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77
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41189
World Ranking
1735
National Ranking
796

Overview

Gary P. Schroth is affiliated with Illumina in the United States and has contributed extensively to research in biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine. Their work spans several subfields including molecular biology, cancer research, infectious diseases, epidemiology, and genetics. The scientist's main research topics focus on cancer-related molecular mechanisms, RNA modifications and cancer, genomics and phylogenetic studies, SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 research, molecular biology techniques and applications, cancer genomics and diagnostics, and respiratory viral infections research.

The scientist has published in various venues, with the most frequent being:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Biotechnology
  • Scientific Reports
  • Nature Communications
  • UNC Libraries

Notable recent papers include:

  • Genome Sequencing of Sewage Detects Regionally Prevalent SARS-CoV-2 Variants, 2021, mBio
  • Toward best practice in cancer mutation detection with whole-genome and whole-exome sequencing, 2021, Nature Biotechnology
  • The RNA Atlas expands the catalog of human non-coding RNAs, 2021, Nature Biotechnology
  • Performance assessment of DNA sequencing platforms in the ABRF Next-Generation Sequencing Study, 2021, Nature Biotechnology
  • Establishing community reference samples, data and call sets for benchmarking cancer mutation detection using whole-genome sequencing, 2021, Nature Biotechnology

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Gary P. Schroth include:

  • Scott Kuersten
  • Jo Vandesompele
  • Pieter Mestdagh
  • Justine Nuytens
  • Jasper Anckaert

Best Publications

  • Alternative Isoform Regulation in Human Tissue Transcriptomes

    Eric T. Wang;Rickard Sandberg;Rickard Sandberg;Shujun Luo;Irina Khrebtukova

  • Accurate whole human genome sequencing using reversible terminator chemistry

    David R. Bentley;Shankar Balasubramanian;Harold P. Swerdlow;Harold P. Swerdlow;Geoffrey P. Smith

  • The MicroArray Quality Control (MAQC) project shows inter- and intraplatform reproducibility of gene expression measurements

    Leming Shi;Laura H. Reid;Wendell D. Jones;Richard Shippy

  • High density DNA methylation array with single CpG site resolution

    Marina Bibikova;Bret Barnes;Chan Tsan;Vincent Ho

  • Full-length mRNA-Seq from single-cell levels of RNA and individual circulating tumor cells

    Daniel Ramsköld;Shujun Luo;Yu Chieh Wang;Robin Li

  • Metagenomic discovery of biomass-degrading genes and genomes from cow rumen.

    Matthias Hess;Matthias Hess;Alexander Sczyrba;Alexander Sczyrba;Rob Egan;Rob Egan;Tae Wan Kim

  • A comprehensive assessment of RNA-seq accuracy, reproducibility and information content by the Sequencing Quality Control Consortium

    Zhenqiang Su;Paweł P. Łabaj;Sheng Li;Jean Thierry-Mieg

  • Global identification of microRNA-target RNA pairs by parallel analysis of RNA ends.

    Marcelo A German;Manoj Pillay;Dong-Hoon Jeong;Amit Hetawal

  • Mammalian microRNAs: experimental evaluation of novel and previously annotated genes

    H. Rosaria Chiang;Lori W. Schoenfeld;J. Graham Ruby;Vincent C. Auyeung

  • Carrier Testing for Severe Childhood Recessive Diseases by Next-Generation Sequencing

    Callum J. Bell;Darrell L. Dinwiddie;Darrell L. Dinwiddie;Neil A. Miller;Neil A. Miller;Shannon L. Hateley

  • Evaluation of quantitative miRNA expression platforms in the microRNA quality control (miRQC) study

    Pieter Mestdagh;Nicole Hartmann;Lukas Baeriswyl;Ditte Andreasen

  • PRG-1 and 21U-RNAs interact to form the piRNA complex required for fertility in C. elegans.

    Pedro J. Batista;J. Graham Ruby;Julie M. Claycomb;H. Rosaria Chiang

  • High-Resolution Analysis of Parent-of-Origin Allelic Expression in the Mouse Brain

    Christopher Gregg;Jiangwen Zhang;Brandon Weissbourd;Brandon Weissbourd;Shujun Luo

  • Genome, epigenome and RNA sequences of monozygotic twins discordant for multiple sclerosis.

    Sergio E. Baranzini;Joann Mudge;Jennifer C. Van Velkinburgh;Pouya Khankhanian

  • From single-cell to cell-pool transcriptomes: Stochasticity in gene expression and RNA splicing

    Georgi K Marinov;Brian A Williams;Kenneth McCue;Gary P Schroth

  • Molecular Evidence of Sexual Transmission of Ebola Virus

    Suzanne E Mate;Jeffrey R Kugelman;Tolbert G Nyenswah;Jason T Ladner

  • Transcriptome-wide Regulation of Pre-mRNA Splicing and mRNA Localization by Muscleblind Proteins

    Eric T. Wang;Neal A.L. Cody;Sonali Jog;Michela Biancolella

  • Multiplexed RNA structure characterization with selective 2′-hydroxyl acylation analyzed by primer extension sequencing (SHAPE-Seq)

    Julius B. Lucks;Stefanie A. Mortimer;Cole Trapnell;Cole Trapnell;Shujun Luo

  • Cohesin‐mediated interactions organize chromosomal domain architecture

    Sevil Sofueva;Eitan Yaffe;Wen-Ching Chan;Dimitra Georgopoulou

  • Chimeric transcript discovery by paired-end transcriptome sequencing

    Christopher A. Maher;Nallasivam Palanisamy;John C. Brenner;Xuhong Cao

Frequent Co-Authors

Shujun Luo
Shujun Luo Predicine
Jo Vandesompele
Jo Vandesompele Ghent University
Pieter Mestdagh
Pieter Mestdagh Ghent University
Stephen F. Kingsmore
Stephen F. Kingsmore Rady Children's Hospital-San Diego
Rickard Sandberg
Rickard Sandberg Karolinska Institute
Christopher E. Mason
Christopher E. Mason Cornell University
Jennifer A. Doudna
Jennifer A. Doudna University of California, Berkeley
Joann Mudge
Joann Mudge National Center for Genome Resources
Yan W. Asmann
Yan W. Asmann Mayo Clinic
Adam P. Arkin
Adam P. Arkin Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

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