Lei Sun

5.2k total citations
98 papers, 2.4k citations indexed

About

Lei Sun is a scholar working on Genetics, Molecular Biology and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Lei Sun has authored 98 papers receiving a total of 2.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 67 papers in Genetics, 25 papers in Molecular Biology and 11 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. Recurrent topics in Lei Sun's work include Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (56 papers), Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals (27 papers) and Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock (23 papers). Lei Sun is often cited by papers focused on Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (56 papers), Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals (27 papers) and Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock (23 papers). Lei Sun collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and China. Lei Sun's co-authors include Mary Sara McPeek, Shelley B. Bull, Andrew D. Paterson, Radu V. Craiu, Apostolos Dimitromanolakis, Lisa J. Strug, Andrew P. Boright, Andriy Derkach, Peter R. Durie and Daryl Waggott and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Clinical Investigation, Bioinformatics and Diabetes.

In The Last Decade

Lei Sun

94 papers receiving 2.3k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Lei Sun Canada 27 1.2k 711 433 180 172 98 2.4k
Heather E. Wheeler United States 24 1.2k 1.0× 1.5k 2.1× 181 0.4× 74 0.4× 148 0.9× 59 2.8k
Mitchell J. Machiela United States 21 993 0.9× 1.1k 1.5× 232 0.5× 247 1.4× 221 1.3× 68 2.7k
Laurent Briollais Canada 24 500 0.4× 799 1.1× 253 0.6× 170 0.9× 79 0.5× 92 1.9k
Derek Gordon United States 32 1.5k 1.3× 1.3k 1.8× 209 0.5× 194 1.1× 401 2.3× 129 3.5k
Jennifer E. Below United States 24 988 0.9× 1.0k 1.4× 526 1.2× 180 1.0× 618 3.6× 70 2.7k
Brendan J. Keating United States 28 823 0.7× 909 1.3× 107 0.2× 239 1.3× 401 2.3× 102 2.8k
Matti Pirinen Finland 27 1.2k 1.1× 822 1.2× 130 0.3× 168 0.9× 248 1.4× 81 2.5k
Matthew S. Lebo United States 27 1.5k 1.3× 973 1.4× 132 0.3× 151 0.8× 172 1.0× 74 2.9k
Steven Gazal United States 26 1.6k 1.3× 1.1k 1.5× 303 0.7× 173 1.0× 70 0.4× 44 2.8k
Kathryn L. Penney United States 34 1.1k 1.0× 1.2k 1.6× 1.2k 2.7× 184 1.0× 189 1.1× 98 3.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Lei Sun

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Fields of papers citing papers by Lei Sun

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Lei Sun

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

All Works

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Paterson, Andrew H., et al.. (2023). Statistical Learning of Large-Scale Genetic Data: How to Run a Genome-Wide Association Study of Gene-Expression Data Using the 1000 Genomes Project Data. Statistics in Biosciences. 16(1). 250–264. 1 indexed citations
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Sun, Lei, et al.. (2023). eXclusionarY: 10 years later, where are the sex chromosomes in GWASs?. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 110(6). 903–912. 32 indexed citations
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Sun, Lei, et al.. (2022). Major sex differences in allele frequencies for X chromosomal variants in both the 1000 Genomes Project and gnomAD. PLoS Genetics. 18(5). e1010231–e1010231. 14 indexed citations
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Sun, Lei, et al.. (2021). A generalized robust allele‐based genetic association test. Biometrics. 78(2). 487–498. 9 indexed citations
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Craiu, Radu V., et al.. (2021). The X factor: A robust and powerful approach to X‐chromosome‐inclusive whole‐genome association studies. Genetic Epidemiology. 45(7). 694–709. 23 indexed citations
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Sun, Lei, et al.. (2020). On set‐based association tests: Insights from a regression using summary statistics. Canadian Journal of Statistics. 49(3). 754–770. 2 indexed citations
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Panjwani, Naim, Fan Wang, Gengming He, et al.. (2020). LocusFocus: Web-based colocalization for the annotation and functional follow-up of GWAS. PLoS Computational Biology. 16(10). e1008336–e1008336. 22 indexed citations
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Yang, Yi, Xingjie Shi, Yuling Jiao, et al.. (2019). CoMM-S2: a collaborative mixed model using summary statistics in transcriptome-wide association studies. Bioinformatics. 36(7). 2009–2016. 26 indexed citations
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Deng, Wei Q., Shihong Mao, Anette Kalnapenkis, et al.. (2019). Analytical strategies to include the X‐chromosome in variance heterogeneity analyses: Evidence for trait‐specific polygenic variance structure. Genetic Epidemiology. 43(7). 815–830. 8 indexed citations
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Miller, Melissa, David Soave, Weili Li, et al.. (2015). Variants in Solute Carrier SLC26A9 Modify Prenatal Exocrine Pancreatic Damage in Cystic Fibrosis. The Journal of Pediatrics. 166(5). 1152–1157.e6. 35 indexed citations
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Gonçalves, Vanessa F., Clement C. Zai, Arun K. Tiwari, et al.. (2013). A Hypothesis-Driven Association Study of 28 Nuclear-Encoded Mitochondrial Genes with Antipsychotic-Induced Weight Gain in Schizophrenia. Neuropsychopharmacology. 39(6). 1347–1354. 22 indexed citations
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Derkach, Andriy, Jerry Lawless, & Lei Sun. (2012). Assessment of Pooled Association Tests for Rare Genetic Variants within a Unified Framework. arXiv (Cornell University). 2 indexed citations
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Sun, Lei, et al.. (2011). BR-squared: a practical solution to the winner’s curse in genome-wide scans. Human Genetics. 129(5). 545–552. 44 indexed citations
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Li, Weili, Lei Sun, Mary Corey, et al.. (2010). Understanding the population structure of North American patients with cystic fibrosis. Clinical Genetics. 79(2). 136–146. 18 indexed citations
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Strug, Lisa J., Lei Sun, & Mary Corey. (2003). The genetics of cross-sectional and longitudinal body mass index. BMC Genetics. 4(S1). S14–S14. 14 indexed citations
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Sun, Lei, Nancy J. Cox, & Mary Sara McPeek. (2002). A Statistical Method for Identification of Polymorphisms That Explain a Linkage Result. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 70(2). 399–411. 42 indexed citations

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