Alon Keinan

46.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
57 papers, 3.1k citations indexed

About

Alon Keinan is a scholar working on Genetics, Molecular Biology and Cognitive Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Alon Keinan has authored 57 papers receiving a total of 3.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 35 papers in Genetics, 22 papers in Molecular Biology and 7 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Alon Keinan's work include Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (25 papers), Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (11 papers) and Genetic diversity and population structure (9 papers). Alon Keinan is often cited by papers focused on Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (25 papers), Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (11 papers) and Genetic diversity and population structure (9 papers). Alon Keinan collaborates with scholars based in United States, Israel and Germany. Alon Keinan's co-authors include Andrew G. Clark, David Reich, James C. Mullikin, Kaixiong Ye, Feng Gao, Li Ma, Eytan Ruppin, Leonardo Arbiza, Nick Patterson and Zhenglong Gu and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Alon Keinan

56 papers receiving 3.0k citations

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Carolina Bonilla United Kingdom

Sridhar Kudaravalli United States

Simon Gravel Canada

Andrés Ruiz‐Linares United Kingdom

Lukas Forer Austria

Timothy D. O’Connor United States

Sriram Sankararaman United States

Shuhua Xu China

Kun Tang China

Yuval Itan United States

Carolina Bonilla United Kingdom

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alon Keinan

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Fragoza, Robert, Jishnu Das, Shayne D. Wierbowski, et al.. (2019). Extensive disruption of protein interactions by genetic variants across the allele frequency spectrum in human populations. Nature Communications. 10(1). 4141–4141. 45 indexed citations

Billing-Ross, Paul, Arnaud Germain, Kaixiong Ye, et al.. (2016). Mitochondrial DNA variants correlate with symptoms in myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome. Journal of Translational Medicine. 14(1). 19–19. 45 indexed citations

Pinto, Yishay, et al.. (2016). Clustered mutations in hominid genome evolution are consistent with APOBEC3G enzymatic activity. Genome Research. 26(5). 579–587. 10 indexed citations

D’Amico, Fabio, Evangelia Skarmoutsou, Chiara Maria Trovato, et al.. (2016). Association between rs2294020 in X-linked CCDC22 and susceptibility to autoimmune diseases with focus on systemic lupus erythematosus. Immunology Letters. 181. 58–62. 10 indexed citations

Hanson, Maureen R., Zhenglong Gu, Alon Keinan, et al.. (2016). Association of mitochondrial DNA variants with myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) symptoms. Journal of Translational Medicine. 14(1). 342–342. 4 indexed citations

Gao, Feng & Alon Keinan. (2015). Inference of Super-exponential Human Population Growth via Efficient Computation of the Site Frequency Spectrum for Generalized Models. Genetics. 202(1). 235–245. 19 indexed citations

Ye, Kaixiong, Jian Lü, Fei Ma, Alon Keinan, & Zhenglong Gu. (2014). Extensive pathogenicity of mitochondrial heteroplasmy in healthy human individuals. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 111(29). 10654–10659. 192 indexed citations

Arbiza, Leonardo, Srikanth Gottipati, Adam Siepel, & Alon Keinan. (2014). Contrasting X-Linked and Autosomal Diversity across 14 Human Populations. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 94(6). 827–844. 44 indexed citations

Chang, Diana & Alon Keinan. (2014). Principal Component Analysis Characterizes Shared Pathogenetics from Genome-Wide Association Studies. PLoS Computational Biology. 10(9). e1003820–e1003820. 15 indexed citations

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Chang, Diana, Feng Gao, Yedael Y. Waldman, et al.. (2014). Accounting for eXentricities: Analysis of the X Chromosome in GWAS Reveals X-Linked Genes Implicated in Autoimmune Diseases. PLoS ONE. 9(12). e113684–e113684. 75 indexed citations

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Sams, Aaron J., John Hawks, & Alon Keinan. (2014). The utility of ancient human DNA for improving allele age estimates, with implications for demographic models and tests of natural selection. Journal of Human Evolution. 79. 64–72. 10 indexed citations

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Ma, Li, Christie M. Ballantyne, Ariel Brautbar, & Alon Keinan. (2014). Analysis of Multiple Association Studies Provides Evidence of an Expression QTL Hub in Gene-Gene Interaction Network Affecting HDL Cholesterol Levels. PLoS ONE. 9(3). e92469–e92469. 10 indexed citations

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Ma, Li, Andrew G. Clark, & Alon Keinan. (2013). Gene-Based Testing of Interactions in Association Studies of Quantitative Traits. PLoS Genetics. 9(2). e1003321–e1003321. 62 indexed citations

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Keinan, Alon & Andrew G. Clark. (2012). Recent Explosive Human Population Growth Has Resulted in an Excess of Rare Genetic Variants. Science. 336(6082). 740–743. 349 indexed citations

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Ma, Li, Ariel Brautbar, Eric Boerwinkle, et al.. (2012). Knowledge-Driven Analysis Identifies a Gene–Gene Interaction Affecting High-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol Levels in Multi-Ethnic Populations. PLoS Genetics. 8(5). e1002714–e1002714. 58 indexed citations

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Ma, Li, Christie M. Ballantyne, John W. Belmont, Alon Keinan, & Ariel Brautbar. (2012). Interaction between SNPs in the RXRA and near ANGPTL3 gene region inhibits apoB reduction after statin-fenofibric acid therapy in individuals with mixed dyslipidemia. Journal of Lipid Research. 53(11). 2425–2428. 13 indexed citations

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Yu, Fuli, Alon Keinan, Hua Chen, et al.. (2009). Detecting natural selection by empirical comparison to random regions of the genome. Human Molecular Genetics. 18(24). 4853–4867. 23 indexed citations

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Keinan, Alon, et al.. (2007). Measurement of the human allele frequency spectrum demonstrates greater genetic drift in East Asians than in Europeans. Nature Genetics. 39(10). 1251–1255. 203 indexed citations

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Keinan, Alon, et al.. (2006). Axiomatic Scalable Neurocontroller Analysis via the Shapley Value. Artificial Life. 12(3). 333–352. 35 indexed citations

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Keinan, Alon, et al.. (2004). Fair Localization of Function Via Multi-Lesion Analysis. Neuroinformatics. 2(2). 163–168. 14 indexed citations

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