Michael Wainberg

6.3k total citations · 4 hit papers
40 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

About

Michael Wainberg is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Physiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael Wainberg has authored 40 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Molecular Biology, 9 papers in Genetics and 6 papers in Physiology. Recurrent topics in Michael Wainberg's work include Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (8 papers), Tryptophan and brain disorders (4 papers) and Botulinum Toxin and Related Neurological Disorders (3 papers). Michael Wainberg is often cited by papers focused on Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (8 papers), Tryptophan and brain disorders (4 papers) and Botulinum Toxin and Related Neurological Disorders (3 papers). Michael Wainberg collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and United Kingdom. Michael Wainberg's co-authors include Brendan J. Frey, Daniele Merico, Andrew Delong, H. Barbeau, Anshul Kundaje, Lois Finch, Nasa Sinnott-Armstrong, Manuel A. Rivas, Shreejoy J. Tripathy and Babak Alipanahi and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and Neuron.

In The Last Decade

Michael Wainberg

38 papers receiving 2.4k 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.

Opportunities and challenges for transcriptome-wide association studies

2019 506 citations Michael Wainberg, Nasa Sinnott-Armstrong et al. Nature Genetics profile →
Deep learning in biomedicine

2018 414 citations Michael Wainberg, Daniele Merico et al. Nature Biotechnology profile →
VTR 7.0

2014 282 citations Michael Wainberg et al. profile →
Transformers and genome language models

2025 18 citations Michael Wainberg, Duncan Forster et al. Nature Machine Intelligence profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Michael Wainberg Canada	21	844	417	266	228	220	40	2.5k
Hiroyuki Kondo Japan	26	967 1.1×	253 0.6×	140 0.5×	87 0.4×	147 0.7×	204	2.4k
Takashi Ishikawa Japan	32	1.0k 1.2×	198 0.5×	648 2.4×	214 0.9×	51 0.2×	250	3.8k
Stephen Smith United Kingdom	34	971 1.2×	609 1.5×	73 0.3×	262 1.1×	349 1.6×	143	5.5k
Kevin Thompson Australia	38	90 0.1×	326 0.8×	498 1.9×	129 0.6×	83 0.4×	144	5.8k
John Jeremy Rice United States	35	2.1k 2.5×	80 0.2×	122 0.5×	25 0.1×	68 0.3×	105	5.2k
Christopher J. Hughes United States	30	416 0.5×	66 0.2×	461 1.7×	1.8k 7.8×	56 0.3×	92	3.6k
Sihao Liu United States	25	1.2k 1.4×	142 0.3×	97 0.4×	245 1.1×	27 0.1×	65	3.3k
Taishin Nomura Japan	31	251 0.3×	46 0.1×	130 0.5×	44 0.2×	218 1.0×	158	2.9k
Andrew Wallace United Kingdom	37	833 1.0×	214 0.5×	374 1.4×	48 0.2×	39 0.2×	253	5.4k
Hiroshi Ōyama Japan	31	1.1k 1.3×	92 0.2×	48 0.2×	72 0.3×	45 0.2×	225	3.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Michael Wainberg

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Fields of papers citing papers by Michael Wainberg

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Michael Wainberg

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

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Wainberg, Michael, Duncan Forster, Mehran Karimzadeh, et al.. (2025). Transformers and genome language models. Nature Machine Intelligence. 7(3). 346–362. 18 indexed citations breakdown →

Wainberg, Michael, et al.. (2024). Genetic architecture of the structural connectome. Nature Communications. 15(1). 1962–1962. 19 indexed citations

Zhukovsky, Peter, Milos Milic, Michael Wainberg, et al.. (2023). Opposing brain signatures of sleep in task-based and resting-state conditions. Nature Communications. 14(1). 7927–7927. 6 indexed citations

Wainberg, Michael, et al.. (2023). Case-control virtual histology elucidates cell types associated with cortical thickness differences in Alzheimer's disease. NeuroImage. 276. 120177–120177. 5 indexed citations

Wainberg, Michael, Shea J. Andrews, & Shreejoy J. Tripathy. (2023). Shared genetic risk loci between Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias, Parkinson’s disease, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Alzheimer s Research & Therapy. 15(1). 113–113. 38 indexed citations

Wainberg, Michael, Zeyuan Song, Stacy L. Andersen, et al.. (2022). Distribution of 54 polygenic risk scores for common diseases in long lived individuals and their offspring. GeroScience. 44(2). 719–729. 7 indexed citations

Ortiz, Abigail, Marcos Sanches, Michael Wainberg, et al.. (2022). Sex-specific associations between lifetime diagnosis of bipolar disorder and cardiovascular disease: A cross-sectional analysis of 257,673 participants from the UK Biobank. Journal of Affective Disorders. 319. 663–669. 9 indexed citations

Wainberg, Michael, Samuel E. Jones, Sean Hill, et al.. (2021). Association of accelerometer-derived sleep measures with lifetime psychiatric diagnoses: A cross-sectional study of 89,205 participants from the UK Biobank. PLoS Medicine. 18(10). e1003782–e1003782. 38 indexed citations

Wainberg, Michael, Peter Zhukovsky, Sean Hill, et al.. (2021). Symptom dimensions of major depression in a large community-based cohort. Psychological Medicine. 53(2). 1–8. 5 indexed citations

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Wainberg, Michael, Stefan Kloiber, Breno S. Diniz, et al.. (2021). Clinical laboratory tests and five-year incidence of major depressive disorder: a prospective cohort study of 433,890 participants from the UK Biobank. Translational Psychiatry. 11(1). 380–380. 25 indexed citations

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Wainberg, Michael, Andrew T. Magis, John C. Earls, et al.. (2020). Multiomic blood correlates of genetic risk identify presymptomatic disease alterations. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(35). 21813–21820. 21 indexed citations

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Tanigawa, Yosuke, Michael Wainberg, Juha Karjalainen, et al.. (2020). Rare protein-altering variants in ANGPTL7 lower intraocular pressure and protect against glaucoma. PLoS Genetics. 16(5). e1008682–e1008682. 26 indexed citations

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Laskowski, Edward R., et al.. (2020). The Telemedicine Musculoskeletal Examination. Mayo Clinic Proceedings. 95(8). 1715–1731. 99 indexed citations

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Wainberg, Michael, et al.. (2020). The Telemedicine Hand Examination. American Journal of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation. 99(10). 883–883. 8 indexed citations

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Wainberg, Michael, Nasa Sinnott-Armstrong, Nicholas Mancuso, et al.. (2019). Opportunities and challenges for transcriptome-wide association studies. Nature Genetics. 51(4). 592–599. 506 indexed citations breakdown →

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Wainberg, Michael, Anubha Mahajan, Anshul Kundaje, et al.. (2019). Homogeneity in the association of body mass index with type 2 diabetes across the UK Biobank: A Mendelian randomization study. PLoS Medicine. 16(12). e1002982–e1002982. 28 indexed citations

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Wainberg, Michael, Daniele Merico, Andrew Delong, & Brendan J. Frey. (2018). Deep learning in biomedicine. Nature Biotechnology. 36(9). 829–838. 414 indexed citations breakdown →

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Morgens, David W., Michael Wainberg, Evan A. Boyle, et al.. (2017). Genome-scale measurement of off-target activity using Cas9 toxicity in high-throughput screens. Nature Communications. 8(1). 15178–15178. 211 indexed citations

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Wainberg, Michael, Babak Alipanahi, & Brendan J. Frey. (2016). Are random forests truly the best classifiers. Journal of Machine Learning Research. 17(1). 3837–3841. 98 indexed citations

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Stolp‐Smith, Kathryn A. & Michael Wainberg. (1999). Antidepressant exacerbation of spasticity. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. 80(3). 339–342. 31 indexed citations

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