Garrett Hellenthal

14.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
42 papers, 2.6k citations indexed

About

Garrett Hellenthal is a scholar working on Genetics, Molecular Biology and Archeology. According to data from OpenAlex, Garrett Hellenthal has authored 42 papers receiving a total of 2.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 38 papers in Genetics, 13 papers in Molecular Biology and 5 papers in Archeology. Recurrent topics in Garrett Hellenthal's work include Forensic and Genetic Research (22 papers), Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (11 papers) and Genetic diversity and population structure (11 papers). Garrett Hellenthal is often cited by papers focused on Forensic and Genetic Research (22 papers), Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (11 papers) and Genetic diversity and population structure (11 papers). Garrett Hellenthal collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Germany. Garrett Hellenthal's co-authors include Simon Myers, Daniel Falush, Daniel J. Lawson, Matthew Stephens, Cristian Capelli, George Busby, Gavin Band, James F. Wilson, Lucy van Dorp and Tushar Bhangale and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Garrett Hellenthal

39 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.

Inference of Population Structure using Dense Haplotype Data

2012 698 citations Daniel J. Lawson, Garrett Hellenthal et al. PLoS Genetics profile →
A Genetic Atlas of Human Admixture History

2014 451 citations Garrett Hellenthal, Gavin Band et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Garrett Hellenthal United Kingdom	21	1.9k	700	246	172	153	42	2.6k
Simon Gravel Canada	22	2.5k 1.3×	768 1.1×	219 0.9×	111 0.6×	105 0.7×	40	3.4k
Max Ingman Sweden	13	1.5k 0.8×	1.3k 1.8×	280 1.1×	130 0.8×	149 1.0×	14	2.6k
Michael F. Hammer United States	25	1.7k 0.9×	596 0.9×	306 1.2×	196 1.1×	109 0.7×	32	2.3k
Audrey M. Southwick United States	6	1.6k 0.9×	914 1.3×	124 0.5×	187 1.1×	84 0.5×	7	2.5k
Priya Moorjani United States	18	2.3k 1.2×	770 1.1×	492 2.0×	212 1.2×	286 1.9×	30	3.0k
Floyd A. Reed United States	19	1.5k 0.8×	726 1.0×	162 0.7×	166 1.0×	97 0.6×	33	2.8k
Elena Bosch Spain	31	2.3k 1.2×	866 1.2×	470 1.9×	223 1.3×	108 0.7×	77	3.2k
Juan José Martínez Sánchez Spain	23	1.3k 0.7×	1.2k 1.7×	222 0.9×	88 0.5×	96 0.6×	69	2.3k
Yiping Zhan United States	18	1.4k 0.7×	753 1.1×	264 1.1×	169 1.0×	190 1.2×	46	2.7k
António Brehm Portugal	26	1.2k 0.6×	543 0.8×	270 1.1×	153 0.9×	63 0.4×	103	1.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Garrett Hellenthal

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Garrett Hellenthal

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20 of 20 papers shown

King, Turi, et al.. (2025). Power and Limitations of Inferring Genetic Ancestry. Annals of Human Genetics. 89(5). 264–273.

Hu, Sile, Sinan Shi, Garrett Hellenthal, et al.. (2025). Fine-scale population structure and widespread conservation of genetic effect sizes between human groups across traits. Nature Genetics. 57(2). 379–389. 11 indexed citations

Gnecchi‐Ruscone, Guido Alberto, et al.. (2025). Ancient genomes provide evidence of demographic shift to Slavic-associated groups in Moravia. Genome biology. 26(1). 259–259. 1 indexed citations

Ormond, Louise, Paschal Kum Awah, Elizabeth Caldwell, et al.. (2023). Dense sampling of ethnic groups within African countries reveals fine-scale genetic structure and extensive historical admixture. Science Advances. 9(13). eabq2616–eabq2616. 9 indexed citations

Kessler, Noah J., et al.. (2023). Metastable epialleles in humans. Trends in Genetics. 40(1). 52–68. 5 indexed citations

Kessler, Noah J., Miho Ishida, Charalambos Demetriou, et al.. (2022). Tissue- and ethnicity-independent hypervariable DNA methylation states show evidence of establishment in the early human embryo. Nucleic Acids Research. 50(12). 6735–6752. 7 indexed citations

Wangkumhang, Pongsakorn, et al.. (2022). An efficient method to identify, date, and describe admixture events using haplotype information. Genome Research. 32(8). 1553–1564. 26 indexed citations

Speidel, Leo, Lara M. Cassidy, R. W. Davies, et al.. (2021). Inferring Population Histories for Ancient Genomes Using Genome-Wide Genealogies. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 38(9). 3497–3511. 32 indexed citations

Ongaro, Linda, Mayukh Mondal, Rodrigo Flores, et al.. (2021). Continental-scale genomic analysis suggests shared post-admixture adaptation in the Americas. Human Molecular Genetics. 30(22). 2123–2134. 7 indexed citations

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Waples, Ryan K., Emil Jørsboe, Marit E. Jørgensen, et al.. (2021). The genetic history of Greenlandic-European contact. Current Biology. 31(10). 2214–2219.e4. 9 indexed citations

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López, Saioa, Ayele Tarekegn, Gavin Band, et al.. (2021). Evidence of the interplay of genetics and culture in Ethiopia. Nature Communications. 12(1). 3581–3581. 25 indexed citations

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Gunasekara, Chathura, C. Anthony Scott, Eleonora Laritsky, et al.. (2019). A genomic atlas of systemic interindividual epigenetic variation in humans. Genome biology. 20(1). 105–105. 68 indexed citations

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Dorp, Lucy van, Sara Lowes, Jonathan Weigel, et al.. (2018). Genetic legacy of state centralization in the Kuba Kingdom of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116(2). 593–598. 5 indexed citations

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Byrne, Ross P., Rui Martiniano, Lara M. Cassidy, et al.. (2018). Insular Celtic population structure and genomic footprints of migration. PLoS Genetics. 14(1). e1007152–e1007152. 21 indexed citations

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López, Saioa, Mark Thomas, Lucy van Dorp, et al.. (2017). The Genetic Legacy of Zoroastrianism in Iran and India: Insights into Population Structure, Gene Flow, and Selection. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 101(3). 353–368. 9 indexed citations

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Johnsson, Martin, Eben Gering, Paul Willis, et al.. (2016). Feralisation targets different genomic loci to domestication in the chicken. Nature Communications. 7(1). 12950–12950. 41 indexed citations

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Arauna, Lara R., Javier Mendoza‐Revilla, Hassan Izaabel, et al.. (2016). Recent historical migrations have shaped the gene pool of Arabs and Berbers in North Africa. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 34(2). msw218–msw218. 57 indexed citations

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Silver, Matt J., Karen D. Corbin, Garrett Hellenthal, et al.. (2015). Evidence for negative selection of gene variants that increase dependence on dietary choline in a Gambian cohort. The FASEB Journal. 29(8). 3426–3435. 15 indexed citations

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Dorp, Lucy van, David J. Balding, Simon Myers, et al.. (2015). Evidence for a Common Origin of Blacksmiths and Cultivators in the Ethiopian Ari within the Last 4500 Years: Lessons for Clustering-Based Inference. PLoS Genetics. 11(8). e1005397–e1005397. 68 indexed citations

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Sawcer, Stephen, et al.. (2011). Genetic risk and a primary role for cell-mediated immune mechanisms in multiple sclerosis. Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich). 1 indexed citations

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