Jeffrey R. O’Connell

48.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
86 papers, 3.4k citations indexed

About

Jeffrey R. O’Connell is a scholar working on Genetics, Molecular Biology and Surgery. According to data from OpenAlex, Jeffrey R. O’Connell has authored 86 papers receiving a total of 3.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 45 papers in Genetics, 27 papers in Molecular Biology and 14 papers in Surgery. Recurrent topics in Jeffrey R. O’Connell's work include Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals (22 papers), Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (22 papers) and Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock (17 papers). Jeffrey R. O’Connell is often cited by papers focused on Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals (22 papers), Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (22 papers) and Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock (17 papers). Jeffrey R. O’Connell collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Australia. Jeffrey R. O’Connell's co-authors include Daniel E. Weeks, P.M. VanRaden, Braxton D. Mitchell, Alan R. Shuldiner, Toni I. Pollin, Coleen Damcott, G.R. Wiggans, Sandra Ott, John B. Cole and John C. McLenithan and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, New England Journal of Medicine and Circulation.

In The Last Decade

Jeffrey R. O’Connell

84 papers receiving 3.3k 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.

A Null Mutation in Human APOC3 Confers a Favorable Plasma Lipid Profile and Apparent Cardioprotection

2008 517 citations Toni I. Pollin, Coleen Damcott et al. Science profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Jeffrey R. O’Connell United States	29	1.5k	1.0k	517	500	432	86	3.4k
Anne E. Kwitek United States	34	1.5k 1.0×	2.0k 2.0×	442 0.9×	346 0.7×	370 0.9×	125	4.5k
Timothy J. Aitman United Kingdom	44	2.6k 1.8×	3.2k 3.1×	598 1.2×	850 1.7×	783 1.8×	140	7.1k
Hideo Hamaguchi Japan	34	634 0.4×	1.1k 1.1×	355 0.7×	703 1.4×	423 1.0×	155	4.3k
Candace M. Kammerer United States	35	1.0k 0.7×	1.2k 1.2×	375 0.7×	457 0.9×	738 1.7×	136	4.0k
Nicola J. Camp United States	33	1.3k 0.9×	1.1k 1.1×	242 0.5×	320 0.6×	136 0.3×	139	3.8k
Eric K. Moses Australia	36	703 0.5×	1.2k 1.2×	280 0.5×	219 0.4×	155 0.4×	162	4.2k
Michael Olivier United States	29	830 0.6×	1.8k 1.8×	499 1.0×	609 1.2×	773 1.8×	94	3.7k
Nathan O. Stitziel United States	20	1.2k 0.8×	1.2k 1.2×	634 1.2×	599 1.2×	344 0.8×	56	3.1k
Jian‐Zhong Sheng China	39	438 0.3×	1.6k 1.6×	315 0.6×	305 0.6×	374 0.9×	180	5.0k
Albert Tenesa United Kingdom	36	2.0k 1.4×	1.6k 1.6×	104 0.2×	426 0.9×	165 0.4×	90	5.7k

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Gaddis, Kristen L. Parker, Sajjad Toghiani, João Dürr, et al.. (2025). Improving dairy calf health through inclusion of diarrhea and respiratory health data into a US national genetic evaluation. Journal of Dairy Science. 108(10). 11164–11172.

O’Connell, Jeffrey R., et al.. (2024). Initial Examination of Commercial Photon Counting CT for Prostate Planning. International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics. 120(2). e172–e172. 2 indexed citations

Cheng, Jian, Christian Maltecca, P.M. VanRaden, et al.. (2023). SLEMM: million-scale genomic predictions with window-based SNP weighting. Bioinformatics. 39(3). 9 indexed citations

Wainberg, Michael, Zeyuan Song, Stacy L. Andersen, et al.. (2022). Distribution of 54 polygenic risk scores for common diseases in long lived individuals and their offspring. GeroScience. 44(2). 719–729. 7 indexed citations

Montasser, May E., Stella Aslibekyan, Vinodh Srinivasasainagendra, et al.. (2022). An Amish founder population reveals rare-population genetic determinants of the human lipidome. Communications Biology. 5(1). 334–334. 7 indexed citations

Li, Bingjie, P.M. VanRaden, Jeffrey R. O’Connell, et al.. (2020). Genomic prediction of residual feed intake in US Holstein dairy cattle. Journal of Dairy Science. 103(3). 2477–2486. 38 indexed citations

VanRaden, P.M., Derek M. Bickhart, & Jeffrey R. O’Connell. (2019). Calling known variants and identifying new variants while rapidly aligning sequence data. Journal of Dairy Science. 102(4). 3216–3229. 4 indexed citations

Ryan, Meghann C., Peter Kochunov, Laura M. Rowland, et al.. (2017). Lipid Metabolism, Abdominal Adiposity, and Cerebral Health in the Amish. Obesity. 25(11). 1876–1880. 7 indexed citations

Hou, Liping, Rachel L. Kember, Jared C. Roach, et al.. (2017). A population-specific reference panel empowers genetic studies of Anabaptist populations. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 6079–6079. 9 indexed citations

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Justice, Anne E., Annie Green Howard, Geetha Chittoor, et al.. (2016). Genome-wide association of trajectories of systolic blood pressure change. BMC Proceedings. 10(S7). 321–327. 7 indexed citations

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An, Ping, Robert J. Straka, Toni I. Pollin, et al.. (2014). Genome-wide association studies identified novel loci for non-high-density lipoprotein cholesterol and its postprandial lipemic response. Human Genetics. 133(7). 919–930. 8 indexed citations

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VanRaden, P.M., et al.. (2013). Confirmation and discovery of maternal grandsires and great-grandsires in dairy cattle. Journal of Dairy Science. 96(3). 1874–1879. 17 indexed citations

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VanRaden, P.M., Jeffrey R. O’Connell, G.R. Wiggans, & K.A. Weigel. (2011). Genomic evaluations with many more genotypes. Genetics Selection Evolution. 43(1). 10–10. 221 indexed citations

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Lee, Woei-Jyh, Toni I. Pollin, Jeffrey R. O’Connell, Richa Agarwala, & Alejandro A. Schäffer. (2010). PedHunter 2.0 and its usage to characterize the founder structure of the Old Order Amish of Lancaster County. BMC Medical Genetics. 11(1). 68–68. 30 indexed citations

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Shen, Haiqing, Coleen Damcott, Evadnie Rampersaud, et al.. (2010). Familial Defective Apolipoprotein B-100 and Increased Low-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol and Coronary Artery Calcification in the Old Order Amish. Archives of Internal Medicine. 170(20). 1850–5. 55 indexed citations

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Pollin, Toni I., Coleen Damcott, Haiqing Shen, et al.. (2008). A Null Mutation in Human APOC3 Confers a Favorable Plasma Lipid Profile and Apparent Cardioprotection. Science. 322(5908). 1702–1705. 517 indexed citations breakdown →

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O’Connell, Jeffrey R.. (2001). Rapid Multipoint Linkage Analysis via Inheritance Vectors in the Elston-Stewart Algorithm. Human Heredity. 51(4). 226–240. 29 indexed citations

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Tai, John Jen, Jeffrey R. O’Connell, Robert C. Elston, et al.. (2001). Author Index Vol. 51, 2001. Human Heredity. 51(4). 241–241. 1 indexed citations

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Kniazeva, Marina, Elias I. Traboulsi, Zhengya Yu, et al.. (2000). A new locus for dominant drusen and macular degeneration maps to chromosome 6q14. American Journal of Ophthalmology. 130(2). 197–202. 21 indexed citations

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O’Connell, Jeffrey R. & Daniel E. Weeks. (1995). The VITESSE algorithm for rapid exact multilocus linkage analysis via genotype set–recoding and fuzzy inheritance. Nature Genetics. 11(4). 402–408. 397 indexed citations

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