Christian M. Shaffer

8.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
52 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Christian M. Shaffer is a scholar working on Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Molecular Biology and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Christian M. Shaffer has authored 52 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, 15 papers in Molecular Biology and 13 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Christian M. Shaffer's work include Cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias (9 papers), Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (9 papers) and Ion channel regulation and function (5 papers). Christian M. Shaffer is often cited by papers focused on Cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias (9 papers), Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (9 papers) and Ion channel regulation and function (5 papers). Christian M. Shaffer collaborates with scholars based in United States, Denmark and France. Christian M. Shaffer's co-authors include Dan M. Roden, Jonathan D. Mosley, Joshua C. Denny, Quinn S. Wells, Jason H. Karnes, Jessica Delaney, Sara L. Van Driest, Josiane E. Eid, Jason H. Moore and Andrew M. Glazer and has published in prestigious journals such as JAMA, Circulation and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Christian M. Shaffer

51 papers receiving 1.4k 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.

Predictive Accuracy of a Polygenic Risk Score Compared With a Clinical Risk Score for Incident Coronary Heart Disease

2020 186 citations Jonathan D. Mosley, Deepak K. Gupta et al. JAMA profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Christian M. Shaffer United States	22	457	395	328	197	154	52	1.4k
Jonathan D. Mosley United States	24	725 1.6×	436 1.1×	444 1.4×	268 1.4×	167 1.1×	91	2.0k
Yozo Ohnishi Japan	15	612 1.3×	422 1.1×	467 1.4×	242 1.2×	407 2.6×	28	1.9k
Chun‐Gyoo Ihm South Korea	23	421 0.9×	211 0.5×	136 0.4×	261 1.3×	264 1.7×	56	1.5k
Kimihiko Kato Japan	26	829 1.8×	376 1.0×	406 1.2×	289 1.5×	167 1.1×	83	1.9k
Gopala K. Rangan Australia	22	751 1.6×	126 0.3×	558 1.7×	281 1.4×	235 1.5×	85	2.2k
Axel Muendlein Austria	24	615 1.3×	299 0.8×	227 0.7×	255 1.3×	128 0.8×	124	1.7k
Hideki Oka Japan	18	692 1.5×	338 0.9×	328 1.0×	338 1.7×	124 0.8×	87	1.8k
R Thomas Lumbers United Kingdom	17	481 1.1×	377 1.0×	245 0.7×	153 0.8×	56 0.4×	30	1.3k
Raghu Durvasula United States	20	542 1.2×	216 0.5×	296 0.9×	164 0.8×	202 1.3×	26	1.8k
Joseph F. Solus United States	29	714 1.6×	659 1.7×	180 0.5×	211 1.1×	486 3.2×	58	2.7k

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Ullah, Rizwan, Matthew J. O’Neill, Giovanni Davogustto, et al.. (2025). Generation of human induced pluripotent stem cell (hiPSC) lines from patients with extreme high and low polygenic scores for QT interval. Stem Cell Research. 84. 103691–103691.

Liu, Ge, Lan Jiang, V. Eric Kerchberger, et al.. (2023). The relationship between high density lipoprotein cholesterol and sepsis: A clinical and genetic approach. Clinical and Translational Science. 16(3). 489–501. 5 indexed citations

Jiang, Lan, V. Eric Kerchberger, Christian M. Shaffer, et al.. (2022). Genome-wide association analyses of common infections in a large practice-based biobank. BMC Genomics. 23(1). 672–672. 6 indexed citations

Wada, Yuko, Tao Yang, Christian M. Shaffer, et al.. (2022). Common Ancestry-Specific Ion Channel Variants Predispose to Drug-Induced Arrhythmias. Circulation. 145(4). 299–308. 13 indexed citations

Wells, Quinn S., Minoo Bagheri, Aaron W. Aday, et al.. (2021). Polygenic Risk Score to Identify Subclinical Coronary Heart Disease Risk in Young Adults. Circulation Genomic and Precision Medicine. 14(5). e003341–e003341. 14 indexed citations

Zheng, Neil S., Cosby A. Stone, Lan Jiang, et al.. (2021). High-throughput framework for genetic analyses of adverse drug reactions using electronic health records. PLoS Genetics. 17(6). e1009593–e1009593. 7 indexed citations

Mosley, Jonathan D., Deepak K. Gupta, Jingyi Tan, et al.. (2020). Predictive Accuracy of a Polygenic Risk Score Compared With a Clinical Risk Score for Incident Coronary Heart Disease. JAMA. 323(7). 627–627. 186 indexed citations breakdown →

Bajaj, Archna, Chengxiang Qiu, Aeron Small, et al.. (2020). Phenome-wide association analysis suggests the APOL1 linked disease spectrum primarily drives kidney-specific pathways. Kidney International. 97(5). 1032–1041. 17 indexed citations

Bretagne, Marie, Bénédicte Lebrun‐Vignes, Alexandre Pariente, et al.. (2019). Heart failure and atrial tachyarrhythmia on abiraterone: A pharmacovigilance study. Archives of cardiovascular diseases. 113(1). 9–21. 31 indexed citations

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Feng, QiPing, Wei‐Qi Wei, Sandip Chaugai, et al.. (2019). A Genetic Approach to the Association Between PCSK9 and Sepsis. JAMA Network Open. 2(9). e1911130–e1911130. 22 indexed citations

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Karnes, Jason H., Lisa Bastarache, Christian M. Shaffer, et al.. (2017). Phenome-wide scanning identifies multiple diseases and disease severity phenotypes associated with HLA variants. Science Translational Medicine. 9(389). 74 indexed citations

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Karnes, Jason H., Christian M. Shaffer, Lisa Bastarache, et al.. (2017). Comparison of HLA allelic imputation programs. PLoS ONE. 12(2). e0172444–e0172444. 44 indexed citations

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Stroud, Dina Myers, Tao Yang, Kevin Bersell, et al.. (2016). Contrasting Nav1.8 Activity in Scn10a ^−/− Ventricular Myocytes and the Intact Heart. Journal of the American Heart Association. 5(11). 21 indexed citations

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McGeachie, Michael J., Ann Chen Wu, Sze Man Tse, et al.. (2015). CTNNA3 and SEMA3D: Promising loci for asthma exacerbation identified through multiple genome-wide association studies. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. 136(6). 1503–1510. 34 indexed citations

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Karnes, Jason H., Robert M. Cronin, Jérôme Rollin, et al.. (2014). A genome-wide association study of heparin-induced thrombocyto - penia using an electronic medical record. Thrombosis and Haemostasis. 113(4). 772–781. 42 indexed citations

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Weeke, Peter, Raafia Muhammad, Jessica Delaney, et al.. (2014). Whole-exome sequencing in familial atrial fibrillation. European Heart Journal. 35(36). 2477–2483. 31 indexed citations

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McElroy, Jude J., Christian M. Shaffer, Tamara Busch, et al.. (2013). Maternal coding variants in complement receptor 1 and spontaneous idiopathic preterm birth. Human Genetics. 132(8). 935–942. 35 indexed citations

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Ramirez, Andrea H., Christian M. Shaffer, Jessica Delaney, et al.. (2012). Novel rare variants in congenital cardiac arrhythmia genes are frequent in drug-induced torsades de pointes. The Pharmacogenomics Journal. 13(4). 325–329. 48 indexed citations

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Guo, Yan, Qiuyin Cai, David C. Samuels, et al.. (2012). The use of next generation sequencing technology to study the effect of radiation therapy on mitochondrial DNA mutation. Mutation Research/Genetic Toxicology and Environmental Mutagenesis. 744(2). 154–160. 39 indexed citations

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Fox, Rebecca M., Stephen E. Von Stetina, Christian M. Shaffer, et al.. (2005). A gene expression fingerprint of C. elegans embryonic motor neurons. BMC Genomics. 6(1). 42–42. 105 indexed citations

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