Doug Speed

13.4k total citations · 3 hit papers
32 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

Doug Speed is a scholar working on Genetics, Epidemiology and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Doug Speed has authored 32 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 26 papers in Genetics, 5 papers in Epidemiology and 3 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Doug Speed's work include Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (19 papers), Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock (15 papers) and Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals (11 papers). Doug Speed is often cited by papers focused on Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (19 papers), Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock (15 papers) and Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals (11 papers). Doug Speed collaborates with scholars based in Denmark, United Kingdom and Australia. Doug Speed's co-authors include David J. Balding, Michael R. Johnson, Gibran Hemani, Sergey Nejentsev, Na Cai, Daniel Jeffares, Jürg Bähler, Charalampos Rallis, Clemency Jolly and François Balloux and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Nature Genetics and Gastroenterology.

In The Last Decade

Doug Speed

31 papers receiving 2.2k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

Improved Heritability Estimation from Genome-wide SNPs

2012 429 citations Doug Speed, Michael R. Johnson et al. The American Journal of Human Genetics profile →
Transient structural variations have strong effects on quantitative traits and reproductive isolation in fission yeast

2017 361 citations Daniel Jeffares, Clemency Jolly et al. Nature Communications profile →
Participation bias in the UK Biobank distorts genetic associations and downstream analyses

2023 157 citations Tabea Schoeler, Doug Speed et al. Nature Human Behaviour profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Doug Speed Denmark	13	1.5k	647	336	125	103	32	2.2k
Jian Zeng Australia	20	1.4k 0.9×	540 0.8×	346 1.0×	103 0.8×	128 1.2×	48	2.0k
Aaron Isaacs Netherlands	13	936 0.6×	505 0.8×	188 0.6×	102 0.8×	181 1.8×	16	1.8k
Nicholas A. Furlotte United States	15	993 0.7×	597 0.9×	174 0.5×	83 0.7×	83 0.8×	23	1.5k
Chris C. A. Spencer United Kingdom	20	1.3k 0.9×	989 1.5×	174 0.5×	216 1.7×	101 1.0×	26	2.3k
Ting Qi China	17	654 0.4×	519 0.8×	197 0.6×	174 1.4×	90 0.9×	39	1.4k
Shelli Farhadian United States	15	1.0k 0.7×	716 1.1×	123 0.4×	149 1.2×	56 0.5×	40	2.7k
Michael Klintschar Germany	24	1.1k 0.8×	1.1k 1.7×	128 0.4×	93 0.7×	90 0.9×	132	2.6k
Andrew Kirby United States	23	1.9k 1.3×	1.2k 1.8×	719 2.1×	154 1.2×	108 1.0×	29	3.2k
Matthew P. Conomos United States	16	861 0.6×	549 0.8×	95 0.3×	80 0.6×	85 0.8×	26	1.5k
Nicholas Mancuso United States	18	1.3k 0.9×	1.2k 1.9×	88 0.3×	111 0.9×	188 1.8×	53	2.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Doug Speed

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Fields of papers citing papers by Doug Speed

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Doug Speed

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Doug Speed. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Doug Speed based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Doug Speed. Doug Speed is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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20 of 20 papers shown

Speed, Doug, et al.. (2025). LDAK-KVIK performs fast and powerful mixed-model association analysis of quantitative and binary phenotypes. Nature Genetics. 57(9). 2116–2123.

Rosén, Jörgen, Peter Arner, Patrik K. E. Magnusson, et al.. (2025). Heritability and polygenic load for comorbid anxiety and depression. Translational Psychiatry. 15(1). 98–98. 1 indexed citations

Speed, Doug & David M. Evans. (2024). Estimating disease heritability from complex pedigrees allowing for ascertainment and covariates. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 111(4). 680–690. 1 indexed citations

Schoeler, Tabea, Doug Speed, Eleonora Porcu, et al.. (2023). Participation bias in the UK Biobank distorts genetic associations and downstream analyses. Nature Human Behaviour. 7(7). 1216–1227. 157 indexed citations breakdown →

Balbuena, Lloyd, Evyn M. Peters, & Doug Speed. (2023). Using polygenic risk scores to investigate the evolution of smoking and mental health outcomes in UK biobank participants. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica. 148(5). 447–456. 3 indexed citations

Speed, Maria, et al.. (2022). Genetic liability to bipolar disorder and body mass index: A bidirectional two‐sample Mendelian randomization study. Bipolar Disorders. 25(1). 25–31. 5 indexed citations

Sterenborg, Rosalie, Tessel E. Galesloot, Alexander Teumer, et al.. (2022). The Effects of Common Genetic Variation in 96 Genes Involved in Thyroid Hormone Regulation on TSH and FT4 Concentrations. The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. 107(6). e2276–e2283. 6 indexed citations

Jefsen, Oskar Hougaard, Maria Speed, Doug Speed, & Søren Dinesen Østergaard. (2021). Bipolar disorder and cannabis use: A bidirectional two‐sample Mendelian randomization study. Addiction Biology. 26(6). e13030–e13030. 12 indexed citations

De, Tisham, Ângela Gonçalves, Doug Speed, et al.. (2021). Signatures of TSPAN8 variants associated with human metabolic regulation and diseases. iScience. 24(8). 102893–102893. 5 indexed citations

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Zhang, Qianqian, Florian Privé, Bjarni J. Vilhjálmsson, & Doug Speed. (2021). Improved genetic prediction of complex traits from individual-level data or summary statistics. Nature Communications. 12(1). 4192–4192. 82 indexed citations

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Athanasiadis, Georgios, Doug Speed, Mette K. Andersen, et al.. (2020). Estimating narrow-sense heritability using family data from admixed populations. Heredity. 124(6). 751–762. 4 indexed citations

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Speed, Doug, et al.. (2019). Summary statistic analyses can mistake confounding bias for heritability. Genetic Epidemiology. 43(8). 930–940. 7 indexed citations

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Speed, Doug & David J. Balding. (2018). SumHer better estimates the SNP heritability of complex traits from summary statistics. Nature Genetics. 51(2). 277–284. 122 indexed citations

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Jeffares, Daniel, Clemency Jolly, Mimoza Hoti, et al.. (2017). Transient structural variations have strong effects on quantitative traits and reproductive isolation in fission yeast. Nature Communications. 8(1). 14061–14061. 361 indexed citations breakdown →

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Krohn, Jon P., Doug Speed, Rupert Palme, et al.. (2014). Genetic Interactions with Sex Make a Relatively Small Contribution to the Heritability of Complex Traits in Mice. PLoS ONE. 9(5). e96450–e96450. 9 indexed citations

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Speed, Doug & David J. Balding. (2014). Relatedness in the post-genomic era: is it still useful?. Nature Reviews Genetics. 16(1). 33–44. 178 indexed citations

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Speed, Doug, Terence J. O’Brien, Aarno Palotie, et al.. (2014). Describing the genetic architecture of epilepsy through heritability analysis. Brain. 137(10). 2680–2689. 58 indexed citations

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Speed, Doug & David J. Balding. (2014). MultiBLUP: improved SNP-based prediction for complex traits. Genome Research. 24(9). 1550–1557. 177 indexed citations

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Speed, Doug & David J. Balding. (2012). Understanding complex traits: from farmers to pharmas. Genome Medicine. 4(7). 59–59. 1 indexed citations

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Jensen, Kirsty, Doug Speed, Edith Paxton, J. L. Williams, & Elizabeth Glass. (2005). Construction of a normalized Bos taurus and Bos indicus macrophage‐specific cDNA library. Animal Genetics. 37(1). 75–77. 5 indexed citations

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