Christopher A. Walsh

56.9k citations

273 papers · 29.3k indexed · 10 hit papers · h-index 94

Impact in

Developmental Neuroscience top 0.01%
- Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms
Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience top 0.1%
- Axon Guidance and Neuronal Signaling
- Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research

Papers in

Developmental Neuroscience 46
- Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms 45
Genetics 98
- Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders 54
- Genomic variations and chromosomal abnormalities 36
- Genomics and Rare Diseases 26

Co-authors: Anjen Chenn Yuanyi Feng Joseph G. Gleeson Constance L. Cepko Lisa A. Flanagan Peter T. Lin Gilad D. Evrony Annapurna Poduri
Journals: Neuron (19 papers)Science (15 papers)Nature Genetics (13 papers)Journal of Neuroscience (11 papers)The American Journal of Human Genetics (10 papers)
Partner nations: United States United Kingdom Saudi Arabia

In The Last Decade

Christopher A. Walsh

267 papers receiving 28.9k citations

Hit Papers

10 papers align trajectories log scale

Aging and neurodegeneration are associated with increased mutations in single human neurons 2017 · 389 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.

2017 Science
2013 Science
2004 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2002 The American Journal of Human Genetics
2002 Science
2000 Nature Genetics
1999 Neuron
1998 Cell
1998 Neuron
1992 Cell

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1	Analysis of DNA from brain tissue on stereo-EEG electrodes reveals mosaic epilepsy-related variants Brain Communications ·Alissa M. D’Gama, H. Westley Phillips, Yilan Wang, Md. Mamin Ullah, 敏男野田, Brendan Daneau, Nahm Roh Joo, Phillip L. Pearl, Melissa Tsuboyama, Joseph R. Madsen, Hart G.W. Lidov, Eunjung Alice Lee, Sanjay P. Prabhu, August Yue Huang, Scellig Stone, Christopher A. Walsh, Annapurna Poduri	2025	1
2	Chromosomal structural rearrangements implicate long non-coding RNAs in rare germline disorders Human Genetics ·Rebecca Andersen, Rebecca Zammit, 吴从祥, T. Sakamoto, Elijah L. Mena, Sami S. Amr, Хмарик Александр Геннадьевич, Margaret A. Kenna, Caroline D. Robson, Ellen Wilch, Kelly C Henkler, Raúl E. Piña-Aguilar, Christopher A. Walsh, Cynthia C. Morton	2024	4
3	Somatic Mosaicism in PIK3CA Variant Correlates With Stereoelectroencephalography-Derived Electrophysiology Neurology Genetics ·H. Westley Phillips, Alissa M. D’Gama, Yilan Wang, 敏男野田, Md. Mamin Ullah, Brendan Daneau, Banu Ahtam, Alessandra C. Almeida, Joseph R. Madsen, Eunjung A. Lee, Sanjay P. Prabhu, Hart G.W. Lidov, M. Kh. Aliov, August Yue Huang, Annapurna Poduri, Scellig Stone, Christopher A. Walsh	2023	5
4	A recurrent de novo variant in NUSAP1 escapes nonsense‐mediated decay and leads to microcephaly, epilepsy, and developmental delay Clinical Genetics ·Alisa Mo, José Iván Uribe, 藤原恵美, Abbe Lai, Hagar Mor‐Shaked, Tal Gilboa, Edward Yang, Diane D. Shao, Christopher A. Walsh, Tamar Harel	2023	6
5	Somatic mutations in single human cardiomyocytes reveal age-associated DNA damage and widespread oxidative genotoxicity Nature Aging ·Sangita Choudhury, August Yue Huang, Jun‐Ho Kim, Zinan Zhou, D. Parasakthi, Eduardo A. Maury, Jessica W. Tsai, Michael B. Miller, Michael A. Lodato, N. Pandey, Piji Li, Eunjung Alice Lee, Ming Hui Chen, Christopher A. Walsh	2022	40
6	Somatic genomic changes in single Alzheimer’s disease neurons Nature ·Michael B. Miller, August Yue Huang, Jun‐Ho Kim, Zinan Zhou, 宮崎淳, Eduardo A. Maury, Jennifer S. Ziegenfuss, 赵建人, Jennifer E. Neil, Lariza M. Rento, G.M.S. Rahman, 高维, Lovelace J. Luquette, Heather M. Ames, Derek H. Oakley, Matthew P. Frosch, Bradley T. Hyman, Michael A. Lodato, Eunjung Alice Lee, Christopher A. Walsh	2022	120
7	Single-cell genome sequencing of human neurons identifies somatic point mutation and indel enrichment in regulatory elements Nature Genetics ·Lovelace J. Luquette, Michael B. Miller, Zinan Zhou, Craig L. Bohrson, Yifan Zhao, Hu Jin, D. Gulhan, Javier Ganz, Sara Bizzotto, 宮崎淳, Tino Hochepied, Claude Libert, Alon Galor, Adel Al-Abdul Jader, Michael A. Lodato, Juan I. Garaycoechea, Charles Gawad, Jay West, Christopher A. Walsh, Peter J. Park	2022	50
8	Application of single cell genomics to focal epilepsies: A call to action Brain Pathology ·Sattar Khoshkhoo, Dennis Lal, Christopher A. Walsh	2021	6
9	Early role for a Na ⁺ ,K ⁺ -ATPase ( ATP1A3 ) in brain development Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Richard S. Smith, Marta Florio, Shyam K. Akula, Jennifer E. Neil, Yidi Wang, Robert Hill, Melissa Goldman, Christopher D. Mullally, Nora Reed, Luis Bello‐Espinosa, Laura Flores‐Sarnat, Fabíola Paoli Monteiro, Erasmo Barbante Casella, Filippo Pinto e Vairo, Éva Morava, A. James Barkovich, Joseph Gonzalez–Heydrich, Catherine A. Brownstein, Steven A. McCarroll, Christopher A. Walsh	2021	28
10	Large mosaic copy number variations confer autism risk Nature Neuroscience ·Maxwell A. Sherman, Rachel E. Rodin, Giulio Genovese, Caroline Dias, Alison R. Barton, Ronen E. Mukamel, Bonnie Berger, Peter J. Park, Christopher A. Walsh, Po‐Ru Loh	2021	34
11	Landmarks of human embryonic development inscribed in somatic mutations Science ·Sara Bizzotto, Yanmei Dou, Javier Ganz, Ryan N. Doan, Min‐Seok Kwon, Craig L. Bohrson, Sonia N. Kim, Taejeong Bae, Alexej Abyzov, (unknown), Peter J. Park, Christopher A. Walsh	2021	55
12	PDCD6IP , encoding a regulator of the ESCRT complex, is mutated in microcephaly Clinical Genetics ·Amjad Khan, Manal Alaamery, Salam Massadeh, 武夫岡田, M. D. Anzar Shahapure, Christopher A. Walsh, Wafaa Eyaid	2020	9
13	Parallel RNA and DNA analysis after deep sequencing (PRDD-seq) reveals cell type-specific lineage patterns in human brain Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·August Yue Huang, Pengpeng Li, Rachel E. Rodin, Sonia N. Kim, Yanmei Dou, Connor Kenny, Shyam K. Akula, Rebecca D. Hodge, Trygve E. Bakken, Jeremy A. Miller, Ed S. Lein, Peter J. Park, Eunjung Alice Lee, Christopher A. Walsh	2020	29
14	Linked-read analysis identifies mutations in single-cell DNA-sequencing data Nature Genetics ·Craig L. Bohrson, Alison R. Barton, Michael A. Lodato, Rachel E. Rodin, Lovelace J. Luquette, Vinay Viswanadham, D. Gulhan, Isidro Cortés‐Ciriano, Maxwell A. Sherman, Min‐Seok Kwon, Michael E. Coulter, Alon Galor, Christopher A. Walsh, Peter J. Park	2019	63
15	Identification of a novel CNTNAP1 mutation causing arthrogryposis multiplex congenita with cerebral and cerebellar atrophy European Journal of Medical Genetics ·Shenela Lakhani, Ryan N. Doan, Mariam Al‐Mureikhi, Jennifer N. Partlow, You Deng, Mahmoud F. Elsaid, Nada Alaaraj, A. James Barkovich, Christopher A. Walsh, Tawfeg Ben‐Omran	2017	21
16	Evolutionarily Dynamic Alternative Splicing of GPR56 Regulates Regional Cerebral Cortical Patterning Science ·Byoung-Il Bae, Ian Tietjen, Kutay Deniz Atabay, Gilad D. Evrony, Matthew B. Johnson, Ebenezer Aquisman Asare, Zuleha Nassor, Ayako Murayama, Kiho Im, Steven Lisgo, Lynne M. Overman, Nenad Šestan, Bernard S. Chang, A. James Barkovich, P. Ellen Grant, Meral Topçu, Jeffrey Politsky, Hideyuki Okano, Xianhua Piao, Christopher A. Walsh	2014	145
17	Early Asymmetry of Gene Transcription in Embryonic Human Left and Right Cerebral Cortex Science ·Tao Sun, Bárbara Cristina Silveira de Oliveira, Mónica Elizabeth Ledezma Padilla, Jane E. Visvader, Eleanor Y. M. Sum, Timothy J. Cherry, Stuart H. Orkin, Daniel H. Geschwind, Christopher A. Walsh	2005	264
18	EMX2‐independent familial schizencephaly: Clinical and genetic analyses American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A ·Ian Tietjen, Füsun Ferda Erdoğan, Sophie Currier, Kira Apse, Bernard S. Chang, Robert Hill, Christine K. Lee, Christopher A. Walsh	2005	11
19	G Protein-Coupled Receptor-Dependent Development of Human Frontal Cortex Science ·Xianhua Piao, R. Sean Hill, Adria Bodell, Bernard S. Chang, Lina Basel‐Vanagaite, Rachel Straussberg, William B. Dobyns, Anyes Taffard, Robin M. Winter, A. Micheil Innes, Thomas Voit, M. Elizabeth Ross, Jacques L. Michaud, 純幸西田, A. James Barkovich, Christopher A. Walsh	2004	405
20	Telencephalic Neural Progenitors Appear To Be Restricted to Regional and Glial Fates before the Onset of Neurogenesis Journal of Neuroscience ·Maria McCarthy, Daniel H. Turnbull, Christopher A. Walsh, Gord Fishell	2001	100

About Christopher A. Walsh

Christopher A. Walsh is a scholar working on Developmental Neuroscience, Genetics, Cell Biology, Molecular Biology and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, having authored 273 papers that have together received 29.3k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders (54 papers), Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms (45 papers), Microtubule and mitosis dynamics (36 papers), Genomic variations and chromosomal abnormalities (36 papers), Congenital heart defects research (29 papers), Genomics and Rare Diseases (26 papers), Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (25 papers) and RNA Research and Splicing (24 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Developmental Neuroscience (7.1k citations), Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience (6.5k citations), Cell Biology (5.1k citations), Genetics (7.6k citations) and Molecular Biology (17.7k citations). Christopher A. Walsh has collaborated with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Saudi Arabia. Frequent co-authors include Anjen Chenn, Yuanyi Feng, Joseph G. Gleeson, Constance L. Cepko, Lisa A. Flanagan, Peter T. Lin, Gilad D. Evrony, Annapurna Poduri, Xuyu Cai and William B. Dobyns. Their work appears in journals such as Neuron, Science, Nature Genetics, Journal of Neuroscience and The American Journal of Human Genetics.

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