Standout Papers

PLINK: A Tool Set for Whole-Genome Association and Population-Based Linkage Analyses 2007 2026 2013 2019 21.3k
  1. PLINK: A Tool Set for Whole-Genome Association and Population-Based Linkage Analyses (2007)
    Shaun Purcell, Benjamin M. Neale et al. The American Journal of Human Genetics
  2. Detection of widespread horizontal pleiotropy in causal relationships inferred from Mendelian randomization between complex traits and diseases (2018)
    Marie Verbanck, Chia‐Yen Chen et al. Nature Genetics
  3. An atlas of genetic correlations across human diseases and traits (2015)
    Brendan Bulik‐Sullivan, Hilary K. Finucane et al. Nature Genetics
  4. Clinical use of current polygenic risk scores may exacerbate health disparities (2019)
    Alicia R. Martin, Masahiro Kanai et al. Nature Genetics
  5. Human Demographic History Impacts Genetic Risk Prediction across Diverse Populations (2017)
    Alicia R. Martin, Christopher R. Gignoux et al. The American Journal of Human Genetics
  6. Efficient Bayesian mixed-model analysis increases association power in large cohorts (2015)
    Po‐Ru Loh, George Tucker et al. Nature Genetics
  7. A global overview of pleiotropy and genetic architecture in complex traits (2019)
    Kyoko Watanabe, Sven Stringer et al. Nature Genetics
  8. Multi-trait analysis of genome-wide association summary statistics using MTAG (2017)
    Patrick Turley, Raymond K. Walters et al. Nature Genetics
  9. LD Hub: a centralized database and web interface to perform LD score regression that maximizes the potential of summary level GWAS data for SNP heritability and genetic correlation analysis (2016)
    Jie Zheng, A. Mesut Erzurumluoglu et al. Bioinformatics
  10. Polygenic and clinical risk scores and their impact on age at onset and prediction of cardiometabolic diseases and common cancers (2020)
    Nina Mars, Jukka Koskela et al. Nature Medicine
  11. Polygenic adaptation on height is overestimated due to uncorrected stratification in genome-wide association studies (2019)
    Mashaal Sohail, Robert Maier et al. eLife
  12. Getting genetic ancestry right for science and society (2022)
    Anna Lewis, Paul S. Appelbaum et al. Science

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Author Peers

Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Benjamin M. Neale 23852 11987 2182 3007 161 40.4k
Shaun Purcell 21712 11413 1991 2166 135 38.0k
Neil Risch 18455 10197 2881 2027 315 39.0k
Peter M. Visscher 29733 12147 1633 2225 437 45.4k
Paul I. W. de Bakker 16212 12277 890 2312 88 33.4k
Nicholas J. Schork 10717 10675 1558 2775 456 31.5k
Manuel A. R. Ferreira 14333 7520 1031 1645 84 26.1k
Jian Yang 18053 8374 871 1595 201 27.4k
Håkon Håkonarson 11301 12094 1811 2094 573 33.6k
Stephen W. Scherer 18061 22149 832 1998 530 39.1k
Naomi R. Wray 12576 7250 2330 2068 404 30.0k

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