Eric Boerwinkle

231.6k total citations · 18 hit papers
811 papers, 47.6k citations indexed

About

Eric Boerwinkle is a scholar working on Genetics, Molecular Biology and Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Eric Boerwinkle has authored 811 papers receiving a total of 47.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 297 papers in Genetics, 281 papers in Molecular Biology and 208 papers in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine. Recurrent topics in Eric Boerwinkle's work include Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (223 papers), Lipoproteins and Cardiovascular Health (86 papers) and Diabetes, Cardiovascular Risks, and Lipoproteins (83 papers). Eric Boerwinkle is often cited by papers focused on Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (223 papers), Lipoproteins and Cardiovascular Health (86 papers) and Diabetes, Cardiovascular Risks, and Lipoproteins (83 papers). Eric Boerwinkle collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and China. Eric Boerwinkle's co-authors include Helen H. Hobbs, Jonathan C. Cohen, Thomas H. Mosley, Charles F. Sing, Xiaoming Liu, Christie M. Ballantyne, Stephen T. Turner, Aaron R. Folsom, Josef Coresh and L Pennacchio and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, New England Journal of Medicine and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Eric Boerwinkle

794 papers receiving 46.4k citations

Hit Papers

Genetic variation in PNPLA3 confers sus... 1987 2026 2000 2013 2008 2006 2007 1997 2016 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k
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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.

  1. Genetic variation in PNPLA3 confers susceptibility to nonalcoholic fatty liver disease
    2008 2.5k citations Alexander Pertsemlidis, L Pennacchio et al. profile →
  2. Sequence Variations in PCSK9, Low LDL, and Protection against Coronary Heart Disease
    2006 2.2k citations Jonathan C. Cohen, Eric Boerwinkle et al. profile →
  3. A Common Allele on Chromosome 9 Associated with Coronary Heart Disease
    2007 1.2k citations Ruth McPherson, Alexander Pertsemlidis et al. Science profile →
  4. Circulating Adhesion Molecules VCAM-1, ICAM-1, and E-selectin in Carotid Atherosclerosis and Incident Coronary Heart Disease Cases
    1997 1.1k citations Christie M. Ballantyne, Eric Boerwinkle et al. Circulation profile →
  5. Genetic Risk, Adherence to a Healthy Lifestyle, and Coronary Disease
    2016 857 citations Eric Boerwinkle et al. profile →
  6. Apolipoprotein(a) gene accounts for greater than 90% of the variation in plasma lipoprotein(a) concentrations.
    1992 773 citations Eric Boerwinkle, Helen H. Hobbs et al. profile →
  7. Comparison and integration of deleteriousness prediction methods for nonsynonymous SNVs in whole exome sequencing studies
    2014 680 citations Eric Boerwinkle et al. Human Molecular Genetics profile →
  8. Carotid Intima-Media Thickness and Presence or Absence of Plaque Improves Prediction of Coronary Heart Disease Risk
    2010 669 citations Vijay Nambi, Aaron R. Folsom et al. profile →
  9. A Cladistic Analysis of Phenotypic Associations With Haplotypes Inferred From Restriction Endonuclease Mapping. I. Basic Theory and an Analysis of Alcohol Dehydrogenase Activity in Drosophila
    1987 658 citations Eric Boerwinkle et al. profile →
  10. dbNSFP v3.0: A One-Stop Database of Functional Predictions and Annotations for Human Nonsynonymous and Splice-Site SNVs
    2015 604 citations Eric Boerwinkle et al. profile →
  11. Cardiac Troponin T Measured by a Highly Sensitive Assay Predicts Coronary Heart Disease, Heart Failure, and Mortality in the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study
    2011 561 citations Vijay Nambi, James A. de Lemos et al. Circulation profile →
  12. Association of three genetic loci with uric acid concentration and risk of gout: a genome-wide association study
    2008 542 citations Anna Köttgen, Eric Boerwinkle et al. profile →
  13. dbNSFP: A lightweight database of human nonsynonymous SNPs and their functional predictions
    2011 526 citations Eric Boerwinkle et al. profile →
  14. Identification of a urate transporter, ABCG2, with a common functional polymorphism causing gout
    2009 497 citations Owen M. Woodward, Anna Köttgen et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  15. dbNSFP v2.0: A Database of Human Non-synonymous SNVs and Their Functional Predictions and Annotations
    2013 406 citations Eric Boerwinkle et al. profile →
  16. Small Dense Low-Density Lipoprotein-Cholesterol Concentrations Predict Risk for Coronary Heart Disease
    2014 385 citations Ron C. Hoogeveen, Wensheng Sun et al. profile →
  17. The ARIC (Atherosclerosis Risk In Communities) Study
    2021 297 citations Aaron R. Folsom, Josef Coresh et al. profile →
  18. Plasma proteome analyses in individuals of European and African ancestry identify cis-pQTLs and models for proteome-wide association studies
    2022 152 citations Anna Köttgen, Adrienne Tin et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Eric Boerwinkle United States 95 13.9k 13.1k 11.1k 11.0k 10.4k 811 47.6k
Steve E. Humphries United Kingdom 94 7.9k 0.6× 7.7k 0.6× 14.3k 1.3× 10.0k 0.9× 10.0k 1.0× 872 42.3k
José M. Ordovás United States 106 9.7k 0.7× 9.0k 0.7× 12.2k 1.1× 6.7k 0.6× 12.6k 1.2× 949 47.5k
L. Adrienne Cupples United States 112 7.9k 0.6× 7.1k 0.5× 6.6k 0.6× 8.7k 0.8× 7.0k 0.7× 539 43.4k
Stephen Burgess United Kingdom 78 11.2k 0.8× 22.5k 1.7× 5.5k 0.5× 4.4k 0.4× 4.7k 0.5× 334 48.2k
Ronald M. Krauss United States 104 7.9k 0.6× 4.3k 0.3× 13.1k 1.2× 9.6k 0.9× 18.5k 1.8× 380 48.7k
Aldons J. Lusis United States 116 30.8k 2.2× 9.0k 0.7× 11.3k 1.0× 6.3k 0.6× 6.5k 0.6× 617 63.9k
Robert A. Hegele Canada 81 7.7k 0.6× 3.9k 0.3× 10.3k 0.9× 8.1k 0.7× 7.8k 0.7× 731 26.8k
Leif Groop Sweden 90 12.4k 0.9× 10.4k 0.8× 10.1k 0.9× 3.7k 0.3× 14.8k 1.4× 555 36.8k
Takashi Kadowaki Japan 119 25.1k 1.8× 5.3k 0.4× 10.4k 0.9× 7.6k 0.7× 14.1k 1.4× 869 62.0k
Jan L. Breslow United States 96 9.7k 0.7× 3.3k 0.3× 12.0k 1.1× 4.9k 0.4× 8.7k 0.8× 266 29.9k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Wang, Yuxuan, Corinne E. Joshu, Christopher Douville, et al.. (2025). Data from Detection of Cancers Three Years prior to Diagnosis Using Plasma Cell-Free DNA. 1 indexed citations
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Wang, Yuxuan, Corinne E. Joshu, Christopher Douville, et al.. (2025). Detection of Cancers Three Years prior to Diagnosis Using Plasma Cell-Free DNA. Cancer Discovery. 15(9). 1794–1802. 3 indexed citations
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Tisza, Michael J., Blake Hanson, Loren Hopkins, et al.. (2025). Sequencing-Based Detection of Measles in Wastewater: Texas, January 2025. American Journal of Public Health. 115(7). 1115–1119. 1 indexed citations
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Luo, Xi, Jennifer A. Brody, Traci M. Bartz, et al.. (2024). A Polygenic Risk Score of Atrial Fibrillation Improves Prediction of Lifetime Risk for Heart Failure. ESC Heart Failure. 11(2). 1086–1096. 3 indexed citations
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Zhao, Naisi, Devin C. Koestler, Eric Boerwinkle, et al.. (2024). DNA Methylation-Derived Immune Cell Proportions and Cancer Risk in Black Participants. Cancer Research Communications. 4(10). 2714–2723. 1 indexed citations
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Nguyen, Ngoc Quynh, Kari E. Wong, Sunil Agarwal, et al.. (2024). Metabolomic Association and Risk Prediction With Heart Failure in Older Adults. Circulation Heart Failure. 17(3). e010896–e010896. 8 indexed citations
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Clark, Justin R., Austen Terwilliger, Vasanthi Avadhanula, et al.. (2023). Wastewater pandemic preparedness: Toward an end-to-end pathogen monitoring program. Frontiers in Public Health. 11. 1137881–1137881. 12 indexed citations
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Zhao, Naisi, Flavia Teles, Jiayun Lu, et al.. (2023). Epigenome‐wide association study using peripheral blood leukocytes identifies genomic regions associated with periodontal disease and edentulism in the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities study. Journal Of Clinical Periodontology. 50(9). 1140–1153. 5 indexed citations
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Horimoto, Andréa R. V. R., Bridget M. Lin, Ying Zhang, et al.. (2023). Ancestry-driven metabolite variation provides insights into disease states in admixed populations. Genome Medicine. 15(1). 52–52. 5 indexed citations
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Battle, Stephanie L., Daniela Puiu, Joost Verlouw, et al.. (2022). A bioinformatics pipeline for estimating mitochondrial DNA copy number and heteroplasmy levels from whole genome sequencing data. NAR Genomics and Bioinformatics. 4(2). lqac034–lqac034. 22 indexed citations
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Nandakumar, Priyanka, Dongwon Lee, Thomas J. Hoffmann, et al.. (2020). Analysis of putative cis-regulatory elements regulating blood pressure variation. Human Molecular Genetics. 29(11). 1922–1932. 9 indexed citations
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Yu, Zhi, Josef Coresh, Guanghao Qi, et al.. (2020). A bidirectional Mendelian randomization study supports causal effects of kidney function on blood pressure. Kidney International. 98(3). 708–716. 81 indexed citations
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Jia, Xiaoming, Wensheng Sun, Ron C. Hoogeveen, et al.. (2019). High-Sensitivity Troponin I and Incident Coronary Events, Stroke, Heart Failure Hospitalization, and Mortality in the ARIC Study. Circulation. 139(23). 2642–2653. 152 indexed citations
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Zhang, Yankai, Pavel Sumazin, Jacy R. Crosby, et al.. (2018). Metformin induces FOXO3-dependent fetal hemoglobin production in human primary erythroid cells. Blood. 132(3). 321–333. 43 indexed citations
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Rahbar, Mohammad H., Maureen Samms‐Vaughan, Aisha S. Dickerson, et al.. (2015). Factors associated with blood lead concentrations of children in Jamaica. Journal of Environmental Science and Health Part A. 50(6). 529–539. 14 indexed citations
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Woodward, Owen M., Anna Köttgen, Josef Coresh, et al.. (2009). Identification of a urate transporter, ABCG2, with a common functional polymorphism causing gout. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 106(25). 10338–10342. 497 indexed citations breakdown →
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Chung, Charles C., et al.. (2008). Glucocorticoid Receptor Gene Variant in the 3′ Untranslated Region Is Associated with Multiple Measures of Blood Pressure. The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. 94(1). 268–276. 19 indexed citations
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McPherson, Ruth, Alexander Pertsemlidis, Nihan Kavaslar, et al.. (2007). A Common Allele on Chromosome 9 Associated with Coronary Heart Disease. Science. 316(5830). 1488–1491. 1164 indexed citations breakdown →
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Davis, Barry R., Donna K. Arnett, Eric Boerwinkle, et al.. (2006). Antihypertensive therapy, the α-adducin polymorphism, and cardiovascular disease in high-risk hypertensive persons: the Genetics of Hypertension-Associated Treatment Study. The Pharmacogenomics Journal. 7(2). 112–122. 33 indexed citations
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Turner, Stephen T., Gary L. Schwartz, Arlene B. Chapman, & Eric Boerwinkle. (2005). WNK1 Kinase Polymorphism and Blood Pressure Response to a Thiazide Diuretic. Hypertension. 46(4). 758–765. 56 indexed citations

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