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Guillaume Bourque

Guillaume Bourque

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Genetics

D-Index
78
Citations
46913
World Ranking
1658
National Ranking
59

Overview

Guillaume Bourque is affiliated with McGill University in Canada and has a robust publication record in the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with a total of 211 publications. Their work extends significantly into the field of Medicine, accounting for 67 publications.

Their research covers several subfields of study, including Molecular Biology, Genetics, Cancer Research, Infectious Diseases, and Plant Science. This highlights a broad engagement with multiple areas of biological and medical sciences.

Key topics in Bourque's research portfolio include:

  • Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
  • RNA modifications and cancer
  • Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics
  • Chromosomal and Genetic Variations
  • Genomics and Rare Diseases

They have frequent co-authorship with several researchers, notably Jiannis Ragoussis, Mathieu Bourgey, Cristian Groza, Tomi Pastinen, and Alain Pacis, indicating active collaboration in the scientific community.

Bourque's frequent publication venues include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) with 33 publications, Cancer Research and Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) with 7 publications each, followed by Nature Communications with 6, and Cell Genomics with 5 publications.

Recent notable papers by Guillaume Bourque are:

  • Single-cell RNA-seq reveals that glioblastoma recapitulates a normal neurodevelopmental hierarchy, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Pan-cancer analysis of whole genomes identifies driver rearrangements promoted by LINE-1 retrotransposition, 2020, Nature Genetics
  • GA4GH: International policies and standards for data sharing across genomic research and healthcare, 2021, Cell Genomics
  • Pangenome graph construction from genome alignments with Minigraph-Cactus, 2023, Nature Biotechnology
  • PrecisionFDA Truth Challenge V2: Calling variants from short and long reads in difficult-to-map regions, 2022, Cell Genomics

Best Publications

  • MetaboAnalyst 4.0: towards more transparent and integrative metabolomics analysis.

    Jasmine Chong;Othman Soufan;Carin Li;Iurie Caraus

  • Pan-cancer analysis of whole genomes

    Peter J. Campbell;Gad Getz;Jan O. Korbel;Joshua M. Stuart

  • Integration of External Signaling Pathways with the Core Transcriptional Network in Embryonic Stem Cells

    Xi Chen;Han Xu;Ping Yuan;Fang Fang;Fang Fang

  • The Oct4 and Nanog transcription network regulates pluripotency in mouse embryonic stem cells.

    Yuin Han Loh;Qiang Wu;Joon Lin Chew;Joon Lin Chew;Vinsensius B. Vega

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

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

  • Genome sequence of the Brown Norway rat yields insights into mammalian evolution

    Richard A. Gibbs;George M. Weinstock;Michael L. Metzker;Donna M. Muzny

  • An oestrogen-receptor-α-bound human chromatin interactome

    Melissa J. Fullwood;Mei Hui Liu;You Fu Pan;Jun Liu

  • The Allelic Landscape of Human Blood Cell Trait Variation and Links to Common Complex Disease

    William J. Astle;Heather Elding;Heather Elding;Tao Jiang;Dave Allen

  • Ten things you should know about transposable elements

    Guillaume Bourque;Kathleen H. Burns;Mary Gehring;Vera Gorbunova

  • K27M mutation in histone H3.3 defines clinically and biologically distinct subgroups of pediatric diffuse intrinsic pontine gliomas.

    Dong Anh Khuong-Quang;Pawel Buczkowicz;Patricia Rakopoulos;Xiao Yang Liu

  • Patterns of somatic structural variation in human cancer genomes

    Yilong Li;Nicola D Roberts;Jeremiah A Wala;Jeremiah A Wala;Ofer Shapira;Ofer Shapira

  • Transposable elements have rewired the core regulatory network of human embryonic stem cells

    Galih Kunarso;Na-Yu Chia;Na-Yu Chia;Justin Jeyakani;Catalina Hwang;Catalina Hwang

  • CTCF-mediated functional chromatin interactome in pluripotent cells

    Lusy Handoko;Han Xu;Guoliang Li;Chew Yee Ngan

  • Genetic Drivers of Epigenetic and Transcriptional Variation in Human Immune Cells

    Lu Chen;Lu Chen;Bing Ge;Francesco Paolo Casale;Louella Vasquez

  • Transposable Elements Are Major Contributors to the Origin, Diversification, and Regulation of Vertebrate Long Noncoding RNAs

    Aurélie Kapusta;Zev Kronenberg;Vincent J. Lynch;Xiaoyu Zhuo

  • Whole-genome mapping of histone H3 Lys4 and 27 trimethylations reveals distinct genomic compartments in human embryonic stem cells.

    Xiao Dong Zhao;Xu Han;Joon Lin Chew;Joon Lin Chew;Jun Liu

  • Genomic analysis of diffuse intrinsic pontine gliomas identifies three molecular subgroups and recurrent activating ACVR1 mutations

    Pawel Buczkowicz;Christine Hoeman;Patricia Rakopoulos;Sanja Pajovic

  • Dynamics of mammalian chromosome evolution inferred from multispecies comparative maps

    William J. Murphy;Denis M. Larkin;Annelie Everts-Van Der Wind;Guillaume Bourque

  • Evolution of the mammalian transcription factor binding repertoire via transposable elements

    Guillaume Bourque;Bernard Leong;Vinsensius B. Vega;Xi Chen

  • Genome-Scale Evolution: Reconstructing Gene Orders in the Ancestral Species

    Guillaume Bourque;Pavel A. Pevzner

Frequent Co-Authors

Tomi Pastinen
Tomi Pastinen Children's Mercy Hospital
Yijun Ruan
Yijun Ruan University of Connecticut Health Center
Chia-Lin Wei
Chia-Lin Wei Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Mark Lathrop
Mark Lathrop McGill University
Wing-Kin Sung
Wing-Kin Sung Chinese University of Hong Kong
Jiannis Ragoussis
Jiannis Ragoussis McGill University
Pavel A. Pevzner
Pavel A. Pevzner University of California, San Diego
Nicole Soranzo
Nicole Soranzo Wellcome Sanger Institute
Céline Bellenguez
Céline Bellenguez Institut Pasteur
Huck-Hui Ng
Huck-Hui Ng Genome Institute of Singapore

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