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D-Index
60
Citations
33346
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3098
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1353

Itsik Pe'er publication distribution in Genetics in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Genetics in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Itsik Pe'er sits on this spectrum.

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45 publications 703+

This scientist: 156 publications — 33rd percentile

33% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 703 publications or more.

Itsik Pe'er D-index placement in Genetics in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Genetics scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Itsik Pe'er sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 160+

This scientist: 60 D-Index — 29th percentile

29% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 160 D-Index or more.

Overview

Itsik Pe'er is affiliated with Columbia University in the United States and has contributed extensively to research in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology as well as Medicine. Their work spans multiple subfields, notably Molecular Biology, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Genetics, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, and Artificial Intelligence.

Their main research topics include:

  • Gut microbiota and health
  • Pregnancy and preeclampsia studies
  • Genomics and phylogenetic studies
  • Genetic associations and epidemiology
  • Gestational diabetes research and management
  • Birth, development, and health
  • Metabolomics and mass spectrometry studies

Itsik Pe'er has published several recent papers, including:

  • SEACells infers transcriptional and epigenomic cellular states from single-cell genomics data, 2023, Nature Biotechnology
  • Polygenic prediction of preeclampsia and gestational hypertension, 2023, Nature Medicine
  • Predicting Phenotypic Polymyxin Resistance in Klebsiella pneumoniae through Machine Learning Analysis of Genomic Data, 2020, mSystems
  • Compositional Lotka-Volterra describes microbial dynamics in the simplex, 2020, PLoS Computational Biology
  • Contamination source modeling with SCRuB improves cancer phenotype prediction from microbiome data, 2023, Nature Biotechnology

The researcher frequently publishes in the following venues:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Biological Psychiatry
  • Nature Biotechnology
  • PLoS Genetics

Itsik Pe'er has collaborated frequently with the following researchers:

  • Raiyan R. Khan
  • Philippe Chlenski
  • Ronald J. Wapner
  • Anita Raja
  • Ansaf Salleb-Aouissi

This profile highlights a multidisciplinary research career with a substantial focus on genomics, molecular biology, and applications of artificial intelligence in medical and biological contexts.

Best Publications

  • 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

  • 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

  • Efficiency and power in genetic association studies

    Paul I W de Bakker;Roman Yelensky;Roman Yelensky;Itsik Pe'er;Itsik Pe'er;Stacey B Gabriel

  • Common variants on chromosome 6p22.1 are associated with schizophrenia

    Jianxin Shi;Douglas F. Levinson;Jubao Duan;Alan R. Sanders

  • HLA-B*5701 genotype is a major determinant of drug-induced liver injury due to flucloxacillin.

    Ann K Daly;Peter T Donaldson;Pallav Bhatnagar;Yufeng Shen

  • De novo mutations in histone-modifying genes in congenital heart disease

    Samir Zaidi;Murim Choi;Hiroko Wakimoto;Lijiang Ma

  • Estimation of the multiple testing burden for genomewide association studies of nearly all common variants.

    Itsik Pe'er;Roman Yelensky;Roman Yelensky;David Altshuler;Mark J. Daly

  • Two independent alleles at 6q23 associated with risk of rheumatoid arthritis

    Robert M Plenge;Robert M Plenge;Robert M Plenge;Chris Cotsapas;Chris Cotsapas;Leela Davies;Alkes L Price;Alkes L Price

  • Whole-genome sequence variation, population structure and demographic history of the Dutch population

    Laurent C. Francioli;Androniki Menelaou;Sara L. Pulit;Freerk van Dijk

  • The Human Tumor Atlas Network: Charting Tumor Transitions Across Space and Time at Single-Cell Resolution

    Orit Rozenblatt-Rosen;Aviv Regev;Aviv Regev;Aviv Regev;Philipp Oberdoerffer;Tal Nawy

  • Web-Based, Participant-Driven Studies Yield Novel Genetic Associations for Common Traits

    Nicholas Eriksson;J. Michael Macpherson;Joyce Y. Tung;Lawrence S. Hon

  • Whole population, genome-wide mapping of hidden relatedness

    Alexander Gusev;Jennifer K. Lowe;Markus Stoffel;Mark J. Daly

  • Susceptibility to Amoxicillin-Clavulanate-Induced Liver Injury is Influenced by Multiple HLA Class I and II Alleles

    M. Isabel Lucena;Mariam Molokhia;Yufeng Shen;Thomas J. Urban

  • Copy number variants in schizophrenia: confirmation of five previous findings and new evidence for 3q29 microdeletions and VIPR2 duplications.

    Douglas F. Levinson;Jubao Duan;Sang Oh;Kai Wang

  • FEAST: fast expectation-maximization for microbial source tracking.

    Liat Shenhav;Mike Thompson;Tyler A Joseph;Leah Briscoe

  • Integrative eQTL-Based Analyses Reveal the Biology of Breast Cancer Risk Loci

    Qiyuan Li;Ji Heui Seo;Barbara Elaine Stranger;Aaron McKenna;Aaron McKenna

  • Evaluating and improving power in whole-genome association studies using fixed marker sets.

    Itsik Pe'er;Itsik Pe'er;Paul I W de Bakker;Julian Maller;Roman Yelensky;Roman Yelensky

  • Functional variants in the LRRK2 gene confer shared effects on risk for Crohn's disease and Parkinson's disease.

    Ken Y. Hui;Heriberto Fernandez-Hernandez;Jianzhong Hu;Adam Schaffner

  • Identity inference of genomic data using long-range familial searches.

    Yaniv Erlich;Tal Shor;Itsik Pe’er;Shai Carmi

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark J. Daly
Mark J. Daly Massachusetts General Hospital
David Altshuler
David Altshuler Harvard University
Gil Atzmon
Gil Atzmon Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Ariel Darvasi
Ariel Darvasi Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Todd Lencz
Todd Lencz Feinstein Institute for Medical Research
Alexander Gusev
Alexander Gusev Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Jeffrey M. Friedman
Jeffrey M. Friedman Rockefeller University
Judy H. Cho
Judy H. Cho Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Harry Ostrer
Harry Ostrer Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Paul I. W. de Bakker
Paul I. W. de Bakker Vertex Pharmaceuticals (United Kingdom)

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