Kelly L. Williams

12.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
53 papers, 3.6k citations indexed

About

Kelly L. Williams is a scholar working on Neurology, Genetics and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Kelly L. Williams has authored 53 papers receiving a total of 3.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 36 papers in Neurology, 23 papers in Genetics and 20 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Kelly L. Williams's work include Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Research (34 papers), Neurogenetic and Muscular Disorders Research (23 papers) and Neurological diseases and metabolism (15 papers). Kelly L. Williams is often cited by papers focused on Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Research (34 papers), Neurogenetic and Muscular Disorders Research (23 papers) and Neurological diseases and metabolism (15 papers). Kelly L. Williams collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United States and Germany. Kelly L. Williams's co-authors include Ian P. Blair, Garth A. Nicholson, Jennifer C. Durnall, Caroline Vance, John D. Mitchell, P. Nigel Leigh, Ammar Al‐Chalabi, Steven Ackerley, Christopher E. Shaw and Emanuele Buratti and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Nature Neuroscience and Bioinformatics.

In The Last Decade

Kelly L. Williams

49 papers receiving 3.5k citations

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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.

TDP-43 Mutations in Familial and Sporadic Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

2008 2.0k citations Jemeen Sreedharan, Ian P. Blair et al. Science profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kelly L. Williams Australia	21	2.6k	1.6k	1.5k	677	539	53	3.6k
Agnes L. Nishimura United Kingdom	24	2.6k 1.0×	2.5k 1.5×	1.7k 1.1×	517 0.8×	532 1.0×	45	4.3k
Shuo‐Chien Ling United States	25	2.9k 1.1×	2.8k 1.7×	1.8k 1.2×	455 0.7×	511 0.9×	38	4.5k
Edor Kabashi France	33	3.5k 1.3×	2.0k 1.2×	2.0k 1.4×	800 1.2×	677 1.3×	63	4.7k
Marka van Blitterswijk United States	24	2.2k 0.8×	1.3k 0.8×	1.3k 0.9×	492 0.7×	414 0.8×	47	2.8k
Sandra Almeida United States	29	2.0k 0.7×	2.1k 1.3×	1.0k 0.7×	296 0.4×	697 1.3×	45	3.6k
Karen Jansen‐West United States	25	1.6k 0.6×	1.7k 1.0×	877 0.6×	546 0.8×	857 1.6×	37	3.1k
Steven Ackerley United Kingdom	20	2.8k 1.0×	2.4k 1.4×	1.4k 0.9×	723 1.1×	889 1.6×	21	4.8k
Cédric Raoul France	28	1.2k 0.5×	1.3k 0.8×	664 0.4×	359 0.5×	374 0.7×	70	2.7k
Christopher J. Donnelly United States	23	1.4k 0.5×	2.3k 1.4×	942 0.6×	313 0.5×	252 0.5×	35	3.4k
Sarah Mizielinska United Kingdom	17	1.3k 0.5×	971 0.6×	785 0.5×	227 0.3×	398 0.7×	28	2.1k

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Grima, Natalie, Claire E. Shepherd, Lyndal Henden, et al.. (2025). Multi-region brain transcriptomic analysis of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis reveals widespread RNA alterations and substantial cerebellum involvement. Molecular Neurodegeneration. 20(1). 40–40.

Rodrigues, Miriam, Chitra Vinnakota, Christina M. Buchanan, et al.. (2025). The genetics of motor neuron disease in New Zealand. Journal of the Neurological Sciences. 474. 123472–123472.

Campbell, C. Ryan, Marta B. Manser, Mari Shiratori, et al.. (2024). A female‐biased gene expression signature of dominance in cooperatively breeding meerkats. Molecular Ecology. 33(21). e17467–e17467. 1 indexed citations

Henden, Lyndal, Liam G. Fearnley, Dominic B. Rowe, et al.. (2024). Short tandem repeat expansions in LRP12 are absent in cohorts of familial and sporadic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis patients of European ancestry. Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and Frontotemporal Degeneration. 25(5-6). 644–647.

McCann, Emily P., Natalie Grima, Jennifer A. Fifita, et al.. (2023). Characterising the Genetic Landscape of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis: A Catalogue and Assessment of Over 1,000 Published Genetic Variants. Journal of Neuromuscular Diseases. 10(6). 1127–1141. 4 indexed citations

Henden, Lyndal, et al.. (2022). Identity-by-descent analysis of CMTX3 links three families through a common founder. Journal of Human Genetics. 68(1). 47–49. 3 indexed citations

Nabais, Marta F., Tian Lin, Kelly L. Williams, et al.. (2022). Association between DNA methylation variability and self-reported exposure to heavy metals. Scientific Reports. 12(1). 10582–10582. 10 indexed citations

Grima, Natalie, Lyndal Henden, Liam G. Fearnley, et al.. (2022). NEK1 and STMN2 short tandem repeat lengths are not associated with Australian amyotrophic lateral sclerosis risk. Neurobiology of Aging. 116. 92–95.

Tarr, Ingrid, Emily P. McCann, Beben Benyamin, et al.. (2019). Monozygotic twins and triplets discordant for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis display differential methylation and gene expression. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 8254–8254. 30 indexed citations

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Alonso, Arnald, Brittany N. Lasseigne, Kelly L. Williams, et al.. (2017). aRNApipe: a balanced, efficient and distributed pipeline for processing RNA-seq data in high-performance computing environments. Bioinformatics. 33(11). 1727–1729. 15 indexed citations

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Hogan, Alison, Emily K. Don, Stephanie L. Rayner, et al.. (2017). Expression of ALS/FTD-linked mutant CCNF in zebrafish leads to increased cell death in the spinal cord and an aberrant motor phenotype. Human Molecular Genetics. 26(14). 2616–2626. 35 indexed citations

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Williams, Kelly L., Emily P. McCann, Jennifer A. Fifita, et al.. (2015). Novel TBK1 truncating mutation in a familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis patient of Chinese origin. Neurobiology of Aging. 36(12). 3334.e1–3334.e5. 33 indexed citations

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Yang, Shu, Jennifer A. Fifita, Kelly L. Williams, et al.. (2013). Mutation analysis and immunopathological studies of PFN1 in familial and sporadic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Neurobiology of Aging. 34(9). 2235.e7–2235.e10. 18 indexed citations

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Williams, Kelly L., Sadaf T. Warraich, Shu Yang, et al.. (2012). UBQLN2/ubiquilin 2 mutation and pathology in familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Neurobiology of Aging. 33(10). 2527.e3–2527.e10. 127 indexed citations

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Williams, Kelly L., et al.. (2011). Mutation analysis of the optineurin gene in familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Neurobiology of Aging. 33(1). 210.e9–210.e10. 18 indexed citations

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Williams, Kelly L., et al.. (2011). Mutation analysis of VCP in familial and sporadic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Neurobiology of Aging. 33(7). 1488.e15–1488.e16. 18 indexed citations

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Sreedharan, Jemeen, Ian P. Blair, Xun Hu, et al.. (2008). TDP-43 Mutations in Familial and Sporadic Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. Science. 319(5870). 1668–1672. 2037 indexed citations breakdown →

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Brouwer, Arjan P.M. de, Kelly L. Williams, John A. Duley, et al.. (2007). Arts Syndrome Is Caused by Loss-of-Function Mutations in PRPS1. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 81(3). 507–518. 66 indexed citations

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Hoffman, Brad G., Kelly L. Williams, Amy H. Tien, et al.. (2005). Identification of novel genes and transcription factors involved in spleen, thymus and immunological development and function. Genes and Immunity. 7(2). 101–112. 10 indexed citations

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Williams, Kelly L.. (1980). Examination of the Chromosomes of Polysphondylium pallidum Following Metaphase Arrest by Benzimidazole Derivatives and Colchicine. Microbiology. 116(2). 409–415. 12 indexed citations

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