2026 Peter Fraser: Genetics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Genetics	81	1495	1419	700	658	184	37439

Research.com Recognitions

2011 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Peter Fraser is affiliated with Florida State University in the United States and specializes in the field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their research primarily focuses on Molecular Biology, with additional work in Immunology, Plant Science, Genetics, and Physiology.

The main topics covered in Peter Fraser's scientific contributions include:

Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics
Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
RNA Research and Splicing
RNA modifications and cancer
RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
Chromosomal and Genetic Variations
Telomeres, Telomerase, and Senescence

Peter Fraser has a notable record of publications in several journals with multiple works appearing in:

Nature Communications (6 publications)
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (6 publications)
Cell Reports (2 publications)
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2 publications)
Nature Genetics (2 publications)

Selected recent papers include:

ESCO1 and CTCF enable formation of long chromatin loops by protecting cohesinSTAG1 from WAPL, 2020, eLife
Cohesin-Dependent and -Independent Mechanisms Mediate Chromosomal Contacts between Promoters and Enhancers, 2020, Cell Reports
Parental-to-embryo switch of chromosome organization in early embryogenesis, 2020, Nature
Active and repressed biosynthetic gene clusters have spatially distinct chromosome states, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Highly interconnected enhancer communities control lineage-determining genes in human mesenchymal stem cells, 2020, Nature Genetics

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Peter Fraser include:

Stefan Schoenfelder
Csilla Várnai
Steven Wingett
Biola M. Javierre
Simon Andrews

In recognition of their contributions to science, Peter Fraser was named a Member of Academia Europaea in 2011.

Best Publications

LMO2-associated clonal T cell proliferation in two patients after gene therapy for SCID-X1.

S. Hacein-Bey-Abina;C. Von Kalle;C. Von Kalle;M. Schmidt;M. P. McCormack

4518
Citations
Single-cell Hi-C reveals cell-to-cell variability in chromosome structure

Takashi Nagano;Yaniv Lubling;Tim J. Stevens;Stefan Schoenfelder

1746
Citations
Active genes dynamically colocalize to shared sites of ongoing transcription.

Cameron S Osborne;Lyubomira Chakalova;Karen E Brown;David Carter;David Carter

1259
Citations
Lineage-Specific Genome Architecture Links Enhancers and Non-coding Disease Variants to Target Gene Promoters

Biola M Javierre;Oliver S Burren;Steven P Wilder;Roman Kreuzhuber

1146
Citations
The Air Noncoding RNA Epigenetically Silences Transcription by Targeting G9a to Chromatin

Takashi Nagano;Jennifer A. Mitchell;Lionel A. Sanz;Florian M. Pauler

1116
Citations
Mapping long-range promoter contacts in human cells with high-resolution capture Hi-C

Borbala Mifsud;Filipe Tavares-Cadete;Alice N Young;Robert Sugar

1025
Citations
No-nonsense functions for long noncoding RNAs.

Takashi Nagano;Peter Fraser

995
Citations
Nuclear organization of the genome and the potential for gene regulation

Peter Fraser;Wendy Bickmore

919
Citations
Long-range enhancer-promoter contacts in gene expression control.

Stefan Schoenfelder;Peter Fraser;Peter Fraser

904
Citations
Preferential associations between co-regulated genes reveal a transcriptional interactome in erythroid cells

Stefan Schoenfelder;Tom Sexton;Lyubomira Chakalova;Nathan F Cope

825
Citations
Long-range chromatin regulatory interactions in vivo

David Carter;Lyubomira Chakalova;Cameron S. Osborne;Yan-feng Dai

805
Citations
Cell-cycle dynamics of chromosomal organization at single-cell resolution

Takashi Nagano;Yaniv Lubling;Csilla Várnai;Carmel Dudley

756
Citations
Topologically associating domains and chromatin loops depend on cohesin and are regulated by CTCF, WAPL, and PDS5 proteins

Gordana Wutz;Csilla Várnai;Kota Nagasaka;David A Cisneros

735
Citations
Cohesins form chromosomal cis-interactions at the developmentally regulated IFNG locus

Suzana Hadjur;Luke M. Williams;Natalie K. Ryan;Bradley S. Cobb

642
Citations
HiCUP: pipeline for mapping and processing Hi-C data

Steven Wingett;Philip Ewels;Mayra Furlan-Magaril;Takashi Nagano

633
Citations
Transcription complex stability and chromatin dynamics in vivo

Mark Wijgerde;Frank Grosveld;Frank Grosveld;Peter Fraser

598
Citations
The International Human Epigenome Consortium: A Blueprint for Scientific Collaboration and Discovery

Hendrik G. Stunnenberg;Martin Hirst

550
Citations
The pluripotent regulatory circuitry connecting promoters to their long-range interacting elements

Stefan Schoenfelder;Mayra Furlan-Magaril;Borbala Mifsud;Filipe Tavares-Cadete;Filipe Tavares-Cadete

488
Citations
Myc dynamically and preferentially relocates to a transcription factory occupied by Igh.

Cameron S Osborne;Lyubomira Chakalova;Jennifer A Mitchell;Alice Horton

487
Citations
Intergenic Transcription and Developmental Remodeling of Chromatin Subdomains in the Human β-globin Locus

Joost Gribnau;Karin Diderich;Sara Pruzina;Roberta Calzolari

435
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Frank Grosveld Erasmus University Rotterdam

Simon Andrews Babraham Institute

Joost Gribnau Erasmus University Rotterdam

David M. Gilbert Florida State University

Nicholas M. Luscombe The Francis Crick Institute

Jan-Michael Peters Research Institute of Molecular Pathology

Stefan Mundlos Max Planck Society

Chris Wallace University of Cambridge

Wolf Reik Babraham Institute

Ferhat Ay La Jolla Institute For Allergy & Immunology

External Links

Personal website of Peter Fraser

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