Lukas Forer

19.5k total citations · 2 hit papers
58 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

Lukas Forer is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Surgery. According to data from OpenAlex, Lukas Forer has authored 58 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 26 papers in Molecular Biology, 25 papers in Genetics and 12 papers in Surgery. Recurrent topics in Lukas Forer's work include Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (19 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (11 papers) and Lipoproteins and Cardiovascular Health (10 papers). Lukas Forer is often cited by papers focused on Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (19 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (11 papers) and Lipoproteins and Cardiovascular Health (10 papers). Lukas Forer collaborates with scholars based in Austria, Germany and United States. Lukas Forer's co-authors include Sebastian Schönherr, Florian Kronenberg, Hansi Weißensteiner, Christian Fuchsberger, Anita Kloss‐Brandstätter, Günther Specht, Sebastian Schoenherr, Gonçalo R. Abecasis, Petr Danecek and Pier Francesco Palamara and has published in prestigious journals such as Nucleic Acids Research, Nature Genetics and Bioinformatics.

In The Last Decade

Lukas Forer

54 papers receiving 2.2k 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.

Reference-based phasing using the Haplotype Reference Consortium panel

2016 829 citations Christian Fuchsberger, Sebastian Schoenherr et al. profile →
HaploGrep 2: mitochondrial haplogroup classification in the era of high-throughput sequencing

2016 518 citations Hansi Weißensteiner, Lukas Forer et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Lukas Forer Austria	19	1.1k	879	208	185	180	58	2.2k
Sebastian Schönherr Austria	17	884 0.8×	768 0.9×	321 1.5×	93 0.5×	194 1.1×	54	1.7k
Hansi Weißensteiner Austria	15	848 0.7×	835 0.9×	330 1.6×	147 0.8×	216 1.2×	40	1.6k
Albert Min‐Shan Ko Taiwan	24	493 0.4×	461 0.5×	254 1.2×	106 0.6×	39 0.2×	47	1.8k
María Cerezo Spain	13	1.1k 0.9×	917 1.0×	127 0.6×	152 0.8×	25 0.1×	19	1.8k
М. И. Воевода Russia	18	742 0.7×	587 0.7×	113 0.5×	138 0.7×	27 0.1×	277	2.5k
Aisha Mohyuddin Pakistan	18	909 0.8×	548 0.6×	265 1.3×	61 0.3×	20 0.1×	32	1.6k
Carolina Bonilla United Kingdom	29	1.9k 1.7×	1.3k 1.5×	70 0.3×	209 1.1×	19 0.1×	74	3.9k
Michael Klintschar Germany	24	1.1k 1.0×	1.1k 1.2×	64 0.3×	90 0.5×	34 0.2×	132	2.6k
Keiji Tamaki Japan	26	951 0.8×	1.6k 1.8×	64 0.3×	227 1.2×	27 0.1×	123	2.7k
Jin Yu United States	12	3.0k 2.7×	3.0k 3.4×	60 0.3×	748 4.0×	75 0.4×	17	5.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Lukas Forer

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Lukas Forer

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

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20 of 20 papers shown

Forer, Lukas, Daniel Taliun, Jonathon LeFaive, et al.. (2024). Imputation Server PGS: an automated approach to calculate polygenic risk scores on imputation servers. Nucleic Acids Research. 52(W1). W70–W77. 4 indexed citations

Koller, Á., Michele Filosi, Hansi Weißensteiner, et al.. (2024). Nuclear and mitochondrial genetic variants associated with mitochondrial DNA copy number. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 2083–2083. 3 indexed citations

Pott, Janne, Jesper R. Gådin, Marcus E. Kleber, et al.. (2024). Sex and statin-related genetic associations at the PCSK9 gene locus: results of genome-wide association meta-analysis. Biology of Sex Differences. 15(1). 26–26. 1 indexed citations

Schönherr, Sebastian, Hansi Weißensteiner, Florian Kronenberg, & Lukas Forer. (2023). Haplogrep 3 - an interactive haplogroup classification and analysis platform. Nucleic Acids Research. 51(W1). W263–W268. 43 indexed citations

Schönherr, Sebastian, Claudia Lamina, Lukas Forer, et al.. (2023). KLKB1 and CLSTN2 are associated with HDL-mediated cholesterol efflux capacity in a genome-wide association study. Atherosclerosis. 368. 1–11. 3 indexed citations

Forer, Lukas, Sebastian Schönherr, Christian Gieger, et al.. (2023). A polygenic and family risk score are both independently associated with risk of type 2 diabetes in a population-based study. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 4805–4805. 7 indexed citations

Taylor, Jonathan, Richard Thomas, Peter Metherall, et al.. (2023). An Artificial Intelligence Generated Automated Algorithm to Measure Total Kidney Volume in ADPKD. Kidney International Reports. 9(2). 249–256. 7 indexed citations

Lamina, Claudia, Barbara Kollerits, Ulla T. Schultheiß, et al.. (2022). PCSK9 and Cardiovascular Disease in Individuals with Moderately Decreased Kidney Function. Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. 17(6). 809–818. 15 indexed citations

Forer, Lukas, Sebastian Schönherr, Annette Peters, et al.. (2022). A Family and a Genome-Wide Polygenic Risk Score Are Independently Associated With Stroke in a Population-Based Study. Stroke. 53(7). 2331–2339. 6 indexed citations

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Tschiderer, Lena, Lisa Seekircher, Lukas Richter, et al.. (2022). Ultra-rapid rollout vaccination with BNT162b2 to reduce SARS-CoV-2 infections in the general population. iScience. 25(11). 105380–105380. 2 indexed citations

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Forer, Lukas, Sebastian Schönherr, Jonathon LeFaive, et al.. (2022). Extent to which array genotyping and imputation with large reference panels approximate deep whole-genome sequencing. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 109(9). 1653–1666. 15 indexed citations

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Weißensteiner, Hansi, Claudia Lamina, Sebastian Schönherr, et al.. (2022). The kringle IV type 2 domain variant 4925G>A causes the elusive association signal of the LPA pentanucleotide repeat. Journal of Lipid Research. 63(12). 100306–100306. 4 indexed citations

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Forer, Lukas, Sebastian Schönherr, Christian Gieger, et al.. (2022). Association between a polygenic and family risk score on the prevalence and incidence of myocardial infarction in the KORA-F3 study. Atherosclerosis. 352. 10–17. 7 indexed citations

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Weißensteiner, Hansi, Lukas Forer, Liane Fendt, et al.. (2021). Contamination detection in sequencing studies using the mitochondrial phylogeny. Genome Research. 31(2). 309–316. 46 indexed citations

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Borena, Wegene, Zoltán Bánki, Katie Bates, et al.. (2021). Persistence of immunity to SARS-CoV-2 over time in the ski resort Ischgl. EBioMedicine. 70. 103534–103534. 12 indexed citations

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Schwaiger, Johannes P., Barbara Kollerits, Inga Steinbrenner, et al.. (2021). Apolipoprotein A‐IV concentrations and clinical outcomes in a large chronic kidney disease cohort: Results from the GCKD study. Journal of Internal Medicine. 291(5). 622–636. 8 indexed citations

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Raschenberger, Julia, Barbara Kollerits, Stephanie Titze, et al.. (2015). Do telomeres have a higher plasticity than thought? Results from the German Chronic Kidney Disease (GCKD) study as a high-risk population. Experimental Gerontology. 72. 162–166. 18 indexed citations

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Lamina, Claudia, Lukas Forer, Sebastian Schönherr, et al.. (2012). Evaluation of gene–obesity interaction effects on cholesterol levels: A genetic predisposition score on HDL-cholesterol is modified by obesity. Atherosclerosis. 225(2). 363–369. 15 indexed citations

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Fuchsberger, Christian, Silvia Miksch, Lukas Forer, & Cristian Pattaro. (2007). Analyzing Populations with Visual and Analytical Methods to Identify Family Clustered Diseases. 2243. 1 indexed citations

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Powell, Charles A., et al.. (1992). A Trough System for Measuring Transmission of Tomato Ringspot Virus by Dagger Nematodes. HortScience. 27(12). 1283–1285. 1 indexed citations

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