Standout Papers

The Future of Genetic Studies of Complex Human Diseases 1994 2026 2004 2015 3.8k
  1. The Future of Genetic Studies of Complex Human Diseases (1996)
    Neil Risch, Kathleen R. Merikangas Science
  2. Protective effect of apolipoprotein E type 2 allele for late onset Alzheimer disease (1994)
    Elizabeth H. Corder, Ann M. Saunders et al. Nature Genetics
  3. Searching for genetic determinants in the new millennium (2000)
    Neil Risch Nature
  4. Interaction Between the Serotonin Transporter Gene (5-HTTLPR), Stressful Life Events, and Risk of Depression (2009)
    Neil Risch, Richard Herrell et al. JAMA
  5. Discovering genotypes underlying human phenotypes: past successes for mendelian disease, future approaches for complex disease (2003)
    David Botstein, Neil Risch Nature Genetics
  6. Linkage strategies for genetically complex traits. I. Multilocus models. (1990)
    Neil Risch PubMed
  7. Genetic Susceptibility to Death from Coronary Heart Disease in a Study of Twins (1994)
    Marjorie E. Marenberg, Neil Risch et al. New England Journal of Medicine
  8. A Comparison of Linkage Disequilibrium Measures for Fine-Scale Mapping (1995)
    Bernie Devlin, Neil Risch Genomics
  9. The early-onset torsion dystonia gene (DYT1) encodes an ATP-binding protein (1997)
    Laurie J. Ozelius, Jeffrey Hewett et al. Nature Genetics
  10. The Importance of Race and Ethnic Background in Biomedical Research and Clinical Practice (2003)
    Esteban G. Burchard, Elad Ziv et al. New England Journal of Medicine
  11. Candidate-gene approaches for studying complex genetic traits: practical considerations (2002)
    Holly K. Tabor, Neil Risch et al. Nature Reviews Genetics
  12. Autosomal dominant inheritance of early-onset breast cancer. Implications for risk prediction (1994)
    Elizabeth B. Claus, Neil Risch et al. Cancer
  13. Genetic analysis of breast cancer in the cancer and steroid hormone study. (1991)
    Elizabeth B. Claus, Neil Risch et al. PubMed
  14. Linkage strategies for genetically complex traits. II. The power of affected relative pairs. (1990)
    Neil Risch PubMed
  15. Positional Cloning of the Human Quantitative Trait Locus Underlying Taste Sensitivity to Phenylthiocarbamide (2003)
    Un‐Kyung Kim, Eric Jorgenson et al. Science
  16. The continuous performance test, identical pairs version (CPT-IP): I. new findings about sustained attention in normal families (1988)
    Barbara A. Cornblatt, Neil Risch et al. Psychiatry Research
  17. The genetic attributable risk of breast and ovarian cancer (1996)
    Elizabeth B. Claus, W. Douglas Thompson et al. Cancer
  18. Categorization of humans in biomedical research: genes, race and disease. (2002)
    Neil Risch, Esteban G. Burchard et al. Genome Biology
  19. Global Patterns of Linkage Disequilibrium at the CD4 Locus and Modern Human Origins (1996)
    Sarah A. Tishkoff, E. Dietzsch et al. Science
  20. A brief history of human disease genetics (2020)
    Melina Claussnitzer, Judy H. Cho et al. Nature

Immediate Impact

3 by Nobel laureates 47 from Science/Nature 104 standout
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Works of Neil Risch being referenced

A brief history of human disease genetics
2020 StandoutNature
Discovering genotypes underlying human phenotypes: past successes for mendelian disease, future approaches for complex disease
2003 Standout
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Author Peers

Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Neil Risch 18455 10197 3806 315 39.0k
Pak C. Sham 23739 16074 4290 688 60.3k
Håkon Håkonarson 11301 12094 1078 573 33.6k
Cornelia M. van Duijn 6968 11595 2994 669 39.4k
Stephen S. Rich 15442 9623 1135 664 38.5k
Stephen W. Scherer 18061 22149 1958 530 39.1k
John M. Opitz 24262 20491 1944 1.7k 49.5k
Benjamin M. Neale 23852 11987 972 161 40.4k
Tatiana Foroud 4405 6988 4604 398 19.6k
David A. Greenberg 5304 10994 8919 429 30.0k
Jürg Ott 8334 10398 2581 336 24.5k

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