2026 Gill Bejerano: Genetics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Genetics	56	3450	3258	1493	1399	153	30207

Research.com Recognitions

2008 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Gill Bejerano is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with a total of 104 publications in these fields. The main subfields of their work include Genetics, Molecular Biology, Cancer Research, Immunology, and Artificial Intelligence.

The scientist's research topics cover a range of areas related to genomics and disease, including:

Genomics and Rare Diseases
Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders
Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics
Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies
Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics
Genomic variations and chromosomal abnormalities

Gill Bejerano has contributed to multiple peer-reviewed papers, some of which have received significant citations. Selected recent publications include:

"WhichTF is functionally important in your open chromatin data?" (2022), published in PLoS Computational Biology
"AMELIE speeds Mendelian diagnosis by matching patient phenotype and genotype to primary literature" (2020), published in Science Translational Medicine
"Beyond the exome: What's next in diagnostic testing for Mendelian conditions" (2023), published in The American Journal of Human Genetics
"De novo EIF2AK1 and EIF2AK2 Variants Are Associated with Developmental Delay, Leukoencephalopathy, and Neurologic Decompensation" (2020), published in The American Journal of Human Genetics
"Biallelic MADD variants cause a phenotypic spectrum ranging from developmental delay to a multisystem disorder" (2020), published in Brain

Their frequent coauthors include:

Jonathan A. Bernstein
Devon Bonner
Elizabeth Blue
Dustin Baldridge
Anna Bican

Gill Bejerano's work has been published predominantly in the following scientific venues:

Genetics in Medicine
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
The American Journal of Human Genetics
Brain
BMC Genomics

Among their recognitions, Gill Bejerano was named a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 2008.

Best Publications

Evolutionarily conserved elements in vertebrate, insect, worm, and yeast genomes

Adam Siepel;Gill Bejerano;Jakob Skou Pedersen;Angie S Hinrichs

5320
Citations
GREAT improves functional interpretation of cis-regulatory regions

Cory Y McLean;Dave Bristor;Michael Hiller;Shoa L Clarke

4466
Citations
Sequence and comparative analysis of the chicken genome provide unique perspectives on vertebrate evolution

Ladeana W. Hillier;Webb Miller;Ewan Birney;Wesley Warren

2598
Citations
Ultraconserved Elements in the Human Genome

Gill Bejerano;Michael Pheasant;Igor Makunin;Stuart Stephen

2094
Citations
The UCSC Genome Browser Database: update 2006

A. S. Hinrichs;D. Karolchik;R. Baertsch;G. P. Barber

1821
Citations
Novel small RNA-encoding genes in the intergenic regions of Escherichia coli

Liron Argaman;Ruth Hershberg;Jörg Vogel;Gill Bejerano

980
Citations
M-CAP eliminates a majority of variants of uncertain significance in clinical exomes at high sensitivity

Karthik A. Jagadeesh;Aaron M. Wenger;Mark J. Berger;Harendra Guturu

787
Citations
Identification and classification of conserved RNA secondary structures in the human genome

Jakob Skou Pedersen;Gill Bejerano;Adam C. Siepel;Kate R. Rosenbloom

660
Citations
Enhancers: five essential questions

Len A. Pennacchio;Wendy Bickmore;Ann Dean;Marcelo A. Nobrega

640
Citations
Forces Shaping the Fastest Evolving Regions in the Human Genome

Katherine S Pollard;Sofie R Salama;Bryan King;Andrew D Kern

592
Citations
A distal enhancer and an ultraconserved exon are derived from a novel retroposon

Gill Bejerano;Craig B. Lowe;Nadav Ahituv;Nadav Ahituv;Bryan King

586
Citations
Human-specific loss of regulatory DNA and the evolution of human-specific traits.

Cory Y. McLean;Philip L. Reno;Philip L. Reno;Alex A. Pollen;Abraham I. Bassan

578
Citations
A comparative genomics multitool for scientific discovery and conservation

Diane P. Genereux;Aitor Serres;Joel Armstrong;Jeremy Johnson

416
Citations
The UCSC genome browser database: update 2007

R. M. Kuhn;D. Karolchik;A. S. Zweig;H. Trumbower

360
Citations
Systematic reanalysis of clinical exome data yields additional diagnoses: implications for providers.

Aaron M. Wenger;Harendra Guturu;Jonathan A. Bernstein;Gill Bejerano

302
Citations
Human genome ultraconserved elements are ultraselected.

Sol Katzman;Andrew D. Kern;Gill Bejerano;Ginger Fewell

300
Citations
Thousands of human mobile element fragments undergo strong purifying selection near developmental genes

Craig B. Lowe;Gill Bejerano;David Haussler

290
Citations
Identification of rare-disease genes using blood transcriptome sequencing and large control cohorts

Laure Frésard;Craig Smail;Nicole M. Ferraro;Nicole A. Teran

268
Citations
Coding exons function as tissue-specific enhancers of nearby genes

Ramon Y. Birnbaum;E. Josephine Clowney;Orly Agamy;Mee J. Kim

256
Citations
Variations on probabilistic suffix trees: statistical modeling and prediction of protein families.

Gill Bejerano;Golan Yona

246
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Jonathan A. Bernstein University of Cincinnati Medical Center

David Haussler University of California, Santa Cruz

Adam Siepel Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Peter D. Stenson Cardiff University

Alan H. Beggs Harvard Medical School

Jill A. Rosenfeld Baylor College of Medicine

Vandana Shashi Duke University

Euan A. Ashley Stanford University

W. James Kent University of California, Santa Cruz

Jakob Skou Pedersen Aarhus University

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