Joshua Chiou

7.0k total citations · 3 hit papers
22 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Joshua Chiou is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Surgery. According to data from OpenAlex, Joshua Chiou has authored 22 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Molecular Biology, 11 papers in Genetics and 9 papers in Surgery. Recurrent topics in Joshua Chiou's work include Pancreatic function and diabetes (9 papers), Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (6 papers) and Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (5 papers). Joshua Chiou is often cited by papers focused on Pancreatic function and diabetes (9 papers), Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (6 papers) and Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (5 papers). Joshua Chiou collaborates with scholars based in United States, Finland and Germany. Joshua Chiou's co-authors include Kyle J. Gaulton, Sebastian Preißl, Michael Miller, Yunjiang Qiu, Bing Ren, Mei-Lin Okino, Maike Sander, Yang Eric Li, Allen Wang and David U. Gorkin and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Joshua Chiou

21 papers receiving 1.4k 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.

  1. Type 2 diabetes genetic loci informed by multi-trait associations point to disease mechanisms and subtypes: A soft clustering analysis
    2018 305 citations Miriam S. Udler, Jaegil Kim et al. PLoS Medicine profile →
  2. Interpreting type 1 diabetes risk with genetics and single-cell epigenomics
    2021 205 citations Joshua Chiou, Ryan J. Geusz et al. Nature profile →
  3. A single-cell atlas of chromatin accessibility in the human genome
    2021 200 citations Kai Zhang, James D. Hocker et al. Cell profile →

Peers

Joshua Chiou
Lorna Gregory United Kingdom
Penny J. Norsworthy United Kingdom
Claudia Gonzaga‐Jauregui United States
Maki Moritani Japan
Hana Lango Allen United Kingdom
Silvia Cantara Italy
John P. Thomson United Kingdom
Helen Schuilenburg United Kingdom
Halit Ongen Switzerland
Jacqueline Barra France
Lorna Gregory United Kingdom
Joshua Chiou
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Fields of papers citing papers by Joshua Chiou

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Joshua Chiou

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Joshua Chiou. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Joshua Chiou 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 Joshua Chiou. Joshua Chiou is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Chiou, Joshua, Francesca Luca, Roger Piqué-Regi, et al.. (2025). Multi-INTACT: integrative analysis of the genome, transcriptome, and proteome identifies causal mechanisms of complex traits. Genome biology. 26(1). 19–19. 2 indexed citations
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Chiou, Joshua, et al.. (2024). Genetic Discovery and Risk Prediction for Type 1 Diabetes in Individuals Without High-Risk HLA-DR3/DR4 Haplotypes. Diabetes Care. 48(2). 202–211. 6 indexed citations
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Retel, Joren Sebastian, et al.. (2024). A fast machine learning dataloader for epigenetic tracks from BigWig files. Bioinformatics. 40(1). 1 indexed citations
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Krishna, Chirag, Joshua Chiou, Saori Sakaue, et al.. (2024). The influence of HLA genetic variation on plasma protein expression. Nature Communications. 15(1). 6469–6469. 3 indexed citations
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Benaglio, Paola, Jee Yun Han, Joshua Chiou, et al.. (2023). Mapping genetic effects on cell type-specific chromatin accessibility and annotating complex immune trait variants using single nucleus ATAC-seq in peripheral blood. PLoS Genetics. 19(6). e1010759–e1010759. 15 indexed citations
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Westerman, Kenneth E., Kirk Smith, Joshua Chiou, et al.. (2022). High-throughput genetic clustering of type 2 diabetes loci reveals heterogeneous mechanistic pathways of metabolic disease. Diabetologia. 66(3). 495–507. 31 indexed citations
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Yan, Jian, Yunjiang Qiu, Yimeng Yin, et al.. (2021). Systematic analysis of binding of transcription factors to noncoding variants. Nature. 591(7848). 147–151. 88 indexed citations
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Geusz, Ryan J., Allen Wang, Joshua Chiou, et al.. (2021). Pancreatic progenitor epigenome maps prioritize type 2 diabetes risk genes with roles in development. eLife. 10. 14 indexed citations
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Aylward, Anthony, Mei-Lin Okino, Paola Benaglio, et al.. (2021). Glucocorticoid signaling in pancreatic islets modulates gene regulatory programs and genetic risk of type 2 diabetes. PLoS Genetics. 17(5). e1009531–e1009531. 18 indexed citations
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Chiou, Joshua, Ryan J. Geusz, Mei-Lin Okino, et al.. (2021). Interpreting type 1 diabetes risk with genetics and single-cell epigenomics. Nature. 594(7863). 398–402. 205 indexed citations breakdown →
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Chiou, Joshua, Chun Zeng, Cheng Zhang, et al.. (2021). Single-cell chromatin accessibility identifies pancreatic islet cell type– and state-specific regulatory programs of diabetes risk. Nature Genetics. 53(4). 455–466. 89 indexed citations
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Zhang, Kai, James D. Hocker, Michael Miller, et al.. (2021). A single-cell atlas of chromatin accessibility in the human genome. Cell. 184(24). 5985–6001.e19. 200 indexed citations breakdown →
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Hocker, James D., Olivier Poirion, Fugui Zhu, et al.. (2021). Cardiac cell type–specific gene regulatory programs and disease risk association. Science Advances. 7(20). 61 indexed citations
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Geusz, Ryan J., Allen Wang, Dieter K. Lam, et al.. (2021). Sequence logic at enhancers governs a dual mechanism of endodermal organ fate induction by FOXA pioneer factors. Nature Communications. 12(1). 6636–6636. 34 indexed citations
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Wu, Victoria H., Huwate Yeerna, Nijiro Nohata, et al.. (2019). Illuminating the Onco-GPCRome: Novel G protein–coupled receptor-driven oncocrine networks and targets for cancer immunotherapy. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 294(29). 11062–11086. 135 indexed citations
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Jin, Wen, Francesca Mulas, Bjoern Gaertner, et al.. (2019). A Network of microRNAs Acts to Promote Cell Cycle Exit and Differentiation of Human Pancreatic Endocrine Cells. iScience. 21. 681–694. 15 indexed citations
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Zhang, Qiong, Ti‐Chun Chao, Veena S. Patil, et al.. (2019). The long noncoding RNA ROCKI regulates inflammatory gene expression. The EMBO Journal. 38(8). 73 indexed citations
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Gorkin, David U., Yunjiang Qiu, Ming Hu, et al.. (2019). Common DNA sequence variation influences 3-dimensional conformation of the human genome. Genome biology. 20(1). 255–255. 47 indexed citations
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Udler, Miriam S., Jaegil Kim, Marcin von Grotthuss, et al.. (2018). Type 2 diabetes genetic loci informed by multi-trait associations point to disease mechanisms and subtypes: A soft clustering analysis. PLoS Medicine. 15(9). e1002654–e1002654. 305 indexed citations breakdown →
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Zhou, Z. Hong & Joshua Chiou. (2015). Protein chainmail variants in dsDNA viruses. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(2). 200–218. 10 indexed citations

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