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Gerton Lunter is affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Their research spans several domains primarily within Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a strong emphasis on Molecular Biology, Genetics, Epidemiology, Artificial Intelligence, and Plant Science as key subfields of study.

Their work covers multiple topics, including:

  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics
  • Chronic Disease Management Strategies
  • Genomics and Rare Diseases
  • Lung Cancer Treatments and Mutations
  • Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
  • Machine Learning in Healthcare

Lunter has contributed to various frequent publication venues which include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • PLoS ONE
  • Scientific Reports
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • EBioMedicine

Some of their recent papers are:

  • "DeepC: predicting 3D genome folding using megabase-scale transfer learning" (2020), published in Nature Methods
  • "A unified haplotype-based method for accurate and comprehensive variant calling" (2021), published in Nature Biotechnology
  • "Respiratory Syncytial Virus, Human Metapneumovirus, and Parainfluenza Virus Infections in Lung Transplant Recipients: A Systematic Review of Outcomes and Treatment Strategies" (2021), published in Clinical Infectious Diseases
  • "Structural and non-coding variants increase the diagnostic yield of clinical whole genome sequencing for rare diseases" (2023), published in Genome Medicine
  • "Neuropeptide S receptor 1 is a nonhormonal treatment target in endometriosis" (2021), published in Science Translational Medicine

The scientist frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including:

  • Harold Snieder
  • Judith M. Vonk
  • Dorien Neijzen
  • Hylke C. Donker
  • Ed Schuuring

Best Publications

  • A global reference for human genetic variation.

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

  • The variant call format and VCFtools

    Petr Danecek;Adam Auton;Goncalo Abecasis;Cornelis A. Albers

  • 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

  • Mapping copy number variation by population-scale genome sequencing

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

  • Stampy: a statistical algorithm for sensitive and fast mapping of Illumina sequence reads.

    Gerton Lunter;Martin Goodson

  • Integrating mapping-, assembly- and haplotype-based approaches for calling variants in clinical sequencing applications

    A Rimmer;H Phan;I Mathieson;Z Iqbal

  • A global reference for human genetic variation

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

  • Insights into hominid evolution from the gorilla genome sequence

    Aylwyn Scally;Julien Y. Dutheil;LaDeana W. Hillier;Gregory E. Jordan

  • Functionality or transcriptional noise? Evidence for selection within long noncoding RNAs

    Jasmina Ponjavic;Chris P. Ponting;Gerton Lunter

  • Comparative and demographic analysis of orang-utan genomes.

    Devin P. Locke;LaDeana W. Hillier;Wesley C. Warren;Kim C. Worley

  • The bonobo genome compared with the chimpanzee and human genomes

    Kay Prüfer;Kasper Munch;Ines Hellmann;Keiko Akagi

  • A map of human genome variation from population-scale sequencing

    Richard M. Durbin;David L. Altshuler;Gonçalo R. Abecasis;David R. Bentley

  • Dindel: Accurate indel calls from short-read data

    Cornelis A. Albers;Gerton Lunter;Daniel G. MacArthur;Gilean McVean

  • The human pancreatic islet transcriptome: expression of candidate genes for type 1 diabetes and the impact of pro-inflammatory cytokines.

    Décio L. Eizirik;Michael Sammeth;Thomas Bouckenooghe;Guy Bottu

  • Factors influencing success of clinical genome sequencing across a broad spectrum of disorders

    Jenny C. Taylor;Jenny C. Taylor;Hilary C. Martin;Stefano Lise;John Broxholme

  • Genomic and transcriptional co-localization of protein-coding and long non-coding RNA pairs in the developing brain.

    Jasmina Ponjavic;Peter L. Oliver;Gerton Lunter;Chris P. Ponting

  • A Fine-Scale Chimpanzee Genetic Map from Population Sequencing

    Adam Auton;Adam Auton;Adi Fledel-Alon;Susanne Pfeifer;Oliver Venn

  • Accelerated evolution of the Prdm9 speciation gene across diverse metazoan taxa

    Peter L. Oliver;Leo Goodstadt;Joshua J. Bayes;Zoë Birtle

  • The origin, evolution, and functional impact of short insertion–deletion variants identified in 179 human genomes

    Stephen B. Montgomery;Stephen B. Montgomery;David L. Goode;Erika Kvikstad;Erika Kvikstad;Cornelis A. Albers;Cornelis A. Albers

  • 8.2% of the Human genome is constrained: variation in rates of turnover across functional element classes in the human lineage.

    Chris M. Rands;Stephen Meader;Chris P. Ponting;Gerton Lunter

Frequent Co-Authors

Chris P. Ponting
Chris P. Ponting University of Edinburgh
Gert Vegter
Gert Vegter University of Groningen
Peter Donnelly
Peter Donnelly University of Oxford
Jenny C. Taylor
Jenny C. Taylor University of Oxford
Daniel G. MacArthur
Daniel G. MacArthur Garvan Institute of Medical Research
Gil McVean
Gil McVean University of Oxford
Can Alkan
Can Alkan Bilkent University
Stephen B. Montgomery
Stephen B. Montgomery Stanford University
Steven A. McCarroll
Steven A. McCarroll Harvard University
Evan E. Eichler
Evan E. Eichler University of Washington

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