Adam E. Locke

28.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
23 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

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Adam E. Locke is a scholar working on Genetics, Molecular Biology and Epidemiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Adam E. Locke has authored 23 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Genetics, 6 papers in Molecular Biology and 6 papers in Epidemiology. Recurrent topics in Adam E. Locke's work include Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (7 papers), Genomic variations and chromosomal abnormalities (6 papers) and Congenital Heart Disease Studies (5 papers). Adam E. Locke is often cited by papers focused on Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (7 papers), Genomic variations and chromosomal abnormalities (6 papers) and Congenital Heart Disease Studies (5 papers). Adam E. Locke collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Australia. Adam E. Locke's co-authors include Bratati Kahali, Stephanie L. Sherman, Kenneth J. Dooley, Stuart W. Tinker, Emily G. Allen, Claudine P. Torfs, Sallie B. Freeman, Paul A. Romitti, Lora Jh Bean and Charlotte A. Hobbs and has published in prestigious journals such as Nucleic Acids Research, Blood and Hepatology.

In The Last Decade

Adam E. Locke

21 papers receiving 1.5k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Genetic studies of body mass index yield new insights for obesity biology

2015 879 citations Adam E. Locke, Bratati Kahali Carolina Digital Repository (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Adam E. Locke United States	14	697	563	350	343	230	23	1.5k
Hanieh Yaghootkar United Kingdom	20	593 0.9×	493 0.9×	289 0.8×	300 0.9×	286 1.2×	54	1.8k
Peter Henneman Netherlands	26	454 0.7×	898 1.6×	321 0.9×	140 0.4×	312 1.4×	90	2.0k
Daniel L. Metzger Canada	29	621 0.9×	649 1.2×	171 0.5×	252 0.7×	215 0.9×	82	2.5k
Ensio Norjavaara Sweden	29	707 1.0×	698 1.2×	205 0.6×	419 1.2×	331 1.4×	73	2.4k
Weronica E. Ek Sweden	19	522 0.7×	352 0.6×	198 0.6×	169 0.5×	239 1.0×	37	1.4k
Gabriel Ángel Martos‐Moreno Spain	26	290 0.4×	523 0.9×	307 0.9×	204 0.6×	434 1.9×	118	1.9k
Karl Otfried Schwab Germany	26	542 0.8×	561 1.0×	109 0.3×	163 0.5×	223 1.0×	85	1.9k
Jean Morrison United States	8	701 1.0×	538 1.0×	188 0.5×	96 0.3×	172 0.7×	12	1.6k
Tommaso Aversa Italy	26	493 0.7×	306 0.5×	98 0.3×	207 0.6×	181 0.8×	111	1.8k
Cristina Azcona Spain	23	376 0.5×	709 1.3×	172 0.5×	449 1.3×	771 3.4×	74	1.9k

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Fahy, Nick, Tim Coats, Clare Gillies, et al.. (2025). Factors associated with blood culture sampling for adult acute care hospital patients with suspected severe infection: a scoping review using a socioecological framework. JAC-Antimicrobial Resistance. 7(2). dlaf043–dlaf043.

Ziyatdinov, Andrey, Joelle Mbatchou, Anthony Marcketta, et al.. (2024). Joint testing of rare variant burden scores using non-negative least squares. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 111(10). 2139–2149. 4 indexed citations

Rainer, Johannes, Vinicius Verri Hernandes, Giuseppe Paglia, et al.. (2022). Whole Exome Sequencing Enhanced Imputation Identifies 85 Metabolite Associations in the Alpine CHRIS Cohort. Metabolites. 12(7). 604–604. 6 indexed citations

Warren, Julia T., Ryan R. Cupo, David H. Spencer, et al.. (2021). Heterozygous variants of CLPB are a cause of severe congenital neutropenia. Blood. 139(5). 779–791. 24 indexed citations

Oughli, Hanadi Ajam, Eric J. Lenze, Adam E. Locke, et al.. (2019). Getting to precision psychopharmacology: Combining clinical and genetic information to predict fat gain from aripiprazole. Journal of Psychiatric Research. 114. 67–74. 4 indexed citations

Davis, James P., Jeroen R. Huyghe, Adam E. Locke, et al.. (2017). Common, low-frequency, and rare genetic variants associated with lipoprotein subclasses and triglyceride measures in Finnish men from the METSIM study. PLoS Genetics. 13(10). e1007079–e1007079. 31 indexed citations

Wood, Andrew R., Troels R. Kjær, Rebecca S. Fine, et al.. (2017). Rare and low-frequency coding variants alter human adult height. Apollo (University of Cambridge).

Chen, Guo‐Bo, Sang Lee, Matthew R. Robinson, et al.. (2016). Across-cohort QC analyses of GWAS summary statistics from complex traits. European Journal of Human Genetics. 25(1). 137–146. 14 indexed citations

Hägg, Sara, Andrea Ganna, Sander W. van der Laan, et al.. (2015). Gene-based meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies implicates new loci involved in obesity. Human Molecular Genetics. 24(23). 6849–6860. 51 indexed citations

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Locke, Adam E. & Bratati Kahali. (2015). Genetic studies of body mass index yield new insights for obesity biology. Carolina Digital Repository (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill). 879 indexed citations breakdown →

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Zeng, Zhen, Adam E. Locke, Lora Jh Bean, et al.. (2015). Genome-Wide Association Study of Down Syndrome-Associated Atrioventricular Septal Defects. G3 Genes Genomes Genetics. 5(10). 1961–1971. 27 indexed citations

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Locke, Adam E., Lora Jh Bean, Tracie C. Rosser, et al.. (2014). Contribution of copy-number variation to Down syndrome–associated atrioventricular septal defects. Genetics in Medicine. 17(7). 554–560. 20 indexed citations

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Vrieze, Scott, Stephen M. Malone, Uma Vaidyanathan, et al.. (2014). In search of rare variants: Preliminary results from whole genome sequencing of 1,325 individuals with psychophysiological endophenotypes. Psychophysiology. 51(12). 1309–1320. 21 indexed citations

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Ackerman, C., Adam E. Locke, Eleanor Feingold, et al.. (2012). An Excess of Deleterious Variants in VEGF-A Pathway Genes in Down-Syndrome-Associated Atrioventricular Septal Defects. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 91(4). 646–659. 83 indexed citations

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Bean, Lora Jh, Emily G. Allen, Stuart W. Tinker, et al.. (2011). Lack of maternal folic acid supplementation is associated with heart defects in Down syndrome: A report from the National Down Syndrome Project. Birth Defects Research Part A Clinical and Molecular Teratology. 91(10). 885–893. 46 indexed citations

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Locke, Adam E., Kenneth J. Dooley, Stuart W. Tinker, et al.. (2010). Variation in folate pathway genes contributes to risk of congenital heart defects among individuals with Down syndrome. Genetic Epidemiology. 34(6). 613–623. 63 indexed citations

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Okou, David T., Adam E. Locke, Karyn Meltz Steinberg, et al.. (2009). Combining Microarray‐based Genomic Selection (MGS) with the Illumina Genome Analyzer Platform to Sequence Diploid Target Regions. Annals of Human Genetics. 73(5). 502–513. 17 indexed citations

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Freeman, Sallie B., Lora Bean, Emily G. Allen, et al.. (2008). Ethnicity, sex, and the incidence of congenital heart defects: a report from the National Down Syndrome Project. Genetics in Medicine. 10(3). 173–180. 204 indexed citations

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Duffy, Kevin J., et al.. (2008). A novel procedure for genotyping of single nucleotide polymorphisms in trisomy with genomic DNA and the invader assay. Nucleic Acids Research. 36(22). e145–e145. 8 indexed citations

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Glanz, Karen, Frances McCarty, Eric J. Nehl, et al.. (2008). Validity of Self-Reported Sunscreen Use by Parents, Children, and Lifeguards. American Journal of Preventive Medicine. 36(1). 63–69. 5 indexed citations

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