2026 Anthony J. Brookes: Genetics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Genetics	65	2667	2527	339	325	185	21590

Anthony J. Brookes publication distribution in Genetics in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Genetics in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Anthony J. Brookes sits on this spectrum.

45 publications 703+

This scientist: 185 publications — 45th percentile

45% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 703 publications or more.

Anthony J. Brookes D-index placement in Genetics in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Genetics scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Anthony J. Brookes sits on this spectrum.

40 D-Index 160+

This scientist: 65 D-Index — 39th percentile

39% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 160 D-Index or more.

Overview

Anthony J. Brookes is affiliated with the University of Leicester in the United Kingdom.

Their research intersectsthe fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Medicine, with a focus on Genetics, Molecular Biology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Cancer Research, and Economics and Econometrics.

The main topics in their work include:

Genomics and Rare Diseases
Ethics in Clinical Research
Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics
Genomic variations and chromosomal abnormalities
Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks

Recent publications by Anthony J. Brookes include:

GA4GH: International policies and standards for data sharing across genomic research and healthcare, 2021, Cell Genomics
The sputum microbiome is distinct between COPD and health, independent of smoking history, 2020, Respiratory Research
Solve-RD: systematic pan-European data sharing and collaborative analysis to solve rare diseases, 2021, European Journal of Human Genetics
The Data Use Ontology to streamline responsible access to human biomedical datasets, 2021, Cell Genomics
Beacon v2 and Beacon networks: A "lingua franca" for federated data discovery in biomedical genomics, and beyond, 2022, Human Mutation

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Anthony J. Brookes include:

Colin Veal
Spencer Gibson
Sergi Beltrán
Steven Laurie
Greg Warren

Anthony J. Brookes has published multiple articles in the following venues:

European Journal of Human Genetics
Faculty of 1000 Research Ltd
Nature Medicine
Cell Genomics
Frontiers in Neurology

Best Publications

Cloning of a gene bearing missense mutations in early-onset familial Alzheimer's disease

R. Sherrington;E. I. Rogaev;Y. Liang;E. A. Rogaeva

5388
Citations
The essence of SNPs.

Anthony J. Brookes

1972
Citations
A regulatory polymorphism in PDCD1 is associated with susceptibility to systemic lupus erythematosus in humans

Ludmila Prokunina;Casimiro Castillejo-López;Fredrik Öberg;Iva Gunnarsson

980
Citations
The BioMart community portal: an innovative alternative to large, centralized data repositories

Damian Smedley;Syed Haider;Steffen Durinck;Luca Pandini

865
Citations
The Matchmaker Exchange: a platform for rare disease gene discovery

Anthony A. Philippakis;Anthony A. Philippakis;Anthony A. Philippakis;Danielle R. Azzariti;Sergi Beltran;Anthony J. Brookes

510
Citations
Dynamic allele-specific hybridization

W. Mathias Howell;Magnus Jobs;Ulf Gyllensten;Anthony J. Brookes

483
Citations
International Cooperation to Enable the Diagnosis of All Rare Genetic Diseases.

Kym M. Boycott;Ana Rath;Jessica X. Chong;Taila Hartley

441
Citations
Integrative Annotation of 21,037 Human Genes Validated by Full-Length cDNA Clones

Tadashi Imanishi;Takeshi Itoh;Yutaka Suzuki;Claire O'Donovan

431
Citations
MHC2TA is associated with differential MHC molecule expression and susceptibility to rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis and myocardial infarction

Maria Swanberg;Olle Lidman;Leonid Padyukov;Per Eriksson

430
Citations
Targeted enrichment of genomic DNA regions for next generation sequencing

Florian Mertes;Abdou ElSharawy;Sascha Sauer;Joop M.L.M. van Helvoort

361
Citations
Systems medicine and integrated care to combat chronic noncommunicable diseases

Jean Bousquet;Josep M. Anto;Peter J. Sterk;Ian M. Adcock

330
Citations
Splinkerettes—improved vectorettes for greater efficiency in PCR walking

Rebecca S. Devon;David J. Porteous;Anthony J. Brookes

321
Citations
Complex SNP-related sequence variation in segmental genome duplications.

David Fredman;Stefan J White;Susanna Potter;Evan E Eichler

277
Citations
Point Mutations (Thr240Arg and Ala311Stop) in theParkinGene

Nobutaka Hattori;Hiroto Matsumine;Shuichi Asakawa;Tohru Kitada;Tohru Kitada

258
Citations
Robust and Accurate Single Nucleotide Polymorphism Genotyping by Dynamic Allele-Specific Hybridization (DASH): Design Criteria and Assay Validation

Jonathan A. Prince;Lars Feuk;W. Mathias Howell;Magnus Jobs

245
Citations
The Human Phenotype Ontology: Semantic Unification of Common and Rare Disease

Tudor Groza;Sebastian Köhler;Dawid Moldenhauer;Nicole Vasilevsky

241
Citations
Prepublication data sharing.

E Birney;T J Hudson;Green

240
Citations
SNP association studies in Alzheimer's disease highlight problems for complex disease analysis

Tesfai Emahazion;Lars Feuk;Magnus Jobs;Sarah L. Sawyer

239
Citations
Single nucleotide polymorphisms in the proximal promoter region of the adiponectin (APM1) gene are associated with type 2 diabetes in Swedish Caucasians

Harvest F. Gu;Adili Abulaiti;Claes Göran Östenson;Keith Humphreys

226
Citations
GWAS Central: a comprehensive resource for the comparison and interrogation of genome-wide association studies

Tim Beck;Robert K Hastings;Sirisha Gollapudi;Robert C Free

201
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Kaj Blennow University of Gothenburg

David J. Porteous University of Edinburgh

Pui-Yan Kwok University of California, San Francisco

Niels Andreasen Karolinska University Hospital

Barend Mons Leiden University Medical Center

Stephen J. Chanock National Institutes of Health

Bartha Maria Knoppers McGill University Health Centre

Paul Flicek The Jackson Laboratory

Pieter Jelle Visser Amsterdam University Medical Centers

Lars Feuk Uppsala University

External Links

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