Jeffrey P. Spence

4.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
22 papers, 634 citations indexed

About

Jeffrey P. Spence is a scholar working on Genetics, Molecular Biology and Cancer Research. According to data from OpenAlex, Jeffrey P. Spence has authored 22 papers receiving a total of 634 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Genetics, 11 papers in Molecular Biology and 2 papers in Cancer Research. Recurrent topics in Jeffrey P. Spence's work include Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (8 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (3 papers) and Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (3 papers). Jeffrey P. Spence is often cited by papers focused on Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (8 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (3 papers) and Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (3 papers). Jeffrey P. Spence collaborates with scholars based in United States, Denmark and United Kingdom. Jeffrey P. Spence's co-authors include Yun S. Song, Jonathan K. Pritchard, Hakhamanesh Mostafavi, Sahin Naqvi, Jack Kamm, Matthias Steinrücken, Moisés Expósito‐Alonso, Lucas Czech, Lauren Gillespie and Patricia L. M. Lang and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Jeffrey P. Spence

20 papers receiving 631 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.

Genetic diversity loss in the Anthropocene

2022 128 citations Jeffrey P. Spence, Clemens L. Weiß et al. profile →
Systematic differences in discovery of genetic effects on gene expression and complex traits

2023 108 citations Hakhamanesh Mostafavi, Jeffrey P. Spence et al. Nature Genetics profile →

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Brad Gulko United States

Alison Cloutier United States

Patrick K. Albers United Kingdom

Kirk E. Lohmueller United States

Jeremy J. Berg United States

Phil Grayson United States

Francisco C. Ceballos Spain

Jane P. Kenney‐Hunt United States

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Yichen Zheng China

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Countries citing papers authored by Jeffrey P. Spence

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Fields of papers citing papers by Jeffrey P. Spence

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jeffrey P. Spence

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Jeffrey P. Spence. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Jeffrey P. Spence 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 Jeffrey P. Spence. Jeffrey P. Spence 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

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Zientz, Jennifer, et al.. (2025). Cognitive Training to Increase Resilience. Military Medicine. 190(Supplement_2). 640–648.

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Schraiber, Joshua G., Jeffrey P. Spence, & Michael D. Edge. (2025). Estimation of demography and mutation rates from one million haploid genomes. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 112(9). 2152–2166. 1 indexed citations

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Aguirre, Matthew, Jeffrey P. Spence, Guy Sella, & Jonathan K. Pritchard. (2025). Gene regulatory network structure informs the distribution of perturbation effects. PLoS Computational Biology. 21(9). e1013387–e1013387. 2 indexed citations

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Ota, Mineto, et al.. (2025). Causal modelling of gene effects from regulators to programs to traits. Nature. 650(8101). 399–408. 1 indexed citations

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Strausz, Satu, et al.. (2025). Haplotype analysis reveals pleiotropic disease associations in the HLA region. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 112(8). 1833–1851.

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Spence, Jeffrey P., Hakhamanesh Mostafavi, Mineto Ota, et al.. (2025). Specificity, length and luck drive gene rankings in association studies. Nature. 649(8098). 918–925. 5 indexed citations

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Rothschild, Daphna, Teodorus Theo Susanto, Xin Sui, et al.. (2024). Diversity of ribosomes at the level of rRNA variation associated with human health and disease. Cell Genomics. 4(9). 100629–100629. 10 indexed citations

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Weiß, Clemens L., et al.. (2024). Characterizing selection on complex traits through conditional frequency spectra. Genetics. 229(4). 3 indexed citations

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Spence, Jeffrey P., et al.. (2024). Bayesian estimation of gene constraint from an evolutionary model with gene features. Nature Genetics. 56(8). 1632–1643. 26 indexed citations

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Spence, Jeffrey P., et al.. (2024). A simple and flexible test of sample exchangeability with applications to statistical genomics. The Annals of Applied Statistics. 18(1). 858–881. 2 indexed citations

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Fan, Shaohua, Jeffrey P. Spence, Yuanqing Feng, et al.. (2023). Whole-genome sequencing reveals a complex African population demographic history and signatures of local adaptation. Cell. 186(5). 923–939.e14. 44 indexed citations

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Mostafavi, Hakhamanesh, Jeffrey P. Spence, Sahin Naqvi, & Jonathan K. Pritchard. (2023). Systematic differences in discovery of genetic effects on gene expression and complex traits. Nature Genetics. 55(11). 1866–1875. 108 indexed citations breakdown →

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Spence, Jeffrey P., et al.. (2023). Scaling the discrete-time Wright–Fisher model to biobank-scale datasets. Genetics. 225(3). 9 indexed citations

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Naqvi, Sahin, Hanne Hoskens, Karlijne Indencleef, et al.. (2021). Shared heritability of human face and brain shape. Nature Genetics. 53(6). 830–839. 54 indexed citations

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Steinrücken, Matthias, Jack Kamm, Jeffrey P. Spence, & Yun S. Song. (2019). Inference of complex population histories using whole-genome sequences from multiple populations. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116(34). 17115–17120. 38 indexed citations

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Spence, Jeffrey P. & Yun S. Song. (2019). Inference and analysis of population-specific fine-scale recombination maps across 26 diverse human populations. Science Advances. 5(10). eaaw9206–eaaw9206. 106 indexed citations

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Steinrücken, Matthias, et al.. (2018). Model‐based detection and analysis of introgressed Neanderthal ancestry in modern humans. Molecular Ecology. 27(19). 3873–3888. 43 indexed citations

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Spence, Jeffrey P., Jack Kamm, & Yun S. Song. (2016). The Site Frequency Spectrum for General Coalescents. Genetics. 202(4). 1549–1561. 24 indexed citations

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Spence, Jeffrey P. & Cornelius O. Horgan. (1983). Bounds on natural frequencies of composite circular membranes: Integral equation methods. Journal of Sound and Vibration. 87(1). 71–81. 13 indexed citations

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Horgan, Cornelius O., Jeffrey P. Spence, & A. N. Andry. (1982). Lower bounds for eigenvalues of Sturm-Liouville problems with discontinuous coefficients: integral equation methods. Quarterly of Applied Mathematics. 39(4). 455–465. 7 indexed citations

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