Michael C. Turchin

3.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
9 papers, 776 citations indexed

About

Michael C. Turchin is a scholar working on Genetics, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Immunology. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael C. Turchin has authored 9 papers receiving a total of 776 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Genetics, 2 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and 2 papers in Immunology. Recurrent topics in Michael C. Turchin's work include Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (6 papers), Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock (3 papers) and Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals (3 papers). Michael C. Turchin is often cited by papers focused on Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (6 papers), Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock (3 papers) and Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals (3 papers). Michael C. Turchin collaborates with scholars based in United States, Sweden and Canada. Michael C. Turchin's co-authors include Joel N. Hirschhorn, Charleston W. K. Chiang, David Reich, Jonathan K. Pritchard, Guy Sella, Yuval B. Simons, Cameron D. Palmer, Sriram Sankararaman, Andrea Ganna and Alex Bloemendal and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Genetics, Bioinformatics and The American Journal of Human Genetics.

In The Last Decade

Michael C. Turchin

9 papers receiving 754 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.

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 →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Michael C. Turchin United States	7	648	183	57	54	40	9	776
Maha M. Osman Sudan	3	707 1.1×	199 1.1×	58 1.0×	21 0.4×	21 0.5×	6	953
Jane P. Kenney‐Hunt United States	18	572 0.9×	290 1.6×	75 1.3×	80 1.5×	37 0.9×	26	918
Sun‐Wei Guo United States	11	461 0.7×	128 0.7×	96 1.7×	35 0.6×	30 0.8×	14	685
André A. Mignault United States	5	561 0.9×	211 1.2×	77 1.4×	222 4.1×	18 0.5×	6	873
Choongwon Jeong United States	16	662 1.0×	180 1.0×	27 0.5×	21 0.4×	36 0.9×	35	1.0k
L. B. Jorde United States	10	548 0.8×	227 1.2×	58 1.0×	29 0.5×	19 0.5×	19	831
William Beggs United States	11	462 0.7×	296 1.6×	47 0.8×	17 0.3×	37 0.9×	18	823
Jeremy J. Berg United States	8	663 1.0×	201 1.1×	139 2.4×	60 1.1×	17 0.4×	10	833
Brian K. Maples United States	4	688 1.1×	189 1.0×	39 0.7×	17 0.3×	8 0.2×	4	856
Jake Byrnes United States	15	546 0.8×	291 1.6×	100 1.8×	14 0.3×	32 0.8×	17	1.0k

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Belbin, Gillian M., Stephanie Rutledge, Tetyana Dodatko, et al.. (2021). Leveraging health systems data to characterize a large effect variant conferring risk for liver disease in Puerto Ricans. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 108(11). 2099–2111. 4 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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Turchin, Michael C. & Matthew Stephens. (2019). Bayesian multivariate reanalysis of large genetic studies identifies many new associations. PLoS Genetics. 15(10). e1008431–e1008431. 9 indexed citations

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Simons, Yuval B., Michael C. Turchin, Jonathan K. Pritchard, & Guy Sella. (2014). The deleterious mutation load is insensitive to recent population history. Nature Genetics. 46(3). 220–224. 184 indexed citations

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Turchin, Michael C., Charleston W. K. Chiang, Cameron D. Palmer, et al.. (2012). Evidence of widespread selection on standing variation in Europe at height-associated SNPs. Nature Genetics. 44(9). 1015–1019. 233 indexed citations

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Turchin, Michael C. & Joel N. Hirschhorn. (2012). Gencrypt: one-way cryptographic hashes to detect overlapping individuals across samples. Bioinformatics. 28(6). 886–888. 5 indexed citations

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Dauber, Andrew, Yongguo Yu, Michael C. Turchin, et al.. (2011). Genome-wide Association of Copy-Number Variation Reveals an Association between Short Stature and the Presence of Low-Frequency Genomic Deletions. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 89(6). 751–759. 56 indexed citations

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Wong, Alex, Michael C. Turchin, Mariana F. Wolfner, & Charles F. Aquadro. (2011). Temporally Variable Selection on Proteolysis-Related Reproductive Tract Proteins in Drosophila. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 29(1). 229–238. 11 indexed citations

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Wong, Alex, Michael C. Turchin, Mariana F. Wolfner, & Charles F. Aquadro. (2007). Evidence for Positive Selection on Drosophila melanogaster Seminal Fluid Protease Homologs. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 25(3). 497–506. 46 indexed citations

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