Alkes L. Price

100.3k total citations · 12 hit papers
106 papers, 26.1k citations indexed

About

Alkes L. Price is a scholar working on Genetics, Molecular Biology and Immunology. According to data from OpenAlex, Alkes L. Price has authored 106 papers receiving a total of 26.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 90 papers in Genetics, 51 papers in Molecular Biology and 6 papers in Immunology. Recurrent topics in Alkes L. Price's work include Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (78 papers), Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals (30 papers) and Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock (28 papers). Alkes L. Price is often cited by papers focused on Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (78 papers), Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals (30 papers) and Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock (28 papers). Alkes L. Price collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Sweden. Alkes L. Price's co-authors include David Reich, Nick Patterson, Robert M. Plenge, Michael E. Weinblatt, Nancy A. Shadick, Po‐Ru Loh, Pavel A. Pevzner, N C Jones, Hilary K. Finucane and Benjamin M. Neale and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Alkes L. Price

105 papers receiving 25.8k 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.

Principal components analysis corrects for stratification in genome-wide association studies

2006 6.4k citations Alkes L. Price et al. Nature Genetics profile →
Population Structure and Eigenanalysis

2006 3.2k citations Alkes L. Price et al. PLoS Genetics profile →
An atlas of genetic correlations across human diseases and traits

2015 2.2k citations Brendan Bulik‐Sullivan, Hilary K. Finucane et al. Nature Genetics profile →
De novo identification of repeat families in large genomes

2005 1.4k citations Alkes L. Price, N C Jones et al. Computer applications in the biosciences profile →
Reconstructing Indian population history

2009 1.1k citations Alkes L. Price et al. Nature profile →
Reference-based phasing using the Haplotype Reference Consortium panel

2016 829 citations Po‐Ru Loh, Pier Francesco Palamara et al. Nature Genetics profile →
New approaches to population stratification in genome-wide association studies

2010 799 citations Alkes L. Price et al. profile →
Efficient Bayesian mixed-model analysis increases association power in large cohorts

2015 766 citations Po‐Ru Loh, Brendan Bulik‐Sullivan et al. Nature Genetics profile →
Pooled Association Tests for Rare Variants in Exon-Resequencing Studies

2010 552 citations Alkes L. Price, Gregory V. Kryukov et al. The American Journal of Human Genetics profile →
Leveraging Polygenic Functional Enrichment to Improve GWAS Power

2018 485 citations Gleb Kichaev, Gaurav Bhatia et al. The American Journal of Human Genetics profile →
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 406 citations Jie Zheng, A. Mesut Erzurumluoglu et al. Bioinformatics profile →
Transcriptome-wide association study of schizophrenia and chromatin activity yields mechanistic disease insights

2018 293 citations Alexander Gusev, Nicholas Mancuso et al. Nature Genetics profile →

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Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alkes L. Price United States	57	16.8k	8.9k	2.6k	1.5k	1.4k	106	26.1k
Jian Yang Australia	59	18.6k 1.1×	8.6k 1.0×	2.7k 1.1×	1.9k 1.3×	1.7k 1.2×	208	28.6k
Katherine EO Todd-Brown United States	19	12.9k 0.8×	6.5k 0.7×	2.6k 1.0×	1.7k 1.2×	1.3k 1.0×	30	24.6k
Pamela Sklar United States	17	15.3k 0.9×	8.3k 0.9×	2.6k 1.0×	1.9k 1.3×	1.5k 1.1×	23	26.3k
David Reich United States	70	22.6k 1.3×	9.7k 1.1×	3.2k 1.2×	1.6k 1.1×	1.1k 0.8×	181	34.2k
Deborah A. Nickerson United States	72	12.8k 0.8×	11.0k 1.2×	1.6k 0.6×	2.2k 1.5×	1.6k 1.2×	290	25.3k
Manuel A. R. Ferreira Australia	33	14.9k 0.9×	7.9k 0.9×	2.5k 1.0×	1.9k 1.3×	1.7k 1.2×	87	27.6k
Leonid Kruglyak United States	73	15.3k 0.9×	13.2k 1.5×	3.3k 1.3×	942 0.6×	950 0.7×	163	27.6k
Paul I. W. de Bakker United States	37	16.6k 1.0×	12.8k 1.4×	2.9k 1.1×	2.2k 1.5×	2.4k 1.7×	89	34.6k
Richard A. Gibbs United States	87	9.2k 0.6×	17.5k 2.0×	2.9k 1.1×	2.8k 1.9×	1.7k 1.2×	492	29.9k
Gil McVean United Kingdom	62	18.6k 1.1×	15.1k 1.7×	5.5k 2.1×	2.4k 1.6×	1.7k 1.2×	127	36.4k

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Jagadeesh, Karthik A., et al.. (2025). Linking regulatory variants to target genes by integrating single-cell multiome methods and genomic distance. Nature Genetics. 57(7). 1649–1658. 2 indexed citations

Jee, Yon Ho, Ying Wang, Keum Ji Jung, et al.. (2025). Genome-wide association studies in a large Korean cohort identify quantitative trait loci for 36 traits and illuminate their genetic architectures. Nature Communications. 16(1). 4935–4935. 2 indexed citations

Price, Alkes L., et al.. (2024). Disparities in cervical cancer screening rates and electronic health record completeness among All of Us research program participants. American Journal of Epidemiology. 194(11). 3382–3386.

Amariuta, Tiffany, Katherine M. Siewert, & Alkes L. Price. (2023). Modeling tissue co-regulation estimates tissue-specific contributions to disease. Nature Genetics. 55(9). 1503–1511. 7 indexed citations

Gazal, Steven, Omer Weissbrod, Farhad Hormozdiari, et al.. (2022). Combining SNP-to-gene linking strategies to identify disease genes and assess disease omnigenicity. Nature Genetics. 54(6). 827–836. 73 indexed citations

Nathan, Aparna, Samira Asgari, Kazuyoshi Ishigaki, et al.. (2022). Single-cell eQTL models reveal dynamic T cell state dependence of disease loci. Nature. 606(7912). 120–128. 88 indexed citations

Peyrot, Wouter J. & Alkes L. Price. (2021). Identifying loci with different allele frequencies among cases of eight psychiatric disorders using CC-GWAS. Nature Genetics. 53(4). 445–454. 56 indexed citations

Shi, Huwenbo, Steven Gazal, Masahiro Kanai, et al.. (2021). Population-specific causal disease effect sizes in functionally important regions impacted by selection. Nature Communications. 12(1). 1098–1098. 57 indexed citations

Kim, Samuel S., Kushal K. Dey, Omer Weissbrod, et al.. (2020). Improving the informativeness of Mendelian disease-derived pathogenicity scores for common disease. Nature Communications. 11(1). 9 indexed citations

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Geijn, Bryce van de, Hilary K. Finucane, Steven Gazal, et al.. (2019). Annotations capturing cell type-specific TF binding explain a large fraction of disease heritability. Human Molecular Genetics. 29(7). 1057–1067. 9 indexed citations

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Kaplanis, Joanna, Assaf Gordon, Tal Shor, et al.. (2018). Quantitative analysis of population-scale family trees with millions of relatives. Science. 360(6385). 171–175. 131 indexed citations

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Gusev, Alexander, Nicholas Mancuso, Hyejung Won, et al.. (2018). Transcriptome-wide association study of schizophrenia and chromatin activity yields mechanistic disease insights. Nature Genetics. 50(4). 538–548. 293 indexed citations breakdown →

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Gazal, Steven, Hilary K. Finucane, Nicholas A. Furlotte, et al.. (2017). Linkage disequilibrium–dependent architecture of human complex traits shows action of negative selection. Nature Genetics. 49(10). 1421–1427. 242 indexed citations

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Zheng, Jie, Philip Haycock, Gibran Hemani, et al.. (2016). LD hub and MR-base: online platforms for preforming LD score regression and Mendelian randomization analysis using GWAS summary data. Behavior Genetics. 46(6). 815–815. 5 indexed citations

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Lindström, Sara, Brad Chapman, Alexander Gusev, et al.. (2016). Deep targeted sequencing of 12 breast cancer susceptibility regions in 4611 women across four different ethnicities. Breast Cancer Research. 18(1). 109–109. 3 indexed citations

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Chen, Chia‐Yen, Jiali Han, David J. Hunter, Peter Kraft, & Alkes L. Price. (2015). Explicit Modeling of Ancestry Improves Polygenic Risk Scores and BLUP Prediction. Genetic Epidemiology. 39(6). 427–438. 19 indexed citations

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Kichaev, Gleb, Wen-Yun Yang, Sara Lindström, et al.. (2014). Integrating Functional Data to Prioritize Causal Variants in Statistical Fine-Mapping Studies. PLoS Genetics. 10(10). e1004722–e1004722. 287 indexed citations

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Price, Alkes L., Gregory V. Kryukov, Paul I.W. de Bakker, et al.. (2010). Pooled Association Tests for Rare Variants in Exon-Resequencing Studies. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 86(6). 832–838. 552 indexed citations breakdown →

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Price, Alkes L., N C Jones, & Pavel A. Pevzner. (2005). De novo identification of repeat families in large genomes. Computer applications in the biosciences. 21(Suppl 1). i351–i358. 1367 indexed citations breakdown →

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Price, Alkes L., Sriram Ramabhadran, & Pavel A. Pevzner. (2003). Finding subtle motifs by branching from sample strings. Bioinformatics. 19(suppl_2). ii149–ii155. 79 indexed citations

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