti Sajantila
Antti Sajantila University of Helsinki
Ellen Solomon
Ellen Solomon King's College London
Bruce A.J. Ponder
Bruce A.J. Ponder University of Cambridge
Olivier Hanotte
Olivier Hanotte University of Nottingham

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