Alan R. Sanders

27.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
63 papers, 2.6k citations indexed

About

Alan R. Sanders is a scholar working on Genetics, Molecular Biology and Cognitive Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Alan R. Sanders has authored 63 papers receiving a total of 2.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 36 papers in Genetics, 24 papers in Molecular Biology and 7 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Alan R. Sanders's work include Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (28 papers), Genomic variations and chromosomal abnormalities (12 papers) and Genomics and Rare Diseases (9 papers). Alan R. Sanders is often cited by papers focused on Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (28 papers), Genomic variations and chromosomal abnormalities (12 papers) and Genomics and Rare Diseases (9 papers). Alan R. Sanders collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Australia. Alan R. Sanders's co-authors include Pablo V. Gejman, Jubao Duan, Judith A. Badner, Pablo V. Gejman, Elliot S. Gershon, Kenneth S. Kendler, Lynn R. Goldin, María Martínez, Jianxin Shi and Juliet J. Guroff and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Alan R. Sanders

56 papers receiving 2.5k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Large-scale GWAS reveals insights into the genetic architecture of same-sex sexual behavior

2019 213 citations Andrea Ganna, Karin J. H. Verweij et al. Science profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alan R. Sanders United States	26	1.1k	1.1k	460	413	300	63	2.6k
Bradley T. Webb United States	27	1.2k 1.1×	1.5k 1.4×	556 1.2×	435 1.1×	409 1.4×	86	3.3k
Pippa A. Thomson United Kingdom	28	1.7k 1.5×	1.2k 1.1×	541 1.2×	472 1.1×	313 1.0×	63	3.2k
Sarah E. Bergen Sweden	28	875 0.8×	1.1k 1.0×	436 0.9×	733 1.8×	493 1.6×	75	3.1k
Ayman H. Fanous United States	30	1.1k 0.9×	1.2k 1.1×	426 0.9×	702 1.7×	488 1.6×	70	3.1k
Carlos N. Pato United States	30	954 0.8×	996 0.9×	377 0.8×	948 2.3×	304 1.0×	97	3.2k
Virginia L. Willour United States	24	665 0.6×	788 0.7×	408 0.9×	608 1.5×	209 0.7×	45	2.3k
Silviu‐Alin Bacanu United States	33	983 0.9×	1.3k 1.2×	233 0.5×	371 0.9×	226 0.8×	109	3.3k
Brandon Wormley United States	16	752 0.7×	702 0.6×	492 1.1×	244 0.6×	295 1.0×	22	2.0k
Paula Wolyniec United States	29	1.4k 1.2×	1.6k 1.4×	423 0.9×	1.2k 2.8×	464 1.5×	54	3.6k
Ann E. Pulver United States	32	991 0.9×	1.1k 1.0×	284 0.6×	985 2.4×	515 1.7×	54	2.9k

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Shi, Zhuqing, Van Huy Tran, Shuhua Xie, et al.. (2025). Development and validation of a genetic probability for venous thromboembolism. Research and Practice in Thrombosis and Haemostasis. 9(4). 102876–102876.

Kelly, Douglas, Dushyanth Narayanan, Greg O’Shea, et al.. (2024). Holographic Optical Storage for the Cloud?. W1F.5–W1F.5.

O’Shea, Greg, Douglas J. Kelly, Alan R. Sanders, et al.. (2024). Can holographic optical storage displace Hard Disk Drives?. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(1). 1 indexed citations

Chase, Bruce A., Roberta Frigerio, Susan Rubin, et al.. (2024). An Integrative Migraine Polygenic Risk Score Is Associated with Age at Onset But Not Chronification. Journal of Clinical Medicine. 13(21). 6483–6483. 1 indexed citations

Chase, Bruce A., Roberta Frigerio, Smita Patel, et al.. (2024). Lipid trajectories improve risk models for Alzheimer’s disease and mild cognitive impairment. Journal of Lipid Research. 66(1). 100714–100714.

Zhang, Siwei, Hanwen Zhang, Marc P. Forrest, et al.. (2023). Multiple genes in a single GWAS risk locus synergistically mediate aberrant synaptic development and function in human neurons. Cell Genomics. 3(9). 100399–100399. 9 indexed citations

Zietsch, Brendan P., Morgan J. Sidari, Abdel Abdellaoui, et al.. (2021). Genomic evidence consistent with antagonistic pleiotropy may help explain the evolutionary maintenance of same-sex sexual behaviour in humans. Nature Human Behaviour. 5(9). 1251–1258. 26 indexed citations

Kozlova, Alena, Robert R. Butler, Siwei Zhang, et al.. (2021). Sex-specific nicotine sensitization and imprinting of self-administration in rats inform GWAS findings on human addiction phenotypes. Neuropsychopharmacology. 46(10). 1746–1756. 5 indexed citations

Shugart, Yin Yao, Wei Guo, Siwei Zhang, et al.. (2021). Cell type-specific and cross-population polygenic risk score analyses of MIR137 gene pathway in schizophrenia. iScience. 24(7). 102785–102785. 11 indexed citations

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Bailey, J. Michael, et al.. (2020). Familiality of Gender Nonconformity Among Homosexual Men. Archives of Sexual Behavior. 49(7). 2461–2468. 4 indexed citations

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Ganna, Andrea, Karin J. H. Verweij, Michel G. Nivard, et al.. (2019). Large-scale GWAS reveals insights into the genetic architecture of same-sex sexual behavior. Science. 365(6456). 213 indexed citations breakdown →

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Zhang, Siwei, Winton Moy, Hanwen Zhang, et al.. (2018). Open chromatin dynamics reveals stage-specific transcriptional networks in hiPSC-based neurodevelopmental model. Stem Cell Research. 29. 88–98. 16 indexed citations

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Sanders, Alan R., Eugene Drigalenko, Jubao Duan, et al.. (2017). Transcriptome sequencing study implicates immune-related genes differentially expressed in schizophrenia: new data and a meta-analysis. Translational Psychiatry. 7(4). e1093–e1093. 42 indexed citations

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Duan, Jubao, Hanwen Zhang, Marc P. Forrest, et al.. (2017). Open Chromatin Dynamics In Ipsc-Derived Neurons And CRISPR/CAS9 Editing of open Chromatin Sequences At The MIR137 Schizophrenia Risk Locus Alters Synapto-Dendritic Architecture. European Neuropsychopharmacology. 27. S429–S430.

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Forrest, Marc P., Hanwen Zhang, Winton Moy, et al.. (2017). Open Chromatin Profiling in hiPSC-Derived Neurons Prioritizes Functional Noncoding Psychiatric Risk Variants and Highlights Neurodevelopmental Loci. Cell stem cell. 21(3). 305–318.e8. 80 indexed citations

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Sanders, Alan R., Eden R. Martin, Gary W. Beecham, et al.. (2014). Genome-wide scan demonstrates significant linkage for male sexual orientation. Psychological Medicine. 45(7). 1379–1388. 84 indexed citations

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Gejman, Pablo V. & Alan R. Sanders. (2012). La etiología de la esquizofrenia. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 72(3). 227–234. 3 indexed citations

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Shyn, Stanley I., Jianxin Shi, Jeffrey Kraft, et al.. (2009). Novel loci for major depression identified by genome-wide association study of Sequenced Treatment Alternatives to Relieve Depression and meta-analysis of three studies. Molecular Psychiatry. 16(2). 202–215. 197 indexed citations

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Duan, Jubao, María Martínez, Alan R. Sanders, et al.. (2004). Polymorphisms in the Trace Amine Receptor 4 (TRAR4) Gene on Chromosome 6q23.2 Are Associated with Susceptibility to Schizophrenia. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 75(4). 624–638. 66 indexed citations

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Duan, Jubao, Alan R. Sanders, Bryan Mowry, et al.. (2003). Polymorphisms in the 5′-untranslated region of the human serotonin receptor 1B (HTR1B) gene affect gene expression. Molecular Psychiatry. 8(11). 901–910. 71 indexed citations

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