Masahiro Kanai

37.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
54 papers, 3.3k citations indexed

About

Masahiro Kanai is a scholar working on Genetics, Molecular Biology and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Masahiro Kanai has authored 54 papers receiving a total of 3.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 24 papers in Genetics, 18 papers in Molecular Biology and 7 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. Recurrent topics in Masahiro Kanai's work include Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (19 papers), Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals (9 papers) and Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock (8 papers). Masahiro Kanai is often cited by papers focused on Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (19 papers), Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals (9 papers) and Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock (8 papers). Masahiro Kanai collaborates with scholars based in Japan, United States and Finland. Masahiro Kanai's co-authors include Yukinori Okada, Yoichiro Kamatani, Benjamin M. Neale, Alicia R. Martin, Mark J. Daly, Koichi Matsuda, Michiaki Kubo, Yukihide Momozawa, Masato Akiyama and Atsushi Takahashi and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Masahiro Kanai

51 papers receiving 3.3k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Clinical use of current polygenic risk scores may exacerbate health disparities

2019 1.3k citations Alicia R. Martin, Masahiro Kanai et al. Nature Genetics profile →
Genetic analysis of quantitative traits in the Japanese population links cell types to complex human diseases

2018 413 citations Masahiro Kanai, Masato Akiyama et al. Nature Genetics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Masahiro Kanai Japan	26	1.8k	1.0k	289	256	255	54	3.3k
Christian Fuchsberger Italy	22	1.9k 1.0×	1.2k 1.2×	213 0.7×	349 1.4×	166 0.7×	61	3.3k
Celeste Leigh Pearce United States	28	1.2k 0.7×	1.2k 1.2×	250 0.9×	413 1.6×	274 1.1×	72	3.8k
Erdogan Taskesen Netherlands	14	1.1k 0.6×	1.3k 1.3×	247 0.9×	283 1.1×	187 0.7×	20	2.8k
Reedik Mägi Estonia	33	2.0k 1.1×	1.4k 1.3×	285 1.0×	285 1.1×	248 1.0×	107	3.9k
Carolina Bonilla United Kingdom	29	1.9k 1.0×	1.3k 1.3×	194 0.7×	209 0.8×	149 0.6×	74	3.9k
Zhili Zheng Australia	15	2.3k 1.2×	1.1k 1.1×	329 1.1×	274 1.1×	159 0.6×	31	3.7k
Thomas J. Hoffmann United States	33	1.1k 0.6×	858 0.9×	390 1.3×	207 0.8×	283 1.1×	146	4.0k
Tōnu Esko Estonia	36	2.1k 1.1×	1.6k 1.5×	295 1.0×	385 1.5×	279 1.1×	118	4.4k
Fernando Pires Hartwig Brazil	21	1.3k 0.7×	678 0.7×	478 1.7×	201 0.8×	213 0.8×	89	3.5k
Lili Milani Estonia	33	997 0.5×	1.2k 1.2×	192 0.7×	268 1.0×	484 1.9×	101	3.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Masahiro Kanai

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Sugimoto, Shinya, Tatsuya Suzuki, Hiroki Kiyohara, et al.. (2025). Characterization of Computed Tomography Colonography Findings of Ulcerative Colitis-Associated Neoplasia. Inflammatory Bowel Diseases.

Vincentis, Antonio De, Federica Tavaglione, Shinichi Namba, et al.. (2024). Poor accuracy and sustainability of the first‐step FIB4 EASL pathway for stratifying steatotic liver disease risk in the general population. Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics. 59(11). 1402–1412. 7 indexed citations

Zhou, Wei, Anna Cuomo, Angli Xue, et al.. (2024). W28. EFFICIENT AND ACCURATE MIXED MODEL ASSOCIATION TOOL FOR SINGLE-CELL EQTL ANALYSIS. European Neuropsychopharmacology. 87. 115–116.

Palmer, Duncan S., Wei Zhou, Liam Abbott, et al.. (2023). Analysis of genetic dominance in the UK Biobank. Science. 379(6639). 1341–1348. 23 indexed citations

Gupta, Rahul, Masahiro Kanai, Timothy Durham, et al.. (2023). Nuclear genetic control of mtDNA copy number and heteroplasmy in humans. Nature. 620(7975). 839–848. 84 indexed citations

Cui, Ran, Masahiro Kanai, Jacob C. Ulirsch, et al.. (2023). Improving fine-mapping by modeling infinitesimal effects. Nature Genetics. 56(1). 162–169. 13 indexed citations

Wang, Ying, Masahiro Kanai, Mireille Kamariza, et al.. (2023). Polygenic prediction across populations is influenced by ancestry, genetic architecture, and methodology. Cell Genomics. 3(10). 100408–100408. 16 indexed citations

Uchida, Katsunori, et al.. (2022). A case of primary renal oncocytic tumor: Chromophobe renal cell carcinoma or oncocytoma?. IJU Case Reports. 6(1). 18–21. 2 indexed citations

Soga, Norihito, Seiichi Kato, Yuji Ogura, et al.. (2022). Dramatic response to pembrolizumab after pseudoprogression in a patient with advanced metastatic castration‐resistant prostate cancer. IJU Case Reports. 5(6). 442–445. 1 indexed citations

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Wang, Ying, Kristin Tsuo, Masahiro Kanai, Benjamin M. Neale, & Alicia R. Martin. (2022). Challenges and Opportunities for Developing More Generalizable Polygenic Risk Scores. PubMed. 5(1). 293–320. 73 indexed citations

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Atkinson, Elizabeth G., Adam X. Maihofer, Masahiro Kanai, et al.. (2021). Tractor uses local ancestry to enable the inclusion of admixed individuals in GWAS and to boost power. Nature Genetics. 53(2). 195–204. 115 indexed citations

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Nakatochi, Masahiro, Yu Toyoda, Masahiro Kanai, et al.. (2021). An X chromosome-wide meta-analysis based on Japanese cohorts revealed that non-autosomal variations are associated with serum urate. Lara D. Veeken. 60(9). 4430–4432. 2 indexed citations

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Shi, Huwenbo, Steven Gazal, Masahiro Kanai, et al.. (2021). Population-specific causal disease effect sizes in functionally important regions impacted by selection. Nature Communications. 12(1). 1098–1098. 57 indexed citations

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Reilly, Steven K., Sager J. Gosai, Jacob C. Ulirsch, et al.. (2021). Direct characterization of cis-regulatory elements and functional dissection of complex genetic associations using HCR–FlowFISH. Nature Genetics. 53(8). 1166–1176. 42 indexed citations

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Shirai, Yuya, Suguru Honda, Katsunori Ikari, et al.. (2020). Association of the RPA3-UMAD1 locus with interstitial lung diseases complicated with rheumatoid arthritis in Japanese. Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases. 79(10). 1305–1309. 28 indexed citations

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Sakaue, Saori, Jun Hirata, Masahiro Kanai, et al.. (2020). Dimensionality reduction reveals fine-scale structure in the Japanese population with consequences for polygenic risk prediction. Nature Communications. 11(1). 1569–1569. 60 indexed citations

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Leu, Costin, Remi Stevelink, Alexander C.W. Smith, et al.. (2019). Polygenic burden in focal and generalized epilepsies. Brain. 142(11). 3473–3481. 70 indexed citations

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Hirata, Jun, Kazuyoshi Hosomichi, Saori Sakaue, et al.. (2019). Genetic and phenotypic landscape of the major histocompatibilty complex region in the Japanese population. Nature Genetics. 51(3). 470–480. 59 indexed citations

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Okada, Yukinori, Yukihide Momozawa, Saori Sakaue, et al.. (2018). Deep whole-genome sequencing reveals recent selection signatures linked to evolution and disease risk of Japanese. Nature Communications. 9(1). 1631–1631. 84 indexed citations

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Sone, Daichi, Noriko Sato, Kota Yokoyama, et al.. (2015). Striatal glucose hypometabolism in preadolescent-onset dentatorubral–pallidoluysian atrophy. Journal of the Neurological Sciences. 360. 121–124. 6 indexed citations

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