Leonard L. Heston

8.7k citations

119 papers · 6.1k indexed · 3 hit papers · h-index 38

Physiology top 0.5%
Psychiatry and Mental health top 0.5%
Molecular Biology top 5%
Genetics top 2%
Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience top 2%

Co-authors: Janet L. Sobell Steve S. Sommer C. L. Grady James V. Haxby June White Elke D. Eckert Gerard D. Schellenberg Thomas J. Bouchard
Topics: Alzheimer's disease research and treatments (17 papers)Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling (11 papers)Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research (10 papers)
Cited by: Psychiatry and Mental health Physiology Biological Psychiatry
Journals: Science Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences The Lancet
Partner nations: United States United Kingdom Japan

In The Last Decade

Leonard L. Heston

118 papers receiving 5.6k 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.

Genetic Linkage Evidence for a Familial Alzheimer's Disease Locus on Chromosome 14

1992 683 citations Harry T. Orr, June White et al. profile →
Psychiatric Disorders in Foster Home Reared Children of Schizophrenic Mothers

1966 529 citations Leonard L. Heston profile →
Positron emission tomography in Alzheimer's disease

1986 438 citations Leonard L. Heston et al. profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Evidence for X-Chromosomal Schizophrenia Associated with microRNA Alterations 2009 ·PLoS ONE ·Jinong Feng,Guihua Sun,Yan Jin,(unknown),Wenyan Li,Carolyn H. Buzin,Jeff Longmate,Leonard L. Heston,John J. Rossi,Steve S. Sommer	77
2	Structural variants in the retinoid receptor genes in patients with schizophrenia and other psychiatric diseases 2005 ·American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B Neuropsychiatric Genetics ·Jinong Feng,Jie‐Sheng Chen,Yan Jin,Ian Jones,Nick Craddock,Edwin H. Cook,David Goldman,Leonard L. Heston,Steve S. Sommer	13
3	Failure to confirm association between RGS4 haplotypes and schizophrenia in Caucasians 2005 ·American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B Neuropsychiatric Genetics ·Janet L. Sobell,Christian Richard,Donna A. Wirshing,Leonard L. Heston	38
4	Vitamin D receptor variants in 192 patients with schizophrenia and other psychiatric diseases 2005 ·Neuroscience Letters ·Yan Jin,Jinong Feng,Nick Craddock,Ian Jones,Edwin H. Cook,David Goldman,Leonard L. Heston,Jie‐Sheng Chen,Patricia V. Burkhart,Wenyan Li,(unknown),Steve S. Sommer	30
5	Multiple missense mutations in the diazepam binding inhibitor (DBI) gene identified in schizophrenia but lack of disease association 2003 ·American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B Neuropsychiatric Genetics ·Ningning Niu,(unknown),Leonard L. Heston,Janet L. Sobell	7
6	Systematic screening for mutations in the glycine receptor α2 subunit gene (GLRA2) in patients with schizophrenia and other psychiatric diseases 2001 ·Psychiatric Genetics ·Jinong Feng,Nick Craddock,Ian Rees Jones,Edwin H. Cook,David Goldman,Leonard L. Heston,Leena Peltonen,Lynn E. DeLisi,Steve S. Sommer	7
7	Five missense variants in the amino-terminal domain of the glucocorticoid receptor: No association with puerperal psychosis or schizophrenia 2000 ·American Journal of Medical Genetics ·Jinong Feng,(unknown),William P. Bennett,Leonard L. Heston,(unknown),Nick Craddock,Steve S. Sommer	48
8	Scanning of the dopamine D1 and D5 receptor genes by REF in neuropsychiatric patients reveals a novel missense change at a highly conserved amino acid 1998 ·American Journal of Medical Genetics ·Jinong Feng,Janet L. Sobell,Leonard L. Heston,Edwin H. Cook,David Goldman,Steve S. Sommer	35
9	Variants in the ?2A AR adrenergic receptor gene in psychiatric patients 1998 ·American Journal of Medical Genetics ·Jinong Feng,Janet L. Sobell,Leonard L. Heston,David Goldman,Edwin H. Cook,Henry R. Kranzler,Joel Gelernter,Steve S. Sommer	16
10	Progress in Alzheimer's disease and similar conditions 1997 ·Leonard L. Heston	4
11	Screening the monoamine oxidase B gene in 100 male patients with schizophrenia: A cluster of polymorphisms in African-Americans but lack of functionally significant sequence changes 1997 ·American Journal of Medical Genetics ·Janet L. Sobell,(unknown),David D. Hebrink,Leonard L. Heston,Steve S. Sommer	23
12	Genotype-to-phenotype analysis: Search for clinical characteristics of a missense change in the GABAA-β1 receptor gene 1996 ·American Journal of Medical Genetics ·Janet L. Sobell,D. Christine Sigurdson,Leonard L. Heston,William Byerley,Steve S. Sommer	2
13	Screening the dopamine D₁ receptor gene in 131 schizophrenics and eight alcoholics: Identification of polymorphisms but lack of functionally significant sequence changes 1995 ·American Journal of Medical Genetics ·(unknown),Janet L. Sobell,Leonard L. Heston,Steve S. Sommer	34
14	Eight novel polymorphisms in the dystrophin gene of african-americans: The rate of polymorphism is high 1993 ·Human Mutation ·Noralane M. Lindor,Steve S. Sommer,Janet L. Sobell,Leonard L. Heston,S. N. Thibodeau	2
15	Delineation of genetic predisposition to multifactorial disease: A general approach on the threshold of feasibility 1992 ·Genomics ·Janet L. Sobell,Leonard L. Heston,(unknown)	78
16	Longitudinal Study of Psychotropic Drug Use by Elderly Nursing Home Residents 1992 ·Journal of Gerontology ·Judith Garrard,(unknown),Lukas Makris,Signe S Cooper,Leonard L. Heston,Edward Ratner,Daniel Zelterman,R. L. Kane	14
17	Linkage of an Alzheimer disease susceptibility locus to markers on human chromosome 21 1991 ·American Journal of Medical Genetics ·Leonard L. Heston,Harry T. Orr,Stephen S. Rich,June White	14
18	Clinical Drug Trials in Alzheimer Disease What are Some of the Issues? 1990 ·Alzheimer Disease & Associated Disorders ·Lissy F. Jarvik,Leonard van den Berg,Raymond T. Bartus,Leonard L. Heston,Nancy J. Leith,Creighton H. Phelps,Richard I. Shader,Peter J. Whitehouse	11
19	Heritability of substance abuse and antisocial behavior: A study of monozygotic twins reared apart 1990 ·Biological Psychiatry ·William M. Grove,Elke D. Eckert,Leonard L. Heston,Thomas J. Bouchard,Nancy L. Segal,David T. Lykken	256
20	Aluminum levels in brain in Alzheimer's disease. 1978 ·Munich Personal RePEc Archive (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich) ·George A. Trapp,Gary Miner,R.L. Zimmerman,Angeline R. Mastri,Leonard L. Heston	96

About Leonard L. Heston

Leonard L. Heston is a scholar working on Psychiatry and Mental health, Physiology and Biological Psychiatry, having authored 119 papers that have together received 6.1k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Alzheimer's disease research and treatments (17 papers), Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling (11 papers) and Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research (10 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Psychiatry and Mental health (2.0k citations), Physiology (2.1k citations) and Biological Psychiatry (153 citations). Leonard L. Heston has collaborated with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Japan. Frequent co-authors include Janet L. Sobell, Steve S. Sommer, C. L. Grady, James V. Haxby, June White, Elke D. Eckert, Gerard D. Schellenberg, Thomas J. Bouchard, Ellen M. Wijsman and Harry T. Orr. Their work appears in journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and The Lancet.

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