Anders Albrechtsen

25.5k citations

118 papers · 8.7k indexed · 5 hit papers · h-index 39

Impact in

Genetics top 0.1%
- Genetic diversity and population structure
- Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock
- Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
- Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals
- Forensic and Genetic Research
- Evolution and Genetic Dynamics
Paleontology top 2%

Papers in

Genetics 80
- Genetic Associations and Epidemiology 38
- Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock 24
- Genetic diversity and population structure 18
- Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals 16
- Forensic and Genetic Research 8
- Genomics and Rare Diseases 7
- Evolution and Genetic Dynamics 7
Archeology 1

Co-authors: Rasmus Nielsen Thorfinn Sand Korneliussen Yun S. Song Jonas Meisner Joshua Paul Ida Moltke Torben Hansen Line Skotte
Journals: Diabetologia (11 papers)Genetics (9 papers)Bioinformatics (6 papers)Diabetes (6 papers)European Journal of Human Genetics (5 papers)
Partner nations: Denmark United States Greenland

In The Last Decade

Anders Albrechtsen

112 papers receiving 8.6k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories log scale

Inferring Population Structure and Admixture Proportions in Low-Depth NGS Data 2018 · 395 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2018 Genetics
2015 Science
2014 BMC Bioinformatics
2013 Genetics
2011 Nature Reviews Genetics

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1	High Prevalence and Common Forms of Maturity-onset Diabetes of the Young in Greenland Canadian Journal of Diabetes ·Anne Cathrine B. Thuesen, Marie Balslev Backe, Genís Garcia‐Erill, Mikkel Schubert, Kristian Hanghøj, Ida Moltke, Anders Albrechtsen, Niels Grarup, Anette P. Gjesing, Marit E. Jørgensen, Torben Hansen, Michael Lynge Pedersen	2025	0
2	GWAS of lipids in Greenlanders finds association signals shared with Europeans and reveals an independent PCSK9 association signal European Journal of Human Genetics ·碇屋隆雄, Mette K. Andersen, Emil Jørsboe, Frederik Filip Stæger, Chandrakant Gawli, Genís Garcia‐Erill, Jonas Meisner, M. K. Jha, Juan de Dios Hernadez Garcia, Arthur Gilly, Peter Bjerregaard, Christina Viskum Lytken Larsen, Niels Grarup, Marit E. Jørgensen, Eleftheria Zeggini, Ida Moltke, Torben Hansen, Anders Albrechtsen	2023	5
3	Efficient approaches for large-scale GWAS with genotype uncertainty G3 Genes Genomes Genetics ·Emil Jørsboe, Anders Albrechtsen	2021	9
4	NGSremix: a software tool for estimating pairwise relatedness between admixed individuals from next-generation sequencing data G3 Genes Genomes Genetics ·Chandrakant Gawli, Kristian Hanghøj, Genís Garcia‐Erill, Zilong Li, Ida Moltke, Anders Albrechtsen	2021	15
5	Large-scale inference of population structure in presence of missingness using PCA Bioinformatics ·Jonas Meisner, Siyang Liu, М. Ю. Волков, Anders Albrechtsen	2021	18
6	The genetic history of Greenlandic-European contact Current Biology ·Ryan K. Waples, Hyoyoung Park, J. Sanovia, Emil Jørsboe, Marit E. Jørgensen, Niels Grarup, Mette K. Andersen, Christina Viskum Lytken Larsen, Peter Bjerregaard, Garrett Hellenthal, Torben Hansen, Anders Albrechtsen, Ida Moltke	2021	9
7	A reference‐free approach to analyse RADseq data using standard next generation sequencing toolkits Molecular Ecology Resources ·Rasmus Heller, Samuel Ehiabhi Okhale, Genís Garcia‐Erill, Jordi Salmona, Lounès Chikhi, Jonas Meisner, Thorfinn Sand Korneliussen, Anders Albrechtsen	2021	17
8	Joint identification of sex and sex‐linked scaffolds in non‐model organisms using low depth sequencing data Molecular Ecology Resources ·Samuel Ehiabhi Okhale, Anna Brüniche–Olsen, Genís Garcia‐Erill, Rasmus Heller, Anders Albrechtsen	2021	19
9	Vicariance followed by secondary gene flow in a young gazelle species complex Molecular Ecology ·Genís Garcia‐Erill, Michael Kjær, Anders Albrechtsen, Hans R. Siegismund, Rasmus Heller	2020	5
10	Genetic study of the Arctic CPT1A variant suggests that its effect on fatty acid levels is modulated by traditional Inuit diet European Journal of Human Genetics ·碇屋隆雄, Marit E. Jørgensen, Emil Jørsboe, Fumiaki Imamura, Nita G. Forouhi, Christina Viskum Lytken Larsen, Peter Bjerregaard, Torben Hansen, Anders Albrechtsen	2020	12
11	Testing for Hardy–Weinberg equilibrium in structured populations using genotype or low‐depth next generation sequencing data Molecular Ecology Resources ·Jonas Meisner, Anders Albrechtsen	2019	25
12	A likelihood method for estimating present-day human contamination in ancient male samples using low-depth X-chromosome data Bioinformatics ·J. Víctor Moreno-Mayar, Thorfinn Sand Korneliussen, Jyoti Dalal, Gabriel Renaud, Anders Albrechtsen, Rasmus Nielsen, Anna‐Sapfo Malaspinas	2019	9
13	Ancestry‐specific association mapping in admixed populations Genetic Epidemiology ·Line Skotte, Emil Jørsboe, Thorfinn Sand Korneliussen, Ida Moltke, Anders Albrechtsen	2019	20
14	Genomic diversity and novel genome-wide association with fruit morphology in Capsicum, from 746k polymorphic sites Scientific Reports ·Vincenza Colonna, Nunzio D’Agostino, Erik Garrison, Anders Albrechtsen, Jonas Meisner, Angelo Facchiano, Teodoro Cardi, Pasquale Tripodi	2019	35
15	DamMet: ancient methylome mapping accounting for errors, true variants, and post-mortem DNA damage GigaScience ·Kristian Hanghøj, Gabriel Renaud, Anders Albrechtsen, Ludovic Orlando	2019	17
16	Genetic architecture of obesity and related metabolic traits — recent insights from isolated populations Current Opinion in Genetics & Development ·Mette K. Andersen, Niels Grarup, Ida Moltke, Anders Albrechtsen, Torben Hansen	2018	1
17	Genetic determinants of glycated hemoglobin levels in the Greenlandic Inuit population European Journal of Human Genetics ·Emil V. R. Appel, Ida Moltke, Marit E. Jørgensen, Peter Bjerregaard, Allan Linneberg, Oluf Pedersen, Anders Albrechtsen, Torben Hansen, Niels Grarup	2018	7
18	Powerful Inference with the D-Statistic on Low-Coverage Whole-Genome Data G3 Genes Genomes Genetics ·Yuhan Gao, Carsten Wiuf, Anders Albrechtsen	2017	51
19	The Effect of an Extreme and Prolonged Population Bottleneck on Patterns of Deleterious Variation: Insights from the Greenlandic Inuit Genetics ·Casper‐Emil Tingskov Pedersen, Kirk E. Lohmueller, Niels Grarup, Peter Bjerregaard, Torben Hansen, Hans R. Siegismund, Ida Moltke, Anders Albrechtsen	2016	39
20	Greenlandic Inuit show genetic signatures of diet and climate adaptation Science ·Matteo Fumagalli, Ida Moltke, Niels Grarup, Fernando Racimo, Peter Bjerregaard, Marit E. Jørgensen, Thorfinn Sand Korneliussen, Pascale Gerbault, Line Skotte, Allan Linneberg, Cramer Christensen, Ivan Brandslund, Torben Jørgensen, Emilia Huerta‐Sánchez, Erik Berg Schmidt, Oluf Pedersen, Torben Hansen, Anders Albrechtsen, Rasmus Nielsen Hit paper breakdown →	2015	334

About Anders Albrechtsen

Anders Albrechtsen is a scholar working on Genetics, Archeology, Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Molecular Biology and Behavioral Neuroscience, having authored 118 papers that have together received 8.7k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (38 papers), Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock (24 papers), Genetic diversity and population structure (18 papers), Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals (16 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (9 papers), Forensic and Genetic Research (8 papers), Genomics and Rare Diseases (7 papers) and Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (7 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Genetics (5.5k citations), Paleontology (410 citations), Ecology (1.3k citations), Ecological Modeling (205 citations) and Molecular Biology (3.2k citations). Anders Albrechtsen has collaborated with scholars based in Denmark, United States and Greenland. Frequent co-authors include Rasmus Nielsen, Thorfinn Sand Korneliussen, Yun S. Song, Jonas Meisner, Joshua Paul, Ida Moltke, Torben Hansen, Line Skotte, Oluf Pedersen and Torben Jørgensen. Their work appears in journals such as Diabetologia, Genetics, Bioinformatics, Diabetes and European Journal of Human Genetics.

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