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2024

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D-Index
115
Citations
157917
World Ranking
446
National Ranking
74

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2024 - Research.com Genetics in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Genetics in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2016 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom

Overview

Gil McVean is affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Their research spans several key areas within the broad fields of biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a notable focus on genetics, molecular biology, immunology, epidemiology, and oncology.

The scientist's work is concentrated on topics related to genetic associations and epidemiology, genomics and phylogenetic studies, genetic mapping and diversity in plants and animals, IL-33, ST2, and ILC pathways, genetic diversity and population structure, genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock, as well as epigenetics and DNA methylation.

Gil McVean's publication record includes notable recent papers such as:

  • UK Biobank release and systematic evaluation of optimised polygenic risk scores for 53 diseases and quantitative traits, 2022, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Dating genomic variants and shared ancestry in population-scale sequencing data, 2020, PLoS Biology
  • A unified genealogy of modern and ancient genomes, 2022, Science
  • Recommendations for improving statistical inference in population genomics, 2022, PLoS Biology
  • The impact of age on genetic risk for common diseases, 2021, PLoS Genetics

Collaborations have been frequent with peers including Alexander J. Mentzer, Vincent Plagnol, Michael E. Weale, Fernando Riveros-Mckay, and Priyanka Seth, reflecting interdisciplinary and cooperative scientific efforts.

Their research has been published predominantly in venues such as:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Communications
  • PLoS Biology
  • PLoS Genetics

Gil McVean's work encompasses 63 publications in biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with 34 publications relating to medicine.

In recognition of their contributions, Gil McVean was awarded the title of Fellow of the Royal Society in the United Kingdom in 2016.

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

  • An integrated map of genetic variation from 1,092 human genomes

    Goncalo R Abecasis;Adam Auton;Lisa D Brooks

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

    Arturo López Castel;John D Cleary;Christopher E Pearson

  • A Map of Human Genome Variation From Population-Scale Sequencing

    Gonçalo R Abecasis;David Altshuler;David Altshuler;Adam Auton

  • The UK Biobank resource with deep phenotyping and genomic data

    Clare Bycroft;Colin Freeman;Desislava Petkova;Desislava Petkova;Gavin Band

  • The International HapMap Project

    John W. Belmont;Paul Hardenbol;Thomas D. Willis;Fuli Yu

  • 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

  • Detecting Novel Associations in Large Data Sets

    David N. Reshef;David N. Reshef;David N. Reshef;Yakir A. Reshef;Yakir A. Reshef;Hilary K. Finucane;Sharon R. Grossman;Sharon R. Grossman

  • A new multipoint method for genome-wide association studies by imputation of genotypes

    Jonathan Marchini;Bryan Howie;Simon Myers;Gil McVean

  • Genetic risk and a primary role for cell-mediated immune mechanisms in multiple sclerosis

    Stephen Sawcer;Garrett Hellenthal;Matti Pirinen;Chris C. A. Spencer

  • 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

  • Analysis of immune-related loci identifies 48 new susceptibility variants for multiple sclerosis

    Ashley H. Beecham;Nikolaos A. Patsopoulos;Nikolaos A. Patsopoulos;Dionysia K. Xifara;Mary F. Davis

  • Mapping copy number variation by population-scale genome sequencing

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

  • A Fine-Scale Map of Recombination Rates and Hotspots Across the Human Genome

    Simon Myers;Leonardo Bottolo;Colin Freeman;Gil McVean

  • The genetic architecture of type 2 diabetes

    Christian Fuchsberger;Christian Fuchsberger;Jason A. Flannick;Jason A. Flannick;Tanya M. Teslovich;Anubha Mahajan

  • The fine-scale structure of recombination rate variation in the human genome.

    Gilean A. T. McVean;Simon R. Myers;Sarah Hunt;Panos Deloukas

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

    A Rimmer;H Phan;I Mathieson;Z Iqbal

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter Donnelly
Peter Donnelly University of Oxford
Dominic P. Kwiatkowski
Dominic P. Kwiatkowski University of Oxford
Lars Fugger
Lars Fugger University of Oxford
David A. Hafler
David A. Hafler Yale University
Adam Auton
Adam Auton 23andMe (United States)
Sarah Hunt
Sarah Hunt European Bioinformatics Institute
Stephen Sawcer
Stephen Sawcer University of Cambridge
Mark J. Daly
Mark J. Daly Massachusetts General Hospital
David Altshuler
David Altshuler Harvard University

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