Christopher R. Gignoux

55.7k citations

74 papers · 3.8k indexed · 2 hit papers · h-index 27

Impact in

Genetics top 0.5%
- Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
- Forensic and Genetic Research
- Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock
- Genetic diversity and population structure
- Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals
- Race, Genetics, and Society
Archeology top 2%
- Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies

Papers in

Genetics 53
- Genetic Associations and Epidemiology 34
- Forensic and Genetic Research 16
- Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock 13
- BRCA gene mutations in cancer 7
- Race, Genetics, and Society 7
- Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals 7
- Genetic diversity and population structure 5
Anthropology 4

Co-authors: Carlos D. Bustamante Brenna M. Henn Simon Gravel Eimear E. Kenny Genevieve L. Wojcik Alicia R. Martin Joanna L. Mountain Mark J. Daly
Journals: The American Journal of Human Genetics (6 papers)Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (5 papers)PLoS Genetics (5 papers)PLoS ONE (5 papers)Genetics (4 papers)
Partner nations: United States Mexico Spain

In The Last Decade

Christopher R. Gignoux

68 papers receiving 3.7k citations

Hit Papers

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Human Demographic History Impacts Genetic Risk Prediction across Diverse Populations 2017 · 784 citations

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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 The American Journal of Human Genetics
2011 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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1	A rapid accurate approach to inferring pedigrees in endogamous populations Genetics ·Cole M Williams, Brooke A. Scelza, Sarah D. Slack, Neus Font‐Porterias, Dana R. Al-Hindi, Rasika A. Mathias, Harold Watson, Kathleen C. Barnes, Ethan M. Lange, Randi K. Johnson, Christopher R. Gignoux, Sohini Ramachandran, Brenna M. Henn	2025	0
2	Population Prevalence of the Major Thyroid Cancer–Associated Syndromes The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism ·Samantha White, Tariq Jamil, C. David Bell, Lauren Fishbein, Bryan R. Haugen, Christopher R. Gignoux, Nikita Pozdeyev	2025	2
3	Characterizing substructure via mixture modeling in large-scale genetic summary statistics The American Journal of Human Genetics ·Hayley R Stoneman, Adelle Price, Nikole Scribner Trout, Riley Lamont, Souha Tifour, Nikita Pozdeyev, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Christopher R. Gignoux, Katie M. Marker, Audrey E. Hendricks, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown)	2025	0
4	MUSSEL: Enhanced Bayesian polygenic risk prediction leveraging information across multiple ancestry groups UNC Libraries ·Nilanjan Chatterjee, Ruzhang Zhao, Yunxuan Jiang, Jin Jin, Steven Buyske, Haoyu Zhang, Jared O’Connell, Jianan Zhan, Eimear E. Kenny, Christopher A. Haiman, Bertram L. Koelsch, andMe Research Team, Jingning Zhang, Christopher R. Gignoux, Kari E. North, Genevieve L. Wojcik, Charles Kooperberg	2024	1
5	A polygenic risk score for the QT interval is an independent predictor of drug-induced QT prolongation PLoS ONE ·S. Simon, Meng Lin, Katy E. Trinkley, Ryan G. Aleong, Nicholas Rafaels, Kristy Crooks, Michael J. Reiter, Christopher R. Gignoux, Michael A. Rosenberg	2024	4
6	Poly-omic risk scores predict inflammatory bowel disease diagnosis mSystems ·Christopher H. Arehart, John Sterrett, Rosanna L. Garris, Ruth E. Quispe-Pilco, Christopher R. Gignoux, Luke M. Evans, Maggie A. Stanislawski	2023	5
7	Gene expression in African Americans, Puerto Ricans and Mexican Americans reveals ancestry-specific patterns of genetic architecture Nature Genetics ·Linda Kachuri, Angel C. Y. Mak, Donglei Hu, Celeste Eng, Scott Huntsman, Jennifer R. Elhawary, Namrata Gupta, Stacey Gabriel, Shujie Xiao, Kevin L. Keys, Akinyemi Oni‐Orisan, José Rodríguez‐Santana, Michael A. LeNoir, Luisa N. Borrell, Noah Zaitlen, L. Keoki Williams, Christopher R. Gignoux, Esteban G. Burchard, Elad Ziv	2023	23
8	COVID-19 Surveillance in the Biobank at the Colorado Center for Personalized Medicine: Observational Study JMIR Public Health and Surveillance ·Randi K. Johnson, Katie M. Marker, David Mayer, Jonathan Shortt, David Kao, Kathleen C. Barnes, Jan T. Lowery, Christopher R. Gignoux	2022	3
9	Opportunities and challenges for the use of common controls in sequencing studies Nature Reviews Genetics ·Genevieve L. Wojcik, Jessica I. Murphy, Jacob Edelson, Christopher R. Gignoux, Alexander G. Ioannidis, Alisa K. Manning, Manuel A. Rivas, Steven Buyske, Audrey E. Hendricks	2022	16
10	Rapid detection of identity-by-descent tracts for mega-scale datasets Nature Communications ·Ruhollah Shemirani, Gillian M. Belbin, Christy L. Avery, Eimear E. Kenny, Christopher R. Gignoux, José Luis Ambite	2021	21
11	On the cross-population generalizability of gene expression prediction models PLoS Genetics ·Kevin L. Keys, Angel C. Y. Mak, Marquitta J. White, Walter L. Eckalbar, Andrew Dahl, Joel Mefford, Anna V. Mikhaylova, María G. Contreras, Jennifer R. Elhawary, Celeste Eng, Donglei Hu, Scott Huntsman, Sam S. Oh, Sandra Salazar, Michael A. LeNoir, Jimmie C. Ye, Timothy A. Thornton, Noah Zaitlen, Esteban G. Burchard, Christopher R. Gignoux	2020	31
12	Population History and Gene Divergence in Native Mexicans Inferred from 76 Human Exomes Molecular Biology and Evolution ·María C. Ávila‐Arcos, Kimberly F. McManus, Karla Sandoval, Juan Esteban Rodríguez-Rodríguez, Viridiana Villa-Islas, Alicia R. Martin, Pierre Luisi, Rosenda I. Peñaloza‐Espinosa, Celeste Eng, Scott Huntsman, Esteban G. Burchard, Christopher R. Gignoux, Carlos D. Bustamante, Andrés Moreno‐Estrada	2019	29
13	The role of country of birth, and genetic and self-identified ancestry, in obesity susceptibility among African and Hispanic Americans American Journal of Clinical Nutrition ·Abhishek Vishnu, Gillian M. Belbin, Genevieve L. Wojcik, Erwin P. Böttinger, Christopher R. Gignoux, Eimear E. Kenny, Ruth J. F. Loos	2019	7
14	Imputation-Aware Tag SNP Selection To Improve Power for Large-Scale, Multi-ethnic Association Studies G3 Genes Genomes Genetics ·Genevieve L. Wojcik, Christian Fuchsberger, Daniel Taliun, Ryan Welch, Alicia R. Martin, Suyash Shringarpure, Christopher S. Carlson, Gonçalo R. Abecasis, Hyun Min Kang, Michael Boehnke, Carlos D. Bustamante, Christopher R. Gignoux, Eimear E. Kenny	2018	21
15	Different Selected Mechanisms Attenuated the Inhibitory Interaction of KIR2DL1 with C2+ HLA-C in Two Indigenous Human Populations in Southern Africa The Journal of Immunology ·Neda Nemat‐Gorgani, Hugo G. Hilton, Brenna M. Henn, Meng Lin, Christopher R. Gignoux, Justin W. Myrick, Cedric J. Werely, Julie M. Granka, Marlo Möller, Eileen G. Hoal, Makoto Yawata, Nobuyo Yawata, Lies Boelen, Becca Asquith, Peter Parham, Paul J. Norman	2018	18
16	Rapid evolution of a skin-lightening allele in southern African KhoeSan Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Meng Lin, Rebecca L. Siford, Alicia R. Martin, Shigeki Nakagome, Marlo Möller, Eileen G. Hoal, Carlos D. Bustamante, Christopher R. Gignoux, Brenna M. Henn	2018	14
17	Admixture mapping in two Mexican samples identifies significant associations of locus ancestry with triglyceride levels in the BUD13/ZNF259/APOA5 region and fine mapping points to rs964184 as the main driver of the association signal PLoS ONE ·Esteban J. Parra, Mazurek Andrew, Christopher R. Gignoux, Alexandra Sockell, M. A. D’ Agostino, Andrew P. Morris, Lauren E. Petty, Craig L. Hanis, Nancy J. Cox, Adán Valladares‐Salgado, Jennifer E. Below, Miguel Cruz	2017	12
18	Fine-Scale Human Population Structure in Southern Africa Reflects Ecogeographic Boundaries Genetics ·Caitlin Uren, Min-Ju Kim, Alicia R. Martin, Dean Bobo, Christopher R. Gignoux, Paul D. van Helden, Marlo Möller, Eileen G. Hoal, Brenna M. Henn	2016	69
19	Higher Levels of Neanderthal Ancestry in East Asians than in Europeans Genetics ·Jeffrey D. Wall, Melinda A. Yang, Flora Jay, Sung K. Kim, Éric Durand, Laurie S. Stevison, Christopher R. Gignoux, August E. Woerner, Michael F. Hammer, Montgomery Slatkin	2013	164
20	Hunter-gatherer genomic diversity suggests a southern African origin for modern humans Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Brenna M. Henn, Christopher R. Gignoux, Matthew J. Jobin, Julie M. Granka, J. Michael Macpherson, Jeffrey M. Kidd, Laura R. Botigué, Sohini Ramachandran, Lawrence Hon, Abra Brisbin, Alice Lin, Peter A. Underhill, David Comas, Kenneth K. Kídd, Paul J. Norman, Peter Parham, Carlos D. Bustamante, Joanna L. Mountain, Marcus W. Feldman Hit paper breakdown →	2011	260

About Christopher R. Gignoux

Christopher R. Gignoux is a scholar working on Genetics, Anthropology, Immunology, Molecular Biology and Cancer Research, having authored 74 papers that have together received 3.8k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (34 papers), Forensic and Genetic Research (16 papers), Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock (13 papers), BRCA gene mutations in cancer (7 papers), Race, Genetics, and Society (7 papers), Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals (7 papers), T-cell and B-cell Immunology (5 papers) and Genetic diversity and population structure (5 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Genetics (2.3k citations), Archeology (60 citations), Archeology (349 citations), Anthropology (304 citations) and Paleontology (206 citations). Christopher R. Gignoux has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Mexico and Spain. Frequent co-authors include Carlos D. Bustamante, Brenna M. Henn, Simon Gravel, Eimear E. Kenny, Genevieve L. Wojcik, Alicia R. Martin, Joanna L. Mountain, Mark J. Daly, Benjamin M. Neale and Raymond K. Walters. Their work appears in journals such as The American Journal of Human Genetics, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, PLoS Genetics, PLoS ONE and Genetics.

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