David Witonsky

4.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
37 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

About

David Witonsky is a scholar working on Genetics, Molecular Biology and Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism. According to data from OpenAlex, David Witonsky has authored 37 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Genetics, 12 papers in Molecular Biology and 6 papers in Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism. Recurrent topics in David Witonsky's work include Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (6 papers), High Altitude and Hypoxia (6 papers) and Forensic and Genetic Research (5 papers). David Witonsky is often cited by papers focused on Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (6 papers), High Altitude and Hypoxia (6 papers) and Forensic and Genetic Research (5 papers). David Witonsky collaborates with scholars based in United States, Nepal and Ethiopia. David Witonsky's co-authors include Anna Di Rienzo, Jonathan K. Pritchard, Graham Coop, Gorka Alkorta‐Aranburu, Angela M. Hancock, Cynthia M. Beall, Amha Gebremedhin, Lujie Yang, B.A. Roe and Emma E. Thompson and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

David Witonsky

35 papers receiving 2.5k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Using Environmental Correlations to Identify Loci Underlying Local Adaptation

2010 528 citations Graham Coop, David Witonsky et al. Genetics profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
David Witonsky United States	22	1.6k	627	225	175	149	37	2.5k
Dmitri V. Zaykin United States	23	1.4k 0.9×	1.1k 1.8×	300 1.3×	195 1.1×	95 0.6×	51	3.1k
Simon Gravel Canada	22	2.5k 1.5×	768 1.2×	94 0.4×	135 0.8×	92 0.6×	40	3.4k
Michèle M. Sale United States	27	2.0k 1.2×	1.1k 1.8×	353 1.6×	114 0.7×	86 0.6×	76	3.8k
Shuhua Xu China	31	2.1k 1.3×	1.2k 1.9×	202 0.9×	90 0.5×	57 0.4×	199	3.6k
Ani Manichaikul United States	26	1.8k 1.1×	1.5k 2.3×	232 1.0×	143 0.8×	119 0.8×	79	4.2k
Sridhar Kudaravalli United States	7	2.8k 1.7×	1.3k 2.1×	142 0.6×	116 0.7×	100 0.7×	8	4.0k
Katrina G. Claw United States	17	845 0.5×	548 0.9×	225 1.0×	91 0.5×	44 0.3×	42	1.8k
Francisco Rothhammer Chile	31	1.4k 0.9×	546 0.9×	172 0.8×	166 0.9×	50 0.3×	155	3.3k
Luiz R. França Brazil	46	3.0k 1.8×	1.6k 2.5×	101 0.4×	244 1.4×	181 1.2×	99	7.0k
Jeff T. Williams United States	27	1.2k 0.7×	554 0.9×	190 0.8×	183 1.0×	34 0.2×	81	3.1k

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Castro, Constanza de la Fuente, Arjun Biddanda, David Witonsky, et al.. (2025). Population histories of the Indigenous Adivasi and Sinhalese from Sri Lanka using whole genomes. Current Biology. 35(11). 2554–2566.e7.

Witonsky, David, Adnan Alazizi, Nicole Noren Hooten, et al.. (2025). Living in poverty is associated with gene expression changes in immune cells. Genetics. 230(3). 1 indexed citations

Witonsky, David, et al.. (2025). Genomic and cellular responses to aspirin in colonic organoids from African- and European-Americans. Physiological Genomics. 57(3). 103–114.

Sun, Jiayang, Sienna R. Craig, Anna Di Rienzo, et al.. (2024). Higher oxygen content and transport characterize high-altitude ethnic Tibetan women with the highest lifetime reproductive success. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(45). e2403309121–e2403309121. 7 indexed citations

Witonsky, David, et al.. (2023). Genomic and epigenomic responses to aspirin in human colonic organoids. Physiological Genomics. 55(3). 101–112. 2 indexed citations

Beall, Cynthia M., et al.. (2020). Genomic, physiological and social contributions to the survival of post-reproductive ethnically Tibetan women residing at high altitudes in Nepal. American Journal of Human Biology. 32. 1 indexed citations

Jeong, Choongwon, David Witonsky, Buddha Basnyat, et al.. (2018). Detecting past and ongoing natural selection among ethnically Tibetan women at high altitude in Nepal. PLoS Genetics. 14(9). e1007650–e1007650. 47 indexed citations

Kariuki, Silvia N., John Blischak, Shigeki Nakagome, David Witonsky, & Anna Di Rienzo. (2016). Patterns of Transcriptional Response to 1,25-Dihydroxyvitamin D3 and Bacterial Lipopolysaccharide in Primary Human Monocytes. G3 Genes Genomes Genetics. 6(5). 1345–1355. 7 indexed citations

Kariuki, Silvia N., Joseph Maranville, Choongwon Jeong, et al.. (2016). Mapping Variation in Cellular and Transcriptional Response to 1,25-Dihydroxyvitamin D3 in Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cells. PLoS ONE. 11(7). e0159779–e0159779. 12 indexed citations

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Jeong, Choongwon, Gorka Alkorta‐Aranburu, Buddha Basnyat, et al.. (2014). Admixture facilitates genetic adaptations to high altitude in Tibet. Nature Communications. 5(1). 3281–3281. 144 indexed citations

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Maranville, Joseph, et al.. (2013). Genetic Mapping with Multiple Levels of Phenotypic Information Reveals Determinants of Lymphocyte Glucocorticoid Sensitivity. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 93(4). 735–743. 19 indexed citations

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Alkorta‐Aranburu, Gorka, Cynthia M. Beall, David Witonsky, et al.. (2012). The Genetic Architecture of Adaptations to High Altitude in Ethiopia. PLoS Genetics. 8(12). e1003110–e1003110. 157 indexed citations

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Maranville, Joseph, Francesca Luca, Allison L. Richards, et al.. (2011). Interactions between Glucocorticoid Treatment and Cis-Regulatory Polymorphisms Contribute to Cellular Response Phenotypes. PLoS Genetics. 7(7). e1002162–e1002162. 83 indexed citations

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Luca, Francesca, Richard R. Hudson, David Witonsky, & Anna Di Rienzo. (2011). A reduced representation approach to population genetic analyses and applications to human evolution. Genome Research. 21(7). 1087–1098. 41 indexed citations

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Sun, Chang, Dezheng Huo, Barbara Nemesure, et al.. (2011). A signature of balancing selection in the region upstream to the human UGT2B4 gene and implications for breast cancer risk. Human Genetics. 130(6). 767–775. 26 indexed citations

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Hancock, Angela M., David Witonsky, Gorka Alkorta‐Aranburu, et al.. (2011). Adaptations to Climate-Mediated Selective Pressures in Humans. PLoS Genetics. 7(4). e1001375–e1001375. 206 indexed citations

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Hancock, Angela M., David Witonsky, Edvard Ehler, et al.. (2010). Human adaptations to diet, subsistence, and ecoregion are due to subtle shifts in allele frequency. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 107(supplement_2). 8924–8930. 192 indexed citations

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Sun, Chang, et al.. (2010). Allele-Specific Down-Regulation of RPTOR Expression Induced by Retinoids Contributes to Climate Adaptations. PLoS Genetics. 6(10). e1001178–e1001178. 21 indexed citations

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Sun, Chang, et al.. (2009). Allelic imbalance (AI) identifies novel tissue-specificcis-regulatory variation for humanUGT2B15. Human Mutation. 31(1). 99–107. 29 indexed citations

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Maitland, Michael L., C. Grimsley, David Witonsky, et al.. (2005). Comparative genomics analysis of human sequence variation in the UGT1A gene cluster. The Pharmacogenomics Journal. 6(1). 52–62. 31 indexed citations

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