Anna C. Need

15.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
33 papers, 3.0k citations indexed

About

Anna C. Need is a scholar working on Genetics, Molecular Biology and Cognitive Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Anna C. Need has authored 33 papers receiving a total of 3.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 24 papers in Genetics, 8 papers in Molecular Biology and 7 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Anna C. Need's work include Genomics and Rare Diseases (13 papers), Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (13 papers) and Genomic variations and chromosomal abnormalities (13 papers). Anna C. Need is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Rare Diseases (13 papers), Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (13 papers) and Genomic variations and chromosomal abnormalities (13 papers). Anna C. Need collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Germany. Anna C. Need's co-authors include David B. Goldstein, Kevin V. Shianna, Dongliang Ge, Elizabeth T. Cirulli, Vandana Shashi, Kelly Schoch, Marie McDonald, Deborah K. Attix, David B. Goldstein and Allen D. Roses and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Genetics, Nature Neuroscience and Bioinformatics.

In The Last Decade

Anna C. Need

33 papers receiving 2.9k 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.

A Genome-Wide Association Study in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD): Identification of Two Major Susceptibility Loci

2009 480 citations Sreekumar Pillai, Dongliang Ge et al. PLoS Genetics profile →
2022 190 citations Anna C. Need et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Anna C. Need United States	26	1.3k	1.1k	447	357	353	33	3.0k
Elena Rossi Italy	37	1.2k 0.9×	1.4k 1.2×	260 0.6×	239 0.7×	249 0.7×	141	3.9k
Tim Becker Germany	32	1.1k 0.8×	1.3k 1.2×	286 0.6×	299 0.8×	318 0.9×	122	3.6k
Kathryn L. Evans United Kingdom	35	1.1k 0.9×	2.2k 2.0×	428 1.0×	197 0.6×	292 0.8×	132	4.2k
Clara van Karnebeek Canada	34	1.4k 1.0×	1.5k 1.4×	310 0.7×	205 0.6×	135 0.4×	118	3.5k
Ravindranath Duggirala United States	36	1.4k 1.0×	1.2k 1.1×	529 1.2×	170 0.5×	802 2.3×	116	4.4k
Stuart MacGregor Australia	42	2.1k 1.6×	1.5k 1.4×	335 0.7×	162 0.5×	289 0.8×	187	5.7k
Stefan Johansson Norway	35	1.6k 1.2×	1.4k 1.2×	254 0.6×	137 0.4×	286 0.8×	111	4.0k
Marie‐Pierre Dubé Canada	39	877 0.7×	1.7k 1.5×	207 0.5×	314 0.9×	400 1.1×	185	5.6k
Michael S. Hildebrand Australia	36	854 0.6×	1.6k 1.4×	176 0.4×	188 0.5×	628 1.8×	167	4.0k
Sudha K. Iyengar United States	48	805 0.6×	1.5k 1.3×	431 1.0×	297 0.8×	398 1.1×	174	5.9k

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Shi, Sinan, Simone Rubinacci, Sile Hu, et al.. (2024). A Genomics England haplotype reference panel and imputation of UK Biobank. Nature Genetics. 56(9). 1800–1803. 9 indexed citations

Nutt, David & Anna C. Need. (2014). Where now for schizophrenia research?. European Neuropsychopharmacology. 24(8). 1181–1187. 11 indexed citations

Zhu, Xiaolin, Anna C. Need, Slavé Petrovski, & David B. Goldstein. (2014). One gene, many neuropsychiatric disorders: lessons from Mendelian diseases. Nature Neuroscience. 17(6). 773–781. 90 indexed citations

Shashi, Vandana, Allyn McConkie‐Rosell, Kelly Schoch, et al.. (2013). The utility of the traditional medical genetics diagnostic evaluation in the context of next-generation sequencing for undiagnosed genetic disorders. Genetics in Medicine. 16(2). 176–182. 190 indexed citations

Zhu, Mingfu, Anna C. Need, Yujun Han, et al.. (2012). Using ERDS to Infer Copy-Number Variants in High-Coverage Genomes. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 91(3). 408–421. 86 indexed citations

Need, Anna C., Vandana Shashi, Yuki Hitomi, et al.. (2012). Clinical application of exome sequencing in undiagnosed genetic conditions. Journal of Medical Genetics. 49(6). 353–361. 289 indexed citations

Ge, Dongliang, Elizabeth K. Ruzzo, Kevin V. Shianna, et al.. (2011). SVA: software for annotating and visualizing sequenced human genomes. Bioinformatics. 27(14). 1998–2000. 46 indexed citations

Cirulli, Elizabeth T., Dalia Kasperavičiūtė, Deborah K. Attix, et al.. (2010). Common genetic variation and performance on standardized cognitive tests. European Journal of Human Genetics. 18(7). 815–820. 74 indexed citations

Need, Anna C. & David B. Goldstein. (2010). Whole genome association studies in complex diseases: where do we stand?. Dialogues in Clinical Neuroscience. 12(1). 37–46. 26 indexed citations

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Pillai, Sreekumar, Dongliang Ge, Guohua Zhu, et al.. (2009). A Genome-Wide Association Study in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD): Identification of Two Major Susceptibility Loci. PLoS Genetics. 5(3). e1000421–e1000421. 480 indexed citations breakdown →

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Need, Anna C. & David B. Goldstein. (2009). Next generation disparities in human genomics: concerns and remedies. Trends in Genetics. 25(11). 489–494. 244 indexed citations

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Need, Anna C., Dalia Kasperavičiūtė, Elizabeth T. Cirulli, & David B. Goldstein. (2009). A genome-wide genetic signature of Jewish ancestry perfectly separates individuals with and without full Jewish ancestry in a large random sample of European Americans. Genome biology. 10(1). R7–R7. 38 indexed citations

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Need, Anna C., Richard S.E. Keefe, Dongliang Ge, et al.. (2009). Pharmacogenetics of antipsychotic response in the CATIE trial: a candidate gene analysis. European Journal of Human Genetics. 17(7). 946–957. 77 indexed citations

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Need, Anna C., Deborah K. Attix, Elizabeth T. Cirulli, et al.. (2009). A genome-wide study of common SNPs and CNVs in cognitive performance in the CANTAB. Human Molecular Genetics. 18(23). 4650–4661. 105 indexed citations

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Goldstein, David B., Anna C. Need, Rinki Singh, & Sanjay M. Sisodiya. (2007). Potential Genetic Causes of Heterogeneity of Treatment Effects. The American Journal of Medicine. 120(4). S21–S25. 41 indexed citations

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Sisodiya, Sanjay M., Pamela J. Thompson, Anna C. Need, et al.. (2007). Genetic enhancement of cognition in a kindred with cone–rod dystrophy due to RIMS1 mutation. Journal of Medical Genetics. 44(6). 373–380. 22 indexed citations

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Need, Anna C., Kourosh R. Ahmadi, Tim D. Spector, & David B. Goldstein. (2005). Obesity is Associated with Genetic Variants That Alter Dopamine Availability. Annals of Human Genetics. 70(3). 293–303. 59 indexed citations

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Need, Anna C., Arno G. Motulsky, & David B. Goldstein. (2005). Priorities and standards in pharmacogenetic research. Nature Genetics. 37(7). 671–681. 79 indexed citations

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Need, Anna C. & Karl-Peter Giese. (2003). Handling and environmental enrichment do not rescue learning and memory impairments in αCamKII^T286A mutant mice. Genes Brain & Behavior. 2(3). 132–139. 39 indexed citations

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Need, Anna C., Elaine E. Irvine, & Karl-Peter Giese. (2003). Learning and memory impairments in K_vβ1.1‐null mutants are rescued by environmental enrichment or ageing. European Journal of Neuroscience. 18(6). 1640–1644. 20 indexed citations

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