Lucas D. Ward

31.5k total citations · 4 hit papers
31 papers, 5.9k citations indexed

About

Lucas D. Ward is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Epidemiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Lucas D. Ward has authored 31 papers receiving a total of 5.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Molecular Biology, 11 papers in Genetics and 5 papers in Epidemiology. Recurrent topics in Lucas D. Ward's work include Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (11 papers), Genomics and Rare Diseases (4 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (4 papers). Lucas D. Ward is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (11 papers), Genomics and Rare Diseases (4 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (4 papers). Lucas D. Ward collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and Netherlands. Lucas D. Ward's co-authors include M Kellis, Manolis Kellis, Jason Ernst, Pouya Kheradpour, Tarjei S. Mikkelsen, Charles B. Epstein, Robbyn Issner, Timothy Durham, Michael J. Coyne and Noam Shoresh and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Lucas D. Ward

29 papers receiving 5.9k 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.

Mapping and analysis of chromatin state dynamics in nine human cell types

2011 2.0k citations Jason Ernst, Pouya Kheradpour et al. profile →
HaploReg: a resource for exploring chromatin states, conservation, and regulatory motif alterations within sets of genetically linked variants

2011 1.4k citations Lucas D. Ward, M Kellis Nucleic Acids Research profile →
Systematic Protein Location Mapping Reveals Five Principal Chromatin Types in Drosophila Cells

2010 693 citations Guillaume J. Filion, Joke G. van Bemmel et al. Cell profile →
HaploReg v4: systematic mining of putative causal variants, cell types, regulators and target genes for human complex traits and disease

2015 609 citations Lucas D. Ward, Manolis Kellis Nucleic Acids Research profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Lucas D. Ward United States	19	4.3k	1.6k	736	478	467	31	5.9k
Yong Cheng United States	26	3.5k 0.8×	1.2k 0.8×	483 0.7×	439 0.9×	879 1.9×	51	5.2k
Jin Yu United States	12	3.0k 0.7×	3.0k 1.9×	748 1.0×	280 0.6×	379 0.8×	17	5.9k
Benjamin C. Hitz United States	14	3.1k 0.7×	1.1k 0.7×	580 0.8×	247 0.5×	321 0.7×	16	4.3k
Brendan Blumenstiel United States	8	2.1k 0.5×	2.4k 1.5×	628 0.9×	346 0.7×	505 1.1×	12	5.4k
Laurent Gil United Kingdom	7	3.1k 0.7×	3.0k 1.8×	1.0k 1.4×	252 0.5×	422 0.9×	7	6.1k
Kouichi Ozaki Japan	36	2.5k 0.6×	1.0k 0.6×	904 1.2×	295 0.6×	682 1.5×	118	5.0k
Matthew DeFelice United States	5	2.0k 0.5×	2.4k 1.5×	504 0.7×	345 0.7×	491 1.1×	7	5.1k
Daiya Takai Japan	28	4.2k 1.0×	909 0.6×	824 1.1×	242 0.5×	264 0.6×	71	5.2k
Myong‐Hee Sung United States	35	3.6k 0.8×	898 0.6×	630 0.9×	353 0.7×	1.0k 2.2×	66	5.0k
David J. Arenillas Canada	15	3.7k 0.9×	623 0.4×	734 1.0×	434 0.9×	449 1.0×	28	4.6k

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Deaton, Aimée M., Lynne Krohn, Paul Nioi, et al.. (2025). Rare predicted loss-of-function and damaging missense variants in CFHR5 associate with protection from age-related macular degeneration. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 112(5). 1062–1080. 1 indexed citations

Ward, Lucas D., et al.. (2025). Immunosuppression in Untreated Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia and the Development of Disseminated Cryptococcal Disease and Invasive Aspergillosis. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. 211(Supplement_1). A6709–A6709.

Ward, Lucas D., et al.. (2024). AAV-mediated hepatic expression of SLC30A10 and the Thr95Ile variant attenuates manganese excess and other phenotypes in Slc30a10-deficient mice. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 300(3). 105732–105732. 3 indexed citations

Hakim, Aaron, Aimée M. Deaton, Lucas D. Ward, et al.. (2023). Advancing diagnosis and management of liver disease in adults through exome sequencing. EBioMedicine. 95. 104747–104747. 12 indexed citations

Deaton, Aimée M., Aditi Dubey, Lucas D. Ward, et al.. (2022). Rare loss of function variants in the hepatokine gene INHBE protect from abdominal obesity. Nature Communications. 13(1). 4319–4319. 28 indexed citations

Carss, Keren, Aimée M. Deaton, Alberto Del Río-Espínola, et al.. (2022). Using human genetics to improve safety assessment of therapeutics. Nature Reviews Drug Discovery. 22(2). 145–162. 42 indexed citations

Ward, Lucas D., Margaret M. Parker, Aimée M. Deaton, et al.. (2021). Rare coding variants in DNA damage repair genes associated with timing of natural menopause. Human Genetics and Genomics Advances. 3(2). 100079–100079. 11 indexed citations

Liu, Xin, et al.. (2021). A proteomic platform to identify off-target proteins associated with therapeutic modalities that induce protein degradation or gene silencing. Scientific Reports. 11(1). 15856–15856. 12 indexed citations

Born, David A., et al.. (2019). Phenotypes associated with genes encoding drug targets are predictive of clinical trial side effects. Nature Communications. 10(1). 1579–1579. 58 indexed citations

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Fielden, Mark R., Lucas D. Ward, Sheroy Minocherhomji, et al.. (2017). Modernizing Human Cancer Risk Assessment of Therapeutics. Trends in Pharmacological Sciences. 39(3). 232–247. 14 indexed citations

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Ward, Lucas D. & Manolis Kellis. (2015). HaploReg v4: systematic mining of putative causal variants, cell types, regulators and target genes for human complex traits and disease. Nucleic Acids Research. 44(D1). D877–D881. 609 indexed citations breakdown →

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Eisenhaure, Thomas, F. Ann Ran, Lucas D. Ward, et al.. (2014). Common Genetic Variants Modulate Pathogen-Sensing Responses in Human Dendritic Cells. Science. 343(6175). 1246980–1246980. 15 indexed citations

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Kellis, Manolis & Lucas D. Ward. (2012). Interpreting non-coding variation in complex disease genetics. DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). 340 indexed citations

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Ward, Lucas D. & Manolis Kellis. (2012). Interpreting noncoding genetic variation in complex traits and human disease. Nature Biotechnology. 30(11). 1095–1106. 2 indexed citations

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Washietl, Stefan, Pouya Kheradpour, Jason Ernst, et al.. (2011). A High-Resolution Map of Human Evolutionary Constraint Using 29 Mammals. PubMed Central. 2 indexed citations

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Filion, Guillaume J., Joke G. van Bemmel, Ulrich Braunschweig, et al.. (2011). Systematic Protein Location Mapping Reveals Five Principal Chromatin Types in Drosophila Cells. Cell. 145(1). 160–160. 24 indexed citations

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Ward, Lucas D. & M Kellis. (2011). HaploReg: a resource for exploring chromatin states, conservation, and regulatory motif alterations within sets of genetically linked variants. Nucleic Acids Research. 40(D1). D930–D934. 1410 indexed citations breakdown →

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Filion, Guillaume J., Joke G. van Bemmel, Ulrich Braunschweig, et al.. (2010). Systematic Protein Location Mapping Reveals Five Principal Chromatin Types in Drosophila Cells. Cell. 143(2). 212–224. 693 indexed citations breakdown →

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Moorman, Celine, Junbai Wang, Elzo de Wit, et al.. (2006). Hotspots of transcription factor colocalization in the genome of Drosophila melanogaster. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 103(32). 12027–12032. 152 indexed citations

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Farzadegan, Homayoon, Joan S. Chmiel, Nancy Odaka, et al.. (1992). Association of Antibody to Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Core Protein (p24), CD4 Lymphocyte Number, and AIDS-Free Time. The Journal of Infectious Diseases. 166(6). 1217–1222. 27 indexed citations

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