Mashaal Sohail

1.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
14 papers, 453 citations indexed

About

Mashaal Sohail is a scholar working on Genetics, Molecular Biology and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Mashaal Sohail has authored 14 papers receiving a total of 453 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Genetics, 5 papers in Molecular Biology and 2 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Recurrent topics in Mashaal Sohail's work include Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (9 papers), Race, Genetics, and Society (4 papers) and Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals (4 papers). Mashaal Sohail is often cited by papers focused on Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (9 papers), Race, Genetics, and Society (4 papers) and Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals (4 papers). Mashaal Sohail collaborates with scholars based in United States, Mexico and Sweden. Mashaal Sohail's co-authors include Shamil Sunyaev, Benjamin M. Neale, Mark J. Daly, Alex Bloemendal, David Reich, Alicia R. Martin, Michael C. Turchin, Iain Mathieson, Robert Maier and Joel N. Hirschhorn and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Nature Medicine and Nature Genetics.

In The Last Decade

Mashaal Sohail

11 papers receiving 440 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.

Polygenic adaptation on height is overestimated due to uncorrected stratification in genome-wide association studies

2019 228 citations Mashaal Sohail, Robert Maier et al. eLife profile →
Getting genetic ancestry right for science and society

2022 105 citations Anna Lewis, Paul S. Appelbaum et al. Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Mashaal Sohail United States	7	346	132	24	24	21	14	453
Cameron D. Palmer United States	8	311 0.9×	175 1.3×	24 1.0×	47 2.0×	22 1.0×	11	477
Angli Xue Australia	9	398 1.2×	157 1.2×	7 0.3×	40 1.7×	17 0.8×	18	543
Jade Yu Cheng Denmark	6	214 0.6×	58 0.4×	18 0.8×	23 1.0×	13 0.6×	9	318
V. N. Kharkov Russia	12	282 0.8×	82 0.6×	14 0.6×	6 0.3×	17 0.8×	57	384
Tabitha Jackson United Kingdom	3	221 0.6×	79 0.6×	22 0.9×	11 0.5×	14 0.7×	4	402
Jasen Wise United States	6	115 0.3×	126 1.0×	25 1.0×	41 1.7×	16 0.8×	8	286
Ethan M. Jewett United States	9	364 1.1×	182 1.4×	41 1.7×	29 1.2×	9 0.4×	15	539
Claude Bhérer Canada	9	238 0.7×	129 1.0×	12 0.5×	14 0.6×	10 0.5×	12	415
Farzeen Kader South Africa	6	101 0.3×	215 1.6×	17 0.7×	28 1.2×	32 1.5×	7	299
Zoran Budimlija United States	11	243 0.7×	239 1.8×	59 2.5×	15 0.6×	54 2.6×	30	522

Countries citing papers authored by Mashaal Sohail

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Fields of papers citing papers by Mashaal Sohail

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Mashaal Sohail

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All Works

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14 of 14 papers shown

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Kun, Eucharist, Mashaal Sohail, & Vagheesh M. Narasimhan. (2025). The trait-specific timing of accelerated genomic change in the human lineage. Cell Genomics. 5(1). 100740–100740.

2.

Sohail, Mashaal, et al.. (2025). Evolution, genetic diversity, and health. Nature Medicine. 31(3). 751–761.

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Li, Wenxi, Marcela Sandoval‐Velasco, R. H. Manzanilla-López, et al.. (2025). Columbian mammoth mitogenomes from Mexico uncover the species’ complex evolutionary history. Science. 390(6768). 47–52.

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Yang, Zikun, Chen Wang, Badri N. Vardarajan, et al.. (2025). Fine-mapping in admixed populations using CARMA-X, with applications to Latin American studies. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 112(5). 1215–1232. 3 indexed citations

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Huerta‐Sánchez, Emilia, et al.. (2025). Natural selection acting on complex traits hampers the predictive accuracy of polygenic scores in ancient samples. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 112(7). 1547–1561. 1 indexed citations

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Sohail, Mashaal & Andrés Moreno‐Estrada. (2024). The Mexican Biobank Project promotes genetic discovery, inclusive science and local capacity building. Disease Models & Mechanisms. 17(1). 4 indexed citations

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Dauda, Bege, Danielle S. Allen, Agustín Fuentes, et al.. (2023). Ancestry: How researchers use it and what they mean by it. Frontiers in Genetics. 14. 1044555–1044555. 11 indexed citations

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Kun, Eucharist, Javier de la Fuente, Prakash Jayakumar, et al.. (2023). The genetic architecture and evolution of the human skeletal form. Science. 381(6655). eadf8009–eadf8009. 23 indexed citations

9.

Lewis, Anna, Paul S. Appelbaum, Bege Dauda, et al.. (2023). An Ethical Framework for Research Using Genetic Ancestry. Perspectives in biology and medicine. 66(2). 225–248. 8 indexed citations

10.

Lewis, Anna, Paul S. Appelbaum, Bege Dauda, et al.. (2022). Getting genetic ancestry right for science and society. Science. 376(6590). 250–252. 105 indexed citations breakdown →

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Sohail, Mashaal, et al.. (2021). Populations, Traits, and Their Spatial Structure in Humans. Genome Biology and Evolution. 13(12). 6 indexed citations

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Sohail, Mashaal, Robert Maier, Andrea Ganna, et al.. (2019). Polygenic adaptation on height is overestimated due to uncorrected stratification in genome-wide association studies. eLife. 8. 228 indexed citations breakdown →

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Arnold, Brian, Mashaal Sohail, Crista B. Wadsworth, et al.. (2019). Fine-Scale Haplotype Structure Reveals Strong Signatures of Positive Selection in a Recombining Bacterial Pathogen. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 37(2). 417–428. 23 indexed citations

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Savova, Virginia, Sung Chun, Mashaal Sohail, et al.. (2016). Genes with monoallelic expression contribute disproportionately to genetic diversity in humans. Nature Genetics. 48(3). 231–237. 41 indexed citations

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