David Comas

19.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
178 papers, 7.0k citations indexed

About

David Comas is a scholar working on Genetics, Archeology and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, David Comas has authored 178 papers receiving a total of 7.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 133 papers in Genetics, 38 papers in Archeology and 37 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in David Comas's work include Forensic and Genetic Research (108 papers), Genetic diversity and population structure (63 papers) and Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies (36 papers). David Comas is often cited by papers focused on Forensic and Genetic Research (108 papers), Genetic diversity and population structure (63 papers) and Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies (36 papers). David Comas collaborates with scholars based in Spain, United States and France. David Comas's co-authors include Jaume Bertranpetit, Francesc Calafell, Elena Bosch, Enric Mateu, Anna Pérez-Lezaun, Karima Fadhlaoui‐Zid, Pierre Zalloua, Lluís Quintana‐Murci, R. Spencer Wells and Rosa Martínez‐Arias and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Genetics and Bioinformatics.

In The Last Decade

David Comas

176 papers receiving 6.8k 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.

Hunter-gatherer genomic diversity suggests a southern African origin for modern humans

2011 260 citations Brenna M. Henn, Christopher R. Gignoux et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
David Comas Spain	49	5.1k	1.5k	1.5k	416	410	178	7.0k
Francesc Calafell Spain	54	5.5k 1.1×	2.1k 1.4×	1.3k 0.9×	391 0.9×	249 0.6×	208	8.2k
Peter A. Underhill United States	51	7.0k 1.4×	2.0k 1.3×	2.1k 1.4×	703 1.7×	563 1.4×	102	9.1k
Jaume Bertranpetit Spain	60	6.2k 1.2×	2.8k 1.8×	1.9k 1.3×	839 2.0×	609 1.5×	223	10.0k
Toomas Kivisild Estonia	50	6.3k 1.2×	2.4k 1.5×	2.3k 1.5×	719 1.7×	547 1.3×	123	8.4k
Theodore G. Schurr United States	34	3.4k 0.7×	3.3k 2.2×	1.1k 0.8×	663 1.6×	429 1.0×	114	6.8k
Guido Barbujani Italy	41	3.3k 0.7×	1.1k 0.7×	990 0.7×	570 1.4×	409 1.0×	145	5.7k
Nick Patterson United States	25	5.7k 1.1×	2.3k 1.5×	739 0.5×	524 1.3×	375 0.9×	37	8.4k
Rosaria Scozzari Italy	41	5.1k 1.0×	2.9k 1.9×	1.7k 1.2×	509 1.2×	487 1.2×	91	7.9k
Kenneth M. Weiss United States	48	4.4k 0.9×	3.3k 2.1×	1.4k 0.9×	750 1.8×	518 1.3×	256	10.2k
Sarah A. Tishkoff United States	52	5.9k 1.2×	3.0k 2.0×	660 0.4×	356 0.9×	618 1.5×	112	10.6k

Countries citing papers authored by David Comas

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of David Comas

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Bekada, Asmahan, et al.. (2024). Understanding the genomic heterogeneity of North African Imazighen: from broad to microgeographical perspectives. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 9979–9979. 1 indexed citations

Nunes, Kelly, Gabriela Venturini, Marcos Araújo Castro e Silva, et al.. (2023). Indigenous people from Amazon show genetic signatures of pathogen-driven selection. Science Advances. 9(10). eabo0234–eabo0234. 7 indexed citations

Comas, David, et al.. (2023). Genomic Insights into the Population History of theResandeor Swedish Travelers. Genome Biology and Evolution. 15(2). 1 indexed citations

Calafell, Francesc, et al.. (2022). Population Genetics of the European Roma—A Review. Genes. 13(11). 2068–2068. 4 indexed citations

Lopez, Marie, et al.. (2021). The Counteracting Effects of Demography on Functional Genomic Variation: The Roma Paradigm. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 38(7). 2804–2817. 13 indexed citations

Kučinskas, Vaidutis, Horolma Pamjav, Halyna Makukh, et al.. (2020). Sex-biased patterns shaped the genetic history of Roma. Scientific Reports. 10(1). 14464–14464. 9 indexed citations

Laval, Guillaume, Vaidutis Kučinskas, Halyna Makukh, et al.. (2020). Recent Common Origin, Reduced Population Size, and Marked Admixture Have Shaped European Roma Genomes. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 37(11). 3175–3187. 14 indexed citations

Horst, Rob ter, Hafid Laayouni, Mayukh Mondal, et al.. (2020). The shaping of immunological responses through natural selection after the Roma Diaspora. Scientific Reports. 10(1). 16134–16134. 2 indexed citations

Mondal, Mayukh, et al.. (2019). Patterns of genetic structure and adaptive positive selection in the Lithuanian population from high-density SNP data. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 9163–9163. 13 indexed citations

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Arauna, Lara R., Alaitz Poveda, Esther Rebato, et al.. (2019). European Roma groups show complex West Eurasian admixture footprints and a common South Asian genetic origin. PLoS Genetics. 15(9). e1008417–e1008417. 26 indexed citations

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Franco‐Jarava, Clara, David Comas, Ann Orren, M. Hernández, & Roger Colobrán. (2017). Complement factor 5 (C5) p.A252T mutation is prevalent in, but not restricted to, sub-Saharan Africa: implications for the susceptibility to meningococcal disease. Clinical & Experimental Immunology. 189(2). 226–231. 5 indexed citations

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Comas, David. (2014). La genética de las migraciones humanas: siguiendo el rastro de las migraciones a través de nuestro genoma. 40–47. 1 indexed citations

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Mendizabal, Isabel, Óscar Lao, Urko M. Marigorta, Manfred Kayser, & David Comas. (2013). Implications of Population History of European Romani on Genetic Susceptibility to Disease. Human Heredity. 76(3-4). 194–200. 9 indexed citations

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Campbell, Christopher, Pier Francesco Palamara, Maya Dubrovsky, et al.. (2012). North African Jewish and non-Jewish populations form distinctive, orthogonal clusters. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 109(34). 13865–13870. 43 indexed citations

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Mendizabal, Isabel, Urko M. Marigorta, Óscar Lao, & David Comas. (2012). Adaptive evolution of loci covarying with the human African Pygmy phenotype. Human Genetics. 131(8). 1305–1317. 19 indexed citations

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Henn, Brenna M., Christopher R. Gignoux, Matthew J. Jobin, et al.. (2011). Hunter-gatherer genomic diversity suggests a southern African origin for modern humans. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 108(13). 5154–5162. 260 indexed citations breakdown →

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Batini, Chiara, Gianmarco Ferri, Giovanni Destro‐Bisol, et al.. (2011). Signatures of the Preagricultural Peopling Processes in Sub-Saharan Africa as Revealed by the Phylogeography of Early Y Chromosome Lineages. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 28(9). 2603–2613. 41 indexed citations

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Clarimón, Jordi, Aida M. Andrés, Jaume Bertranpetit, & David Comas. (2004). Comparative Analysis of Alu Insertion Sequences in the APP 5′ FlankingRegion in Humans and Other Primates. Journal of Molecular Evolution. 58(6). 722–731. 4 indexed citations

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Calafell, Francesc, et al.. (1997). Allele Frequencies for 20 Microsatellites in a Worldwide Population Survey. Human Heredity. 47(4). 189–196. 53 indexed citations

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Gould, Michael, et al.. (1996). Formalizing informal geographic information: cross-cultural human subjects testing. 285–294. 1 indexed citations

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