Benjamin M. Neale

214.3k citations

165 papers · 42.0k indexed · 15 hit papers · h-index 55

Impact in

Genetics top 0.01%
- Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
- Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals
- Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock
- Genetic diversity and population structure
- Genomics and Rare Diseases
- Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders
Cancer Research top 0.5%
- Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research

Papers in

Genetics 116
- Genetic Associations and Epidemiology 90
- Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals 31
- Genomics and Rare Diseases 30
- Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock 20
- Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders 17
- Genomic variations and chromosomal abnormalities 16
Psychiatry and Mental health 15
- Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder 12

Co-authors: Mark J. Daly Pak C. Sham Shaun Purcell Paul I. W. de Bakker Manuel A. R. Ferreira Julian Maller Pamela Sklar Katherine EO Todd-Brown
Journals: Nature Genetics (18 papers)European Neuropsychopharmacology (16 papers)The American Journal of Human Genetics (12 papers)Molecular Psychiatry (10 papers)American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B Neuropsychiatric Genetics (8 papers)
Partner nations: United States United Kingdom Netherlands

In The Last Decade

Benjamin M. Neale

159 papers receiving 41.6k citations

Hit Papers

15 papers align trajectories log scale

Getting genetic ancestry right for science and society 2022 · 105 citations

What are hit papers?

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.

2022 Science
2020 Nature Medicine
2019 Science
2019 eLife
2019 Nature Genetics
2019 Nature Genetics
2018 Nature Genetics
2018 Nature Genetics
2017 The American Journal of Human Genetics
2017 Nature Genetics
2016 Bioinformatics
2015 Nature Genetics
2015 Nature Genetics
2011 PLoS Genetics
2007 The American Journal of Human Genetics

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Co-authors

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All Works

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1	Ancestry: How researchers use it and what they mean by it Frontiers in Genetics ·Bege Dauda, Santiago J. Molina, Danielle S. Allen, Agustín Fuentes, Nayanika Ghosh, Madelyn Mauro, Benjamin M. Neale, Aaron Panofsky, Mashaal Sohail, Sarah Zhang, Anna Lewis	2023	11
2	CHARR efficiently estimates contamination from DNA sequencing data The American Journal of Human Genetics ·Wenhan Lu, Laura D. Gauthier, Timothy Poterba, Edoardo Giacopuzzi, Julia K. Goodrich, Christine Stevens, Daniel King, Mark J. Daly, Benjamin M. Neale, Konrad J. Karczewski	2023	4
3	Patterns of item nonresponse behaviour to survey questionnaires are systematic and associated with genetic loci Nature Human Behaviour ·Gianmarco Mignogna, Caitlin E. Carey, Robbee Wedow, Nikolas Baya, Mattia Cordioli, Nicola Pirastu, Rino Bellocco, Kathryn Fiuza Malerbi, Michel G. Nivard, Benjamin M. Neale, Raymond K. Walters, Andrea Ganna	2023	14
4	Ancestry may confound genetic machine learning: Candidate-gene prediction of opioid use disorder as an example Drug and Alcohol Dependence ·Alexander S. Hatoum, Frank R. Wendt, Marco Galimberti, Renato Polimanti, Benjamin M. Neale, Henry R. Kranzler, Joel Gelernter, Howard J. Edenberg, Arpana Agrawal	2021	10
5	A data harmonization pipeline to leverage external controls and boost power in GWAS Human Molecular Genetics ·Danfeng Chen, Katherine Tashman, Duncan S. Palmer, Benjamin M. Neale, Kathryn Roeder, Alex Bloemendal, Claire Churchhouse, Zheng Tracy Ke	2021	5
6	Problems With Using Polygenic Scores to Select Embryos Obstetrical & Gynecological Survey ·Patrick Turley, Michelle N. Meyer, Nancy Wang, David Cesarini, Evelynn M. Hammonds, Alicia R. Martin, Benjamin M. Neale, Heidi L. Rehm, Louise Wilkins‐Haug, Daniel J. Benjamin, Steven E. Hyman, David Laibson, Peter M. Visscher	2021	2
7	Clinical Conditions and Their Impact on Utility of Genetic Scores for Prediction of Acute Coronary Syndrome Circulation Genomic and Precision Medicine ·Jiwoo Lee, Tuomo Kiiskinen, Nina Mars, Sakari Jukarainen, Erik Ingelsson, Benjamin M. Neale, Samuli Ripatti, Pradeep Natarajan, Andrea Ganna	2021	4
8	Human genetic analyses of organelles highlight the nucleus in age-related trait heritability eLife ·Rahul Gupta, Konrad J. Karczewski, Daniel P. Howrigan, Benjamin M. Neale, Vamsi K. Mootha	2021	9
9	Mapping and characterization of structural variation in 17,795 human genomes Nature ·Haley Abel, David E. Larson, Allison Regier, Colby Chiang, Indraniel Das, Krishna Kanchi, Ryan M. Layer, Benjamin M. Neale, William Salerno, Catherine Reeves, Steven Buyske, Tara C. Matise, Donna M. Muzny, Michael C. Zody, Eric S. Lander, Susan K. Dutcher, Nathan O. Stitziel, Ira M. Hall	2020	148
10	A global overview of pleiotropy and genetic architecture in complex traits Nature Genetics ·Kyoko Watanabe, Sven Stringer, Oleksandr Frei, Maša Umićević Mirkov, Christiaan de Leeuw, Tinca J. C. Polderman, Sophie van der Sluis, Ole A. Andreassen, Benjamin M. Neale, Daniëlle Posthuma Hit paper breakdown →	2019	670
11	Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and lifetime cannabis use: genetic overlap and causality Molecular Psychiatry ·María Soler Artigas, Cristina Sánchez‐Mora, Paula Rovira, Vanesa Richarte, Iris Garcia‐Martínez, Mireia Pagerols, Ditte Demontis, Sven Stringer, Jacqueline M. Vink, Anders D. Børglum, Benjamin M. Neale, Barbara Franke, Stephen V. Faraone, Miguel Casas, Josep Antoni Ramos‐Quiroga, Marta Ribasès	2019	61
12	Quantifying the Impact of Rare and Ultra-rare Coding Variation across the Phenotypic Spectrum Työväentutkimus Vuosikirja ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Andrea Ganna, Mitja Kurki, Aki S. Havulinna, Elmo Saarentaus, Samuli Ripatti, Eija Hämäläinen, Jukka S. Moilanen, Outi Kuismin, Aarno Palotie, Benjamin M. Neale	2018	54
13	PhenoSpD: an integrated toolkit for phenotypic correlation estimation and multiple testing correction using GWAS summary statistics GigaScience ·Jie Zheng, Tom G. Richardson, Louise A C Millard, Gibran Hemani, Benjamin Elsworth, Christopher Raistrick, Bjarni J. Vilhjálmsson, Benjamin M. Neale, Philip Haycock, George Davey Smith, Tom R. Gaunt	2018	40
14	Functional equivalence of genome sequencing analysis pipelines enables harmonized variant calling across human genetics projects Nature Communications ·Allison Regier, Yossi Farjoun, David E. Larson, Olga Krasheninina, Hyun Min Kang, Daniel P. Howrigan, Bo-Juen Chen, Manisha Kher, Eric Banks, Darren C. Ames, Adam C. English, Heng Li, Jinchuan Xing, Yeting Zhang, Tara C. Matise, Gonçalo R. Abecasis, Will Salerno, Michael C. Zody, Benjamin M. Neale, Ira M. Hall	2018	73
15	Genetic Effect of Chemotherapy Exposure in Children of Testicular Cancer Survivors Clinical Cancer Research ·Gregory V. Kryukov, Craig M. Bielski, Kaitlin E. Samocha, Menachem Fromer, Sara Seepo, Carleen Gentry, Benjamin M. Neale, Levi A. Garraway, Christopher J. Sweeney, Mary‐Ellen Taplin, Eliezer M. Van Allen	2015	14
16	Detecting large copy number variants using exome genotyping arrays in a large Swedish schizophrenia sample Molecular Psychiatry ·Jin Szatkiewicz, Benjamin M. Neale, C O'Dushlaine, Menachem Fromer, Jacqueline I. Goldstein, Jennifer L. Moran, Kimberly Chambert, A Kähler, Patrik K. E. Magnusson, C M Hultman, Pamela Sklar, Shaun Purcell, Steven A. McCarroll, Patrick F. Sullivan	2013	21
17	The Value of Four Mental Health Self-Report Scales in Predicting Interview-Based Mood and Anxiety Disorder Diagnoses in Sibling Pairs Twin Research and Human Genetics ·R Williamson, Benjamin M. Neale, Abram Sterne, Martin Prince, Pak C. Sham	2005	6
18	The Value of Four Mental Health Self-Report Scales in Predicting Interview-Based Mood and Anxiety Disorder Diagnoses in Sibling Pairs Twin Research and Human Genetics ·R Williamson, Benjamin M. Neale, Abram Sterne, Martin Prince, Pak C. Sham	2005	8
19	A Twin Study of Dietary Restraint, Disinhibition and Hunger: An Examination of the Eating Inventory (Three Factor Eating Questionnaire) Twin Research ·Benjamin M. Neale, Suzanne E. Mazzeo, Cynthia M. Bulik	2003	72
20	A Twin Study of Dietary Restraint, Disinhibition and Hunger: An Examination of the Eating Inventory (Three Factor Eating Questionnaire) Twin Research ·Benjamin M. Neale, Suzanne E. Mazzeo, Cynthia M. Bulik	2003	2

About Benjamin M. Neale

Benjamin M. Neale is a scholar working on Genetics, Psychiatry and Mental health, Molecular Biology, Cognitive Neuroscience and Clinical Psychology, having authored 165 papers that have together received 42.0k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (90 papers), Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals (31 papers), Genomics and Rare Diseases (30 papers), Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock (20 papers), Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders (17 papers), Genomic variations and chromosomal abnormalities (16 papers), Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks (15 papers) and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (12 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Genetics (24.7k citations), Cancer Research (2.7k citations), Molecular Biology (12.4k citations), Biological Psychiatry (446 citations) and Psychiatry and Mental health (2.3k citations). Benjamin M. Neale has collaborated with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Netherlands. Frequent co-authors include Mark J. Daly, Pak C. Sham, Shaun Purcell, Paul I. W. de Bakker, Manuel A. R. Ferreira, Julian Maller, Pamela Sklar, Katherine EO Todd-Brown, D.B. Bender and Ron Do. Their work appears in journals such as Nature Genetics, European Neuropsychopharmacology, The American Journal of Human Genetics, Molecular Psychiatry and American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B Neuropsychiatric Genetics.

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