Armin Schoech

4.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
9 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Armin Schoech is a scholar working on Genetics, Molecular Biology and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Armin Schoech has authored 9 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in Genetics, 5 papers in Molecular Biology and 1 paper in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Armin Schoech's work include Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (8 papers), Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals (4 papers) and Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks (3 papers). Armin Schoech is often cited by papers focused on Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (8 papers), Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals (4 papers) and Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks (3 papers). Armin Schoech collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and France. Armin Schoech's co-authors include Steven Gazal, Alkes L. Price, Po‐Ru Loh, Hilary K. Finucane, Gleb Kichaev, Kathryn S. Burch, Gaurav Bhatia, Bogdan Paşaniuc, Malika Freund and Luke J. O’Connor and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Nature Genetics and The American Journal of Human Genetics.

In The Last Decade

Armin Schoech

9 papers receiving 1.3k citations

Hit Papers

Leveraging Polygenic Functional Enrichment to Improve GWA... 2018 2026 2020 2023 2018 100 200 300 400
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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.

  1. Leveraging Polygenic Functional Enrichment to Improve GWAS Power
    2018 485 citations Gleb Kichaev, Gaurav Bhatia et al. The American Journal of Human Genetics profile →

Peers

Armin Schoech
Eliana Hechter United States
Luke R. Lloyd‐Jones Australia
Tomaz Berisa United States
Luke J. O’Connor United States
Colm O’Dushlaine United States
Nikunj Patel United States
Jian Zeng Australia
Malika Freund United States
Nasa Sinnott-Armstrong United States
Roman Kosoy United States
Eliana Hechter United States
Armin Schoech
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Countries citing papers authored by Armin Schoech

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Fields of papers citing papers by Armin Schoech

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Armin Schoech

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Armin Schoech. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Armin Schoech based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Armin Schoech. Armin Schoech is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

9 of 9 papers shown
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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
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Weissbrod, Omer, Farhad Hormozdiari, Christian Benner, et al.. (2020). Functionally informed fine-mapping and polygenic localization of complex trait heritability. Nature Genetics. 52(12). 1355–1363. 140 indexed citations
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Schoech, Armin, Daniel M. Jordan, Po‐Ru Loh, et al.. (2019). Quantification of frequency-dependent genetic architectures in 25 UK Biobank traits reveals action of negative selection. Nature Communications. 10(1). 790–790. 71 indexed citations
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O’Connor, Luke J., Armin Schoech, Farhad Hormozdiari, et al.. (2019). Extreme Polygenicity of Complex Traits Is Explained by Negative Selection. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 105(3). 456–476. 130 indexed citations
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Hormozdiari, Farhad, Steven Gazal, Bryce van de Geijn, et al.. (2018). Leveraging molecular quantitative trait loci to understand the genetic architecture of diseases and complex traits. Nature Genetics. 50(7). 1041–1047. 93 indexed citations
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Kichaev, Gleb, Gaurav Bhatia, Po‐Ru Loh, et al.. (2018). Leveraging Polygenic Functional Enrichment to Improve GWAS Power. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 104(1). 65–75. 485 indexed citations breakdown →
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Gazal, Steven, Po‐Ru Loh, Hilary K. Finucane, et al.. (2018). Functional architecture of low-frequency variants highlights strength of negative selection across coding and non-coding annotations. Nature Genetics. 50(11). 1600–1607. 78 indexed citations
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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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Schlüter, Jonas, Armin Schoech, Kevin R. Foster, & Sara Mitri. (2016). The Evolution of Quorum Sensing as a Mechanism to Infer Kinship. PLoS Computational Biology. 12(4). e1004848–e1004848. 50 indexed citations

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