Aris Baras

24.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
46 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

Aris Baras is a scholar working on Genetics, Molecular Biology and Epidemiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Aris Baras has authored 46 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Genetics, 17 papers in Molecular Biology and 9 papers in Epidemiology. Recurrent topics in Aris Baras's work include Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (10 papers), Genomics and Rare Diseases (4 papers) and Lipoproteins and Cardiovascular Health (4 papers). Aris Baras is often cited by papers focused on Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (10 papers), Genomics and Rare Diseases (4 papers) and Lipoproteins and Cardiovascular Health (4 papers). Aris Baras collaborates with scholars based in United States, Sweden and France. Aris Baras's co-authors include Jeffrey G. Reid, Manuel A. R. Ferreira, John D. Overton, Gonçalo R. Abecasis, Colm O’Dushlaine, Evan K. Maxwell, Lukas Habegger, Joshua Backman, Anthony Marcketta and Jonathan Marchini and has published in prestigious journals such as Circulation, Nature Communications and Nature Genetics.

In The Last Decade

Aris Baras

43 papers receiving 1.9k 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.

Computationally efficient whole-genome regression for quantitative and binary traits

2021 512 citations Joelle Mbatchou, Joshua Backman et al. Nature Genetics profile →
Genome-wide association study of alcohol consumption and use disorder in 274,424 individuals from multiple populations

2019 283 citations Henry R. Kranzler, Hang Zhou et al. Nature Communications profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Aris Baras United States	21	757	669	278	216	195	46	1.9k
Praveen Surendran United Kingdom	7	1.1k 1.4×	721 1.1×	349 1.3×	271 1.3×	350 1.8×	26	2.4k
Todd L. Edwards United States	30	596 0.8×	750 1.1×	250 0.9×	381 1.8×	222 1.1×	111	2.9k
Mitchell J. Machiela United States	21	993 1.3×	1.1k 1.6×	247 0.9×	221 1.0×	229 1.2×	68	2.7k
Kara L. Cushing‐Haugen United States	25	414 0.5×	496 0.7×	272 1.0×	296 1.4×	134 0.7×	59	2.5k
Amy Jayne McKnight United Kingdom	28	523 0.7×	754 1.1×	151 0.5×	296 1.4×	162 0.8×	124	2.0k
Teresa Ferreira Portugal	18	789 1.0×	571 0.9×	194 0.7×	164 0.8×	125 0.6×	69	2.0k
Jean Morrison United States	8	701 0.9×	538 0.8×	188 0.7×	147 0.7×	172 0.9×	12	1.6k
Sirui Zhou China	24	504 0.7×	640 1.0×	230 0.8×	104 0.5×	242 1.2×	84	1.8k
Jennifer J. Johnston United States	25	1.1k 1.5×	1.3k 1.9×	314 1.1×	189 0.9×	302 1.5×	55	3.1k
Saurabh Ghosh India	31	878 1.2×	892 1.3×	522 1.9×	247 1.1×	382 2.0×	157	2.8k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Aris Baras

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Giontella, Alice, Mikael Åkerlund, Cristiano Fava, et al.. (2024). Deficiency of Peptidylglycine-alpha-amidating Monooxygenase, a Cause of Sarcopenic Diabetes Mellitus. The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. 110(3). 820–829. 5 indexed citations

Gaynor, Sheila M., Tyler Joseph, Yuxin Zou, et al.. (2024). Yield of genetic association signals from genomes, exomes and imputation in the UK Biobank. Nature Genetics. 56(11). 2345–2351. 6 indexed citations

Plym, Anna, Yiwen Zhang, Konrad H. Stopsack, et al.. (2024). Early Prostate Cancer Deaths Among Men With Higher vs Lower Genetic Risk. JAMA Network Open. 7(7). e2420034–e2420034. 7 indexed citations

Ziyatdinov, Andrey, Joelle Mbatchou, Anthony Marcketta, et al.. (2024). Joint testing of rare variant burden scores using non-negative least squares. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 111(10). 2139–2149. 4 indexed citations

Carruth, Eric, Amro Alsaid, Melissa Kelly, et al.. (2022). Loss-of-Function FLNC Variants Are Associated With Arrhythmogenic Cardiomyopathy Phenotypes When Identified Through Exome Sequencing of a General Clinical Population. Circulation Genomic and Precision Medicine. 15(4). e003645–e003645. 15 indexed citations

Giontella, Alice, Luca A. Lotta, Aris Baras, et al.. (2022). Calcium, Its Regulatory Hormones, and Their Causal Role on Blood Pressure: A Two-Sample Mendelian Randomization Study. The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. 107(11). 3080–3085. 4 indexed citations

Giontella, Alice, Luca A. Lotta, John D. Overton, et al.. (2022). THE CAUSAL ROLE OF SERUM CALCIUM, PTH AND FGF23 ON BLOOD PRESSURE: A TWO-SAMPLE MENDELIAN RANDOMIZATION. Journal of Hypertension. 40(Suppl 1). e39–e40.

Wan, Xuesi, James A. Perry, Haichen Zhang, et al.. (2021). Heterozygosity for a Pathogenic Variant in SLC12A3 That Causes Autosomal Recessive Gitelman Syndrome Is Associated with Lower Serum Potassium. Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. 32(3). 756–765. 11 indexed citations

Lee, David S.M., Joseph Park, Aris Baras, et al.. (2021). Disrupting upstream translation in mRNAs is associated with human disease. Nature Communications. 12(1). 1515–1515. 38 indexed citations

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Giontella, Alice, Luca A. Lotta, John D. Overton, et al.. (2021). Causal Effect of Adiposity Measures on Blood Pressure Traits in 2 Urban Swedish Cohorts: A Mendelian Randomization Study. Journal of the American Heart Association. 10(13). e020405–e020405. 7 indexed citations

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Sun, Jiangming, Yunpeng Wang, Lasse Folkersen, et al.. (2021). Translating polygenic risk scores for clinical use by estimating the confidence bounds of risk prediction. Nature Communications. 12(1). 5276–5276. 15 indexed citations

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Kozlitina, Julia, Sonia Garg, Mark H. Drazner, et al.. (2021). Clinical Implications of the Amyloidogenic V122I Transthyretin Variant in the General Population. Journal of Cardiac Failure. 28(3). 403–414. 12 indexed citations

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Gao, Chuan, Anthony Marcketta, Joshua Backman, et al.. (2021). Genome‐wide association analysis of serum alanine and aspartate aminotransferase, and the modifying effects of BMI in 388k European individuals. Genetic Epidemiology. 45(6). 664–681. 9 indexed citations

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Gelfman, Sahar, Dominique Monnet, Ann J. Ligocki, et al.. (2021). ERAP1, ERAP2, and Two Copies of HLA-Aw19 Alleles Increase the Risk for Birdshot Chorioretinopathy in HLA-A29 Carriers. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science. 62(14). 3–3. 9 indexed citations

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Bowman, Louise, Aris Baras, Robert M. Califf, et al.. (2020). Understanding the use of observational and randomized data in cardiovascular medicine. European Heart Journal. 41(27). 2571–2578. 21 indexed citations

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Giontella, Alice, Marketa Sjögren, Luca A. Lotta, et al.. (2020). Clinical Evaluation of the Polygenetic Background of Blood Pressure in the Population-Based Setting. Hypertension. 77(1). 169–177. 14 indexed citations

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Kranzler, Henry R., Hang Zhou, Rachel L. Kember, et al.. (2019). Genome-wide association study of alcohol consumption and use disorder in 274,424 individuals from multiple populations. Nature Communications. 10(1). 1499–1499. 283 indexed citations breakdown →

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Damask, Amy, Philippe Gabríel Steg, Gregory G. Schwartz, et al.. (2019). Patients With High Genome-Wide Polygenic Risk Scores for Coronary Artery Disease May Receive Greater Clinical Benefit From Alirocumab Treatment in the ODYSSEY OUTCOMES Trial. Circulation. 141(8). 624–636. 146 indexed citations

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Aird, Katherine M., Aris Baras, Jun-Ping Wei, et al.. (2008). Trastuzumab signaling in ErbB2-overexpressing inflammatory breast cancer correlates with X-linked inhibitor of apoptosis protein expression. Molecular Cancer Therapeutics. 7(1). 38–47. 54 indexed citations

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Reddy, Rishindra M., Wen-Shuz Yeow, Duc Nguyen, et al.. (2006). Rapid and profound potentiation of Apo2L/TRAIL-mediated cytotoxicity and apoptosis in thoracic cancer cells by the histone deacetylase inhibitor Trichostatin A: the essential role of the mitochondria-mediated caspase activation cascade. APOPTOSIS. 12(1). 55–71. 29 indexed citations

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