Christian Benner

10.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
24 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Christian Benner is a scholar working on Genetics, Molecular Biology and Physiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Christian Benner has authored 24 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Genetics, 9 papers in Molecular Biology and 5 papers in Physiology. Recurrent topics in Christian Benner's work include Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (12 papers), Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals (5 papers) and Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock (4 papers). Christian Benner is often cited by papers focused on Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (12 papers), Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals (5 papers) and Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock (4 papers). Christian Benner collaborates with scholars based in Finland, United Kingdom and United States. Christian Benner's co-authors include Matti Pirinen, Samuli Ripatti, Veikko Salomaa, Aki S. Havulinna, Chris C. A. Spencer, Boris Boutkov, Colm O’Dushlaine, Leland Barnard, Jonathan Marchini and Jack A. Kosmicki and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Genetics, Bioinformatics and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Christian Benner

22 papers receiving 1.6k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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, Leland Barnard et al. Nature Genetics profile →
FINEMAP: efficient variable selection using summary data from genome-wide association studies

2016 350 citations Christian Benner, Chris C. A. Spencer et al. Bioinformatics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Christian Benner Finland	15	860	646	177	126	112	24	1.6k
Marcia M. Nizzari United States	4	804 0.9×	676 1.0×	103 0.6×	93 0.7×	78 0.7×	4	1.5k
Emily Bowler-Barnett United Kingdom	7	712 0.8×	794 1.2×	91 0.5×	116 0.9×	73 0.7×	10	1.4k
Emma Hastings United Kingdom	3	754 0.9×	1.1k 1.7×	107 0.6×	128 1.0×	76 0.7×	3	1.9k
Zoë May Pendlington United Kingdom	2	706 0.8×	715 1.1×	88 0.5×	113 0.9×	68 0.6×	2	1.3k
Judong Shen United States	13	581 0.7×	580 0.9×	140 0.8×	139 1.1×	139 1.2×	30	1.6k
Laurent Essioux Switzerland	18	672 0.8×	600 0.9×	101 0.6×	113 0.9×	86 0.8×	32	1.7k
Annalisa Milano Italy	14	726 0.8×	916 1.4×	103 0.6×	121 1.0×	96 0.9×	22	1.8k
Christopher J. Groves United Kingdom	20	569 0.7×	459 0.7×	181 1.0×	135 1.1×	302 2.7×	33	1.3k
Gleb Kichaev United States	15	1.3k 1.5×	977 1.5×	114 0.6×	106 0.8×	47 0.4×	23	1.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Christian Benner

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Fields of papers citing papers by Christian Benner

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Christian Benner

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Christian Benner. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Christian Benner 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 Christian Benner. Christian Benner is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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20 of 20 papers shown

Benner, Christian, Diana Chang, Flaviyan Jerome Irudayanathan, et al.. (2025). Integration of biobank-scale genetics and plasma proteomics reveals evidence for causal processes in asthma risk and heterogeneity. Cell Genomics. 5(5). 100840–100840. 3 indexed citations

Pouget, Jennie G., Caryn Lerman, Jo Knight, et al.. (2024). Fine-mapping the CYP2A6 regional association with nicotine metabolism among African American smokers. Molecular Psychiatry. 30(3). 943–953.

Lemmelä, Susanna, Eleanor M. Wigmore, Christian Benner, et al.. (2022). Integrated analyses of growth differentiation factor-15 concentration and cardiometabolic diseases in humans. eLife. 11. 14 indexed citations

Forgetta, Vincenzo, Lai Jiang, Nicholas A. Vulpescu, et al.. (2022). An effector index to predict target genes at GWAS loci. Human Genetics. 141(8). 1431–1447. 28 indexed citations

Mbatchou, Joelle, Leland Barnard, Joshua Backman, et al.. (2021). Computationally efficient whole-genome regression for quantitative and binary traits. Nature Genetics. 53(7). 1097–1103. 512 indexed citations breakdown →

Ripatti, Pietari, Joel Rämö, Nina Mars, et al.. (2020). Polygenic Hyperlipidemias and Coronary Artery Disease Risk. UTUPub (University of Turku). 55 indexed citations

Buchwald, Jadwiga, Meghan J. Chenoweth, Teemu Palviainen, et al.. (2020). Genome-wide association meta-analysis of nicotine metabolism and cigarette consumption measures in smokers of European descent. Molecular Psychiatry. 26(6). 2212–2223. 37 indexed citations

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

Ulirsch, Jacob C., Caleb A. Lareau, Erik L. Bao, et al.. (2019). Interrogation of human hematopoiesis at single-cell and single-variant resolution. Nature Genetics. 51(4). 683–693. 102 indexed citations

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Romani, Rossana, et al.. (2018). Non-operative meningiomas: long-term follow-up of 136 patients. Acta Neurochirurgica. 160(8). 1547–1553. 21 indexed citations

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Pirinen, Matti, Christian Benner, Pekka Marttinen, et al.. (2017). biMM: efficient estimation of genetic variances and covariances for cohorts with high-dimensional phenotype measurements. Bioinformatics. 33(15). 2405–2407. 5 indexed citations

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Benner, Christian, Aki S. Havulinna, Marjo‐Riitta Järvelin, et al.. (2017). Prospects of Fine-Mapping Trait-Associated Genomic Regions by Using Summary Statistics from Genome-wide Association Studies. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 101(4). 539–551. 122 indexed citations

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Benner, Christian, Chris C. A. Spencer, Aki S. Havulinna, et al.. (2016). FINEMAP: efficient variable selection using summary data from genome-wide association studies. Bioinformatics. 32(10). 1493–1501. 350 indexed citations breakdown →

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Lemmelä, Susanna, Svetlana Solovieva, Rahman Shiri, et al.. (2016). Genome-Wide Meta-Analysis of Sciatica in Finnish Population. PLoS ONE. 11(10). e0163877–e0163877. 19 indexed citations

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Bychkov, Dmitrii, Christian Benner, Samuli Ripatti, et al.. (2015). Genome-Wide Analysis of Evolutionary Markers of Human Influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 and A(H3N2) Viruses May Guide Selection of Vaccine Strain Candidates. Genome Biology and Evolution. 7(12). 3472–3483. 22 indexed citations

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Šaulienė, Ingrida, Christian Benner, Auksė Zinkevičienė, et al.. (2015). Genetic Loci Associated with Allergic Sensitization in Lithuanians. PLoS ONE. 10(7). e0134188–e0134188. 2 indexed citations

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Romani, Rossana, Weijun Tang, Ying Mao, et al.. (2014). Diffusion tensor magnetic resonance imaging for predicting the consistency of intracranial meningiomas. Acta Neurochirurgica. 156(10). 1837–1845. 34 indexed citations

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Wikman, Harriet, Katrin Lamszus, Christian Benner, et al.. (2012). Relevance of PTEN loss in brain metastasis formation in breast cancer patients. Breast Cancer Research. 14(2). R49–R49. 79 indexed citations

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Benner, Christian, et al.. (1985). Identification and Incidence of Pepper Viruses in Northeastern Georgia. Plant Disease. 69(11). 999–1001. 15 indexed citations

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Kuhn, C. W., et al.. (1984). Identification and Incidence of Peanut Viruses in Georgia1. Peanut Science. 11(2). 67–69. 4 indexed citations

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