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Emmanouil T. Dermitzakis

Emmanouil T. Dermitzakis

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Genetics
Switzerland
2026
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Genetics and Molecular Biology
Switzerland
2024

D-Index & Metrics

Genetics

D-Index
126
Citations
151352
World Ranking
296
National Ranking
5

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Genetics in Switzerland Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Genetics in Switzerland Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Genetics in Switzerland Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Genetics and Molecular Biology in Switzerland Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Genetics in Switzerland Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Genetics and Molecular Biology in Switzerland Leader Award
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)

Overview

Emmanouil T. Dermitzakis is affiliated with the University of Geneva in Switzerland. Their research spans across the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, as well as Medicine, with a focus on various subfields including Molecular Biology, Genetics, Physiology, Epidemiology, and Immunology.

Their main topics of work cover a range of areas, including:

  • Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
  • Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
  • RNA modifications and cancer
  • Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment
  • RNA Research and Splicing
  • Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks
  • Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals

Among their recent scientific papers are:

  • The GTEx Consortium atlas of genetic regulatory effects across human tissues, 2020, Science
  • Large-scale cis- and trans-eQTL analyses identify thousands of genetic loci and polygenic scores that regulate blood gene expression, 2021, Nature Genetics
  • A brief history of human disease genetics, 2020, Nature
  • The impact of sex on gene expression across human tissues, 2020, Science
  • Cell type-specific genetic regulation of gene expression across human tissues, 2020, Science

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Emmanouil T. Dermitzakis include:

  • Ana Viñuela
  • Andrew Brown
  • Mark I. McCarthy
  • François Aguet
  • Jerzy Adamski

Their work has been published in various scientific venues, with the most frequent publication platforms being:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Science
  • Nature Communications
  • Nutrients
  • Research Square (Research Square)

Emmanouil T. Dermitzakis has been recognized as a member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO).

Best Publications

  • A global reference for human genetic variation.

    Adam Auton;Gonçalo R. Abecasis;David M. Altshuler;Richard M. Durbin

  • Table S2: Trans-factors and trinucleotide repeat instability Trans-factor

    Arturo López Castel;John D Cleary;Christopher E Pearson

  • The Genotype-Tissue Expression (GTEx) project

    John Lonsdale;Jeffrey Thomas;Mike Salvatore;Rebecca Phillips

  • Initial sequencing and comparative analysis of the mouse genome.

    Robert H. Waterston;Kerstin Lindblad-Toh;Ewan Birney;Jane Rogers

  • Identification and analysis of functional elements in 1% of the human genome by the ENCODE pilot project

    Ewan Birney;John A. Stamatoyannopoulos;Anindya Dutta;Roderic Guigó

  • The Genotype-Tissue Expression (GTEx) pilot analysis: Multitissue gene regulation in humans

    Kristin G. Ardlie;David S. Deluca;Ayellet V. Segrè

  • The GTEx Consortium atlas of genetic regulatory effects across human tissues

    F Aguet;AN Barbeira;R Bonazzola;A Brown

  • A haplotype map of the human genome

    John W. Belmont;Andrew Boudreau;Suzanne M. Leal;Paul Hardenbol

  • A second generation human haplotype map of over 3.1 million SNPs

    Kelly A. Frazer;Dennis G. Ballinger;David R. Cox;David A. Hinds

  • Integrating common and rare genetic variation in diverse human populations

    D M Altshuler;R A Gibbs;L Peltonen

  • Genetic effects on gene expression across human tissues.

    Enhancing GTEx (eGTEx) groups

  • The ENCODE (ENCyclopedia of DNA elements) Project

    E. A. Feingold;P. J. Good;M. S. Guyer;S. Kamholz

  • Genome-wide detection and characterization of positive selection in human populations

    Pardis C. Sabeti;Pardis C. Sabeti;Patrick Varilly;Patrick Varilly;Ben Fry;Jason Lohmueller

  • Transcriptome and genome sequencing uncovers functional variation in humans

    Tuuli Lappalainen;Michael Sammeth;Marc R. Friedländer;Peter A. C. ‘t Hoen

  • Relative Impact of Nucleotide and Copy Number Variation on Gene Expression Phenotypes

    Barbara E. Stranger;Matthew S. Forrest;Mark Dunning;Catherine E. Ingle

  • A Systematic Survey of Loss-of-Function Variants in Human Protein-Coding Genes

    Daniel G. MacArthur;Daniel G. MacArthur;Suganthi Balasubramanian;Adam Frankish;Ni Huang

  • Population genomics of human gene expression

    Barbara E. Stranger;Alexandra C. Nica;Matthew S. Forrest;Antigone Dimas

  • Mapping copy number variation by population-scale genome sequencing

    Ryan E. Mills;Klaudia Walter;Chip Stewart;Robert E. Handsaker

  • The human transcriptome across tissues and individuals

    Marta Melé;Pedro G. Ferreira;Ferran Reverter;Ferran Reverter;David S. DeLuca

  • The GTEx Consortium atlas of genetic regulatory effects across human tissues

    François Aguet;Alvaro N Barbeira;Rodrigo Bonazzola;Andrew Brown

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephen B. Montgomery
Stephen B. Montgomery Stanford University
Tuuli Lappalainen
Tuuli Lappalainen Royal Institute of Technology
Stylianos E. Antonarakis
Stylianos E. Antonarakis University of Geneva
Andrew A. Brown
Andrew A. Brown University of Geneva
Tim D. Spector
Tim D. Spector King's College London
Olivier Delaneau
Olivier Delaneau University of Lausanne
Panos Deloukas
Panos Deloukas Queen Mary University of London
Barbara Elaine Stranger
Barbara Elaine Stranger Northwestern University
Kerrin S. Small
Kerrin S. Small King's College London

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